Forced Migration and US Imperialism: The Dialectic of Migration and Development
- 12 November 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Critical Sociology
- Vol. 35 (6), 767-784
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920509343060
Abstract
James Petras has been and continues to be a prolific writer whose monumental work over the years is linked to a biting criticism of contemporary capitalism and US imperialism. His writings, always polemical in the best sense of the word, cover a broad range of issues linked to the class struggle and the popular movement. Although his specific contributions to the study of migration have been few and sporadic, they provide a vital contribution to a critical Marxist analysis of labor migration in the current conjuncture of capitalist development and US imperialism. In many ways, his work has been a major inspiration to my own reflections and work in the area, especially as it relates to the notion of ‘forced migration’ and to what my colleague, Humberto Márquez Covarrubias, and I have termed the dialectics of migration and development.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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