Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging : : Immigrants in Europe and the United States / / ed. by Caroline B. Brettell, Deborah Reed-Danahay.

Immigration is continuously and rapidly changing the face of Western countries. While newcomers are harbingers of change, host nations also participate in how new populations are incorporated into their social and political fabric. Bringing together a transcontinental group of anthropologists, this...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Inclusion and Exclusion: Discourses of Belonging
  • Introduction
  • 1. Kabyle Immigrant Politics and Racialized Citizenship in France
  • 2. On Belonging in/to Italy and Europe: Citizenship, Race, and the “Immigration Problem”
  • 3. The Irish Citizenship Referendum (2004): Motherhood and Belonging in Ireland
  • 4. From the “Imagined Community” to “Communities of Practice”: Immigrant Belonging Among Vietnamese Americans
  • Part II. Political Mobilization and Claims Making
  • Introduction
  • 5. Migrants’ Mobilization and Anthropology: Reflections from the Experience of Latin Americans in the United Kingdom
  • 6. Odyssean Refugees, Migrants, and Power: Construction of the “Other” and Civic Participation within the Polish Community in the United Kingdom
  • 7. Origin Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Antiracist Mobilizations in France
  • 8. “Call Us Vote People”: Citizenship, Migration, and Transnational Politics in Haitian and Mexican Locations
  • Part III. New Spaces of Citizenship
  • Introduction
  • 9. Globalization and Citizenship: The Chinese in Silicon Valley
  • 10. “And Ye Shall Possess It, and Dwell Therein”: Social Citizenship, Global Christianity and Nonethnic Immigrant Incorporation
  • 11. Immigrants as Netizens: Political Mobilization in Cyberspace
  • Afterword: Some Concluding Reflections
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index