Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South

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Gigi Adair is 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).

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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.

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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

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