Table of Contents

1. ‘Racism’, intersectionality and migration studies: framing some theoretical reflections 2. The insertion of Roma in Sénart Project (2000–2007): a local minority-targeted affirmative action following in the footsteps of the French republican citizenship model 3. Control over female ‘Muslim’ bodies: culture, politics and dress code laws in some Muslim and non-Muslim countries 4. Can stigma become a resource? The mobilisation of aesthetic–corporal capital by female immigrant entrepreneurs from Brazil 5. ‘That unit of civilisation’ and ‘the talent peculiar to women’: British employers and their servants in the nineteenth-century Indian empire 6. Migrant women, place and identity in contemporary women’s writing 7. Practices and rhetoric of migrants’ social exclusion in Italy: intermarriage, work and citizenship as devices for the production of social inequalities

About the Author

Laura Oso is Senior Lecturer and coordinator of the Sociology of International Migration Research Team (ESOMI) at the Universidade da Coruña, Spain. Her research has focused on the study of migration, gender and labour markets (domestic service, sex work, ethnic entrepreneurship), migration and development, and the intergenerational social mobility strategies of migrant families.

Ramon Grosfoguel is a Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is internationally recognized for his work on the decolonization of knowledge and power, as well as for his work in international migration and the political-economy of the world-system.

Anastasia Christou is Associate Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University, London, UK. She has conducted research in the United States, UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, and Iceland. Her most recent book is Counter-diaspora: The Greek Second Generation Returns ‘Home’ (with R. King, 2014).