The contradiction between restrictions imposed on the movement of people and the acceleration in the circulation of goods, services, money—in one word capital—boosted by free-trade spaces and mechanisms is reaching new levels of paradox and absurdity. The spaces and frictions this contradiction creates will be the topic of Migrant Journal’s second issue: Wired Capital. From ‘iceberg houses’ in London designed for the ‘uber-wealthy,’ to the infrastructure of high-frequency trading, from ­Romanian agricultural workers travelling to Spain and ­Portugal every summer to pick strawberries while Portuguese workers harvest grapes in France, to globally-spread offshore accounts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

→ Dámaso Randulfe AMPHIBIOUS CREATURES

→ Michiko Ito MOVE TO WORK

→ Sophie Dyer & Eline Benjaminsen SPECTRAL TOPOGRAPHIES

→ Shintaro Miyazaki ALGORHYTHMIC HORIZON

→ Alexandra Voivozeanu STRONG CAPITAL, FRAGILE WORKERS

→ Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti THE HEAVENS

→ Paulo Moreira & Pétur Waldorff LUANDA’S PLEASURE RESORTS

→ Amie Siegel QUARRY

→ Maya Ober & Magdala Goldin POLARIZED MIGRATION

→ Justinien Tribillon THE PANIC OF 1873

→ Saskia Sassen EXTRACTION EXPULSION

→ Michaela Büsse & Jariyaporn Prachasartta THE REMORAS