Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Legal framework and the wayward “legs of law”
- 3 “Useful invaders”: the economics of alterité
- 4 Integrating the “Other”
- 5 The Everyday dynamics of exclusion: work, health, and housing
- 6 Fuel on the fire: politics, crime, and racialization
- 7 Conclusion: immigrants and other strangers in the global marketplace
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Legal framework and the wayward “legs of law”
- 3 “Useful invaders”: the economics of alterité
- 4 Integrating the “Other”
- 5 The Everyday dynamics of exclusion: work, health, and housing
- 6 Fuel on the fire: politics, crime, and racialization
- 7 Conclusion: immigrants and other strangers in the global marketplace
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We are discovering the richness that diversity brings … We are dedicated to the effort of integrating immigrants into Spanish society.
Director-General of the Spanish Institute of Migration and Social ServicesLegal immigration that is integrated into the economic and social fabric … is a precious resource.
Italian Minister of the InteriorWe don't work with immigrants of color.
Sign posted in apartment rental agency, Parma, ItalyOn February 5, 2000, a group of local men in the Spanish province of Almería set up barricades across the roads leading to the remote agricultural town of El Ejido. Then they stormed the neighborhoods of North African farmworkers, burned tires, turned over cars, and ransacked a Muslim butchershop. The rampage continued for days, as locals armed with knives, rocks, crowbars, and baseball bats set fire to immigrants' homes, stores, and cars, and went on a “caza del moro.” By the time it was over, more than seventy people had been injured and hundreds of immigrant farmworkers left homeless.
A year later, in the small, southern Italian town of Salandra, angry nationals attacked an orphanage where thirty-one Albanian children were staying. Crying “Lynch the Albanians!” and carrying rocks and clubs, the mob of five hundred people was outraged that some Albanian boys “had looked at” local girls during a neighborhood get-together.
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- Immigrants at the MarginsLaw, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe, pp. 1 - 21Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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