Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-15636-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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. The chapters discuss literary narratives originally written in Chinese, Kurdish and Italian as well as English, and covering a wide geographical range, to ask what experiences and understandings of migration emerge from Southern perspectives. Across the volume, precarious migrancy emerges as a key concept for understanding contemporary globalization in general and migration in the global South in particular. The chapters offer significant reconceptualizations of precarity and migrancy by reading Southern literatures of migration as a mode of theorization of the contemporary world, contributing to the ongoing shift in framings of migration in Anglophone and postcolonial literary studies.

This volume will be of significant interest to scholars in literary migration studies, global South studies, and postcolonial studies. It offers readings of rarely studied literary texts, as well as new concepts for scholars interested in understanding the nexus of literature and migration today.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adair, Gigi

McLaughlin, Carly

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

 

Introduction. Precarious Migrancy: Towards a Southern Reframing of Migration

Carly McLaughlin and Gigi Adair

 

1 Towards a decolonial critique of caporalato. Narratives of migrant farmworkers’ struggles in southern Italy

Sielo Longo

 

2 From ‘Harare North’ to ‘Harare South’: Precarious Migrant Identities and the Zimbabwean–South African Border Western

Rebecca Fasselt

 

3 Teeming Precarity of the More-than-Human in Behrouz Boochani’s Freedom, Only Freedom

Rita Sakr

 

4 Estranging Labor: The Gulf, Capital, and the Fantastic in Temporary People

Nahrain Al-Mousawi

 

5 An Ecology of Absences: Remapping North-South Border Narratives in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive

Michela Coletta

 

6 “¡Regrésenme mi país, por favor!”: Resisting the Border Spectacle and Reconfiguring the Citizen–Migrant Binary in Short Stories by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

Joshua D. Martin

 

7 Withering Spring: Precarious Labour Migrancy, Class, and Capitalism in Xu Lizhi’s Poetry

Federico Picerni

 

Coda: Southern Precarity in the Work of Amitav Ghosh
Gigi Adair and Binayak Roy

 

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).