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This book focuses on an emerging group of low income South Asian migrants who are increasingly migrating to four Southern European countries: Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. While homogenized under the overarching category of South Asian, the migrant trajectories and migrant experiences and encounters in these host countries are quite disparate and distinct from each other. The empirically rich contributions in the volume examine how national, religious, ethnic, gender, and/or class differences shape differing outcomes in migration trajectories, livelihood strategies, inclusion in host communities, family reunification, and migrant subjectivity for this set of racialized migrants and their families. The volume focusses on four broad themes, namely: Migration governance and labour regimes; Migration strategies and experience transnational mobility and social mobility; Identity and belonging; and Family and gender relations. This book fills a gap in scholarly works in the fields of migration studies, diaspora studies, and migrant labour, and it will be of interest to students and scholars in these and related fields.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Destination in Its Own Right.- Chapter 2. The Pakistani Ethnic Economy in Barcelona: A Historical Review (1975 2023).- Chapter 3. Networks of Dependencies: Undocumented Pakistani Migrants in the Publicita Firms of Their Co-Ethnics in Italy.- Chapter 4. Socio-Spatial Trajectories of Bangladeshi Migrants Through the Looking Glass.- Chapter 5. South Asian Migrants in Portugal: A Case Study of Nepali Migrants in the Agriculture Sector.- Chapter 6. Informal Labour, Precarious Lives: Pakistani Street Vendors in Athens.- Chapter 7. Retracing Their Steps: The Onward Migration of Italian-Bangladeshi Families to the UK and Their Return to Italy.- Chapter 8. Essential Yet Disposable: Health Precarity for Undocumented South Asian Migrant Workers in Greek Agriculture.- Chapter 9. The Gurdwaras in Italy: Semi-Public Spaces of Integration?.- Chapter 10. Believing in Migration: Religion, Ethics and Identity Among Sinhalese in Southern Italy.- Chapter 11. Migrant Men, Masculinity, and Remittances: Between Desire and Double Discredit.- Chapter 12. I ve Always Sacrificed So My Family Could Have a Better Life : Co-Participation, Households and Masculinity Between Bangladesh and Portugal.- Chapter 13. Life-Course Chances and Inter-Generational Power Relations Among Hindu-Gujarati Diaspora Women of Portugal.- Chapter 14. Young Sikh Women in Spain: The Impact of Transnational Migration on Gendered Lives and Bodies.- Chapter 15. Conclusion: What Does the Future Hold? Navigating the Tightrope Between Labour Need and Populist Anti-Immigrant Hate in Southern Europe.
About the author
Reena Kukreja is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development Studies, with cross appointments in the Department of Gender Studies and Cultural Studies program at Queen’s University, Canada. Her current work examines the intersections of political economy, masculinity, and regimes of bordering and deportability on the lives of undocumented South Asian men in Greece, and the impact of far-right populism on migrant workers in agriculture and the gig economy in Southern Europe.
