1st Edition
Building Citizenship from Below Precarity, Migration, and Agency
1. Introduction: Precarity and agency through a migration lens
Marcel Paret and Shannon Gleeson
2. More than a paycheck: nannies, work, and identity
Tina Wu
3. Exit, voice, constrained loyalty, and entrapment: migrant farmworkers and the expression of discontent on New York dairy farms
Kathleen Sexsmith
4. ‘Negative credentials,’ ‘foreign-earned’ capital, and call centers: Guatemalan deportees’ precarious reintegration
Tanya Golash-Boza
5. Borderland attachments: citizenship and belonging along the U.S.–Mexico border
Heidy Sarabia
6. Golden state uprising: migrant protest in California, 1990–2010
Marcel Paret and Guadalupe Aguilera
7. Building political agency and movement leadership: the grassroots organizing model of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
Jennifer Jihye Chun
8. Keep moving: collective agency along the migrant trail
Abby C. Wheatley and Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz
Biography
Marcel Paret is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah, USA, and a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is co-editor of Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa’s Contentious Democracy (2017).
Shannon Gleeson is Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at the ILR School of Cornell University, USA. Her books include Precarious Claims: The Promise and Failure of Workplace Protections in the United States (2016) and Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston (2012).
