M Casas-Cortes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 19843 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Casas-Cortes |
| NOMBRES | M |
| APELLIDO | Casas-Cortes |
| FIRMA | CASAS-CORTES M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9390-4022 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 350 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Strapped to the app? Bridled labor at the crossroads of platform delivery and migration regulation
Purpose The paper aims to analyze the configuration of specific forms of undeclared work which are becoming widespread in the digital food-delivery sector in Spain and are predominantly occupied by migrant labor with employment and/or residence restrictions. Design/methodology/approach Our analysis includes a desk research review of relevant regulatory frameworks, specifically, national labor and migratory legislations, semi-structured interviews…
On delivery waiting
The politics of time, and particularly practices of waiting, spring in the narratives of any border crossing. This article draws from the scholarly analysis on migratory temporalities, to shed light upon the temporalities of urban delivery platforms, strongholds of migrant labor. We focus on waiting both as a research object and analytical lens to further comprehend the intersectional precarities at work in the food-delivery sector. What does the…
More than a glitch in the platforms
Practices of subleasing and borrowing delivery app accounts are spreading among platform-based food couriers in Spain. This article engages the significance of these seemingly neglectable practices among couriers in deportable situations. Both celebratory and critical portraits of the platform revolution have tended to ignore the question of migration in the digital gig economy. Based on interviews to unregistered couriers, accompanied by media a…
Rethinking mobility in social theory
This paper argues for reengaging the work on the primordial role of mobility advanced by Yann Moulier-Boutang, especially in his seminal book De l'esclavage au salariat: Economie historique du salariat bride (1998). His re-centering of historicity highlights the transformative potential of human mobility in broader social processes, resonating with the unique readings advanced by W.E.B. Du Bois. We identify how Moulier-Boutang's emphasis on the l…
Delivery depletion
Platform Capitalism
Platforms have become a central concern in scholarly production due to their sudden scope and rising popularity in mainstream discourse, which either hyper-celebrate their possible achievements, or over-dramatize underlying consequences. Together with related terms—such as sharing economy, digital ecosystems, algorithmic decision-making—the so-called platform revolution has been portrayed as a profound transformation upon previous modes of econom…
Algoritmos de reconocimiento facial entre repartidores en España
Las investigaciones sobre la implantación de algoritmos en el sector del reparto de comida a domicilio se han centrado en la asignación de pedidos y en cómo estas decisiones automatizadas afectan a las condiciones laborales. Sin embargo, las compañías de este sector también han implementado cálculos algorítmicos para otras funciones, principalmente para lidiar con el llamado «mercado negro de cuentas de reparto». Se han implementado sistemas de r…
Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies
La migración como (f)actor geopolítico
En este artículo sugerimos interpretar la migración como factor geopolítico, un factor que no esta siempre sujeto a las decisiones estatales. Realizamos una revisión de la literatura sobre la geopolítica de las migraciones, sobre todo centrado en el control migratorio, identificando sus limites y potencialidades. Después, presentamos la Autonomía de las Migraciones como una manera de complementar o retar conceptos asumidos dentro la literatura de…
Migration thinking’
Precarious Writings
Scholarly debates over precarity are gaining unprecedented visibility across fields. From labor insecurity forming a growing dangerous class to the existential condition of vulnerability induced by millennial capitalism, precarity has become an object of both empirical study and theoretical reflection. While European social movements have been organizing and writing about precarity from the late 1970s to today, still, from the US perspective, the…
La autonomía de la migración
Las migraciones y los controles migratorios se han convertido en objeto de máximo interés académico, institucional y mediático. Además de los enfoques convencionales sobre la movilidad humana y su gestión, han surgido interpretaciones alternativas con repercusiones epistemológicas, metodológicas y políticas. Este artículo se centra en la emergencia de la escuela de pensamiento llamada “la Autonomía de la Migración”. A través del análisis de las o…
Care-tizenship
A series of activist efforts across Europe have been organizing under the umbrella concept of precarity, with a long trajectory of movements facing flexibilization policies, austerity programs and migratory restrictions. The rise of precarity activism in Spain has worked at the intersections of increasing vulnerability and mobility producing a prolific body of activist literature and rich repertoire of strategies. This paper explores how alternat…
New Keywords
“New Keywords: Migration and Borders” is a collaborative writing project aimed at developing a nexus of terms and concepts that fill-out the contemporary problematic of migration. It moves beyond traditional and critical migration studies by building on cultural studies and post-colonial analyses, and by drawing on a diverse set of longstanding author engagements with migrant movements. The paper is organized in four parts (i) Introduction, (ii) …
