Afterword

Abstract

Donald Trump diverged significantly from United States (US) presidents since 1945 in his very extensive use of immigration-related executive orders to achieve his objectives. It is important to note that Trump attempted to enact this anti-migrant agenda in the context of a deeply divided US polity and population, most definitively shown by the fact that he lost the 2016 popular vote by nearly three million votes. The intersection of race and migration, the central topic of this volume, is arguably where the turn toward Trumpism in the United States was most disturbing, and closely followed the European discourse regarding immigrants since 2010. Marx was clear about this in his analysis of changes in attitudes and ideologies, which may not only be much slower than other changes in the world-system, but may also create outcomes that appear to be perverse from the perspective of global profitability.