A Critical Genealogy of Forced Migratory Labor in the Asian Mediterranean Sea

Joyce C. H. Liu

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004719170_003

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In this chapter, I presented my theoretical analysis of the logistics of neoliberal slavery in the 21st century, focusing on the role of the port cities as the hinge in the supply chain through the case of the cyber scam industry of the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. Sihanoukville Port in Cambodia and its China-aided SEZ, as one example of the labor commodity exchange in the Asian Mediterranean, together represent a typical case of a legal exemption for cyber-slavery in the neoliberal labor market of the twenty-first century. This chapter’s central arguments are fourfold. First, slavery with forced labor started in ancient times and continues in the twenty-first century, only now with upgraded operational technologies and legal procedures. The core aim of this tradition of slavery is to gain surplus values through human labor extraction by dehumanizing and depersonalizing some groups of people. Second, the route of migratory forced labor has geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geohistorical factors that trace back to entangled regional histories. Third, as hinges, port cities link the inland to the ocean, and the complex market system of the world plays a critical role in economic corridors in the age of maritime commerce. The port city’s operation consists of a tripartite apparatus: the demand, the supply, and the market. The market in this trio structure is a fluctuating zone, intersected and manipulated by the law and the intermediary, leaving space for the game of law and legal exceptions. Hence, surplus values are gained through maximized human labor extraction. Fourth, the overlaid networks explain the persistence of human interest and its violence, or cruelty, in profiting from surplus values through human labor extraction. Here, we see that the logic of circulation no longer follows Marx’s analysis of M-C-M or M-M+ but rather the formula of V – M+. V stands for the void with no cost and violence with no law, and there is no limit to the multiplication of capital. (320 words)

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Entangled Waterscapes in Asia

Reihe: African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities, Band: 1

ISBN:: 9789004719170

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 06 Feb 2025

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