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Beyond the digital nomad

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dc.contributor.authorRiesgo Gómez, Víctor
dc.contributor.authorCortez, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorGil, Javier
dc.contributor.authorSequera, Jorge
dc.contributor.institutionCentro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (CICS.NOVA - NOVA FCSH)
dc.contributor.pblElsevier
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-12T14:12:01Z
dc.date.available2026-03-12T14:12:01Z
dc.date.issued2025-12
dc.descriptionUID/04647/2025 https://doi.org/10.54499/UID/04647/2025
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the platformisation of urban life in Southern Europe, highlighting Lisbon as a key hub in the global outsourcing of digital labour. It identifies a model of digital corporate urbanism driven by transnational technology platforms and intermediary firms, where capital attraction, workforce management, and urban policy converge under the logic of global competitiveness. Based on qualitative research involving interviews and participant observation, the study explores the experiences of transnational digital workers employed by companies such as Teleperformance, Accenture, and Sitel for essential tasks on platforms including TikTok and Google (content moderation, customer service, technical support). Despite being portrayed as part of the digital and creative economy, these workers face precarious and monitored labour conditions that contradict narratives of autonomy and innovation. The findings challenge the idealisation of the digital nomad, showing that the mobility of these workers is not a lifestyle choice but a response to structural precarity and limited opportunities in their home countries. Their jobs, framed as technological, are characterized by routinisation, emotional strain, algorithmic control, and economic instability. Company-provided housing reinforces dependence and reveals the entanglement between work, dwelling, and urban regulation in a context of housing crisis. Lisbon thus emerges as a strategic laboratory of platform capitalism, where global outsourcing intersects with local real estate dynamics. This configuration reproduces a new digital division of labour in which overqualification coexists with repetitive, low-paid tasks, turning the city into an active agent that integrates labour, housing, and capital accumulation under the regime of digital urbanism.en
dc.description.versionpublishersversion
dc.description.versionpublished
dc.format.extent581649
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100148
dc.identifier.issn2666-3783
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 157227007
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: c3fbcac1-7b7a-41c2-9ff3-8f44f6ea9694
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 105022452825
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/201319
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105022452825
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/Avaliação UID 2023%2F2024/UID%2F04647%2F2025/PT
dc.subjectDigital subcontracting
dc.subjectJob insecurity
dc.subjectLabour mobility
dc.subjectLisbon
dc.subjectPlatformisation
dc.subjectUprooting platform urbanism
dc.subjectInformation Systems
dc.subjectGeography, Planning and Development
dc.subjectDevelopment
dc.subjectSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)
dc.subjectComputer Science Applications
dc.subjectSDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.titleBeyond the digital nomaden
dc.title.subtitleTransnational digital workers in Lisbonen
dc.typejournal article
degois.publication.titleDigital Geography and Society
degois.publication.volume9
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccess

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