3170 - Social Inclusion and Exclusion and International Migration

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session examines how the social inclusion and exclusion of immigrant populations is produced worldwide. Recent events—such as the restriction of civic and political rights for immigrants holding a range of legal statuses; the demand for human rights among the children of immigrants throughout Western Europe; and the outlawing of minarets through a national referendum in Switzerland—suggest that processes of social inclusion and exclusion and international migration may be linked. Prospects for social inclusion are encoded in policy, and the individuals subject to said policies could conform to or resist the rules and regulations imposed on them in a number of ways. This session explores the opportunities for and constraints to immigrants’ social inclusion that policies create, and that those subject to the policies internalize or contest. Authors draw on a number of empirical cases using diverse methodologies, but their research is united through its examination of the structural, social, and/or cultural incorporation of immigrants.

Sub Unit

• Section on International Migration / Social Inclusion and Exclusion and International Migration

Session Organizers

• Asad L. Asad, Cornell University

• Loretta Bass, University of Oklahoma

Individual Presentations

• Who are the Illegals? The Social Construction of Illegality in the United States - René Flores, University of Washington; Ariela Schachter, Washington University-St. Louis

• “Je suis Charlie’ vs. ‘Je suis Ahmed’: Race and Islamophobia in France after Charlie Hebdo - Jean Beaman, Purdue University

• Incorporating and Marginalizing Experiences in School and their Impact on the Civic Incorporation of Immigrant Children - Hansini Munasinghe, University of Iowa; Sarah K. Bruch, University of Iowa

• Second-Generation Labor Market Integration in France and in the United States - Yael Brinbaum, CNAM-LISE-CEET; Kathleen Ann Griesbach, Columbia University; Van C. Tran, Columbia University

• Excluded at Home: 1.5-generation Return Migrants in Mexico - Alexis Silver, State University of New York-Purchase