Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisThis book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”Trade ReviewThis timely volume takes sharp aim at institutions that continue to marginalize the vulnerable, and, in doing so, it makes important advances for Studies in Transgression. Toward that end, an impressive roster of international contributors demonstrates the global implications of border—and social—control. -- Michael Welch, Rutgers University and University of Buenos AiresImmigration Policy in the Age of Punishment identifies the sharp edges of Western efforts to make life difficult for migrants. Importantly, it does so in part by doing what many books fail to do: expanding its gaze away from a narrow concern about the boundaries of nation-states. Reaching into fields as disparate as geography and sociology, these essays will begin to define the field of critical immigration enforcement studies. -- César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Sturm College of Law, University of DenverThis innovative book captures the changing nature of global migration and immigration policies, critiquing and contextualizing them for readers. Theoretically rich, Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment is one of the more thorough efforts to draw important connections between mainstream aspects of U.S. criminal justice—such as hyper-incarceration and the self-reinforcing, self-fulfilling “tough on crime” approaches—and the criminalization of immigration. -- David Androff, Arizona State UniversityAn impressive collection of scholarship written by international experts on immigration policy. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment, by Philip Kretsedemas and David C. BrothertonPart I. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations2. President Obama's Legacy as "Deporter in Chief,” by Tanya Golash-Boza3. Immigration Policy and Migrant Support Organizations in an Era of Austerity and Hope, by Deirdre Conlon4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada, by Graham Hudson5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses, by Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, by Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An Analysis of U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence, by Philip KretsedemasPart II. Producing Deportable Subjects8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien, by David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh9. Banished Yet Undeported: The Constitution of a "Floating Population" of Deportees Within France, by Carolina Sanchez Boe10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration, by Shirley Leyro11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities, by María Dolores París Pombo and Gabriel Pérez Duperou12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line Between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement, by Lisa Sun-Hee Park13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army, by Sofya Aptekar14. The Production of Immigration Exclusions Under H-1B and L-1 Visas, by Payal Banerjee15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, by Yolanda C. MartinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a critical, interdisciplinary, and transnational look at immigration enforcement. It connects neoliberal governance, global labor markets, and the national obsession with securing borders to recast deportation, detention, and border-control policies in the United States and worldwide in terms of a decades-long “age of punishment.”Trade ReviewThis timely volume takes sharp aim at institutions that continue to marginalize the vulnerable, and, in doing so, it makes important advances for Studies in Transgression. Toward that end, an impressive roster of international contributors demonstrates the global implications of border—and social—control. -- Michael Welch, Rutgers University and University of Buenos AiresImmigration Policy in the Age of Punishment identifies the sharp edges of Western efforts to make life difficult for migrants. Importantly, it does so in part by doing what many books fail to do: expanding its gaze away from a narrow concern about the boundaries of nation-states. Reaching into fields as disparate as geography and sociology, these essays will begin to define the field of critical immigration enforcement studies. -- César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Sturm College of Law, University of DenverThis innovative book captures the changing nature of global migration and immigration policies, critiquing and contextualizing them for readers. Theoretically rich, Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment is one of the more thorough efforts to draw important connections between mainstream aspects of U.S. criminal justice—such as hyper-incarceration and the self-reinforcing, self-fulfilling “tough on crime” approaches—and the criminalization of immigration. -- David Androff, Arizona State UniversityAn impressive collection of scholarship written by international experts on immigration policy. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Immigration Policy in an Age of Punishment, by Philip Kretsedemas and David BrothertonI. Controlling Borders and Migrant Populations2. Obama's Legacy as "Deporter in Chief,” by Tanya Bolash-Goza3. Immigration Policy and Migrant Support Organizations in an Era of Austerity and Hope, by Deirdre Conlon4. Ordinary Injustices: Persecution, Punishment, and the Criminalization of Asylum in Canada, by Graham Hudson5. Seeking Asylum in Australia: The Role of Emotion and Narrative in State and Civil Society Responses, by Greg Martin and Claudia Tazreiter6. Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration Detention, by Matthew B. Flynn and Michael Flynn7. The Controlled Expansion of Local Immigration Laws: An analysis of US Supreme Court Jurisprudence, by Philip KretsedemasII. Producing Deportable Subjects8. The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Deportable Alien, by David C. Brotherton and Sarah Tosh9. Banished Yet Un-Deported: The Constitution of a ‘Floating Population’ of Deportees Within France, by Carolina Boe10. Fear of Deportation as a Barrier to Immigrant Integration, by Shirley Leyro11. Deported to Tijuana: Social Networks and Religious Communities, by María Dolores París and Gabriel Pérez Duperou12. Medical Deportations: Blurring the Line between Health Care and Immigration Enforcement,, by Lisa Sun-Hee Park13. Citizenship in the Green Card Army, by Sofya Aptekar14. The Production of Immigration Exclusions under H-1B and L-1 Visas, by Payal Banerjee15. The Precarious Deportee and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic, by Yolanda MartinContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants offers an update to this comprehensive guide to social work with foreign-born clients and an evaluation of various helping strategies and their methodological strengths and weaknesses. It incorporates the latest research to provide a practical, up-to-date resource.Trade ReviewBest Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants is a valuable primer for human service professionals. The authors thoughtfully consider the best ways to intervene while accounting for the clients’ cultural factors and life histories. Moreover, the authors attend to meso- and macro-level issues, which are essential for improving programs and policies. I can’t think of a better time for this much-needed second edition. -- Edward J. Alessi, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyBringing together new research findings from a wide range of sources, this book provides the tools needed for effective and compassionate social work with refugees and immigrants—in the areas of health care, mental health, family services, economic self-sufficiency, advocacy, and policy—in support of their full integration into their new communities. -- Yolanda C. Padilla, University of Texas at AustinSubstantive, well-organized, reader-friendly, and comprehensive, a timely pancultural overview of policy issues that serve as the context for social work practice with immigrants. -- Jessica Rosenberg, Long Island University BrooklynBest Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants presents the context and complexity of migration along with guidelines for practical, systematic, and socially just intervention approaches. This essential and comprehensive resource for social workers provides information, identifies issues in the journey from entry to integration, and recommends best practices for service provision. -- Uma A. Segal, University of Missouri-St. LouisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Context for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants 1. Introduction2. International Migration Policies3. United States Immigration and Refugee Policies4. Human Services Delivery SystemsPart II. Problem Areas and Best Practices 5. Culturally Competent Social Work Practice6. Health Issues7. Mental Health8. Family Dynamics9. Language, Education, and Economic Well-Being10. Intergroup Relations11. Additional Populations of Concern12. Summary and ConclusionsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants offers an update to this comprehensive guide to social work with foreign-born clients and an evaluation of various helping strategies and their methodological strengths and weaknesses. It incorporates the latest research to provide a practical, up-to-date resource.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Context for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants 1. Introduction2. International Migration Policies3. United States Immigration and Refugee Policies4. Human Services Delivery SystemsPart II. Problem Areas and Best Practices 5. Culturally Competent Social Work Practice6. Health Issues7. Mental Health8. Family Dynamics9. Language, Education, and Economic Well-Being10. Intergroup Relations11. Additional Populations of Concern12. Summary and ConclusionsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisNicknamed the International Express, the 7 subway line runs through a series of diverse neighborhoods in Queens. Stéphane Tonnelat and William Kornblum ride the 7 to show how mastery of life in the subway space is a step toward assimilation for immigrants and newcomers.Trade ReviewAs a lifelong resident of Flushing and a lifelong rider of the Flushing line, I'm absolutely thrilled about this new book. Tonnelat and Kornblum have become one with the 7, a gritty transit spoke that for generations has doubled as a lifeline as it meanders seemingly halfway around the world right through a dozen neighborhoods in Queens. -- John Liu, former New York City comptroller and councilmanA wonderful journey on the 7 train with Tonnelat and Kornblum providing a detailed picture of the subway community in transit. Filled with fascinating stories and analyses of gender relations, ethnic diversity, and social order underground, this well-written and insightful book will be a delight for anyone who rides or is curious about the world of the New York City subway. -- Nancy Foner, editor of One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First CenturyInternational Express offers a richly detailed portrait of interethnic, gendered, and age-specific relationships as lived in the everyday practice of urban life. By focusing their microsociology on the 7 train and Jackson Heights' famously international immigrant population, Tonnelat and Kornblum reveal a protean paradox: the intimate interpersonal challenges of negotiating one's way through a social world of tightly confined strangers is key to the dynamic creativity of the contemporary city. -- Jack Katz, University of California, Los AngelesWhat a pleasure it was to read this book! International Express is a tour through a central vein in what is perhaps the most essentially American city, from midtown offices through a variety of immigrant and native-born neighborhoods with different ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic makeups. It is a treat to walk through the subway with Tonnelat and Kornblum and see our shared life through their keen eyes. -- Robert Smith, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, and Graduate Center, City University of New YorkThrough their study of the subway system as a microcosm of a diverse society, Tonnelat and Kornblum make a significant contribution to urban studies. * Publishers Weekly *This work will be of greatest interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of urban planning, urban studies, and urban sociology. The book is quite accessible, however, and not laden with overly theoretical language. For this reason, it also may be of interest to more general readers with an interest in urban studies and related issues. Highly recommended. * Choice *A fascinating portrait * City Lab *By the end of this intellectual ride, the authors ultimately succeed in identifying and evaluating how the time, space and perceptions of the subway interrupt and define multitudes of city-dwellers in the ‘Big Apple’. -- Jeff Roquen * LSE Review of Books *International Express will be of interest to urban sociologists, notably for its breadth of data sources and consideration of an urban social order. * City & Community *A wonderful book that I highly recommend. It is well worth the ride. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Becoming New Yorkers on the 7 Train2. Coping with Diversity Aboard the "International Express"3. Walking to the Stations, Code Switching, and the I-We-You Shift4. The 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue Station: Universalism, Differentiation, and Discrimination5. Trust in the Subway: Exploring the Situational Community in Transit6. Gender Relations on the Subway7. Teenagers on the 7 Train8. Subway City: The 7 Train as an Engine of Urbanism9. A World of Subway CitizensAppendix: Mixed Methods in Subway ResearchNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisYingyi Ma offers a multifaceted analysis of the wave of Chinese students across American higher-education based on research in both Chinese high schools and U.S. institutions. Ma argues that their experiences embody the duality of ambition and anxiety that arises from transformative social changes in China.Trade ReviewFrom the first word to the last, Ambitious and Anxious is eye-opening, provocative, and replete with original details. Yingyi Ma has produced a trove of valuable interviews and survey results that challenge unexamined narratives about Chinese students in America and illustrate their daily lived experience in ways that will shape our understanding for years to come. -- Evan Osnos, author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New ChinaThis is an engaging, richly informative, and beautifully written book that reveals many new and important insights about the motivations and experiences of Chinese students who attended college in the United States in the 2010s. Scholars, students, and educators will have much to learn from its nuanced analyses of many different kinds of data, ranging from national-level statistics from China and the United States to responses to an online survey to interviews with prospective students and their educators in China as well as with Chinese students currently attending a variety of different colleges in the United States. -- Vanessa Fong, Amherst CollegeThis highly engaging book illuminates the diverse experiences of Chinese students from various backgrounds in American higher education. Sociologists of education will appreciate the connection of cultural perspectives in the field to a timely topic. Higher education professionals will welcome the thoughtful discussion of concerns expressed by international students from China, along with the closing insights about how to support meaningful connections on campus. -- Emily Hannum, University of PennsylvaniaDespite their increasing presence in American colleges and universities, the experiences of Chinese students have been disappointingly ignored by the scholarly community. Ambitious and Anxious offers a much-needed corrective to this neglect by comprehensively and compassionately depicting the challenges faced by and accomplishments of these students. This impeccably documented and engagingly written book should compel its readers to reassess their assumptions regarding international students and higher education. -- Brian Powell, Indiana UniversityAmbitious and Anxious is a compelling account of international students from China attending American colleges and universities at the turn of the 21st century. Through thoughtful and sensitive analysis of multiple sources of data, Ma reveals the stressful and paradoxical educational experience of Chinese undergraduates as they navigate through simultaneously familiar and strange terrains in China and America. The book contributes significantly to the deeper understanding of complex sociocultural issues related to international education. -- Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesThe number of Chinese undergraduates in American universities has grown dramatically over the past two decades, but we know little about them. If you’re interested in how these students make their way in what can often be a chilly American educational and social environment, you should really read this book. -- Syed Ali, Long Island University-BrooklynMa’s book helps document a population particularly affected by the outcomes of discussions that have recently risen to the level of newspaper headlines. * Asian Review of Books *Ma makes some prescriptions such as recommending that more efforts be made to integrate Chinese students into American university social life. * South China Morning Post *With a difficult era looming over the relationship between universities and this population, this book helps to humanize a group that has been so important to American higher education, yet often misunderstood or marginalized. * China Quarterly *Overall, Ambitious and Anxious provides a nuanced view of the experiences of Chinese international students. By highlighting the variation of backgrounds within this group, Ma challenges the homogeneous perspective that many academics and institutions have when considering the challenges and strengths of Chinese students studyingin America. Moreover, she draws attention to the historical and cultural context that explains the experiences of these students. * Contemporary Sociology *The book's findings offer important theoretical and policy implications. The text is easy to read with straightforward visualizations for general readers and students of all levels...Recommended * Choice *Ma’s book offers a powerful account that demystifies Chinese students’ experiences in American higher education and challenges existing assumptions about the Chinese student community. * American Journal of Sociology *This book sheds light on the realities of Chinese international students' heterogeneous community and masterfully exposes the gaps in educational opportunities for this population in US colleges. * College and Research Libraries *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Ambitious and Anxious: Chinese Undergraduates in the United States2. A Love for Separation: Study Abroad as the New Education Gospel in Urban China3. “From Hello to Harvard”: The Pathways to American Higher Education4. Navigating and Comparing Chinese and American Education Systems5. Protective Segregation: Chinese Students Hanging Out Among Themselves6. College Major Choices, Rationales, and Dilemmas7. Think Before Speak: A Real Conundrum for Classroom Participation?8. Changes and Reflections9. Stay vs. Return: That Is the Question10. What American Higher Education Needs to Know About Chinese UndergraduatesAppendix on MethodologyNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAll the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience up to the present with vital new material on the city’s revival with deeply rooted racial and economic inequalities.Trade Review[A] briskly paced volume. * The Gotham Center for NYC History *A new cohort of students and readers more generally will now be made aware of a classic work, All the Nations Under Heaven, a profoundly humane and exciting panorama of the linked histories of New York City and immigrants. The flow of women and men from around the world has done no less than shape them, the city, the nation, and the world. This book sweeps across time, connecting past and present with scrupulous research, clear thinking, rich detail, and fine writing. -- Hasia Diner, New York UniversityUpdated throughout and extended to the present through the latest scholarship, this enduring classic demonstrates once again how central the growth of immigrant-origin communities has been to the neighborhoods, collective life, politics, and economy of New York City. All the Nations Under Heaven brings to life the great and ongoing saga of immigrants helping a great city to reinvent itself. -- John Mollenkopf, coeditor of Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant IntegrationAll the Nations Under Heaven reveals the powerful social, political, economic, and religious influence of immigrants on New York City since the colonial era. Expanding on current scholarship, the authors make immigration history and the broader history of New York City accessible for both students and scholars. -- Deborah Dash Moore, author of Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a PeopleTable of ContentsPreface1. A Seaport in the Atlantic World: 1624–18202. Becoming a City of the World: 1820–18603. Progress and Poverty: 1861–19004. Slums, Sweatshops, and Reform: 1880–19175. New Times and New Neighborhoods: 1917–19286. Times of Trial: 1929–19457. City of Hope, City of Fear: 1945–19978. Immigrants in a City Reborn: 1980–presentAfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThrough powerful firsthand accounts, A Story to Save Your Life offers new insight into the harrowing realities of seeking protection in the United States. Sarah C. Bishop argues that cultural differences in communication shape every stage of the asylum process, playing a major but unexamined role.Trade ReviewThis brilliant book features the powerful voices of asylum seekers, government officials who have run the deportation machine, and advocates and researchers who make sense of mass migration. Bishop humanizes the lived experiences of those seeking asylum with stunning emotional depth and insight. A must-read for all who care about immigration. -- Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law SchoolAll storytelling is cultural. It’s about time Western gatekeepers understood that. With thought-provoking research and moving stories, A Story to Save Your Life is a leap toward that vital education. -- Dina Nayeri, author of The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell YouBishop invites us into the room where asylum decisions are made. A Story to Save Your Life is a disturbing account of how everyone from asylum seekers to judges tries to communicate across cultural and bureaucratic barriers in a messy process where the consequences of misinterpretation are devastating. -- David Scott FitzGerald, author of Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum SeekersThis beautifully written book uncovers the problematic ways the legal structures for assessing asylum claims ignore, misinterpret, and otherwise skew the narratives asylum seekers must share to qualify for asylum. Bishop elucidates how the asylum process perpetuates trauma and results in asylum denials of people who should qualify. A Story to Save Your Life is an essential perspective on this vital topic. -- Beth Caldwell, Southwestern Law SchoolThis book is an essential read to better understand the challenges that asylum applicants encounter when sharing their stories. Bishop provides a clear and in-depth analysis of the relationship between communication and asylum outcomes. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on the Cover Art1. Halted ExpectationsIn Their Own Words: Josh Childress, Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent2. Long Stories ShortIn Their Own Words: Alina Das, Immigration Attorney3. Emotional LaborIn Their Own Words: Ethan Taubes, Asylum Officer Trainer4. Nonverbal Communication and CredibilityIn Their Own Words: Dr. Renée Sicalides, Psychologist5. Deterring AsylumIn Their Own Words: Jeffery Chase, Former Immigration Judge6. The ReturnIn Their Own Words: Rafael, Detained Asylum SeekerPostscriptAppendix: Methods and Trauma-Informed Research DesignNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUnsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging.Trade ReviewIn Unsettling Exiles, the story of postwar Hong Kong is not simply one of socioeconomic perseverance but must also be understood in the contexts of the trauma and sense of dislocation experienced by many who had, for a variety of reasons, left China for the British colony. In so telling the story, Chin offers not only to place the experiences of many in Hong Kong in the broader context of what she refers to as the “Southern Periphery” but also to connect the challenges Hong Kong has faced since the 1997 handover to a longer history of fear, despair, and disillusionment. -- Leo K. Shin, founding convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British ColumbiaBold and exquisite, this book exhumes from history a “Southern Periphery” at the doorstep of the People’s Republic of China. Nurtured by the visions and voices of forgotten exiles, refugees, and deportees falling through the cracks of conventional analytical categories—nations, borders, citizenship, and diaspora—the legacies of this unique political landscape still reverberate today. -- Ching Kwan Lee, author of Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive FrontierDoes geography shape destiny? How have the borders of land and sea that bind Hong Kong to China shaped the fates of Hong Kongers, many of whom fled CCP authoritarianism and found no other home amid the racist legacies of decolonization and the Cold War’s political divides, which fueled Hong Kong’s insecure sovereignty. Published in the aftermath of China’s sweeping National Security Law, Chin’s nuanced study of Hong Kongers’ limited mobility and precarious immobility throbs with poignant hindsight. -- Madeline Y. Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model MinorityUnsettling Exiles introduces the Southern Periphery of the PRC: a place of permeable borders, political exiles, unwelcome migrants, unidentified corpses, idealists, grifters, and wary state apparatuses. Chin gives close and compassionate attention to people creating lives in circumstances they did not choose, all the while imagining a future China they could call home. A powerful argument that understanding the center requires acknowledging the loyalties, longings, and traumatic memories of those on the periphery. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzIn this pioneering and captivating book, Angelina Chin shows how Cold War Hong Kong became a dumping ground for Chinese refugees, deportees, and a host of other “undesirables.” Instead of finding cosmopolitanism and success, as the triumphal “Hong Kong story” goes, these exiles often faced despair and marginality. Unsettling indeed! -- John M. Carroll, author of The Hong Kong-China Nexus: A Brief HistoryStimulating and provocative. * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. “Refugees” or “Undesirables”: The Fate of Chinese Escapees in the 1950s and 1960s2. The Third Force and the Culture of Dissent in Hong Kong3. Cultural Revolution at Sea: Dead Bodies and Kidnapping in the Hong Kong Sea Territories4. The Unwanted in Limbo: Was Hong Kong a Refuge or a Dumping Ground?5. The Three Escapees6. Commemorating the Big Escape: The Question of MemoriesEpilogueGlossary of Chinese CharactersNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUnsettling Exiles recasts identity formation in Hong Kong, demonstrating that the complexities of crossing borders shaped the city’s uneasy place in the Sinophone world. Angelina Y. Chin foregrounds the experiences of the many people who passed through Hong Kong without settling down or finding a sense of belonging.Trade ReviewIn Unsettling Exiles, the story of postwar Hong Kong is not simply one of socioeconomic perseverance but must also be understood in the contexts of the trauma and sense of dislocation experienced by many who had, for a variety of reasons, left China for the British colony. In so telling the story, Chin offers not only to place the experiences of many in Hong Kong in the broader context of what she refers to as the “Southern Periphery” but also to connect the challenges Hong Kong has faced since the 1997 handover to a longer history of fear, despair, and disillusionment. -- Leo K. Shin, founding convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British ColumbiaBold and exquisite, this book exhumes from history a “Southern Periphery” at the doorstep of the People’s Republic of China. Nurtured by the visions and voices of forgotten exiles, refugees, and deportees falling through the cracks of conventional analytical categories—nations, borders, citizenship, and diaspora—the legacies of this unique political landscape still reverberate today. -- Ching Kwan Lee, author of Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive FrontierDoes geography shape destiny? How have the borders of land and sea that bind Hong Kong to China shaped the fates of Hong Kongers, many of whom fled CCP authoritarianism and found no other home amid the racist legacies of decolonization and the Cold War’s political divides, which fueled Hong Kong’s insecure sovereignty. Published in the aftermath of China’s sweeping National Security Law, Chin’s nuanced study of Hong Kongers’ limited mobility and precarious immobility throbs with poignant hindsight. -- Madeline Y. Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model MinorityUnsettling Exiles introduces the Southern Periphery of the PRC: a place of permeable borders, political exiles, unwelcome migrants, unidentified corpses, idealists, grifters, and wary state apparatuses. Chin gives close and compassionate attention to people creating lives in circumstances they did not choose, all the while imagining a future China they could call home. A powerful argument that understanding the center requires acknowledging the loyalties, longings, and traumatic memories of those on the periphery. -- Gail Hershatter, University of California, Santa CruzIn this pioneering and captivating book, Angelina Chin shows how Cold War Hong Kong became a dumping ground for Chinese refugees, deportees, and a host of other “undesirables.” Instead of finding cosmopolitanism and success, as the triumphal “Hong Kong story” goes, these exiles often faced despair and marginality. Unsettling indeed! -- John M. Carroll, author of The Hong Kong-China Nexus: A Brief HistoryStimulating and provocative. * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1. “Refugees” or “Undesirables”: The Fate of Chinese Escapees in the 1950s and 1960s2. The Third Force and the Culture of Dissent in Hong Kong3. Cultural Revolution at Sea: Dead Bodies and Kidnapping in the Hong Kong Sea Territories4. The Unwanted in Limbo: Was Hong Kong a Refuge or a Dumping Ground?5. The Three Escapees6. Commemorating the Big Escape: The Question of MemoriesEpilogueGlossary of Chinese CharactersNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding an infamous political movement's grounding in festivity and defianceTrade Review"This well-researched study of anarchism in New York City makes a significant contribution to the history of radicalism, German ethnicity, and urban culture."--Journal of American History"Goyens . . . does a masterful job of placing leading anarchists such as Johann Most in a transnational context by detailing both the European and US aspects of their careers. . . . Scholars and students will find this is an interesting, informative book. Highly recommended."--Choice "Beer and Revolution is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the fascinating history of social and political radicalism in American immigrant communities. The work explores in rich detail the German anarchist subculture that flourished for several decades in New York City and the surrounding area. It presents a vivid picture of meeting places such as beer halls, beer gardens and cafes; of organizations such as social and political clubs, musical groups, labor organizations, intentional communities, and schools; of forms of expression such as speeches, lectures, newspapers, magazines, and theatrical performances; and of social activities such as picnics, banquets, celebrations and festivals. Along the way, Tom Goyens offers the reader an illuminating introduction to the social and historical context out of which this particular community emerged. The foremost lesson of this admirable work is that political movements cannot be understood adequately in terms of organizations, events and ideas, but must be studied more deeply in the context of the complex political culture in which they are embedded."--John Clark, author of Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: The Radical Social Thought of Elisée Reclus

