In the fourth episode of Mobility, Work, and Rights, hosts Nando Sigona and Ilse van Liempt explore the relation between migration status and working conditions and what it means to work the nightshift.

Nando and Ilse are joined by two guests who help them in this task: Julius Cezar MacQuarie who teaches and researches at the University of Cork and his the author of Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London (Springer 2023); and Renzo Sgolacchia, architect, researcher and film-maker, author of Living Labour, a documentary on the lives of Polish, Spanish and Roma workers in the Netherlands.

Our podcast picks …

Books:

- Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London (2023): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36186-9

- Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City by Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay (2017)

Films:

- Invisible Lives: Romanian Night Workers in London

- The Sleepless Bat Trailer a.k.a Nightshift Spitalfields

Report:

Cleaning up Westminster: Understanding Racial Capitalism Through Ethnographies of Racialised and/or Migrant Night Cleaners in UK Parliament.

Article:

Night-Time and Refugees: Evidence from the Thai-Myanmar Border | Journal of Refugee Studies

Podcast:

NightWorkPod

How to cite this episode

Van Liempt, I , Sigona, N, MacQuarie, JC, Sgolacchia, R (2025) “The night shift and the politics of exhaustion”, Mobility, work and rights: the I-CLAIM podcast, S1 E4, 21 January 2025.

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