May 1, 2024
As dangerous trans-Atlantic crossings between Africa and Europe continue to rise, Hannah Cross examines the roots of the ongoing crisis. The discussion around migration, she notes, “overlooks the imperial role of Europe and the United States over borders, migration regimes, regional (de-)integration, and national development projects within Africa.” The solution, therefore, can only be found through genuine liberation and autonomy across the continent, rather than internationally imposed mechanisms benefitting the powerful in the Global North.
April 1, 2024
In this review of Immanuel Ness’s Migration as Economic Imperialism, Torkil Lauesen illuminates the links between the migration of labor to theories of equal exchange, which have traditionally focused on international trade. These connections, Lauesen writes, relate to transfer of labor power from the periphery to the core, and the concomitant exploitation of vulnerable workers from the Global South.
September 1, 2021
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, activist, and author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015). This article is adapted from the introduction of her latest… READ MORE
January 1, 2021
Lola Loustaunau is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on migrant women in the food sector, emotions, and social reproduction…. READ MORE
October 1, 2019
It turns out you might be�part of a mass migration (or�an invasion, depending on�the perspective of the speaker)�without even knowing that�your own imperative to go�grows out of the same need�that… READ MORE
May 1, 2019
Bruce Neuburger is a retired teacher who worked in the fields of California for a decade in the 1970s. He is the author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work… READ MORE
February 1, 2019
� Eni Lestari is a migrants’ rights activist and the Chairperson of the Hong Kong-based International Migrants Alliance (IMA), a global alliance of grassroots migrants, immigrants, refugees, and displaced people…. READ MORE
October 1, 2018
From Guatemala, from El Salvador,�Honduras they travel overland�with little, with nothing but hope�out of terror, from rape and murder � with daughters and sons. babies�they hope they’re carrying to safety.�They… READ MORE
December 1, 2017
Joan Quesada teaches sociology at the University of Barcelona, and is an editor of the Spanish-language edition of Monthly Review. Reece Jones, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move… READ MORE
February 1, 2017
David L. Wilson is coauthor, with Jane Guskin, of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers, to be reissued in a new edition by Monthly Review Press later this year…. READ MORE
