Modes of incorporation and racialization

Since the Second World War, there have been an innumerable number of people in the world who have been subject to compulsion to migrate. This compulsion has its roots either in economic dislocations associated with the increasing organic composition of capital, in the penetration of capitalist production relations in previously non-capitalist sectors of production, or in a range of political instabilities which have produced refugee migrations. But even though there has been large scale migration since 1945, and since the mid-nineteenth century more generally, 1 only a very small proportion of people who are subject to compulsion to migrate ever come spatially to relocate themselves in sites in production relations in a social formation different from the one in which they were born and or raised.