| Migration, Reproduction and Society: Economic and Demographic Dilemmas in Global Capitalism Contributor(s): Canales (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004409211 ISBN-13: 9789004409217 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $169.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / Critical Global Studie |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.15 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the dilemmas presented by migration in the transformation of contemporary society. Aging and changing demographics in advanced societies make economic and social reproduction dependent upon the contributions made by immigration. However, these same demographic processes are conducive to ethnic transformations. The political dilemma facing advanced societies is that immigration is required to ensure their reproduction, but this entails becoming multicultural societies where the political hegemony of ethnic and demographic majorities becomes radically subverted. This paves the way to a pervasive political conflict already evident in the current immigration crisis in Europe just as in the revival of racism and xenophobia in the United States. En Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales propone un modelo te rico para el entendimiento del dilema pol tico y social concerniente al papel de las migraciones en la transformaci n de la sociedad contempor nea. El envejecimiento y decline demogr fico en las sociedades avanzadas hacen que la din mica econ mica y la reproducci n social de la poblaci n dependan directamente de los aportes que hace la inmigraci n. Sin embargo, estos mismos procesos demogr ficos propician una transformaci n tnica de sus actuales equilibrios sociales y demogr ficos. El dilema pol tico que enfrentan las sociedades avanzadas es que para asegurar su reproducci n debe necesariamente abrirse a la inmigraci n, pero ello conlleva la posibilidad de constituirse en sociedades multiculturales en donde la hegemon a pol tica de las actuales mayor as tnicas y demogr ficas se trastocar a radicalmente. Es la base de un conflicto pol tico cuyos indicios ya se advierten en la actual crisis migratoria en Europa, as como en el renacer del racismo y xenofobia en los Estados Unidos. |
