Vilna Bashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734268 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vilna Bashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vilna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bashi |
| SIGNATURE | BASHI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Red tape and racialized legal status
Tiffany Joseph's 2025 book Not All In explains how Dominican, Salvadoran, and Brazilian immigrants in Boston, Massachusetts, navigate a healthcare system horribly transformed by the collision of new federal health care programming with formerly successful state-level care. New state reforms followed the Affordable Care Act, and the new offerings, ironically, blocked immigrants' access to care. Inconsistent information, restrictive eligibility rul…
Epistemicide and epistemological disobedience
This article contributes to the ERS symposium on Ali Meghji's 2023 book, A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises (Temple University Press). While offering a selective review of the book's contents, author Vilna Bashi focuses on the promise that synergy might contribute to new insights in sociological theory. Here, she agrees with Meghi, that sociologists approach theory in our work by tending toward synthesis, where synergy will…
The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies
Decolonizing thought, a useful effort for academics committed to social justice and equity, requires examining the colonial and imperial premises undergirding scholarship and teaching. I explain what I think it takes to develop a decolonial approach to migration studies, offer examples from in my own career, and end with some suggestions for scholars interested in decolonizing migration studies
Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi
Debating the viability of ethnicity
First paragraph]Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992. RACHEL BUFF. Berkeley: University of Califomia Press, 2001. xv + 240 pp. (Paper US$ 18.95)Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir. EVELIO GRILLO. Houston TX: Arte Püblico Press, 2000. xvi + 134 pp. (Paper US$ 13.95)West Indian in the West: Self Representations in an Immigrant Community. PERCY C. HINTZEN. New York: New York…
Globalized anti-blackness
The racial category "black" is not merely an excluded category in a history of documented Western preference for "white" immigrants. Comparative historical evidence shows clear strategies to keep black persons out of First World nations, except as temporary labour. In this climate, black migration occurs partly because each nation has an ambivalent relationship to the black labourers, soldiers and seamen who offer their service expecting membersh…
Daughters of Caliban
Racial categories matter because racial hierarchies matter
New racial categories emerge with the progress of history, as new names reinterpret the existence and chronicle the insertion of demographic subgroups into a population. The analysis of categorical change is hardly unimportant work. However, we as researchers would be lax in our analyses if we did not understand that as racial categories change, so do racial hierarchies. To know what a group calls itself is only part of the story. Knowing the cul…
A Theory of Immigration And Racial Stratification
Racial systems must have mechanisms for determining who is in which race for that determines where people families and other groups fit into the racial hierarchy. In the United States immigration has played an important role in shaping that hierarchy. Immigrants enter the United States and are assimilated into the dominant social organization and this process includes assimilation into the system of racial stratification.... We will focus on this…
Globalized anti-blackness
The racial category "black" is not merely an excluded category in a history of documented Western preference for "white" immigrants. Comparative historical evidence shows clear strategies to keep black persons out of First World nations, except as temporary labour. In this climate, black migration occurs partly because each nation has an ambivalent relationship to the black labourers, soldiers and seamen who offer their service expecting membersh…
Racial categories matter because racial hierarchies matter
New racial categories emerge with the progress of history, as new names reinterpret the existence and chronicle the insertion of demographic subgroups into a population. The analysis of categorical change is hardly unimportant work. However, we as researchers would be lax in our analyses if we did not understand that as racial categories change, so do racial hierarchies. To know what a group calls itself is only part of the story. Knowing the cul…
The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies
Decolonizing thought, a useful effort for academics committed to social justice and equity, requires examining the colonial and imperial premises undergirding scholarship and teaching. I explain what I think it takes to develop a decolonial approach to migration studies, offer examples from in my own career, and end with some suggestions for scholars interested in decolonizing migration studies
Epistemicide and epistemological disobedience
This article contributes to the ERS symposium on Ali Meghji's 2023 book, A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises (Temple University Press). While offering a selective review of the book's contents, author Vilna Bashi focuses on the promise that synergy might contribute to new insights in sociological theory. Here, she agrees with Meghi, that sociologists approach theory in our work by tending toward synthesis, where synergy will…
Red tape and racialized legal status
Tiffany Joseph's 2025 book Not All In explains how Dominican, Salvadoran, and Brazilian immigrants in Boston, Massachusetts, navigate a healthcare system horribly transformed by the collision of new federal health care programming with formerly successful state-level care. New state reforms followed the Affordable Care Act, and the new offerings, ironically, blocked immigrants' access to care. Inconsistent information, restrictive eligibility rul…
A Theory of Immigration And Racial Stratification
Racial systems must have mechanisms for determining who is in which race for that determines where people families and other groups fit into the racial hierarchy. In the United States immigration has played an important role in shaping that hierarchy. Immigrants enter the United States and are assimilated into the dominant social organization and this process includes assimilation into the system of racial stratification.... We will focus on this…
Racial categories matter because racial hierarchies matter
New racial categories emerge with the progress of history, as new names reinterpret the existence and chronicle the insertion of demographic subgroups into a population. The analysis of categorical change is hardly unimportant work. However, we as researchers would be lax in our analyses if we did not understand that as racial categories change, so do racial hierarchies. To know what a group calls itself is only part of the story. Knowing the cul…
Daughters of Caliban
Debating the viability of ethnicity
First paragraph]Immigration and the Political Economy of Home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992. RACHEL BUFF. Berkeley: University of Califomia Press, 2001. xv + 240 pp. (Paper US$ 18.95)Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir. EVELIO GRILLO. Houston TX: Arte Püblico Press, 2000. xvi + 134 pp. (Paper US$ 13.95)West Indian in the West: Self Representations in an Immigrant Community. PERCY C. HINTZEN. New York: New York…
Globalized anti-blackness
The racial category "black" is not merely an excluded category in a history of documented Western preference for "white" immigrants. Comparative historical evidence shows clear strategies to keep black persons out of First World nations, except as temporary labour. In this climate, black migration occurs partly because each nation has an ambivalent relationship to the black labourers, soldiers and seamen who offer their service expecting membersh…
The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies
Decolonizing thought, a useful effort for academics committed to social justice and equity, requires examining the colonial and imperial premises undergirding scholarship and teaching. I explain what I think it takes to develop a decolonial approach to migration studies, offer examples from in my own career, and end with some suggestions for scholars interested in decolonizing migration studies
Is Sociology Worth Saving? A Conversation with José Itzigsohn and Vilna Bashi
Epistemicide and epistemological disobedience
This article contributes to the ERS symposium on Ali Meghji's 2023 book, A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises (Temple University Press). While offering a selective review of the book's contents, author Vilna Bashi focuses on the promise that synergy might contribute to new insights in sociological theory. Here, she agrees with Meghi, that sociologists approach theory in our work by tending toward synthesis, where synergy will…
Red tape and racialized legal status
Tiffany Joseph's 2025 book Not All In explains how Dominican, Salvadoran, and Brazilian immigrants in Boston, Massachusetts, navigate a healthcare system horribly transformed by the collision of new federal health care programming with formerly successful state-level care. New state reforms followed the Affordable Care Act, and the new offerings, ironically, blocked immigrants' access to care. Inconsistent information, restrictive eligibility rul…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Racism (3 works)