Migrants and Race in the US

Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-95747-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 299 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be indigenous to the nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kretsedemas, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Migrants and Race: An Introduction 2. The Facts (and Fictions) of Non-Blackness 3. The Problem of Territorial Belonging 4. Territorial Racism 5. Who is an American Minority? 6. Removable People 7. In-Between and Outside

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Kretsedemas is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. His research and writing has examined the dynamics of immigrant racialization, policy outcomes for immigrant populations and the regulation of migrant flows by the state. Some of his journal articles have appeared in American Quarterly, International Migration and Stanford Law and Policy Review. He is also the co-editor of Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today (with David Brotherton; 2008, Columbia University Press) and is the author of The Immigration Crucible: Transforming ‘Race’, Nation and the Limits of the Law (2012, Columbia University Press).