Global capital concentration in cities creates the very low-wage immigrant labor it then hosts

Evidence

We can make sense of migrations only by understanding ‘the ongoing weight of colonialism and post-colonial forms of empire on major processes of globalization today, and specifically those processes binding countries of emigration and immigration.’ To name just a few of the processes that go unnamed in the formula of hosts and guests we can draw on Sassen, who notes that in global cities where there is a concentration of international capital and a concomitant class of high wage earners working in finance and technology, there is a corresponding need for low-wage, manual, and service workers, positions filled by immigrants. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 285

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to my reading on how institutions and markets bind regions; also echoes the logic of David Harvey’s accumulation by dispossession. — connects to: Immigration and the cash nexus created America’s wage-labor force — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 613
• SEED: A potential essay on how ‘they came for the jobs’ narratives invert the actual causal chain — capital concentration created the jobs that then drew migrants.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 285