Precarity has become a buzzword in academia as well as among activists. This collection of essays examining precarity as both a condition of marginality and a basis for activism among urban migrants in China, migrant pensioners and unemployed youth in Sweden and Spain, refugees in Germany, irregular and regular migrants in Southern Europe, Turkey, Russia, the US, and South Africa.

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About the Author
Carl-Ulrik Schierup is Professor in Ethnic Studies at Linkoeping University Sweden, and director of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society. He co-edited Migration, Precarity and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour (Oxford University Press, 2015). Martin Bak Jorgensen, Ph.D. (2009) Aalborg University, is Associate Professor at Department for Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He co-edited the book Solidarity Without Borders: Gramscian perspectives on migration and civil society alliances (Pluto Press, 2016).


Book Information
ISBN 9781608468409
Author Martin Bak Jorgensen
Format Paperback
Page Count 329
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books