Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis - Producing Immigrants and Workers

Informed by Marxist theory, and challenging standard narratives about immigration, this book examines how categories of 'workers' and 'migrants' have been 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 foreground solidarity.

About the author

Tom Vickers is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. His research is intimately connected to his participation in social movements, community organising and community education, as a form of critical public sociology spanning diverse struggles.

Summary

Informed by Marxist theory, this book examines how categories of `workers’ and `migrants’ have been mobilised within representations of a `migrant crisis’ and a `welfare crisis’ to facilitate capitalist exploitation, and proposes alternative understandings that foreground solidarity.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Vickers, Tom ( Nottingham Trent University ) Vickers, Tom (Nottingham Trent University) Vickers
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781529201819
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-0181-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 543 g
• Series: Global migration and social change; Global migration and social change; Global Migration and Social Ch
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education