Migration and Inequality

ISBN-13: 9781509522118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Mirna Safi

Opis

"In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Mirna Safi shows migration to be a mechanism of inequality and shows how studying international migration can challenge current limited, nationally established paradigms of social justice"--

Recenzje

"Migration and inequality are the twin challenges facing the developed world, with leaders and people deeply divided and uncertain how to respond. For readers in search of insight, Safi's book is an essential source. Drawing on a vast multidisciplinary literature, Safi provides the crucial tools needed to understand today's bewilderingly unequal and diverse world." Roger Waldinger, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration "Migration and Inequality is a book of impressive originality. Safi opens new paths in the sociology of ethno-racial formation by connecting distributional, legal and symbolic processes of inequality, and also skillfully captures national, transnational and global pathways at work. Her book should be widely read and discussed by social scientists across the disciplines." Michèle Lamont, Coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel "Mirna Safi brilliantly marries the theoretical movement toward relational approaches to stratification and the fate of migrant populations. We learn that the elementary process of social stratification --cultural and cognitive categorization married to the distributional mechanisms of exclusion and exploitation - create migrants as social categories and steer their destination cultural, political and economic reception. This book will be read widely and referred to often." Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1 From National to Migration Societies Chapter 2 - Migration and Elementary Mechanisms of Social Inequality: a conceptual framework Chapter 3 The Economic Channel: Migrant Workers in the Global Division of Labor Chapter 4 The Legal Channel: Immigration Law, Administrative Management of Migrants and Civic stratification Chapter 5 The Ethnoracial Channel: Migration, Group Boundary-Making and Ethnoracial Classification Struggles Conclusion: Migration, an Issue of Social Justice

O autorze

Mirna Safi is Associate Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po