1st Edition
(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities Challenges of “Temporariness” among Migrants and Asylum Seekers
1. Introduction—(Un)settled sojourners in cities: the scalar and temporal dimensions of migrant precarity
Elizabeth Chacko and Marie Price
2. The uneven geography of asylum and humanitarian relief: place-based precarity for Central American migrant youth in the United States judicial system
Sarah A. Blue, Alisa Hartsell, Rebecca Torres and Paul Flynn
3. Precarity of refugees: the case of Basmane-İzmir, Turkey
Asli Ceylan Oner, Bahar Durmaz-Drinkwater and Richard J. Grant
4. Soft violence: migrant domestic worker precarity and the management of unfree labour in Singapore
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Krittiya Kantachote and Rachel Silvey
5. Temporary migrants and public space: a case study of Dongguan, China
Yining Tan
6. Consuming the neighbourhood? Temporary highly skilled migrants in Montreal’s Mile End
Gabrielle Désilets
7. Promising precarity: the lives of Dublin’s international students
Mary Gilmartin, Pablo Rojas Coppari and Dean Phelan
8. Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore: experiences, understandings and responses
Elizabeth Chacko
9. The ordinary lives and uneven precarity of the DACAmented: visualising migrant precarity in metropolitan Washington
Marie Price and Giancarla Rojas
Biography
Elizabeth Chacko is Professor of Geography and International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. She has conducted research in the United States, India, Ethiopia, and Singapore on the flows of people, capital and ideas, and their impacts on economic, cultural and social geographies in cities.
Marie Price is Professor of Geography and International Affairs at George Washington University, USA. She is interested in how cities and civil society respond to immigrants as well as how immigrants influence these localities through their own agency and networks. Most of her work focuses upon the Americas.
