The recent H-1B Visa controversy in the USA

This article looks at how globalization is contested through the debates on the H1-B visa program. The system of neoliberal globalization that encourages the free movement of workers, and prioritizes efficiency, is credited for the birth of the H-1B visa which sought to fill the technological skill shortage in America. Drawing from Global Capitalism by David Harvey and some other writers listed in the introduction, it is argued that the program reveals significant contradictions of global capitalism. Although the visa facilitates the movement of skilled migrants, particularly from India, it places them within a framework of cultural marginalization and exploitation of laissez faire labor conditions. Furthermore, it results in domestic backlash regarding loss of jobs and wage suppression.