Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration

Simone Varriale

Published by Bristol University Press 2023

Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations

Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration

Simone Varriale

In the series Decolonization and Social Worlds

https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529222722

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This book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and peripheries, and between Europe and its others. Drawing on interviews with working and middle class, white and Black Italians who moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis, the book explores the narratives of Northern meritocracy and Southern backwardness that inform migrants' motivations for moving abroad, and how these narratives are experienced within classed, racialised and gendered migrations. Connecting decolonial theory with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this book provides innovative insights into the relationships between meritocracy, coloniality and European whiteness, and into the social stratification of EU migrations.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	iv
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere to Post-Austerity Europe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
(Re)Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
The Coloniality of Belonging Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The Coloniality of Brexit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Interviewing: From Theory to Practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
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Language: English
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 192

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Published: May 4, 2023
ISBN: 9781529222722