Patienter sur les places et foncer dans les rues. Quand les coursiers occupent l’espace public

Aunis, Émilie; Stevens, Hélène

doi:10.4000/itti.1839

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“…For couriers in France, navigating the city under algorithmic management can be difficult (Jan 2018; Lebas 2019; Lemozy 2019). Recent work by Aunis and Stevens (2021) investigated riders’ urban practices and public spaces in France, noting the importance of the sans‐papiers in the workforce.…”

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Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

Baril

2023

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Platform food delivery workers have been under much scrutiny over the last couple of years. Undocumented riders, and their recent strikes and protests in France, have not received as much attention as other issues regarding platform labour (contract work, algorithmic control, surveillance). This article follows fieldwork conducted in Paris and interviews with food couriers. Building on work by critical urban studies, migration studies and science and technology studies, this research puts forward citizen‐rentier‐ship, a tool to understand how multiple parties profit from aspects of precarious status. Interviews with undocumented couriers who worked in Paris highlight how the subletting of accounts, the complicit role of the state, the hypocrisy of employers and the interdependency with the “regularised” put undocumented couriers in hyper‐precarious situations. This article concludes that labour laws, misclassification and migration policies are at the centre of the struggles of Paris’ delivery workers and that they need changes.

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Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

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2023

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Patienter sur les places et foncer dans les rues. Quand les coursiers occupent l’espace public

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Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

Citizen‐rentier‐ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris

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