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Drawing on an analysis of North African (Maghrebin) migrant workers in the Paris (France) automobile industry, it is argued that (1) globalization needs to be placed in historical context in terms of the international/global political economy of migration; (2) migration needs to be understood as a strategic issue in the international political economy; (3) the national state is still relevant as a geopolitical economic "lens" on the contemporary globalization of migration; & (4) there exists what is termed a "spatial vent." This describes the forced &/or encouraged repatriation of migrant workers to partially diffuse threats to accumulation & legitimation generated by reconciling economic imperatives (industrial & labor market restructuring) with the political, social, & cultural priorities of the French state (republicanism & universalism). The spatial vent is considered one means of grasping the territoriality of capitalism. 1 Figure, 150 References. Adapted from the source document.

The authors argue for the necessary, but not privileged, place of geography in understanding the nature of wage labor in the capitalist world. Approaching their topic from Marxist, neo-Marxist, and Institutionalist perspectives they draw a portrait of the social relations of labor and draw attention