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{"title":"A taste of “Brownies”: Shifting color lines among Indian diasporas in southern Europe","authors":"Sara Bonfanti","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1360034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1360034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While India is known for its enduring caste system and mounting racist attitudes, its diasporas resettled in Western countries are enmeshed in other (anti)racist discourses and practices. Seeing racialization as a process of translation, which is rampant in transnational migrations, this paper considers the racial experiences of Punjabis in northern Italy: a dense immigrant area, haunted by its colonial past, ongoing internal racism and current southern European rightist xenophobia. With a historical gaze, and based on my multisite research conducted between India and Italy in 2012–2014, I address everyday racial dynamics crossing geopolitical borders and other social boundaries (gender, ethnicity, class and religion). Ethnographic work with Italian Punjabis reveals a knot of racialized/racializing relations enacted in a super-diverse milieu: within and between the immigrant communities and the host society. Despite multicultural rhetoric, besides a demotion of African Blacks under a certain white European governance, South Asians embody, perform and resist the ambivalent nuance of “Brownie” shifting on a volatile color line, as they ironically dramatized in a youth educational project. Delegitimized race, grasping the transnationality of mundane racialization, is a step towards targeting the resilience of racism(s) in a world going plural yet nevertheless unequal.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126245576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In-between as resistance: The post-migrant generation between discrimination and transnationalization","authors":"Erol Yıldız, Marc Hill","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1360033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1360033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Our article is based on a qualitative study conducted in 2015 in large cities in Turkey, encompassing 35 semi-structured interviews. Inquiry focused on the descendants of the so-called “Gastarbeiter [‘guest worker’] generation” – youth who were born and grew up mainly in Germany and Austria, were educated there and who to a great extent are Austrian or German citizens. They left their country of birth and emigrated to the country of origin of their parents or grandparents, Turkey, where they hoped for better professional perspectives. In the public sphere they are perceived, if at all, as returning migrants. In this paper, we term this next generation post-migrant, a generation that moves in different “spaces in-between”, developing strategies for living from their distinctive positioning: between transnationalization and discrimination, here and there, between leaving and remaining. This promotes a confrontation with the respective local conditions. For this generation, a certain double distance to the uninterrogated normalities here and there is part of everyday life, and at the same time should be seen as a resistant praxis. Proceeding from the investigation mentioned, we attempt here to reconstruct that a praxis that can open up new perspectives, not only for social work.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115868898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultivating cultures of inclusion in social service organizations: An international collaboration","authors":"S. Köngeter, Luann Good Gingrich","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1361149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1361149","url":null,"abstract":"Questions of social exclusion and inclusion in increasingly diverse societies (Vertovec, 2007) are especially thorny in North American and European societies that are undergoing dramatic transformation by over 50 years of large-scale migration, primarily and increasingly from countries in the Global South. In Canada, for example, it is projected that by 2031 almost one-third of the nation’s total population will be a member of a “visible minority” group, and over one-quarter of Canadians will be first-generation immigrants (Caron Malenfant, Lebel, & Martel, 2010). Recent predictions place Canada among the world’s top seven countries to receive international migrants (more than 100,000 annually) between 2015 and 2050 (UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic & Social Affairs – Population Division), 2015). In Germany, a growing proportion of the population is firstor second-generation migrants (persons with “migration background”1): 17.1 million residents of Germany live in a family that has a migration background, and 11.5 million of them have experienced migration themselves.2 The situation differs between the 16 Bundesländer. Whereas every fifth person has a so-called “migration background” in the five new Bundesländer, it is every fourth person in the rest of the country. The majority of this population have a German passport (54%). It is widely assumed that the share of the population with a migration background will increase further, as most political parties recognize that the demographic crisis Germany is facing (with its increase in the retirement-age population) can only be solved by actively managing migration.3 As the social and economic diversity of social landscapes deepens, shrinking national social welfare and public health care systems lead to narrower entitlement requirements for noncitizens, tighter eligibility criteria, and reduced benefits (Good Gingrich & Köngeter, 2017). In these social, political, and economic contexts defined by scarcity and insecurity, immigration laws and social programs in many welfare states are geared toward ensuring that newcomers and migrants of the second and third generation are equipped to become contributing members of society rather than a drain on the system. Against this background, social service organizations (SSOs) are often seen, on the one hand, as agents of support, integration, and social change toward a more just society. On the other hand, critical","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114773560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thinking through tourism in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas: Transnationalism as a methodology","authors":"Brian Batchelor","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1359471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1359471","url":null,"abstract":"“He isn’t going to win, is he?” the musician asked the crowd in the Italian-style cantina, located in the tourist center of San Cristóbal de las Casas, a colonial city in the highlands of Chiapas. The musician, a British expat who had also spent time in Canada, played every Tuesday night – this particular Tuesday night happened to be the 2016 US Presidential election. As a couple of us despondently confirmed that Donald Trump might win, the musician responded, “Well, it doesn’t matter ... nothing will fuckin’ change.” I was in San Cristóbal conducting fieldwork. I had met with some contacts: an Anthropology professor at a local university, a Czech national visiting to learn Spanish, and a Dutch national, who came to tour Mexico. The cantina, owned by two Italian expats and staffed with people from Chiapas and other Mexican states, is a popular destination for “locals” and “visitors” alike–one of many establishments that make San Cristóbal a transnational tourist space. This report outlines my research on tourism in San Cristóbal through the lens of transnationalism: I discuss transnational spaces, explore processes of transnationalism and tourism in Chiapas, and lastly map out how transnationalism as a methodology helps me conceptualize my fieldwork site.