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This seminar brings together important contributions from the sociology of work and migration research to offer a more comprehensive understanding of the intersections between labour and migration regimes on a global scale, as well as to the socio-economic and spatial contexts that give rise to complex forms of precarious work among migrants. It discusses the role that migrant status and the differentiation of (non-) citizenship conditions play in the construction of precarious workers. Furthermore, it addresses other non-work related factors that lead to the hierarchisation of workers and channel them into low-status and ‘low-skilled’ jobs on the basis of ascribed gender, ethnic and racial lines of difference.
The seminar will familiarize students with important current debates on the nature of capitalist labour relations and struggles of migration, as well as their corresponding conceptual extensions, such as ‘precarisation’, ‘fragmentation’, ‘differential inclusion’, and ‘overexploitation’. In reading and discussing the seminar’s key texts, participants will be familiarized with empirical examples from different (trans)national contexts, in addition, they will be introduced and invited to engage with migrant workers’ struggles in Duisburg. |
