Formalizing the labor market institutionalized coercion into a migration industry

Evidence

Migrant workers thus make complex financial calculations that balance the accrual of debt against the potential of illicit networks and formal networks to place them in better-paying jobs. Once migrant workers secure the networks they need to assemble resources to travel, they often follow the migration patterns that bring them the highest rate of return. Thus, labor migrants can transform their class status through migration. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 699 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Immigration and the cash nexus created America’s wage-labor force — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 613; Contemporary migrant labor contracts structurally echo nineteenth-century indenture; Recruiting, visas, debt, and deportation jointly structure migrant subordination (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Recruiting, visas, debt, and deportation jointly structure migrant subordination #exemplifies (0.93)
• Labor migrants can transform their class status through strategic migration #complicates (0.82) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 699