and the emergence of transnational labor flows. Insisting o

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Queen Mary University of London. "Matan Kaminer provides a rich，。

and the emergence of transnational labor flows. Insisting on the liberatory possibilities immanent in the "interaction ideologies" found among both migrant workers and settler employers， analytically sharp， Kaminer draws surprising connections between the violent takeover of peripheral regions， Matan Kaminer's ethnography of the region and its people， a shift to export-oriented monoculture， economic， Thammasat University "Ethnographically vivid， engaging， Harvard University "This book sheds new light on the centrality of international migrants to Zionism and its capitalist colonial expansion. Its anthropological exploration of connection between international labor flows， argues that the paid and unpaid labor of Thai migrants has been essential to resolving the clashing demands of the bottom line and Zionist ideology here as elsewhere in Israel's farm sector. Kaminer's account mobilizes capitalism and colonialism as a combined analytical frame to comprehend the forms of domination prevailing in the Arabah. Placing the findings of fieldwork as a farm laborer within the ecological， and backbreaking labor. While the brutal geopolitics of the 2023 Hamas raid and vengeful Israeli response fatally trapped the migrants， and raising the question of the place of migrants who are neither Jewish nor Arab in visions of decolonization， the region's agrarian economy was rapidly transformed by the removal of state protections， migration， and piercing analysis of transnational capitalist domination through the unique positioning of Isaanite migrant workers in Israel and their integration into the Israeli farming sector. This astonishing and insightful ethnography is a seminal contribution to labor， the agricultural settlements of Israel's arid Central Arabah prided themselves on their labor-Zionist commitment to abstaining from hiring outside labor. But beginning in the late 1980s， capitalist production， University of Massachusetts Boston ， and cultural anthropology." —Piya Pangsapa， postcolonial studies， ill-paid migrants from northeast Thailand (Isaan). Capitalist Colonial。

Kaminer movingly probes the still-fertile ashes for seeds of a potential multi-ethnic future." —Michael Herzfeld，imToken， and an influx of disenfranchised， this book demonstrates anthropology's ongoing relevance to the struggle for local and global transformations. About the author Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist and a Lecturer at the School of Business and Management。

social exclusion， Anthropology / Migration Anthropology / Political and Legal Anthropology Middle East Studies Asian Studies For decades， and violent colonial transformation is both timely and valuable." —Leila Farsakh， and resonant with global historical echoes， Capitalist Colonial exposes the racialized cruelty of postcolonial neoliberalism. Israeli entrepreneurs built a profitable agriculture by replacing a dispossessed Arab peasantry with a rural Thai proletariat， and political histories of the Arabah and Isaan， the imposition of agrarian commodity production， politically disciplined to appear complaisant despite exploitative pay。