Migration, immigration and emigration Books
University of California Press Protect Serve and Deport The Rise of Policing as
Book SynopsisAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, the UC Press open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals, but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.Trade Review"This stellar volume cements Armenta’s status as an expert ethnographer working at the intersection of the sociology of critical criminology, law and society, and immigration. Academics and non-academics, graduate and under-graduate students alike will find in this text a readable and eminently troubling portrait of immigrant life in the deportation nation, a story deftly told through the clear-eyed and empathetic vision of one of the field’s rising stars." * Theoretical Criminology *"Should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding what happens when local police facilitate mass deportation." * Law & Society Review *"Amada Armenta’s Protect, Serve, and Deport makes a notable contribution to this burgeoning scholarship by tracing the adoption, rollout, and consequences of the 287(g) program in Davidson County, Tennessee . . . [it] is particularly timely and highly relevant to scholars researching immigrant criminalization, policing, or color-blind racism." * American Journal of Sociology *"Armenta provides us with a rich ethnography of immigration policing in Nashville that is so insightful that it will also be of interest to scholars working on immigration enforcement, bordering practices, racial profiling, discretion, and policing in many other settings. It is truly a stellar book that should become mandatory reading on any syllabus or comprehensive exam list in border criminology and critical police studies in the United States and beyond." * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Who Polices Immigration? 2. Setting Up the Local Deportation Regime 3. Being Proactive: On the Streets in Southeast Nashville 4. Seeing and Not Seeing Immigration: Immigrant Outreach in an Era of Proactive Policing 5. Inside the Jail: Processing Immigrants for Removal 6. Punishing Illegality Conclusion Appendix: Fieldwork FAQs Notes References Index
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University of California Press Legal Passing Navigating Undocumented Life and
Book SynopsisLegal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. Angela S. García compares restrictive and accommodating immigration measures in various cities and states to show that place-based inclusion and exclusion unfold in seemingly contradictory ways. Instead of fleeing restrictive localities, undocumented Mexicans react by presenting themselves as legal, masking the stigma of illegality to avoid local police and federal immigration enforcement. Restrictive laws coerce assimilation, because as legal passing becomes habitual and embodied, immigrants distance themselves from their ethnic and cultural identities. In accommodating destinations, undocumented Mexicans experience a localized sense of stability and membership that is simultaneously undercut by the threat of federal immigration enforcement and complex street-level tensions with local police. Combining social theory on immigration and race as well as place and law,Legal Passinguncovers the everyday failures and long-term human consequences of contemporary immigration laws in the US.Trade Review"Legal Passing helps make sense of not only a fragmented U.S. immigration system but also this system’s diverse effects on the undocumented immigrants subject to its varied laws and policies. Through rigorous data collection, a sharp sociological imagination, and lucid prose, Angela S. García breaks new ground by revealing the insidious ways immigration measures simultaneously integrate and marginalize millions of undocumented immigrants and their U.S.-citizen family members from the country they call home." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"...a real achievement and an outstanding contribution to law and society scholarship. As a study of legal consciousness, the book reveals how migrants perform legality through quotidian and embodied practices. It elucidates the uneven costs that “illegality” imposes across different geographies, demonstrating how space and place shape the effects of immigration laws, and how immigration laws also shape space and place. Eminently readable, Legal Passing will engage undergraduate and graduate students, as well as an inter-disciplinary community of socio-legal scholars." * Law & Society *"[Legal Passing] maintains an explicit and thoughtful focus throughout on the complex, messy, and often unanticipated consequences of law." * Social Forces *"Angela García’s excellent first book addresses [their experiences and]. . . . makes clear that undocumented immigrants are hardly living in the shadows." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Place of Law: Subnational Immigration Laws in an Age of Mass Deportation 2. Undocumented and Unwelcome? California’s Shifting Immigration Laws 3. Stay or Go? The Settlement Effects of Restrictive Subnational Laws 4. Everyday Anxiety: Devolution, Deportability, and the Police 5. Legal Passing: Changing Bodies, Behaviors, and Minds 6. Passing Down Legal Passing: The Diffusion of Exclusionary Logics 7. Lessons of the Law: Subnational Immigration Laws in the Trump EraNotes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Deported to Death How Drug Violence Is Changing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For those seeking a better understanding of the more searing aspects of US border and immigration policies, Deported to Death is essential reading." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"Deported to Death provides an important look at what happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"A striking exploration of the intense marginalisation and vulnerability faced by deportees. . . . Slack is unwavering in his pursuit of the cross-border nature of the forces at work in shaping this environment." * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Violence of Mobility 2. I Want to Cross with a Backpack 3. Te Van a Levantar—They Will Kidnap You: Deportation and Mobility on the Border 4. They Torture You to Make You Lose Feeling 5. Guarding the River: Migrant Recruitment into Organized Crime 6. The Disappeared, the Dead, and the Forgotten 7. Resistance, Resilience, and Love: The Limits of Violence and Fear 8. “Who Can I Deport?”: Asylum and the Limits of Protection against Persecution Conclusions: Requiem for the Removed Appendix: A Note on Researching in Violent Environments Notes References Index
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University of California Press Lives in Transit
Book SynopsisLivesinTransitchronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites,Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, andlivesbecome implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged alongtransitroutes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents,Vogt encourages us to reimaginetransitas a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.Trade Review"Vogt is a storyteller at core, and Lives in Transit is an indelible piece of groundbreaking work that bears testament to the embodied violence, intimacy, and resistance of Central American migrants in Mexico." * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Circulations of Violence 2. The Arterial Border 3. The Migrant Industry 4. Embodied Mobilities 5. Intimate Crossings 6. (In)Security and Safety 7. Constellations of Care Conclusion: The Unforgotten Notes References Index
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University of California Press Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes Navigating
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptationand integrationhas focused on case studies of immigrant communities in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt to a new legal environment in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russiaan archetypal hybrid political regime and the third largest recipients of migrants worldwideand investigates howCentral Asianmigrant workersproduce new forms ofinformalgovernance and legal order. Migrants use the opportunities provided by a weak rule-of-law and a corrupt political systemto navigate the repressive legal landscape and to negotiateusing informal channelsaccess to employment and other opportunities that are hard to obtain through the official legal framework of their host country. This lively ethnography presents new theoretical perspectives for studying immigrant legal incorporation in similar political contexts. Trade Review"Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes provides an important complement to our knowledge of undocumented labor migrants and presents an important study of a very underresearched case. The book will also make for good reading in graduate and undergraduate seminars on international migration." * American Journal of Sociology *
