Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami : Immigration and the Rise of a Global City.

Intro -- Book Title -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1-Immigration in the Age of Global Insecurity -- Why Miami? -- Why Focus on Human Security? -- Central Argument and Conceptual Development of the Book -- Globalization and the Creation of Neoliberal Environments of Insecurity -- Origins of Exclusion in Miami -- Immigrant Diversification and Multiethnicity in Miami, 1990s-2000s -- Economic Polarization, Labor Market Segmentation, and Neoliberal City Policies -- Cross-Border Imagination, Adaptation, and Belonging -- Data and Methodology -- Structure of the Book -- Notes -- 2-The Contexts of Departure -- Neoliberalism and the Formation of Environments of Insecurity -- Reasons for Immigrating to the United States -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3-The Context of Reception -- Context of Reception and Its Sociolegal Dimensions -- Securitization of Migration After 9/11 -- Categories of Admission and Psychic Insecurity -- States of Belonging and Insecurity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4-Inequalities and Perceptions of Social Mobility -- Neoliberal Context of Reception -- Globalization, Income Inequality, and Poverty in Miami -- Occupational Segmentation and the Effects of Economic Restructuring -- Class Identities and Perceived Social Mobility -- Explaining Perceived Social Mobility Among Immigrants -- Upward Social Mobility -- Confounding Effects of Legal Status for Perceptions of Mobility -- Perceptions of Downward Mobility Among the Highly Educated -- Contradictory Class Location -- Increasing the Standard of Living Through Unionization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5-Politics, Membership, and Representation -- Monochromatic Politics in a Multiethnic City -- Conclusion: The Limits of Symbolic Representation -- Notes -- 6-Race, Discrimination, and Ethnic Rivalries -- Racialization and Racial Meanings.

Segregation and the Color Line in Miami -- Ethnic and Racial Discrimination in Miami -- Immigrant Disidentification and Counterframing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7-Immigrant Emotions and Strategies of Co-Presence -- Immigration, Emotions, and Ontological Security -- Co-Presence as a Strategy -- Overlapping Strategies of Co-Presence -- Co-Presence and Translocal Social Citizenship -- Co-Presence and Feelings of Well-Being -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8-Translocal Placemaking and Belonging -- Felt and Pragmatic Home: The Attraction of Miami -- Placemaking and the Importance of Home -- (Re)Enacting and (Re)Experiencing Home -- Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9-The Security of Home in a Global Era -- When Translocal Social Citizenship Is Not Enough -- Future of the Global City -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Book.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.