Irene Bloemraad Research Articles

Fez as a locus of migration processes on the move: integration and mutation of citizenship

ABSTRACT This article aims to define the main facets and challenges of undocumented migrants on the move in Fez city (Morocco) and their impact on neighbourhoods and on society at large. It seeks to measure the integration of sub-Saharan migrants in the host community through the metrics of their participation in economic and social activities in urban space and discusses the main hurdles impeding their integration. The data show that there is, on the one hand, a quite low degree of acceptance by the local population, which in general tolerates their presence although signs of discrimination and prejudice in certain neighbourhoods are observed. On the other hand, the sample shows that some sort of partial integration occurs through forms of micro-entrepreneurial activities and use of city services. Further, the article proposes the idea of rethinking the concept of citizenship in order to understand the new flows of migration. It shows that the concept of citizenship needs to be re-considered beyond the formal and legal dimension, in order to include informal dimensions for a more realistic rendering of the interaction between migrants and the city. Unlike Isin (2017. “Performative Citizenship.” In The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, edited by Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad, and Maarten Vink, 500–523. Oxford: Oxford University Press) and others who focus mainly on acts of citizenship as political, the article reveals that migrants perform their own acts of citizenship through social interaction, in line with Ong's (2007) theory of mutations of citizenship.

Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, edited by David Card and Steven Raphael. 2013. Series: National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 469 + xiv. ISBN: 978-0-87154-498-8, $55.

Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, edited by David Card and Steven Raphael. 2013. Series: National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 469 + xiv. ISBN: 978-0-87154-498-8, $55.

Introduction: The Puzzle of Incorporation and Solidarity

Multiculturalism is often vilified and misconstrued, and a multicultural backlash is evident. This special section attempts to move beyond the polemics by offering sociological insights into the current impact of multiculturalism and the challenges this mode of incorporation faces in addressing religious and racial diversity. This introduction sketches efforts aimed at offering distinctly sociological analyses of multiculturalism, in contrast to more normative philosophical accounts. It then offers brief overviews of the three substantive articles that follow: Irene Bloemraad on the significance of citizenship for multiculturalism; Rhys Williams on religious diversity; and Douglas Hartmann on the racial divide.

Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America. Edited by Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 336p. $60.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America. Edited by Kim Voss and Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 336p. 27.95 paper. - Volume 11 Issue 1

From Seaton Village to Global Village: Metonymies of Exile and Globalization in Judith Thompson's Sled

As in other settler/invader colonies that artificially invented and inserted themselves as nation-states in regions where they did not naturally belong, the collective feelings of estrangement and the reassessment of Canada’s history and national identity have been ongoing. Inspired by recent theories of globalization, this study proposes the understanding of Canadian colonialism as a form of macro-globalization, taking place during the second stage of historical globalization, and of official multiculturalism as a type of micro-globalization, which foreshadows the third and more intense wave of globalization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. This perspective dismantles the myth that Canada’s multi-national nature is determined by its so-called “exceptionalism,” which Irene Bloemraad explains as the result of the economic selection of immigrants, geographical location, and most of all the worldpraised tendency to welcome ethnically diverse immigrants because of its “immigration-as-nation-building paradigm” state policy (7). Using this theoretical frame, this essay argues that the metonymic depiction of 1990s Canada in Judith Thompson’s Sled asserts exile as a shared identity marker determined by globalization. The first part of this study analyzes how the combined legacies of colonialism and Pierre Trudeau’s multicultural policy generate the characters’ collective exile. The second part investigates some of Sled’s characters as metonymic representations of Canadians’ ethnic diversity and examples of exile determined by globalization on an individual level.

Immigrant Incorporation in an Era of Weak Civic Institutions

In this article, the author analyzes five domains of immigrant incorporation and participation in the United States—civic and community engagement among immigrants; naturalization patterns; immigrant (and co-ethnic) partisanship and electoral behaviors; the election of naturalized citizens, and their U.S.-born co-ethnics, as elective officeholders; and immigrant transnational efforts to influence the civic or political life of their communities or countries of origin—in an effort to highlight both the opportunities immigrants and naturalized citizens have seized in U.S. politics and the barriers, particularly, institutional barriers, they continue to face. Although the primary analytical focus is immigrants in the United States, the author is attentive to the challenge raised by Irene Bloemraad (2011 [this issue]) in her introductory article to identify opportunities for comparative insights from the Canadian case. As will be evident, the author ultimately identifies more apples and oranges in the comparison of the U.S. and Canadian cases than peas sharing an analytical pod.

Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement

Book Review| July 01 2011 Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement. Edited by S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2008. x + 398 pp. Graphs, tables, notes, and index. $47.50 (cloth). Louis DeSipio Louis DeSipio University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2011) 30 (4): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.30.4.0115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Louis DeSipio; Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2011; 30 (4): 115–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.30.4.0115 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2011 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Electing a Diverse Canada: The Representation of Immigrants, Minorities, and Women

Tables and Maps Acknowledgments Introduction / Caroline Andrew, John Biles, Myer Siemiatycki, and Erin Tolley 1 Reputation and Representation: Reaching for Political Inclusion in Toronto / Myer Siemiatycki 2 Diversity and Elected Officials in the City of Vancouver / Irene Bloemraad 3 Political Representation of Minorities in the City of Montreal: Dream or Reality? / Carolle Simard 4 More than Just Cowboys with White Hats: A Demographic Profile of Edmonton and Calgary / Shannon Sampert 5 Our Unrepresentative but Somewhat Successful Capital: Electoral Representation in Ottawa / John Biles and Erin Tolley 6 Many Faces, Few Places: The Political Under-Representation of Ethnic Minorities and Women in the City of Hamilton / Karen Bird 7 Representation Deficits in Regina and Saskatoon / Joseph Garcea 8 The Patterning of Political Representation in Halifax / Karen Bridget Murray, with the assistance of Michael Caverhill 9 Diversity and Political Representation in Winnipeg / Brenda O'Neill and Jared J. Wesley 10 Ethnoracial Minorities in the 38th Parliament: Patterns of Change and Continuity / Jerome H. Black Conclusion Contributors Index

Book Review: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad (eds) Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations and Political Engagement New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008, £47.50 hbk (ISBN: 978871547019), 408pp

Book Review: S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad (eds) Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations and Political Engagement New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2008, £47.50 hbk (ISBN: 978871547019), 408pp

S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad, Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations and Political Engagement

S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad, Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations and Political Engagement

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. By Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 382p. $60 cloth, $23.95 paper.

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. By Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 382p. $60 cloth, $23.95 paper.

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. By Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xv+369. $60.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewBecoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. By Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xv+369. $60.00 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).Gianpaolo Baiocchi Gianpaolo BaiocchiUniversity of Massachusetts Search for more articles by this author University of MassachusettsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 114, Number 4January 2009 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/599153 Views: 115Total views on this site © 2009 by the University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved. For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. Irene Bloemraad

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsBecoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. Irene Bloemraad Leo R. ChavezLeo R. Chavez Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 64, Number 4Winter, 2008 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/jar.64.4.20371291 Views: 28Total views on this site Copyright 2008 The University of New MexicoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada By IRENE BLOEMRAAD

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada <i>By</i> IRENE BLOEMRAAD

The Border Within: Citizenship Facilitated and Impeded

Immigration is roiling American politics, with controversy continuing and no clear solution in sight. As all parties concur, the system is broken, frustrating the new, would-be, and established Americans, while yielding sub stantial social costs and tensions from the Mexican to the Canadian border, and just about everywhere in between. Beyond this point of agreement, however, dissonance is all that can be heard. Many voices are shout ing; no one knows where to go. Uncertainty reigns as to how best to con trol the borders. Meanwhile, there is another option which governments in the United States have decided to avidly pursue: name ly, create differences between the people of the state and all other people in the state. Hence, expanding immigrant numbers have gone hand in hand, both with a restriction on immigrants' rights and with a growing diver gence between demography and democracy. While unable to prevent unauthorized immi grants from crossing the border, governments have found it much easier to prevent the il legal immigrants residing on U.S. soil from obtaining public services. As a driver's li cense is too fine a privilege to be granted to the country's 12 million undocumented im migrants-let them take the bus!-an every day illegality involved in living in the United States without authorization has become a tool for deporting the unwanted. Likewise, the divide between citizens and permanent residents, which had narrowed in the after math of the civil rights era, has once again begun to widen, with legally resident non citizens no longer eligible for benefits that are now available to citizens alone, and at risk of deportation should they be convicted of a felony. Though not voiceless, non-citi zens are voteless, at little cost to those Amer icans enjoying the vote. The damage, rather, is to the American democracy, decreasingly a government of and for the people, when barely a third of all foreign-born persons liv ing on U.S. soil are eligible to vote. America's resistance to integration with the world and those of its people that have Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, by Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. 382pp. $55.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780520248984.

Book Review: Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada

The article reviews the book Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, by Irene Bloemraad.

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada By Irene Bloemraad University of California Press, 2006. 370 pages. $55 cloth, $21.95 paper

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada By Irene Bloemraad University of California Press, 2006. 370 pages. $55 cloth, $21.95 paper

Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada

Book Review| October 01 2007 Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, Irene Bloemraad. Janelle Wong Janelle Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 27 (1): 110–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543278 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Janelle Wong; Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 January 2007; 27 (1): 110–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/40543278 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJournal of American Ethnic History Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2007 Immigration and Ethnic History Society2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Naturalization and Family Welfare: Doors Closed to the Noncitizen

Previous articleNext article No AccessNaturalization and Family Welfare: Doors Closed to the NoncitizenAdena M. RichAdena M. Rich Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 14, Number 2Jun., 1940 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/632936 Views: 3Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Peter Catron The Citizenship Advantage: Immigrant Socioeconomic Attainment in the Age of Mass Migration, American Journal of Sociology 124, no.44 (Mar 2019): 999–1042.https://doi.org/10.1086/701297Yoosun Park “A Curious Inconsistency”, Affilia 30, no.44 (Nov 2015): 560–579.https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109915583546Cybelle Fox, Irene Bloemraad Beyond “White by Law”: Explaining the Gulf in Citizenship Acquisition between Mexican and European Immigrants, 1930, Social Forces 94, no.11 (Feb 2015): 181–207.https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sov009Matthew J. Baltz Protecting citizens in hard times: citizenship and repatriation pressures in the United States and France during the 1930s, Theory and Society 44, no.22 (Mar 2015): 101–124.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-015-9243-x