Contemporary societies are undergoing profound transformations both at the level of developments related to migration processes and at the level of general life conditions (work, modes of production, forms of social exchange, public spheres, etc.). Neither old models of describing social stratification nor identitary - or even post-identitary - ideas of "cultural" differences or diversities provide a sufficient understanding of these processes. It therefore appears necessary to develop new analyses of the complexities of social recomposition, which take into account such different - and yet intertwined - aspects as (international) labor division, ethnicized work, gender-specific forms of discrimination and exploitation, physical and social mobility, new forms of social interaction and organization, as well as the concrete impact of legal regimes and frameworks. Against this background, the term "social recomposition" aims particularly at highlighting new modes of social and political agency, new possible subjectivities and articulations that emerge from the experience of these changes.