Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction: the problem of migrant marginality / Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Philip Kretsedemas -- Challenging mainstream narratives on diversity and immigration in Portugal : -- Accounting for the history of colonialism and racism / Marta Araujo -- Politics, citizenship and the construction of immigrant communities in Italy / Valentina Pagliai -- Legislated isomorphism of immigrant religion : lessons from Sweden / Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis -- Constructing otherness : media and parliamentary discourse on immigration in Slovenia / Ana Kralj -- Designed to punish : immigrant detention and deportation in the US / Mark Dow -- "We are not racists, but we do not want immigrants" : how Italy uses immigration -- Law to marginalize immigrants and create a (new) national identity / Barbara Faedda -- Gendered global ethnography : comparing migration patterns and Ukrainian emigration / Cinzia Solari -- Remittances in provincial Georgia : the case of Daba Tianeti / Tamar Zurabishivili and Tinatin Zurabishivili -- The dominican lGBTIQ movement and asylum claims in the United States / Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco -- Becoming legible and "legitimized" : subjectivation and governmentality among asylum seekers in Ireland / Deirdre Conlon -- Immigration and identity in the U.S. Virgin Islands / Jorge Capetillo-Ponce and Luis Galanes -- What rises from the ashes : nation and race in the African American enclave of Samaná / Ryan Mann-Hamilton -- Redrawing the lines : understanding race and citizenship through the lens of Afro-Mexican migrants in Winston-Salem, NC / Jennifer A. Jones -- Becoming black? : race and racial identity among Cape Verdean youth / P. Khalil Saucier -- Latino or Hispanic : the dilemma of ethno-racial classification for Brazilian immigrants in the US / Tiffany D. Joseph -- Popular culture and immigration / Rachel Rubin and Jeff Melnick -- Toward decolonizing methodologies for immigration research / Sharif Islam -- Conclusion: discourses and immigrant identities / Glenn Jacobs -- Contributors -- Index.