RACISM, RACIAL CAPITALISM AND MIGRATION: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE IMPACTS OF RACIAL CAPITALISM ON THE LIVES OF HAITIAN MIGRANTS FROM 2017 TO 2024

Abstract

This research focuses on racial capitalism, as a construction of the capitalist system that tends to place its cursor on the issue of color. tends to redefine migrants' working relationships in a dynamic based on the logic of super-exploitation. This logic is calculated in a double context, political and capitalist, since, respectively, the state prevents migrants from receiving legal documents to work under legal conditions and the system takes advantage of this context to make migrants work outside of an adequate timeframe, according to a proportional wage. This study is in line with the Marxist tradition of understanding and analyzing the impact of racial capitalism on black migrants. Using a qualitative approach, it is based on documentary and bibliographical research, as well as data collection from semi-directive interviews in which those concerned tell us some details about the objective reality of their daily lives as migrants. In terms of results, this research shows that racial capitalism is a machine that takes shape in almost all societies, as it tends to define a common strategy for carrying out the logic of exploitation, capital accumulation, overexploitation and various forms of related violence against black migrants.