This symposium brings together an international group of scholars who push platform-work debates beyond techno-centric narratives by foregrounding the lived experiences, forms of agency, and vulnerabilities of workers embedded in digital economies. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial, critical media, platform and data perspectives, the symposium interrogates how gender, migration, race, sexuality, and inequalities shape both visible and hidden forms of labor underpinning contemporary digital infrastructures. Speakers aim to reorient discussions of digital labor by centering how workers navigate, resist, enact care and reshape platform-mediated conditions. 

Speakers and subjects: 
- Guanqin He, MSc, UU: Blooming in the Cracks: Women Migrant Workers and their Everyday Practices in China’s Platform-mediated Gig Economy.
- Manaar Mohammed, MSc, EUR: Algorithmic Inequality (AI): The extraction of African knowledge-labour in building AI infrastructures.
- Dr. Minke Hajer, UU: Delivering Masculinity: Irregular Migrant Men Navigating Precarious Platform Work
- Dr. Rébecca Franco, UU: The Domestic and Sex Work of Migrant Women on Digital Platforms. 
- Prof. Nishant Shah, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Everyday Digital Care: Reorienting digital care infrastructures.
- Dr. Laura Candidatu, UU: The European division of labor in the digital economy. A materialist feminist perspective. 
- Prof. Saskia Witteborn, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Web3, Migration, and Platform Labor. 
- Prof. Claartje ter Hoeven, UU: Making AI Work: The Human Labor Behind-the-Scenes.