{"product_id":"the-new-immigrant-whiteness-claudia-sadowski-smith-9781479847730","title":"The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the racialization of immigrants from post-Soviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and memoirs, Claudia Sadowski-Smith shows how this nationally and ethnically diverse group is associated with idealized accounts of the assimilation and upward mobility of early twentieth-century arrivals from Europe. As it traces the contributions of historical Eastern European migration to the emergence of a white racial identity that continues to provide privileges to many post-Soviet migrants, the book places the post-USSR diaspora into larger discussions about the racialization of contemporary US immigrants under neoliberal conditions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe New Immigrant Whiteness argues that legal status on arrival--as participants in refugee, marriage, labor, and adoptive migration-- impacts post-Soviet immigrants' encounters with growing socioeconomic inequalities and tightened immigration restrictions, as well as their attempts to construct transnational identities. The book examines how their perceived whiteness exposes post-Soviet family migrants to heightened expectations of assimilation, explores undocumented migration from the former Soviet Union, analyzes post-USSR immigrants' attitudes toward anti-immigration laws that target Latina\/os, and considers similarities between post-Soviet and Asian immigrants in their association with notions of upward immigrant mobility. A compelling and timely volume, The New Immigrant Whiteness offers a fresh perspective on race and immigration in the United States today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudia Sadowski-Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479847739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479847730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018","brand":"Claudia Sadowski-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123947106559,"sku":"9781479847730","price":89.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff90a30b-5e60-4aa7-b912-8b167d72358c.jpg?v=1687433836","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-new-immigrant-whiteness-claudia-sadowski-smith-9781479847730","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}