SOUTH-NORTH IMMIGRATION AND THE EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR IN THE AGE OF CAPITAL

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyze South-North labor
immigration, especially in the last two decades of
the 21st century, highlighting its imbrications with
the functioning of the labor market and with the
public policies of immigrant-receiving countries in
the global North. The analysis is made in the light
of historical-dialectical materialism, the research
has an exploratory approach and the methodology
is based on a review of the literature pertinent to
studies relating to work and immigration, analysis
of reports on international migration from the
International Organization for Migration (IOM,
2020, 2021 e 2022), the Department of Economic
and Social Affairs of the United Nations (UN/
DESA), the World Migration Report (2019) and the
International Labor Organization. (ILO, 2021) The
results indicate that the countries of the North
have used public policies to manage immigration,
seeking to create the conditions for deepening
control of labour locally and contributing to the
global precariousness of the workforce.