Amelina Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe

Sociocultural Boundaries, Assemblages and Regimes of Intersection
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-134-84989-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

This book combines transnational, intersectional and cultural-sociological perspectives to develop a conceptual tool to analyze patterns, contexts and mechanisms of cross-border inequalities. First, synthesizing the theories of social boundaries and of intersectionality, it approaches patterns of social inequalities as intersectionally-produced sociocultural boundaries, with "gender," "ethnicity"/"race," "class" and several other categories being sets of unequal social relations. Cross-border inequalities are analysed as spatialized inequalities, with "space" (which includes the cross-border categories "global" and "transnational") considered as a specific type of sociocultural boundaries. Second, in line with assemblage theory, the societal contexts of cross-border inequalities such as the EU are then conceptualized as assemblages that are shaped by an interplay of spatialized and other types of inequalities. Third, the mechanisms of cross-border inequalities are analysed as "regimes of intersection" that relate spatialized cross-border inequalities to other types of unequal social relations such as gendered, ethnicized/racialized and class-related inequalities. Examples of such regimes of intersection include regulations on migration, internationalization programmes at universities, diversity policies and even family memories. To illustrate the conceptual elements developed in this way, the book provides evidence from empirical research on migration and mobility in Europe, specifically from research on recent migration between Ukraine and Germany, and addresses these developments as processes that are paradigmatic for the study of spatialized cross-border inequalities in general, and for the study of the transnationalized forms they involve in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amelina, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Transnational Capitalist Class, Mobile Elites and Global Precariat?: Facing Cross-Border Inequalities

Part I: From the Hegemony of the National to the Hegemony of (In)equality Discourses

2. Predicaments of Migration Studies on Social Inequalities: The Current State of the Research on the National, Global and Transnational Scales

3. Multiple Inequalities as Sociocultural Boundaries: Combining Intersectional Theory with the Sociology of Social Boundaries

4. Where to Locate Sociocultural Boundaries?: Social Inequalities and Their Contexts

5. From Categorical Distinctions to Sociocultural Boundaries: On Hegemonic Projects and Regimes of Intersection

Part II: Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe: The Making of Hierarchies Within Assemblages

6. The Emergence of a New Migration System in an Enlarged Europe and the Narratives of Transnationalized Inequalities

7. Multiple Professional Commitments of Mobile Scientists as a Resource of Hierarchization: On Transnationalized Boundaries Within the Assemblage of Science

8. Female Migrant Care Workers as "Prisoners of Multiple Obligations"?: Transnationalized Boundaries Within the Assemblage of Care

9. Analysing Spatialized Cross-Border Inequalities: Implications for the Future

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Amelina is a junior professor of Sociology with a focus on migration studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.