Hannah Cross

Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a multi-scalar analysis of contemporary West African migration towards Europe, examining the local dynamics of a migration regime that positions itself in the tensions between broader agendas of labour mobility, development and security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781138672840
• ISBN-10: 113867284X
• Artikelnr.: 44384984

Autorenporträt

Hannah Cross is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Manchester and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. She is also a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Conceptualising Migration and Labour Mobility 2.
Capitalism, the State and Labour Migration 3. Primitive Accumulation and
Labour Mobility: West African Migration in Historical Perspective 4.
Accumulation, Dispossession and Labour Mobility: The Political Economy of
Migration in Senegal and Mauritania 5. Regulating Migrant Labour:
Clandestine Emigration and the EU 6. The Projection of Borders: the EU in
Mauritania 7. Keeping Labour Costs Down: Global Pressures and West African
Migrants in Spain 8. Remittances and Development: Why Formalising
Remittances will not Alleviate Poverty 9. Conclusion: Unfree Labour
Mobility between West Africa and the EU