Class, Contention, and a World in Motion

Winnie Lem is professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada. Her publications include Cultivating Dissent: Work, Identity and Praxis in Rural Languedoc (SUNY Press,1997); Culture, Economy, Power: Anthropology as Critique; Anthropology as Praxis (SUNY Press, 2002) [co-edited with Belinda Leach]; Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology (Routledge, 2012) [co-edited with Belinda Leach and Pauline Gardiner Barber]; Migration in the 21st Century:  Political Economy and Ethnography (Routledge, 2012 [co-edited with Pauline Gardiner Barber]. She has published in American Ethnologist, Critique of Anthropology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and is currently co-editor-in-chief of Dialectical Anthropology.

“This volume fills a theoretical and empirical gap in the study of migration and globalization. Drawing upon the wealth of insights that anthropology may provide into the complex tapestry of spatial mobility, the volume enriches our understanding of the reasons behind global migration, providing a view of its effects on migrants and the social formation they are part of.” ·  Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale"This book represents a superb edited collection of important and relevant articles on the relationship between class and migration in the contemporary world. As such, the introduction and the articles make a major contribution to the literatures on migration and industrial/service work under contemporary capitalist conditions of labor and neoliberal globalization."  ·  Donald M. Nonini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill“The authors challenge currently dominant approaches to migration, and offer important ways to move between the individual experience and the structure of the world system.”  ·  Alan Smart, University of Calgary

• AcknowledgementsList of figuresChapter 1. IntroductionWinnie Lem and Pauline Gardiner BarberPART I: CONFIGURATION OF CLASSChapter 2. Strangers in a Globalising World: Class, Immobility and Livelihood among Afghan Refugee Workers in IranWenona GilesChapter 3. New Migrants in a New Age: Globalisation, Networks and Gender in Rural MexicoFrances Abrahamer RothsteinChapter 4. Relationships between the State and Mobile People: The Unequal Construction and Allocation of Risk and Trust at the U.S.-Mexico BorderJosiah HeymanPART II: MIGRANTS AND MOBILISATION Chapter 5. Political engagement of Latin American in the UK: Issues, strategies, and the public debateDavide PeròChapter 6. Resisting Fortress Europe: The everyday politics of female transnational migrantsElisabetta ZontiniChapter 7. Class, gender and history in political activism in SpainSusana NarotzkyChapter 8. Cell phones, complicity, and class politics in the Philippine labor diasporaPauline Gardiner BarberPART III: COMPLICITY AND COMPLIANCEChapter 9. Migrants Mobilisation And The Making Of Neoliberal Citizens In Contemporary FranceWinnie LemChapter 10. A clash of histories: Encounters of migrant and non-migrant labourers in the Canadian automobile parts industryBelinda LeachChapter 11. Worker Demobilisation In The Global Economy: Unionism And Maquiladoras In MexicoMarie France LabrecqueNotes on Contributors