Lorraine Torres-Colón
LSSPI, Post-doctoral Fellow
Diego Montesinos, Undegraduate Research Fellow
Wages of Coloniality: Analysis of the Labor Market Disparities among Racialized Migrants in the US, the UK, Spain, and France, using the Luxembourg Income Study
Project Abstract
This project broadly explores the contemporary socioeconomic consequences of macrolevel colonial intranational power dynamics between host countries and countries of origin on microlevel labor market outcomes among racialized colonial migrants in the US, UK, Spain, and France. With some of the largest immigrant populations in the world, and relatively liberal social welfare regimes that tie access to social goods like health care, education, and retirement to participation in the labor market, the wellbeing of migrants in these former and current metropoles is largely tied to their economic incorporation. This analysis uses the Luxembourg Income Study, and builds on Grosfoguel’s typology of racialized ethnicities, and Salvatore Babones’ Structure of the World-Economy (SWE) tool to construct an innovative new indicator of the historical-structural complexity of colonial power relations between sending country and receiving country of migrants to provide a cross-national comparison of labor market outcomes among migrants, colonial migrants, and colonial racialized subjects from different countries of origins and within different current and former metropoles.