Critical Reflections on the Western Welfare State, Racial Capitalism, and Migratory Movements

Rosa Lázaro Castellanos ()
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Rosa Lázaro Castellanos: Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona, 08001 Barcelona, Spain

Social Sciences, 2023, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-12

Abstract: This article presents a theoretical reflection on the structural causes that lead people to engage in migration processes from an anti-racist perspective. It looks at the historical context and the present times of neoliberal capitalism as a long term system, with its origins in the colonial enterprise. This is relevant as it gives rise to the asymmetries of power between North and South; to the racial division of labour; to the border control that turns immigrant people into the dangerous other, classifies people according to their origin, and grants them differential rights.

Keywords: racial capitalism; neoliberalism; decolonial turn; racism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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