List of Figures About the Authors Preface 1. From ‘Social Exclusion’ to ‘Precarity’. The Becoming Migrant of Labour. An Introduction Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Martin Bak Jørgensen 2. A Geneology of Precarity: A Toolbox for Rearticulating Fragmented Social Realities in and out of the Workplace Maribel Casas-Cortés 3. The Precariat strikes back – precarity struggles in practice Martin Bak Jørgensen 4. The Precariat: A View from the South Ronaldo Munck 5. Turkey’s new precariat: Differentiated vulnerability and new alliances Nazli Senses 6. Multiplex migration and axes of precarization: Swedish retirement migrants to Spain and their service providers Anna Gavanas and Ines Calzada 7. Employment in crisis: Cyprus and the extension of precarity Gregoris Ioannou 8. Regulating Illegal Work in China: Immigration Law and Precarious Migrant Status Mimi Zou 9. Running into nowhere: Educational migration in Beijing and the conundrum of social and existential mobility Susanne Bregnbæk 10. Necropolitics and the Migrant as a Political Subject of Disgust: The Precarious Everyday of Russia’s Labour Migrants John Round and Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko 11. Mobile commons and/in precarious spaces: Mapping migrant struggles and social resistance Nicos Trimikliniotis, Dimitris Parsanoglou & Vassilis Tsianos 12. The Working Class and the city as Political Platform in New York Peter Schultz Jørgensen 13. Under the Rainbow: Precarity and People Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa Carl-Ulrik Schierup Index

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