By: Jorge Capetillo-Ponce (Editor), Glenn Jacobs (Editor), Philip Kretsedemas (Editor)

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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 migration. The book includes case studies from Western and Eastern Europe, North America and the Caribbean. It is organized into thematic sections that illustrate how different aspects of migrant marginality have unfolded across several national contexts.

The first section of the book examines the limitations of multicultural policies that have been used to incorporate migrants into the host society. The second section examines anti-immigrant discourses and get-tough enforcement practices that are geared toward excluding and removing criminalized "aliens". The third section examines some of the gendered dimensions of migrant marginality. The fourth section examines the way that racially marginalized populations have engaged the politics of immigration, constructing themselves as either migrants or natives.

The book offers researchers, policy makers and students an appreciation for the various policy concerns, ethical dilemmas and political and cultural antagonisms that must be engaged in order to properly understand the problem of migrant marginality.

Preface and Introduction
The Discourse and Politics of Immigration in the Global North
Mapping Official and Populist Anti-Immigrant Nativism
Designed to Punish: Immigrant Detention and Deportation in the U.S
We Are Not Racists, But We Do Not Want Immigrants: How Italy Uses Immigration - Law to Marginalize Immigrants and Create a (New) National Identity
Constructing Otherness: Media and Parliamentary Discourse on Immigration in Slovenia
What Rises From the Ashes: The Imposition of Nation and the Transformation of Race in the African American Enclave of Samana
Immigration and Identity in the U.S. Virgin Islands
Deconstructing Popular Discourses
Becoming Legible and "Legitimized": Subjectivation and Governmentality among Asylum Seekers in Ireland
Politics, Citizenship and the Construction of Immigrant Communities in Italy
Challenging Mainstream Narratives on Diversity and Immigration in Portugal: Accounting for the History of Colonialism and Racism
Legislated Isomorphism of Immigrant Religion: Lessons from Sweden
Texts, Practices and Audiences: Pop Culture and Immigration in the U.S. Today
Responses of Immigrant Communities
The Dominican LGBTIQ Movement and Asylum Claims in the United States and Canada
Countering the Criminalization and Deportation of Cambodians
Becoming Black? Race and Racial Identity Among Cape Verdean Youth
Latino, Hispanic or Brazilian?
Redrawing the Lines: Understanding Race and Citizenship through the lens of Afro-Mexican Migrants in Winston-Salem, NC
Remittances in Provincial Georgia: The Case of Tianeti
An Alternative Vision
Toward Decolonizing Methodologies for Immigration Research
Currents and Countercurrents: Rethinking the Politics of Immigration
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ISBN: 9780415893176
ISBN-10: 0415893178
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 352
Available: 4th July 2013
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2