This article explores immigration law in Italy and Spain and focuses on the tension between the economic, social and legal marginalization of immigrants on one hand and the rhetorical emphasis on integration on the other. I argue that this tension reflects the contradiction in their political economy, in which the utility of a cheap, contingent —marginalized— workforce is countered by a political backlash against the inevitably impoverished and thus racialized immigrant population. Further, I argue that law plays a central role in this alchemy of economics, race, and exclusion. Laws that make immigrants’ sojourn in the host society contingent on their willingness to perform marginalized labor guarantee immigrant otherness and racialization....
Aunque sólo una exigua minoría de los extranjeros que residen en Italia se encuentre allí ilegalmen...
This article investigates the relationship between immigration and crime in Italy. Although the numb...
The article offers a synthetic overview of the main effects that the international economic crisis h...
This article explores immigration law in Italy and Spain and focuses on the tension between the econ...
Immigration policies in Italy and Spain – even the restrictive policies put in place over the last s...
The aim of the article is to show how in Italy the traditional inequalities in class, gender and geo...
This article reviews the construction of migration policies in Spain while analyzing its role as an ...
Cet article dresse un tableau de l'état du marché du travail des immigrés en Lombardie, l'une des ré...
Spain is one of the countries with the lowest social spending within the EU-15, and its welfare stat...
Spain is one of the countries with the lowest social spending within the EU-15, and its welfare stat...
The politicization of immigration has moved the debate about immigration at the center of the run-up...
The article defends a vision of immigration that underlines that immigrants are citizens and subject...
The article offers a synthetic overview of the main effects that the international economic crisis h...
Local policies for immigrants in recent years have attracted a growing interest among scholars. It i...
The article deals with the controversial issue of the impact of immigration on income inequality and...
Aunque sólo una exigua minoría de los extranjeros que residen en Italia se encuentre allí ilegalmen...
This article investigates the relationship between immigration and crime in Italy. Although the numb...
The article offers a synthetic overview of the main effects that the international economic crisis h...
This article explores immigration law in Italy and Spain and focuses on the tension between the econ...
Immigration policies in Italy and Spain – even the restrictive policies put in place over the last s...
The aim of the article is to show how in Italy the traditional inequalities in class, gender and geo...
This article reviews the construction of migration policies in Spain while analyzing its role as an ...
Cet article dresse un tableau de l'état du marché du travail des immigrés en Lombardie, l'une des ré...
Spain is one of the countries with the lowest social spending within the EU-15, and its welfare stat...
Spain is one of the countries with the lowest social spending within the EU-15, and its welfare stat...
The politicization of immigration has moved the debate about immigration at the center of the run-up...
The article defends a vision of immigration that underlines that immigrants are citizens and subject...
The article offers a synthetic overview of the main effects that the international economic crisis h...
Local policies for immigrants in recent years have attracted a growing interest among scholars. It i...
The article deals with the controversial issue of the impact of immigration on income inequality and...
Aunque sólo una exigua minoría de los extranjeros que residen en Italia se encuentre allí ilegalmen...
This article investigates the relationship between immigration and crime in Italy. Although the numb...
The article offers a synthetic overview of the main effects that the international economic crisis h...