Capitalist Restructuring, Development and Labour Migration: the Mexico–US case

Delgado Wise, Raúl; Márquez Covarrubias, Humberto

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dc.contributor	102989
dc.creator	Delgado Wise, Raúl
dc.creator	Márquez Covarrubias, Humberto
dc.date	2017-04-18T00:06:35Z
dc.date	2017-04-18T00:06:35Z
dc.date	2008-10-01
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-25T17:51:45Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-25T17:51:45Z
dc.identifier	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier	0143-6597
dc.identifier	ESSN: 1360-2241
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11845/59
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/124829
dc.description	The current dynamics of South to North migration flows can be explained by the nature of the ongoing process of capitalist restructuring, but in order to examine these issues we must approach them from the perspective of critical development studies. Mexican migration to the USA is paradigmatic of the regressive consequences of neoliberal structural adjustment policies and processes of regional integration based on access to cheap labour. From the lens of the political economy of development the dialectical relationship between development and migration can be analysed through three major movements: the dismantling and rearticulation of the productive apparatus, the creation of vast amounts of surplus population, well beyond the conventional formulation of the reserve army of the unemployed and the acceleration of migration flows. An examination of these issues leads us to conclude the following four facts: capitalist restructuring results in forced migration; immigrants contribute to capital accumulation in labour-receiving countries; migrants help sustain the fragile socioeconomic stability of the migrants’ country of origin and, if used as a tool of social transformation, development can curtail forced migration.
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dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Routledge
dc.relation	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436590802386542
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dc.relation	generalPublic
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
dc.source	Third World Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 1359–1374
dc.subject	CIENCIAS SOCIALES [5]
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Migration
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Capitalist restructuring
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Development
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Political economy
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Socioeconomic stability
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Migración
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Desarrollo
dc.subject	info:eu-repo/classification/Economía política
dc.title	Capitalist Restructuring, Development and Labour Migration: the Mexico–US case
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.coverage	México
dc.coverage	Estados Unidos