Unreliable infrastructures of transnational social reproduction for precarious young EU migrants under neoliberal regimes of mobility, work, and welfare

Simola, Anna
(2024) International Political Economy of Labour Migration: The Next Great Transformation? Current Developments, Future Prospects — Location: University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany (18.July.2024)

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This paper engages with discussions of social reproduction with a subject-oriented, transnational orientation, centred on the experiences of university-educated Italian and Spanish young adults who moved to Brussels searching for work corresponding to their passion but worked under precarious and non-waged arrangements. First, it analyses the unsustainable material, temporal, and embodied conditions of EU migrants attempting to sustain their lives without a sufficient income. Second, it addresses the unreliability of social protection infrastructures in the transnational context, demonstrating the ways in which work-related conditionality enforced on the rights of young precarious workers could block their access to social protection both in the country of destination and that of origin, thus rendering them self-responsible for their survival. The relational and intergenerational aspects of these intricate social-reproduction problematics are further analysed in the context of neoliberal restructuring and austerity, which have undermined the ability of families to provide alternative safety nets for precarious mobile workers.
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Simola, A. (2024). Unreliable infrastructures of transnational social reproduction for precarious young EU migrants under neoliberal regimes of mobility, work, and welfare. International Political Economy of Labour Migration: The Next Great Transformation? Current Developments, Future Prospects, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/269700