Migration and Social Reproduction

Edited by Gabriella Alberti, Professor of International Labour Migration, University of Leeds, UK, Lisa Riedner, Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany and Gwyneth Lonergan, Assistant Professor in Criminology and Sociology, Northumbria University, UK

‘This powerful book offers a compelling exploration of the intersections between labour migration, border regimes, and social reproduction. Bringing together a rich array of critical literatures, it provides a nuanced dissection of the concept of “crisis” – or more aptly, “polycrisis” – through multiple analytical lenses. One of its most noteworthy contributions lies in unpacking the pivotal role of migrant labour in the contemporary crisis of social reproduction. The book incisively reveals how states and employers actively shape and regulate migrant mobility, extending their influence across every facet of migrant workers' socio-economic lives. A key read for scholars and students of migration studies, this book powerfully demonstrates how today’s border regimes are, at their core, reproductive regimes—restructuring life and labour for millions of migrant workers across the globe.’

• Contents1 Introduction to Migration and Social Reproduction 1Gabriella Alberti, Lisa Riedner and Gwyneth LonerganPART I SPACES OF WORK AND RE/PRODUCTION2 Digital labour mobility and the crisis of social reproduction:home-based platform workers in Eastern Europe 30Mira Wallis3 Home as a service: social reproduction, reindustrialization,and the return of worker dormitories in Hungary 54Olena Fedyuk and Tibor T. Meszmann4 Living-at-work regimes: task indeterminacy, compression anddetachment of social reproduction for female migrant workers 76Valeria Piro and Francesca Alice VianelloPART II CONTESTED POLICIES OF SOCIAL REPRODUCTION5 Unreliable infrastructures of transnational social reproductionfor precarious young EU migrants under neoliberal regimesof mobility, work, and welfare 99Anna Simola6 (In-)dependent work and affected subjectivities: an analysis ofmigrant self-employment in post-Fordist northern Italy 120Marika PierdiccaPART III MIGRANT EXPERIENCES OF CARE WORK7 Reproducing women workers: migrant nurses in India 145Mithun Som and Rani Rohini Raman8 Border regimes shaping social reproduction: the childcarepractices of migrant working mothers 172Anne-Iris RomensPostface 191Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson