More than a glitch in the platforms: Precarious migratory status and other structural anomalies in app-based food delivery
Casas-Cortés, Maribel (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Resumen: Practices of subleasing and borrowing delivery app accounts are spreading among platform-based food couriers in Spain. This article engages the significance of these seemingly neglectable practices among couriers in deportable situations. Both celebratory and critical portraits of the platform revolution have tended to ignore the question of migration in the digital gig economy. Based on interviews to unregistered couriers, accompanied by media analysis on Glovo, the main delivery company in Spain, this article calls for engaging migration beyond the exception in platform research agendas. The overall argument points to the primacy of migration in the reconfiguration of delivery platform logics of labor recruitment.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2025.0123OF1
Año: 2025
Publicado en: Focaal (2025), [16 pp.]
ISSN: 0920-1297
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN-AEI/PID2020-115170RB-100
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Antropología Social (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)
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Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.3167/fcl.2025.0123OF1
Año: 2025
Publicado en: Focaal (2025), [16 pp.]
ISSN: 0920-1297
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN-AEI/PID2020-115170RB-100
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Antropología Social (Dpto. Psicología y Sociología)
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. Exportado de SIDERAL (2025-10-17-14:24:47)
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