Original scientific paper
Return Migration and the New International Division of Labour
Carl-Ulrik Schierup
; Sveučilište Umea, Švedska
Abstract
The issue of return and reintegration of migrant-workers in West European countries has been analysed within the strategic framework of West European capital. Various peripheral zones had been created within such a framework, consisting of Mediterranean countries supplying the central countries with workforce. Gradually, internal labour markets were created within the (semi) peripheral zones, however, they are not powerful enough for the reception of increasing numbers of the proletarianized population from 1970’s onwards. The alternative of industrial growth and autonomous technological expansion has meager prospects now-a-days for such countries, because of the strong pressure of the Center aiming at the removal of the crisis of the 1970's into the semi-periphery in the 1980’s. In such a context, the issue of return and reintegration of migrant-workers from the Mediterranean countries, which had emigrated during the pre-crisis period, remains indeterminate.
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Hrčak ID:
155934
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Publication date:
31.12.1981.
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