Framing Non-Whites and Producing Second-Class Citizens in France and Portugal

Reiter, Bernd

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“…such an explanation is successful if others find this individual sense-making effort fruitful, helpful, or insightful, so that his or her sense-making overlaps with theirs. 4 The practical process of conducting exploratory research thus necessarily follows the pattern of the hermeneutic circle, as described by hans Gadamer (1994) (see Reiter 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Racism becomes more pronounced when different actors compete for scarce, and thus highly desirable, goods (Winant 2001). Under such conditions, whiteness functions as additional capital, bestowing competitive advantages on those able to claim it with success (Reiter 2010). ciTizenship citizenship is a broad concept.…”

Section: Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Citizenshipmentioning

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“…it is also the main resource for explaining and justifying the exclusion of all "others." according to Reiter (2010), Whiteness constitutes capital in addition to the other types of capital, namely financial, social, and cultural. Their importance, however, does not follow a simple additive logic.…”

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“…it tends to place nonwhite citizens living in europe, and the part of the world colonized by europeans, outside of the realm of effective citizenship. Despite their formal citizenship, they are treated as second-class citizens or even foreigners, as etienne Balibar (2004) has argued for france, and Reiter (2008) has demonstrated for portugal. in countries like Brazil, where nonwhites account for over 40 percent of the total population and where blacks predominate in some regions and cities, the same tendency prevails, as Brazilian historian Beatriz Gois Dantas (1988) has convincingly shown.…”

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“…it is not surprising that people seek to defend privilege, especially if unmerited, when it promises to secure concrete and very important advantages-for example, in a very competitive job market. Under such conditions, whiteness serves as an important capital, bestowing extra symbolic capital onto its bearer (Reiter 2010). it is, however, the responsibility of political elites and state apparatuses to check these tendencies and enact policies that aim at ensuring equal opportunities.…”

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The dialectics of citizenship: exploring privilege, exclusion, and racialization

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contents prologue ix introduction xi chapter 1. The epistemology and Methodology of exploratory social science Research: crossing popper with Marcuse 1 chapter 2. conceptualizing citizenship: Disjunctive, Dual, Divided, entangled, or What? 23 chapter 3. classical citizenship: The political and the social 43 chapter 4. Medieval european citizenship: christian Rights and Jewish Duties 67 chapter 5. france: liberalism Unveiled 83 chapter 6. The postcolonial Within: portugal, White and european 99 chapter 7. Brazil: experts in exclusion chapter 8. colombia: When law and Reality clash chapter 9. conclusion: learning from exploratory Research notes References index ix prologue This book grows out of, and indeed connects to, previous efforts (Reiter 2009; nef and Reiter 2009). its realization would have been impossible without the support i have received from the Desigualdades network of the free University of Berlin. i am very grateful for the support they have given me and want to express my sincere thanks, especially to prof. sergio costa. My time in Berlin and the dialogues i had with fellows, students, postdocs, and faculty have proven invaluable and allowed me to push my thoughts forward in significant ways. i am also indebted and very grateful for the critical and constructive comments i have received on earlier versions of several chapters of this book from Manuela Boatcă, Mitchell Glodek, Ulrich oslender, sergio costa, Katherine lebow, and eric Wolters. finally, i want to thank my home institution, Usf, especially my director, Rachel May, and my chair, Mohsen Milani, for allotting me the time and freedom necessary to finish this book. Thanks! xi introduction Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.-KaRl MaRx, 1845 The central theme of this book is autonomy and self-rule. it focuses on those sites, historical and geographical, where people have taken up the banner of self-rule and established democratic systems. as soon as they have done so-and this is the thread weaving together the different stories here told-they had to face the adversary of those who had something to lose, namely, their own power and their privileges. at the same time that this book tells the story of autonomy and self-rule, it also tells the story of the defense of privilege, of exclusion and second-class citizenship, because one story cannot adequately be told without the other. Democracy, understood here in the strong sense, that is, as the strife to rule oneself and achieve autonomy, never "came about"-it was always fought for. in the same way, it never "vanished" or "withered away"; it was taken away, dismantled, or weakened by those who had something to lose from self-rule. The ways to establish democracy were as cunning as the ways to weaken and destroy it-and this book takes a closer look at how exactly this epic struggle played out, and still plays out, in different parts of the world. it focuses on the efforts of specific groups to establish self-rule and democracy, and it analyzes ho...

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“There’s No Connection Plugging Me Into This System”: Citizenship as Non‐Participation and Voicelessness

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The small and remote island community, the Faroe Islands, has experienced a vast increase in immigration recently. In the space of a decade, immigration has risen from 1.5% of the population to 5.5%. The island community, previously ethnically and culturally homogenous, is now facing growing diversity. The Faroese context is characterised by its small size and a micro‐administration that is ill‐equipped for the complexities of immigration. Previous research has found that underlying the Faroese language and identity is a pervasive ideology of who is considered to “authentically belong.” Furthermore, the small population is strongly connected through multiple relations, and navigating formal and informal life depends on social/family networks. In this small island community context, this article examines immigrant citizenship experiences, drawing on qualitative data collated between 2016 and 2023. Citizenship is here understood as everyday relational and spatial experiences at various levels of society. From the analysis, two central values of citizenship emerged as key to entangled citizenship experiences: (non)participation and (mis)recognition. The analysis finds that Faroese society, both formally and informally, is highly inaccessible to immigrants, rendering them voiceless and marginalised. Furthermore, immigrants experience misrecognition for the resources they bring and find themselves on the margins of the labour market and society in general.

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Framing Non-Whites and Producing Second-Class Citizens in France and Portugal

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The dialectics of citizenship: exploring privilege, exclusion, and racialization

The dialectics of citizenship: exploring privilege, exclusion, and racialization

Achieving Restorative Justice in the Extra-Judicial Sanctions Program: Working with Racialized Immigrant Youth

“There’s No Connection Plugging Me Into This System”: Citizenship as Non‐Participation and Voicelessness

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