The Boundaries of Belonging : Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations

JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya. The Boundaries of Belonging : Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 295 pp. Cultural Sociology. ISBN 978-3-319-43746-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43747-7.

Basic information

• Original name: The Boundaries of Belonging : Online Work of Immigration-Related Social Movement Organizations
• Authors: JAWORSKY, Bernadette Nadya (840 United States of America, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Cham, 295 pp. Cultural Sociology, 2016.
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Book on a specialized topic
• Field of Study: 50400 5.4 Sociology
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: web nakladatele
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/16:00096769
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• ISBN: 978-3-319-43746-0
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43747-7
• UT WoS: 000416552400009
• Keywords in English: immigration; social movement organizations; cultural sociology; symbolic boundaries
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This book addresses an issue currently making political headlines in the United States – immigration. Immigrants have long engendered debates about the boundaries of belonging, with some singing their praises and others warning of their dangers. In particular, the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country provoke heated disagreements, with issues of legality and morality at the forefront. Increasingly, such debates take place online, by organizations in the immigrant rights and the immigration control movements, who engage in symbolic work that includes blurring, crossing, maintaining, solidifying and shifting the boundaries of belonging. Moral and legal criteria interact in these boundary work processes along three primary dimensions – family, citizenship and values. Based on data collected from 29 national-level groups, this book features a cultural sociological analysis of the online materials deployed by social movement organizations debating immigration in the United States. This book offers a cultural sociological exploration of how organizations within the immigrant rights and immigration control movements in the United States make meaning online. It highlights the subtle interplay between morality and legality as they seek to variously maintain, shift, blur and cross the symbolic boundaries of belonging.

Links

• MUNI/A/1182/2016, interní kód MU: Name: Společnost a její proměny: kvalitativní a kvantitativní pohled (Acronym: SPOJKA2)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A