Migration and its enemies : global capital, migrant labour and the nation-state
Shows how the preferences, interests, and actions of global capital, migrant labour and national politicians intersect and often contradict each other. This work explores how nation-states segment the 'insiders' from the 'outsiders', and how politically powerless migrants relate to more privileged migrants and the national citizenry.
IX, 242 p. 24 cm.
9780754646570, 9780754646587, 0754646572, 0754646580
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Introduction; Chapter 1 Unfree labourers and modern capitalism; Chapter 2 The proletariat at the gates: migrant and non-citizen labour, 1850–2000; Chapter 3 Shaping the nation, excluding the Other: the deportation of migrants from Britain; Chapter 4 Constructing the alien: seven theories of social exclusion; Chapter 5 Trade, aid and migration; Chapter 6 Citizens, denizens and helots: the politics of international migration flows after 1945; Chapter 7 Migration and the new international/transnational division of labour; Chapter 8 Globalization, international migration and everyday cosmopolitanism; Chapter 9 The free movement of money and people: debates before and after ‘9/11’;