Agrarian Change, Migration and Development

The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is
the problem of labour migration. Delgado Wise and Veltmeyer explore
the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes
set in motion by the world capitalist system. The dynamics of these processes
are international, in regard to the international or cross-border flows of labour migrants, and internal to countries that have undergone, or are undergoing, a process of agrarian change and social transformation.
While it may appear that these migrants are free to choose to abandon their
communities and families in the search for a better way of life, the authors
show with devastating logic that the decisions made by so many migrants are
rooted in the workings of the world capitalist system, which converts them
into a pool of surplus labour to be pulled into and out of the system as required by capitalists in their endless search for private profit.