Abstract
Today’s migrants are an integral part of the global precariat, this chapter argues. This involves millions of people flitting among insecure jobs without an occupational identity or secure access to social benefits. Precarians are ‘denizens’, rather than ‘citizens’, deprived of rights that citizenship normally includes. The precariat is divided into three categories, each politically ‘dangerous’. Migrants slip into each of them; variously depicted as ‘villains’ causing the spread of precarity, ‘victims’ of the same process, or ‘heroes’ praised for their ability to survive under unsavoury conditions. There is a need for a political strategy strengthening all types of rights that the precariat lacks. The chapter concludes by proposing a Precariat Charter oriented towards the needs, insecurities, and aspirations of migrants.