Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations

Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2270-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

This book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and peripheries, and between Europe and its others.

Drawing on interviews with working and middle class, white and Black Italians who moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis, the book explores the narratives of Northern meritocracy and Southern backwardness that inform migrants' motivations for moving abroad, and how these narratives are experienced within classed, racialised and gendered migrations.

Connecting decolonial theory with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this book provides innovative insights into the relationships between meritocracy, coloniality and European whiteness, and into the social stratification of EU migrations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varriale, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere To Post-Austerity Europe

2 Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions

3 (Re)imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations

4 The Coloniality of Belonging

5 The Coloniality of Brexit

Conclusion

Methodological Appendix

References

Über Autor(innen)

Varriale, Simone
Simone Varriale is Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University, UK.

Simone Varriale is Lecturer of Sociology at Loughborough University.