The Migration-Development Regime (Rina Agarwala)

The Migration-Development Regime

How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

Rina Agarwala

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-migration-development-regime-9780197586402?q=Agarwala&lang=en&cc=us 

Modern South Asia

• Offers a novel framework with which to analyze international migration, namely the "Migration Development Regime" or MDR
• Provides a sociological analysis that compares sending states' use of both poor and elite emigrants
• Compiles and draws on extremely unique unpublished data, including over 200 interviews, the first data base of over 600 Indian-American transnational organizations, and archives of Indian government documents from 1920-present

We the Elites (Robert Ovetz)

We the Elites

Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

by Robert Ovetz

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745344720/we-the-elites/

A new, radical reading of the US constitution.

Written by 55 of the richest white men, and signed by only 39 of them, the US constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Popular perceptions of it are mired in idolatry, myth and misinformation - many Americans have opinions on the constitution but have little idea what it says.

This book examines the constitution for what it is – a rulebook for elites to protect capitalism from democracy. Social movements have misplaced faith in the constitution as a tool for achieving justice when it actually impedes social change through the many roadblocks and obstructions we call 'checks and balances'. This stymies urgent progress on issues like labour rights, poverty, public health and climate change, propelling the American people and rest of the world towards destruction.

Robert Ovetz's reading of the constitution shows that the system isn't broken. Far from it. It works as it was designed to.