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University of California Press Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to become an adult in the face of economic uncertainty and increasing racial and immigrant diversity? Nearly half of all young people in the United States are racial minorities, and one in four are from immigrant families. Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America offers a comprehensive overview of young people across racial and immigrant groups and their paths through traditional markers of adulthoodfrom finishing education, working full time, and establishing residential independence to getting married and having children. Taking a look at the diversity of experiences, the authors uncover how the transition to adulthood is increasingly fragmented, especially among those without college degrees. This book will introduce students to immigrant, racial, and ethnic diversity in the transition to adulthood in contemporary America.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Defining and Giving Context to the Transition to Adulthood 1. Understanding the New Face of America: Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Immigration 2. Getting Ahead, Falling Behind: Education and Employment 3. Settling In, Settling Down: Household and Family Formation 4. Connecting Milestones: Profiles of Adulthood 5. Exploring a Mosaic of Experiences: Ethnicity, Immigrant Status, and Sexual Orientation 6. Envisioning the Transition to Adulthood Today and in the Future Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press Adventure Capital
Book SynopsisParis's Gare du Nord is one of the busiest international transit centers in the world. In the past three decades, it has become an important hub for West African migrantsself-fashioned adventurersnavigating life in the city. In this groundbreaking work, Julie Kleinman chronicles how West Africans use the Gare du Nord to create economic opportunities, confront police harassment, and forge connections to people outside of their communities. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, including an internship at the French national railway company, Kleinman reveals how racial inequality is ingrained in the order of Parisian public space. She vividly describes the extraordinary ways that African migrants retool French transit infrastructure to build alternative pathways toward social and economic integration where state institutions have failed. In doing so, these adventurers defy boundariesbetween migrant and citizen, center and periphery, neighbor and strangerthat have shaped urban planning and immigration policy. Adventure Capital offers a new understanding of contemporary migration and belonging, capturing the central role that West African migrants play in revitalizing French urban life. Trade Review"Adventure Capital demonstrates beautifully how the drive for continued mobility arises as much from a position of precariousness as it does from a 'trader’s logic' that extols difference and enables connection." * Antipode *"[S]cholars in the social sciences and humanities will find Kleinman’s book extremely valuable. It is beautifully written, engaging, and powerful in delivering its message and argument." * International Migration *"Reframes the way we tend to think about migration, French public space, and about living together and valuable encounters across difference." * Journal of Economic and Social Geography *"A vivid reminder that urban planning and programming is inherently political with far-reaching repercussions on social life. . . . The book is beautifully written and a definite page-turner." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Theoretically sophisticated, accessibly written, and ethnographically engaged, Adventure Capital makes an important and timely intervention into the study of migration. . . . The book makes for essential reading for scholars of mobility and contemporary urban life." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"[A] fantastic ethnography" * Sociological Review *"bishops in flight" * Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees *
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University of California Press Bans Walls Raids Sanctuary
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary, Paik has given us an essential guide to our current moment that is both forward looking and well informed by the past. Students, organizers, and activists alike will find this clear and accessible book useful and inspiring." * H-Net *"This is a slim and accessible text that could serve as an introduction to some of the most pressing legal, political, and ethical issues of our day." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsOverview Preface Introduction 1. Bans 2. Walls 3. Raids 4. Sanctuary Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Further Resources
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University of California Press Bans Walls Raids Sanctuary
Book SynopsisDays after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive ordersthese authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration's approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president's xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political, economic, and social culture. She deftly demonstrates that attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, and queer and gender nonconforming people. Against this history of barriers and assaults, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary mounts a rallying cry for a broad-based, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all.Trade Review“This book provides a diagnosis and suggests a way forward toward a better future. . . . Abolitionist sanctuary combines the radical welcome of sanctuary with the transformative vision of abolition. It sees migration as linked to many other struggles for justice. It is only through collaboration and reimagination, Paik argues, that we will be able to achieve lasting change.” * Public Books *"In Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary, Paik has given us an essential guide to our current moment that is both forward looking and well informed by the past. Students, organizers, and activists alike will find this clear and accessible book useful and inspiring." * H-Net *"This is a slim and accessible text that could serve as an introduction to some of the most pressing legal, political, and ethical issues of our day." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsOverview Preface Introduction 1. Bans 2. Walls 3. Raids 4. Sanctuary Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Further Resources
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University of California Press They Sought a Country
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
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University of California Press Divided by the Wall Progressive and Conservative
Book SynopsisThe construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico borderwhether to build it or nothas become a hot-button issuein contemporary America.A recentimpasse over funding a wall caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, sharpening partisan divisions across the nation. In the Arizona borderlands, groups of predominantly white American citizens have been mobilizing for decadessome help undocumented immigrants bypass governmentaldetection, while others help law enforcement agents to apprehend immigrants. Activists on both the left and the right mobilize without an immediate personal connection to the issue at hand, many doubtingthat their actions can bring about the long-term change they desire. Why, then, do they engage in immigration and border politics so passionately?Divided by the Walloffers a one-of-a-kind comparative study of progressive pro-immigrant activists and their conservative immigration-restrictionist opponents. Using twenty months of ethnographic research with five grassroots organizations,Emine Fidan Elcioglu shows how immigration politics has become a substitute for struggles around class inequality among white Americans. She demonstrates how activists mobilizednot only to change the rules of immigrationbut also to experience a change in themselves. Elcioglu finds that the variation in social class and intersectional identity across the two sides mappedonto disparate concerns about state power. As activists strategizedways to transform the scope of the state's power, they also triedto carve out self-transformative roles for themselves. Provocative and even-handed,Divided by the Wallchallenges our understanding of immigration politics in times of growing inequality and insecurity. Trade Review"This is an accessible book for anyone interested in immigration politics and social movements, stratification and identity politics. Elcioglu offers an important contribution to social movements and contentious politics studies by delving into the life stories and understanding both sides of the immigration debate through their own lens." