Moving Difference: Brazilians in London
In: Routledge Advances in Ethnography Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Brazilian migration -- Colonisation and slavery in Brazil -- Hierarchy and difference in post- -- Here and there: ethnography and difference -- Moving forward -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Arriving and settling in London: difference in motion -- Brazilian migration to/in the United Kingdom -- Brazil and decisions to migrate -- Leonardo -- Tiago -- Dealing with the border -- Leonardo, Manoel and Maria -- Elza and Tiago -- Working, living and negotiating the migration project -- Leonardo -- Manoel -- Maria -- Elza -- Tiago -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 2: The law and its others -- De-naturalising the state and its (moral) categories -- Problematizing the figure of the 'good migrant' -- Differential inclusion structuring lives -- Negotiating 'the good' and 'the bad' migrant -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Negotiating 'culture' and racism -- Inferiorising Brazilians and Brazil through culture, 'race' and gender -- Drawing closer to Western Europeans/British bodies and spaces -- Negotiating 'Britishness' and navigating 'Brazilian- -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: (Re)making class differences in London -- Cosmopolitans and the Brazilian migrant -- Rearranging class: the precarious cosmopolitans and the 'uneducated migrant worker' -- Making and negotiating (spatialised) class through morality -- Negotiating class through (disgusting) bodies and taste -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: 'The migrant' and the boundaries of 'community' -- In dialogue with the stigmatised 'Brazilian migrant' and 'the community' -- Reflection and self- critique: negotiating 'Brazilians' and 'community' -- Drawing class boundaries: workers and students -- Re-drawing class boundaries: 'the in-betweeners' -- Conclusion -- Notes.