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    "pk": 42897,
    "title": "Excerpt from The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Mapping 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. \"The 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.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "race and immigration"
        },
        {
            "word": "former Soviet Union diaspora"
        },
        {
            "word": "white racial identity"
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        {
            "word": "upward mobility"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnational American Studies"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Forward",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wr8p016",
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        {
            "first_name": "Claudia",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Sadowski-Smith",
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            "institution": "Arizona State University",
            "department": "None"
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    ],
    "date_submitted": "2018-12-25T07:40:43Z",
    "date_accepted": "2018-12-25T07:40:43Z",
    "date_published": "2018-12-25T07:44:28Z",
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