Precarity and Belonging

“This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely.”
- Cecilia Menjívar (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises) “This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely.”
- Cecilia Menjívar (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises) “Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality.”
- Jonathan Xavier Inda (author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics) “Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality.”
- Jonathan Xavier Inda (author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics)

CATHERINE S. RAMÍREZ is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory.

SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN is an associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of the award-winning book Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations and co-editor of New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights.

JUAN POBLETE is a professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Hacia una historia de la lectura y la pedagogÍa literaria en AmÉrica Latina and La Escritura de Pedro Lemebel and editor of New Approaches to Latin American Studies and Critical Latin American and Latino Studies.

STEVEN C. McKAY is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines and co-editor of New Routes for Diaspora Studies.

FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER is an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas.

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