Everyday refusal of racial capitalism : Unsettling logistics of forced migration and labour in Germany

An ethnographic analysis of refugees’ negotiations of labour mediation and racialised infrastructures in Germany, showing how everyday practices of resistance illuminate the operations and contradictions of contemporary racial capitalism and its logistical regimes. -- .

Germany’s racial capitalism has entered a renewed and increasingly repressive conjuncture, marked by intensified institutional, economic and infrastructural pressures. This book considers these developments through the transformations set in motion after the autonomous arrival of refugees in 2015, examining how labour mediation, workfare structures and infrastructural racism shape contingent and uneven labour relations. It analyses how racialised workers negotiate logistical constraints designed to confine, categorise and circulate their labour. By foregrounding refugees’ everyday infrapolitics and labour struggles, it shows how their decisions, mobilities and refusals contest these racialised formations while asserting alternative relations of solidarity. Drawing on critical migration studies, racial capitalism research and ethnographic inquiry, it offers an empirically grounded account of resistance within contemporary logistical orders. -- .