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Coloniality and meritocracy in unequal EU migrations : intersecting inequalities in post-2008 Italian migration /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Varriale, Simone (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • Dissonant meritocracy: the classed upward mobility of Grazia
  • "Everything is precarious here": the classed immobility of Maria
  • Conclusion
  • 4 The Coloniality of Belonging
  • Meritocracy, coloniality and belonging
  • Becoming Italian in England
  • Credentialized (middle-class) belonging
  • Individualized and ethnicized (working-class) belonging
  • The epistemic limits of credentialized belonging
  • The epistemic limits of individualized and ethnicized belonging
  • Conclusion
  • 5 The Coloniality of Brexit
  • Still a meritocracy? Brexit, belonging and coloniality among EU migrants
  • Meritocratic Brexit
  • Cosmopolitan (working-class) Brexit
  • Credentialized (middle-class) Brexit
  • Beyond Brexit: middle-class racial grammars
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Trajectories, capitals, fields
  • Categories of practice
  • Positionality, interviewing and recruitment
  • Social class