What People Say
Reviews and feedback from readers, researchers and collaborators.
In these depressing times, when the neoliberal consensus has acquired an aura of inevitability akin to the Laws of Physics, it is a breath of fresh air to read serious scholarship that challenges this consensus.
Norman Finkelstein
A rich combination of theoretical insights and valuable case-studies from the Global South - a much-needed reminder that the agenda of social transformation requires a strong and sustained political intervention to turn protests into a powerful movement
Prabhat Patnaik
Whether named colonialism, neocolonialism or globalization, imperialism still organizes much of the world economy. This book systematically locates labour migration within the capitalist imperialism that overdetermined it... thereby adding an overdue critical perspective to the study of labour migration.
Richard D. Wolff
This meaningful intervention in debates about labour migration will be of great interest and will be read widely.
Cecilia Menjívar
The rising anti-imperialist struggles in both the underdeveloped and developed countries are signalling the resurgence of the world proletarian-socialist revolution. Immanuel Ness makes a just call for forging a global workers' movement by reinvigorating and further developing the trade union movement, the workers' parties and political movements to fight for the rights and interests of the working class and the rest of the suffering people
Jose Maria Sison
Excellent, sophisticated, highly readable, and tightly organized. […] Ness has provided us with an outstanding and ground-breaking text that deserves a wide readership. Considering the issue’s political implications, I hope that both scholars and lay readers will take advantage of this important book. If they do, they will be richly rewarded.
Victor Devinatz
In this well researched and informative book, Ness digs into multiple facets of the global economy of migration. […] The essential role of migrant labor in global capitalism tends to be underappreciated, and Ness performs a valuable service in exposing the widespread and destabilizing dynamics of that process.
Gregory Elich
Migration as Economic Imperialism makes a compelling case for the deep-seated problems associated with seeing migration as a tool of emancipation for poor countries. It also provides valuable food for thought regarding what needs to happen to redress global inequality as it relates to the movement of workers across national borders.