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Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System (Paperback)
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Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System (Paperback)
Series: Political Economy of the World-System Annuals
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This book offers a historically sweeping yet detailed view of
world-systemic migration as a racialized process. Since the early
expansion of the world-system, the movement of people has been its
central process. Not only have managers of capital moved to direct
profitable expansion; they have also forced, cajoled or encouraged
workers to move in order to extract, grow, refi ne, manufacture and
transport materials and commodities. The book offers historical
cases that show that migration introduces and deepens racial
dominance in all zones of the world-system. This often forces
indigenous and imported slaves or bonded labor to extract, process
and move raw materials. Yet it also often creates a contradiction
between capital's need to direct labor to where it enables
profitability, and the desires of large sections of dominant
populations to keep subordinate people of color marginalized and
separate. Case studies reveal how core states are concurrently
users and blockers of migrant labor. Key examples are Mexican
migrants in the United States, both historically and in
contemporary society. The United States even promotes of an image
of a society that welcomes the immigrant-while policy realities
often quite different. Nonetheless, the volume ends with a vision
of a future whereby communities from below, both activists and
people simply following their communal interests, can come together
to create a society that overcomes racism. Its final chapter is a
hopeful call by Immanuel Wallerstein for people to make small
changes that, together, can bring real about real, revolutionary
change.
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