Political economy and migration
Abstract
This chapter is a critique of Stephen Castles and Godula Kosack’s Immigrant Workers and Class Structure of Western Europe , and Stephen Castles, Heather Booth and Tina Wallace’s Here For Good: Western Europe’s New Ethnic Minorities . Its aim is to further refine the political economy approach to migration. The former work is widely regarded as the classic statement of the Marxist analysis of the interrelation between migration and capitalism, and while portions of the latter depart significantly from this tradition, it too will undoubtedly take its place as an important work within political economy.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Political Economy and Marxism
Migration
Refugees
and Integration
Migration and Labor Dynamics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 15–33
- Publication date
- 6 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter