Communities of Care in Migration

This interdisciplinary edited volume for scholars of migration, transnationalism and care provides a unique, praxis-informed perspective on the often-unrecognised labour of care given and received between migrants. Organised under the concept of “Communities of Care in Migration”, this book explores local and transnational relationships and practices of care as collectively produced and enacted in the lives of migrants in diverse contexts, including the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Asia, Europe, and online. Leading and emerging scholars, community organisers and practitioners in migrant-focused NGOs from across the world draw on a range of methodological techniques, including qualitative interviews, ethnography, policy analysis, participatory action research and content analysis, to offer a fresh look on migration in action. 

1. Introduction: Communities of Care in Migration (Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Leah Williams Veazey).- SECTION 1: ETHICS, VISIONS AND STRATEGIES OF CARE IN MIGRATION.- 2.       Migrant Care as Resisting Nation-States and Being in Good Kinship with Indigenous Communities (Sewsen Igbu, Ashley Caranto Morford, Shanna Peltier).- 3. Communicative Care: Building Communities of Care through Communication in the Belarusian Resistance-in-Exile (Volha Verbilovich, Lynnette Arnold).- 4. Radical Care as New World Making (Katherine Nasol).- SECTION 2: MIGRANTS ORGANISING FOR SOLIDARITY AND COLLECTIVITY.- 5. Solidarity, care and the feminist commons: Nepali migrant women caring for survivors of family violence in Melbourne, Australia (Rosi Aryal, Sabitra Kaphle, Bobby Lama, Niru Triphati, and Madhuri Maskey).- 6. Healing Patchworks of Care: Domestic Worker and Home Care Labor Organizing in San Antonio, TX (Amanda Gray Rendón).- 7. Toward Communities of Care as Political Praxis: Collective Care in Transnational Filipina/x/o American Organizing (Annelle Maranan Garcia).- SECTION 3: COLLECTIVE CARE IN REFUGEE AND ASYLUM-SEEKING COMMUNITIES.- 8.       Brokering strength, support, and care among Tamil refugees and asylum seekers in Australia (Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley and Charishma Ratnam).- 9. Collective Care Among Refugees in the Israeli Settler State: Navigating Debt and Economic Precarity (Rachel H. Brown).- 10.  Coalescing Collective Ways of Being and Communities of Care in Migration: Meaning Making and Healing through Reflective Dialogic Praxis (Jane Pak, Jean Pierre Ndagijimana, Emmanuel Bakheit, Jyoti Gurung).- SECTION 4: MEN, MASCULINITIES AND MIGRANT COMMUNITIES OF CARE.- 11.  The Emergence and Sustenance of Informal Communities of Care amongst Migrant Men in Urban South Africa (Leah Koskimaki, Nomkhosi Mbatha).- 12.  A Bridge Towards Liberated Multigenerational Migrant Masculinities: Building the Brokada Filipinx Men’s Healing Circle (Wayne Silao Jopanda).- SECTION 5: MIGRANT COMMUMITIES OF CARE IN THE DIGITAL AGE.- 13.  Recipes for being Coorg; Culinary Carework via Diasporic Cyber Community (Bittiandra Chand Somaiah).- 14.  Lateral Care as Entrepreneurial Solidarity (Adrian Petterson, Isabella Jaimes Rodriguez, Olivia Doggett).

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, California, USA.

Leah Williams Veazey is Research Fellow in Sociology at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney, Australia.