Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity

ISBN-13: 9781138107175 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Ernesto Castaneda

Opis

Immigration and Categorical Inequality explains the general processes of migration, categorization of newcomers in urban areas as racial or ethnic others, and the processes that perpetuate inequality among groups. Inspired by the pioneering work of Charles Tilly on chain migration, transnational communities, trust networks, and categorical inequality, renowned scholars of migration apply Tilly's theoretical concepts using empirical data gathered in different historical periods and geographical areas ranging from New York to Tokyo, and from Barcelona to Nepal. The contributors of this volume demonstrate the ways in which social boundaries and mechanisms produce relational processes of durable categorical inequality. This understanding is an important step to stop treating differences between certain groups as natural and unchangeable. This volume will be valuable for scholars, students, and the public in general interested in understanding the periodical rise of nativism in the United States and elsewhere.