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

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Tom Vickers

Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis

Producing Workers and Immigrants

Tom Vickers

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English

Bristol University Press
03 July 2019

Migration, immigration & emigration; Sociology; Civil rights & citizenship

Series: Global Migration and Social Change

This book responds to global tendencies toward increasinglyrestrictive border controls and populist movements targetingmigrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, itchallenges standard narratives about immigration and problematisescommonplace distinctions between 'migrants' and 'workers'.

Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how thesecategories have been constructed and mobilised withinrepresentations of a 'migrant crisis' and a 'welfare crisis' to facilitatecapitalist exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism topropose alternative understandings of the relationship betweenborders, migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.

By: Tom Vickers
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781529201819
ISBN 10: 1529201810
Series: Global Migration and Social Change
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 03 July 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Imperialism, migration and class in the 21st Century; Deconstructing migrant crises in Europe; Deconstructing welfare crises; Mobility power and labour power in the crisis of imperialism; Deconstructing migrant/worker categories Britain; Conclusion; Appendix: Research background and methodology.

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.

Reviews for Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and Immigrants

''Those wishing to shake free from the dominant hostile narrative towards immigration into the UK and elsewhere would do very well to read this - at times brilliantly unique and challenging - account. Vickers champions a bottom-up approach shaped by the perspectives of migrants themselves.'' Gary Craig, University of Newcastle upon Tyne