Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis

Producing Workers and Immigrants

Vickers, Tom, Tom Vickers

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781529201819
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781529201857
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Civics & Citizenship
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises commonplace distinctions between 'migrants' and 'workers'. Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories have been constructed and 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 provide a basis for solidarity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Series Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Series Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Imperialism, Migration and Class in the 21st Century
• 3. Deconstructing Migrant Crises in Europe
• 4. Deconstructing Welfare Crises
• 5. Mobility Power and Labour Power in the Crisis of Imperialism
• 6. Deconstructing Migrant/Worker Categories in Britain
• 7. Conclusion
• Appendix: Methodology
• References