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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 July 2009
      17 February 2005
      ISBN:
      9780511493942
      9780521846639
      9780521609128
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511493942
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 280 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Human Rights, Sociology
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Subjects:
    Social Theory, Socio-Legal Studies, Law, Human Rights, Sociology
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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    Spain and Italy have recently become countries of large-scale immigration. This provocative book explores immigration law and the immigrant experience in these southern European nations, and exposes the tension between the temporary and contingent legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration. This book reveals that while law and the rhetoric of policymakers stress the urgency of integration, not only are they failing in that effort, but law itself plays a role in that failure. In addressing this paradox, the author combines theoretical insights and extensive data from myriad sources collected over more than a decade to demonstrate the connections among immigrants' role as cheap labor - carefully inscribed in law - and their social exclusion, criminalization, and racialization. Extrapolating from this economics of alterité, this book engages more general questions of citizenship, belonging, race and community in this global era.

    Reviews

    'Immigrants at the Margins is highly recommended.'

    Source: New Law Journal

    ' … offers a compelling view of the complex world of contemporary immigration in Italy and spain … Calavita's poignant narrative is nevertheless breathtaking …'

    Source: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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