Migration in the 21st Century Political Economy and Ethnography [Paperback]

This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the social consequences and asymmetries of twenty-first century capitalisms global modalities. Drawn from settings across the globe, case studies explore the nuanced formations of class and power within particular migration flows while addressing the complex analytics of a contemporary critical political economy of migration. Subjects include global migrants as capitalists, entrepreneurs and cosmopolitans, as well as workers and immigrants who are subject to varying degrees of precariousness under intensified competition for profits within contemporary global economies. By re-addressing the question of the relationship between changes in global capitalism and migration, the book aims for a timely intervention into the debates on migration which have come to be one of the most contentious emotionally fraught issues in North America and Europe.

1. Migration, Political Economy and Ethnography  Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem  Part I: Perspectives  2. Panoptics of Political Economy: Anthropology and Migration  Winnie Lem  3. Migration and Development Without Methodological Nationalism: Towards Global Perspectives on Migration  Nina Glick Schiller  4. Theorizing Transnational Movement in the Current Conjuncture: Examples from/of/in the Asia Pacific  Donald M. Nonini  Part II: Cases  5. With Crossings In My Mind: Trinidad's Multiple Migration Flows, Policy and Agency  Belinda Leach  6. Selecting, Comlóö