Boundaries within: Nation, Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities

This volume investigates the relationship between migration, identity, kinship and population. It uncovers the institutional practices of categorization as well as the conducts and the ethics adopted by social actors that create divisions between citizens and non-citizens, migrants and their descend...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Decimo, Francesca (Editor), Gribaldo, Alessandra (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesIMISCOE Research Series,
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319533315
ISSN2364-4087
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53331-5
Physical DescriptionVI, 209 p. 2 illus. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION: Nation, Migration and Kinship through Identity Categorization: Francesca Decimo and Alessandra Gribaldo
  • The Perils of Reification: Identity Categories and Identity Construction in Migration Research: David I. Kertzer
  • I. BUILDING THE NATION THROUGH FRONTIERS AND CLASSIFICATIONS: The Uninvited Migrant, the 'Autochtoon' and the 'Allochtoon' in the Netherlands: Jeroen Doomernik
  • The Politics of Racial Disproportionality of the Child Welfare System in New York: Viola Castellano
  • Childbirth on Europe's Ultra-Periphery: Maternity Care, French Universalism and Equivocal Identities on the Maroni River, French Guiana.: Vanessa Grotti
  • Migrant Incorporation in South Tyrol and Essentialized Local Identities: Dorothy L. Zinn
  • II. WEAVING KINSHIP AND SHAPING identities IN GLOBAL MOBILITY: Rethinking Kinship, Mobility and Citizenship across the Ethiopian-Eritrean Boundaries: Aurora Massa
  • Male Adulthood and 'Self'-Legalizing Practices among Young Moroccan Migrants in Turin, Italy: Alice Rossi
  • Structural Restrictions and Personal Desires: Arranged Marriages between Punjab and Italy: Barbara Bertolani
  • When Politics meet Marriage: The Changes of Marriage Practices among Migrated Yi Cadres in Liangshan, China: Zhitian Guo
  • CONCLUSIONS: Key Remarks and Research Notes on National Boundaries, Kinship and Migration: Francesca Decimo and Alessandra Gribaldo.