Migration as class struggle : refugee youth, work rights, and solidarity

Young adult refugees from the Middle East and North Africa are at the center of a development agenda that seeks to reconstitute displacement as development and grow the region’s digital economy. Working from an internationalist standpoint, this article thinks through the contradictory forms of consciousness that arise as displacement is transitioned into development. The analysis interrogates the ideological forms of knowl-edge that delink capitalist development in the region from the conditions that incited youth uprisings and led to their displacement. The reader is invited to think through the ways in which migration is a generative, contradictory, and contingent force within global capitalism, which is to say a manifestation of class struggle.