scrutiny, securitization, and surveillance (e.g., Berns-McGown 2013 ; Giwa et al. 2014 ; Razack 2007 ; Sirin and Fine 2007 ). Academic, government, and media characterizations have stereotyped Somali-Canadians as violent outsiders who needed additional
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“Nothing Is Expensive, Everything Cheap, Nothing Explosive!”
Side Stories from Molenbeek, Brussels
Christine Moderbacher
familiar streets in their neighborhood ( Mazzocchetti 2012: 3 ). The feelings of anger and injustice are enforced by dynamics of discrimination, racism, and the stereotypical images conveyed by, lately also international, media. Figure 2. Crossing
Laborers, Migrants, Refugees
Managing Belonging, Bodies, and Mobility in (Post)Colonial Kenya and Tanzania
Hanno Brankamp and Patricia Daley
racial stereotyping and hierarchies meant that workers were defined by their aptitude for hard work. The Hutus from Burundi were stigmatized as “dirty” but also hard workers who could do the most arduous tasks on plantations. Hutus escaping racial
Dirty Work, Dangerous Others
The Politics of Outsourced Immigration Enforcement in Mexico
Wendy Vogt
violence, insecurity, and economic precarity. In this context, Central American migrants, as gendered and racialized others, become easily stereotyped as criminals, delinquents, rapists, and kidnappers. Cultural crises and hysteria around immigrants
“It's a Big Umbrella”
Uncertainty, Pentecostalism, and the Integration of Zimbabwe Exemption Permit Immigrants in Johannesburg, South Africa
Tinashe Chimbidzikai
, like Zimbabwean migrants, to deal with sociocultural, economic, and political forces that produce the adversities they experience. Pentecostalism challenges stereotypes and visual representations, which portray survival migrants as essentialized
Heather Wurtz and Olivia Wilkinson
innovation too; and that local faith actors are problematic because they are prone to proselytization, yet with little appreciation of the nuance of religious expression and motivations. Generalizations and stereotypes from a Northern perspective categorize
Working against and with the State
From Sanctuary to Resettlement
Audrey Macklin
were aging, so they doubted their capacity to sustain a family in sanctuary for an extended period. They also recognized that the government of the day actively vilified Roma, and some members rehearsed negative stereotypes of Roma criminality. In