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SUMMARY:Immigrant Labor and the Racialized Differentiation of Disposabilit
 y During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Geoff Boyce\, University College Dublin &
 amp\; Diego Martinez-Lugo\, University of Washington
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DESCRIPTION:Scholars have long recognized the disposability of labor as a 
 constitutive feature within a capitalist mode of production. Using the con
 tradictory position of immigrant workers in the United States during the C
 OVID-19 pandemic as a case study - in which noncitizens laboring in indust
 ries ranging from meatpacking\, to agriculture\, to healthcare were variou
 sly defined as “essential\,” while simultaneously excluded from a host
  of government programs intended to act as safety nets that would help lim
 it peoples’ exposure to the virus - we examine how the condition of disp
 osability becomes racially differentiated and mediated via coercive state 
 policy. Introducing the theorem of racially differentiated disposability\,
  we discuss how this process of differentiation results not just in a disc
 iplining of labor\, but also in an ability for employers to pay wages to o
 ne substantial cross-section of the U.S. working class significantly below
  the cost necessary to sustain their everyday and generational social repr
 oduction. We conclude by discussing how this outcome plays a critical role
  in stabilizing the accumulation of surplus value\, as a contribution to b
 roader theorizations of the heuristic of racial capitalism.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre (SLT)\,  Department of Geography 
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