Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States
edited by Deborah Reed-Danahay and Caroline B. Brettell
Rutgers University Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-8135-4330-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-7780-7 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-4329-1 Library of Congress Classification JV6477.C58 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 323.32912094
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Immigration is continuously and rapidly changing the face of Western countries. While newcomers are harbingers of change, host nations also participate in how new populations are incorporated into their social and political fabric.
Bringing together a transcontinental group of anthropologists, this book provides an in-depth look at the current processes of immigration, political behavior, and citizenship in both the United States and Europe. Essays draw on issues of race, national identity, religion, and more, while addressing questions, including: How should citizenship be defined? In what ways do immigrants use the political process to achieve group aims? And, how do adults and youth learn to become active participants in the public sphere?
Among numerous case studies, examples include instances of racialized citizenship in “Algerian France,” Ireland’s new citizenship laws in response to asylum-seeking mothers, the role of Evangelical Christianity in creating a space for the construction of an identity that transcends state borders, and the Internet as one of the new public spheres for the expression of citizenship, be it local, national, or global.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
DEBORAH REED-DANAHAY is a professor of anthropology at SUNY at Buffalo.
CAROLINE B. BRETTEL is a Dedman Family Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Deborah Reed-Danahay and Caroline B. Brettell
Part I: Inclusion and Exclusion: Discourses of Belonging
One: Kabyle Immigrant Politics and Racialized Citizenship in France
Paul A. Silverstein
Two: On Belonging in/to Italy: Citizenship and the "Immigration Problem"
Flavia Stanley
Three: The Irish Citizenship Referendum (2004): Motherhood and Belonging in Ireland
Ang¿le Smith
Four: From the "Imagined Community" to "Communities of Practice": Immigrant Belonging among Vietnamese Americans
Deborah Reed-Danahay
Part II: Political Mobilization and Claims-Making
Five: Migrants' Mobilization and Anthropology. Reflections from the Experience of Latin Americans in the U.K.
Davide Per¿
Six: Odyssean Refugees, Migrants and Power: Construction of the "Other" and Civic Participation within the Polish Community in the U.K.
Michal Garapich
Seven: Origin Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Anti-Racist Mobilizations in France
Robert Gibb
Eight: "Call us Vote People": Citizenship, Migration and Transnational Politics in Haitian and Mexican Locations
Karen E. Richman
Part III: New Spaces of Citizenship
Nine: Globalization and Citizenship: The Chinese in Silicon Valley
Bernard Wong
Ten: "Shout for the Lord Has Given You the City": Global Christianity and Immigrant Simultaneous Incorporation
Nina Glick-Schiller and Ayse Caglar
Eleven: Immigrants as Netizens: Political Mobilization in Cyberspace
Caroline B. Brettell
Afterword: Some Concluding Reflections Nancy Foner
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States
edited by Deborah Reed-Danahay and Caroline B. Brettell
Rutgers University Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-8135-4330-7 eISBN: 978-0-8135-7780-7 Cloth: 978-0-8135-4329-1
Immigration is continuously and rapidly changing the face of Western countries. While newcomers are harbingers of change, host nations also participate in how new populations are incorporated into their social and political fabric.
Bringing together a transcontinental group of anthropologists, this book provides an in-depth look at the current processes of immigration, political behavior, and citizenship in both the United States and Europe. Essays draw on issues of race, national identity, religion, and more, while addressing questions, including: How should citizenship be defined? In what ways do immigrants use the political process to achieve group aims? And, how do adults and youth learn to become active participants in the public sphere?
Among numerous case studies, examples include instances of racialized citizenship in “Algerian France,” Ireland’s new citizenship laws in response to asylum-seeking mothers, the role of Evangelical Christianity in creating a space for the construction of an identity that transcends state borders, and the Internet as one of the new public spheres for the expression of citizenship, be it local, national, or global.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
DEBORAH REED-DANAHAY is a professor of anthropology at SUNY at Buffalo.
CAROLINE B. BRETTEL is a Dedman Family Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Deborah Reed-Danahay and Caroline B. Brettell
Part I: Inclusion and Exclusion: Discourses of Belonging
One: Kabyle Immigrant Politics and Racialized Citizenship in France
Paul A. Silverstein
Two: On Belonging in/to Italy: Citizenship and the "Immigration Problem"
Flavia Stanley
Three: The Irish Citizenship Referendum (2004): Motherhood and Belonging in Ireland
Ang¿le Smith
Four: From the "Imagined Community" to "Communities of Practice": Immigrant Belonging among Vietnamese Americans
Deborah Reed-Danahay
Part II: Political Mobilization and Claims-Making
Five: Migrants' Mobilization and Anthropology. Reflections from the Experience of Latin Americans in the U.K.
Davide Per¿
Six: Odyssean Refugees, Migrants and Power: Construction of the "Other" and Civic Participation within the Polish Community in the U.K.
Michal Garapich
Seven: Origin Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Anti-Racist Mobilizations in France
Robert Gibb
Eight: "Call us Vote People": Citizenship, Migration and Transnational Politics in Haitian and Mexican Locations
Karen E. Richman
Part III: New Spaces of Citizenship
Nine: Globalization and Citizenship: The Chinese in Silicon Valley
Bernard Wong
Ten: "Shout for the Lord Has Given You the City": Global Christianity and Immigrant Simultaneous Incorporation
Nina Glick-Schiller and Ayse Caglar
Eleven: Immigrants as Netizens: Political Mobilization in Cyberspace
Caroline B. Brettell
Afterword: Some Concluding Reflections Nancy Foner
Bibliography
Contributors
Index