Job precariousness, racialised segregation and temporary mobility of women

Abstract

Job precariousness, manifested in the loss of formal employment, salary stagnation and job uncertainty, has increased at a global scale. Literature presents precarity associated to the model of flexible production, instead of understanding it as constitutive of the modern colonial capitalism. The present article analyses the stratification of productive tasks at a global scale, from racial stratification, a system that requires racialisation to exploit and peccaries people, through a qualitative piece of research, based on interviews carried out to Mexican women who fly with visa to the USA and Canada to work temporary jobs in catering, farming, and crab factory. We will show that workers are constituted as a racialized surplus and subject to visas, and this relationship allows the employer to aggravate labour exploitation and perpetuate social hierarchies.