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115643921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Afropolitanism: The other side of the coin","authors":"Hicham Gourgem","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1360032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1360032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this research paper, I explore the constructions of African identities in African fiction, with a special focus on Afropolitanism as a form of articulating identities in some twenty-first century African novels. My argument is that some Afropolitan novels repeat Western discourse, which I will demonstrate by illustrating that as a discourse on African identities, Afropolitanism enables privileges dialog with the West over that with other African or non-Western cultures. I will show that this dominant rendering of Afropolitanism maintains imperialist discourse through the repetition of binarism in which center is Western modernity and periphery – Africa and the rest of the world – follows the Western model of modernity. Accordingly, I consider that this account of African identities fits into the Western narrative of modernization.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132500012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between “Western” racism and (Soviet) national binarism: Migrants’ and nonmigrants’ ways of ordering Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad","authors":"Rita Sanders","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1359996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1359996","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In Kaliningrad (and elsewhere in Russia), migrants and nonmigrants are often connected to places far beyond the state’s borders. In this article, I argue that two divergent transnational phenomena are at stake when investigating racism in Kaliningrad: firstly, ongoing conflicts between Russia and the “West” and, secondly, the almost globally perceived threat of Islam. The first aspect accounts for strengthening Russian nationalism and even more the old Soviet empire, which implies including one’s own (Muslim) migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus. The second aspect, however, encompasses a broader perception of “whiteness” by seeing Muslims generally as a threat of “white” civilization. Nonetheless, this article demonstrates that binary concepts of “black” and “white” are not as fixed and hardened as they might appear at first because those people investigated here generally conceptualize themselves and the city they live in as being tolerant, which is also explained by the Soviet legacy of seeing racism only outside of one’s own cosmos.","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"430 2-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131965876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Commodification of language in migration and transnational contexts","authors":"B. Tavares","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1360577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1360577","url":null,"abstract":"In this “globalized” world, mobility is an impetus for the proliferation of non-governmental institutions (NGOs). Urry (2007, 6) points out that issues of movement, of too little movement for some or too much for others of the wrong sort or at the wrong time, are it seems central to many people’s lives and to the operations of many small and large public, private and non-governmental organizations. Social inequalities within and across our societies foster the creation of these institutions that are often transnational in their scope. They are social spaces that are attached or disattached to governments in varied ways, levels and occasions. Drawing on a critical sociolinguistic ethnography, this report focuses on a study of the complex ways of how language and other expertise needs associated to Cape Verdeans are commodified in the officially trilingual Luxembourg. Cape Verde, a small West African archipelago nation-state (10 islands), in the Atlantic Ocean (cf. Pardue, 2012), gained independence from Portugal in 1975. It is estimated that diasporic Cape Verdeans (mostly in the USA and Europe) outnumber those residing in the archipelago (about 500,000 people); this also led it to be described as a ‘transnational archipelago’ (Batalha & Carling, 2008). Cape Verdean migration to Luxembourg started in 1960s, via Portugal when labor contracts between Portugal and Luxembourg were signed. As Cape Verdeans held Portuguese citizenship at that time, they started to re-emigrate to Luxembourg (Laplanche & Vanderkam, 1991). Today, although reliable numbers are missing, there is a significant Cape Verdean presence in Luxembourg as the largest non-European “community” (Statec, 2016). Here, I argue that the connection of language issues of Cape Verdean migrants and the “Lusofonia” politics, as a niche market, i.e. ‘what makes a set of consumers distinctive’ (Heller & Duchêne, 2012, 9), are a transnational effect, a problem for the migrants and a chance for capitalizing on this “problem” of the migrants. This process is often entangled and produced both at the individual level by migrants themselves (e.g. through entrepreneurship), and by (transnational) NGOs through the Lusofonia (cf. Arenas, 2005) of Cape Verdeans, i.e. by considering Portuguese and/or Creole as their first language. Although Portuguese is not an official language in Luxembourg, one can “make a living” almost exclusively using and speaking this language. This is due to the high proportion of Portuguese speaking migrants (i.e. Lusophone migrants) which by nationality forms over 17% of the residents (see Statec, 2016), and their transnational practices. Their presence is","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"284 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131548052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Europe’s path to crisis: Disintegration via monetary union","authors":"Quincy Cloet","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1359997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1359997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127148807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Welcome to the desert of post-socialism: Radical politics after Yugoslavia","authors":"Siméon Mitropolitski","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1357315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1357315","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132323368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Settler: Identity and colonialism in 21st century Canada","authors":"Chizuru Nobe-Ghelani","doi":"10.1080/21931674.2017.1357293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2017.1357293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413830,"journal":{"name":"Transnational Social Review","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122773367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}