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Immigrant Vulnerability and Resilience
This book explores how the current sustained economic slow-down in North America and Europe has increased immigrant vulnerability in the labor market and in their daily lives. It details the ways this global recession has affected the immigrants themselves, their identities, as well as their countries of origin. The book presents an interdisciplinary dialogue as well as offer a transatlantic comparative perspective. It first focuses on the immediate effects of the Great Recession on immigrants’ employment. Next, it connects the experience of immigrants in the labor market with their experiences in the social arena in receiving societies. Coverage also explores the effects of the economic d...
Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema
In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas Deveny takes the unique approach of looking at film and immigration with a global perspective, examining emigration and immigration films from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Central America, and the Hispanic Caribbean. Deveny approaches each movie with a close textual analysis, keeping in mind the sociological theories regarding migration, as well as incorporating criticism on the film. Films such as Flowers from Another World, Return to Hansala, El Camino, 14 Kilometers, María Full of Grace, and others are studied throughout.
Migration in an Era of Restriction and Recession
We live in an age of global migration. The number of immigrants worldwide is large and growing. At the same time, public and political reactions against immigrants have grown in the US, the UK, Canada, and other traditional and non-traditional receiving nations. In response to this trend, this book assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to better understand two dimensions of contemporary immigration policy – a growing enforcement and restriction regime in receiving nations, and the subsequent effects on sending nations. It begins with three background chapters on immigration politics and policies in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. This is followed by eleven chapters about ...
The Archive Project
Recent scholarship on archival research has raised questions concerning the character and impact of 'the archive' on how the traces of the past are researched, the use and analysis of different kinds of archived data, methodological approaches to the practicalities involved, and what kind of theory is drawn on and contributed to by such research. The Archive Project: Archival Research in the Social Sciences builds on these questions, exploring key methodological ideas and debates and engaging in detail with a wide range of archival projects and practices, in order to put to use important theoretical ideas that shed light on the methods involved. Offering an overview of the current 'state of ...
Sewing, Fighting and Writing
Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were mobilized early in the twentieth century, Paris was the stage of vibrant revolutions and uprisings throughout the nineteenth century. As a consequence, French women workers were radicalized much earlier, creating a unique and unprecedented moment in both labour and feminist history. Seamstresses were central figures in the socio-political and cultural events of nineteenth and early twentieth century France but their stories and political writings have remained marginalized and obscured. Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished documents from the industrial revolution, ‘Sewing, Fighting and Writing’ is a foucauldian genealogy of the Parisian seamstress. Looking at the assemblage of radical practices in work, politics and culture, it explores the constitution of the self of the seamstress in the era of early industrialization and revolutionary events and considers her contribution to the socio-political and cultural formations in modernity.
Pancho Villa
A wild ride and revealing portrait of the controversial Pancho Villa, one of Mexico’s most beloved (or loathed) heroes, that finally establishes the importance of his role in the triumph of the Mexican Revolution, by renowned writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. The last biography of Pancho Villa was published 25 years ago, and this new edition has been translated into English for the first time. This biography marks a kind of reinvention of the legendary Mexican figure of Pancho Villa. It is a masterful reevaluation and heavily researched account of his life. This book makes a new claim, finally giving Pancho Villa his due as the decisive figure in the success of Mexican Revolution. Here he is l...
España 2015
Desde la segunda mitad del siglo pasado, cuando la sociedad española comenzó a consolidar su proceso de modernización, ha existido en España una larga tradición de estudios generales sobre la estructura social española. Este libro, realizado por el Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), como institución fundamental en la sociología de nuestro país, es heredero de esta tradición. Editada y coordinada por Cristóbal Torres Albero, Catedrático de Sociología de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, la presente obra lleva a cabo un análisis longitudinal exhaustivo de la estructura y situación social española, muy especialmente a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas, un perio...
Baloncesto y racismo
El 25 de mayo de 2020, un agente de policía asesinó a George Floyd. La dureza de las imágenes, en lo denominado por muchos como “un linchamiento moderno a plena luz del día”, llevó a los jugadores y jugadoras de la NBA y la WNBA a hacer públicas sus posturas sobre lo ocurrido y, sobre todo, sus experiencias con el racismo. Se abría así la puerta a que millones de seguidores de estos deportistas escucharan de primera mano testimonios sobre una realidad que la mayoría de la población blanca desconoce o minimiza. Pablo Muñoz Rojo busca acercarse al racismo a través de la industria del baloncesto, sobre todo de Estados Unidos, pero también de España. Y lo hace aprovechando un c...
Immigration and Citizenship in an Enlarged European Union
A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian migrants and the Roma minority in Italy and Spain.
