Precarity and agency through a migration lens

Paret, Marcel; Gleeson, Shannon

doi:10.1080/13621025.2016.1158356

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“…These can overtly and covertly challenge power relations within and beyond labour markets through concerted collective action or much more subtle tactics across productive and reproductive spheres that allow migrants to cope with and occasionally unequal labour markets and confront social exclusion (Datta et al. ; Mas Giralt ; Paret and Gleeson ). Such practices are also developed to negotiate immigration controls, thus rejecting notions of migrants as victims of increasingly securitised borders (McIlwaine ; also Bloch ).…”

Section: Conceptualising Precarity Mobility and Onward Migrationmentioning

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Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

McIlwaine

Bunge

2018

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Contributing to debates around the relationships between precarity, mobilities and migration, this paper examines the nature of precarity among onward Latin American (OLA) migrants as they have moved transnationally to multiple destinations from their homelands to southern Europe and onwards to London across different time periods. Drawing on primary research with over 400 OLAs, the discussion highlights how precarity maps onto onward migration trajectories in fractal rather than linear ways. In moving beyond a continuum approach to labour exploitation, the paper develops the concept of "onward precarity" to capture how migrants negotiate intersecting vulnerabilities in holistic spatio-temporal ways as they move through different structural contexts across the world from origin, through transition to their final destination country over time. These negotiations are underpinned by multiple agentic tactics that revolve around resilience and reworking strategies as onward migrants traverse wider structures of disadvantage in situ and through mobility in different places.Resumen: El presente art ıculo contribuye a entender la relaci on entre la precariedad, las movilidades y la migraci on, en la medida que examina la naturaleza de la precariedad de los reemigrantes latinoamericanos (OLAs, por sus siglas en ingl es) que se trasladaron transnacionalmente desde sus pa ıses de origen, hacia m ultiples destinos el sur de Europa y m as adelante a Londres. Con base en datos primarios recabados a partir de una encuesta con 400 OLAs, se observa c omo la precariedad se ve reflejada en las trayectorias de reemigraci on en forma fractal en lugar de lineal. M as que entender la explotaci on laboral desde la continuidad, el documento desarrolla el concepto de "precariedad progresiva" para explicar c omo los migrantes negocian sus diversas vulnerabilidades desde una perspectiva hol ıstica espaciotemporal, a medida que se mueven a trav es de diferentes contextos estructurales desde su origen, pasando por el pa ıs de tr ansito hasta el destino final. Estas negociaciones se sostienen con base a m ultiples t acticas que giran en torno a la resiliencia y otras estrategias de cambio, al tiempo que los reemigrantes atraviesan condiciones de desventaja in situ cada vez m as severas, fruto de su movilidad en diferentes lugares.

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Section: Conceptualising Precarity Mobility and Onward Migrationmentioning

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Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

McIlwaine

Bunge

2018

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“…As such, borders not only function to seal off sovereign territories and expel abject bodies from the boundaries of nation‐states but more importantly also serve to racially differentiate bodies and produce “an active process of inclusion of migrant labor through its illegalization” and “deportability” (De Genova, , p. 439). This line of thinking interprets borders as geographically flexible technologies of governance that order populations and differentiate their mobilities based on complex hierarchies of socio‐legal status (Casas‐Cortes et al, ; Mezzadra & Neilson, ), suggesting that this “border regime” and its collateral consequences follow migrants through the domestic interior and into subnational regions where migrant labor power is heterogeneously multiplied by borderized status stratification and harnessed and objectified as deportable low‐wage work in racialized and gendered neoliberal economies such as rural agricultural industries and/or service industries in global cities (Harrison & Llyod, ; Harvey, ; Horton, ; Paret & Gleeson, ; Sassen, ). Moreover, with the production and multiplication of borders increasingly becoming externalized to the Global South, as in the recent case of a “safe third country agreements” between the United States and other Latin American countries to contain Central American migrants, disposable migrant labor is reinserted into the neoliberal circuits of outsourced industries such that call centers located in the Caribbean and Latin America repurpose and exploit deportee or refugee/asylum populations (Rodkey, ).…”

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Racialized im/migration and autonomy of migration perspectives: New directions and opportunities

Olmos

2019

Sociology Compass

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Given the surge of nativist politics in the United States today, scholars are increasingly recognizing the importance of the intersections of race and im/migration. Moving beyond the colorblind assimilation and neo‐assimilation theories that dominated the social sciences, critical sociologists have opened up new lines of inquiry that highlight the underlying racialized power and inequalities that structure im/migration incorporation. This article provides an overview of the growing body of literature on racialized im/migration and explores the importance of understanding the racial order through relational racialization and racialized illegality. The article then introduces newly developed autonomy of migration (AoM) theories and their contributions to the materialist study of im/migration and racialized subordination. The article concludes by suggesting that future research attempt to bridge racialized im/migration and autonomy of migration perspectives.

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“…However, in regard to social reproduction, human agency can induce highly ambivalent dynamics. On the one hand, the ‘varying degrees of manoeuvrability, inventiveness, and reflective choice’ (Emirbayer and Mische , p. 964) connected with agency can enable resistance and foster social change (Paret and Gleeson ). On the other hand, as Lorey ( p. 27–28) argues from the perspective of governmentality, seemingly empowering practices must not be automatically understood as emancipatory.…”

Section: Beyond the Concept Of Social Exclusion: Precarity As A Theormentioning

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The Ambiguous Experience of Motherhood in the Western Bohemian Countryside: Exploring Rural Gender Inequalities Through the Framework of Precarity

Decker

2019

Sociologia Ruralis

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Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe rarely find their way into the debate on rural gender inequality. In this article, I aim to mitigate this imbalance by exploring everyday arrangements of women with dependent children in a peripheralised rural region of the Czech Republic. Using an expanded framework of precarity that integrates different spheres of work, I demonstrate that in the spatial context studied, motherhood increases the social disadvantage women face while simultaneously constituting an important field of female agency. I further show that in order to identify room for manoeuvre within configurations of insecurity the whole life‐situation of women must be taken into consideration. My findings add to a nuanced and context‐sensitive understanding of gender inequality in the European countryside, in particular by highlighting the field‐specific interaction of low‐wage economy, gendered division of work and mobility, and concepts of rural childhood, good (grand)parenting and self‐sufficiency. The study draws upon semi‐structured interviews and ethnographic research.

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Precarity and agency through a migration lens

Cited by 153 publications

References 63 publications

Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

Onward Precarity, Mobility, and Migration among Latin Americans in London

Racialized im/migration and autonomy of migration perspectives: New directions and opportunities

The Ambiguous Experience of Motherhood in the Western Bohemian Countryside: Exploring Rural Gender Inequalities Through the Framework of Precarity

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