European immigration is governed by three interacting economies of labor, morality, and politics

Evidence

The immigrant in Europe today is articulated thus in terms of at least three overdetermining and interacting racially driven economies, to riff on Balibar: First, an economy of labor serving as lure into a workforce to perform work no (or very few) locals will and to sustain retirement benefits for an aging population. Second, a moral economy enabling Europe to face itself as sustaining a humanity struggling to meet the moral standards it has set itself for refugees fleeing wars, politically fashioned famines, and natural disasters. And third, a political economy where the local politics of possibility veers, often wildly, between access and begrudging, assimilating acceptance, on one side of the ledger, and aggressive, even violent denial and restriction, on the other. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 935

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out Goldberg’s three-economy framework (labor, moral, political) for analyzing the European immigrant figure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 935
• XREF: connects to: Railroads and speculators actively manufactured the immigrant influx through paid European propaganda — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 98