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Divided by the Wall is a must-read for scholars of political movements because of its vivid, thoughtful depiction of this phenomenon at the US-Mexico border." * Social Forces *"The analytical perspective and remarkable findings of Divided by the Wall open a dialogue among political sociologists who study social movements and political mobilization." * Mobilization *"Divided by the Wall has clearly succeeded in provoking important questions and opening new lines of investigation. Elcioglu sets a high standard for comparative ethnography of dueling social movements. The text is accessibly written and would be suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses on social movements, immigration, and ethnography. Students would likely find their engagement with the text to be a highlight of the term." * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *"An evocative portrait. . . . Divided by the Wall’s sharp insights into the overlapping rationales of white immigration activists make it an urgent and fresh analysis of a much-examined place." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: State Effects and the Politics of Immigration in Arizona PART I USING IMMIGRATION POLITICS TO REMAKE ONESELF 1. Arizona and the Making of an Ambiguous Border 2. Being Progressive, but Privileged 3. Being White, but Working Class PART II CONTENDING WITH CHALLENGES FROM THE OTHER SIDE 4. The “Other” Border Crosser: How Pro-immigrant Activists Grapple with the Topic of Cartels 5. “We Work with Border Patrol”: How Restrictionists Struggle with the Topic of Racism PART III PRACTICING SYMBOLIC POLITICS 6. Weakening the State: The Pro-immigrant Strategy 7. Strengthening the State: The Restrictionist Strategy Conclusion: Going beyond the Wall Appendix 1: Methods Appendix 2: Interviewees Notes References Index
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University of California Press Sameness in Diversity Food and Globalization in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tensions between homogenizing and diversifying influences in the supply chain throw uncertainty on what we now mean by ‘authenticity’ when it comes to food and culture. This book would appeal to social scientists, anthropologists, historians and the general public." * Nature *"The book’s wide range of topics . . . affords an opportunity, especially for non-specialists, to explore many important issues related to agriculture and food in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century United States." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsList of Tables Foreword by Carol Helstosky Editor’s Note Introduction 1. The Globalization of the Fruit and Vegetable Trade 2. The Consolidation and Globalization of Grocery Stores 3. Marketing Ethnic Foods at Supermarkets 4. The Changing American Restaurant 5. Cookbooks Navigate the Globe 6. Indian Restaurants in America: A Case Study in Translating Diversity 7. Chinese Food from Chinatown to the Suburbs 8. Tortilla Politics Conclusion: What Is an Authentic Taco? List of Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Island of Hope Migration and Solidarity in the
Book SynopsisWith thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergence of social solidarity initiatives and networks forged between citizens and noncitizens who work together to improve local livelihoods and mobilize for radical political change. Basing her argument on years of ethnographic fieldwork with frontline communities in Sicily, anthropologist Megan Carney asserts that such mobilizations hold significance not only for the rights of migrants, but for the material and affective well-being of society at large.Trade Review"This book will interest migration and social movements scholars, but also non-academic readers interested in deconstructing the crisis and emergency narrative surrounding Mediterranean migration and discovering solidarity experiences that challenge the neoliberal system." * International Migration Review *"Carney convincingly challenges the traditional view of Mediterranean migration as a crisis of the nation state and neoliberal economy, combining meticulous empirical analysis and thoughtful discussions." * Modern Italy *"A vibrant ethnographic study. . . .Thanks to this book, it is possible to look at solidarity networks with a more critical and questioning eye. Drawing on the extensive fieldwork that foregrounds the book, it will be an important resource for academics and researchers working on migration and solidarity." * International Migration *“[A] highly accomplished and relevant work.” * Quaderni d’Italianistica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1. Austerity and Migration as Mediterranean "Questions" 2. "There Is a Lot of Creativity on This Island" 3. The Reception Apparatus 4. Migrant Solidarity Work 5. Edible Solidarities 6. Caring for the Future: The Case of Migrant Youth Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Island of Hope
Book SynopsisWith thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergence of social solidarity initiatives and networks forged between citizens and noncitizens who work together to improve local livelihoods and mobilize for radical political change. Basing her argument on years of ethnographic fieldwork with frontline communities in Sicily, anthropologist Megan Carney asserts that such mobilizations hold significance not only for the rights of migrants, but for the material and affective well-being of society at large.Trade Review"This book will interest migration and social movements scholars, but also non-academic readers interested in deconstructing the crisis and emergency narrative surrounding Mediterranean migration and discovering solidarity experiences that challenge the neoliberal system." * International Migration Review *"Carney convincingly challenges the traditional view of Mediterranean migration as a crisis of the nation state and neoliberal economy, combining meticulous empirical analysis and thoughtful discussions." * Modern Italy *"A vibrant ethnographic study. . . .Thanks to this book, it is possible to look at solidarity networks with a more critical and questioning eye. Drawing on the extensive fieldwork that foregrounds the book, it will be an important resource for academics and researchers working on migration and solidarity." * International Migration *“[A] highly accomplished and relevant work.” * Quaderni d’Italianistica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1. Austerity and Migration as Mediterranean "Questions" 2. "There Is a Lot of Creativity on This Island" 3. The Reception Apparatus 4. Migrant Solidarity Work 5. Edible Solidarities 6. Caring for the Future: The Case of Migrant Youth Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Family Size and Achievement
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University of California Press License to Travel
Book SynopsisThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. InLicense to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: Peruse the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants.See how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority. Encounter intimate stories of vulnerability and desire along with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics. Witness the authority that travel documents exercise over our movements and our emotions as we circulate around the globe. With unexpected discoveries at every turn,License to Travelexposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.Trade Review"In License to Travel, Bixby explores the passport’s linguistic journey and much else. . . . An impressive survey." * Wall Street Journal *"A comprehensive, insightful history. . . . Bixby offers up a formidable survey of this everyday artifact and how it defines individuals and affords varying degrees of privilege and freedom, depending on one’s place of birth." * New York Times *"Neatly lays out the mighty power of the passport and the pains of passport inequality. . . . With License to Travel, Bixby also makes the argument that applying and carrying a passport is not just an administrative hoop that travelers must jump through: Having a passport gives us the freedom to travel—and the freedom to thrive." * AFAR Magazine *"Read this book and you’ll never again treat your passport so casually." * Geography Realm *"Bixby offers a new cultural history of the passport, exploring its pre-history, emergence and its current status today. This beautifully written and accessible book will be a great introduction for people wanting to learn more about passports and their politics of inclusion and exclusion." * LSE Review of Books *"This readable narrative history will interest all who travel abroad as well as those denied the opportunity." * CHOICE *"Charmingly written. . . . An appealing, accessible, and enlightening choice of reading on this subject." * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: "The Most Precious Book I Possess" Part One: A Prehistory of the Passport as We Know It 1 • Ancient Bodies, Ancient Citizens 2 • Great Sovereigns, Grand Tourists 3 • Modern Bodies, Modern Citizens Part Two: The Advent of the Passport as We Know It 4 • Modernists and Militants Part Three: The Passport as We Know It 5 • Expelled and Stateless 6 • Migrants and Marxists 7 • Alien and Indigenous Epilogue: Good Passports Bad Passports Notes Index
