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Auteur(s) : Massey, Douglas S.
Sanchez R., Magaly
Titre(s) : Brokered boundaries [Texte imprimé] : creating immigrant identity in anti-immigrant times / Douglas S. Massey and Magaly Sánchez R.
Publication : New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2010
Description matérielle : 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Constructing immigrant identity ; Roots and motivations ; The rise of anti-immigrant
times ; World of work ; Dreams and disappointments ; Transnational options ; Verbalizing
identity ; Visualizing identity ; Identity, integration, and the future.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-291) and index
Anti-immigrant sentiment reached a fever pitch after 9/11, but its origins go back
much further. Public rhetoric aimed at exposing a so-called invasion of Latino immigrants
has been gaining ground for more than three decades, and fueling increasingly restrictive
federal immigration policy. Accompanied by a flagging U.S. economy, record-level joblessness,
bankruptcy, and income inequality, as well as waning consumer confidence, these conditions
signaled one of the most hostile environments for immigrants in recent memory. In
this book the authors untangle the complex political, social, and economic conditions
underlying the rise of xenophobia in U.S. society. The book draws on in-depth interviews
with Latin American immigrants in metropolitan New York and Philadelphia and, in their
own words and images, reveals what life is like for immigrants attempting to integrate
in anti-immigrant times. What do the social categories "Latino" and "American" actually
mean to today's immigrants? This book analyzes how first and second generation immigrants
from Central and South America and the Caribbean navigate these categories and their
associated meanings as they make their way through U.S. society. The authors argue
that the mythos of immigration, in which newcomers gradually shed their respective
languages, beliefs, and cultural practices in favor of a distinctly American way of
life, is, in reality, a process of negotiation between new arrivals and native-born
citizens. Natives control interactions with outsiders by creating institutional, social,
psychological, and spatial mechanisms that delimit immigrants' access to material
resources and even social status. Immigrants construct identities based on how they
perceive and respond to these social boundaries. The authors make clear that today's
Latino immigrants are brokering boundaries in the context of unprecedented economic
uncertainty, repressive anti-immigrant legislation, and a heightening fear that upward
mobility for immigrants translates into downward mobility for the native-born. Despite
an absolute decline in Latino immigration, immigration-related statutes have tripled
in recent years, including many that further shred the safety net for legal permanent
residents as well as the undocumented. This book shows that although Latin American
immigrants come from many different countries, their common reception in a hostile
social environment produces an emergent Latino identity soon after arrival. During
anti-immigrant times, however, the longer immigrants stay in America, the more likely
they are to experience discrimination and the less likely they are to identify as
Americans
Sujet(s) : Latino-Américains -- Migrations -- États-Unis
Latino-Américains -- Identité collective -- États-Unis
Discrimination raciale -- États-Unis
Émigration et immigration -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780871545794 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0871545799 (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780871545800
(pbk.). - ISBN 0871545802 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43552908h
Notice n° :
FRBNF43552908
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