Moral bricolage and immigrant identification: The case of Romanian Americans

Crăciun, Mariana

doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.629001

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“…The difference between Roma and Romanians was also drawn with the help of racialised markers. In different ways, our participants asserted their superiority as white Europeans compared to non-white minorities in Britain (in the US context, see Craciun, 2011). Migrants' claims to whiteness powerfully surfaced in their attempts to rule out any possible confusion with the Roma in everyday interaction.…”

Section: Invoking Ethnicity: Transferring the Stigma To The Romamentioning

confidence: 90%

“…This affords Romanians the choice of 'passing' through the temporary concealment of their ethno-national identity. 'Every time I'm asked where I'm from, I avoid saying I'm from Romania', Olivia (a business analyst) confessed (for similarities in other contexts, see Craciun, 2011; Jones forthcoming). However, the advantage of anonymity was quickly dispelled in mixed interactions which frequently involved acts of disclosure, triggered either by identity document checks or the inevitable queries about migrants' origin.…”

Section: Invoking Ethnicity: Transferring the Stigma To The Romamentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘No smoke without fire’: Strategies of coping with stigmatised migrant identities

Moroşanu

Fox

2013

Ethnicities

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This paper examines how ethnicity informs the ways in which Romanian migrants in the UK cope with stigmatisation. Instead of assuming ethnicity’s relevance, our purpose is to examine how responses to stigmatisation may or may not become ethnicised. We consider two strategies. The first strategy invokes and reinforces the salience of ethnicity, albeit in a negative and thus still stigmatised way. Instead of countering stigma with a positive reappraisal of ‘Romanianness’, some Romanians seek to transfer the stigma onto the ethnic Roma with whom they are frequently associated. This strategy thus acknowledges stigma, but attempts to detach it from the self and reattach it to the ethnicised other. The second strategy emphasises individual skills and accomplishments to overshadow the effects of a stigmatised ethnicity. Ethnicity is made less salient by this switch to a register of personal skill and worth. Exploring the interplay of these coping strategies, we highlight the fluctuating relevance, rather than declining relevance, of an ‘ethnic lens’ (Glick Schiller et al., 2006) in individual migrants’ de-stigmatising discourses and practices that produce, transform or at times elide different ethnic boundaries.

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Section: Invoking Ethnicity: Transferring the Stigma To The Romamentioning

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Section: Invoking Ethnicity: Transferring the Stigma To The Romamentioning

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‘No smoke without fire’: Strategies of coping with stigmatised migrant identities

Moroşanu

Fox

2013

Ethnicities

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“…The consensus that ‘ Hua - Ren bosses are exploitative’ creates a cultural stereotype that distinguishes ethnic Chinese bosses from other ethnic groups, even though exploitation may also happen among other ethnic groups. As some scholars suggest (Craciun, 2013; Lamont, 2000; Waters, 1990), people tend to ascribe cultural meanings and values to specific ethnicities. Ethnic Chinese migrants do not think co-ethnic employers will provide them with proper jobs.…”

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Constituting Co-Ethnic Exploitation: The Economic and Cultural Meanings of Cash-in-Hand Jobs for Ethnic Chinese Migrants in Australia

2015

Critical Sociology

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This article asks two questions: for immigrants, how is an exploitative labor market constituted, and how do immigrant employees and employers understand exploitation involving co-ethnics? Taking ethnic Chinese immigrants (PRC-Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kongese) as an example, this article examines employer hiring strategies, employee economic rationales, cultural perceptions, and the work experiences of ethnic Chinese migrant workers who find work in the informal sector in Australia. This article argues that language barriers, relatively higher earnings than home countries, the flexibility of cash-in-hand jobs, and the low expectation that job-seekers have of co-ethnic employers increase the willingness of ethnic Chinese migrants to work in the cash economy. On the other hand, employers look for an 'obedient' employee and create the image of a 'good boss' to decrease the expression of hostile emotions from their employees. Considering how economic factors and mutual cultural perceptions are embedded and reflected in the informal labor market, this article concludes that co-ethnic exploitation is formulated and justified by both employers and employees in Australia.

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“…Leopold (1991Leopold ( [1932:169), for example, described shooting pen-reared ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) as "a good show," but hunting wild northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) or greater prairiechickens (Tympanuchus cupido) as a "grand opera." Thus, we suggest these individuals have the same interest in fighting wildlife privatization and commodification as immigrant groups have in fighting forced cultural assimilation (Bhatia and Ram 2009, Craciun 2013, Wimmer and Soehl 2014. Just as many immigrants perceive forced assimilation into the broader culture as destroying their personal identity, wildlife biologists, and others closely connected to free-roaming wildlife, may perceive wildlife privatization and commodification as destructive to their personal identity because both forced cultural assimilation and wildlife privatization and commodification deny members of these respective groups the freedom to construct their own identity.…”

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What makes wildlife wild? How identity may shape the public trust versus wildlife privatization debate

Peterson

2016

Wildl. Soc. Bull.

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Wildlife conservation policy discussions in the United States and Canada often revolve around historical accounts of the success of wildlife management grounded in the public trust doctrine. We suggest that the usefulness of these discussions is partially limited by failure to consider the importance of wildlife “identity” rooted in freedom (i.e., how humans socially construct the “wildness” dimension of wild animals). To demonstrate the interrelations between identity and freedom, we explain that the class of subjects people care most about—partners, children, and people in general—typically should not be privately owned (i.e., chattel) because freedom (as opposed to slavery) is generally accepted as central to human identity, and its abrogation therefore degrades human identity. The degree to which this ethical argument applies to privatization of wildlife depends upon the relationship between freedom and the identity of wildlife as perceived by society. Thus, we suggest policy decisions regarding privatization of wildlife will be more accurately deliberated if society and wildlife professionals more completely considered the degree to which freedom is essential to a wild species’ identity and the degree to which that identity is inviolable. © 2016 The Wildlife Society.

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Moral bricolage and immigrant identification: The case of Romanian Americans

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

‘No smoke without fire’: Strategies of coping with stigmatised migrant identities

‘No smoke without fire’: Strategies of coping with stigmatised migrant identities

Constituting Co-Ethnic Exploitation: The Economic and Cultural Meanings of Cash-in-Hand Jobs for Ethnic Chinese Migrants in Australia

What makes wildlife wild? How identity may shape the public trust versus wildlife privatization debate

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