May 27, 2026
New review essay in Labour/ Le Travail by Anuneeta Chatterjee
Rethinking the narratives around digital platforms in migration through the lens of racial capitalism
This review essay asks, 鈥What does the expansion of digital platforms mean for the lives of people of colour in the Global South and for those in migration?鈥 This essay navigates this question of migration and digital platforms using the theoretical framework of racial capitalism. It presents a critical review of four books by scholars across the disciplines of political theory, sociology, and critical media studies. The books include 鈥楾he Futures of Racial Capitalism鈥 by Gargi Bhattacharya, Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal by Ida Danewid, Digital Migration by Koen Leurs, and Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism by In茅s Valdez.
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