Capital Accumulation and Migration

by Dennis C. Canterbury

Despite the renewed interest in the impact of migration upon economic development in general, remarkably few studies have taken up the ways in which the geographic flows of labor impact capital accumulation itself. Capital Accumulation and Migration attempts to fill this gap by analyzing a wide breadth of literature dealing with the changes to the global economy under neoliberalism, with a particular focus on examining the ways in which the migration process has been financialized and has thus been transformed into a source of profits.

258 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012