Agrarian Change, Migration and Development: 6 (Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies) - Softcover

Veltmeyer, Henry; Delgado Wise, Raśl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853399175 ISBN 13: 9781853399176

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migration. Delgado Wise and Veltmeyer explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes set in motion by the world capitalist system. The dynamics of these processes are international, in regard to the international or cross-border flows of labour migrants, and internal to countries that have undergone, or are undergoing, a process of agrarian change and social transformation. While it may appear that these migrants are free to choose to abandon their communities and families in the search for a better way of life, the authors show with devastating logic that the decisions made by so many migrants are rooted in the workings of the world capitalist system, which converts them into a pool of surplus labour to be pulled into and out of the system as required by capitalists in their endless search for private profit.

About this title

About the Authors

Henry Veltmeyer is at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico and annually engages in an extended program of research and public lectures across Latin America.

Raśl Delgado Wise is professor and former director of the Doctoral Program in Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853399175
• ISBN 13: 9781853399176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160