Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181317h
Fenggang Yang
during his childhood in South Chicago and is present among Black Americans today. Despite its merits, there are several critiques to be raised with this text. In places, this book appears to be written for readers who are already familiar with Black identity scholarship and Cross’s work. Too often terms and phrases are engaged in the text before they are defined or given context. For example, the ‘‘buffering’’ strategy for protecting identity appears on page 83, but the term is not aptly defined until page 86. Until it is defined, the reader is left to use context clues to fully understand the meaning and practice of buffering. Similarly, though the term eudaimonia appears in the title of the book, there is no section of the text that unpacks its meaning or application to Black identity. As such, the term ‘‘eudaimonia’’ is mostly implied and alluded to throughout the text. At each brief mention (a sentence or two here and there) the term is defined a little differently, and the reader is left to connect the dots of ‘‘eudaimonia’’ and Black identity for themselves. After having read the book, I have a general sense of the author’s direction and intention for this term. But in truth, I am left with more questions than answers. Finally, I must offer that I was disappointed that the ‘‘barber’s chair’’ motif did not figure more prominently into the text. As the author implies, childhood and adult experiences in Black barber and beauty shops can greatly inform a sense of identity and community. Given the title of the book, the title of the first chapter, and the photo on the book cover, many readers will be expecting this concept to be well integrated throughout the text. While the ‘‘barbershop bias’’ is disused briefly in the first chapter, it does not figure prominently into the text as whole and feels a bit like a ‘‘bait and switch.’’ The strengths of this text are many. Notwithstanding my previous comments about the presentation of concepts and terms, the text does not present as overly abstract or esoteric. In fact, the major themes and concepts are illustrated for the reader through application to historical events and prominent figures in ways that will resonate with many audiences. Though readers will have to do a bit of digging for the meaning of some of the key terms, the book is still accessible and digestible to learners at various levels, including advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and academics. Next, the book is interdisciplinary in its approach, drawing from the broad fields of history, psychology, sociology, literature, and art. This approach lends itself well to discussions of identity, since the character of humanity is complex, including the social, the creative, and the psychological self. For this reason, the book will also appeal to some readers outside of the academy. In all, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is a worthwhile and engaging read for anyone interested in Black humanity and experiences.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181317n
S. Gasteyer
‘permanent’—in other words, those that were to be taken up as the thinker’s own thought’’ and distinguish it from what he calls ‘‘discards.’’ This is especially true, Gramsci says, ‘‘when one is dealing with a personality in whom theoretical and practical activity are indissolubly intertwined and with an intellect in a process of continual creation and perpetual movement, with a strong and mercilessly vigorous sense of self-criticism. Given these premises, the work should be conducted on the following lines: 1. Reconstruction of the author’s biography, not only as regards his practical activity, but also and above all as regards his intellectual activity. 2. A catalogue of all his works, even those most easily overlooked, in chronological order, divided according to intrinsic criteria—of intellectual formation, maturity, possession, and application of the new way of thinking and conceiving life and the world. Search for the Leitmotiv, for the rhythm of the thought as it develops, should be more important than that for single casual affirmations and isolated aphorisms’’ (1971:383–84). Frétigné’s biography generally hits the mark on both fronts, especially the first. What it does not do, what has never yet been accomplished, even for Marx, is to create the kind of myth that, for Gramsci, makes Machiavelli’s The Prince so powerful, giving ‘‘imaginative and artistic form to his conception . . . such a procedure stimulates the artistic imagination of those who have to be convinced, and gives political passions a more concrete form’’ (see Gramsci 1971:125–26). It remains to create such myths for a new party. To Live Is to Resist should be read and studied, and used in such an endeavor.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181317p
