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Informationen zum Autor Davide Però is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nottingham where he convenes the Identity, Citizenship and Migration Centre. Previously he was a Researcher at the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford. He has conducted ethnographic research on politics and migrants in Britain, Italy and Spain and is currently interested in migrants' practices of citizenship and policy change from below. He is the author of the monograph Inclusionary Rhetoric/Exclusionary Practices: Left-wing Politics and Migrants in Italy (Berghahn, 2007) and of several journal articles. John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at City University London. Before that he was Professor of Sociology at South Bank University, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Southampton, and has worked at the ESRC Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Aston and Warwick and the Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Klappentext The book examines issues of change and impact in migrants and minorities' civic and political practices. It draws on theoretically informed, engaged and detail-rich case studies from a number British, European and North American experiences. It was published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Zusammenfassung The book examines issues of change and impact in migrants and minorities’ civic and political practices. It draws on theoretically informed, engaged and detail-rich case studies from a number British, European and North American experiences. It was published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Migrant Politics and Mobilisation: Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation Davide Però and John Solomos 2. Immigrant Political Incorporation: Comparing Success in the United States and Europe John Mollenkopf and Jennifer Hochschild 3. The ‘British jihad’ and the curves of religious violence Chetan Bhatt 4. Mobilizing Migrants, Making Citizens: Migrant Domestic Workers as Political Agents Bridget Anderson 5. Transnational Political Practices of Colombians in Spain and the United Kingdom: Politics ‘Here’ and ‘There’ Anastasia Bermudez 6. Mobilisation and Disengagement: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs in Urban France Winnie Lem 7. Temporary economic migration and rights activism – an organizational perspective Nicola Piper 8. Contemporary Grammars of Political Action among Ethnic Minority Young Activists Therese O’Toole and Richard Gale ...
