Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South

Gigi Adair is a Junior Professor in English at the University of Bielefeld. Her research is situated at the intersection of Black Atlantic studies, gender/queer studies, and postcolonial studies. She is the author of Kinship Across the Black Atlantic. Writing Diasporic Relations (Liverpool UP, 2019) and one of the co-editors of the Routledge Companion to Migration Literature (2024).Carly McLaughlin works at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau in Germany. She has published at the intersection of childhood studies and forced migration studies, with a particular focus on how the politics of childhood influences how child migrants are represented and treated, especially within the context of illegalized migration. She is one of the co-editors of the Routledge Companion to Migration Literature (2024).

• List of ContributorsIntroduction. Precarious Migrancy: Towards a Southern Reframing of MigrationCarly McLaughlin and Gigi Adair1 Towards a decolonial critique of caporalato. Narratives of migrant farmworkers’ struggles in southern ItalySielo Longo2 From ‘Harare North’ to ‘Harare South’: Precarious Migrant Identities and the Zimbabwean–South African Border WesternRebecca Fasselt3 Teeming Precarity of the More-than-Human in Behrouz Boochani’s Freedom, Only FreedomRita Sakr4 Estranging Labor: The Gulf, Capital, and the Fantastic in Temporary PeopleNahrain Al-Mousawi5 An Ecology of Absences: Remapping North-South Border Narratives in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children ArchiveMichela Coletta6 “¡Regrésenme mi país, por favor!”: Resisting the Border Spectacle and Reconfiguring the Citizen–Migrant Binary in Short Stories by Luis Humberto CrosthwaiteJoshua D. Martin7 Withering Spring: Precarious Labour Migrancy, Class, and Capitalism in Xu Lizhi’s PoetryFederico PicerniCoda: Southern Precarity in the Work of Amitav GhoshGigi Adair and Binayak RoyIndex