Digesting Difference
Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe
Editors: McKowen, Kelly, Borneman, John (Eds.)
Free Preview- Critically engages with and builds on the extant anthropological scholarship on migration and integration in EuropeHighlights the importance of social and individual bodies and offers a fresh theoretical vocabulary revolving around physiological metaphorsDraws out the differences between processes of sociocultural incorporation in Europe’s different regions
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Kelly McKowen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, USA.
John Borneman is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, USA.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Digesting Difference: Migrants, Refugees, and Incorporation in Europe
Pages 1-27
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The German Welfare State as a Holding Environment for Refugees: A Case Study of Incorporation
Pages 29-50
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Accepting Germans: An Ethnographic Exploration of Refugee Integration in Berlin
Pages 51-73
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The Erotic in Foreigner Incorporation: First Encounters Between Germans and Syrians
Pages 75-102
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The Everyday, ‘Ordinary’ Citizens, and Ambiguous Governance Affect in Antwerp
Pages 103-127
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Digesting Difference
- Book Subtitle
- Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe
- Editors
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- Kelly McKowen
- John Borneman
- Series Title
- Global Diversities
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-49598-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-49598-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-49597-8
- Series ISSN
- 2662-2580
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 268
- Topics