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This volume sets out to challenge and expand Anglophone literary migration studies in the global North with a two-fold approach. It proposes
precarious migrancy as a conceptual framework to capture hitherto neglected aspects of subaltern displacement, and it turns to the global South as a site of knowledge production about migration.
List of contents
List of ContributorsIntroduction. Precarious Migrancy: Towards a Southern Reframing of Migration
Carly McLaughlin and Gigi Adair1 Towards a decolonial critique of
caporalato. Narratives of migrant farmworkers' struggles in southern Italy
Sielo Longo2 From 'Harare North' to 'Harare South': Precarious Migrant Identities and the Zimbabwean-South African Border Western
Rebecca Fasselt3 Teeming Precarity of the More-than-Human in Behrouz Boochani's
Freedom, Only FreedomRita Sakr4 Estranging Labor: The Gulf, Capital, and the Fantastic in
Temporary PeopleNahrain Al-Mousawi5 An Ecology of Absences: Remapping North-South Border Narratives in Valeria Luiselli's
Lost Children ArchiveMichela Coletta6 "¡Regrésenme mi país, por favor!": Resisting the Border Spectacle and Reconfiguring the Citizen-Migrant Binary in Short Stories by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
Joshua D. Martin7 Withering Spring: Precarious Labour Migrancy, Class, and Capitalism in Xu Lizhi's Poetry
Federico PicerniCoda: Southern Precarity in the Work of Amitav Ghosh
Gigi Adair and Binayak RoyIndex
About the author
Gigi Adair is a Junior Professor in English at the University of Bielefeld. Her research is situated at the intersection of Black Atlantic studies, gender/queer studies, and postcolonial studies. She is the author of
Kinship Across the Black Atlantic. Writing Diasporic Relations (Liverpool UP, 2019) and one of the co-editors of the
Routledge Companion to Migration Literature (2024).
Carly McLaughlin works at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau in Germany. She has published at the intersection of childhood studies and forced migration studies, with a particular focus on how the politics of childhood influences how child migrants are represented and treated, especially within the context of illegalized migration. She is one of the co-editors of the
Routledge Companion to Migration Literature (2024).
Summary
This volume sets out to challenge and expand Anglophone literary migration studies in the global North with a two-fold approach. It proposes precarious migrancy as a conceptual framework to capture hitherto neglected aspects of subaltern displacement, and it turns to the global South as a site of knowledge production about migration.
