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Coloniality and meritocracy in unequal EU migrations : intersecting inequalities in post-2008 Italian migration /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Varriale, Simone (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social classes > European Union countries.
Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
Italians > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Meritocracy beyond the Anglosphere
  • Meritocracy, coloniality and postcolonial sociology
  • Meritocracy, coloniality and the European peripheries
  • Meritocracy, coloniality and unequal EU migrations
  • Researching unequal migrations: methodological preliminaries
  • Structure of the book
  • 1 The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere to Post-Austerity Europe
  • Conceptualizing meritocracy
  • Meritocracy, stigma, racialization
  • Lived experiences of meritocracy
  • From meritocracy to coloniality
  • Unequal Europes and the coloniality of Italy
  • Italy as a Southern sinner: post-1990s and post-austerity narratives
  • Meritocracy/coloniality: a synergy between decolonial theory and Bourdieu
  • Meritocracy/coloniality as doxa
  • Meritocracy/coloniality as category of practice
  • Meritocracy/coloniality and belonging
  • Conclusion
  • 2 Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions
  • Meritocratic imaginaries, intra-EU migration and post-2008 Italian emigration
  • Youth (working-class) migration as a space of self-exploration
  • A gendered and racialized field of forces
  • Unequal graduates: between fear of falling and structural privilege
  • Lack of control: later working-class migrations
  • Conclusion
  • 3 (Re)Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations
  • Adjusting meritocracy: Gabriella and the gendering of transnational cultural capital
  • Meritocracy as self-fulfilling prophecy: Corrado and the gendering of transnational cultural capital
  • "Sometimes I feel ungrateful": Elena and the epistemic limits of meritocracy
  • Meritocracy as "feeling like anyone else": the racialized trajectories of Oliver and Eliza
  • Dissonant meritocracy: the classed upward mobility of Grazia
  • "Everything is precarious here": the classed immobility of Maria
  • Conclusion
  • 4 The Coloniality of Belonging
  • Meritocracy, coloniality and belonging
  • Becoming Italian in England
  • Credentialized (middle-class) belonging
  • Individualized and ethnicized (working-class) belonging
  • The epistemic limits of credentialized belonging
  • The epistemic limits of individualized and ethnicized belonging
  • Conclusion
  • 5 The Coloniality of Brexit
  • Still a meritocracy? Brexit, belonging and coloniality among EU migrants
  • Meritocratic Brexit
  • Cosmopolitan (working-class) Brexit
  • Credentialized (middle-class) Brexit
  • Beyond Brexit: middle-class racial grammars
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Trajectories, capitals, fields
  • Categories of practice
  • Positionality, interviewing and recruitment
  • Social class