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Articles by John Chalcraft

Labour in the Levant
- John Chalcraft
in NLR 45, May-June 2007, pp. 27-47
Subjects: Anthropology , Work under Modern Capitalism , Syria

Against celebrations of the messianic potential of migrant labour, John Chalcraft presents the case of Syrian workers in Lebanon, where porous borders and hybrid identities serve to reproduce exploitative conditions. What motivations and aspirations underpin migration—and what routes might lead out of commodification’s web?
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