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The aim of this study is to analyze the integration of immigrant students who participate in the school sports program from Segovia, Spain (PIDEMSG). A multiple case study, focused from an ethnographical perspective has been developed,... more

If politics is ultimately about our deepest fears and desires rather than about, say, tax policy or better health care, then what place is there for a Left whose raison d’être will always be tied to improving the economic fortunes of the... more

If politics is ultimately about our deepest fears and desires rather than about, say, tax policy or better health care, then what place is there for a Left whose raison d’être will always be tied to improving the economic fortunes of the least fortunate? One answer is to begin to outline an “economics of meaning,” where economic or class critiques are a means to channel anger, create meaning, and build solidarity rather than to implement better policy outcomes (although, of course, policy changes would be good on their own, for moral rather than necessarily electoral reasons). This requires changing standard conceptions of what elections are for and what it means to win.

This article analyses and compares the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of persons born abroad who immigrated to New York City after 1965 and still lived in the City in 1990. Using data from the 1990 Census, we classify... more

This article analyses and compares the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of persons born abroad who immigrated to New York City after 1965 and still lived in the City in 1990. Using data from the 1990 Census, we classify persons into the twenty four largest national origin groups and compare their demographic and socio-economic characteristics (sex, age, educational attainment, labour force participation, unemployment, occupation, income, and poverty). We pose and answer three empirical questions. The first question is: what are some of the main differences by national origin in the composition of persons immigrating to New York City after 1965? The second question is: what are some of the main differences in the location of post-1965 immigrants in New York's socio-economic structure? The third question is: what are some of the main differences in the economic rewards received by persons who immigrated to New York City since 1965? We find that immigrants with less than a high school education have higher labour force participation rates than the US-born population in the same educational category and also have slightly higher earnings. Immigrants with a high school degree have labour force participation rates close to (or slightly higher than) the average for the US-born population but their incomes are slightly lower than the average income for the US-born population. Immigrants with a college degree have participation rates similar or slightly lower that those of the US-born population while their earnings are significantly lower that those of US-born college graduates.

On the Shoulders of Grandmothers won the 2020 Mirra Komavrsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). Through in-depth interviews and ethnographic work with migrant grandmothers caring for the elderly in Italy and... more

On the Shoulders of Grandmothers won the 2020 Mirra Komavrsky Book Award from the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). Through in-depth interviews and ethnographic work with migrant grandmothers caring for the elderly in Italy and California and their adult children in Ukraine, On the Shoulders of Grandmothers investigates how migrant grandmothers built the “new” Ukraine from the outside in through transnational networks. By comparing the experiences of individual migrants in two different migration patterns—one a post-Soviet “exile” of individual women to Italy and the other an “exodus” of families to the United States—Dr. Solari exposes the production of new gendered capitalist economics and nationalisms that precariously place Ukraine between Europe and Russia with implications for the global world order. This global ethnography explains the larger context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Based on interviews with bureaucrats and judges in several Swiss cantons, this article analyzes how bureaucrats decide to order immigration detention and how the judicial review shapes their decisions. The authors argue that discretionary... more

Based on interviews with bureaucrats and judges in several Swiss cantons, this article analyzes how bureaucrats decide to order immigration detention and how the judicial review shapes their decisions. The authors argue that discretionary decision-making regarding immigration detention is structured by the web of relationships in which decision-makers are embedded and affected by the practices of other street-level actors. The varying cantonal configurations result in heterogenous bureaucratic practices that affect the profiles and numbers of persons being detained. In particular, differences in judges' interpretation of legal principles, as well as in their expectations, strongly affect bureaucratic decisions.

Cette étude, menée à l’initiative du ministère de l’Immigration, des Réfugiés et de la Citoyenneté du Canada (IRCC), vise à documenter les expériences des personnes immigrantes francophones vivant en situation minoritaire qui possèdent... more

