Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe by Anna Amelina

Author:Anna Amelina [Amelina, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Emigration & Immigration
ISBN: 9781134849963
Google: MlAPDQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-13T04:30:12+00:00

Part II

Transnationalizing Inequalities in Europe

The Making of Hierarchies within Assemblages

6

The Emergence of a New Migration System in Europe and the Narratives of Transnationalized Inequalities

6.1 Introduction: Multiple Europes

Part II addresses the fourth objective of this volume, that is, to implement theoretical tools developed to address the patterns, contexts and mechanisms of spatialized cross-border inequalities in the analysis of European migration and mobility. Approaching migration and mobility as a paradigmatic example for the study of unequal life chances across borders, Part II aims to provide a detailed reconstruction of one particular form of spatialized inequality—transnationalized inequality—with a focus on the interplay of different dimensions of social inequality (e.g. gender, ethnicity/race, class) with this type of spatialized relations. Therefore, transnationalized inequalities 1 are approached as unequal life opportunities that are socially generated and signified as state borders–spanning and multilocal. 2

Providing a conceptual specification of patterns, contexts and mechanisms of transnationalized inequalities in connection with migration and mobility, this chapter approaches Europe as an assemblage. 3 Such an approach echoes the idea expressed by William Biebuyck and Chris Rumford (2011) that Europe is a multiplicity that contests the synonymous use of the terms Europe and the EU:

There are Europe(s) composed of many meanings, practices, strategies, and subjects, many of which are not found in the articulations of EU Commissioners, or in pivotal treaties of the EU. As a way of demonstrating European multiplicity, we [need] to explore sites of Europe that depict its numerous imaginaries, fields of practice, and ways of being in the world. We do not mobilize these particular sites as ways to pin down the final form or function of Europe. Rather, these sites demonstrate how Europe is an active site of multiple—and often times contradictory—productions and transformations.

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