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The article focuses on the everyday struggles of the Māori precariat in Auckland City. As an excerpt from urban ethnography on lived precarity in Auckland, New Zealand, it reveals structural constraints that Māori face on a daily basis. This includes unemployment, precarious work, poverty and precarious housing. Understanding precarity as a mode of domination, the article first looks at the history of Māori precarity that is strongly bound to colonialism and structural violence. Ethnographically, the article presents two Māori couples who are struggling with various dimensions of precarity such as intergenerational trauma, violence continuum and the accumulation of disadvantage. Being in survival mode, they seek ways how to cope with everyday struggles and trauma. The reader then visits the infamous K Road where two artists explain their experience of precarity. Finally, the ethnographic record reveals the everyday struggles of young Māori students, working up to three jobs to get by.

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