Free trade treaties free capital flows while criminalizing the displaced people they create

Evidence

Mexican activists point out that NAFTA opened the doors for business and money to flow more freely between countries, but that it kept the door closed to the flow of people between countries. So the farmers who were forced off the land cannot easily come to the U.S. or Canada to find work. Instead they must try to sneak across the border, and be forever stigmatized as “illegal immigrants.” — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1409

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle connecting border politics to enclosure: ‘illegal’ migration is manufactured by trade policy that moves money but not people.
• XREF: Directly connects the eco-justice critique of enclosure to contemporary US immigration debates and to settler-colonial land logic. — connects to: Economic migration has been criminalized as the underbelly of globalization; Capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 114; States profit from the illegality they co-produce in migrant labor flows — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 666 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced #corroborates (0.92) — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 114
• States free capital mobility while restricting the movement of racialized people #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 142
• Economic migration has been criminalized as the underbelly of globalization #corroborates (0.88)
• States profit from the illegality they co-produce in migrant labor flows #expands (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 666
• Neoliberal subcontracting creates undocumented workers whose legal invisibility lets employers evade obligations #expands (0.82)
• Colonial power export freed capital accumulation from all economic and ethical laws #corroborates (0.75)