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Immigrants at the margins : law, race, and exclusion in Southern Europe / Kitty Calavita.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calavita, Kitty, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration law--Europe, Southern.
- Emigration and immigration law.
- Marginality, Social--Europe, Southern.
- Marginality, Social.
- Immigrants--Government policy--Italy.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Government policy--Spain.
- Ethnic relations.
- Immigrants--Government policy.
- Europe, Southern--Ethnic relations.
- Europe, Southern.
- Southern Europe.
- Spain.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes the tension between the temporary and contingent legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration. This book reveals that while law and the rhetoric of policymakers stress the urgency of integration, not only are they failing in that effort, but law itself plays a role in that failure. In addressing this paradox, the author combines theoretical insights and extensive data from myriad sources collected over more than a decade to demonstrate the connections among immigrants' role as cheap labor - carefully inscribed in law - and their social exclusion, criminalization, and racialization. Extrapolating from this economics of alterité, this book engages more general questions of citizenship, belonging, race and community in this global era.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Legal framework and the wayward "legs of law"
- 3. "Useful invaders" : the economics of alterite
- 4. Integrating the "other"
- 5. everyday dynamics of exclusion : work, health, and housing
- 6. Fuel on the fire : politics, crime, and racialization
- 7. Conclusion : immigrants and other strangers in the global marketplace.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511493942
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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