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The Codes of Migration: Contours of the Global Software Labor Market

Indiana-Purdue University

Biju Mathew

Rider University

Raza Mir

Monmouth University

This paper presents a case study of the software industry in India and the US as a step toward an ethnography of transnational migration. By focusing on the subject positions and forms of work created by the new international division of labor, contemporary theories of global culture and difference are brought into question through a political economy of globalization. The analysis suggests that the phenomena of postnational deterritorialization may be less important than the emerging forms of labor polarization within and across nation-states.

Key Words: globalization • international division of labor • migration • software

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