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Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and
escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for
social workers and service users to understand the structures of
oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance. This
book uses Marxism's lost insights and reinterprets them in the
current context by focussing on one particular section of the
international working class - refugees and asylum seekers in
Britain. Vickers' analysis demonstrates the general utility of a
Marxist approach, enabling an exploration of the interplay between
state policies, how these are experienced by their subjects, and
how conflicts are mediated. The substantive focus of the book is
twofold: to analyse the material basis of the oppression of
refugees in Britain by the British state; and to examine the means
by which the British state has 'managed' this oppression through
the cultivation of a 'refugee relations industry', within a broader
narrative of 'social capital building'. These questions demand
answers if social workers and other practitioners are to
successfully work with refugees and asylum seekers, and this book
provides these through a detailed Marxist analysis.
Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and
escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for
social workers and service users to understand the structures of
oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance. This
book uses Marxism's lost insights and reinterprets them in the
current context by focussing on one particular section of the
international working class - refugees and asylum seekers in
Britain. Vickers' analysis demonstrates the general utility of a
Marxist approach, enabling an exploration of the interplay between
state policies, how these are experienced by their subjects, and
how conflicts are mediated. The substantive focus of the book is
twofold: to analyse the material basis of the oppression of
refugees in Britain by the British state; and to examine the means
by which the British state has 'managed' this oppression through
the cultivation of a 'refugee relations industry', within a broader
narrative of 'social capital building'. These questions demand
answers if social workers and other practitioners are to
successfully work with refugees and asylum seekers, and this book
provides these through a detailed Marxist analysis.
This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly
restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting
migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it
challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises
commonplace distinctions between 'migrants' and 'workers'. Using
Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories
have been constructed and mobilised within representations of a
'migrant crisis' and a 'welfare crisis' to facilitate capitalist
exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism to propose
alternative understandings of the relationship between borders,
migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.
This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly
restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting
migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it
challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises
commonplace distinctions between 'migrants' and 'workers'. Using
Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories
have been constructed and mobilised within representations of a
'migrant crisis' and a 'welfare crisis' to facilitate capitalist
exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism to propose
alternative understandings of the relationship between borders,
migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.
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