Riding Routes and Itinerant Borders
Despite technological upgrading of borders at the edges of Europe, “Fortress Europe” continues to fail as an effective means of controlling irregular migration. As a consequence, European states are restructuring their border regimes by externalizing migration management to non-EU countries beyond the border and creating new programs and policies to do so. Autonomy of Migration (AoM) offers a distinct way for thinking about border control mechani…
Changing Borders, Rethinking Sovereignty
The intervention of European Union border authorities in countries of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe has shown how the European state "border" has been displaced from its national moorings and externalized across the territories of neighboring states. Our research examines the outsourcing of the southern European Union border, focusing on the case of Spain and its relationship with Morocco and countries of Western Africa. In this paper we descri…
Good neighbours make good fences’
In recent years border externalization has emerged as a central policy framework for European Union (EU) border and migration management. New multi-lateral and bi-lateral agreements on border management have been forged between the EU, its member states, and its North African neighbours and neighbours-of-neighbours. In the process, what is meant by the ‘border’ is being transformed with implications for where the border is located, who has jurisd…
A Genealogy of Precarity
The term precarity has been circulating Europe since the late 1980s and is currently used by social movements to contentiously challenge classical notions of production, reproduction, and citizenship. This paper follows the development of the term among several activist networks in Europe (mainly in Spain) through their engagements with crises of the welfare state, new contractual and working arrangements, migrant labor and mobility, and gender. …
Post-Autonomia
Transformations in Engaged Ethnography
Re-bordering the neighbourhood
This paper highlights the ways in which the emerging models of migration management are producing new geographies of the European Union’s borders that complicate notions of a tightly bounded and easily delineated ‘Schengen space’ or ‘Fortress Europe’. Under policy frameworks such as the European Neighbourhood Policy and the EU’s Global Approach to Migration, a process of economic and political regional integration is under way that is beginning t…
Intervention
Blurring Boundaries
Social movements are arising in unexpected places, producing effects not normally associated with our traditional understandings of either politics or movements. No longer, and perhaps never, solely the highly visible, modernist expressions of resistance to the state, movements are not only enacting politics through protest and cultural contestation, but are generating diverse knowledges. From heated debates over the meaning of Italy's alter-glob…
Riding Routes and Itinerant Borders
Despite technological upgrading of borders at the edges of Europe, “Fortress Europe” continues to fail as an effective means of controlling irregular migration. As a consequence, European states are restructuring their border regimes by externalizing migration management to non-EU countries beyond the border and creating new programs and policies to do so. Autonomy of Migration (AoM) offers a distinct way for thinking about border control mechani…
Good neighbours make good fences’
In recent years border externalization has emerged as a central policy framework for European Union (EU) border and migration management. New multi-lateral and bi-lateral agreements on border management have been forged between the EU, its member states, and its North African neighbours and neighbours-of-neighbours. In the process, what is meant by the ‘border’ is being transformed with implications for where the border is located, who has jurisd…
Blurring Boundaries
Social movements are arising in unexpected places, producing effects not normally associated with our traditional understandings of either politics or movements. No longer, and perhaps never, solely the highly visible, modernist expressions of resistance to the state, movements are not only enacting politics through protest and cultural contestation, but are generating diverse knowledges. From heated debates over the meaning of Italy's alter-glob…
A Genealogy of Precarity
The term precarity has been circulating Europe since the late 1980s and is currently used by social movements to contentiously challenge classical notions of production, reproduction, and citizenship. This paper follows the development of the term among several activist networks in Europe (mainly in Spain) through their engagements with crises of the welfare state, new contractual and working arrangements, migrant labor and mobility, and gender. …
Re-bordering the neighbourhood
This paper highlights the ways in which the emerging models of migration management are producing new geographies of the European Union’s borders that complicate notions of a tightly bounded and easily delineated ‘Schengen space’ or ‘Fortress Europe’. Under policy frameworks such as the European Neighbourhood Policy and the EU’s Global Approach to Migration, a process of economic and political regional integration is under way that is beginning t…
Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies
Intervention
Care-tizenship
A series of activist efforts across Europe have been organizing under the umbrella concept of precarity, with a long trajectory of movements facing flexibilization policies, austerity programs and migratory restrictions. The rise of precarity activism in Spain has worked at the intersections of increasing vulnerability and mobility producing a prolific body of activist literature and rich repertoire of strategies. This paper explores how alternat…
