Asylum-Seeking Work, Precariousness, and the Making of Claimant-Workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2262706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tina Shrestha (0000-0003-4557-5927, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-57 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology of Work Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0883-024X • E-ISSN: 1548-1417 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/awr.12168 |
| OpenAlex | W2941170335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article contributes to the anthropological discussion on precariousness and labor precarity, with regard to temporality, potentiality, and subjectivity, by examining how asylum-seeking accounts intersect with, interrupt, and, above all, inform people's everyday labor activities outside the asylum process. Drawing on my ethnographic research among Nepali migrants and asylum seekers in the United States, I document people's adoption of a familiar sociocultural understanding of "the work of making paper" and retrospective logic to describe their subjective entanglement with the asylum documentation process and their impending labor subordination. I argue that it is through asylum-seeking work that people participate in and inhabit the precarization process, sustaining and exacerbating, in some cases, their precarious working lives. In this sense, asylum-seeking work involves a subjective transformation of asylum seekers into precarious "claimant-workers," providing the condition of possibility for labor precariousness
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Collecting, assembling, ordering
On not seeking asylum
Lost futures and “starting from zero”
Unsettling the American Dream
The Invisible Labor and Ethics of Interpreting
Managing the Humanitarian Workplace
Casualties of Care
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Producing memory
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures
Precarious everyday agency
Investigating Narrative Inequality
Falling Outside
Some Sort of Help for the Poor
Presentational state power
Lives in limbo
Disclosure and (re)performance of gender-based evidence in an interpreter-mediated asylum interview
A Post-Fordist Ethnicity
Hauntings of Solidarity in Post-Fordist Italy
The Moral Neoliberal
Critical Evidence
Speechless Emissaries
The Precarious Present
Judging Intimacies at the French Court of Asylum
Precarious Subjects
Practices of translation and the making of migrant subjectivities in contemporary Italy
Precarity's Forms
Asserting Existence
Refusal as political practice
Identity loan
The social aesthetics of eligibility
On Precariousness and the Ethical Imagination
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |