Building Citizenship from Below

Marcel Paret is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah, USA, and a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is co-editor of Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa’s Contentious Democracy (2017). Shannon Gleeson is Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the ILR School of Cornell University, USA. Her books include Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (2016) and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (2012).

• 1. Introduction: Precarity and agency through a migration lens Marcel Paret and Shannon Gleeson2. More than a paycheck: nannies, work, and identity Tina Wu3. Exit, voice, constrained loyalty, and entrapment: migrant farmworkers and the expression of discontent on New York dairy farmsKathleen Sexsmith4. ‘Negative credentials,’ ‘foreign-earned’ capital, and call centers: Guatemalan deportees’ precarious reintegration Tanya Golash-Boza5. Borderland attachments: citizenship and belonging along the U.S.–Mexico borderHeidy Sarabia6. Golden state uprising: migrant protest in California, 1990–2010 Marcel Paret and Guadalupe Aguilera7. Building political agency and movement leadership: the grassroots organizing model of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Jennifer Jihye Chun8. Keep moving: collective agency along the migrant trail Abby C. Wheatley and Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz