ISBN:
9781529222722
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (205 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Varriale, Simone Coloniality and meritocracy in unequal EU migrations
DDC:
304.841045
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Migration
;
Italien
;
Großbritannien
;
Soziale Klasse
;
Wirtschaftskrise
Abstract:
Connecting decolonial theory with Bourdieu's class analysis, this book provides pioneering new insights into the social stratification of EU migrants and the relationships between neoliberalism, coloniality and European whiteness.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Meritocracy beyond the Anglosphere -- Meritocracy, coloniality and postcolonial sociology -- Meritocracy, coloniality and the European peripheries -- Meritocracy, coloniality and unequal EU migrations -- Researching unequal migrations: methodological preliminaries -- Structure of the book -- 1 The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere to Post-Austerity Europe -- Conceptualizing meritocracy -- Meritocracy, stigma, racialization -- Lived experiences of meritocracy -- From meritocracy to coloniality -- Unequal Europes and the coloniality of Italy -- Italy as a Southern sinner: post-1990s and post-austerity narratives -- Meritocracy/coloniality: a synergy between decolonial theory and Bourdieu -- Meritocracy/coloniality as doxa -- Meritocracy/coloniality as category of practice -- Meritocracy/coloniality and belonging -- Conclusion -- 2 Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions -- Meritocratic imaginaries, intra-EU migration and post-2008 Italian emigration -- Youth (working-class) migration as a space of self-exploration -- A gendered and racialized field of forces -- Unequal graduates: between fear of falling and structural privilege -- Lack of control: later working-class migrations -- Conclusion -- 3 (Re)Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations -- Adjusting meritocracy: Gabriella and the gendering of transnational cultural capital -- Meritocracy as self-fulfilling prophecy: Corrado and the gendering of transnational cultural capital -- "Sometimes I feel ungrateful": Elena and the epistemic limits of meritocracy -- Meritocracy as "feeling like anyone else": the racialized trajectories of Oliver and Eliza.
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