Kitty Calavita

Immigrants at the Margins

Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe
Herausgeber: Arup, Chris; Chanock, Martin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780521846639
• ISBN-10: 0521846633
• Artikelnr.: 14725408

Autorenporträt

Kitty Calavita is Chancellor's Professor Emerita of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Inside the State, Invitation to Law & Society, Immigrants at the Margins, Appealing to Justice, and Big Money Crime. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Legal framework and the wayward 'legs of law'; 3. 'Useful invaders': the economics of alterité; 4. Integrating the other; 5. The 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.

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1. Introduction
2. Legal framework and the wayward 'legs of law'
3. 'Useful invaders': the economics of alterité
4. Integrating the other
5. The 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.

Rezensionen

'Immigrants at the Margins is highly recommended.' New Law Journal