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

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.

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781529201826
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-0182-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Series: Global migration and social change; Global Migration and Social Ch
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education