Aleksanteri Conference 2021 Keynote: Franklin Obeng-Odoom

Franklin Obeng-Odoom (University of Helsinki, Finland): Global Migration beyond Limits
In this talk, I will talk about my new book: Global Migration beyond Limits. The book takes a critical approach to mainstream economic accounts of migration, environment, and inequality. Drawing on a range of case studies from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, Obeng-Odoom argues that much of the crisis of migration can be understood as a reflection of cumulative stratification at different scales in the global system, though the form of migration is conditioned by more than economic forces. Examining the experiences of migrant farmers, street workers, refugees, international students, and many more, this book shows that the so-called migration crisis is an expression of a political-economic system in which socially created value is privately appropriated as rents by a privileged few who use institutions such land and property rights, race, ethnicity, class, and gender to keep others in their place.
Conference website: https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/eurasia-and-global-migration

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