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University of California Press The Succeeders
Book SynopsisA powerful and challenging look at what success and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers. This book challenges dominant representations of the so-called American Dream, those patriotic narratives that focus on personal achievement as the way to become an American. This narrative misaligns with the lived experience of many first- and second-generation Latino immigrant youth who thrive because of the nurture of their loved ones. A story of social reproduction and change, The Succeeders illustrates how ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valuable, and who is an American are worked out by young people through their ordinary acts of striving in school and caring for friends and family. In this eye-opening book, Andrea Flores examines how ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valued, and who is considered to be an American are worked out by young people through ordinary acts of striving in school and caTrade Review"Through its focus on Latinx youth in the South, The Succeeders makes a much-needed contribution to studies on Latinx communities, immigration, and education." * CHOICE *"Flores skillfully presents a regional landscape of how Latina/o students currently experience belonging and through their critiques incite us to consider what belonging could be." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. "Be Somebody": The Stakes of Academic Achievement Part I Contexts of Belonging 1. City of Success: Living and Learning in Music City Part II Learning to Belong 2. Mowing the Lawn and Getting Pregnant: Latinidad and Educational Exceptionalism 3. "Your Story Is Your Ticket": Becoming a Moral Minority and Reproducing Exclusion Part III Unlearning to Belong 4. "Their Name Is Also Written on My Diploma":Striving for Parental Inclusion 5. "Education with Her Family": Caring for Siblings and Redefining Success 6. Somos Una Familia: Transforming Belonging and Making Friends into Family Conclusion. Graduations Appendix: The Succeeders Program Notes References Index
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University of California Press We Thought It Would Be Heaven
Book SynopsisResettled refugees in America face a land of daunting obstacles where small thingsone person, one encountercan make all the difference in getting ahead or falling behind. Fleeing war and violence, many refugees dream that moving to the United States will be like going to Heaven. Instead, they enter a deeply unequal American society, often at the bottom. Through the lived experiences of families resettled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau reveal how a daunting obstacle course of agencies and services can drastically alter refugees' experiences building a new life in America. In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, you see the American story. For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophesfood stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings readers into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists, workers, and policymakers can help refugee families thrive.Trade Review“We Thought it Would be Heaven is a convincing and accessible depiction of how refugee families in America navigate complexly interrelated institutions. . . . Refugee families . . . are astonished to learn how unequal and, at times, unjust America can be.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This is a beautifully written and clear book about the sometimes-ugly issues and often confusing situations which many refugees experience as they arrive in the United States and seek to make their lives there. . . . It is also an inspiring book, vividly relaying the views and feelings of members of families from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during their initial years in the US." * Process North *Table of ContentsContents List of Tables Introduction 1. Journeys to America: Lots of Red Tape 2. Hurdles and Knots Everywhere: Honoria Kimenyerwa 3. Problems Reverberate: Malu Malu and Mariamu Mahamba 4. How Cultural Brokers Help: Joseph and Georgette Ngoma 5. The Power of People Doing Their Jobs: Alain and Vana Msafiri Conclusion: Refugees in an Unequal America Acknowledgments Appendix A: Tables Appendix B: Key Ideas in More Depth Appendix C: How We Did the Study Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Academic Apartheid
Trade Review"This book deserves a place on the reading lists and bookshelves of many readers. It is accessible for multiple audiences as the storytelling hooks the reader while also offering opportunities to reconsider several harmful policies and practices. . . If we hope to create a schooling system that is truly designed to serve all of its students - not just those who reflect the dominant white culture or fit into a specific frame - all of these actors must gain an understanding of how schools as institutions perpetuate racism and criminalization." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Drake has contributed a set of unique insights into global dynamics with hyperlocal implications. He does so with a depth and richness through which we come to know and inhabit this world." * Social Service Review *"Anyone who cares about equity in education should read this well-researched and well-written book to understand the causes and consequences of academic apartheid." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Segregated Schools and Disadvantaged Students in an Affluent Neighborhood 1. “If You’re Not in AP Classes, Then Who Are You?” 2. The Symbolic Criminalization of Failure 3. The Segregation of Teaching and Learning 4. The Institutionalization of Ethnic Capital 5. “We’ve Failed These Kids” Missed Opportunities and Signs of Hope Conclusion Methodological Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Open Hand Closed Fist
Book SynopsisHow does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of attrition through enforcement aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would self-deport. Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains howthepracticesofstorytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the open hand (the affective bonds among participants) and the closed fist (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) thathave allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time.Trade Review"In sum, Open Hand, Closed Fist is a must read for scholars of immigrant activism and, more broadly, for social movement scholars interested in the dynamic strategies of “challenger movements”. By offering a richly empirically illustrated and well-researched inside look into the Arizona movement, the book solves a piece of the puzzle in accounting for the spectacular rise of the immigrant rights movement in the United States." * Social Forces *
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University of California Press From Chinatown to Every Town
Book SynopsisFrom Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas. Liang's study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.Trade Review"The book’s key insight—that spatial assimilation is not just an individual level phenomenon, but rather is shaped by group-level dynamics and institutions—can be applied well beyond the Chinese restaurant industry." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Job Search: From Immigrant Networks to Market-Based Institutions 3. Making the Connection: The Story of the Chinatown Bus 4. Choices for New Immigrant Destinations 5. New Businesses in New Places: Adaptation and Race Relations 6. The Ties That Bind: Between Chinatown in Manhattan and New Immigrant Destinations 7. Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Analysis of Job Locations Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Reunion
Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cyclTrade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information
£64.00
University of California Press Reunion
Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military scorched-earth operation, with never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war. All book royalties ofReunionwill be donated by the author to Pro-Búsqueda and related causes.Trade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information
£22.50
University of California Press Passport Entanglements
Book SynopsisPassport Entanglements traces the many tangled threadspolitical, historical, economic, global, and localthat are tied to the existence of Indonesianaspalor real but fake passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or clean up (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate riTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Terms and Abbreviations 1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements 2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor 3. Care and Control 4. Real and Fake 5. State and Society 6. Migrant and Citizen 7. Temporalities and Scales References Index
£63.90
University of California Press Passport Entanglements
Book SynopsisPassport Entanglements traces the many tangled threadspolitical, historical, economic, global, and localthat are tied to the existence of Indonesianaspalor real but fake passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or clean up (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate riTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Terms and Abbreviations 1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements 2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor 3. Care and Control 4. Real and Fake 5. State and Society 6. Migrant and Citizen 7. Temporalities and Scales References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Abandoning Their Beloved Land
Book SynopsisAbandoning Their Beloved Landoffers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Programrelated responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.Trade Review"Abandoning Their Beloved Land adds a much-needed Mexican perspective on a program that encompassed thousands of lives in different political spheres and localities for over two decades." * H-Migration *"A major contribution to the literature on Chicana/o and ethnic studies, this volume will be invaluable for future research and scholarship on this critical subject." * CHOICE *"Meticulously researched, Abandoning Their Beloved Land provides an engaging narrative that makes this book accessible to non-academics, undergraduates, and graduate students alike." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 • “The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures”: Federal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 2 • “According to the Jurisdiction’s Necessities”: State-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 3 • “Long-Standing Political and Religious Differences”: Political-Religious Conflicts and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 4 • “Lack of Work and Lands to Sow”: The Agrarian Reform and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 5 • A “Mockery of Responsibility”: Municipal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Abandoning Their Beloved Land
Book SynopsisAbandoning Their Beloved Landoffers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Programrelated responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.Trade Review"Abandoning Their Beloved Land adds a much-needed Mexican perspective on a program that encompassed thousands of lives in different political spheres and localities for over two decades." * H-Migration *"A major contribution to the literature on Chicana/o and ethnic studies, this volume will be invaluable for future research and scholarship on this critical subject." * CHOICE *"Meticulously researched, Abandoning Their Beloved Land provides an engaging narrative that makes this book accessible to non-academics, undergraduates, and graduate students alike." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 • “The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures”: Federal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 2 • “According to the Jurisdiction’s Necessities”: State-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 3 • “Long-Standing Political and Religious Differences”: Political-Religious Conflicts and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 4 • “Lack of Work and Lands to Sow”: The Agrarian Reform and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 5 • A “Mockery of Responsibility”: Municipal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Textures of Terror
Book SynopsisInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration. Part memoir and part forensic investigation,Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemalaand how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in postconflict countries where violence never ended. Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, inTrade Review"A scathing critique of a dysfunctional justice system, the willful incompetence of those charged with upholding women’s rights and a cast of institutional actors who seem hostile to the very idea of justice." * ReVista *"Sanford has woven Textures of Terror into a testimonio that draws on the emotional power of the stories she witnessed to demand a response to the larger tragedy of feminicide in Guatemala, and the ongoing refusal or impossibility of the government to address it." * NACLA *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Dramatis Personae Introduction 1 The Night Claudina Isabel Did Not Come Home 2 Esperanza’s Story: Sold at 12 3 Cycles of Violence 4 #TengoMiedo (#IAmAfraid) 5 Paradise for Killers 6 Marked Women 7 Bittersweet Justice Notes References Index
£21.60
University of California Press Pressing Onward
Book SynopsisPressing Onwardcenters the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, engaging cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or press onward. Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritized populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, PressingOnward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid long-standing structural violence.Trade Review"[Cerdeña’s] own experiences as an activist and volunteer strengthen her commentary on the failures of health care services available to undocumented women, particularly in relation to prenatal and maternity needs. . . .. In the end, it is their words that give this work coherence and meaning. . . .Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: On Love Alone 1. Leaving 2. Moving 3. Arriving 4. Mothering 5. Surviving Conclusion: Onward Appendix A. Methods Appendix B. Ethnographic Tables Appendix C. Organizations for Immigration and Health Policy Reform and Activism References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Pressing Onward
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Cerdeña’s] own experiences as an activist and volunteer strengthen her commentary on the failures of health care services available to undocumented women, particularly in relation to prenatal and maternity needs. . . .. In the end, it is their words that give this work coherence and meaning. . . .Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: On Love Alone 1. Leaving 2. Moving 3. Arriving 4. Mothering 5. Surviving Conclusion: Onward Appendix A. Methods Appendix B. Ethnographic Tables Appendix C. Organizations for Immigration and Health Policy Reform and Activism References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois Acknowledgments Preface to the Updated Edition 1. Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?” 2. “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration 3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work 4. “How the Poor Suffer”:nEmbodying the Violence Continuum 5. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health 6. “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering 7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table: Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change, coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and Contextual Knowledge Notes References Index
£56.80
University of California Press Banished Men
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£64.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigration and American Diversity
