Description
Book Synopsis Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only react but also act to engage with and transform their worlds. Using ethnographic examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, contributors question how and why particular forms of political struggle and collective action may, or indeed may not, be carried forward in the context of geographic and social border crossings. In doing so, they bring the dynamic relationship between class, gender, and culture to the forefront in each distinctive migration setting.
Trade Review “This volume fills a theoretical and empirical gap in the study of migration and globalization. Drawing upon the wealth of insights that anthropology may provide into the complex tapestry of spatial mobility, the volume enriches our understanding of the reasons behind global migration, providing a view of its effects on migrants and the social formation they are part of.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
"This book represents a superb edited collection of important and relevant articles on the relationship between class and migration in the contemporary world. As such, the introduction and the articles make a major contribution to the literatures on migration and industrial/service work under contemporary capitalist conditions of labor and neoliberal globalization." · Donald M. Nonini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“The authors challenge currently dominant approaches to migration, and offer important ways to move between the individual experience and the structure of the world system.” · Alan Smart, University of Calgary
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
List of figures
Chapter 1. Introduction
Winnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner Barber
PART I: CONFIGURATION OF CLASS
Chapter 2. Strangers in a Globalising World: Class, Immobility and Livelihood among Afghan Refugee Workers in Iran
Wenona Giles
Chapter 3. New Migrants in a New Age: Globalisation, Networks and Gender in Rural Mexico
Frances Abrahamer Rothstein
Chapter 4. Relationships between the State and Mobile People: The Unequal Construction and Allocation of Risk and Trust at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Josiah Heyman
PART II: MIGRANTS AND MOBILISATION
Chapter 5. Political engagement of Latin American in the UK: Issues, strategies, and the public debate
Davide Però
Chapter 6. Resisting Fortress Europe: The everyday politics of female transnational migrants
Elisabetta Zontini
Chapter 7. Class, gender and history in political activism in Spain
Susana Narotzky
Chapter 8. Cell phones, complicity, and class politics in the Philippine labor diaspora
Pauline Gardiner Barber
PART III: COMPLICITY AND COMPLIANCE
Chapter 9. Migrants Mobilisation And The Making Of Neoliberal Citizens In Contemporary France
Winnie Lem
Chapter 10. A clash of histories: Encounters of migrant and non-migrant labourers in the Canadian automobile parts industry
Belinda Leach
Chapter 11. Worker Demobilisation In The Global Economy: Unionism And Maquiladoras In Mexico
Marie France Labrecque
Notes on Contributors
