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In line with platform urbanism scholars, the power of digital platforms derives from the “strategic deployment of ‘conjunctural geographies’ – a way of being simultaneously embedded and disembedded from the space-times they mediate. These geographies ultimately allow platforms to concentrate and exert power” (Graham, 2020, p. 454). This means that their place of operation may differ from their fiscal headquarters and, together with the rhetoric of being mere technology companies, the conjunctural geography provides digital platforms with significant room for manoeuvre across normative frameworks. Yet, digital platforms do not move in a flat space; they have to deal with the frictions (Tsing, 2004) of the local socio-institutional arrangements.\n\n3 Migrant Gig Work(Force)\n\nThe general trend briefly outlined above should be tied with the dynamics involving migrant workforce. Some scholars have tied the general dynamics of racialisation in capitalism in the platform economy’s rationale, claiming that worker (mis)classification is a racial process (Gebrial, 2022). It is now recognised the co-constitutive relationship between urban gig economy and migrants (Abkhezr & McMahon, 2022; Altenried, 2021; Piasna et al., 2022; van Doorn, 2023). The nexus between migrant workers and low-skilled platform-based work is underscored by the control exerted by capitalist mechanisms over the migratory workforce. As pointed out by van Doorn, the gig economy become «active ‘infrastructural’ agents in the reconstitution of labour relations and the nature of work» (2023, p. 902). Indeed, digital platforms function as pivotal infrastructures, assimilating migrant work through stratified and racialised modalities, thereby relegating them to low-wage labour markets (Orth, 2023; van Doorn & Vijay, 2021).\n\nA major explicatory factor of the intersection between migrants and gig work is linked to the low entry-barrier of the latter. For example, the literature on the relationship between temporal borders and border regimes has emphasised how temporary residence permits punctuate migrants’ experiences and how they contribute to the momentary inclusion of migrant work in capital’s productive structure. This punctuated temporality «differentiates temporary migrants from migrants with continuous permits and even more so from nondeportable citizens» (Maury, 2020, p. 101). The topic of temporality and visa/residence permits is crucial also on the grounds that «temporary migrant workers provide the lion’s share of the labour power in the platform economy across the world» (Baratt et al., 2020; Lata et al., 2023, p. 3). Moreover, precarious migrants may be undocumented, vulnerable or forced (Nedelcu & Soysüren, 2022), and they can use self-employment or independent contractor work relationships to circumvent visa or residence permit restrictions (Abkhezr & McMahon, 2022; Lata et al., 2023). In this context, Animento (2024), gig work reduces the entry barriers of the local (urban) market, making migration smoother, affording migrant workers immediate engagement and a supplementary income, notwithstanding their constrained social assimilation and paucity of social capital (Animento, 2024; Saucedo, 2018; van Doorn et al., 2023; van Doorn & Vijay, 2021). Evidently, the allure of platform employment emanates from its formal work flexibility, minimal linguistic and bureaucratic impediments, and expeditious selection protocols vis-à-vis alternative sectors.\n\n4 DELIVERING IN THE LAGOON. CRITICAL REFLECTIONS\n\n83","previous_page":82,"next_page":84}