The Immigrant Other

Lived Experiences in a Transnational World

Rich Furman, Greg Lamphear, Douglas Epps, Rich Furman, Greg Lamphear, Douglas Epps

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780231541138
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Social Sciences

The immigrants profiled in The Immigrant Other shed light on a system designed to dehumanize and disenfranchise them, and they describe the difficulty of finding shelter in an increasingly globalized and unsympathetic world. They include Muslims facing discrimination from both the "War on Terror" and the "War on Immigration," Latino day laborers, Filipino immigrants supporting themselves and their families back home, and Brazilian parents terrified of being separated from their naturalized children. Immigrants living in Spain, Australia, Greece, and Qatar are also represented, showcasing the similarities and differences in the treatment of immigrants worldwide. Each chapter in this anthology pairs a description of specific state, national, and transnational immigration laws and regulations with the testimony of individuals struggling to find legitimacy and sanctuary among them.

Table of contents

• Cover 
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents 
• 1. Introduction: Multiple Truths and Privileged Collaborations in a Transnational World
• 2. National Insecurities: The Apprehension of Criminal and Fugitive Aliens
• 3. Unexpected Asylums, Tenuous Futures: Held in Abeyance at a State Psychiatric Institute
• 4. Criminalization of Transgender Immigrants: The Case of Scarlett
• 5. Criminalization of Muslim American Men in the United States
• 6. Immigrants Organize Against Everyday Life Victimization
• 7. Undocumented Latino Migrant Day Laborers in the San Francisco Bay Area: Psychosocial, Economic, and Political Consequences
• 8. “It’s Like You Are a Criminal”: Asylum Seekers and Immigrant Detention
• 9. Hybrid Governance and the Criminalization of Somali Refugees Seeking Social Services in a Midwestern Town
• 10. Filipina Lives: Transnationalism, Migrant Labor, and Experiences of Criminalization in the United States
• 11. The Criminalization of Brazilian Immigrants
• 12. Living with Drug Lords and Mules in New York: Contrasting Colombian Criminality and Transnational Belonging
• 13. Mexico’s Transmigrants: Between Los Zetas and the Iron Fist of the State
• 14. Stigmatized, Segregated, Essential: The Position of Immigrant Live-In Care Workers Vis-à-Vis Formal Social Work Provision in Italy
• 15. Immigrants’ Experiences with Law Enforcement Authorities in Spain
• 16. Creating Criminals: Australia’s Response to Asylum Seekers and Refugees
• 17. Longing to Belong: Undocumented Youth, Institutional Invisibility, and Ambivalent Belonging in Canada
• 18. Migrants and Justice in Qatar: Time, Mobility, Language, and Ethnography
• 19. Resistance to the Criminalization of Migration: Migrant Protest in Greece
• Index