Accumulation by immobilization: Migration, mobility and money in Libya

• Published in: Economy and society Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 95 - 115
• Main Author: Achtnich, Marthe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...