(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities

<p>Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic ecological political and socio-cultural environments. This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales in urban settings varying from the household institution and neighbourhood to the city. Temporary migrants experience oscillations in precarity that vary with their categorization as skilled (professionals with valued skill sets international students) or unskilled (domestic workers labourers) their ambiguous legal status and the locales in which they reside and work. Individual chapters use case studies from around the world (USA Canada Ireland Turkey Singapore China) to show how temporal and scalar precarity intersect and are mediated by national and local policies civil society as well as the personal and social attributes of migrants themselves such as gender race and country of origin. Although often overlooked due to their transitory status the chapters demonstrate how temporary migrants are embedded in urban life and resist their categorization as disposable through individual and collective efforts. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology Politics Human Geography Urban Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology. It was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies</i>.</p>