K. Freeman
At its most fundamental, ‘‘social science is the process of creating generalizable knowledge that explains or predicts societal patterns’’ (p. 264). Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences seeks to provide readers with a model to do just this, but with a relatively untapped form of data, at least for the social sciences. Using text as data happens frequently in the computer science world, and Justin Grimmer, Margaret E. Roberts, and Brandon M. Stewart, the authors of this text, seek to extend known computer science methodology to align with social science methodological principles. The authors bridge this gap by applying our methodological models (some of them, at least) to this novel, timerelevant, and expanding form of data. This is an ambitious text that, at different stages, provides critical insight for undergraduates, graduate students across the social sciences, and practitioners. Text as Data systematically walks readers through the research process, from selection and representation to discovery to measurement and, finally, to inference and prediction. In the first section of the text, they concisely detail this model of research and the justifications behind it for the more novice scholars. The text then introduces each stage of this research process, laying out the assumptions and best practices informing this specific approach with text as data. Common to all of these introductory chapters is the emphasis on the crucial role of the human researcher. The authors do not shy away from a common fear in analyses with ‘‘big data,’’ that human work is becoming obsolete and theory is disappearing. Instead, they make a compelling case that although the analytic processes necessitated by ‘‘big data’’ may seem (and sometimes even be named) as if computers are operating independently of theory and of humans, the social science project will only succeed with the continued and constant engagement of the human-generated ideas behind the projects. Following each of these introductory chapters that adeptly frame the overall endeavor and lay out the novel application of research methods to text data, the authors present a thorough overview of the many ways in which practitioners can pursue research with text data. Here, the authors present work that has already been done in the social sciences (e.g., authorship of the Federalist papers, identifying a model of Congressional ideology from press releases, authorship and tone of tweets from former President Trump) and also work through one or more basic algorithms to link the reader to the algebraic and mathematical progressions that provide the foundation for machine learning (or other similarly opaque procedures). Concluding these detailed presentations of possible steps through the research process, the text progresses to the next step in the research process (i.e., from measurement to inference), clearly linking and overlapping these processes where appropriate. Often
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181317j
Thomas V. Maher
For the past fifteen years, when I tell someone that I study social movements, one of the most common responses is, ‘‘Well, you sure have a lot to write about.’’ With its substantive breadth, Anthony DiMaggio’s book Rebellion in America: Citizen Uprisings, the News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy is an excellent reminder of the truth behind this sentiment. Covering a wide range of movements loosely related to the persistence of plutocracy in American society, DiMaggio argues that these contemporary social movements are motivated by a sense of economic injustice and social identity and that progressive change is driven by social movements rather than politicians or political parties. DiMaggio’s book is organized around five ‘‘movements’’: The Tea Party, The Economic Justice movement (including the Wisconsin uprising, Occupy, and the Fight for 15), pre2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM, with the responses to the murders of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray treated as separate campaigns), the Populist Party campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, and the Anti-Trump uprising (including the Women’s March, #MeToo, and several eventspecific campaigns) that followed his election. Each campaign gets a well-organized chapter that typically starts with a brief description of the social problem, followed by a history of the campaign, an analysis of the media coverage and public opinion, and a summary of the policy or social outcomes. The author takes a mixed-method approach, triangulating across participant observation of the Tea Party, Wisconsin protests, and anti-Trump protests, content analysis of media coverage, and regression analysis of public opinion (pp. 11–12). The content analysis focuses on the relative positivity of media coverage for the campaigns and the issues they care about. The author identifies issues that are nominally positive or negative for the movement and reports the portion of local and national articles that discuss those issues. For example, if a paper reported that Scott Walker was attacking collective bargaining, it would be coded as positive; but if the article stated that Walker was concerned about budget deficits, it would be coded as negative. These are not mutually exclusive (and not treated as such), and some categories lack variability, but they do offer subtle insights into the difference in the scale of coverage as well as how media coverage was largely positive for some movements (Madison) while more ‘‘balanced’’ in its coverage of others (BLM and Occupy). DiMaggio also conducts binomial and ordered logit regression analyses of demographic differences in public opinion (largely from Pew Research Center) on the movements or campaignrelated issues. While these models often seem overfitted (with 201 variables and separate indicators for Blacks, Black men, and poor Black men, for example), the results largely operate predictably (White conservatives support the Tea Party, Black people support BLM, etc.). There are some
在过去的十五年里，当我告诉别人我研究社会运动时，最常见的回答之一是，“好吧，你肯定有很多东西要写。”安东尼·迪马乔（Anthony DiMaggio）的著作《美国的叛乱：公民起义、新闻媒体和权力政治》（Rebellion in America:Citizen Uprisons，the News Media，and the Politics of Plutocracy）以其实质性的广度，极好地提醒了人们这种情绪背后的真相。DiMaggio涵盖了一系列与美国社会财阀统治的持续存在松散相关的运动，他认为这些当代社会运动的动机是经济不公正感和社会认同感，而进步变革是由社会运动而不是政治家或政党驱动的。DiMaggio的书围绕五个“运动”组织：茶党、经济正义运动（包括威斯康星州起义、占领和争取15人运动）、2020年前黑人的命也是命（BLM，对迈克尔·布朗和弗雷迪·格雷谋杀案的回应被视为单独的运动）、伯尼·桑德斯和唐纳德·特朗普的民粹主义政党运动，以及他当选后的反特朗普起义（包括妇女游行、#MeToo和几场针对特定事件的运动）。每一次竞选都有一个组织严密的章节，通常以对社会问题的简要描述开始，然后是竞选历史、对媒体报道和公众舆论的分析，以及对政策或社会结果的总结。作者采用了一种混合方法，对茶党、威斯康星州抗议活动和反特朗普抗议活动的参与者观察、媒体报道的内容分析和公众舆论的回归分析进行了三角测量（第11-12页）。内容分析的重点是媒体对竞选活动的报道的相对积极性以及他们关心的问题。作者确定了名义上对运动有利或不利的问题，并报告了地方和国家文章中讨论这些问题的部分。例如，如果一篇论文报道斯科特·沃克正在攻击集体谈判，它将被编码为积极的；但如果这篇文章说沃克担心预算赤字，那么它就会被编码为负面。这些并不是相互排斥的（也没有被视为相互排斥的），有些类别缺乏可变性，但它们确实提供了对报道规模差异的微妙见解，以及媒体报道如何在很大程度上对一些运动（麦迪逊）是积极的，而对其他运动（土地管理局和占领运动）的报道则更加“平衡”。DiMaggio还对公众舆论（主要来自皮尤研究中心）在运动或竞选相关问题上的人口统计学差异进行了二项和有序logit回归分析。虽然这些模型往往看起来过于拟合（例如，黑人、黑人男性和贫穷黑人男性有201个变量和单独的指标），但结果在很大程度上是可预测的（白人保守派支持茶党，黑人支持土地管理局等），但威斯康辛州的经济正义运动和占领运动却没有。这本书在几个方面取得了成功。它引用了数量惊人的报纸、博客和在线新闻文章，在六章中全面叙述了至少十场运动的竞选活动。虽然运动和问题的数量之多意味着这些章节都没有太多深度，但对如此广泛的运动进行简洁的总结，对于有兴趣刷新21世纪初主要运动知识的学者来说将是有用的。这本书的理论重点是社会运动作为道德企业家所扮演的角色，强调了健康的社会运动部门对于产生新思想和推动我们的政治制度朝着更进步的方向发展是多么重要。然而，这本书也有一些局限性。首先，似乎没有一个连贯的334评论
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181316c
Keesha M Middlemass
division replacing the bottom (last place) two teams that drop down one competitive level for the following season. Typically, the lowest tier is comparable in talent to a local YMCA adult recreational sport league. Above the bottom two levels, players are compensated according to their ability and value to their team. In this book, Guest has done an excellent job by blending relevant sociological concepts to explain soccer’s extraordinary international importance and popularity while acknowledging that the game remains irrelevant to most U.S. sport fans.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181317gg
M. Vidal
the role of sampling and other methodological concepts in qualitative research, and organizing and coding data. Its section on training researchers features unexpectedly moving passages about the emotional toll this research had on researchers, including Rudes herself, while reviewing how these impacts were managed. Despite the book’s many strengths, one disadvantage of its style is that the reader never gets to know the interviewees’ individual stories in depth beyond relatively brief one-off quotes. Rudes explains that she deliberately avoided presenting more than one quote with the same pseudonym, since repeated quotes could enable the identification of individuals and pose security risks. Observation of the RHUs was also impossible due to institutional concerns. These restrictions, though understandable, diminish the data’s ethnographic richness. As someone most familiar with the grounded theory and extended case method approaches to qualitative research, I was initially surprised at the book’s lack of detailed engagement with theory. Aside from the concept of masked malignancy, which reappears periodically in the book as a way of capturing the various hidden harms generated by RHUs, theorization is largely absent. Yet this is not necessarily a shortcoming, since there are many legitimate ways to envision the role of theory in qualitative research. The book’s restrained approach to theory, aside from being friendly to the lay reader, seems consistent with the view of some sociologists, like Max Besbris and Shamus Khan (2017), who argue for empirical description and novel empirical findings for their own sake, with minimal theoretical explanations. The book does, it is worth noting, do a fine job of placing its findings in the context of previous research and findings from other fields. Surviving Solitary illustrates well the potential magic of qualitative research: how simply letting people speak for themselves, with some sparse yet insightful commentary, can function as a devastating critique. Thebook would be a fitting addition to a corrections class or a monograph-based introductory course. But most of all, I want copies in the hands of policy-makers.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181316b
Robert Podhurst
With Soccer in Mind: A Thinking Fan’s Guide to the Global Game, Andrew Guest has written an excellent, highly relevant book that examines topics including soccer’s extraordinary popularity and untapped potential for nation-building (more about this aspirational potential later). The unanswered question is, ‘‘can soccer, as a globally shared cultural form, actually do good in the world?’’ Here, the author’s obvious affection for the game somewhat clouds his judgment. The gatekeepers of soccer—and their American counterparts responsible for football, basketball, and baseball—share one absolute objective: to grow their respective sport by promoting elite youth programs to produce the next generation of superstars. The author provides an important service to readers by accurately capturing the sexist history of FIFA. One of many examples is Canada conducting the Women’s World Cup tournament on artificial turf fields, ‘‘a surface expressly prohibited for the men’s tournament.’’ I do have several issues with Guest. One revolves around his well-intended aspiration that soccer can actually do good in the world. Another involves applying social science to prioritize people and neglected regions over profit and winning. In reality, irrespective of geography, the more important the game becomes—from soccer in Europe and South America to American football and basketball—the more the objective is winning and the intense emotional and psychological joy derived from being a fan and supporting winning teams. Guest engages in a bit of wishful thinking by suggesting that we utilize social science to develop ‘‘a more enjoyable, enriching, and effectual experience of the game.’’ Fanhood ‘‘transports the individual into a special world . . . filled with exceptionally intense forces that take hold of the fan.’’ Jerseys, scarves, and flags are used to signify fandom and publicly solidify one’s unquestioned loyalty and identity. The inclusive acronym BIRG—‘‘Basking in Reflected Glory’’—describes the satisfaction of supporting a successful team. This mindset is consistent with the pronoun ‘‘WE’’ after defeating an archrival. Guest also does an admirable job in describing FIFA’s opposition to the Women’s World Cup, muting its criticism after the 2015 World Cup when the women’s games garnered the largest TV audiences of any soccer games ever televised in the United States. I disagree with Guest when he writes, ‘‘more than any nation, the U.S. has politicized its Olympic participation.’’ Russia conveniently waited until after the Chinese Winter Olympics was concluded before invading Ukraine. Another example is blatant doping among medal winners, which has become a familiar narrative involving specific Russian athletes. An important critique involves the author’s utopian perspective that ‘‘soccer can be fashioned as a social good’’ and the hope that the game will ‘‘prioritize people and places over profit and performance.’’ This idealistic aspiration is overcome by the absol
安德鲁·盖斯特(Andrew Guest)写了一本出色的、高度相关的书，探讨了足球的非凡受欢迎程度和未开发的国家建设潜力(稍后将详细介绍这种理想潜力)。没有答案的问题是，“足球作为一种全球共享的文化形式，真的能为世界带来好处吗?”在这里，作者对游戏的明显喜爱多少影响了他的判断。足球的守门员——以及他们负责足球、篮球和棒球的美国同行——都有一个绝对的目标:通过促进精英青年项目来培养下一代超级明星，从而发展他们各自的运动。作者通过准确地捕捉国际足联的性别歧视历史，为读者提供了重要的服务。其中一个例子是加拿大在人造草皮球场上举办女足世界杯，而这种场地是明确禁止男足比赛的。“我和盖斯特确实有一些问题。一个是围绕着他善意的愿望，即足球实际上可以在世界上做善事。另一种方法是运用社会科学来优先考虑人和被忽视的地区，而不是利润和胜利。事实上，无论地理位置如何，从欧洲和南美的足球到美式足球和篮球，比赛越重要，目标就越是获胜，以及作为球迷和支持获胜球队所带来的强烈情感和心理上的快乐。Guest认为我们可以利用社会科学去创造“更有趣，更丰富，更有效的游戏体验”。“粉丝”将个人带入一个特殊的世界……充满了异常强烈的力量来控制风扇。“球衣、围巾和旗帜被用来表示粉丝的身份，并在公开场合巩固一个人毋庸置疑的忠诚和身份。BIRG——“沐浴在荣耀中”——描述了支持一个成功团队的满足感。这种心态与击败劲敌后的代词“WE”是一致的。在描述国际足联对女足世界杯的反对时，盖斯特也做了令人钦佩的工作，在2015年世界杯之后，他平息了对女足世界杯的批评，当时女足世界杯在美国的电视转播中获得了最多的电视观众。我不同意盖斯特的观点，他写道:“美国比任何一个国家都更把参加奥运会政治化。”俄罗斯很方便地等到中国冬奥会结束后才入侵乌克兰。另一个例子是奖牌获得者明目张胆地服用兴奋剂，这已经成为一个熟悉的故事，涉及特定的俄罗斯运动员。一个重要的批评包括作者乌托邦式的观点，即“足球可以被塑造成一种社会公益”，并希望这项运动“优先考虑人和地方，而不是利润和表现”。这种理想主义的渴望被对结果的绝对重视和胜利的狂喜所克服。在整本书中，盖斯特将迪尔凯姆、韦伯、齐美尔和詹姆斯所提出的相关社会学和心理学概念联系起来，以帮助描述作为一个忠实的体育迷所产生的强烈情感体验。作者在安德鲁·m·盖斯特(Andrew M. Guest)的《足球思想:一个有思想的球迷的全球比赛指南》一书中正确地描述了“球迷圈”是如何经常把我们最糟糕的一面带出来的。New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2021。211页，26.95美元。ISBN: 9781978817319。302篇复习论文
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181317aa
L. Miller
Bartels, Larry. 2008. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Buchmueller, Thomas C., Zachary M. Levinson, Helen G. Levy, and Barbara L. Wolfe. 2016. ‘‘Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage’’ American Journal of Public Health 106(8):1416–21. Derlet, Robert W. 2021. Corporatizing American Health Care: How We Lost Our Health Care System. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Douthit, Nathan, Sakal Kiv, Tzvi Dwolatzky, and Seema Biswas. 2015. ‘‘Exposing Some Important Barriers to Health Care Access in the Rural USA.’’ Public Health 129(6):611–20. Hacker, Jacob S., and Paul Pierson. 2010. WinnerTake-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. New York: Simon and Schuster. Lillie-Blanton, Marsha, and Catherine Hoffman. 2005. ‘‘The Role of Health Insurance Coverage in Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.’’ Health Affairs 24(2):398–408. McGregor, Alyson J. 2020. Sex Matters: How MaleCentric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health and What We Can Do About It. New York: Hachette Books. Metzl, Jonathan M. 2019. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. New York: Hachette. Michener, Jamila. 2018. Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press. Michener, Jamila. 2020. ‘‘Race, Politics, and the Affordable Care Act.’’ Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 45(4):547–66. Morgan, Kimberly J., and Andrea Louise Campbell. 2011. The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of Social Policy. New York: Oxford University Press. Page, Benjamin I., Jason Seawright, and Matthew J. Lacombe. 2018. Billionaires and Stealth Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Rosenthal, Elisabeth. 2017. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back. New York: Penguin Publishing. Smith, David Barton. 2016. The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health Care System. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. Starr, Paul. 1982. The Social Transformation of American Medicine. New York: Basic Books.
