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.
Author(s): Genevieve Ritchie, Sara Carpenter, Shahrzad Mojab
Series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 333
City: Cham
Series Editors’ Foreword
Titles Published
Titles Forthcoming
Acknowledgements
Praise for Marxism and Migration
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Part I Introduction
1 As Migrants Move: (Re)formation of Class and Class Struggle
This Book in Context
Thinking Through Migration Studies
Partition
Framing
Rupture
Migration as Class Struggle
References
Part II Re-situating Migration
2 Migration, Borders, and Capital Accumulation
Introduction
Migration and the Concept of the Working Class
Migration and Capitalist Class Formation
Borders, Race, and Illegality
“Managing” Migration
Migration and Crisis
Conclusion
References
3 Marxism, Migration, and the State
Introduction
Public Power
Global Change
The Irish “Threat”
Nations, Nationalism and Mass Displacement
Sinophobia
State Machine
“Human Goods”
State and Capital
References
4 Wages for Immigration! Labour and Social Reproduction Under Contemporary Capitalism
Introduction
Who Reproduces and/or Replaces the Working Class?
Immigration as Social Reproduction
Immigration as Labour
Immigration, Social Reproduction, and the Family
Conclusion: Wages for Immigration
References
Part III Migration, Labour Power, and Accumulation
5 Finance Capital with Ethnic Cleansing: Primitive Accumulation and Forced Migration
Primitive Accumulation: An Overview
Theoretical Considerations
Role of Monopoly Finance Capital in Land Dispossessions
Review of Literature on Primitive Accumulation in Guatemala and Honduras
Guatemala
Honduras
Primitive Accumulation in Central America: Drug War Capitalism or Capitalism with Drugs?
Discussion of Central American Dispossession
Alternatives
Alternatives: Hope for Socialist Renewal
Against Despair: Towards Socialist Land Reforms
Discussion and Conclusions
References
6 Under the Shadows of Capital-Imperialism: Conditions of Expropriation and Exploitation of Haitian Immigrants
Introduction
Capitalist Productive Restructuring in Brazil
Exploitation in Brazil: Working Conditions of Immigrant Workers
Expropriation in Haiti: Conditions for the Expulsion of Immigrant Workers
References
7 Inequality, Fragmentation, and Belonging: John Berger on Migrant Labour
Introduction
A Dream, Nightmare
A Mystification
In a Labyrinth
References
8 From Nothingness to the Necropolis: The Ontological Journey of the Mexican Farmworker
Blood, Sweat, and Potatoes
Living Labour and Exteriority
Situation A: The Other Ante-Festum
Situation B: Blood in the Fields
A Brief History of Mexican Migrants in Idaho
Situation C: La Nada Post-Festum and Exteriority
Exteriority and El Pueblo in Corridos
Conclusion
References
Part IV Migration, Repression, and Resistance
9 Ghosts of Ellebæk Prison: Deportation and Control in Carceral Denmark
Introduction
“Wishing a Person Death”
Harm and Madness
Hauntings
The Prison Economy and How to Haunt Back
Conclusion
References
10 Between Exploitation and Repression: The Immigration Industrial Complex and Militarized Migration Management
Introduction
Migrants, the IIC, and the Accumulation of Capital
The IIC and US Immigration Regimes
The Production and Policing of Migrant “Illegality”
The IIC in Action
Militarized Migration Management
Concluding Remarks
References
11 Dissent Interrupted: Settling Refugee Youth
Introduction
Context for Our Research
Interrupting Dissent, Reproducing Capitalism
Fragmenting Dissent
Youth and (De)Classed Social Cohesion
Concluding Thoughts
References
12 Marxist Perspectives on Migration Between Autonomy and Hegemony: An Intervention for a Strategic Approach
INTRODUCTION
Migration in the History of the International the InternationalLabour Movement
Enter Autonomia
Autonomy of Migration
The Limits of Migrant Autonomy
Understanding the Global Structure of Capitalism Today
Migrants as Participants of Civil Society Alliances
Challenging Misplaced Alliances
Discussion
References
Index
