Migration as Economic Imperialism w/ Immanuel Ness

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

In this fascinating episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by fan-favorite Manny Ness to discuss one of his new books, Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries. This work directly takes on and dismantles the notion that labor migration is beneficial for the countries of the Global South who send their workers abroad. This is a common refrain in mainstream, neoliberal developmentalist discourse, and this book and the conversation we are having around it are a vital corrective. We are sure you are going to get a lot out of this one!

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author or editor of numerous works including Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. You can follow Manny on twitter @ImmanuelNess.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare.
0:23.0	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:36.7	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
1:12.4	I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckinacki, unfortunately only joined by one of my usual co-hosts. We are joined by Brett O'Shea, who is host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you doing today? Doing very good. It's actually been quite a while since we've been able to do an episode over the holiday break, so I'm happy to be back and there's nobody better than Manny Ness to come back to. Yeah, that's right. And I know the listeners will have had a constant stream of episodes coming out, but Brett just let it slip that those were all recorded before our little holiday break. But, you know, we are back and recording again. But as I said,
1:16.7	listeners, you haven't had any interruption. We're unfortunately not joined by our other usual co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian director of the School of Religion at Queens
1:20.7	University in Ontario, Canada, as he had some international paperwork that he had to do, because
1:26.1	these are the sorts of things that Adnan
1:27.7	has to deal with, which fortunately I don't have to and I don't think Brett does either.
1:33.8	Before I get into the topic at hand in our excellent returning guests, which Brett also alluded
1:39.7	to, I would just want to remind the listeners that you can help support the show and allow
1:43.9	us to continue making episodes like this by contributing as little as $3 a month, I think is our minimum tier at patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history with guerrilla being spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A history.
1:58.5	And you can follow us on Twitter to keep up with everything that the show is putting out
2:02.3	and each of the hosts are putting out individually at Gorilla underscore Pod.
2:06.6	Again, G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A underscore pod.
2:11.4	But we are joined by a returning guest and a fan favorite in many ways.
2:15.6	We are joined by Professor Emmanuel Ness, Professor of Political
2:19.1	Science at Brooklyn College and the University of Johannesburg. Hello, Manny. It's a long time
2:24.1	that we've not been able to talk to you, but it's really great to have you back on the show.
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