Marcel Paret and Shannon
Gleeson (2016) Precarity and Agency through a Migration Lens, Citizenship
Studies 20(3-4): 277-294.
Abstract: This
special issue leverages the migrant experience to better understand precarity
and agency in the contemporary world. By way of introduction, we examine the
broader bodies of literature on precarity and agency, relate them to research
on migration, and link them to the contributions in the special issue. Laying a
foundation for further research, we illuminate three approaches to study the
precarity–migration–agency nexus: an industry-specific approach, a sending
country/deportee approach, and a collective action approach. We conclude with a
critical analysis of freedom and national borders, considering the ‘open
borders’ movement, postnational citizenship, and opposition to marketization.
