Marxism and Migration

"This exciting and thoughtful collection of essays offers a valuable intervention in understanding global migration and the conditions that precipitate it. An urgent and important volume." -Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK, and author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (2020)

"This book is a goldmine for everyone interested in migration, border studies, global labor, and capitalism today. This is a book that deserves to be widely read, shared, and discussed by everyone dedicated to understanding our world-and to changing it."

-David McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History & Business, University of Houston, USA, and author of Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (2020)

This book approaches migration from Marxist feminist, anti-imperialist, and anti-colonial perspectives. The present conditions of transnational migration, best described as a kind of social expulsion, include migrant caravans and detained unaccompanied children in the United States, thousands of migrant deaths at sea, the razing of self-organized refugee camps in Greece, and the massive dispersal of populations within and between countries. Placing patriarchal capitalism, imperialism, racialization, and fundamentalisms at the center of the analysis, Marxism and Migration helps build a more coherent and historically-informed discussion of the conditions of migration, resettlement, and resistance. Drawing upon a range of academic disciplines and diverse geopolitical regions, the book rethinks migrations from the vantage point of class struggle and seeks to ignite a more robust discussion of critical consciousness, racialization, militarization, and solidarity.

Genevieve Ritchie is Lecturer in Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity, New College, University of Toronto.

Sara Carpenter is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Shahrzad Mojab is Professor of Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada.

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Genevieve Ritchie is Lecturer in the Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity program at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her recent publications include a book chapter re-theorizing the sociology of youth, as well as scholarly journal articles on issues of private sponsorship in Canada and ideologies of democracy and dictatorship. Her current work focuses on international solidarity, popular education, and refugee youth.

Sara Carpenter is Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Specializing in critical interrogations of civil society, democracy, and political participation, her recent publications include Educating from Marx: Race, Gender, and Learning (co-edited with Shahrzad Mojab, 2011) and The Ideology of Civic Engagement: Americorps, Politics, and Pedagogy (2021).

Shahrzad Mojab is Professor of Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada. She is internationally recognized for her work on the impacts of war and displacement on learning, as well as a scholar of critical and decolonial pedagogies. Her recent books include Youth as/in Crisis: Young People, Public Policy, and the Politics of Learning (co-edited with Sara Carpenter, 2017), Marxism and Feminism (2015), and Women, War, Violence, and Learning (2010).

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This book approaches migration from a Marxist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial, and feminist theoretical perspective. Best described as a kind of social expulsion, the present conditions of transnational migration include migrant caravans and detained unaccompanied children in the United States, the thousands of migrant deaths at sea, the razing of self-organized refugee camps in Greece, and the massive dispersal of populations within and between countries. Placing patriarchal capitalism, imperialism, racialization, and fundamentalisms at the center of the analysis, Marxism and Migration helps build a more coherent and historically-informed discussion of the present conditions of migration, resettlement, and resistance. Drawing upon a range of academic disciplines and centering diverse geopolitical regions, it rethinks migrations from the vantage point of class struggle and seeks to ignite a more robust discussion of critical consciousness, racialization, militarization, and solidarity.

Inhalt

*order TBDChapter 1: Labor Power's Elasticity and Forms of Movement

Chapter 2: Laws of Motion: The International Regulation of Migrant Work in Contemporary Capitalism

Chapter 3: The Incarceration of Migrants Denmark: Migrant Disposability and the Carceral State

Chapter 4: The Exploitation of Migrant Workers on the Periphery of Capitalism: An Analysis of the Haitian Workers in the Textile Industry of Parana, Brazil

Chapter 5: Between Exploitation and Repression: Migrant Labor, Capitalist Accumulation, and the Rise of the Immigration Industrial Complex

Chapter 6: Migrant Autonomy and Resistance: Towards a Marxist Theoretical Framework

Chapter 7: A Systematic Review on Marx System Analysis of Migration and Ethnic Relations

Chapter 8: Migrations Between the New Expulsions and Confinement in a Ruined Capitalism

Chapter 9: Marxism, Migration, and the State

Chapter 10: Blood in the Circuits/Fields: Agricultural Migrant Labor and Accumulation in the City

Chapter 11: Marx and Migration in Post-apartheid South Africa

Chapter 12: Temporary Labour Migration, Worker Exploitation, and the Efficacy of Class Struggle in Malaysia Chapter 13: Right-Wing Populism and the Production of Neoliberal Migrant Precariat in America and Italy

Chapter 14: Dissent Interrupted: Settling Refugee Youth

Chapter 15: Fragmentation, Inequality and Belonging: John Berger on Migrant Labour

Chapter 16: Financialized Primitive Accumulation, Forced Migration, and Ethnic Cleansing: The Central American Case