Mobile labour (Mobilities 16:2)

Inspired by the rich literature on mobility and moved by our own interest in the labour-related production of difference, we used the concept of mobile labour as a catalyst for current, innovative, and ethnographic approaches to labour and mobility. That includes movements for labour (migrant trajectories, economic-induced displacements), movements as labour (highly mobile jobs), and movements of labour (labour-related geographical displacement and its different rhythms). It also includes the associated production and reproduction of ideologies, stereotypes, processes and conditions of exclusion, and the making of hierarchized, racialized inequalities. Overall, this special issue on Mobile Labour explores how mobility and labour conflate to create and perpetuate conditions of segregation, discrimination and differentiation, with a special emphasis on processes of racialization (although not excluding others, like gender and age).

Jaar van publicatie:2021