This seminar explores how gender and migration intersect in the gig economy. How do migrant workers navigate precarious forms of platform labour from food delivery to domestic and care work? And how do migration infrastructures, visa regimes, and gendered norms shape their mobility, work experiences, and aspirations?

There will be two presentations that offer critical insights into the gendered and migration-related nature of platform work:
1. Jing Hiah and Roy Huijsmans (EUR): ‘Platform Work and Migration: A Dynamic Interplay’. This contribution focusses on the interplay between two major social phenomena: the emerging platform economy and migration.
2. Ilse van Liempt and Minke Hajer (UU): ‘Delivering Masculinity: Irregular Migrant Men Navigating Precarious Platform Work’. Their paper contributes to a better understating of (irregular) migrant labour, masculinity and urban precarity by showing how platform work shapes embodied and gendered experiences of belonging and exclusion.