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Social Text (2023) 41 (3 (156)): 1–34.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of criminalization and mass incarceration and thus articulated as a project of prison abolitionism. Importantly, migrant detention and deportation comprise another major pillar of the entrenchment of the carceral state. While critical migration scholarship and No Borders activism have been confronted...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 75–102.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to critically formulate the European Question, as a problem of postcolonial whiteness, from the vantage point of the racialized conditions of the migrants who are literally making Europe anew. ©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses 2016 Europe migration race whiteness postcolonial...
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Social Text (2012) 30 (2 (111)): 1–20.
Published: 01 June 2012
... a confusion of subject and object; the bodies in the picture seem to have become freighted goods. In this respect, the bodies 6 Connell ∙ Imagining Embodied Labor in Visualizations of Migration Figure 1. Migrants hiding inside a truck photographed by x-­ray surveillance...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 61–82.
Published: 01 December 2023
... loss of life in the Mediterranean such that it is these tragedies which appear to be referenced as a crisis, and migrants, those who face that crisis. Yet “crisis” tends to shift, instead coming to name the very arrival of migrants to Europe. In this case, migration itself appears as a crisis...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 13–33.
Published: 01 September 2006
... lose their husbands to migration — “los maridos se Motherhood among Transnational Migrant Women 21 pierden por ahí” (husbands get lost) — and that this might be her only chance to save the marriage. In every case...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 37–55.
Published: 01 September 2007
... recently has begun to participate in the flows of migrant workers to the United States. Migration, understood as a complex, multidimensional phenomenon, affects various social spheres, with direct and immediate effects on the families whose members go away, sometimes for indefinite...
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 99–120.
Published: 01 June 2015
...-­sponsored citizenship, the legal violence against migrants, the feelings produced by these acts often carried out simultaneously against them, and the lack of public vis- ibility of these feelings: these are a vehicle for understanding migration...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 81–98.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Pilar A. Parra; Max J. Pfeffer Duke University Press 2006 New Immigrants in Rural Communities The Ch allenges of Integr ation The 2000 U.S. Census of Population reported increased Latino migration...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (2 (151)): 49–68.
Published: 01 June 2022
... migrants. 47 This is therefore no “refugee crisis”: the refugees are not a problem per se; nobody wishes to take dangerous routes to an unfriendly new environment. This is a crisis caused by global social unfairness. Igor Štiks believes migrations to be “the consequence of the catastrophic...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2010
... Social Text 105 • Winter 2010 1 5 subjectivity on migrants, a form of desubjectivation that mitigates the need for wholesale expulsion. So, too, the state must balance the competing interests that make migration...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 109–131.
Published: 01 June 2019
... , and illegal migrant , functions to contain migration from the global South and to advance the interests of Western hegemonic states. 14 It is the ideological grounding, and legal instrument, for the criminalization of refugees. To insist on thinking about refugees primarily through this lens of legal...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 99–130.
Published: 01 September 2006
... immigrants in New York City number between 300,000 and 500,000.7 While modern migrant flows by Mexicans to many parts of the southwestern United States and Chicago date back generations,8 in New York State, Mexican migration...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 1–12.
Published: 01 September 2006
... as industry and out-migration have depressed local economies. Longtime residents are now experiencing mixed reactions to the establishment of Latinos/as in downtown areas. The trend of recent rural migrants to settle (as opposed to migrating...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (1 (102)): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Square, and the now-defunct San Juan Hill and Lincoln Square districts, razed to build Lincoln Center in the early 1960s. When Schwartz migrated to Midtown in 1944 — against the tide of “white flight” — he arrived amid one of the neighborhood’s...
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Social Text (2010) 28 (4 (105)): np.
Published: 01 December 2010
... and ethnicity, race, and migration at Yale University. She is the author of Migrant Imagi- naries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.SMexico Borderlands (NYU Press). Her second book, The Event without Witness: State Violence and Migrant Suffering on the Frontiers of North America (NYU Press...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 35–59.
Published: 01 June 2008
... workers are rural to urban migrant women. Consequently, neighbors reinvented themselves as moral guardians of these new arrivals while many agents and institutions, including the media and NGOs, got involved in spatial and conceptual production of the new city and its gendered citizen subjects. This essay...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 1–12.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and problem categories (e.g., rural migrants; tradition) that such discussion has produced critically inform our contemporary conceptual grammars. While few would revisit the “peasant in the city” narrative that dominated much of the social science literature of the 1960s and 1970s, many...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (2 (119)): 53–75.
Published: 01 June 2014
.... Ethnographi- cally, I argue that contemporary Kriolu rappers in Lisbon are motivated by an existential tension embedded in the concept of “Kriolu” resulting from complex patterns of migration and peculiar histories of Luso-­African Social Text 119 • Vol. 32, No. 2...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 81–102.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., Nestor Rodriguez, Ruben Hernandez, and Stanley Bailey, “Death at the Border,” International Migration Review 33 (1999): 430  –  54. 21. Peter B. Brownell, “Border Militarization and the Reproduction of Mexi- can Migrant Labor,” Social Justice 28 (2001): 269  –  92; Leo R. Chavez, “Immi...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2008
... is usually taken to be that of transnational migration. Migrants, immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are routinely ana- lyzed as participating in the flows of capital, information, and culture through legal and illegal border crossings across hard and soft borders in the context...