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Claiming the Right to Belong : = Diversity and the Politics of Inclusion in Queens, New York.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Claiming the Right to Belong :/
Reminder of title:	Diversity and the Politics of Inclusion in Queens, New York.
Author:	Tanenbaum, Susan.
Description:	1 online resource (304 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-02A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798383693353

Claiming the Right to Belong : = Diversity and the Politics of Inclusion in Queens, New York.
Tanenbaum, Susan.

Claiming the Right to Belong :Diversity and the Politics of Inclusion in Queens, New York. - 1 online resource (304 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines social integration in a diverse civic and political mainstream. The social science research on intergroup contact in U.S. cities undergoing significant demographic change tends to focus on encounters between members of majority "in-groups" and minority "out-groups" in the context of workplaces, neighborhoods, and families. I contend that civic politics is another compelling strategic site for observing intergroup contact between emerging and established players. My study presents three cases of claims-making activity during the post-9/11 period in New York City's borough of Queens, where close to 50% of the population is foreign-born and no single racial group predominates. I explore how marginalized groups deploy claims to achieve the same rights already secured by other groups. Specifically, I interrogate how diversity itself shapes the negotiations, which can result in an expansion of social membership, signifying the enactment of inclusion.In the first case, Muslim organizers counter post-9/11 backlash by requesting official sponsorship of a public ritual through deployment of a recognition claim. In the second case, Asian immigrants navigate the contested terrain of a local political institution, the community board, as they assert placemaking claims. In the third case, majority Latine organizers mobilize working-class immigrants against the city's pro-growth coalition, opposing the threat of displacement through resistance claims. Drawing upon data from 60 in-depth interviews, participant observation, and a follow-up survey, I use a case study approach to consider the effect of larger social trends on these events, and to uncover social processes across events as well as over time.My findings indicate that diversity is a living dynamic, enabling emerging players to make claims and helping established players to "manage" demographic change. Structural factors place constraints on individual agency, but the instrumentality of many participants ensures that relational processes occur. Nonprofit leaders and grassroots organizers assume the position of key mobilizers, serving as proxies or conduits for newcomers. As diversity becomes increasingly normative, public officials invoke a pro-diversity message, and civic leaders engage in bridging activities.Key mobilizers form unusual alignments with interfaith allies, traditional gatekeepers, and intellectually progressive peers, which is a pivotal strategy for enacting inclusion. In particular, 1.5 and second-generation organizers (who arrived as children or were born in the U.S. to at least one immigrant parent) prioritize ideological commitments over loyalty to co-ethnic elected officials. This dynamic challenges the reification of race and ethnicity as explanatory factors for understanding coalition-building in a diverse context. The findings from these three cases also lend empirical support to the scholarship defining citizenship not in terms of formal legal status but as participation and practice. By participating in arenas where decision-making occurs, newcomer individuals and marginalized groups claim the right to belong in the local polity.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798383693353Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Civic engagementIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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