Lexington Books
Pages: 206
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4985-8389-3 • Hardback • November 2020 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-4985-8390-9 • eBook • November 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Victoria Carty is associate professor of sociology at Chapman University.
Chapter 1: Theories of Migration, Social Movements and Ethno-nationalism
Chapter 2: Immigration Patterns between the United States, Mexico and Central America in a Historical Perspective
Chapter 3: Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and the Rise of Euroscepticism
Chapter 4: Immigration and the Rise of White Supremacy
Chapter 5: Contentions Politics and Advocacy Work to Support Immigrant Rights
Carty brings in the power of comparative analysis across world regions to illuminate the dynamics of international migration.She masterfully documents how populist-right demagogues manipulate publics in Europe and the United States about immigration from the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America. The Immigration Crisis also incorporates empowering stories and inspiring trends of mass resistance comprised of grassroots coalitions mobilizing against xenophobic policies by states in the global North. Students and scholars of race, migration, and political sociology will find this as an indispensable work to navigate extremist politics in the age of globalization.
— Paul Almeida, University of California, Merced
To say that we are living in turbulent times would be a serious understatement. In her important new book, Victoria Carty explores the fraught, complicated relationships between three trends that are helping to fuel this turbulence: record levels of immigration world-wide, the rise of right-wing authoritarian regimes in Europe and the U.S., and the increasingly important role of social movements—on both the left and right—in shaping the politics of immigration in these countries. Anyone concerned with the issue of immigration or the threats to democracy in the West will want to read this book.
— Doug McAdam, Stanford University