Immigration and Categorical Inequality

Ernesto Castañeda is Assistant Professor of Sociology at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona (Forthcoming Stanford University Press, 2018), coeditor with Cathy L. Schneider of Collective Violence, Contentious Politics, and Social Change: A Charles Tilly Reader (Routledge, 2017), and coauthor with Charles Tilly and Lesley Wood of Social Movements 1768–2018 (Forthcoming Routledge, 2018). He has published articles on social movements, immigration, borders, and homelessness. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University.

Inspired by Charles Tilly’s brilliant insights, Ernesto Castañeda has assembled a superb roster of scholars to explore links between migration and the creation and persistence of inequality. Timely and engaging, Immigration and Categorical Inequality makes a novel contribution to scholarly debates. It will also interest a broad audience eager to understand migration. —Viviana Zelizer, Princeton UniversityErnesto Castañeda's introductory tribute to the broad sweep of Charles Tilly’s scholarship, along with studies of migrant categorization, networks, and inequality, insightfully illuminate the relational processes of social closure based on nationality, race, and ethnicity. It is a "must read" for those interested in social exclusion mechanisms. —Hilary Silver, George Washington UniversityDrawing on Charles Tilly’s foundational theorizing on migration and social boundaries, the chapters in Immigration and Categorical Inequality draw on an array of methods and contexts to show how categories of race and nation become reified, reinterpreted, redrawn. The authors in this volume stand on the shoulders of a social science giant in Tilly to help us see further into how migration shapes life across the globe. —Tomás R. Jiménez, Stanford UniversityTilly’s relational perspective on human migration offers a fresh approach to understanding a social phenomenon affecting communities across the globe. The edited collection not only introduces Tilly’s relational approach to migration scholars but also offers new theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary processes of immigrant incorporation, social networks, group boundaries, and inequality. Castañeda’s collection successfully demonstrates the continued vitality of Tilly’s scholarship for contemporary and future migration scholars. — Ali Chaudhary, Rutgers University

• Understanding Inequality, Migration, Race, and Ethnicity from a Relational Perspective – Ernesto Castañeda Migration and Categorical Inequality – Douglas Massey Immigration or Citizenship? Two Sides of One Social History – Josiah McC. Heyman Stigmatizing Immigrant Day Labor: Boundary-Making and the Built Environment in Long Island, New York – Ernesto Castañeda and Kevin R. Beck Migration-Trust Networks: Unveiling the Social Networks of International Migration -- Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal Ethnic Weddings: Reinventing the Nation in Exile – Randa Serhan Trust Networks and Durable Inequality among Korean Immigrants in Japan – Hwaji Shin Ethnic Centralities in Barcelona: Foreign-Owned Businesses between "Commercial Ghettos" and Urban Revitalization – Pau Serra del Pozo Remittance-driven Migration in spite of Microfinance? The Case of Nepalese Households – Bishal Kasu, Ernesto Castañeda, Guangqing Chi About the Contributors