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Migration and Inequality

Author : Mirna Safi
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Published : Friday 20 December 2019
ISBN : 9781509522118
Price : €19.27


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Migration and Inequality

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In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Mirna Safi shows migration to be a mechanism of inequality and shows how studying international migration can challenge current limited, nationally established paradigms of social justice--

In a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural problems, this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Taking an innovative approach, Mirna Safi offers a fresh perspective on how migration is embedded in the elementary mechanisms that shape the landscape of inequality. She sketches out three distinct channels which lead to unequal outcomes for different migrating and non-migrating groups: the global division of labor; the production of legal and administrative categories; and the reconfiguration of symbolic ethnoracial groups. Respectively, these channels categorize migrants as type of workers, type of citizens, and type of humans. Examining this intersection across the U.S. and Europe, she shows how studying international migration together with inequality can challenge nationally established paradigms of social justice. This timely book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in the sociology and politics of migration, ethnic and racial studies, and social inequality and stratification.



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