Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations
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Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations

Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations

Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration

About this book

This book rethinks meritocracy as a form of coloniality, namely, a social imaginary that reproduces narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and peripheries, and between Europe and its others.

Drawing on interviews with working and middle class, white and Black Italians who moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis, the book explores the narratives of Northern meritocracy and Southern backwardness that inform migrants' motivations for moving abroad, and how these narratives are experienced within classed, racialised and gendered migrations.

Connecting decolonial theory with the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this book provides innovative insights into the relationships between meritocracy, coloniality and European whiteness, and into the social stratification of EU migrations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Tables
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The Coloniality of Meritocracy: From the Anglosphere to Post-Austerity Europe
  9. 2 Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Positions
  10. 3 (Re)Imagining Meritocracy in Unequal Migrations
  11. 4 The Coloniality of Belonging
  12. 5 The Coloniality of Brexit
  13. Conclusion
  14. Appendix A: Interviewing: From Theory to Practice
  15. Appendix B: Sample Composition
  16. Appendix C: Summary of Participants
  17. Appendix D: Interview Topics and Questions
  18. References
  19. Index