Schilliger, Sarah (2024). Infrastructures of Solidarity. Analyzing the emergence of solidarity relations in the field of migration (Unpublished). In: Migrant Workers’ Resistance and Infrastructures of Solidarity (Keynote). Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), University of Osnabrück/Germany. 24th February 2024.
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Migrants are often among the most vulnerable workers. This is particularly true for undocumented people. This precarity notwithstanding, migrant workers have been engaging in labor struggles all over the globe. Just recently, for example, Pakistani workers in Italy have been going on wildcat strikes at the company Mondo Convenienza; migrant workers in over 30 countries, including Turkey, France, the UK, Spain and Germany were protesting against Amazon on Black Friday in order to „Make Amazon Pay“. In Berlin, migrant workers went on a wildcat strike at the food delivery company Gorillas.
Such highly visible forms of resistance are not always possible. In Switzerland, for example, migrant live‐in care workers from Eastern European countries have been engaged in building up „infrastructures of solidarity“ among each other and in collaboration with trade unions and civil society actors to counter their disenfranchisement and exploitation. Such infrastructural practices include solidarity work, providing safe spaces, distributing counter‐knowledge and establishing different social and affective relations.
We invite to a hybrid workshop at which we ask conceptually whether the concept of “infrastructures of solidarity” captures aspects that a more common understanding of “solidarity” does not. Who is (not) part of these infrastructures of solidarity? How formal or informal, how ad‐hoc or sustainable are they?
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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Division/Institute: |
09 Interdisciplinary Units > Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Schilliger, Sarah Berit |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Sarah Berit Schilliger |
Date Deposited: |
05 Jun 2024 14:47 |
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05 Jun 2024 14:47 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/197542 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/197542 |
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