Calavita, Kitty.

Immigrants at the margins law, race, and exclusion in Southern Europe / [electronic resource] : Kitty Calavita. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005. - xx, 257 p. : maps. - Cambridge studies in law and society . - Cambridge studies in law and society. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-249) and index.

1. Introduction; 2. Legal framework and the wayward 'legs of law'; 3. 'Useful invaders': the economics of alterite; 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.

This provocative volume explores immigration law in Spain and Italy, and exposes the tension between the temporary legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration. It demonstrates the connections among immigrants' role as cheap labor--carefully inscribed in law--and their social exclusion and racialization. At the broadest level, the book engages questions of citizenship and belonging in this global era. It uniquely combines analysis of immigration laws and immigrants' daily experiences.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Emigration and immigration law--Europe, Southern.
Marginality, Social--Europe, Southern.
Immigrants--Government policy--Italy.
Immigrants--Government policy--Spain.


Europe, Southern--Ethnic relations.

KJC6048 / .C35 2005

342.408/2