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Book SynopsisHighlights the important role of citizenship status in defining immigrant women's opportunities, wages, and labour conditions.Trade Review"By including the voices of the women currently doing the majority of reproductive work in the US, Immigrant Women Workers adds an important element to the conversation. Immigrant Women Workers captures many of the issues of perpetual importance to immigrant women workers."--Women's Review of Books "This work carries important implications for labor educators and organizers… This book solidly reinforces the concept as Audre Lorde explains, that single issue research and organizing is ineffective because we do not lead single-issue lives."--Labor Studies Journal "Grounded in rich ethnographic data, each of these informative case studies makes for compelling reading in addressing these workers' current conditions and positions. Highly Recommended."--Choice "The editors have succeeded in bringing together a wide range of excellent ethnographic research from scholars from different social science disciplines. What distinguishes this volume from other academic books on the subject is the authors' explicit intention to make manifest their double role as academics and activists. The authors present concrete data and analysis meant to give basis to future strategies to improve the situation of women migrants… The collection provides relevant and timely case study material for teaching and research into the gendered effects of the recent economic crisis and neo-liberal policy-making on the lives of migrants in the USA."--Ethnic and Racial Studies "An important volume that highlights the ways in which immigrant women in the US are both adapting to, and fighting to improve, their workplaces."--Labour/Le Travail "A valuable addition to a growing body of literature that critically examines the experiences of women migrants in the informal economy. What sets this collection of papers apart from other works on immigrant worker women is that in these narratives the women's trials and their triumphs are highlighted. These women are not passive victim in their narratives. Their agency is apparent, and presented clearly to the reader."--Gender & DevelopmentTable of ContentsContributors: Pallavi Banerjee, Grace Chang, Margaret M. Chin, Jennifer Jihye Chun, Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, Emir Estrada, Lucy Fisher, Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, Anna Romina Guevarra, Shobha Hamal Gurung, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Maria de la Luz Ibarra, Miliann Kang, George Lipsitz, Lolita Andrada Lledo, Lorena Munoz, Bandana Purkayastha, Mary Romero, Young Shin, Michelle Tellez, and Maura Toro-Morn.

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Book SynopsisOffers activists, queer scholars, feminists, and immigration scholars productive tools for theorizing political efficacy.Trade ReviewBook of the Year, LGBTQ Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2014. "This is the sphere of academic work, but Chávez goes beyond that, calling for theorization that privileges the experiences of those walking the streets and putting their bodies on the line."--make/shift"Offers extensive insight into the intersectional aspects and coalitions of queer migrants. . . . This book is an excellent contribution to the study of rhetoric, social movements, queer rights, and immigration politics."--QED "With little existing scholarship on coalition building across social movement groups, Chavez provides qualitatively supported evidence for coalitional possibilities at the U.S.-Mexico border. Chavez's research differs from other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/question (LGBTQ) and social movement scholarship as it explores uncharted terrain in the collaboration of activist groups while paying particular attention to intersectionality when analyzing the experiences of individuals who are marginalized by virtue of their nationality as well as their sexual orientation. An inspiring read for anyone with an interest in contemporary equality discourses."--Women's Studies in Communication "Chavez successfully tries to break this perception by merging together discussions around immigration rights, queer rights, and social justice. This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture"A highly original contribution and is easily one of the most thoughtful books in queer studies I have read in a long time. Chavez's focus on rhetoric provides a unique lens through which to examine how queers, migrants, and queer migrants are intervening in their differential marginalization vis-a-vis nation-states, neoliberal political economy, and presumptions of citizenship as the telos of belonging. By the end of Queer Migration Politics, readers are left with the question of the extent to which queer migrant coalitional politics will expand and transform normative, nation-based LGBTQ and migrant politics."--GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies"Timely and prophetic."--Queer Theory"This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture

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Book SynopsisUsing plantation documents, missionary records, government documents, and oral histories, this book analyzes how the workers interacted with Hawaiian government structures and businesses, how US policies for colonial workers differed from those for citizens or foreigners, and how policies aided corporate and imperial interests.Trade ReviewBest Book Award in History, Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies, 2018. "Poblete's skills as a deft historian weave personal everyday stories with historical structural and policy analysis in ways that are exceptionally nuanced and deeply illuminating." --Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space"An innovative approach that adds nuance to our knowledge of Hawai'i's immigrant workers. . . . Poblete is successful in shifting our attention to empire and away from insular island accounts of Hawaiian history, and in the process offers ideas for new questions about Hawai'i's place in a much wider American colonial project."--American Historical Review "Deeply rooted in archival sources, oral histories, and written with concise prose, Poblete does a remarkable job situation Hawai'i, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the context of U.S. empire in the Pacific and the Caribbean. She illustrates how U.S. expansion into these regions was vital for it to produce a global imperial machine that circulated not just soldiers and weapons between colonial outposts, but laborers."--The Hawaiian Journal of History"Unique in its comparative focus on labor migration among U.S. colonies, it is essential reading for those interested in the Filipinos and Puerto Ricans in Hawai'i during the first four decades of the twentieth century."--New West Indian Guide"A finely researched book. . . . Through its exploration of the nuanced realities of "intracolonial" migration and existence, the book is a highly valuable addition to the historiography of US imperialism and of labour relations in the Progressive Era, which will also be of particular interest to students of Hawaiian, Puerto Rican, and Philippine history."--Journal of American Studies"Islanders in the Empire connects the imperial experiences of three groups of subjected peoples to each other, thereby exposing the long-term and widespread consequences of U.S. expansionism across time and geographic locations."--Western Historical Quarterly"A valuable addition to the labor history of Hawaii . . . [Islanders in the Empire] sheds much light on the role of the planters, their agents, and the government."--Journal of American History"I know of no scholar who has tackled the histories of Filipino and Puerto Rican labor in Hawai'i in one cohesive and extensive volume, and with such intensity in its comparative scope. Poblete's skills as a deft historian weave personal everyday stories with historical, structural, and policy analysis in ways that are exceptionally nuanced and deeply illuminating."--Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space "Poblete's pathbreaking work is unique for illuminating the logics of empire through the lens of transnational migration and labor history. It should stand out among the growing scholarship on the U.S. empire, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines."--Julian Go, author of Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688–Present

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Book SynopsisIncludes chapters that offer a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the US - Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s.Trade Review "Clearly aimed at the undergraduate student and the general reader, Immigrant Voices provides immigrant accounts of their experiences. . . . The selections, which vary in form from letters, to memoirs, to diary entries, to oral histories, illustrate both the push factors of native lands as well as the pull factors of the United States. A reader vicariously feels the emotional cost of leaving home, the trials of steerage passage, the draw of American jobs and freedom, the sting of nativism, the clash between vision and reality, in short, the immigrant experience."--Labor Studies Journal "This volume will continue to provide students of American immigration with a rich repository of testimonies that reflect both of the commonalities among immigrant experiences, and the particularities produced by differences of race, class, gender, legal status, and historical context."--Journal of American Ethnic History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gives the reader unique and detailed information about Indian and Indian American internet culture and public discourses about technology and transnationality during the birth of the World Wide Web. . . . The sections on Indian immigration and the technology industry and culture will be fascinating to scholars in digital media studies as well as scholars in Asian and Asian American studies. I can't think of a single other book that covers this territory." --Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, the author delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity.Trade Review"Building Filipino Hawai'i is a much-needed work on contemporary Filipino lives in the islands, in the fifty years since the resumption of significant emigration from the Philippines. Consistently argued and astutely theoretically framed. . . . Building Filipino Hawai'i promises to be the principal text on not only Filipinos, but also the contemporary experiences of ethnic and immigrant minorities in Hawai'i in the political context of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement."--Pacific Historical Review"An outstanding addition to a growing field of studies focused on Filipina/o American community building and identity formation."--Western Historical Quarterly "Labrador provides many necessary interventions to studies of Filipinos in the United States and helps further the reconceptualization of what it means to be Filipino throughout the Philippine diaspora and the ongoing production of global transnationalism."--The Journal of American History "Labrador provides an engaging and thoughtful study of Filipinos in Hawai'i, demonstrating how they have struggled to define and/or redefine their identity in the diaspora, by moving from the margins of Hawaii's society to becoming an integral part of it, while also maintaining their sense of Filipinoness."--Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego"Hawai'i is often held up as a model of liberal multiculturalism, a site in which a truly postracial order has been achieved. Labrador, however, demonstrates how the racial order in Hawai'i continues to be hierarchized, is premised on settler colonialism, and rests on a classed anti-immigrant sensibility. Building Filipino Hawai'i is an important read."--Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, author of Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In exploring migrants' cross-border connections over time, this collection of insightful and highly readable essays offers fresh perspectives and fascinating historical analysis on a topic central to the study of immigration. An indispensable guide to understanding the dynamics involved in transnational ties that will be a highly valued resource for students and scholars alike."--Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe"This volume, edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field, infuses migration studies with sorely needed historical perspective, conceptual clarity, and theoretical depth by treating the transnational not as a mantra but as actual social spaces/processes that can be understood empirically and historically."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 "Immigrant men and women shape and maintain transnational, often locally embedded linkages, and statesmen utilize or frame such connectivity. Both sides engage each other to achieve familial and statewide goals, economic, political, and emotional ones. The authors masterfully weave specific analyses into a long endured perspective of transcultural relations."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium"A Century of Transnationalism is a thoughtful and useful addition to research on migration and diaspora studies. It explores the diversity of over a century of migration experiences while highlighting shared migration factors: the tug-of-war of loyalties between home and host culture and the push-pull forces of assimilation versus alienation."--Review 31"Nancy Green and Roger Waldinger have assembled an excellent collection of rich empirical studies framed by their insightful introduction. The result constitutes a major contribution to a critical, historically-grounded, and state-centered perspective on transnationalism. This is essential reading for migration scholars."--Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

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Book SynopsisWomen filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the United States immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the United States still fails to recognize gender as an established category for experiencing persecution. Gender exists in a sort of limbo segregated from other aspects of identity and experience. Sara L. McKinnon exposes racialized rhetorics of violence in politics and charts the development of gender as a category in American asylum law. Starting with the late 1980s, when gender-based requests first emerged in case law, McKinnon analyzes gender- and sexuality-related cases against the backdrop of national and transnational politics. Her focus falls on cases as diverse as Guatemalan and Salvadoran women sexually abused during the Dirty Wars and transgender asylum seekers from around the world fleeing brutally violent situations. She reviews the claims, evidence, testimony, and message strategies that unfolded in these legal argumeTrade ReviewBonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award, Feminist and Women Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2017 "Gendered Asylum provides a rich and crucial intervention that expands our comprehension of gender and gender violence in U.S. asylum cases." --AED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking"Sara McKinnon’s important book offers stunningly insightful and grounded examples of how twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. asylum decisions attempt to control non-normative gendered and sexual subjects. Her case studies carefully unearth the rhetorical relationships among gender’s emergence as a political category, transnational imaginaries, and neoliberalisms’ rationalities; these powerful discourses deeply saturate US asylum logic. This well-researched and beautifully written study should be widely read by scholars who seek to gain insight into how a racialized sex/gender system works--along with geopolitical power--to codify not only the US asylum system, but also other political institutions whose policies regulate people’s everyday well-being."--Rebecca Dingo, author of Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing"Gendered Asylum is a valuable addition to recent work on human rights, immigration, and gender." --Quarterly Journal of Speech"McKinnon's voice is necessary and valuable in explaining how women are reduced to their bodies and denied their political agency. Those interested in discourses and representational practices regarding gender as a category will be prompted to consider the crucial links between gender, asylum, and U.S. power."--Journal of American Ethnic History"Recommended."--Choice"Mckinnon draws out several key themes and conclusions, repeatedly highlighting how U.S. adjudicators 'otherize' gender-based violence and overlay a racist component to the harm that women asylum seekers have endured."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Gendered Asylum represents a considerable contribution to scholarship on gender and sexuality based asylum and will be useful to scholars in a range of areas, including transnational feminist studies, legal studies, rhetoric, immigration, and asylum and refugee studies."--International Migration Review"McKinnon provides a deeply nuanced analysis of gender as a political category in asylum law." --Ethnic and Racial Studies "Approaching law as rhetoric, McKinnon meticulously traces the evolution of gender as a legal concept and politically protected category in US asylum law and politics. In her innovative articulations, she unearths the rhetorical implications of gender as a political concept in transnational case studies and contexts that span over 30 years to show how gendered subjects have been made intelligible–or not–as persons worthy of US protection. Importantly, her interdisciplinary approach reveals that such liberal approaches to gender as a protected category are predicated on a one-sex and one-gender system of categorization that ultimately reinforces the universality of the male-assigned subject as the neutral sexed subject for whom asylum reliefs are intended. Her intersectional work further demonstrates how the U.S. is imagined as exceptional through such narrow constructions of gender. Notably, gender and gender-based violences are characterized in her work as experiences for particular bodies from particular geographies to reveal a racialized sexuality as an organizing principle and structuring logic of US asylum law and politics that ultimately serves as a neoliberal technique of migration control. In addressing one of the most urgent political issues of our time, Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics is at once brilliant, timely, and urgent. It is a must read for transnational feminist scholars, legal and rhetorical studies scholars, immigration scholars, and all who are interested in migration and asylum."--Adela C. Licona, author of Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric "With a nuanced and deft analysis of gender as a political category in asylum law, Sara McKinnon compels readers to recognize the shifting terrains of gender intelligibility and the material implications of that intelligibility, beautifully demarcating which bodies are deemed sufficiently endangered as to merit asylum. Her account demands that scholars recognize gender and violence as complexly racialized and tied to presumptions of sex and sexuality. This is a book that will have deep resonance across disciplines."--Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado Boulder

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Book SynopsisFrom the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their nation. As Chang shows, anti-Chinese politics shared intimate bonds with a romantic ideology that surrounded the transformation of the mass indigenous peasantry into dignified mestizos. Racializing a Chinese Other became instrumental in organizing the political power and resources for winning Mexico's revolutionary war, building state power, and seizing national hegemony in order to dominate the majority Indian population. By centering the Chinese in the drama of Mexican history, Chang opens up a fascinating untold story about the ways antichinismo was embedded within Mexico's revolutionary national state and its ideologies. Groundbreaking and boldly argued, Chino is a first-of-its-kind look aTrade Review"Chino remains an important--and provocative--contribution to the growing historiography on Chinese Mexicans." --Latin American Research Review "Original in scope, rigorously researched and analytically sound, Jason Chang's Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940 will be a foundational text for future research on racial formations in Mexico and the Americas, Chinese history in the region, and transnational Asian American Studies."--Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego​"Jason Chang offers fresh insight into the cause of anti-Chinese racism in Mexico and the central role it played in Mexican culture and politics. Chino is a both an important and unique contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the Chinese in Mexico. Digging deep into the archival record and employing an intersectional analysis, Chang demonstrates the depth, breadth, and complexity of anti-Chinese racism most fully. He shows how racial discourse in Mexico constantly linked Chinese immigrants and Indians together in ways to shape a new Mexican national identity and turn Mexico into a modern racial state. Both scholars of modern Mexico and of Asians in the Americas will want to read this path-breaking book. And anyone interested in comparative racial formation will gain valuable insight into the history and practice of racial domination. Chang helps us understand the complex workings of race in new ways."--Erika Lee, author of The Making of Asian America: A History "Jason Chang's proposition that Mexican national identity is created on the back of images and discourses of the Chinese is well-argued and creatively researched. His novel 'new mestizo studies' situates ideas about race, ethnicity, and in-betweenness within the broader Americas and thus is a critical text for multiple fields of inquiry."--Jeffrey Lesser, author of Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present"Chang's book offers an important re-examination of racial politics in Mexico and a chilling reminder that racial demagoguery has been an effective tool of authoritarian-minded regimes, even when democratically elected, to consolidate power at the expense of the governed."--Asian Affairs"Throughout the book, Chang makes innovative, exciting arguments." --Pacific Historical Review"Chino is a highly accessible and engaging discussion of a little-known aspect of Mexican history." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Chino remains an important--and provocative--contribution to the growing historiography on Chinese Mexicans." --Latin American Research Review "Historians of Mexico would do well to seriously consider what Chang has to say. How a society treats small and vulnerable minorities can tell us a lot about the society as a whole, and Chino should be read with that thought in mind." --Hispanic American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fojas has done it again. With her trademark elegance of prose and sharp cutting cultural critique she slices through those thick layers of capitalist ideology that wrap all variety of popular cultural entertainment. From blue-ice meth to the zombie invasions, Fojas scrapes to the bone just how pop culture speaks to and against very real, everyday material concerns of twenty-first century trans-Pacific borderland denizens. Extraordinary! Exquisite! Edifying!"--Frederick Luis Aldama, author of The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez"The range of this book is astonishing and Fojas does justice to complex theoretical concepts by showing how they help us understand the primary texts while not dumbing down the theory."--David Schmid, author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture"Powerful and inventive, offering a new way to think about zombie media as critiques of debt that are themselves too often unable to think their way of the global orders of racial capitalism against which they so anxiously rage." --American Quarterly"Essential."--PopMatters"Camilla Fojas's Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture is a detailed and timely investigation of some of the most popular media of the past decade in the context of the global economic downturn."--Journal of Asian American Studies"Zombies, Migrants and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture by Camilla Fojas is such as an academic work, bringing together theories and topics from many different disciplines (sociology, economics, cultural studies, philosophy) in a very casual--yet impressively coherent--way." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"An exciting book, quite probably Fojas's most important work to date. It is timely, edgy, well-researched, impassioned. In it, Fojas analyzes journalism, memoirs, literature, photography, art, film, TV, music, economics, history, all in relation to 'popular culture.' . . . She adroitly draws on Greek myths, Freud, Lacan, Marx, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Barthes, Michelle Alexander, Angela Davis, Foucault, and others in her contemplation of specific artistic and mass media exemplars."--Christine Holmlund, editor of The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bjork ingeniously deploys her own ethnographic experience to show how Somalis in Finland, embarrassed on the global cultural stage by the persistence of clan ideology, nevertheless use clan identities as flexible paths to the intimate reaches of diasporic life."--Michael Herzfeld, author of Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State"Somalis living in Finland represent an important node in the global Somali diaspora. This book, based on immersive fieldwork and interviews conducted in Finnish, English, and Somali, is a welcome and timely addition to the literature on migration and diasporas."--Dianna Shandy, author of Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration"This is a boldly written book that deserves to be read by everyone who wants (or hopes) to understand the role that identity can play in Muslim, and specifically Somali, diaspora communities. In truth, it should be read by anyone with an interest in immigrant issues. Bjork writes incisively yet respectfully, but even more importantly, by comparing what Somalis say they do when it comes to 'clan' affiliations with what they do in actuality , she has produced a model ethnography."--Anna Simons, author of Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone"A helpful addition to the debate on the Somali diaspora. . . . The book will be of use to researchers and students interested in transnational migration and diasporas." --Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book illuminates a rarely seen side of contemporary immigration to the U.S., whose prevailing image is of non-Europeans, coming from Africa, Asia, and Latin America--yet also among the immigrants are hundreds of thousands of Italians. The authors of the volume show how the new immigrants ' presence alters our understanding of the white ethnic story as viewed through the lenses of families, communities, and politics. The book represents an indispensable contribution to ethnic and immigration studies."--Richard Alba, co-author of Strangers No More: The Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe"An exceptionally good volume that is innovative and will change the game in Italian American studies. This magnificent collection has no competition. "--Graziella Parati, author of Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture"New Italian Migrations to the United States, Vol. 1, provides distinctive and significant insights into recent Italian immigrants while also offering instructive comparisons with other migrant populations." --Italian American Review "The innovative and sometimes counterintuitive discussions in New Migrations produce fresh insights."--Brooklyn Rail"Worthwhile reading for anyone interested in learning more about Italian immigration to the U.S. after WWII."--Voce Italiana"New Italian Migrations to the United States contributes to the growth of academic knowledge regarding the general knowledge of Italian-Americans." --i-Italy“By focusing on those who crossed the Atlantic after World War II, scholars from many disciplines expand the customary periodization of the Italian experience in the United States. This important collection fills a major gap in the history of Italian Americans.”--Fraser Ottanelli, co-editor of Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic States

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The volume, as a whole, is a pleasant read and a welcomed new and forward-looking perspective on Italian migration. " --Italica"Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra have constellated exacting, often revelatory treatments of the 'rebooting of Italian America' from 1945 to present: radio-conducted familial intimacies, an iconography of luscious Italian female beauty, the U.S. conquests of Italian cuisine, the brain drain of Italian elites into the American academy, and more. Volume two of New Italian Migrations to the United States is of timely value not only to Italian Americanists but to all scholars of late-century cultural flows, which turn out to be globally incorporative and transformatively procreative not despite but because they are ethnic specific and mass-mediated."--Thomas J. Ferraro, author of Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America"Editors Ruberto and Sciorra have provided an excellent resource for both students and researchers of Italian-American Studies, and of Italian Americans, whether referring to the "imaginary Italians" to whom the volume is dedicated, or the "real Italians" who grace its pages." --Quaderni d'italianistica"New Italian Migrations to the United States contributes to the growth of academic knowledge regarding the general knowledge of Italian-Americans." --i-Italy"Carefully grounding their analyses in the historical and socio-political contexts of the Italian diasporic exodus to the United Studies, the anthology’s contributors examine the cultural work by and about Italian immigrants from 1945 to the present. In six engaging essays, they establish the critical vocabulary needed to chart the range of expressive forms that are forging contemporary Italian American identities across arts, media and communities while testifying to the on-going vitality and impact of Italian Americana for the globalized world of the twenty-first century."--Norma Bouchard, coauthor of Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era"The importance of this collection lies not merely in its historical testimony to the centrality of migration in the making of modernity and the contemporary United States, but also, and most profoundly, in drawing us into the multiple threads deeply woven into the artistic and cultural understandings of a world always unwilling to recognize the profound injustices on which it continues to base its authority."--Iain Chambers, author of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity

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Book SynopsisWomen make up a majority of the Filipino workforce laboring overseas. Their frequent employment in nurturing, maternal jobs--nanny, maid, caretaker, nurse--has found expression in a significant but understudied body of Filipino and Filipino American literature and cinema. Harrod J. Suarez's innovative readings of this cultural production explores issues of diaspora, gender, and labor. He details the ways literature and cinema play critical roles in encountering, addressing, and problematizing what we think we know about overseas Filipina workers. Though often seen as compliant subjects, the Filipina mother can also destabilize knowledge production that serves the interests of global empire, capitalism, and Philippine nationalism. Suarez examines canonical writers like Nick Joaquin, Carlos Bulosan, and Jessica Hagedorn to explore this disruption and understand the maternal specificity of the construction of overseas Filipina workers. The result is a series of readings that develop new wTrade Review"The Work of Mothering offers an innovative reading into the margins of texts, thus questioning knowledge production and interrogating our epistemological systems." --Literary Research"With cogent observations on contemporary fiction, poetry, film, migration, domestic labor, and politics, Harrod Suarez illuminates the fraught ways in which the Philippines is imagined as Inang Bayan, 'mother country.' The Work of Mothering beautifully captures the nuances of language, gesture, and emotion, demonstrating how the practice of careful reading can help us look beyond the oppressive structures of nation, gender, and capital and rethink the most foundational of human relationships."--Josephine Lee, coeditor of Asian American Plays for a New Generation"Suarez uses literature to envision alternative ways of being, of inhabiting the world, unfettered from limits proscribed by the ideology of the national and contemporary globalization. The Work of Mothering successfully harnesses the literary imagination to envision a different political and cultural future." --MELUS"The Work of Mothering brilliantly shows how the figure of the Filipina mother as a national symbol and transnational worker becomes a gateway to engaging and challenging nationalist and globalist projects. As an analysis of the racial, gendered and cultural aesthetics of nationalism and diaspora, Suarez’s book intervenes into questions that live at the center of many fields."—Roderick Ferguson, author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Migrant Marketplaces is a solidly researched, well-written book that offers a fresh perspective on Italian food and foodways via the histories of Italian migrant communities in North and South America . . . . Zanoni's work adds a new dimension to pioneering studies on migration, gender, and food. " --H-Net Reviews"Elizabeth Zanoni’s innovative 'migrant marketplace' framework offers an invaluable global perspective on migrant cuisines and commodity networks through the lens of gender. Challenging scornful views of Italian foods in the Americas as inauthentic products of assimilation, she reveals them instead to be strategic and creative responses to transnational family life."—Jeffrey M. Pilcher, author of Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food"Enriching our understanding of how migrant contributions and experiences are shaped in historically specific ways by national and transnational policy, food, consumerism, and ideas about race and gender, Zanoni's book will resonate for many scholars and students who study these topics in the Americas and beyond." --Italian American Review"Most important among the strengths of the book is that it coins and convincingly defines the paradigm of 'migrant marketplace' to describe the material and symbolic space created by human mobility for the trade and circulation of goods and consumer imaginaries. A great and important book."--Simone Cinotto, author of The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City and editor of Making Italian America: Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities"Migrant Marketplaces: Food and Italians in North and South America is a welcomed, original contribution that goes beyond earlier studies to introduce an innovative framework of analysis that looks at migrants not only as producers but also as consumers. . . .Elizabeth Zanoni's book builds bridges between areas of inquiry that have remained mostly separated in the scholarship, most notably by deftly combining insights from migration history, history of consumer practices, food studies, and gender and ethnic studies." --American Historical Review"Clear and engaging. By focusing on the products, as opposed to the people, Zanoni highlights the ways in which the distribution and products by and for migrant communities played a pivotal role in shaping notions of national and ethnic belonging."--Linda Reeder, author of Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880–1928"In a work so attentive to geopolitics and commodity paths, it is refreshing to see gender at the center of the analysis. . . .Using food as a common thread to weave together political, economic, immigration, labor, and cultural histories from a global perspective, Zanoni's study in culinary globalization convincingly shows the value of food studies for the discipline of history." --Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisFor generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews and up-close collaboration with these women, Francisco-Menchavez looks at the sacrifices, emotional and material consequences, and recasting of roles that emerge from family separation. She pays particular attention to how technologies like Facebook, Skype, and recorded video open up transformative ways of bridging distances while still supporting traditional family dynamics. As she shows, migrants also build communities of care in their host countries. These chosen families provide an essential form of mutual support. What emerges is a fascinating portrait of today's transnational familysundered, yet inexorably linked over the distances by timeless emotions and new forms of intimacy.Trade Review"Francisco-Menchavez’s deep research provides readers with a finely textured feel for the complex circuits of care within transnational families. Her work, in close collaboration with a Filipino domestic worker support group, is a major contribution to our understanding of Filipina migrant workers in the U.S., the care communities they create in the diaspora, and the relationships they sustain with the family members they have left behind, but who remain present in their emotional and virtual lives."--Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance"What is unique about Francisco-Menchavez's book is that it injects and offers a sociological perspective--one that is hopeful, uplifting--in the struggles of families to maintain a strengthened intimacy in spite of physical proximity."--Hella Pinay "The Labor of Care is an excellent book that advances our understanding of migration, transnational families, and care work." --Symbolic Interaction"Valerie Francisco-Menchavez's work advances a burgeoning literature on both care work and transnational families in creative and significant ways. This book will make a significant intervention in the literature on transnational domestic workers, their families, and definitions of family.-"-Eileen Boris, coauthor of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State"Francisco-Menchavez offers a wonderfully nuanced analysis of transnational family formations and strategies for care within the context of globalization. This book is an outstanding example of engaged research; a must-read for those committed to a scholar-activist agenda."--Robyn Rodriguez, author of Migrants for Export: How the Philippines Brokers Labor to the World"Francisco-Menchavez brings a number of things to light, some of which serve as contextual reminders throughout the book and others of which activate new categories of understanding that frame the book's central focus of investigation. . . .This book is important in revealing the intense emotional labors that go into keeping the transnational family afloat often through decades of painful, forced separation." --Gender & Society"The Labor of Care brings the scholarship up to date on the technological advances that enable intimacy for transnational family members." --AAARI"This book is definitely a must-read for scholars interested in the sociological aspect of transnational migration and for those interested in methodological advances in ethnographic research."--Journal of Contemporary Asia

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Scandinavians in Chicago is clearly a major scholarly work within whiteness studies and the topic of white privilege." --Norwegian-American Studies"It is an understatement to say that Erika Jackson's book fills an urgent void." --Scandinavian Studies"Recommended." --Choice​"Jackson's book makes a very welcome and thought-provoking contribution to the study of both Scandinavian America and the social construction of whiteness." --H-Net Reviews"Erika K. Jackson's study joins and enriches the growing literature employing the revised paradigm proposed by Paul Spickard. Her work provides a welcome and valuable foundation for further investigation of the ays Nordic (hyper)whiteness was a crucial component in development of Scandinavian identity in other locations, including rural areas, and as it intersects with religious communities." --Journal of American History"Jackson's concise monograph opens new ground in the history of whiteness and white privilege. . . .Employing a range of sources, especially the Scandinavian American newspapers of the era, she presents a compelling case for this important but often overlooked group of ethnic Americans." --History: Reviews of New Books"Dobson provides a thought-provoking overview of critical views on digital humanities. He points repeatedly and with vigor at crucial aspects to consider when doing digital humanities in the tradition of literary criticism." --Journal of Literary Theory"Jackson's study is a well-crafted and fascinating look at the Scandinavians' relationship with race in the U.S. It breaks new scholarly ground but has also clear contemporary relevance, as racial nationalism and white supremacy have been making a troubling comeback in the U.S. political mainstream." --American Studies in Scandinavia "It is an understatement to say that Erika Jackson's book fills an urgent void." --Scandinavian Studies "Makes a significant and long overdue contribution to Swedish- and Scandinavian American history by explicitly framing the Chicago experiences in a larger ethno-racial American context. By doing so, Jackson places herself in the forefront of Scandinavian American historiography."--Dag A. Blanck, coeditor of Norwegians and Swedes in the United States: Friends and Neighbors "Erika Jackson's fascinating book is a key and timely contribution to the fields of whiteness studies and Scandinavian studies in America. This lucid study examines Scandinavians in Chicago through a range of interlinked critical approaches. Cultural history at its best."--Arne Lunde, author of Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered is a terrific anthology of thirteen essays, excavating the fertile history of immigration between 1924 and 1965." --Journal of American Ethnic History"This book makes a good case for why we must understand the mid-century period as part of a larger history of US immigration. As an overview of some of the best recent work on the period, this compilation stands out." --History"This anthology provides an excellent analysis of immigration policy changes in the 1924-1965 period. . . . These essays are well worth reading and offer a new, more comprehensive look at this period." --Journal of American History"This important collection revises our understanding of a relatively understudied period in the historiography of US immigration and citizenship, the years between the institution of national origins quotas in the 1920s and their abrogation in the 1960s. As such, it deserves wide scholarly attention."--Kunal M. Parker, author of Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000"Bringing together essays by rising stars and established leaders in US immigration history, this volume opens our understanding of the complexities of the national origins era by highlighting understudied dynamics, advancing new periodizations, and bringing new historical actors to the fore. Taken as a whole, the essays insist on the centrality of racial-nationalist boundary-making—and of struggles to defeat it—within the broader history of the US in the world in the mid-twentieth century."--Paul A. Kramer, author of The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"McKee's intersectional feminist perspective on the complexity of transnational adoption is crucial for broadening the practices of kinship so that adoptive families are not predetermined as the better and only future." --Journal of American Ethnic History"In Disrupting Kinship, Kimberly McKee unpacks the macro and micro dimensions of adoption's impact on the lives of Korean adoptees, and charts the development of what she calls the transnational adoption industrial complex. Her book is required reading for its critical interdisciplinary approach to understanding the history of Korean international adoption and its legacy."--Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Global Families: A History of Asian American Adoption in America​"Disrupting Kinship is a timely book that contextualizes the creation and history of the transnational adoption industrial complex and identifies many of adoption's effects and repercussions, systematically as well as individually. McKee skillfully connects the historical construction of adoption to contemporary issues through diverse interdisciplinary approaches." --Adoption and Culture"McKee challenges the mainstream adoption narrative, which privileges notions of love and family by focusing on the rhetoric of child-saving rescue. . . . A welcome contribution to the study of Korean transnational adoption, especially through its engagement with the concepts of family, kinship, belonging, citizenship, and agency." --H-Net Reviews"Disrupting Kinship is a vital contribution that makes visible the transnational adoption industrial complex as a de factor social welfare option, and a sociopolitical reality that adoptees negotiate in daily life." --Journal of American-East Asian Relations

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Beautifully written . . . Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire offers a bold new path for reimagining the freedom struggles of the twentieth century. " --Black Perspectives"Seven black women anchor Dr. Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s, Reimagining Liberation, an inspired and original history of decolonization. These women’s imaginings and practices of liberation politics and decolonial citizenship made them resilient political protagonists in a time of upheaval. In her important book, Joseph-Gabriel compellingly argues for doing far more of what she, Suzanne Césaire, Paulette Nardal, Eugénie Éboué-Tell, Jane Vialle, Andrée Blouin, Aoua Kéita and Eslanda Robeson have done: centering black women’s experiences, politics and leadership within struggles to identify and challenge global systems of injustice."--Jennifer Boittin, author of Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book features unique historical and contemporary perspectives within the contexts of migration in various parts of the world. . . . Readers of the Quarterly Journal of Speech will glean a great deal of insight from the author's exploration of queer and trans migration studies, and how such studies connect with communication practice, through activists, organizers, artists, and scholars." --Quarterly Journal of Speech"Recommended." --Choice"An extraordinarily important volume bringing together activists, artists, and academics, Queer and Trans Migrations models the wide range of approaches that can help us understand and challenge the heteronormative frameworks, settler-colonialist politics, and racialized logics affecting migration, detention, and deportation."--Erica Rand, author of The Ellis Island Snow GlobeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Karma R. Chávez and Eithne Luibhéid Part I: Contextualizing 1. “Treated Neither with Respect nor with Dignity”: Contextualizing Queer and Trans Migrant ‘Illegalization,’ Detention and Deportation Eithne Luibhéid 2. “Prevent Miami from Becoming a Refugium Peccatorum”: Policing Black Bahamian Women and Making the Straight, White State, 1890-1940 Julio Capó, Jr. 3. From Potlucks to Protests: Reflections from Organizing Queer and Trans API Communities Sasha Wijeyeratne Part II: Negotiating Systems 4. Central American Migrants: LGBTI Asylum Cases Seeking Justice and Making History Suyapa Portillo Villeda 5. Resettlement as Securitization: War, Humanitarianism, and the Production of Syrian LGBT Refugees Fadi Saleh 6. Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future: LGBTI Asylum in Turkey Elif 7. Welcome to Miami: Linking Place, Race and UndocuQueer Youth Activism Rafael Ramirez Solórzano 8. O Canada: HIV Not Welcome Here Ryan Conrad Part III: Resisting/Refusing 9. Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition Jamila Hammami 10. Withdrawn 11. Facing Crisis: Queer Representations against the Backdrop of Athens Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Anna Carastathis 12. Fantasy Subjects: Dissonant Performances of Belonging in Queer African Refugee Resettlement Andrew J. Brown 13. Validation Through Documentation: Integrating Activism, Research & Scholarship to Highlight (Validate) Trans Latin@ Immigrant Lives Jack Cáraves and Bamby Salcedo 14. Shameless Interruptions: Finding Survival at the Edges of Trans and Queer Migrations Ruben Zecena Part IV: Critiquing 15. Monarchs and Queers Yasmin Nair 16. The Price of Survival: Family Separation, Coercion, and Help José Guadalupe Herrera Soto 17. The Rhetoric of Family in the US Immigration Movement: A Queer Migration Analysis of the 2014 Central American Child Migrant “Crisis” Karma R. Chávez and Hana Masri 18. Imperialism, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity: A Queer Migration Roundtable Leece Lee-Oliver, Monisha Das Gupta, Katherine Fobear, and Edward Ou Jin Lee Contributors Index Artist Statements

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Book SynopsisCare activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society's legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work byTrade Review"In this poignant and imperative volume, Ethel Tungohan explores how deeply and distinctly migrant worker communities care for themselves and one another. In so doing, they demonstrate radical resistance and critical hope." --Ms. Magazine“Ethel Tungohan argues that social movement organizations succeed because their members care not only about the issues but also about each other. Drawing upon extensive global observation, she details how domestic workers cultivate critical hope and press for greater justice.” --Joan C. Tronto, author of Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics“A fascinating read. The way the author tells the stories, braiding histories and contemporary resonances together, creates an imaginative and successful narrative of care activism in Canada and transnationally. Tungohan underscores that, regardless of the vision and underlying motives of migrant care worker movements, they are invested in caring for one another. Her book shows us that perhaps activism isn’t at all separate from caring and that perhaps radical care can and should be a part of radical movement building.”--Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital AgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Care Activism and Communities of Care Contextualizing Care Activism Care Activism within Migrant Advocacy Organizations Transnational Activism--Scaling Up Care Activism in Transnational Spaces Care Activism in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore Everyday Care Activism Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Critical Hope and Care Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which immigrant lives are shaped by transnational bonds, globalization, family ties, and personal choice, and the ways in which they engender a sense of belonging and a sense of themselves as Americans. It considers a plurality of historical, economic, regional, familial, and cultural contexts.Trade Review "This collection . . . reflects the many achievements in historiography that have arisen since the introduction of the categories of class, gender, ethnicity, and race. . . . All [twenty-two essays] are of high quality and the annotations guide readers to further literature."--Dirk Hoerder, Journal of American Ethnic History"This fine collection draws together diverse works that illuminate major themes in recent immigration scholarship. . . . As this nation debates immigration policy, this collection can help us see how past policies developed and how they affected those peoples whose dreams included America."--Annals of Iowa "Marked by a rare coherence and clarity of vision, this elegant collection is a focused attempt to come to grips with some of the thornier issues that have confronted immigration historians in the past decade: how to practice comparative history, how to reconcile historians' emphasis on nation-states with the transnationalism paradigm of social scientists, and how to make race and class meaningful analytical categories rather than tired clichés."--Dorothee Schneider, author of Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900"Ruiz and Gabaccia demonstrate clearly why they are such important leaders in this field. In addition to their own fine scholarly contributions, American Dreaming, Global Realities presents a precise, careful, and panoramic vision of conceptual issues appropriate for a variety of audiences."--Nora Faires, history and women's studies, Western Michigan University

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Book SynopsisInvestigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the period between 1911 and 1927. This study also documents the emergence of permanent Chinese American communities, or Chinatowns.Trade Review"Chen's groundbreaking examination of the birth of a Chinese American identity is rich in detail and provides a vivid picture of the difficult historical circumstances that Chinese immigrants faced and the creative ways they fought for their rights in a strange land that eventually would become their home. This book is certain to become a classic in its field."--Asian Affairs"Offers a fascinating portrait of Chinese America."--The Historian"Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down. Shehong Chen has accurately portrayed the dynamics of the factors involved in the transformation of the Chinese American identity."--Sue Fawn Chung, author of Chinese in the Woods Logging and Lumbering in the American West

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Book SynopsisBecoming Mexican in early-twentieth-century ChicagoTrade Review“Arredondo paints a portrait of Mexican Chicago in the early 20th century, focusing on five zones of contact: housing patterns, work and labor relations, politics, commerce, and heterosocial relations. Recommended”--Choice“This volume enriches a substantial body of literature in Chicana/o urban history ... [and] it stands out from other publications by its consciously middle-class focus and concern with identity issues.”--American Historical Review"Mexican Chicago is elegantly written and deeply researched in a wide range of sources. . . . [It] contributes to the growing scholarship on Mexican Americans outside the Southwest and enlivens the discussion about immigration, race, and identity."--Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding migration through the lives and fiction of migrant workers in New EnglandTrade Review"[A] fascinating biography."--American Historical Review "Deserves to be read by all scholars and students interested in migration and dislocation."--Journal of American Ethnic History"In a stimulating way, Blewett interweaves labor, community, technology, gender, and sexuality in a story of the textile industry in a local, regional, British, and Atlantic context. A truly significant contribution."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second MillenniumTable of ContentsPreface xi Introduction 1 1. A Region of Movement and Change, 1650-1923 17 2. Migrations of Capital, Industry, and People, 1891-1922 51 3. Working, Writing, Loving, Enduring, 1923-1994 97 4. Transatlantic Perspectives, Strong Women, and Sexual Politics in Fiction 126 Conclusion: The Inner World of Emigration and Migration 153 Notes 161 Hedley Smith's Published and Unpublished Works 191 Index 193

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Book Synopsis Marcha is a multidisciplinary survey of the individuals, organizations, and institutions that have given shape and power to the contemporary immigrant rights movement in Chicago. A city with longstanding historic ties to immigrant activism, Chicago has been the scene of a precedent-setting immigrant rights mobilization in 2006 and subsequent mobilizations in 2007 and 2008. Positing Chicago as a microcosm of the immigrant rights movement on national level, these essays plumb an extraordinarily rich set of data regarding recent immigrant rights activities, defining the cause as not just a local quest for citizenship rights, but a panethnic, transnational movement. The result is a timely volume likely to provoke debate and advance the national conversation about immigration in innovative ways. Trade Review "Marcha brings together a diverse array of complementary analyses of the key actors, ideas, and institutions of the spring 2006 immigrant rights mobilization, the largest single wave of street protests in U.S. history."--Jonathan Fox, author of Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico

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Book SynopsisAn unprecedented inside view of the Hmong experience in AmericaTrade Review"Chia Youyee Vang is a skilled historian and is among the scholars with the most expertise on Hmong American communities. Using a pathbreaking blend of archival and ethnographic evidence, she presents a unique interpretation of Hmong refugees and their descendants in the United States that cannot be found in any other existing work."--Jeremy Hein, author of Ethnic Origins: The Adaptatation of Cambodian and Hmong Refugees in Four American Cities"The most comprehensive account to date of contemporary Hmong American history. . . . A true strength of the volume is Vang's detailed account of how Hmong American communities across the United States have evolved since the refugee resettlement of the mid-1970s."--Minnesota History"An invaluable introduction to contemporary Hmong American society."--Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & AdvancementTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Chronology of Relevant Events xx Introduction 1 1. Hmong History and Migration Prior to America 17 2. A New Home in America 44 3. Re-creation of Social Structures 68 4. Continuity and Reinvention of Traditions 97 5. Political Activism 122 Conclusion 150 Notes 163 Bibliography 181 Index 193

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Book SynopsisFeatures chapters that include a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the US-Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s.Trade Review "Clearly aimed at the undergraduate student and the general reader, Immigrant Voices provides immigrant accounts of their experiences. . . . The selections, which vary in form from letters, to memoirs, to diary entries, to oral histories, illustrate both the push factors of native lands as well as the pull factors of the United States. A reader vicariously feels the emotional cost of leaving home, the trials of steerage passage, the draw of American jobs and freedom, the sting of nativism, the clash between vision and reality, in short, the immigrant experience."--Labor Studies Journal "This volume will continue to provide students of American immigration with a rich repository of testimonies that reflect both of the commonalities among immigrant experiences, and the particularities produced by differences of race, class, gender, legal status, and historical context."--Journal of American Ethnic History

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Book SynopsisHighlights the important role of citizenship status in defining immigrant women's opportunities, wages, and labour conditions.Trade Review"By including the voices of the women currently doing the majority of reproductive work in the US, Immigrant Women Workers adds an important element to the conversation. Immigrant Women Workers captures many of the issues of perpetual importance to immigrant women workers."--Women's Review of Books "This work carries important implications for labor educators and organizers… This book solidly reinforces the concept as Audre Lorde explains, that single issue research and organizing is ineffective because we do not lead single-issue lives."--Labor Studies Journal "Grounded in rich ethnographic data, each of these informative case studies makes for compelling reading in addressing these workers' current conditions and positions. Highly Recommended."--Choice "The editors have succeeded in bringing together a wide range of excellent ethnographic research from scholars from different social science disciplines. What distinguishes this volume from other academic books on the subject is the authors' explicit intention to make manifest their double role as academics and activists. The authors present concrete data and analysis meant to give basis to future strategies to improve the situation of women migrants… The collection provides relevant and timely case study material for teaching and research into the gendered effects of the recent economic crisis and neo-liberal policy-making on the lives of migrants in the USA."--Ethnic and Racial Studies "An important volume that highlights the ways in which immigrant women in the US are both adapting to, and fighting to improve, their workplaces."--Labour/Le Travail "A valuable addition to a growing body of literature that critically examines the experiences of women migrants in the informal economy. What sets this collection of papers apart from other works on immigrant worker women is that in these narratives the women's trials and their triumphs are highlighted. These women are not passive victim in their narratives. Their agency is apparent, and presented clearly to the reader."--Gender & DevelopmentTable of ContentsContributors: Pallavi Banerjee, Grace Chang, Margaret M. Chin, Jennifer Jihye Chun, Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, Emir Estrada, Lucy Fisher, Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Ruth Gomberg-Munoz, Anna Romina Guevarra, Shobha Hamal Gurung, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Maria de la Luz Ibarra, Miliann Kang, George Lipsitz, Lolita Andrada Lledo, Lorena Munoz, Bandana Purkayastha, Mary Romero, Young Shin, Michelle Tellez, and Maura Toro-Morn.

