Migration and Neoliberalism
Creating Spaces of Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12673270 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Behrman (0000-0002-1822-6564, University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 217-231 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1569206x-12341448 |
| OpenAlex | W2204675502 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Anne McNevin’s book provides a valuable contribution to ongoing debates about the plight of irregular migrants in the context of neoliberal hegemony. It combines detailed analysis of contemporary movements that resist the ever-increasing controls over borders and movement, together with critical assessments of a range of contemporary theorists on the question. McNevin’s central argument is that neoliberalism not only delineates the migrant subject in various ways, but also traps activists into replicating many harmful assumptions about ‘deserving’ versus ‘undeserving’ migrants. She further argues for a resurrection of the political subjectivity of migrant communities, by both exploiting the crisis engendered at the nexus of neoliberal economics and the sovereign subject, and resisting the framework set by those paradigms
Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Hegemony · Neoliberalism (international relations · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Sovereignty · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Employment and Welfare Studies · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |