Labor Mobility and Precarity on a Global Scale:

This symposium explores how global labor mobility and rising precarity affect and connect the experiences of citizens and non-citizens. Precarity, the experience of insecurity and constant risk of exclusion, is central to the experience of many labor migrants and citizen-workers in our time. Today’s labor migrants are new denizens—residents or inhabitants who are not quite full members of society. They are incorporated into societies that desire their labor, but reject their very presence. Meanwhile, citizen-workers are exposed to new forms of vulnerability as social rights, such as education, health care, and retirement, are increasingly privatized, made contingent, or dissolved altogether. In such contexts, the majority of British voters demand Brexit and Donald Trump is elected president with the mandate to "make America great again."

This event will be held at the Stevenson College Event Center.

Register: clrc.ucsc.edu