Contemporary labor migration parallels nineteenth-century indentured labor in exploitation

Evidence

In chapter 4, I also compare contemporary labor migration with that of indentured labor of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century both to describe the processes of exploitation in these labor diasporas and to argue for an alternate conceptualization of the transnational labor market. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 81

Categorization

• SEED: A lens for an essay on how supposedly free contemporary labor contracts replicate indenture-era exploitation.
• XREF: connects to: J-1 cultural exchange visas supplied indentured student labor to major US logistics firms — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 402; Early Irish immigrants worked in conditions resembling slave labor — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 33