Marxism and Migration

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