Changing Borders, Rethinking Sovereignty
The intervention of European Union border authorities in countries of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe has shown how the European state "border" has been displaced from its national moorings and externalized across the territories of neighboring states. Our research examines the outsourcing of the southern European Union border, focusing on the case of Spain and its relationship with Morocco and countries of Western Africa. In this paper we descri…
On delivery waiting
The politics of time, and particularly practices of waiting, spring in the narratives of any border crossing. This article draws from the scholarly analysis on migratory temporalities, to shed light upon the temporalities of urban delivery platforms, strongholds of migrant labor. We focus on waiting both as a research object and analytical lens to further comprehend the intersectional precarities at work in the food-delivery sector. What does the…
Rethinking mobility in social theory
This paper argues for reengaging the work on the primordial role of mobility advanced by Yann Moulier-Boutang, especially in his seminal book De l'esclavage au salariat: Economie historique du salariat bride (1998). His re-centering of historicity highlights the transformative potential of human mobility in broader social processes, resonating with the unique readings advanced by W.E.B. Du Bois. We identify how Moulier-Boutang's emphasis on the l…
Algoritmos de reconocimiento facial entre repartidores en España
Las investigaciones sobre la implantación de algoritmos en el sector del reparto de comida a domicilio se han centrado en la asignación de pedidos y en cómo estas decisiones automatizadas afectan a las condiciones laborales. Sin embargo, las compañías de este sector también han implementado cálculos algorítmicos para otras funciones, principalmente para lidiar con el llamado «mercado negro de cuentas de reparto». Se han implementado sistemas de r…
Precarious Writings
Scholarly debates over precarity are gaining unprecedented visibility across fields. From labor insecurity forming a growing dangerous class to the existential condition of vulnerability induced by millennial capitalism, precarity has become an object of both empirical study and theoretical reflection. While European social movements have been organizing and writing about precarity from the late 1970s to today, still, from the US perspective, the…
More than a glitch in the platforms
Practices of subleasing and borrowing delivery app accounts are spreading among platform-based food couriers in Spain. This article engages the significance of these seemingly neglectable practices among couriers in deportable situations. Both celebratory and critical portraits of the platform revolution have tended to ignore the question of migration in the digital gig economy. Based on interviews to unregistered couriers, accompanied by media a…
Delivery depletion
Migration thinking’
Blurring Boundaries
Social movements are arising in unexpected places, producing effects not normally associated with our traditional understandings of either politics or movements. No longer, and perhaps never, solely the highly visible, modernist expressions of resistance to the state, movements are not only enacting politics through protest and cultural contestation, but are generating diverse knowledges. From heated debates over the meaning of Italy's alter-glob…
Intervention
Re-bordering the neighbourhood
This paper highlights the ways in which the emerging models of migration management are producing new geographies of the European Union’s borders that complicate notions of a tightly bounded and easily delineated ‘Schengen space’ or ‘Fortress Europe’. Under policy frameworks such as the European Neighbourhood Policy and the EU’s Global Approach to Migration, a process of economic and political regional integration is under way that is beginning t…
Transformations in Engaged Ethnography
Good neighbours make good fences’
In recent years border externalization has emerged as a central policy framework for European Union (EU) border and migration management. New multi-lateral and bi-lateral agreements on border management have been forged between the EU, its member states, and its North African neighbours and neighbours-of-neighbours. In the process, what is meant by the ‘border’ is being transformed with implications for where the border is located, who has jurisd…
A Genealogy of Precarity
The term precarity has been circulating Europe since the late 1980s and is currently used by social movements to contentiously challenge classical notions of production, reproduction, and citizenship. This paper follows the development of the term among several activist networks in Europe (mainly in Spain) through their engagements with crises of the welfare state, new contractual and working arrangements, migrant labor and mobility, and gender. …
Post-Autonomia
New Keywords
“New Keywords: Migration and Borders” is a collaborative writing project aimed at developing a nexus of terms and concepts that fill-out the contemporary problematic of migration. It moves beyond traditional and critical migration studies by building on cultural studies and post-colonial analyses, and by drawing on a diverse set of longstanding author engagements with migrant movements. The paper is organized in four parts (i) Introduction, (ii) …
Riding Routes and Itinerant Borders
