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I suppose I have an issue which I've been trying to see from a Marxist perspective maybe you can help me with. I'm one of these "pig ignorant" proles that have paid for indoctrination. As one of my professors said in reference to this pic (attached), "Remittances are now one of the most important flows of capital in the world, and we know virtually nothing about it. Western Union and Moneygram know something, and we're only beginning to learn about the nature of this development."

You're aware of remittances, migrant workers, etc. I'm guessing. How does this fit into the "class struggle" esp. vis a vis the state? I'm reminded of a sweeping law in Alabama that executed a popular wish for "illegal immigrants" to be deported. Not only did the businesses strongly oppose the law, but the job openings were never filled by the bristling white supremacists. Turns out they didn't want to gut fish and pick tomatoes.

Bloomberg Businessweek has kept tabs on this story.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-24/africans-relocate-to-alabama-to-fill-jobs-after-immigrat
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I actually had a bunch of very informative readings in a W&GS class I took last year. Let me dig up the syllabus and post some of our readings. Their emphasis was on issues relating to class and culture, as the wiki article pointed out. One very good read was about this woman who wrote about feminism in Egypt and how different mosques catered to different clientele. She explained their differing attitudes towards things like the hijab and gave an argument for why.

Ehrenreich, Barbara, and Arlie Hochschild, eds. 2002 Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy.

This was a nice intro to a huge new topic in feminism. They were a series of essays on particular topics like domestic workers, sex workers and migrant labor. I've attached a pic showing how remittances (migrants sending money home, for example) are actually now the largest capital flow in the global economy. And as my economics professor said, "And we know nothing about it. Western Union and Moneygram know about it, but people have only started to research this topic."

Stoler, Ann. 2002 Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia.

Ann Stoler has come up in different classes I've taken, her analysis is very original. She refuses the Marxist position and only looks instead at relations of power, and how that changes over time (ala Foucault). Foucault of course didn't bring in factors of race, gender, or class, his task was big enough.

Williams, Patricia. 2001 On being the object of property. in Theorizing Feminism: Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Mahmood, Saba 2004. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject.