That Sinking Feeling

<p> Emotions especially those of impoverished migrant families have long been underrepresented in German social and cultural studies. <em>That Sinking Feeling</em> raises the visibility of the emotional dimensions of exclusion processes and locates students in current social transformations. Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork with grade ten students Stefan Wellgraf's study on an array of both classic emotions and affectively charged phenomena reveals a culture of devaluation and self-assertion of the youthful post-migrant urban underclass in neoliberal times.</p>