Page 1. Decolonizing Resistance, Challenging Colonial States Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright* I... more Page 1. Decolonizing Resistance, Challenging Colonial States Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright* Introduction ... ing the ongoing dependence of global capital on national states and nationalism. Page 7. 126 Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright ...
Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Roxana Ng * Home(lessness) and the Naturalization... more Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Roxana Ng * Home(lessness) and the Naturalization of 'Difference' * Globalization and the Story of National Sovereignty * Imagined states: The Ideology of 'National Society' * Canadian Parliamentary Discourse and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' * Canada's Non-Immigrant Employment Authorization Program (NIEAP): The Social Organization of Unfreedom forMigrant Workers' * Rejecting Global Apartheid: An Essay on the Refusal of'Difference' Notes References Index
Labour capital and society. Travail capital et société, 1997
This paper highlights the relationship between Canadas restructuring activities and changes in it... more This paper highlights the relationship between Canadas restructuring activities and changes in its immigration policies by focusing upon the creation of a migrant workers program. Immigration policy is understood as being integrally shaped by the states response to the restructuring strategies of capital investors. It is argued that the implementation of a migrant workers program in Canada can be accounted for by placing it within the context of the states efforts to attract capital investment capitalists concern with disciplining workers and increasing their return upon investment. The author shows that by restricting the freedom of a growing number of migrant and immigrant workers Canada has more closely connected immigration with labor market policy and created 2 separate categories of (im)migrants those who enter as temporary workers and are labeled "non-immigrants" and those who enter as permanent residents. Studying only the non-immigrant category of (im)migrant recruitment which admits people if they work in an unfree employment relationship while in the country the author argues that (im)migrant workers forced to work in such relationships have increasingly been made available to employers by the Canadian state as an attempt to attract or retain capital investment. As capitalist restructuring has proceeded the use of unfree labor has expanded in Canada.
The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Ma... more The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Mauritius. Passed shortly after Britain’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, these restrictions initiated the regulation and restriction of immigration within the British Empire. Seen as quite novel in their day, these ordinances employed the rhetoric of “protecting emigrants” to legitimize the new constraints they imposed on free human mobility. Today, when the national ‘logic of constraint’ (Mongia in Comparative Studies in Society and History 49: 384–411, 2007) on human mobility is almost uncontested, the idea that immigration controls protect migrants remains central to the discursive practices concerning ‘human trafficking’.
The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Ma... more The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Mauritius. Passed shortly after Britain’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, these restrictions initiated the regulation and restriction of immigration within the British Empire. Seen as quite novel in their day, these ordinances employed the rhetoric of “protecting emigrants” to legitimize the new constraints they imposed on free human mobility. Today, when the national ‘logic of constraint’ (Mongia in Comparative Studies in Society and History 49: 384–411, 2007) on human mobility is almost uncontested, the idea that immigration controls protect migrants remains central to the discursive practices concerning ‘human trafficking’.
This chapter discusses the politics of multiculturalism, which is intimately related to the polit... more This chapter discusses the politics of multiculturalism, which is intimately related to the politics of (im)migration. It is argued that state policies of multiculturalism are best regarded as part of the neoliberal governmentality of managing and containing anti-racist demands for justice. Far from realizing these goals, official multiculturalism policies further empowered those racialized as White to continue to imagine the “nation” as “theirs.” This was how nation-states attempted to regain their legitimacy in the face of neoliberal reforms that granted greater power to a globally operative capital. With recent calls for the “end of multiculturalism” by heads of state, there is a reversion to previous policies of (im)migrant assimilation as well as a hardening of the nationalist politics of citizenship into a politics of “native-ness” or autochthony. These, too, are state efforts to address the continuing crisis of legitimacy caused by neoliberalism.
Page 1. Decolonizing Resistance, Challenging Colonial States Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright* I... more Page 1. Decolonizing Resistance, Challenging Colonial States Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright* Introduction ... ing the ongoing dependence of global capital on national states and nationalism. Page 7. 126 Nandita Sharma and Cynthia Wright ...
Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Roxana Ng * Home(lessness) and the Naturalization... more Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Roxana Ng * Home(lessness) and the Naturalization of 'Difference' * Globalization and the Story of National Sovereignty * Imagined states: The Ideology of 'National Society' * Canadian Parliamentary Discourse and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' * Canada's Non-Immigrant Employment Authorization Program (NIEAP): The Social Organization of Unfreedom forMigrant Workers' * Rejecting Global Apartheid: An Essay on the Refusal of'Difference' Notes References Index
Labour capital and society. Travail capital et société, 1997
This paper highlights the relationship between Canadas restructuring activities and changes in it... more This paper highlights the relationship between Canadas restructuring activities and changes in its immigration policies by focusing upon the creation of a migrant workers program. Immigration policy is understood as being integrally shaped by the states response to the restructuring strategies of capital investors. It is argued that the implementation of a migrant workers program in Canada can be accounted for by placing it within the context of the states efforts to attract capital investment capitalists concern with disciplining workers and increasing their return upon investment. The author shows that by restricting the freedom of a growing number of migrant and immigrant workers Canada has more closely connected immigration with labor market policy and created 2 separate categories of (im)migrants those who enter as temporary workers and are labeled "non-immigrants" and those who enter as permanent residents. Studying only the non-immigrant category of (im)migrant recruitment which admits people if they work in an unfree employment relationship while in the country the author argues that (im)migrant workers forced to work in such relationships have increasingly been made available to employers by the Canadian state as an attempt to attract or retain capital investment. As capitalist restructuring has proceeded the use of unfree labor has expanded in Canada.
The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Ma... more The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Mauritius. Passed shortly after Britain’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, these restrictions initiated the regulation and restriction of immigration within the British Empire. Seen as quite novel in their day, these ordinances employed the rhetoric of “protecting emigrants” to legitimize the new constraints they imposed on free human mobility. Today, when the national ‘logic of constraint’ (Mongia in Comparative Studies in Society and History 49: 384–411, 2007) on human mobility is almost uncontested, the idea that immigration controls protect migrants remains central to the discursive practices concerning ‘human trafficking’.
The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Ma... more The chapter discusses two 1835 ordinances passed by the local Council of the British colony of Mauritius. Passed shortly after Britain’s 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, these restrictions initiated the regulation and restriction of immigration within the British Empire. Seen as quite novel in their day, these ordinances employed the rhetoric of “protecting emigrants” to legitimize the new constraints they imposed on free human mobility. Today, when the national ‘logic of constraint’ (Mongia in Comparative Studies in Society and History 49: 384–411, 2007) on human mobility is almost uncontested, the idea that immigration controls protect migrants remains central to the discursive practices concerning ‘human trafficking’.
This chapter discusses the politics of multiculturalism, which is intimately related to the polit... more This chapter discusses the politics of multiculturalism, which is intimately related to the politics of (im)migration. It is argued that state policies of multiculturalism are best regarded as part of the neoliberal governmentality of managing and containing anti-racist demands for justice. Far from realizing these goals, official multiculturalism policies further empowered those racialized as White to continue to imagine the “nation” as “theirs.” This was how nation-states attempted to regain their legitimacy in the face of neoliberal reforms that granted greater power to a globally operative capital. With recent calls for the “end of multiculturalism” by heads of state, there is a reversion to previous policies of (im)migrant assimilation as well as a hardening of the nationalist politics of citizenship into a politics of “native-ness” or autochthony. These, too, are state efforts to address the continuing crisis of legitimacy caused by neoliberalism.
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