Overview
- A unique, anthropological examination of migration, temporality, and political economy
- Presents an international range of illustrative case studies to demonstrate fresh theoretical insights
- A timely intervention into an important topic as the migration crisis continues, with implications for issues surrounding globalization, capitalism, and neoliberalism
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Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism. While temporal reckoning has long fascinated anthropologists, few studies have sought to confront how capitalism fetishizes time in the production of global inequalities—historically and in the contemporary world. As it explores how the agendas of capitalism condition migration in Europe, North America, and Oceania, this collection also examines temporality as a feature of migrants’ experiences to ultimately provide a theoretically robust and ethnographically informed investigation of migration and temporality within a framework defined by the political economy of capitalism.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
"This volume explores an extraordinarily timely and theoretical issue in the study of migration: how the temporalities that mark the lives of migrants can be related to recent contemporary transformations in capitalism, and to changes in capitalist states in the direction of neoliberalism, within the discourse of the ‘free market.’ At a time when it is precisely the temporality of contemporary capitalism – will the current stasis and “new normal” of worldwide deflation stabilize or will it lead to major crisis, and how soon and with what rhythms? – the authors deal in a theoretically sophisticated way with the temporality of capitalism as it affects, and is affected, by transnational migration and the lives of migrants. The collection of essays as a whole examines new case studies within this context, and brings new concepts to the debates around the relationship between transnational migration and the political-economic conditions that constrain it." (Don Nonini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Pauline Gardiner Barber is Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University, Canada.
Winnie Lem is Professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism
Book Subtitle: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces
Editors: Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72781-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72780-6Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10267-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72781-3Published: 08 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 215
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Migration, Political Economy/Economic Systems, International Political Economy