Gig work in transnational spaces: infrastructures of migration and the simultaneous lives of migrants in the gig economy

This article explores how platform-mediated gig work is entangled in the migration process across transnational, national and local scales. Drawing on the concepts of simultaneity and migration infrastructure from critical transnational migration studies as well as qualitative interviews with migran...

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Published inJournal of ethnic and migration studies Vol. 50; no. 15; pp. 3751 - 3767
Main Authors Andersen, Magnus, Spanger, Marlene
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 13.09.2024
Carfax Publishing Company, Abingdon Science Park
Subjects
Citizenship
Gig economy
Infrastructure
labour
Migrant workers
Migrants
Migration
migration infrastructure
Platforms
simultaneity
transnational migration
Transnationalism
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Summary:This article explores how platform-mediated gig work is entangled in the migration process across transnational, national and local scales. Drawing on the concepts of simultaneity and migration infrastructure from critical transnational migration studies as well as qualitative interviews with migrants, the analysis focuses on the figures of three migrant gig workers from both EU and non-EU countries to elucidate two matters. First, we analyse how different forms of citizenship produce different ways of responding to the migration infrastructure that results in frictions and/or smoothness across different times and spaces in the migration process. Second, we analyse how migrants who perform platform-mediated gig work on a local scale in Copenhagen, Denmark, establish particular transnational lives. Thus, this article contributes a timely transnational perspective on the relationship between the growing gig economy and migration.
ISSN:1369-183X
1469-9451
1469-9451
DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2024.2379643