MLC 2015 Keynote:  What’s at stake in the Mobility of Labour?  Borders, Migration, Contemporary Capitalism

Sandro Mezzadra

doi:10.18357/mmd21201615466

Sandro Mezzadra

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18357/mmd21201615466

Abstract

The talk starts with a short discussion of some influential works on the mobility of labour in historical and contemporary capitalism. Drawing upon a book I recently published with Brett Neilson, Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labour, I then discuss the significance of the proliferation of borders in the global age from the point of view of “late” capitalism. In the last part of the talk I focus on the subjective stakes of the politics of migration, providing instances from many parts of the world (including the Asia-Pacific region).

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