Dimensions of Europe Lunch Lecture - Maribel Casas-Cortés

MIGRATION, MORE THAN A GLITCH IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY

Based on her national research project about the food-delivery sector in Spain, Dr.Casas-Cortés reveals how migration is not a peripheral anomaly but a central force shaping the logics of platform capitalism and beyond. She explore how mobility, labor and citizenship are reconfigured in the midst of app-based delivery. Drawing from the theoretical tradition fo Autonomy of Migration, this analysis challenges conventional readings of the digital gig economy. This ethnographically grounded proposition will hopefully resonate with other European contexts, especially after the implementation of the EU Platform-Work Directive. 

Maribel Casas-Cortés is currently a Full Professor at the Sociology Department in the University of Zaragoza, Spain. With a PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her work spans critical migration theory,  ethnographic methodologies, political anthropology and platform studies. She has published in key social sciences journals such as Antipode, Current Anthropology or European Urban and Regional Studies. Her first book Precarity Activism was recently published by Routledge Press. She aims for her scholarly production to be under Open Access. Member of the Editorial Board of Cultural Anthropology Journal.