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Author Good Gingrich, Luann, author.

Title Out of place : social exclusion and Mennonite migrants in Canada / Luann Good Gingrich.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016.

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Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover ; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments ; 1 Social Exclusion in a World on the Move ; Why Mennonite (im)migrants?; Why social exclusion?; What is social exclusion?; The problem of self-imposed social exclusion; Who are Mennonite (im)migrants?; The research; The book; 2 Mennonite Migrations and a Common Sense Point of View; Assessing need: Dietsche (im)migrants in Canada; Employment; Housing; Language; Education; Family systems and social networks; Migration and travel; Poverty; Compounding need; Designing social services for Dietsche (im)migrants; Common sense confrontation.
The moral work of addressing Dietsche needA common sense point of view; Contradiction, conflict, and the contest for common sense; Critical self-consciousness: Reversing the gaze; 3 Market Logic and the Order of Social Space; Point of view matters; Conceptual tools for seeing, knowing, and understanding; The market-state social field and system of capital; Circulating capital and forms of social exclusion; Economic exclusion; Spatial exclusion; Sociopolitical exclusion; Subjective exclusion; Self-sustaining spaces and places of social exclusion; 4 Everyday Practices of Social Exclusion.
Habitus and symbolic powerThe helper habitus and the classifying habit; Risk assessment; Case management; Outcomes evaluation; Symbolic power, subjective exclusion, and "site effects"; The symbolic economy of marketized human services; 5 Producing the Economic Habitus; Out-of-place livelihoods; In-between nation-place; Making a living; Earning a wage; In between earning a wage and making a living; Double jeopardy in between; 6 The Practical Sense of Self-Imposed Social Exclusion; The paradox of (im)migration; Double binds and internal splits; Out-of-place shame; Turning away from self.
The divided habitus and self-imposed social exclusionThe coherence of despair; Improvisation and divided habitus; Integrated ambiguity; 7 Social Inclusion: Ideas and Practices of Reconciliation; The nonsense of common sense social inclusion; The practical ambiguity of social inclusion; Practices of social inclusion in social policy and human services; Practices of social inclusion with Dietsche (im)migrants; What's the story?; What can we do together?; What new story do we want to co-create?; Practices of social inclusion in the everyday; The reconciling practices of Dietsche (im)migrants.
Summary In Out of Place, Luann Good Gingrich explores social inclusion and exclusion in relation to the approximately 60,000 Low German-speaking Mennonites who have migrated from isolated agricultural colonies in Latin America to rural areas of Canada.
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Subject Mennonites -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Mennonites.
Canada.
Social conditions.
Mennonites -- Canada -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Mennonites -- Services for -- Canada.
Mennonites -- Latin America.
Latin America.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Economic conditions.
Social isolation -- Canada.
Social isolation.
Canada -- Social policy.
Social policy.
Canada -- Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
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