4. From the “Imagined Community” to “Communities of Practice”: Immigrant Belonging Among Vietnamese Americans

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Inclusion and Exclusion: Discourses of Belonging
6. Introduction 19
7. 1. Kabyle Immigrant Politics and Racialized Citizenship in France 23
8. 2. On Belonging in/to Italy and Europe: Citizenship, Race, and the “Immigration Problem” 43
9. 3. The Irish Citizenship Referendum (2004): Motherhood and Belonging in Ireland 60
10. 4. From the “Imagined Community” to “Communities of Practice”: Immigrant Belonging Among Vietnamese Americans 78
11. Part II. Political Mobilization and Claims Making
12. Introduction 99
13. 5. Migrants’ Mobilization and Anthropology: Reflections from the Experience of Latin Americans in the United Kingdom 103
14. 6. Odyssean Refugees, Migrants, and Power: Construction of the “Other” and Civic Participation within the Polish Community in the United Kingdom 124
15. 7. Origin Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Antiracist Mobilizations in France 144
16. 8. “Call Us Vote People”: Citizenship, Migration, and Transnational Politics in Haitian and Mexican Locations 162
17. Part III. New Spaces of Citizenship
18. Introduction 181
19. 9. Globalization and Citizenship: The Chinese in Silicon Valley 183
20. 10. “And Ye Shall Possess It, and Dwell Therein”: Social Citizenship, Global Christianity and Nonethnic Immigrant Incorporation 203
21. 11. Immigrants as Netizens: Political Mobilization in Cyberspace 226
22. Afterword: Some Concluding Reflections 244
23. References 253
24. Contributors 281
25. Index 285