The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration

Using examples from the United States—Mexico border, Central America, and South America, this book argues that forced migration is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather a product of necropolitical strategies designed to depopulate resource rich countries or regions. Estevez merges necropolitical analysis with postcolonial migration and offers a new framework to study the set of policies, laws, institutions, and political discourses producing a profit in a legal context in which habitat devastation is legal, but mobility is a crime. Violence, deprivation of food or water, environmental contamination, and rights exclusion are some of the tactics used in extractivist capitalism. Private and state actors alike, use necropower, both its first and third world versions, to make people, living and dead, a commodity.The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration is written by Ariadna Estevez and published by Lexington Books. ISBNs for The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration are 9781793653307, 1793653305 and the print ISBNs are 9781793653291, 1793653291.