Imagining difference and inequality: cultural constructions of
unauthorized immigrants

a 2015

Imagining difference and inequality: cultural constructions of unauthorized immigrants

JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya

Základní údaje

Originální název

Imagining difference and inequality: cultural constructions of unauthorized immigrants

Autoři

JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya (840 Spojené státy, garant, domácí)

Vydání

12th European Sociological Association conference “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination" 2015

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

50000 5. Social Sciences

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Conference Programme

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/15:00083818

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

culture immigration boundary work social movements

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam

Změněno: 14. 9. 2015 09:31, prof. Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Immigration is a hotly contested issue in receiving countries, especially with regard to unauthorized populations. Some see the unauthorized as “illegal” interlopers, while others advocate for their rights. Each of these social movements devotes a great deal of energy to articulating its demands and grievances, increasingly utilizing the Internet as a site of meaning creation. Culture acts as both an instrumental and expressive vehicle through which activists imagine and respond to discourses of difference and inequality. Are unauthorized immigrants just like “us,” as immigrant rights groups assert? Do they deserve equal treatment under the law and in the court of public opinion? Or are they intractably different because they have broken the “rules” and reside in the country illegally? Utilizing internet data collected from 29 national-level organizations in the United States, I conduct a cultural sociological analysis of the ways in which both immigrant rights and immigration control activists construct the unauthorized population. To unearth the structures of meaning in the organizations’ website and social media activity, I examine the ways in which they create legal and moral boundaries around different categories of immigrants, often (and sometimes unwittingly) portraying some as more equal than others. Looking at the cultural construction of unauthorized immigrants through the theoretical lens of boundary work helps us understand the conditions of belonging to a collectivity such as the nation state and potentially work at moving from exclusivity and inequality to inclusivity and fairness for all within its borders.

Návaznosti

EE2.3.30.0009, projekt VaV

Název: Zaměstnáním čerstvých absolventů doktorského studia k vědecké excelenci

MUNI/A/0907/2010, interní kód MU

Název: Analytické využití teoretických konceptů v sociálních vědách (Akronym: ATHOS)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Analytické využití teoretických konceptů v sociálních vědách, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya. Imagining difference and inequality: cultural constructions of unauthorized immigrants. In 12th European Sociological Association conference “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination". 2015.

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JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya. Imagining difference and inequality: cultural constructions of unauthorized immigrants. In \textit{12th European Sociological Association conference “Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination''}. 2015.

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