Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations
Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration
Seiten
2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2270-8 (ISBN)
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2270-8 (ISBN)
Connecting decolonial theory with Bourdieu's class analysis, this book provides pioneering new insights into the social stratification of EU migrants and the relationships between neoliberalism, coloniality and European whiteness.
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.
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.
Simone Varriale is Lecturer of Sociology at Loughborough University.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 02.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Decolonization and Social Worlds |
| Zusatzinfo | 8 Tables, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5292-2270-2 / 1529222702 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5292-2270-8 / 9781529222708 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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