Migrant Marginality
by Kretsedemas, Philip, Capetillo Ponce, Jorge, Jacobs, Glenn
fromRoutledge advances in sociology
This edited book uses migrant marginality to problematize several different aspects of global migration. It examines how many different societies have defined their national identities, cultural values and terms of political membership through (and in opposition to) construction…
This book uses the concept of territorial racism to describe the discriminatory acts and exclusions that have been informed by native/alien distinctions. It argues that while the concept intersects with several different histories of racial and racist discourse' including colorb…
"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 nati…