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‘We’re here to stay’: economic restructuring, Latino migration and place‐making in the US South
Author(s) -
Smith Barbara Ellen,
Winders Jamie
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00287.x
Subject(s) - politics , reproduction , restructuring , social reproduction , immigration , centrality , globalization , sociology , work (physics) , political economy , political science , economic geography , geography , social science , social capital , ecology , law , mechanical engineering , mathematics , combinatorics , biology , engineering
This article examines immigrants’ and long‐term residents’ intertwining practices of flexible labour and social reproduction in the American South. It analyses neoliberal globalisation's flexible‐labour demands through the body and social reproduction's spatial forms and politics through place, arguing for the centrality of these processes to both recent political shifts in the South and broader theorisations of globalisation and social reproduction. As immigrants and long‐term southern residents grapple with factors from casualised employment to militarised borders, they work to situate themselves in place as community members. The frictions between these processes create political initiatives into which our analysis offers new insight.