The Postcolonial Age of Migration

This book critically examines the question of migration that appears at the intersection of global neoliberal transformation, postcolonial politics, and economy. It analyses the ways in which colonial relations are produced and reproduced in global migratory flows and their consequences for labour, human rights and social justice.

Autorentext

Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India. He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanisation, and political struggles have signalled a new turn in postcolonial thinking. Among his influential works is The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal (1999). His recent works are Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2018); The Crisis of 1974: Railway Strike and the Rank and File (2016); and Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (2014, co-authored).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Revisiting The Age of Migration 2. Context, Concepts, and Method 3. Migrants in an Earlier Age of Globalisation 4. The Labouring Subject of Refugee Economies 5. Postcolonial Footprints of the Ecological Migrants 6. The Spectral Presence of the Migrant 7. Insecure Nation, Insecure Migrant 8. The Postcolonial Nature of Europe's Migration Crisis 9. Statelessness and the Lost World of Citizenship 10. Postcolonial Marks on the Principle of Responsibility 11. The Roadmap of Global Power and Responsibility. Bibliography. Index.