Full Description
The immigrants profiled in The Immigrant Other shed light on a system designed to dehumanize and disenfranchise them, and they describe the difficulty of finding shelter in an increasingly globalized and unsympathetic world. They include Muslims facing discrimination from both the "War on Terror" and the "War on Immigration," Latino day laborers, Filipino immigrants supporting themselves and their families back home, and Brazilian parents terrified of being separated from their naturalized children. Immigrants living in Spain, Australia, Greece, and Qatar are also represented, showcasing the similarities and differences in the treatment of immigrants worldwide. Each chapter in this anthology pairs a description of specific state, national, and transnational immigration laws and regulations with the testimony of individuals struggling to find legitimacy and sanctuary among them.
Contents
1. Introduction: Multiple Truths and Privileged Collaborations in a Transnational World, by Rich Furman, Greg Lamphear, Doug Epps, and Iman Ujaama 2. National Insecurities: The Apprehension of Criminal and Fugitive Aliens, by Tanya Golash-Boza 3. Unexpected Asylums, Tenuous Futures: Held in Abeyance at a State Psychiatric Institute, by Nora J. Kenworthy 4. Criminalization of Transgender Immigrants: The Case of Scarlett, by Nadine Nakamura and Alejandro Morales 5. Criminalization of Muslim American Men in the United States, by Saher Selod 6. Immigrants Organize Against Everyday Life Victimization, by Kathleen Staudt and Josiah Heyman 7. Undocumented Latino Migrant Day Laborers in the San Francisco Bay Area: Psychosocial, Economic, and Political Consequences, by Kurt C. Organista, Lobsang Marcia, Carlos Martinez, Miguel Acala, and Jose Ramirez 8. "It's Like You Are a Criminal": Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Detention, by Connie Oxford 9. Hybrid Governance and the Criminalization of Somali Refugees Seeking Social Services in a Midwestern Town, by Cynthia Howson and Ashley Damp 10. Filipina Lives: Transnationalism, Migrant Labor, and Experiences of Criminalization in the United States, by Valerie Francisco, Geleen Abenoja, and Angelica Lim 11. The Criminalization of Brazilian Immigrants, by Kara Cebulko and Heloisa Maria Galvao 12. Living with Drug Lords and Mules in New York: Contrasting Colombian Criminality and Transnational Belonging, by Ariana Ochoa Camacho 13. Mexico's Transmigrants: Between Los Zetas and the Iron Fist of the State, by Sonja Wolf 14. Stigmatized, Segregated, Essential: The Position of Immigrant Live-In Care Workers Vis-a-Vis Formal Social Work Provision in Italy, by Paolo Boccagni 15. Immigrants' Experiences with Law Enforcement Authorities in Spain Maria Aysa-Lastra 16. Creating Criminals: Australia's Response to Asylum Seekers and Refugees, by Linda Briskman and Lucy Fiske 17. Longing to Belong: Undocumented Youth, Institutional Invisibility, and Ambivalent Belonging in Canada, by Francesca Meloni 18. Migrants and Justice in Qatar: Time, Mobility, Language, and Ethnography, by Andrew Gardner, Silvia Pessoa, and Laura Harkness 19. Resistance to the Criminalization of Migration: Migrant Protest in Greece, by Georgios Karyotis and Dimitris Skleparis Index
