This review examines precarity through two foci. First, I focus on related terms of the
lumpenproletariat and informal economy, each of which have left their mark on the notion of …

This article surveys the state of emerging geographic research on detention, imprisonment,
and confinement. Prisons and detention centers vary widely in location and form, but all hold …

Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of
neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new …

In recent years, the term precarity has proliferated in the social sciences at the risk of losing
its analytical purchase. This review considers the value and limitations of precarity in the …

This paper unpacks the contested inter-connections between neoliberal work and welfare
regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. The …

Exploitation of international migrant workers in the Global North has been increasingly
framed in terms of trafficking, in political and legal domains and by the media. Yet posing …

This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large
refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition …

This special issue leverages the migrant experience to better understand precarity and
agency in the contemporary world. By way of introduction, we examine the broader bodies of …

This progress report examines the relationship between continued growth in the sub-field of
labour geography, especially in research on migration, and the concept of precarity. An …

This article explores growing interest in the term 'precarity'within the social sciences and
asks whether there is a place for a 'critical geography of precarity'amid this emerging field …