Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System

This volume analyses migration, racism, and exploitation in the world-system, where the movement of people has been its central process, ending with a vision of a future where communities from below can come together to create a society that overcomes racism.

Denis O'Hearn is Dean of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso. Several of his books have received major national and international awards, including his most recent book, Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid (University of California Press, with Andrej Grubacic). He lived for many years in Belfast, Ireland, and his seminal biography of the Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands, Nothing but an Unfinished Song: the Irish Hunger Striker Who Shook the World, is published in many languages, including Kurdish and Basque. Paul S. Ciccantell is Professor of Sociology at Western Michigan University and a former program officer for the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research examines socioeconomic change over the long term, the evolution of global industries and the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of global industries, focusing particularly on raw materials extraction and processing and transport industries. He has published books with Johns Hopkins University Press, JAI/Elsevier Press and Greenwood Press, and more than thirty journal articles and book chapters.

Introduction Part I. Long duree Immigration as racial dominance since 1492 Migration, Resource Frontiers, and Extractive Peripheries: Toward a Typology Operationalizing the resource frontier: Russian Fur Hunting and Racialized Migration in the Aleutian Islands Part II. Migration in the US The First Large Wave of Mexican Migration to the US: Rail Construction and Maintenance's Contribution to World-System Development, 1890-1929 The Deportability Regime: From Bad to Worse in Central Texas under Obama and Trump Heritage, Belonging, and Active Citizenship in the United States: a Role Model for the EU? Part III. World migrations today Partition-Induced Migrations: How Migration Has (Re)shaped Social and Political Identities in Divided States A Search for Post-Nationalist Imaginaries in 'Bengal': Exploring Ecoethnoscapes (Bioregions with Permeable Boundaries) Labor migration, agrarian crises and livelihood transformations in the making of a world city: Bangalore in critical perspective "Going Home is not an Option:" Filipino Domestic Workers in the Middle East Part IV. Conclusion - the way ahead Migrations and Their Politics