{"product_id":"9781479805396","title":"The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eExplores the racialization of immigrants from post-Soviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New Immigrant Whiteness\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eThe New Immigrant Whiteness\u003c\/em\u003e offers a fresh perspective on race and immigration in the United States today. ","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144699625712,"sku":"9781479805396","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781479805396_p0.jpg?v=1763618405","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479805396","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}