Beyond Multiculturalism: Views from Anthropology (Urban Anthropology)

237 Pages·2009·3.54 MB·English

by  Giuliana B. Prato

Beyond MulticulturalisM
urban anthropology
series editors: italo Pardo and Giuliana Prato,
university of Kent, uK
Urban Anthropology is the first series of its kind to be established by a major
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empirically based works of high analytical and theoretical calibre. All volumes
published in the series are peer-reviewed.
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that address key issues that have comparative value in the current international
academic and political debates. These issues include, but are by no means limited
to: the methodological challenges posed by urban field research; the role of
kinship, family and social relations; the gap between citizenship and governance;
the legitimacy of policy and the law; the relationships between the legal, the semi-
legal and the illegal in the economic and political fields; the role of conflicting
moralities across the social, cultural and political spectra; the problems raised
by internal and international migration; the informal sector of the economy and
its complex relationships with the formal sector and the law; the impact of the
process of globalization on the local level and the significance of local dynamics
in the global context; urban development, sustainability and global restructuring;
conflict and competition within and between cities.
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Beyond Multiculturalism
Views from Anthropology
Edited by
GIUlIAnA B. PrATo
University of Kent, UK
© Giuliana B. Prato 2009
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Beyond multiculturalism : views from anthropology. --
(urban anthropology)
1. Urban anthropology. 2. Cultural pluralism.
3. Multiculturalism. 4. Ethnic relations.
I. Series II. Prato, Giuliana B.
307.7'6'089-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beyond multiculturalism : views from anthropology / edited by Giuliana B. Prato.
p. cm. -- (Urban anthropology)
Includes index.
ISBn 978-0-7546-7173-2 -- ISBn 978-0-7546-8866-2 (ebook) 1.
Urban anthropology--Case studies. 2. Multiculturalism--Case studies. 3. Ethnic
groups--Case studies. I. Prato, Giuliana B.
Gn395.B49 2009
306.44'6--dc22
2009007643
isBN 978 0 7546 7173 2 (hbk)
isBn 978 0 7546 8866 2 (ebk.V)
contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Contributors ix
1 Introduction – Beyond Multiculturalism: Anthropology at the
Intersections Between the local, the national and the Global 1
Giuliana B. Prato
2 A Visual Approach to Multiculturalism 21
Jerome Krase
3 Immigration and its Impacts on canadian cities 39
Eric Fong
4 The Transnational Family Among Urban Diaspora Populations 57
Paula Rubel and Abraham Rosman
5 Minorities in italy: the cases of arbëresh and albanian Migrations 79
Giuliana B. Prato
6 Dynamics of Exclusion and Integration: A Sobering View
from Italy 103
Italo Pardo
7 Socio-Ethnic Interaction and Identity Formation Among
the Qom-Toba in rosario 123
Héctor Vázquez and Graciela Rodríguez
8 Workers in late Modernity: Traditional Working-Class Culture
in Capitalist Globalization 141
Suzana Burnier
9 Young Urban Migrants Between Two Cultures 151
Danila Mayer
10 Migration, the Emergence of Multi-Ethnic Cities and Ethnic
relations in china 173
Zhang Jijiao
vi Beyond Multiculturalism
11 Sharing Cultures: Integration, Assimilation and Interaction
in the Indian Urban Context 189
Sumita Chaudhuri
12 The Consumption of Experience and the Ethnic Market:
Cosmopolitan Identity Beyond Multiculturalism 201
Silvia Surrenti
Index 217
list of Figures and tables
Figures
2.1 Francesco’s restaurant and Pizzeria, litchfield, Connecticut, 2007 28
2.2 El Rey de la Tijera #4, Barber shop, Main street, torrington,
connecticut, 2007 29
2.3 Folk-style Korean house, Chinese folk villages,
Shenzhen, China, 2005 30
2.4 Muslim-Chinese restaurant store front, Xi’ An, China, 2005 31
2.5 Ethnic diversity on the streets of L’Esquilino, rome, Italy, 1998 33
2.6 Polish newspapers, Islington, london, England, 2007 34
2.7 Doener and Moschee, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2005 35
Tables
7.1 Distribution of the Toba domestic groups in five socio-ethnic
interaction fields 128
10.1 The population of some Chinese cities and growth rate of ethnic
minorities 175
11.1 rural and urban origin of migrants to India’s mega cities
in 1981, 1991 191
11.2 Migrant, non-migrant population in the four mega cities of India 192
11.3 Growth rate in population of Kolkata 193
11.4 State-wise migration to Kolkata 195
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list of contributors
Suzana Burnier obtained a Masters Degree in Education from Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais, and a doctorate in Education from the Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is currently a Higher Education Director
and lecturer in Culture, Work and Education at the Federal Centre of Technology
Education of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Dr Burnier is a consultant to various local
governments on cultural issues applied to working-class education. She has
carried out research and published extensively on youth and skilled workers’
culture, focusing on the moralities and cultural values of these groups. Her recent
publications include, Burnier, S. et al. (2004), O Professor e a Pesquisa; Burnier,
S. (2004), Visões de mundo e projetos de trabalhadores qualificados de nível
médio, in Revista Antropolítica.
Sumita Chaudhuri obtained her PhD in Anthropology from the University of
Calcutta, where she currently teaches. Professor Chaudhuri has published widely
on urban India editing several volumes, including Indian Cities Towards the Next
Millennium. Professor Chaudhuri has been a Fellow of the Anthropological Survey
of India, a Post Doctoral Fellow at the ICSSr and a Visiting Fellow at the Central
European University, Hungary.
Eric Fong is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. His
research focused on race and ethnic residential patterns and ethnic business. His
latest book on Inside the Mosaic is published by the University of Toronto Press.
Zhang Jijiao holds a PhD in Sociology and a BA in Anthropology. He is
associate Professor at the institute of ethnology and anthropology of the chinese
Academy of Social Sciences in Bejing, China. He has conducted research in
Urban Anthropology since 1990 and has carried out fieldwork on migration in
Mainland China, Malaysia and Canada. He is currently carrying out field research
on minority migrants in Qingdao (Eastern China), Kunming (Western China),
Huhhot (northern China) and Shenzhen (Southtern China). Professor Jijiao is
Vice secretary General of the china association of urban anthropology and Vice
Chief Editor of the newsletter of China Association of Urban Anthropology.
Jerome Krase is Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College
of The City University of new York. He received his PhD in Sociology at new York
University. An activist-scholar regarding urban community problems, he lectures,
photographs and researches globally on ethnicity, immigration and multicultural