Appealing to an ugly nativist strain in the US, the current occupant in the White House has criminalized migrants. In contrast, this program will present a Marxist analysis of migration. Migrants are integral to destination societies such as the US – truly a nation of immigrants. Join us for an examination of migration from both the perspective of the origin countries and the destination states.
Our speaker, Immanuel Ness, is the author of the acclaimed Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labor Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries (Polity 2023), which focuses on Western financial imperialism and the oppression of the Global South.
Immanuel Ness is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College (CUNY) and a visiting professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. A trade union organizer in the US and labor activist in the Global South, Immanuel Ness is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Labor and Society. He is chair of the New York Peace Council and of the International Committee of the PSC/CUNY, a labor union representing faculty at CUNY.
His many books, academic articles, chapters, and edited volumes handbooks focus on US imperialism and labor movements. His other books include Sanctions as War (Brill 2022) , Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto 2016), and the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (2014/2021).