Book SynopsisThis engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a Nation of Immigrants who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America''s national solidarity and ethnic diversity.Trade Review"An intelligent and readily accessible synthesis of much scholarship on immigration and ethnicity, Donna Gabaccia's new book blends clearly written accounts with stimulating exercises for students. Authored by a leading immigration historian, Immigration and American Diversity covers its topics from their historical beginnings to ‘tomorrow's nation.' Werner Sollors, Harvard University "Gabaccia, a noted specialist in Sicilian and women's immigration history, gives a well-informed, fresh and intelligently idiosyncratic, account of immigrants in North Americafrom the pre-Columbian era to the present day." HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction. Student Exercise: American Diversity – and Me; American Diversity – and You. 1. Creating America; Creating Americans. 2. Americans and Aliens, 1750–1835. 3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820–1860. Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent. 4. Redefining the Nation, 1850–1900. Student Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?. 5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920. Student Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn. 6. Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-1945. 7. The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?. Student Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books. 8. Today's Immigrants; Tomorrow's Nation. Student Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on Local Communities. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
£104.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigration and American Diversity
Book SynopsisThis engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a Nation of Immigrants who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America''s national solidarity and ethnic diversity.Trade Review"An intelligent and readily accessible synthesis of much scholarship on immigration and ethnicity, Donna Gabaccia's new book blends clearly written accounts with stimulating exercises for students. Authored by a leading immigration historian, Immigration and American Diversity covers its topics from their historical beginnings to ‘tomorrow's nation.' Werner Sollors, Harvard University "Gabaccia, a noted specialist in Sicilian and women's immigration history, gives a well-informed, fresh and intelligently idiosyncratic, account of immigrants in North Americafrom the pre-Columbian era to the present day." HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction. Student Exercise: American Diversity – and Me; American Diversity – and You. 1. Creating America; Creating Americans. 2. Americans and Aliens, 1750–1835. 3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820–1860. Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent. 4. Redefining the Nation, 1850–1900. Student Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?. 5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920. Student Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn. 6. Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-1945. 7. The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?. Student Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books. 8. Today's Immigrants; Tomorrow's Nation. Student Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on Local Communities. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
£43.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theorizing Diaspora
Book SynopsisBringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space. Anthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies. Offers classic statements that have defined the field by scholars including Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall. Presents divergent strains of multiple diasporas, including Chinese, Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean. Reflects the modalities and methodologies of scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Includes a postscript on diaspora in cyberspace and an extensive bibliography. Trade Review"Diaspora is one of the most critically debated terms in contemporary discussions of migration and identity. Bringing together key essays in the field, this superb collection offers us a comprehensive overview of diaspora's past politics and potential futures. Above all, it reminds us that diaspora is a distinctly human phenomenon, involving the displacement, movement, and separation of peoples." David L. Eng, Columbia University "Theorizing Diaspora speaks not only to those previously colonized and oppressed Others who have relocated from There to Here, but discusses why deracination is a process that affects all constituencies: those in the newly inhabited metropolis as well as those who remain behind." Grant Farred, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points Of Contention In Diaspora Studies. (Jana Evans Braziel And Anita Mannur). Part I: Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora. 1. Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy. (Arjun Appadurai). 2. The Black Atlantic As A Counterculture Of Modernity. (Paul Gilroy). Additional Readings On Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora. Part II: Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora. 3. Diaspora: Generational Ground Of Jewish Diaspora. (Daniel Boyarin And Jonathan Boyarin). 4. Ethnicity In An Age Of Diaspora. (R. Radhakrishnan). 5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Differences. (Lisa Lowe). Additional Readings On Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora. Part III: Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora. 6. Against The Lures Of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women And Intellectual Hegemony. (Rey Chow). 7. Returning(S): Relocating The Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer. (Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe). 8. In The Shadows Of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics And The Diasporic Dilemma. (Martin F. Manalansan IV). Additional Readings In Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora. Part IV: Cultural Production And Diaspora. 9. Cultural Identity And Diaspora Stuart Hall. 10. Diaspora Culture And The Dialogic Imagination. (Kobena Mercer). 11. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities In Motion. (Gayatri Gopinath). Additional Readings On Cultural Production And Diaspora. Post-Script: Cyber-Scapes And The Interfacing Of Diaspora. (Anita Mannur). Additional Readings On Diaspora And Cyberelectronics. Selected Bibliography of Works on Diaspora (Anita Mannur). Index.
£104.36
Harvard University Press A Nation by Design
Book SynopsisZolberg explores American immigration policy as a tool of nation building from the colonial period to the present. His book shows how America has struggled to shape the immigration process to construct the kind of population it desires.Trade ReviewA Nation by Design is the first comprehensive account of American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present. One of its great strengths is that it places American developments in a cross-national and comparative perspective. Professor Zolberg's breadth of knowledge and the range of his reading are remarkable. The book abounds in fresh insights and interpretations, comprehensiveness and richness of detail. This is a magnum opus. -- George Fredrickson, Stanford UniversityA Nation by Design is certain to become a standard reference for immigration scholars and a must-read for graduate students in the disciplines-history, political science, and sociology-that produce the bulk of these scholars. It provides a genuinely new perspective on the creation and centrality of immigration policy, and as befits a new point of view, it sketches a landscape with features that have not been visible before. -- Richard Alba, State University of New York at AlbanyA Nation by Design is a monumental work by one of America's most distinguished and most historically minded social scientists. No other book on immigration possesses its sweep, nor does any other analyze the history of American immigration policy as comprehensively and insightfully as this one does. For at least a generation, A Nation by Design will become the starting point for anyone seeking to delve into this complex and important subject. -- Gary Gerstle, University of MarylandThis beautifully realized and intellectually capacious analytical history moves the story of immigration policy from the side to the center of American political development. Deep, learned, and inventive, A Nation by Design profoundly alters what we know