Cette étude, menée à l’initiative du ministère de l’Immigration, des Réfugiés et de la Citoyenneté du Canada (IRCC), vise à documenter les expériences des personnes immigrantes francophones vivant en situation minoritaire qui possèdent une entreprise. À cet effet, nous avons réalisé 38 entretiens et sondages auprès de propriétaires d’entreprises immigrants et francophones ainsi qu’une dizaine d’entretiens auprès de parties prenantes. Les personnes interviewées partagent toutes un fort désir de liberté et d’autonomie qui les a menées à se lancer en affaires. Le réseautage, le financement et l’accompagnement sont les trois principaux défis auxquels ces personnes ont dû faire face. Ces défis semblent plus importants pour les femmes, qui vivent davantage dans l’isolement. Si l’appartenance à la communauté francophone est généralement un motif de fierté, elle est également parfois une source de frustration, du fait que les ressources en français sont plus rares ou plus difficiles d’accès. Par ailleurs, considérant que les femmes interrogées se retrouvent fréquemment dans des entreprises genrées et que les personnes nées en Afrique cherchent habituellement à mettre en valeur leur communauté d’origine, trop souvent les ressources offertes ne reconnaissent pas la particularité des besoins de ces groupes. En conclusion, nous recommandons que les ministères canadiens de l’Innovation, des Sciences et du Développement économique ainsi que des Femmes et de l’Égalité des genres s’engagent directement envers l’entrepreneuriat immigrant au sein des communautés francophones en situation minoritaire. Nous formulons également des recommandations qui s’adressent spécifiquement à IRCC. De manière générale, nous estimons que si ces deux ministères appuyaient directement l’entrepreneuriat immigrant, ils contribueraient plus efficacement à la vitalité des communautés francophones.

In this article, Dafney Blanca Dabach highlights how little is known about undocumented youth’s political socialization in formal school settings. Like all students, undocumented students are routinely placed into citizenship courses in... more

In this article, Dafney Blanca Dabach highlights how little is known about undocumented youth’s political socialization in formal school settings. Like all students, undocumented students are routinely placed into citizenship courses in the United States, yet these may be sites of marginalization and disjuncture for students who lack access to citizenship rights. Dabach investigates how one high school civics teacher and her students navigate this terrain in a mixed-citizenship setting where some youth had access to formal citizenship, and some did not. Drawing from a year-long qualitative study, Dabach argues that this case serves as an existence proof of meaningful civic education in school settings, despite barriers to formal citizenship. She demonstrates how the teacher socialized students into the practice of political letter writing while recounting local deportation narratives. The teacher breached silences that typically render undocumented students as invisible. She also integrated distinct forms of knowledge and experience: those of “illegality” with political participation. In doing so, she created a space within the classroom for simultaneously apprenticing students of different citizenship statuses into political practices. Dabach illustrates how formal civics classrooms may in fact be educative when normative assumptions about citizenship are interrupted in official classroom space.

Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi, an anthology published in Italy in 2019, comprises writing by 11 self-identified black Italian women. As the book’s title suggests, their work, mostly personal accounts of being black women in... more

Future. Il domani narrato dalle voci di oggi, an anthology published in Italy in 2019, comprises writing by 11 self-identified black Italian women. As the book’s title suggests, their work, mostly personal accounts of being black women in Italy, is forward-looking while grounded in contemporary realities: a tomorrow narrated by the voices of today. The essays also are steeped in Italian history and particularly a past that only recently has begun to be acknowledged: that of Italian empire and its African colonies. The book—the first literary anthology by black Italian women— is a political intervention, an act of resistance to the racism and anti-immigrant attitudes that have become alarmingly widespread in Italian society and politics.

Scholarship on Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) states, which have the highest proportions of migrants in the world, usually explores how they are unique in their patterns of non-citizen exclusion. However, state discourses, geographies,... more

Scholarship on Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) states, which have the highest proportions of migrants in the world, usually explores how they are unique in their patterns of non-citizen exclusion. However, state discourses, geographies, and the heterogeneity of migration to the Gulf share similar traits with contemporary nations and states. Non-citizens are, as they are everywhere, active participants in Gulf state- and nation-building projects. Aiming to advance scholarship on belonging in the GCC states, in this paper, we propose a shift in focus from exclusion to inclusion in the way research questions are asked about Gulf societies and the people who reside in them. Doing so, we suggest, requires unpacking two hegemonic concepts in the regional studies scholarship: ‘ethnocracy’ and kafala. In their current usage, both terms have become ‘black boxed’, or reified, such that scholars have largely come to accept and reproduce the exceptionalism of the Gulf and refrain from asking a number of critical questions about the region, which might highlight the GCC states' fundamental normalcy. Through a reflexive approach that draws from our own previous and current research in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, we suggest ways that we might move beyond the rigidity of exclusion-centred narratives about the Gulf and instead consider the various ways that Gulf nationalisms themselves hail the non-citizen presence, and how non-citizens participate in discourses and practices of nationalism as well as statecraft in ways that cannot be reduced to nationality, class, race, or religion.

