...Alicia Schmidt Camacho Duke University Press 2006 Alicia Schmidt Camacho Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space It is not, then, just a question of mapping social rela- tions...

...Jane Juffer Taking its cue from Emmanuel Levinas's notion that the “nudity” of the face creates the possibility for ethical encounters, this essay considers the face of the Latino and Latin American migrant in the United States at a seemingly contradictory moment. On the one hand, this is a time...

...Eithne Luibhéid “Illegal” status is commonly conceived as stemming from migrants' undesirable characters, yet recent scholarship has shown that “legal” and “illegal” statuses are created through political processes and relations of power that require critical scrutiny. This essay expands...

... the acceleration of a specific proletarianization—successive generations of rural migrant workers ( nongmingong ) have become the mainstay of the country’s export-processing sector, but they cannot become “free” laborers in the market. Within the dormitory labor regime, in which work and residence are tightly...

...Kevin Lin; Pun Ngai In June 2018, a group of Chinese truck drivers, overwhelmingly made up of rural migrant workers, staged wildcat strikes across China to demand better pay from a monopolistic, logistic, app-based platform. The strike wave intersects with two emerging phenomena in China...

...Manie (Jong-Man Choi); Joyce C. H. Liu; Brett Neilson; Irene (HyeJung) Ahn Bidduth, Syed, and Samar were dishonorably deported from South Korea about fifteen years ago while they were protesting for the rights of undocumented migrant workers. Since returning to their home countries, Bangladesh...

... workers as migrant workers and as economic agents. In the post-COVID-19 world, these critiques will be stressed even further, as the informal sector expands along with uneven policing, and as sex work continues to serve as a measure of security for some, against a backdrop of extreme and intensifying...

...Nina Violetta Schwarz; Maurice Stierl This article takes the encounters between migrant travelers at sea and Alarm Phone activists on land as a starting point to inquire into recent transformations in maritime migrant mobilities and EUropean and North African attempts to govern them, with a focus...

... and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights . 2018 . “ Desperate and Dangerous: Report on the human rights situation of migrants and refugees in Libya .” www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/LY/LibyaMigrationReport.pdf . Zerilli Linda . 2005 . Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom...

...Amarela Varela Huerta; Verónica Gago; Marta Malo; Liz Mason-Deese This essay presents a retrospective analysis of the experience of the migrant caravans that crossed Mesoamerica to the United States, using their bodies to defy the necropolitical border regime of states in the region. These caravans...

.... A significant number of domestic workers in Turkey are migrants who come to the country on their own. However, the migrant domestic worker’s family is a ghostly presence in her employment since the affects she is professionally expected to serve were authentically produced for her own family first. Her mobility...

...Rhacel Salazar Parreñas; Rachel Silvey Domestic workers comprise the largest group of female migrant workers today, and they are among the most precarious workers internationally. This article explores the aspects of the organization of domestic work that contribute to keeping it an insecure...

...Martin F. Manalansan, IV This essay juxtaposes discourses around measuring, accounting, and auditing that have proliferated in management and institutional administration policies and texts with the wild intractability of queer migrant lives. In the age of Trump and Brexit, we are confronted...

...Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo Duke University Press 2006 Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo Contested Passages: Migrants Crossing the Río Grande and the Mediterranean Sea Moroccan journalist Rachid Nini claims in Diario de un ilegal (An Illegal’s...

...Domenico Perrotta This article analyzes migrant agricultural labor in southern Italy, focusing on migrants from Burkina Faso and Romania laboring in the regions of Puglia and Basilicata. The argument underlines the connections between mobility, willingness to work for low wages, and conflict...

...Jonathan S. Parhusip Local labor laws in Taiwan push migrant workers to run away from contracted employment arrangements and become undocumented. This article examines the common forms of struggle pursued by runaway Indonesian migrant workers with a focus on the informal organizational structures...

... in the work and its abolitionist dimensions. I consider how micropractices of care, for migrants and between aid workers, open onto a larger project of dismantling logics of racialized criminalization that structure the production of disavowable life in border enforcement. The production of disavowable...

...Verónica Gago The article criticizes the way in which the perspective of trafficking employs the label of “slave labor” in Argentine to refer to migrant workers in textile workshops. This label constructs the figure of the migrant as the perfect victim and moralizes migrants’ action, while...

...Paul Apostolidis This essay reflects on the ways migrant day laborers advance a politics oriented toward the refusal of work. It identifies both impediments and tendencies conducive to such a politics by examining Latino migrant day laborers’ commentaries on their work searches on street corners...

... and foremost offering an ethics of mourning and a poetics of remembrance, where the death scene is made the literal representation of the in absentia remains of a model diaspora. The death scenes perform the function of witnessing the otherwise uncataloged lives of a specific migrant community she writes about...