Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and
citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the
Great Recession. A whole historical chapter that of neoliberalism
has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant
workers were key players during this phase of the global system,
supplying cheap and flexible labour inputs when required in the
rich countries. Now, with the further sustainability of the
neoliberal political and economic world order in question, what
will be the role of migration in terms of work patterns and what
modalities of political citizenship will develop? While
informalization of the relations of production and the
precarization of work were once assumed to be the exception, that
is no longer the case.
As for citizenship this book posits a parallel development of
precarious citizenship for migrants, made increasingly vulnerable
by the global economic crisis. But we are also in an era of
profound social transformation, in the context of which social
counter-movements emerge, which may halt the disembedding of the
market from social control and its corrosive impact.
This book was published as a special issue of
Globalizations.
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