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Migrant Marginality This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several aspects of global migration. It uses case studies from Western and Eastern Europe, North America and the Caribbean to examine how many societies have defi ned their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) constructions of migrants and migration. The fi rst section of the book examines the limitations of multicultural policies that have been used to incorporate migrants into the host soci- ety. 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 immi- gration, constructing themselves as either migrants or natives. The book off ers researchers, policy makers and students an apprecia- tion 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. 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 consor- tium on immigrant community-based organizations. 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D’Augelli This page intentionally left blank Migrant Marginality A Transnational Perspective Edited by Philip Kretsedemas, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Glenn Jacobs NEW YORK LONDON First published 2013 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2013 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Migrant marginality : a transnational perspective / edited by Philip Kretsedemas, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Glenn Jacobs. — 1st Edition. pages cm. — (Routledge advances in sociology ; 98) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Immigrants—Cultural assimilation. 2. Women immigrants—Legal status, laws, etc. 3. Emigration and immigration—Government policy. 4. Transnationalism. I. Kretsedemas, Philip, 1967– JV6342.M5294 2013 305.9'06912—dc23 2013005295 ISBN: 978-0-415-89317-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-54970-4 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. SFI-01234 SFI label applies to the text stock Contents List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii 1 Introduction: The Problem of Migrant Marginality 1 JORGE CAPETILLO-PONCE AND PHILIP KRETSEDEMAS PART I Testing the Limits of Multiculturalism 2 Challenging Narratives on Diversity and Immigration in Portugal: The (De)Politicization of Colonialism and Racism 27 MARTA ARAÚJO 3 Politics, Citizenship and the Construction of Immigrant Communities in Italy 47 VALENTINA PAGLIAI 4 Legislated Isomorphism of Immigrant Religions: Lessons from Sweden 63 GWENDOLYN YVONNE ALEXIS PART II Manufacturing Exclusion: Anti Immigrant Politics and Policies 5 Constructing Otherness: Media and Parliamentary Discourse on Immigration in Slovenia 85 ANA KRALJ viii Contents 6 Designed to Punish: Immigrant Detention and Deportation in the US 104 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 114 BARBARA FAEDDA PART III Gendered Peripheries: Emigrants, Asylum Seekers and the Feminization of Migrant Marginality 8 Gendered Global Ethnography: Comparing Migration Patterns and Ukrainian Emigration 133 CINZIA SOLARI 9 Remittances in Provincial Georgia: The Case of Daba Tianeti 148 TAMAR ZURABISHIVILI AND TINATIN ZURABISHIVILI 10 The Dominican LGBTIQ Movement and Asylum Claims in the US 165 JACQUELINE JIMÉNEZ POLANCO 11 Becoming Legible and ‘Legitimized’: Subjectivation and Governmentality among Asylum Seekers in Ireland 186 DEIRDRE CONLON PART IV Immigrant Identities and the Politics of Race and Nativity 12 Immigration and Identity in the US Virgin Islands 205 JORGE CAPETILLO-PONCE AND LUIS GALANES Contents ix 13 What Rises from the Ashes: Nation and Race in the African American Enclave of Samaná 222 RYAN MANN-HAMILTON 14 Redrawing the Lines: Understanding Race and Citizenship through the Lens of Afro- Mexican Migrants in Winston-Salem, NC 239 JENNIFER A. JONES 15 Becoming Black? Race and Racial Identity among Cape Verdean Youth 258 P. KHALIL SAUCIER 16 Latino or Hispanic: The Dilemma of Ethno-Racial Classifi cation for Brazilian Immigrants in the US 275 TIFFANY D. JOSEPH 17 Popular Culture and Immigration 293 RACHEL RUBIN AND JEFF MELNICK PART V Where To, Beyond the Margin? 18 Toward Decolonizing Methodologies for Immigration Research 309 SHARIF ISLAM 19 Conclusion: Discourses and Immigrant Identities 324 GLENN JACOBS Contributors 341 Index 347
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