[Air-L] New special issue on migration and the gig economy

[Magnus Andersen]

Dear all,

I am delighted to announce the publication of the Special Issue on ‘At your service: The mobilities, rhythms and everyday lives of migrants in the gig economy’ edited by Kristina Zampoukos, Marlene Spanger, Don Mitchell and myself for Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. It includes an introduction, 6 empirical articles - some are open access. If interested, you can find and read the special issue here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjms20/50/15 

Table of contents
At your service: The mobilities, rhythms and everyday lives of migrant labour in the gig economy
MAGNUS ANDERSEN, KRISTINA ZAMPKOUKOS, MARLENE SPANGER & DON MITCHELL

Gig work in transnational spaces: Infrastructures of migration and the simultaneous lives of migrants in the gig economy
MAGNUS ANDERSEN & MARLENE SPANGER

Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: Entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime
OLIVIA MAURY, OLIVIA HAKALA & LENA NÄRE

Spatio-temporal dynamics of platform labour: Short-term rental cleaning labour intermediaries and student-migrant-workers
KILEY GOYETTE

Who’s got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city
KRISTINA ZAMPOUKOS, OLIVIA BUTLER & DON MITCHELL

The time-space-energy nexus in the gig economy: The work and everyday lives of migrant food delivery ‘walkers’ in Venice
GIORGIO PIRINA, FRANCESCO DELLA PUPPA & FABIO PEROCCO

The work of waiting: Migrant labour in the fulfillment city
KAFUI ATTOH, KATIE WELLS & DECLAN CULLEN

Wish you all a great day!

Cheers,
Magnus

Magnus Andersen, Ph.D.
Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Human Geography
Uppsala University
+45 3149 4708