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Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic,
ecological, political and socio-cultural environments. 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. Temporary migrants experience
oscillations in precarity that vary with their categorization as
skilled (professionals with valued skill sets, international
students) or unskilled (domestic workers, labourers), their
ambiguous legal status and the locales in which they reside and
work. Individual chapters use case studies from around the world
(USA, Canada, Ireland, Turkey, Singapore, China) to show how
temporal and scalar precarity intersect and are mediated by
national and local policies, civil society, as well as the personal
and social attributes of migrants themselves such as gender, race,
and country of origin. Although often overlooked due to their
transitory status, the chapters demonstrate how temporary migrants
are embedded in urban life and resist their categorisation as
disposable through individual and collective efforts. This book
will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of
Sociology, Politics, Human Geography, Urban Studies, and Social and
Cultural Anthropology. It was originally published as a special
issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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