Migrant Marginality: A Transnational Perspective

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by  Philip Kretsedemas, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce, Glenn Jacobs (eds.)

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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Migrant Marginality
A Transnational Perspective
Edited by Philip Kretsedemas,
Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Glenn Jacobs
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1. Immigrants—Cultural assimilation. 2. Women immigrants—Legal
status, laws, etc. 3. Emigration and immigration—Government
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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