Maribel Casas-Cortés

Senior Fellow in the cluster "Migration, borders and mobility in, around and through Europe "

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 in the Area of Anthropology within the Psychology and Sociology Department at the UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA (Spain). She is co-leading a research group known as Sociedad, Creatividad e Incertidumbre based at her department. PhD in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she has published in journals such as Current Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Citizenship Studies, Antipode, Politics or The European Journal of Social Theory. Her first book entitled Precarity Activism was recently published by Routledge Press under an Open Access license.  drcasascortes(at)unizar.es