巴特尔斯，拉里。2008年，《不平等的民主：新镀金时代的政治经济学》。新泽西州普林斯顿：普林斯顿大学出版社。布赫穆勒、托马斯·C、扎卡里·M·莱文森、海伦·G·利维和芭芭拉·L·沃尔夫。2016年，《平价医疗法案对医疗保险覆盖范围内种族和族裔差异的影响》，《美国公共卫生杂志》106（8）：1416-21。Robert W.Derlet，2021。美国医疗保健公司化：我们如何失去我们的医疗保健系统。巴尔的摩：约翰·霍普金斯大学出版社。Douthit、Nathan、Sakal Kiv、Tzvi Dwolatzky和Seema Biswas。2015年，“暴露出美国农村获得医疗保健的一些重要障碍”，公共卫生129（6）：611-20。Hacker、Jacob S.和Paul Pierson。2010年，《WinnerTake All Politics：华盛顿如何让富人变得更富有——并背弃中产阶级》。纽约：西蒙和舒斯特。莉莉·布兰顿、玛莎和凯瑟琳·霍夫曼。2005年，“健康保险在减少医疗保健中种族/民族差异方面的作用”卫生事务24（2）：398–408。McGregor，Alyson J.2020。《性很重要：以男性为中心的医学如何危害女性健康以及我们能做些什么》，纽约：哈切特出版社。乔纳森·梅茨尔，2019。白人的死亡：种族仇恨政治如何扼杀美国的心脏地带。纽约：哈切特。米切纳，贾米拉。2018年，《支离破碎的民主：医疗补助、联邦制和不平等政治》。纽约：剑桥大学出版社。米切纳，贾米拉。2020年，《种族、政治和平价医疗法案》《卫生政治、政策和法律杂志》45（4）：547-66。Morgan、Kimberly J.和Andrea Louise Campbell。2011年，委托福利国家：医疗保险、市场和社会政策治理。纽约：牛津大学出版社。佩奇、本杰明一世、杰森·西赖特和马修·J·拉孔贝。2018年，亿万富翁与隐形政治。芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社。伊丽莎白·罗森塔尔。2017年，《美国疾病：医疗保健如何成为大企业以及如何夺回它》。纽约：企鹅出版社。史密斯，大卫·巴顿。2016年，《治愈的力量：民权、医疗保险和改革美国医疗体系的斗争》。纳什维尔：范德比尔特大学出版社。斯塔尔，保罗。1982年，《美国医学的社会转型》。纽约：基础书籍。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/00943061231181317jj
E. D. Graauw
This important and insightful book documents migrants’ everyday encounters with Italy’s ‘‘documentation regime,’’ a bewildering government bureaucracy lacking transparency, accountability, and consistency that migrants must navigate to secure and maintain legal status, bring family members into the country, and attain Italian citizenship. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2016 in a city in the northern EmiliaRomagna region, Rules, Paper, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy follows migrants, their nongovernmental advisors, and public officials who implement and bend the rules interpreting Italy’s exclusionary yet flexible immigration laws that regulate the lives of migrants residing in Italy. Anna Tuckett vividly describes how Italy’s frequently changing immigration laws and their inconsistent implementation produce anxiety, insecurity, and tensions for migrants, who experience continued social marginalization even if they are long-term, culturally integrated residents. Yet she also highlights how migrants with knowledge of Italian immigration laws can become brokers and advisors to other migrants, in the process building social and economic capital while ensuring that Italy’s migration bureaucracy does not succumb to its own irrationality. The book is clearly structured and has eight chapters. The Introduction discusses the increased bureaucratization of migration flows and provides an overview of migrants in Italy and Italian immigration laws, which are simultaneously harsh and lenient. Chapter One introduces the book’s central fieldwork site: a migrant advice center affiliated with a labor union that helps migrants with filling out forms and offers advice on navigating Italy’s precarious immigration bureaucracy. Chapters Two and Three explore how first-generation migrants manipulate and successfully navigate this bureaucracy using both informal and extralegal rule-bending, practices that can put migrants in danger of losing legal status or prevent them from obtaining Italian citizenship. Chapter Four focuses on community brokers, migrants who use their knowledge of Italian immigration laws and cultural dexterity to help others while improving their own community standing and socioeconomic mobility. While Chapter Five considers how encounters with Italy’s immigration bureaucracy create upset and disjuncture for 1.5and second-generation migrants, Chapter Six discusses how uncertain legal status, discrimination, and lack of social mobility cause many migrants to feel disappointment and personal failure and to view Italy as a stepping stone to a better destination elsewhere in Europe. The Conclusion contextualizes the book’s findings within broader processes of contemporary migration and globalization and points out the political utilities—to different public and private actors—of the Italian immigration system’s contradictions. One of the book’s strengths lies in its contributions t
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