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This chapter discusses the contemporary role of migration within imperialist capitalism, with particular attention to how migration is structured by borders.
Introduction
While migration has always been a feature of human societies, it has taken specific characteristics within imperialist capitalism. Although migration is often presented as an anomaly or disruption to the “normal” functioning of capitalist societies, it can be more accurately understood as “an integral element of the evolving process of production restructuring and working-class reconfiguration” (Pradella and Cillo 2015: 47; also Hanieh 2018). Borders structure imperialism, enabling multiple regimes of accumulation, differentiated geographically and socially.
Migration has taken various forms throughout the development of imperialism; this chapter focuses predominantly on the contemporary context, since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008....
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