Despite technological upgrading of borders at the edges of Europe, “Fortress Europe” continues to fail as an effective means of controlling irregular migration. As a consequence, European states are restructuring their border regimes by externalizing migration management to non-EU countries beyond the border and creating new programs and policies to do so. Autonomy of Migration (AoM) offers a distinct way for thinking about border control mechani…
Changing Borders, Rethinking Sovereignty
The intervention of European Union border authorities in countries of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe has shown how the European state "border" has been displaced from its national moorings and externalized across the territories of neighboring states. Our research examines the outsourcing of the southern European Union border, focusing on the case of Spain and its relationship with Morocco and countries of Western Africa. In this paper we descri…
Care-tizenship
A series of activist efforts across Europe have been organizing under the umbrella concept of precarity, with a long trajectory of movements facing flexibilization policies, austerity programs and migratory restrictions. The rise of precarity activism in Spain has worked at the intersections of increasing vulnerability and mobility producing a prolific body of activist literature and rich repertoire of strategies. This paper explores how alternat…
La autonomía de la migración
Las migraciones y los controles migratorios se han convertido en objeto de máximo interés académico, institucional y mediático. Además de los enfoques convencionales sobre la movilidad humana y su gestión, han surgido interpretaciones alternativas con repercusiones epistemológicas, metodológicas y políticas. Este artículo se centra en la emergencia de la escuela de pensamiento llamada “la Autonomía de la Migración”. A través del análisis de las o…
Migration thinking’
Precarious Writings
Scholarly debates over precarity are gaining unprecedented visibility across fields. From labor insecurity forming a growing dangerous class to the existential condition of vulnerability induced by millennial capitalism, precarity has become an object of both empirical study and theoretical reflection. While European social movements have been organizing and writing about precarity from the late 1970s to today, still, from the US perspective, the…
La migración como (f)actor geopolítico
En este artículo sugerimos interpretar la migración como factor geopolítico, un factor que no esta siempre sujeto a las decisiones estatales. Realizamos una revisión de la literatura sobre la geopolítica de las migraciones, sobre todo centrado en el control migratorio, identificando sus limites y potencialidades. Después, presentamos la Autonomía de las Migraciones como una manera de complementar o retar conceptos asumidos dentro la literatura de…
Platform Capitalism
Platforms have become a central concern in scholarly production due to their sudden scope and rising popularity in mainstream discourse, which either hyper-celebrate their possible achievements, or over-dramatize underlying consequences. Together with related terms—such as sharing economy, digital ecosystems, algorithmic decision-making—the so-called platform revolution has been portrayed as a profound transformation upon previous modes of econom…
Algoritmos de reconocimiento facial entre repartidores en España
Las investigaciones sobre la implantación de algoritmos en el sector del reparto de comida a domicilio se han centrado en la asignación de pedidos y en cómo estas decisiones automatizadas afectan a las condiciones laborales. Sin embargo, las compañías de este sector también han implementado cálculos algorítmicos para otras funciones, principalmente para lidiar con el llamado «mercado negro de cuentas de reparto». Se han implementado sistemas de r…
Interventions on the concept of externalisation in migration and border studies
Strapped to the app? Bridled labor at the crossroads of platform delivery and migration regulation
Purpose The paper aims to analyze the configuration of specific forms of undeclared work which are becoming widespread in the digital food-delivery sector in Spain and are predominantly occupied by migrant labor with employment and/or residence restrictions. Design/methodology/approach Our analysis includes a desk research review of relevant regulatory frameworks, specifically, national labor and migratory legislations, semi-structured interviews…
On delivery waiting
The politics of time, and particularly practices of waiting, spring in the narratives of any border crossing. This article draws from the scholarly analysis on migratory temporalities, to shed light upon the temporalities of urban delivery platforms, strongholds of migrant labor. We focus on waiting both as a research object and analytical lens to further comprehend the intersectional precarities at work in the food-delivery sector. What does the…
More than a glitch in the platforms
Practices of subleasing and borrowing delivery app accounts are spreading among platform-based food couriers in Spain. This article engages the significance of these seemingly neglectable practices among couriers in deportable situations. Both celebratory and critical portraits of the platform revolution have tended to ignore the question of migration in the digital gig economy. Based on interviews to unregistered couriers, accompanied by media a…
Rethinking mobility in social theory
This paper argues for reengaging the work on the primordial role of mobility advanced by Yann Moulier-Boutang, especially in his seminal book De l'esclavage au salariat: Economie historique du salariat bride (1998). His re-centering of historicity highlights the transformative potential of human mobility in broader social processes, resonating with the unique readings advanced by W.E.B. Du Bois. We identify how Moulier-Boutang's emphasis on the l…
Delivery depletion
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