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Book SynopsisFollowing one African nation's flow of populations and culture in the colonial and postcolonial worldsTrade Review"A thorough examination of the African nation of Equatorial Guinea and its complex political, cultural, and literary history. Africans in Europe makes a definitive contribution to the burgeoning field of Afro-Spanish studies and the literature of Equatorial Guinea."--Silvia Bermudez, author of La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela "Ugarte's refined prose, playful ideas, and timely and pertinent subject matter highlight the value of Equatorial Guinean emixile writers for understanding global migrations and cultural cross-fertilization."--Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix 1. Emixile 1 2. Out of Equatorial Guinea 18 3. The First Wave 30 4. Donato Ndongo: Model of Emixile 58 5. El metro (The Subway): Saga of the African Emigrant 76 6. Between Life and Death: The Macias Generation 90 7. Exiles Stay at Home 112 8. Gendering Emixile: The Mythic Return 133 9. Ending with a Beginning 156 Notes 169 Bibliography 179 Index 193

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Book SynopsisExplores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014. "A timely and necessary contribution to multiple fields of inquiry, including southern history and studies, immigration history, urban history, foreign relations history, U.S. history writ large, religious studies, American studies, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies. . . . Fresh and forward-looking, Asian Americans in Dixie should serve as a launching pad for new directions in the histories of race, migration, and the U.S. South."--The Journal of Southern History "This collection brings valuable attention to the largely overlooked experiences of Asian Americans in the southern US. . . . An important contribution to Asian American studies. Essential."--Choice "Delving into the complex history of race and ethnicity in the American South, these scholars explore the ways in which Asian Americans must be part of that narrative, both past and present. This book will have great potential as a teaching tool in Asian American studies and Southern studies."--Krystyn R. Moon, author of Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s–1920s"Delving into the complex history of race and ethnicity in the American South, these scholars explore the ways in which Asian Americans must be part of that narrative, both past and present. This book will have great potential as a teaching tool in Asian American studies and Southern studies."--Krystyn R. Moon, author of Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s–1920s

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Book Synopsis Delineating an approach to activism at the intersection of queer rights, immigration rights, and social justice, Queer Migration Politics examines a series of 'coalitional moments' in which contemporary activists discover and respond to the predominant rhetoric, imagery, and ideologies that signal a sense of national identity. Karma Chávez analyzes how activists use coalition to articulate the shared concerns of queer politics and migration politics, as both populations seek to imagine their ability to belong in various communities and spaces, their relationships to state and regional politics, and their relationships to other people whose lives might be very different from their own. Advocating a politics of the present and drawing from women of color and queer of color theory, this book contends that coalition enables a vital understanding of how queerness and immigration, citizenship and belonging, and inclusion and exclusion are linked.Trade ReviewBook of the Year, LGBTQ Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association, 2014. "This is the sphere of academic work, but Chávez goes beyond that, calling for theorization that privileges the experiences of those walking the streets and putting their bodies on the line."--make/shift"Offers extensive insight into the intersectional aspects and coalitions of queer migrants. . . . This book is an excellent contribution to the study of rhetoric, social movements, queer rights, and immigration politics."--QED "With little existing scholarship on coalition building across social movement groups, Chavez provides qualitatively supported evidence for coalitional possibilities at the U.S.-Mexico border. Chavez's research differs from other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/question (LGBTQ) and social movement scholarship as it explores uncharted terrain in the collaboration of activist groups while paying particular attention to intersectionality when analyzing the experiences of individuals who are marginalized by virtue of their nationality as well as their sexual orientation. An inspiring read for anyone with an interest in contemporary equality discourses."--Women's Studies in Communication "Chavez successfully tries to break this perception by merging together discussions around immigration rights, queer rights, and social justice. This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture"A highly original contribution and is easily one of the most thoughtful books in queer studies I have read in a long time. Chavez's focus on rhetoric provides a unique lens through which to examine how queers, migrants, and queer migrants are intervening in their differential marginalization vis-a-vis nation-states, neoliberal political economy, and presumptions of citizenship as the telos of belonging. By the end of Queer Migration Politics, readers are left with the question of the extent to which queer migrant coalitional politics will expand and transform normative, nation-based LGBTQ and migrant politics."--GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies"Timely and prophetic."--Queer Theory"This study provides the reader a lens to see the triangular relationship between multiple oppression (or discrimination), coalition, and radical change. A clear illustration of the latest queer migration politics in the US sociopolitical world."--Gender, Place and Culture

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gives the reader unique and detailed information about Indian and Indian American internet culture and public discourses about technology and transnationality during the birth of the World Wide Web. . . . The sections on Indian immigration and the technology industry and culture will be fascinating to scholars in digital media studies as well as scholars in Asian and Asian American studies. I can't think of a single other book that covers this territory." --Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In exploring migrants' cross-border connections over time, this collection of insightful and highly readable essays offers fresh perspectives and fascinating historical analysis on a topic central to the study of immigration. An indispensable guide to understanding the dynamics involved in transnational ties that will be a highly valued resource for students and scholars alike."--Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe"This volume, edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field, infuses migration studies with sorely needed historical perspective, conceptual clarity, and theoretical depth by treating the transnational not as a mantra but as actual social spaces/processes that can be understood empirically and historically."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 "Immigrant men and women shape and maintain transnational, often locally embedded linkages, and statesmen utilize or frame such connectivity. Both sides engage each other to achieve familial and statewide goals, economic, political, and emotional ones. The authors masterfully weave specific analyses into a long endured perspective of transcultural relations."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium"A Century of Transnationalism is a thoughtful and useful addition to research on migration and diaspora studies. It explores the diversity of over a century of migration experiences while highlighting shared migration factors: the tug-of-war of loyalties between home and host culture and the push-pull forces of assimilation versus alienation."--Review 31"Nancy Green and Roger Waldinger have assembled an excellent collection of rich empirical studies framed by their insightful introduction. The result constitutes a major contribution to a critical, historically-grounded, and state-centered perspective on transnationalism. This is essential reading for migration scholars."--Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award, Feminist and Women Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2017 "Gendered Asylum provides a rich and crucial intervention that expands our comprehension of gender and gender violence in U.S. asylum cases." --AED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking"Sara McKinnon’s important book offers stunningly insightful and grounded examples of how twentieth and twenty-first century U.S. asylum decisions attempt to control non-normative gendered and sexual subjects. Her case studies carefully unearth the rhetorical relationships among gender’s emergence as a political category, transnational imaginaries, and neoliberalisms’ rationalities; these powerful discourses deeply saturate US asylum logic. This well-researched and beautifully written study should be widely read by scholars who seek to gain insight into how a racialized sex/gender system works--along with geopolitical power--to codify not only the US asylum system, but also other political institutions whose policies regulate people’s everyday well-being."--Rebecca Dingo, author of Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing"Gendered Asylum is a valuable addition to recent work on human rights, immigration, and gender." --Quarterly Journal of Speech"McKinnon's voice is necessary and valuable in explaining how women are reduced to their bodies and denied their political agency. Those interested in discourses and representational practices regarding gender as a category will be prompted to consider the crucial links between gender, asylum, and U.S. power."--Journal of American Ethnic History"Recommended."--Choice"Mckinnon draws out several key themes and conclusions, repeatedly highlighting how U.S. adjudicators 'otherize' gender-based violence and overlay a racist component to the harm that women asylum seekers have endured."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Gendered Asylum represents a considerable contribution to scholarship on gender and sexuality based asylum and will be useful to scholars in a range of areas, including transnational feminist studies, legal studies, rhetoric, immigration, and asylum and refugee studies."--International Migration Review"McKinnon provides a deeply nuanced analysis of gender as a political category in asylum law." --Ethnic and Racial Studies "Approaching law as rhetoric, McKinnon meticulously traces the evolution of gender as a legal concept and politically protected category in US asylum law and politics. In her innovative articulations, she unearths the rhetorical implications of gender as a political concept in transnational case studies and contexts that span over 30 years to show how gendered subjects have been made intelligible–or not–as persons worthy of US protection. Importantly, her interdisciplinary approach reveals that such liberal approaches to gender as a protected category are predicated on a one-sex and one-gender system of categorization that ultimately reinforces the universality of the male-assigned subject as the neutral sexed subject for whom asylum reliefs are intended. Her intersectional work further demonstrates how the U.S. is imagined as exceptional through such narrow constructions of gender. Notably, gender and gender-based violences are characterized in her work as experiences for particular bodies from particular geographies to reveal a racialized sexuality as an organizing principle and structuring logic of US asylum law and politics that ultimately serves as a neoliberal technique of migration control. In addressing one of the most urgent political issues of our time, Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics is at once brilliant, timely, and urgent. It is a must read for transnational feminist scholars, legal and rhetorical studies scholars, immigration scholars, and all who are interested in migration and asylum."--Adela C. Licona, author of Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric "With a nuanced and deft analysis of gender as a political category in asylum law, Sara McKinnon compels readers to recognize the shifting terrains of gender intelligibility and the material implications of that intelligibility, beautifully demarcating which bodies are deemed sufficiently endangered as to merit asylum. Her account demands that scholars recognize gender and violence as complexly racialized and tied to presumptions of sex and sexuality. This is a book that will have deep resonance across disciplines."--Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado Boulder

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