El Negocio de la Pertenencia

Spanish translation of "The Business of Belonging

Gastarbeiter: Una Taxonomía

Spanish translation of "Guestworker Regimes: A Taxonomy

From Selling Tea to Selling Japaneseness: Symbolic Power and the Nationalization of Cultural Practices

This article investigates how institutions of cultural production become invested in the national meanings of their products and employ these associations for their own reproduction and expansion. The case I take is of the tea ceremony in Japan, from its pre-modern origins, through its capture by the organizational form of the iemoto system, and to its contemporary projection as a quintessence of Japaneseness. The ritual offers a particularly vivid illustration of the ways in which symbolic power can not only be periodized, first through its accumulation and then its routine exercise, but can also be successively articulated, at first with the state and then with the nation

Guestworkers: A Taxonomy

Though a global phenomenon, guest-worker programs have not yet been analyzed in broad regional comparison. Examining the temporary labor migration schemes in the areas where they have taken strongest hold – Southern Africa, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia – this paper sets out a set of propositions about guest-worker patterns within the global flows of migrant labor since the late nineteenth century. It isolates the characteristics distinctive to this mode of temporary labor migration, identifies its inherent contradictions, and develops a typology of the forms guestworker programs can take based on the ways foreign labor is integrated into a national economy (core-industrial, regional-supplemental, national-supplemental, near total, marginal) and on the type of state-society relationship in which this occurs (colonial, settler, autochthonous, rentier, and isolate)

Are golden visas a golden opportunity for economic development?

Golden visa programmes are likely to become more attractive for countries searching for a shot of foreign investment to recover from the COVID-19 crisis. But do they work? Kristin Surak writes that golden visas typically bring in no more than 0.3 per cent of GDP in revenues and aren’t large enough to make a difference in real estate markets, except for Greece. Citizens from other EU countries represent a much larger proportion of foreign investors and are more likely to destabilise real estate markets than the wealthy, often racially distinct “others” from outside Europe who sign up for golden visa programmes

Who wants to buy a visa? Comparing the uptake of residence by investment programmes in the European Union

Residence by investment programmes are available in several EU countries. These programmes grant visas in return for investments in specified areas. Drawing on a new study, Kristin Surak examines the uptake of these programmes across the EU, the characteristics of applicants, and the nature of their investments

The Business of Belonging

A critical review of Ethnicity, Inc by Jean and John Comarof