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SYSNO ASEP 0560981 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Inequality, Fragmentation, and Belonging: John Berger on Migrant Labour Author(s) Swain, Daniel (FLU-F) ORCID, RID, SAI Source Title Marxism and Migration. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 / Ritchie G. ; Carpenter S. ; Mojab S. - ISBN 978-3-030-98838-8 Pages s. 157-181 Number of pages 25 s. Number of pages 323 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CH - Switzerland Keywords alienation ; belonging ; equality/inequality ; fragmentation ; guest workers ; Hannah Arendt ; John Berger ; labour power ; methodological nationalism ; politicization ; social reproduction Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology R&D Projects GA19-20031S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 EID SCOPUS 85136790986 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-98839-5_7 Annotation John Berger’s 1975 study of migrant labour, A Seventh Man, is an example of the enduring relevance of a Marxist approach to migration. Berger’s analysis is rooted in Marxist concepts of alienation and ideological mystification, expanded through three further concepts: the naturalization of an unequal hierarchy of labours, the fragmentation of the worker into a bundle of capacities and needs that both underpins and is reinforced by this inequality, the mystified idea of belonging, in which migrant workers do not belong where they work and exist. Berger’s Marxist approach is contrasted with the “methodological nationalism” characteristic of liberal political philosophy and Hannah Arendt’s focus on exclusion and statelessness. Approaching the migrant as worker provides a necessary corrective to these approaches, but comparison with Arendt helps clarify Berger’s ideas about how to adequately challenge and overcome inequality by politicizing the status of migrant workers and asserting a radical principle of equality. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98839-5_7
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