(Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities by Elizabeth Chacko, Marie P... - 9781032433820

(Un)Settled Sojourners in CitiesChallenges of Temporariness among Migrants and Asylum Seekers\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Chacko, Marie Price\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032433820, 978-1032433820\nSynopsis\nTemporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic, ecological, political and socio-cultural environments. This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales in urban settings, varying from the household, institution, and neighbourhood, to the city. Temporary migrants experience oscillations in precarity that vary with their categorization as skilled (professionals with valued skill sets, international students) or unskilled (domestic workers, labourers), their ambiguous legal status and the locales in which they reside and work. Individual chapte.