Full Description
Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities. Bringing together leading cultural anthropologists, Digesting Difference offers a series of ethnographic studies that show incorporation to be a process rooted in the everyday encounters and exchanges between strangers, friends, lovers, neighbors, parents, workers, and others. Rich in ethnographic detail and ambitious in its theorizing, the volume tells the stories of Europe's transformative engagement with sociocultural difference in the wake of migration associated with EU expansion, the Eurozone meltdown, and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. It promises to be essential reading for scholars and students of cultural anthropology, migration, integration, and European studies.
Contents
1. Migrants, Refugees, and Incorporation in Europe: An Introduction; Kelly Mckowen and John Borneman.- 2. The German Welfare State as a Holding Environment for Refugees: A Case Study of Incorporation; John Borneman.- 3. Accepting Germans: An Ethnographic Exploration of Refugee Integration in Berlin; Jagat Sohail.- 4. The Erotic in Foreigner Incorporation: First Encounters between Germans and Syrians; Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi.- 5. The Everyday, "Ordinary" Citizens, and Ambiguous Affect in Antwerp; Anick Vollebergh.- 6. Hierarchical Forms of Belonging in an Egalitarian Society; Synnøve Bendixsen and Hilde Danielsen.- 7. "Cut and Sew": Migration, Crisis, and Belonging in an Italian Fast-Fashion Zone; Elizabeth L. Krause.- 8. The Power of the Bowels: A Visceral Afro-Pentecostal Critique of Italian Afrophobia; Annalisa Butticci.- 9. Workers for Free: Precarious Inclusion and Extended Uncertainty among Afghan Refugees in Denmark; Mikkel Rytter and Narges Ghandchi.- 10. Expulsion or Differential Inclusion?: Governing Undocumented Migrants in France; Stefan Le Courant.- 11. Solidarity in Greece and the Management of Difference; Heath Cabot.- 12. Afterword;' Steven Vertovec.