and how we think about demography and identity, membership and law, citizenship and belonging as it crosses the boundaries of disciplines, periods, and ideas. -- Ira Katznelson, Columbia UniversityIf you want to understand why the politics of immigration take the form they do, read Aristide R. Zolberg's richly informative book immediately...We now have in our hands a book so thoughtful, so extensively researched, and so balanced in its conclusions that if it does not inform both the current debate and the ones sure to follow, the debate is bound to be poorer even than it already is. -- Alan Wolfe * New Republic *Aristide Zolberg's A Nation by Design, offers the most comprehensive treatment of US immigration policy ever undertaken and is a major piece of scholarship that will prove indispensable to researchers for years to come. This achievement is no mean feat given the range of historical, political, economic, and sociological analyses of US immigration. What sets Zolberg's treatment apart is its unique historical depth and its realization of the importance of policies and practices other than those officially enacted by Congress--the focus of most earlier historical work on immigration policy...In many ways, immigration is America's never-ending debate. As Zolberg clearly shows, at every point in the history of the nation, from its inception as a dream among idealistic and free-thinking colonists to the present war on terrorism, immigration has figured prominently in debates about who us an American and what it means to be a citizen and resident of the United States. Over the course of US history, attacks on immigrants have waxed and waned, yet in the long run American society has incorporated an ever-widening array of peoples and nationalities into the national franchise. What distinguishes the current wave of anti-immigrant agitation from its predecessors is not its demonizing of foreigners or its harsh treatment of noncitizens, but its clever use of the fear of foreigners to launch a broader assault on the civil liberties not just of immigrants, but of all Americans. -- Douglas S. Massey * Population and Development Review *This is the book with which all of us working in the sphere will now have to measure up against. -- Kristofer Allersfeldt * History *Aristide R. Zolberg's A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America is an extraordinary achievement. In its sweep, erudition, conceptual precision, and analytic acuity, it may be the most important book on the history of immigration policy published in twenty-five years...One can find no better book than his to understand the role of immigration and immigration policy in the making of America. -- Gary Gerstle * Dissent *A brief review cannot highlight the insights and arresting observations peppered throughout every chapter of A Nation by Design...in this hyper-charged political climate Zolberg has provided a singular service. A Nation by Design is both an awesome work of scholarship and an indispensable source for understanding the seamy and complicated ancestry of America’s current politics of immigration. -- Michael B. Katz * Journal of Social History *[A] magisterial history of immigration policy. -- Ira Katznelson * New Republic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. From Empire to Republic 3. An Acquisitive Upstart 4. The American System 5. Tocqueville's Footnote 6. Seward's Other Follies 7. "An Intelligent and Effective Restriction" 8. A Nation Like the Others 9. The Ambiguitites of Reform 10. The Elusive Quest of Coherence 11. Why the Gates Were not Shut Conclusion: Natural Design in a Globalizing World Appendix: Immigration Graphs Notes Index
£25.16
Harvard University, Asia Center Empire of Texts in Motion
Book SynopsisThe constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire at the turn of the twentieth century created numerous literary contact nebulae. This book analyzes three of them: semicolonial Chinese, occupied Manchurian, and colonial Korean and Taiwanese transculturations of Japanese literature.Trade Review[An] extraordinary encyclopedic enterprise. -- T. S. Yamada * Choice *Table of ContentsConventions Introduction: Empire, Transculturation, and Literary Contact Nebulae 1. Travel, Readerly Contact, and Writerly Contact in the Japanese Empire Part I: Interpretive and Interlingual Transculturation 2. Transcultural Literary Criticism in the Japanese Empire 3. Multiple Vectors and Early Interlingual Transculturations of Japanese Literature 4. From Cultural Innovation to Total War Part II: Intertextual Transculturation 5. Intertextuality, Empire, and East Asia 6. Spotlight on Suffering 7. Reconceptualizing Relationships: Individuals, Families, Nations 8. Questions of Agency: Raising Responsibility, Parodying Persistence, and Rethinking Reform Epilogue: Postwar Intra-East Asian Dialogues and the Future of Negotiating Transculturally Notes Works Cited Index
£42.46
Harvard University Press Learning a New Land
Book SynopsisOne child in five in America is a child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book details the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.Trade ReviewIn the fierce national debate about immigration, too many ignore the millions of children trying to find their way in a society that wants their parents' work, does not want to give them rights, but expects them to meet intense academic demands in a language they don't command, in communities from which their families may be expelled. The Suárez-Orozcos' remarkable study of immigrant students on both coasts challenges us to think about the consequences and to help these children realize their potential. -- Gary Orfield, Co-Director, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, University of California, Los AngelesThis is a compelling report on a groundbreaking study of immigrant adaptation to America. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the possibilities and challenges immigrant children face in public schools, and make a strong case for practical strategies and new policies to enable them to become successful students and citizens. This is a must-read for teachers, policymakers, and educators who are invested in the future of our nation's increasingly multicultural schools. -- Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education[Learning a New Land] examines how the children of immigrants are doing in American schools. It's a discouraging picture, and should be a wake-up call to anyone who cares about education. -- Josh Green * San Francisco Chronicle *This book offers the results of a five-year study that followed 400 children from China, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, all newly arrived in the United States. These kids' struggles are so poignant. The statistics are amazing, too: One of every five children in America is the child of an immigrant, and one in five immigrant children has only one native English-speaking friend. -- Nell Casey * Cookie *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Long View on Immigrant Students 1. Academic Engagement and Performance 2. Networks of Relationships 3. Less-Than-Optimal Schools 4. The Challenge of Learning English 5. Portraits of Declining Achievers 6. Portraits of Low Achievers 7. Portraits of Improvers 8. Portraits of High Achievers Conclusion: Immigration Policy Dilemmas Notes References Acknowledgments Index Tables and Figures
£20.66
Harvard University Press Immigration Economics
Book SynopsisNearly 3% of the world’s population no longer live in the country where they were born. George Borjas synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows, and lays out with clarity a full spectrum of topics with crucial implications for framing debates over immigration.Trade ReviewThis excellent book is crisply and clearly written and makes a significant contribution to the fields of labor and immigration economics. It will be a go-to resource on immigration for many years to come. -- Gordon H. Hanson, University of California, San DiegoThis book is an excellent synthesis of a diverse set of theory and empirical work on immigration. It is well organized, with early chapters doing a good job of setting up the later ones. I have never seen a better job of bringing together such diverse topics as assimilation, selection, and labor market impacts. The author has done an effective job of simplifying the theories down to their essences; and developing equations that make the theories’ implications plain to see with simple algebra, often accompanied by a clear figure. It will be accessible and interest-provoking to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. -- Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College
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Harvard University Press The World of Plymouth Plantation
