Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy The Intersection of Migrant Labour, Platform Capitalism, and Resistance

Francesco Della Puppa is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, Italy. He carries out teaching and research activities relating to international migration, migrant families and family reunification, transformations of masculinity in migration, migrant labour and racial discrimination, refugees and asylum seekers, digital labour. He has published widely in books and journals.

Dipsita Dhar is an activist and early career research scholar, who works on Migration, Unionisation and Digital Labour. She recently has co-edited a book titled Education or Exclusion (2022) discussing the adverse effect of the New Education Policy on the young students of India. Her work on digital labour platform has been published in journals like Gender and Development and others. Apart from the academic journals she often writes for Jacobin and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on various issues.

Nicola Montagna (PhD) is Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology at the University of Salerno. Prior to this, he taught and conducted research at Middlesex University London for nearly twenty years. He has participated in several international research projects funded by the European Union (EU) , the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) , and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) . His research focuses on international migration and the politics of migration and borders, social movements, urban protest, populism . He has published widely in leading academic journals, including Sociology and the International Migration Review , as well as in numerous edited volumes.