Precarity and Belonging

CATHERINE S. RAMÍREZ is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory.  SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of the award-winning book Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations and co-editor of New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights.   JUAN POBLETE is a professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Hacia una historia de la lectura y la pedagogÍa literaria en AmÉrica Latina and La Escritura de Pedro Lemebel and editor of New Approaches to Latin American Studies and Critical Latin American and Latino Studies.  STEVEN C. McKAY is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines and co-editor of New Routes for Diaspora Studies.  FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER is an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas.

"This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely."- Cecilia Menjívar (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises) "This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely."- Cecilia Menjívar (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises) "Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality."- Jonathan Xavier Inda (author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics) "Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality."- Jonathan Xavier Inda (author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics)

• Introduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship CATHERINE S. RAMÍRE Z, JUAN POBLETE, SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, STEVEN C. McKAY, AND FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFERPart I Mobility and Migration1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship BRIDGET ANDERSON2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of “Chain Migration” ADRIÁN FÉLIX3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States LEISY J. ABREGO AND ALEJANDRO VILLALPANDO4 The Waste of Globalization’s Party ALEJANDRO GRIMSON5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O’odham Reservation FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER6 A State-to-Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile TSERING WANGMO DHOMPAPart II Labor and Precarity7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective MARCEL PARET8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California SHANNON GLEESON9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore RHACEL SAL A ZAR PARREÑAS AND KRITTIYA KANTACHOTE10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the “World’s Factory” BIAO XIANG11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in MedellÍn, Colombia CLAUDIA MARIA LÓPEZPart III Belonging and (Non)citizenship12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN AND VÉRONIQUE FORTIN13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States JUAN POBLTE14 Denizenship 227NICHOLAS DE GENOVA15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the FutureCATHERINE S. RAMÍREZ16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association EMILY MITCHELL-EATONAfterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism TANYA GOLASH-BOZAAcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors Index