Migrant Marginality (eBook, ePUB)

A Transnational Perspective
Redaktion: Kretsedemas, Philip; Jacobs, Glenn; Capetillo-Ponce, Jorge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a wide array of contributors to provide a global overview of immigration, focusing not only on the impact and role of immigration on the Global North, but also on the effect of immigration on the Global South (such as the contribution immigrants make to the economic and social development of their home countries) and the social and economic factors that give rise to immigration in the first place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135921606
• Artikelnr.: 39479010

Autorenporträt

Philip Kretsedemas is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Jorge Capetillo-Ponce is presently Director of Latino Studies, Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Mauricio Gaston Institute at University of Massachusetts-Boston. Glenn Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and head of the Umass-Boston, Trotter Institute research consortium on immigrant community-based organizations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Problem of Migrant Marginality Jorge Capetillo-Ponce
and Philip Kretsedemas Testing the Limits of Multiculturalism 2.
Challenging Mainstream Narratives on Diversity and Immigration in Portugal:
Accounting for the History of Colonialism and Racism Marta Araujo 3.
Politics, Citizenship and the Construction of Immigrant Communities in
Italy Valentina Pagliai 4. Legislated Isomorphism of Immigrant Religion:
Lessons from Sweden Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis Manufacturing Exclusion: Anti
Immigrant Politics and Policies 5. Constructing Otherness: Media and
Parliamentary Discourse on Immigration in Slovenia Ana Kralj 6. Designed to
Punish: Immigrant Detention and Deportation in the US Mark Dow 7. "We Are
Not Racists, But We Do Not Want Immigrants": How Italy Uses Immigration Law
to Marginalize Immigrants and Create a (New) National Identity Barbara
Faedda Gendered Peripheries: Emigrants, Asylum Seekers and the Feminization
of Migrant Marginality 8. Gendered Global Ethnography: Comparing Migration
Patterns and Ukrainian Emigration Cinzia Solari 9. Remittances in
Provincial Georgia: The Case of Daba Tianeti Tamar Zurabishvili and Tinatin
Zurabishvili 10. The Dominican LGBTIQ Movement and Asylum Claims in the
United States Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco 11. Becoming Legible and
"Legitimized": Subjectivation and Governmentality Among Asylum Seekers in
Ireland Deirdre Conlon Immigrant Identities and the Politics of Race and
Nativity 12. Immigration and Identity in the U.S. Virgin Islands Jorge
Capetillo-Ponce and Luis Galanes 13. What Rises from the Ashes: Nation and
Race in the African American Enclave of Samaná Ryan Mann-Hamilton 14.
Redrawing the Lines: Understanding Race and Citizenship Through the Lens of
Afro-Mexican Migrants in Winston-Salem, NC Jennifer A. Jones 15. Becoming
Black? Race and Racial Identity Among Cape Verdean Youth P. Khalil Saucier
16. Latino or Hispanic: The Dilemma of Ethno-Racial Classification for
Brazilian Immigrants in the US Tiffany D. Joseph 17. Popular Culture and
Immigration Rachel Rubin and Jeff Melnick Where To, Beyond the Margin? 18.
Toward Decolonizing Methodologies for Immigration Research Sharif Islam
19. Conclusion: Discourses and Immigrant Identities Glenn Jacobs