Marxist Perspectives on Migration Between Autonomy and Hegemony: An Intervention for a Strategic Approach

Danish is never a Requirement for these Jobs

“…AoM can be best described as an attempt to theorise the role of migrant agency in the constitution of contemporary border regimes. An emphasis is placed on the primacy of movement over control (Karakayali, Tsianos 2010;Mezzadra 2010), as well as the development of socialities and mundane practices independent of sovereign control among people on the move (Fischer, Jørgensen 2022). Border regimes and border struggles here not only have to do with the external borders (in our case the European and Danish ones) but just as much with regimes set up in the intersection of labour regulations and migration policies.…”

“…The relationship here is complex and autonomy cannot be translated as direct agency, rather "autonomy represents a relational concept between efforts to control and efforts (successful or not) to contest and subvert this control" (Metcalfe 2022: 53). What autonomy means here is the active response to the "logistification" of migration regimes (Altenried et al 2018) that developed through and due to the "refugee crisis", where labour market needs result in a blurring of distinctions between the categories of "refugee", "asylum seeker" and "economic migrant" (Fischer, Jørgensen 2022). The autonomy of the migrant workers is here located in the refusal of migrants to accept their logistification and access to or exclusion from a particular labour market position.…”