“…Many migrants face financial precarity in new countries, however, also face precariousness in acceptance due to racialised logic. These logics position migrants into categories of good versus bad, for example, migrants that came ‘legally versus illegally’, with platform companies strategically exploiting these logics to push workers to self‐optimise (Amelung et al., 2020) and overcompensate, such as adding extra services within ride‐sharing or working harder in food delivery. It should be further noted that migrant workers might have limited technological knowledge of how algorithms work or who are new and isolated workers to understand how algorithms operate, how algorithms control their job opportunities as well as how they could ‘game the system’.…”