After a historical overview of migration within Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall (Minnucci), this collection of essays addresses Mediterranean issues: the case of Ceuta and Melilla (Sagnella), the relationship between Tunisia and... more

After a historical overview of migration within Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall (Minnucci), this collection of essays addresses Mediterranean issues: the case of Ceuta and Melilla (Sagnella), the relationship between Tunisia and the European Union (Gerli), the changes in North Africa from the Arab Spring to the Islamic State (Musso), the Lampedusa case (Strano), some European Models of citizenship (Turco), a focus on female genital mutilation/cutting in the context of migration (Faraca) and another one on the representation of immigrants in Italian Media (Elbreki). This collection of essays by young researchers analyzes, through various innovative approaches, the role of the Mediterranean and migration experiences.

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. This collection is designed for... more

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in US history. This collection is designed for courses on Latina/o history.

This conceptual paper analyzes Donald Trump's presidential campaign to illustrate how articulatory practices of racist nativism exhibit a virulent adherence to white supremacy that opens the discursive doors of public discourse to engage... more

This conceptual paper analyzes Donald Trump's presidential campaign
to illustrate how articulatory practices of racist nativism exhibit a virulent adherence to
white supremacy that opens the discursive doors of public discourse to engage in more overt and violent practices of racism that target People of Color in the U.S. I argue that the wide-spread support of Donald Trump by U.S. voters is a white supremacist response to changing U.S. demographics from a historically white to inevitably non-white population, and perceived as a "threat" to white social status and power.

What does it mean, in the specific and daily context of K-College classrooms, to honor students’ languages? How can students be empowered to use their linguistic backgrounds to develop new knowledge? Why and in what ways can community... more

What does it mean, in the specific and daily context of K-College classrooms, to honor students’ languages? How can students be empowered to use their linguistic backgrounds to develop new knowledge? Why and in what ways can community knowledge be incorporated into teaching? Can the complexities of race, class, multilingualism, and cultural difference be tackled in a kindergarten classroom? How can family history play a meaningful role in learning? And what are the alternatives
for educators who teach in contexts where bilingual education is not officially endorsed (and is sometimes in fact prohibited)? Rethinking Bilingual Education offers 43 innovative examples of pedagogies and approaches in bilingual education implemented by a variety of skillful educators, whose experiences range from elementary teaching to community activism, both in the United States and abroad.

"Guavas for Dummies, American Jíbaras, & Postnational Autonomy: When I Was Puerto Rican in the Hemispheric Turn" (2019) re-engages this text after I taught it in Puerto Rico four years. In this 2009 essay, Santiago’s memoir is said to... more

"Guavas for Dummies, American Jíbaras, & Postnational Autonomy: When I Was Puerto Rican in the Hemispheric Turn" (2019) re-engages this text after I taught it in Puerto Rico four years. In this 2009 essay, Santiago’s memoir is said to bridge U.S. and Caribbean lit. WIWPR begins with a remembered Puerto Rico, and ends in the author’s adulthood in the USA. Studying Santiago’s text within a trajectory of immigrant narratives familiarizes the text to readers who are often processing their own entries into the US / its cultural orbit. This essay examines Santiago’s representation of jibaros, a subculture whose place in in Puerto Rico parallels the conflicted relationship many Jamaicans have with Rastafarians. Also, the theme of “Translating and Resisting Imperialism” is developed through a close reading of the chapter “The American Invasion of MacÚn.” Santiago’s treatment of gender roles in her family is also explored.

En este artículo se pretende dar un ejemplo práctico de cómo crear materiales multimedia (con el programa MALTED, del Ministerio de Educación español) para la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua en Educación Primaria. La continua... more

En este artículo se pretende dar un ejemplo práctico de cómo crear materiales multimedia (con el programa MALTED, del Ministerio de Educación español) para la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua en Educación Primaria. La continua llegada de inmigrantes a España, en la mayor parte de los casos de países en vías de desarrollo con hijos en edad escolar reclama la adopción de nuevas perspectivas a la hora de enseñar la lengua en el sistema educativo español. Debe enseñarse a los alumnos el manejo de las nuevas tecnologías, a la vez que se sigue un enfoque comunicativo al enseñar la lengua. Este proyecto fue desarrollado durante el curso 2010-2011 en la Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, España.

