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"Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, a…
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, an…
A cardboard suitcase and a backpack: Northeastern migrations to Sao Paulo in the 1950s -- Land of the Northeasterners: migration, urbanization, and factory work in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Worker community and everyday life: "becoming Northeastern" in Sao Paulo -- The right to pra…
"For years critical theorists and Foucauldian biopolitical theorists have argued against the Aristotelian idea that life and politics inhabit two separate domains. In the context of receding social security systems and increasing economic inequality, within contemporary liberal …
This text uses Marxism's lost insights and reinterprets them in the current context by focusing on one particular section of the international working class - refugees and asylum seekers in Britain.
Ingenious citizenship : appropriating the liberal citizenship script -- Migrant domestic workers, hidden tactics, and appropriating political citizenship -- Global sex workers, calculated abjection, and appropriating economic citizenship -- Trans people, morphing technologies, a…
In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences and actions of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of mainstream models of social change. Bridging cultural and political theory with analyses of fi…
"Despite widespread scepticism in receiving societies, migrants often remain loyal to their former homeland and stay active in the politics there. "Beyond Dutch borders" is about such ties. Combining extensive fieldwork with quantitative data, this book compares how transnationa…
"Despite widespread scepticism in receiving societies, migrants often remain loyal to their former homeland and stay active in the politics there. "Beyond Dutch borders" is about such ties. Combining extensive fieldwork with quantitative data, this book compares how transnationa…
Debates on immigrant integration are often caught up in what academics and politicians like to call 'national models of integration'. Researchers and policymakers long for common ground. In the Netherlands, their symbiosis is fed by multiculturalism, something for which Dutch so…