The peasants are coming: migrants who labour,peasants who travel and Marxists who write

M. Nikolinakos , 'Notes toward a general theory of migration in late capitalism', Race & Class, (Vol XVII, no 1, 1975), from which the quotation was taken

The most significant work published in the UK was probably S. Castles and G. Kosack , Immigrant workers and class structure in western Europe ( London, 1973). For a few more examples differing in particulars but close in general conclusions, see P.M. Worsley , 'Proletarians, sub-proletarians, lumpenproletarians, marginalidados, migrants, urban peasants and urban poor', Sociology (Vol 10), A. Ward , 'European capitalism's reserve army', Monthly Review (Vol 27, no 6, 1975); A. Sivanandan , 'Race, class and the state', Race & Class (Vol XVII, no 4, 1976); J. Power , Western European migrant workers (London, 1976)

R.E. Park , 'Human Communities' Race & Culture ( New York, 1952) For a contemporary study of relevance see for example S Patterson, Dark Strangers (London, 1976)

Most of the 'Black Power' publications took up that position For an academic presentation see M Banton, Racial Minorities (London, 1972)

Castles and Kosack , op cit, p 444 M. Bennoune , 'Maghribin migrant workers in France' , Race & Class (Vol XVII, no 1, 1975)

Be it Marxist originals or contemporary analysts, i e K. Marx , Pre-capitalist economic formations (London, 1964), B. Galeski , Basic Concepts of Rural Sociology (Manchester, 1972), T. Shanin , Peasants and peasant societies, ( Harmondsworth, 1971), E.F. Wolf , Peasants (New York, 1962)

E g for North Africa, see Bennoune, op cit, for Turkey see A Kudat, Stability and change in the Turkish family at home and abroad (Berlin, 1975), or N Abadan-Unat et al, Migration and Development (Ankara, 1976)

Nikolinakos , op cit, p 14

See Sivanandan , op cit, pp 359-62

See W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki , The Polish peasant in Europe and America (New York, 1958), K. Marx , Capital, Vol I (Penguin, 1976)

lbid, E. Preobrazhenskii , The new economics ( Oxford, 1965), Baran, The political economy ot growth (New York, 1962)

E g E Wolf, Peasant wars of the twentieth century ( London, 1969), for discussion of a relevant crisis of peasantry

For an example of such work see M.B. Kiray , Squatter housing fast depeasantation and slow workisation in underdeveloped countries (Varna , 1970)

T.G. McGee , 'Peasants in the cities a paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox ', Human Organization (Vol 32, no 2, 1973)

K. Marx , F. Engels , Selected works (Moscow, 1969 ), p 398

Power, op cit, for a discussion of these and related points See also 1976 Report of SOPEMI continuous reporting system on migration ( Paris, OECD, 1976), pp. S, 7 and 40

Thomas , op cit, p 1511 C.P. Kindelberger , European post-war growth. the role of labour supply (Harvard, 1967)

E g for Turks in West Berlin land purchase 30 6%, home purchase 20 7%, bank deposits 40 9%, luxury investment 6 5%, technical equipment 1 3% (total 100 0%), Kudat, op cit, p 77

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Worsley, op cit, as compared to Galeski, op cit

Power, op cit

S. Ramon , T. Shanin and J. Strimpel , 'The peasant connection social background and mental health of migrant workers in western Europe', Journal of Mental Health in Society (in publication, scheduled 1977)

A. Emmanuel , Unequal Exchange (New York , 1972), especially pp 178-82