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Coloniality and meritocracy in unequal EU migrations : intersecting inequalities in post-2008 Italian migration / Simone Varriale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Varriale, Simone, author.
- Series:
- Decolonization and social worlds.
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Decolonization and social worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italians--Great Britain--Social conditions.
- Italians.
- Social classes--European Union countries.
- Social classes.
- Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol Univeristy Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Connecting decolonial theory with Bourdieu's class analysis, this book provides pioneering new insights into the social stratification of EU migrants and the relationships between neoliberalism, coloniality and European whiteness.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Meritocracy beyond the Anglosphere
- Meritocracy, coloniality and postcolonial sociology
- Meritocracy, coloniality and the European peripheries
- Meritocracy, coloniality and unequal EU migrations
- Researching unequal migrations: methodological preliminaries
- Structure of the book
- 1 The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere to Post-Austerity Europe
- Conceptualizing meritocracy
- Meritocracy, stigma, racialization
- Lived experiences of meritocracy
- From meritocracy to coloniality
- Unequal Europes and the coloniality of Italy
- Italy as a Southern sinner: post-1990s and post-austerity narratives
- Meritocracy/coloniality: a synergy between decolonial theory and Bourdieu
- Meritocracy/coloniality as doxa
- Meritocracy/coloniality as category of practice
- Meritocracy/coloniality and belonging
- Conclusion
- 2 Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions
- Meritocratic imaginaries, intra-EU migration and post-2008 Italian emigration
- Youth (working-class) migration as a space of self-exploration
- A gendered and racialized field of forces
- Unequal graduates: between fear of falling and structural privilege
- Lack of control: later working-class migrations
- 3 (Re)Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations
- Adjusting meritocracy: Gabriella and the gendering of transnational cultural capital
- Meritocracy as self-fulfilling prophecy: Corrado and the gendering of transnational cultural capital
- "Sometimes I feel ungrateful": Elena and the epistemic limits of meritocracy
- Meritocracy as "feeling like anyone else": the racialized trajectories of Oliver and Eliza.
- Dissonant meritocracy: the classed upward mobility of Grazia
- "Everything is precarious here": the classed immobility of Maria
- 4 The Coloniality of Belonging
- Meritocracy, coloniality and belonging
- Becoming Italian in England
- Credentialized (middle-class) belonging
- Individualized and ethnicized (working-class) belonging
- The epistemic limits of credentialized belonging
- The epistemic limits of individualized and ethnicized belonging
- 5 The Coloniality of Brexit
- Still a meritocracy? Brexit, belonging and coloniality among EU migrants
- Meritocratic Brexit
- Cosmopolitan (working-class) Brexit
- Credentialized (middle-class) Brexit
- Beyond Brexit: middle-class racial grammars
- Trajectories, capitals, fields
- Categories of practice
- Positionality, interviewing and recruitment
- Social class
- 'Race'
- Regional background, gender and age
- Motivations for migration
- Educational and work trajectories (after migration)
- Educational and work trajectories (before migration)
- Life in the UK
- Future
- Post-2008 migration
- Being an 'immigrant'
- Brexit
- Parents' education and employment
- Appendix A: Interviewing: From Theory to Practice
- Appendix B: Sample Composition
- Appendix C: Summary of Participants
- Appendix D: Interview Topics and Questions
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781529222739
- 1529222737
- 9781529222715
- 1529222710
- 9781529222722
- 1529222729
- OCLC:
- 1377545848
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