Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London

Preface
	References
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Invisible Migrants
	1.1 On Route to New Spitalfields Night Market
	1.2 New Spitalfields
	1.3 Ethnicisation of Work at New Spitalfields
	1.4 Half-Rejected, Half-Permitted Migrant Workers
		1.4.1 Who Is Called a ‘Migrant’ Worker? Who Is Not and Why Not?
		1.4.2 Half-Rejected Migrants
		1.4.3 Half-Permitted
	1.5 Researching Nightwork
	1.6 Nightnography
	1.7 The Nightnographer Explained
	1.8 Post-circadian Capitalism
		1.8.1 The Global City and the Problems with Work
		1.8.2 Under-the-Skin Precarity
		1.8.3 Fragmentation vs. Cooperation
	1.9 Chapter Overviews
	References
Chapter 2: Nightnography: We Are Not Night Creatures
	2.1 Nightnography
	2.2 Autoethnography: A Migrant, Apprentice and Nightnographer
	2.3 Multi-positionality
		2.3.1 The Migrant
		2.3.2 The Apprentice Loader
		2.3.3 The Nightnographer (Fig. 2.3)
	2.4 Nightnographer, Explained
	2.5 Nightnographic Storytelling in Migration Studies
	2.6 Data Collection Using Embodied, Cyber-ethnographic and Visual Tools
		2.6.1 Field Notes and Mental Notes
		2.6.2 Body Notes
		2.6.3 Digital (Self)Tracking
	2.7 Returning from the Dark
	2.8 Final Act
	References
Chapter 3: Half-Rejected, Half-Permitted Migrant Workers
	3.1 Migrant Workers
	3.2 Migration Trends
	3.3 Half-Rejected Migrant Workers
	3.4 Half-Permitted Migrant Workers
	3.5 Debating the Global City
	3.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Intersecting Hierarchies of Nightwork
	4.1 The Corporation of London
	4.2 The FruitVeg Company
		4.2.1 Executives
		4.2.2 The Workfloor Manager
		4.2.3 Salespeople
		4.2.4 The Foreman
		4.2.5 Checkmen
		4.2.6 Loaders and Forklift Drivers
		4.2.7 Women at the Market
			Cashiers
			Café Servers
	4.3 Segmentation at the Night Market
	4.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: The Normalisation of Nightwork
	5.1 Transition from Circadian to Post-circadian, 24/7 Capitalism
		5.1.1 Neo-liberalisation
		5.1.2 Global Dispossession
		5.1.3 The Intensification of Labour
		5.1.4 Alterations to Time Regimentation
		5.1.5 The Global City
	5.2 Nightworkers
		5.2.1 Lexa
		5.2.2 Basrí
		5.2.3 Gică
		5.2.4 Logan
	5.3 The Normalisation of Nightwork and Its Consequences
	References
Chapter 6: Habitus of Nightwork
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Embodied Histories
		6.2.1 Lexa
		6.2.2 Basrí
		6.2.3 Gică
		6.2.4 Logan
	6.3 Habitus of Nightwork
	References
Chapter 7: Embodied Precariousness
	7.1 Under My Skin
		7.1.1 Becoming a Nightworker
		7.1.2 Becoming a Loader
		7.1.3 Working as a Loader
	7.2 Debating Precarity and Precariousness
	7.3 Embodied Precariousness
	References
Chapter 8: Fragmented Cooperation
	8.1 Competition and Cooperation at New Spitalfields Market
	8.2 Weakened Cooperation
	8.3 Short-Lived Cooperation
	8.4 Embodied Cooperation
		8.4.1 Rhythmic Practices
		8.4.2 Bodily Gestures
		8.4.3 Dealing with Resistance
		8.4.4 Trivial Disruptions
	8.5 Sociability
	8.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Significance of Nightwork
	9.1 Post-Circadian Capitalism
	9.2 The Glocturnal City
	9.3 Invisible Denizens
	9.4 Under-the-Skin Precarity
	9.5 Embodied Cooperation
	9.6 Researching Nightwork Communities
	9.7 Towards an Embodied Anthropology of Nightwork in Migration Studies
	References
Chapter 10: Coda–Essential Yet Invisible, Pandemic or Not
	10.1 Nightwork Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
	10.2 Nightworker Charter
	References
Appendices
	Appendix 1
	Appendix 2
	References
Index