Migrant Marginality : A Transnational Perspective

Migrant Marginality : A Transnational Perspective

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This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and mig...

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Main Author: Kretsedemas, Philip
Other Authors: Capetillo-Ponce, Jorge, Jacobs, Glenn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013
Edition:1st ed
Series:Routledge Advances in Sociology Series
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
Transnationalism
Women immigrants > Legal status, laws, etc
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1. Introduction: The Problem of Migrant Marginality
  • (Re) Framing Transnationality
  • Testing the Limits of Multiculturalism
  • Manufacturing Exclusion: Anti-Immigrant Politics and Policies
  • Gendered Peripheries: Emigrants, Asylum Seekers and the Feminization of Migrant Marginality
  • Immigrant Identities and the Politics of Race and Nativity
  • Where to, Beyond the Margin?
  • Notes
  • Part I: Testing the Limits of Multiculturalism
  • 2. Challenging Narratives on Diversity and Immigration in Portugal: The (De)Politicization of Colonialism and Racism
  • Deploying Mainstream Narratives on Immigration and Diversity
  • Changing the Narrative and Enlarging the Research Agenda
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • 3. Politics, Citizenship and the Construction of Immigrant Communities in Italy
  • Culture, Racism and the Multicultura
  • The Necessity of Immigrant Communities
  • The Political Economy of Community Representation
  • Communities and Nations
  • Notes
  • 4. Legislated Isomorphism of Immigrant Religions: Lessons from Sweden
  • Lessons from Sweden
  • Negotiating Religious Space in the US
  • The Tripartite Theoretical Model (TTM)
  • Burial in Sweden
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Part II: Manufacturing Exclusion: Anti-Immigrant Politics and Policies
  • 5. Constructing Otherness: Media and Parliamentary Discourse on Immigration in Slovenia
  • Attitude Toward Immigrants in Slovenia
  • Attitude Toward Immigration in Public Discourse
  • Back to the Future?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 6. Designed to Punish: Immigrant Detention and Deportation in the US
  • Notes
  • 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
  • Contemporary Europe and Immigration
  • Being Hood: The Importance of 'Being Urban'
  • Notes
  • 16. Latino or Hispanic The Dilemma of Ethno-Racial Classification for Brazilian Immigrants in the US
  • Theoretical Framework
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion and Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 17. Popular Culture and Immigration
  • Notes
  • Part V: Where To, Beyond the Margin?
  • 18. Toward Decolonizing Methodologies for Immigration Research
  • Research, Categorization and Representation
  • Setting the Stage
  • Research Agendas and Methodological Approaches
  • Why Morality?
  • The Morality of Immigration
  • Decolonizing Methodologies
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 19. Conclusion: Discourses and Immigrant Identities
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Historical Italian Background
  • Italian Immigration Policy and Legal Framework
  • Immigration, Security and Politics
  • Italian Immigration Lawyers
  • Immigrants' Crimes and Italian Prisons
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Part III: Gendered Peripheries: Emigrants, Asylum Seekers and the Feminization of Migrant Marginality
  • 8. Gendered Global Ethnography: Comparing Migration Patterns and Ukrainian Emigration
  • Global Ethnography: Gender, Method and Analysis
  • Constitutive Circularity: Migrating to Italy
  • Resource Drain: Migrating to California
  • Comparing Migration Patterns and The Ukrainian state
  • Gendered Global Ethnography: Implications for Migration and Post-Soviet Studies
  • Notes
  • 9. Remittances in Provincial Georgia: The Case of Daba Tianeti
  • Remittances and Development: Theoretical Framwork
  • Methodology of the study
  • Research Site and Economic Characteristics of the Households
  • Emigration from Daba Tianeti: An Overview
  • Remittances in daba Tianeti
  • Use of Remittances
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • 10. The Dominican LGBTIQ Movement and Asylum Claims in the US
  • Refugee and Asylum Laws: Their Effects on LGBTIQ Asylum Seekers in the US
  • Lesbian Women-Last in the List of LGBTIQ Asylum Seekers and Grantees
  • LGBTIQ Concealed Sexual Identity in the Receiving Countries
  • Living with the HIV-AIDS Virus and Seeking Asylum-What Would a us Lawyer do to Win the Case?
  • Asylum Claim for Fear of Criminal Death: The Perilous Life of M-F Transgender People
  • The Villalona-Pérez Case: the Dominican Asylum Claim Paradigm?
  • Tensions Between Human Rights and Security: Their Effects on Asylum Petitions
  • Macroeconomic Development and Political Stability: Push Factors in the Dominican Emigration to the US
  • The US Deportation of Dominicans
  • The Spontaneous Nature of the LGBTIQ Mobilization and its Monopolistic Control by Conventional Organizations
  • Conclusion: 'There is no Guarantee NI Aquí NI Allá'
  • Notes
  • 11. Becoming Legible and 'Legitimized' Subjectivation and Governmentality among Asylum Seekers in Ireland
  • From 'Emigrant Nursery' to Immigrant Society: An Overview
  • Compelling 'Legibility': Seeking Asylum Amid Increasingly Restrictive Migration Regimes
  • Governmentatity and Subjectivation
  • Lessons in Confessing
  • Learning to be Legible: Pastoral Power and Micropractices of Governmentality
  • Becoming Legitimate Through Neoliberal Governmentality
  • Notes
  • Part IV: Immigrant Identities and the Politics of Race and Nativity
  • 12. Immigration and Identity in the US Virgin Islands
  • A Brief History of Immigration to the USVI
  • Immigration and Social Friction
  • The Emergence of a Nativist Discourse: The Writing of a Constitution
  • The Control Over Immigration Policies
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • 13. What Rises from the Ashes: Nation and Race in the African American Enclave of Samaná
  • (Their) Story
  • Trujillo:" Father of the Nation
  • Race and Nation
  • Old-Time Religion and Community Education
  • Who Speaks?
  • Erasure and Rebirth
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 14. Redrawing the Lines: Understanding Race and Citizenship through the Lens of Afro-Mexican Migrants in Winston-Salem, NC
  • Racial Distancing
  • Race in Mexico
  • Migration and Shifting Contexts
  • Race and Winston-Salem
  • Race and Mobility
  • Rethinking Assimilation
  • Notes
  • 15. Becoming Black? Race and Racial Identity among Cape Verdean Youth
  • Defining Blackness and the Politics of Racial Sincerity
  • The Fact of 'Cape Verdean' Blackness
  • Similiarities, Differences and Solidarity in Blackness
  • My Last Name is Ramos, But I'm Not Spanish": A Note on Mistaken Identity

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