Accumulation by immobilization: Migration, mobility and money in Libya

Forms of accumulation in Europe's wider borderlands proceed through the creation of confined subjects. Migrants' experiences in Libya's context of fragmented state authority reveal how vulnerable mobilities become a source of value through violent and forced immobilization. This dynam...

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Published inEconomy and society Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 95 - 115
Main Author Achtnich, Marthe
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2022
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects
Accumulation
Borders
Capitalism
Detention
Exploitation
Extraction
Labor migration
Libya
Migrants
migration
Mobility
Modes of production
Money
Profits
Value
Libya
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Summary:Forms of accumulation in Europe's wider borderlands proceed through the creation of confined subjects. Migrants' experiences in Libya's context of fragmented state authority reveal how vulnerable mobilities become a source of value through violent and forced immobilization. This dynamic is termed 'accumulation by immobilization', where accumulation involves different situations of confinement and detention imposed by criminal and state actors, the extraction of value through indentured labour as well as the drawing of rent through the payment of money to move on. Going beyond expulsion and the exploitation of free labour under capitalist production, accumulation by immobilization points to a carceral capitalism in the borderlands that profits from the enclosure and disposability of migrants' lives.
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ISSN:0308-5147
1469-5766
DOI:10.1080/03085147.2022.1987751