Migrant/refugee struggles recommended readings.

Submitted by Craftwork on August 6, 2016

Since the issue of migrants/refugees clearly isn't going away anytime soon (and will probably acquire even greater significance, given current events - e.g. the continuing war in Syria, Trump, Brexit), do people have any good suggestions for readings on revolutionaries responses, in the past, to struggles involving migrants/refugees?

I read the ICC's article Immigration and the Workers' Movement, which I thought was pretty good and mentioned, among other things, the 1912 Lawrence strike.

Joseph Kay

7 years 8 months ago

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Submitted by Joseph Kay on August 8, 2016

It's not on revolutionaries' past responses, but Dan Trilling's reporting has been excellent, mostly in the LRB but also elsewhere. He's also reviewed some of the recent theory (some 'radical') around the issue here.

Ambalavaner Sivanandan has written a lot on black and Asian struggles in Britain and the political economy of migration.

baboon

7 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by baboon on January 23, 2017

The latest text from a four-part series from the ICC stands on its own: http://en.internationalism.org/icconline/201701/14230/migrants-and-refugees-victims-capitalist-decline-part-4-collapse-berlin-wall-