Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe(Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

This provocative volume explores immigration law in Spain and Italy, and exposes the tension between the temporary legal status of most immigrants, and the government emphasis on integration. It demonstrates the connections among immigrants' role as cheap labor--carefully inscribed in law--and their social exclusion and racialization. At the broadest level, the book engages questions of citizenshi