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Labour and underdevelopment? Migration, dispossession and accumulation in West Africa and Europe

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Recent waves of accumulation have been well documented in this journal with regard to land and natural resources, but labour is missing from these important analyses of profound continuity and change. This article focuses on 'step-wise' migrations and specifically on cases of emigration from Senegal and entry to the Spanish labour market. The labour regime is conceptualised as unfree labour mobility, which integrates dispossession, territorial control, illegalisation, the ideology of racism and the exploitation of labour. Finding salience in earlier theories of unfree labour, this article shows how the control of capital over migration to Europe perpetuates underdevelopment. [Travail et sous-développement? Migration, dépossession et accumulation en Afrique de l'Ouest et en Europe.] Les vagues récentes d'accumulation ont été bien documentées dans cette revue en ce qui concerne les ressources foncières et naturelles mais le travail n'est pas pris en considération dans ces analyses de continuité et de changement profonds. Cet article se concentre sur les migrations progressives et en particulier les cas d'émigration du Sénégal et d'entrée sur le marché du travail espagnol. Le régime du travail est conçu comme une mobilité du travail non-libre qui intègre la dépossession, le contrôle territorial, le travail illégal, l'idéologie du racisme et l'exploitation de la main d'œuvre. Recherchant le point saillant des théories existantes du travail non-libre, cet article montre comment le contrôle du capital sur les migrations vers l'Europe perpétue le sous-développement. Mots-clés : mobilité de la main d'œuvre; migration; Sénégal; accumulation par dépossession; sous-développement; Europe

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  • Hannah Cross, 2013. "Labour and underdevelopment? Migration, dispossession and accumulation in West Africa and Europe," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(136), pages 202-218, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:40:y:2013:i:136:p:202-218
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2013.794727
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