Marxism and Migration

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.

Provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich contribution to the study of migration Utilizes an interdisciplinary and transnational approach Includes contributions from emerging and established scholars from the Global North and Global South

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: As Migrants Move: (Re)formation of Class and Class Struggle.- 2. Migration, Borders, and Capital Accumulation.- 3. Marxism, Migration, and the State.- 4. Wages for Immigration! Labour and Social Reproduction under Contemporary Capitalism.- 5. Finance Capital with Ethnic Cleansing: Primitive Accumulation and Forced Migration.- 6. Under the Shadows of Capital-Imperialism: Conditions of Expropriating and Exploitation of Haitian Immigrants.- 7. Inequality, Fragmentation and Belonging: John Berger on Migrant Labour.- 8. From Nothingness to the Necropolis: The Ontological Journey of the Mexican Farmworker.- 9. Ghosts of Ellebaek Prison-Deportation and Control in Carceral Denmark.- 10. Between Exploitation and Repression: The Immigration Industrial Complex and Militarized Migration Management.- 11. Dissent Interrupted: Settling Refugee Youth.- 12. Marxist Perspectives on Migration Between Autonomy and Hegemony: An Intervention for a Strategic Approach.