Industrialized economies deliberately produce a disadvantaged immigrant underclass for menial labor

Evidence

Immigration is a minefield in economic life. On the one hand, the manufacturing, agricultural, and service industries want a cheap labor supply. They rely heavily on migrant workers, regardless of their legal status, to perform the dirty and toilsome manual jobs that their own citizens will not do. Using economic justification, industries also argue that they need cheap labor to stay competitive in the global marketplace. They use their political clout to secure their labor needs. On the other hand, migrants are marginalized and denied adequate services and basic human rights. In some countries, they are even stripped of a national identity if their children born in the host country are denied citizenship. Better-off families are not about to groom their own offspring for toilsome menial jobs with paltry wages and lowly social status. So industrialized countries import or, by discriminatory practices, produce a disadvantaged ethnic underclass that remains largely unassimilated and is resented for its intrusion on the prevailing cultural norms, traditions, and practices. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2586

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s existing Cooper social-conservatism claims and the Islamophobia-rationalization thread: structural dependence on an underclass fuels anti-immigrant resentment. — connects to: Railroads and speculators actively manufactured the immigrant influx through paid European propaganda — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 98; Immigration and the cash nexus created America’s wage-labor force — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 613; Famine-era Irish immigrants were poorer and entered as unskilled laborers. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 142 (+5 more)
• SEED: The ‘imported or produced underclass’ formulation is a sharp frame for an essay connecting economic demand for cheap labor to the moral disengagement that justifies marginalizing migrants.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2586