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"""Matan Kaminer provides a rich, engaging, 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, migration, postcolonial studies,andcultural anthropology."" —Piya Pangsapa, Thammasat University ""Ethnographically vivid, analytically sharp, 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, politically disciplined to appear complaisant despite exploitative pay, social exclusion, and backbreaking labor. While the brutal geopolitics of the 2023 Hamas raid and vengeful Israeli response fatally trapped the migrants, Kaminer movingly probes the still-fertile ashes for seeds of a potential multi-ethnic future."" —Michael Herzfeld, 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, capitalist production, and violent colonial transformation is both timely and valuable."" —Leila Farsakh, University of Massachusetts Boston"

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Matan Kaminer is an anthropologist and a Lecturer at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London.

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