Digesting Difference : Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe

✍ Scribed by Kelly McKowen, John Borneman

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: Global Diversities
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities. Bringing together leading cultural anthropologists, Digesting Difference offers a series of ethnographic studies that show incorporation to be a process rooted in the everyday encounters and exchanges between strangers, friends, lovers, neighbors, parents, workers, and others. Rich in ethnographic detail and ambitious in its theorizing, the volume tells the stories of Europe’s transformative engagement with sociocultural difference in the wake of migration associated with EU expansion, the Eurozone meltdown, and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. It promises to be essential reading for scholars and students of cultural anthropology, migration, integration, and European studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Digesting Difference: Migrants, Refugees, and Incorporation in Europe (Kelly McKowen, John Borneman)....Pages 1-27
The German Welfare State as a Holding Environment for Refugees: A Case Study of Incorporation (John Borneman)....Pages 29-50
Accepting Germans: An Ethnographic Exploration of Refugee Integration in Berlin (Jagat Sohail)....Pages 51-73
The Erotic in Foreigner Incorporation: First Encounters Between Germans and Syrians (Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi)....Pages 75-102
The Everyday, ‘Ordinary’ Citizens, and Ambiguous Governance Affect in Antwerp (Anick Vollebergh)....Pages 103-127
Hierarchical Forms of Belonging in an Egalitarian Society (Synnøve Bendixsen, Hilde Danielsen)....Pages 129-147
“Cut and Sew”: Migration, Crisis, and Belonging in an Italian Fast-Fashion Zone (Elizabeth L. Krause)....Pages 149-166
The Power of the Bowels: A Visceral Afro-Pentecostal Critique of Italian Afrophobia (Annalisa Butticci)....Pages 167-184
Workers for Free: Precarious Inclusion and Extended Uncertainty Among Afghan Refugees in Denmark (Mikkel Rytter, Narges Ghandchi)....Pages 185-207
Expulsion or Differential Inclusion? Governing Undocumented Migrants in France (Stefan Le Courant)....Pages 209-226
Solidarity in Greece and the Management of Difference (Heath Cabot)....Pages 227-249
Afterword: The Work of ‘Integration’ (Steven Vertovec)....Pages 251-266
Back Matter ....Pages 267-268

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Migration; Ethnography; Social Anthropology; Public Policy