CASAS’ member Carlo John B. Arceo has published with Diana Peters this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Abstract: This article analyses the social reproduction of undocumented migrant workers within a stringent labour regime in an enclosed Malaysian oil palm plantation. It illustrates how capital and institutions tolerate irregular migration, creating an intergenerational labour stock that shapes economic and social dynamics. Exploitation commences with irregular migration, extending to toleration of household members for supplemental labour and gendered oppression in productive and reproductive activities. Female workers navigate productive space for social reproduction to sustain three generations of undocumented households. We argue that unpaid social reproduction is interlinked with the paid productive process for labour renewal, which sustains the capitalist system.
Read their full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2584785
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