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.
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Destination in Its Own Right.
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2. The
Pakistani Ethnic Economy in Barcelona: A Historical Review (19752023).-
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3. Networks of Dependencies: Undocumented Pakistani Migrants in the
Publicita Firms of Their Co-Ethnics in Italy.
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4. Socio-Spatial
Trajectories of Bangladeshi Migrants Through the Looking Glass.
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5.
South Asian Migrants in Portugal: A Case Study of Nepali Migrants in the
Agriculture Sector.
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6. Informal Labour, Precarious Lives: Pakistani
Street Vendors in Athens.
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7. Retracing Their Steps: The Onward
Migration of Italian-Bangladeshi Families to the UK and Their Return to
Italy.
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8. Essential Yet Disposable: Health Precarity for
Undocumented South Asian Migrant Workers in Greek Agriculture.
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9.
The Gurdwaras in Italy: Semi-Public Spaces of Integration?.
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10.
Believing in Migration: Religion, Ethics and Identity Among Sinhalese in
Southern Italy.
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11. Migrant Men, Masculinity, and Remittances:
Between Desire and Double Discredit.
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12. Ive Always Sacrificed So
My Family Could Have a Better Life: Co-Participation, Households and
Masculinity Between Bangladesh and Portugal.
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13. Life-Course Chances
and Inter-Generational Power Relations Among Hindu-Gujarati Diaspora Women of
Portugal.
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14. Young Sikh Women in Spain: The Impact of Transnational
Migration on Gendered Lives and Bodies.
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15. Conclusion: What Does
the Future Hold? Navigating the Tightrope Between Labour Need and Populist
Anti-Immigrant Hate in Southern Europe.
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 Queens 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.
