Historian Laura Robson reveals the dark heart of our purportedly
humanitarian international regime.Tracing the century-long history
of attempts to remake refugees into cut-rate, disposable migrant
labor, Robson elucidates global humanitarianism's deep-seated
commitment to refugee exploitation and containment. The advent of
internationalist refugee aid has long been told as an inspirational
story of humanitarians fighting tirelessly for a system for that
would recognize and guarantee the rights of displaced and
dispossessed people. But as Robson meticulously demonstrates,
modern refugee policy emerges from a different goal: to use
refugees as cheap workers in an emerging system of global
industrial capitalism. With a global eye, Robson captures the
travails of Balkan refugees in the late Ottoman Empire, Roosevelt's
secret plans to use German Jewish refugees as laborers in Latin
America, and contemporary European efforts to deploy Syrians as
low-wage workers in remote regions of Jordan.
General
Imprint: |
Verso Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Laura Robson
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-80429-021-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-80429-021-1 |
Barcode: |
9781804290217 |
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