(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of "Temporariness" Among Migrants and Asylum Seekers

ISBN-13: 9781032433813 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 166 str.

Chacko, Elizabeth

Opis

This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales in urban settings, varying from the household, institution, and neighbourhood to the city.

Spis treści

1. Introduction—(Un)settled sojourners in cities: the scalar and temporal dimensions of migrant precarity  2. The uneven geography of asylum and humanitarian relief: place-based precarity for Central American migrant youth in the United States judicial system  3. Precarity of refugees: the case of Basmane-İzmir, Turkey  4. Soft violence: migrant domestic worker precarity and the management of unfree labour in Singapore  5. Temporary migrants and public space: a case study of Dongguan, China  6. Consuming the neighbourhood? Temporary highly skilled migrants in Montreal’s Mile End  7. Promising precarity: the lives of Dublin’s international students  8. Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore: experiences, understandings and responses  9. The ordinary lives and uneven precarity of the DACAmented: visualising migrant precarity in metropolitan Washington