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is a transdisciplinary family of theoretical and methodological approaches, focusing on the analysis and critique of discursive practices in relation to broader ideological processes, as well as the... more

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) is a transdisciplinary family of theoretical and methodological approaches, focusing on the analysis and critique of discursive practices in relation to broader
ideological processes, as well as the material conditions that shape and are shaped by them (see Wodak and Meyer, 2016; Flowerdew and Richardson, 2017). A CDS approach can be seen as an extension of the Critical Linguistics framework (Fowler et al., 1979; Kress and Hodge, 1979) that developed in and out of Western European contexts. The main premise of the analyses developed from this perspective considers language not as a neutral descriptor of reality, but as
an important instrument in the structuring of power relations in societies. Consequently, CDS strives to uncover how the legitimation of particular control mechanisms occurs, among others, through specific linguistic practices. In spite of its Western European core, and due to its decidedly problem- oriented nature, as well as the constant refinement and broadening of its analytical tools, CDS has progressively become appealing to the larger European continent, as well as to other Western and non- Western contexts such as the US, Australia, or China (Shi-
Xu, 1999; Tracy et al., 2011).

The major aim of this article is to examine how migrations affect private governance, taking as a case study the Prud'homie de pêche, a private order that has governed the fishery of Marseille for the past six centuries. Scholarship... more

The major aim of this article is to examine how migrations affect private governance, taking as a case study the Prud'homie de pêche, a private order that has governed the fishery of Marseille for the past six centuries. Scholarship generally argues that social norms guarantee the efficiency of private orders and their ability to resist the arrival of newcomers. My data suggests that the Prud'homie has failed to accommodate social changes prompted by migratory flows, not despite but because of its social norms. This paper suggests that social norms are not only powerful tools of governance for private orders, but also forces of inertia that can prevent these orders from accommodating social changes.

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Tourism and Immigration on first brush seem like an odd combination to share a governance webpage. However think of it as temporary and permanent visitors to our region. At any rate I have a letter posted below that highlights the... more

Tourism and Immigration on first brush seem like an odd combination to share a governance webpage. However think of it as temporary and permanent visitors to our region. At any rate I have a letter posted below that highlights the critical shortcoming of Nova Scotia’s governance on both matters, and it is my hope that via self-governance the Province of C.B.I. can turn a mismanaged shortcoming into a strategic comparative advantage and thus essentially tourism and immigration prospectively represent 2 key platform areas for growth of our future new province.

According to the latest data from United Nations population Fund-UNFPA-in 2015, 244 million people, or 3.3 per cent of the world's population lived outside their country of origin. A number of these migrants are skilled and educated... more

According to the latest data from United Nations population Fund-UNFPA-in 2015, 244 million people, or 3.3 per cent of the world's population lived outside their country of origin. A number of these migrants are skilled and educated women. This movement usually occurs from developing to developed countries in the world like the US, the UK, Germany, England and so on, to achieve new opportunities and a better life. Iran is a developing country, which is suffering from this serious issue. The aim of this study is to identify the causes of Iranian female students' immigration to developed countries from the perspective of female students of Al-Zahra University. The present qualitative study included 20 master and doctoral female students who were completing their degree programs at this University, through purposive sampling. Data was collected via in-depth, semi structured interviews which were audio-recorded and analyzed by Content analysis method. The main themes and sub-themes were " Economic " (including Unemployment, Low income, Inconsistency between field of education and jobs, Gender discrimination in employment and payments delays), " Educational " (Lack of proper facilities in university, professors' lack of knowledge, lack of public respect for well-educated people in society, and Women's restrictions in selecting certain academic disciplines), " Socio-political " (Limitation of individual freedom, political pressure, Lack of freedom of speech) and " Personal and Familial " Issues (marriage and parental related factors). The findings present a deeper understanding of the main causes of female migration and why these educated women are less likely to return to Iran.

Background: The World Health Organization adopted the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health Workforce 2030 in May 2016. It sets specific milestones for improving health workforce planning in member countries, such as developing a... more

Background: The World Health Organization adopted the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health Workforce 2030 in May 2016. It sets specific milestones for improving health workforce planning in member countries, such as developing a health workforce registry by 2020 and ensuring workforce self-sufficiency by halving dependency on foreign-trained health professionals. Canada falls short in achieving these milestones due to the absence of such a registry and a poor understanding of immigrants in the health workforce, particularly nursing and healthcare support occupations. This paper provides a multiscale (Canada, Ontario, and Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks) overview of immigrant participation in nursing and health care support occupations, discusses associated enumeration challenges, and the implications for health workforce planning focusing on immigrants.Methods: Descriptive data analysis was performed on Canadian Institute for Health Information dataset for 2010 ...