{"id":114093,"date":"2018-07-09T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=114093"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T09:59:27","slug":"immigration-western-wars-and-imperial-exploitation-uproot-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/07\/immigration-western-wars-and-imperial-exploitation-uproot-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>26 Jun 2018 &#8211; <em>\u201cImmigration\u201d has become the dominant issue dividing Europe and the US, yet the most important matter which is driving millions to emigrate is overlooked is wars. In this paper we will discuss the reasons behind the massification of immigration, focusing on several issues.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>imperial wars<\/li>\n<li>multi-national corporate expansion<\/li>\n<li>the decline of the anti-war movements in the US and Western Europe<\/li>\n<li>the weakness of the trade union and solidarity movements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will proceed by identifying the major countries affected by US and EU wars leading to massive immigration, and then turn to the western powers forcing refugees to \u2018follow\u2019 the flows of profits.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasImmigration.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/immigration-western-wars-and-imperial-exploitation\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras.halaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 Jun 2018 &#8211; \u201cImmigration\u201d has become the dominant issue dividing Europe and the US, yet the most important matter which is driving millions to emigrate is overlooked is wars. In this paper we will discuss the reasons behind the massification of immigration, focusing on several issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}