Projection - Logistics zones: flexibilizing migrant workers

Monday, December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Échelle Inconnue, Rouen - France

The Netherlands, a logistics empire at the heart of Europe
Investigating the flexibilization of migrant workers
The presentation will draw on collective ethnographic research conducted since 2017 around the Port of Rotterdam, focusing on intra-EU migrant workers (flexworkers) employed in the giant warehouses of globalized logistics. The research examines these migrations, which depend on a real-time job offer managed by artificial intelligence (an algorithm named Isabel). It uncovers the regime of vulnerability that governs the lives of these migrant workers, the harshness of their daily toil, their living conditions, their waiting times in collective accommodation, and their exposure to racism. Finally, the research aims to reveal the intersecting effects of the free movement of workers and the control of migrant flexworkers' lives by algorithms, by analyzing the specific sufferings and subjectivities that emerge from this situation.

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