Book SynopsisOn the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world.Trade ReviewThanksgiving, Squanto, the Mayflower, and its compact—we all know the Pilgrims’ story, or we think we do. In this succinct, elegantly written book, Pestana introduces readers to the reality behind the myth. The World of Plymouth Plantation is about mothers as well as fathers, about a place where Native Americans were sometimes but not always friends, and where the rest of the world was never far away. -- Eliga H. Gould, author of Among the Powers of the EarthPestana has solved the conundrum of how to write about the Pilgrims and Plymouth. Employing a variety of inventive lenses, she treats Plymouth Plantation as a colony among colonies, interconnected with other ventures and with all kinds of Atlantic enterprises. The World of Plymouth Plantation is a model of how to write history and a must-read for anyone interested in early America. -- Karen Ordahl Kupperman, author of The Jamestown ProjectFour centuries on, Plymouth Colony still fascinates those in search of origin stories for the United States. For better or worse, patterns of English–Native relations, of religious zeal, of political democracy, and perhaps even of national independence all have been traced to a small band of seemingly extraordinary migrants who debarked in 1620. Yet, in this concise but learned book, Pestana shows just how ordinary those migrants were in the broader Atlantic context of the seventeenth century. That very ordinariness makes Plymouth matter more, rather than less, for our understanding of the nation’s past. -- Daniel K. Richter, author of Before the RevolutionThe story we all thought we knew is, in Pestana’s expert hands, transformed. Based on her meticulous excavation and skillful interpretation of the records generated by early settlers, The World of Plymouth Plantation takes us beyond the Mayflower, the rock, and the shared meal with natives to a place where real people lived and worked, experienced joy and sorrow, and connected with the world beyond the colony. -- Sharon V. Salinger, author of Taverns and Drinking in Early AmericaIn this compulsively readable book, Pestana breathes new life into Plymouth Plantation, too often imagined as an isolated and static place frozen in time. She demonstrates that the English men and women who occupied Plymouth lived in a complex world that defied Pilgrim stereotypes. Addressing topics that range from God and gender to guns and stockings, Pestana demonstrates that Plymouth, far from being an isolated incubator of American values, was embedded in transatlantic networks and entangled in complex webs of meaning all its own. -- Eric Hinderaker, author of Boston’s MassacreIlluminating…Adds depth to many founding legends of American culture…Pestana brings the early decades of the colony to rich and nuanced life. * Publishers Weekly *Explores Plymouth’s grip on the American historical imagination. -- Karin Wolf * Smithsonian *An impressive achievement…There’s virtually no tidbit that Pestana overlooks; giving fresh exposure to such details in different settings exposes a more complex, more alien, yet more recognizable Plymouth than many of us have seen before…Succinctly and ably does so much to shake up, refresh, and reengage a realer Plymouth Plantation…It is especially welcome during this quadricentenary observance of the Mayflower arrival. -- Michael Ditmore * American Literary History *
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Harvard University Press The Chinese Must Go
Book SynopsisWinner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History PrizeA powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.Richard WhiteA riveting, beautifully written accountthat foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border.Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at DawnIn 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration policies incited this violence, and how this gave rise to the concept of the alien in America. Our story begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliensand long before Congress passed theTrade ReviewThe Chinese Must Go shows how a country that was moving, in a piecemeal and halting fashion, toward an expansion of citizenship for formerly enslaved people and Native Americans, came to deny other classes of people the right to naturalize altogether…The stories of racist violence and community shunning are brutal to read. Lew-Williams particularly excels at invoking the psychological effects of the law on Chinese people living in the United States after the exclusion acts passed. -- Rebecca Onion * Slate *In her skillful retelling of the history of white workers’ violence against Chinese immigrants and the formulation of laws to first restrict, and then exclude, Chinese laborers from the United States in the mid-late 19th century, Beth Lew-Williams weaves a story of racial discrimination and nativism that continues to resonate today. -- Andrea Worden * South China Morning Post *With scrupulous research and conceptual boldness, Lew-Williams applies the nuances of a ‘scalar’ lens to contrast anti-Chinese campaigns at local, regional, and national levels, producing a social history that significantly remakes the well-established chronology of Chinese exclusion by highlighting the role of anti-Chinese violence and vigilantism in advancing immigration controls on the Chinese from goals of restriction to exclusion. -- Madeline Y. Hsu, author of Asian American History: A Very Short IntroductionThe Chinese Must Go presents a powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely. It shows why nineteenth-century pogroms against the Chinese in the American West resonate today. White nationalists targeted Chinese immigrants as threats to their homes and jobs and blamed the American government for failing to seal the borders. -- Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896Moving seamlessly from the local to the international, The Chinese Must Go offers a riveting, beautifully written new account of Chinese exclusion, one that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border. -- Karl Jacoby, Columbia UniversityAn original and compelling analysis of Chinese exclusion in the second half of the nineteenth century, analyzing how the outbreak of anti-Chinese violence in 1885 was both caused by and helped shape American immigration policies. -- Ray Allen Billington Prize JurySimultaneously a beautifully paced, moving read—a powerful and deeply humane account of the emergence of the racialized border, the consequences of which have echoed down to the present. -- Ellis W. Hawley Prize Jury
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Harvard University Press Right Where We Belong
Book SynopsisRefugee children have among the fewest educational opportunities, their formal schooling having been disrupted; their futures, beset by exclusion and uncertainty. Dryden-Peterson describes displaced students’ and teachers’ novel techniques to accomplish learning goals and build relationships, showing the way for policymakers, NGOs, and communities.Trade ReviewDespite the progress made in the past years, I see every day how refugee children are at a grave disadvantage when it comes to education. Through decades of careful research, Dryden-Peterson shows us why education for refugees matters, both now and for their futures, and what we can do about it. -- Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesThis magisterial volume lifts the voices of refugees around the world to advance the future of learning in an age of crisis and displacement. Based on decades of research, Dryden-Peterson highlights the ways that governments, civil society, scholars, and global agencies alike can learn from refugee communities to build more inclusive and humane education systems. -- Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University‘What do you need the most?’ I often ask refugees in war zones. ‘Better food, water, or health care?’ ‘Give us education for our children,’ they answer. Dryden-Peterson’s excellent and must-read book tell us why parents and grandparents prioritize schools above all else: Education is hope. -- Jan Egeland, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council and Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United NationsHow can the refugee learn what she needs to stay, to migrate, or to return to her homeland? In Dryden-Peterson’s Right Where We Belong, the need for and definition of refugee education is made more meaningful and urgent through her telling of important human stories—of struggle, witness, and growth. -- Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires and PachinkoI went to school during a war. Now I train teachers of refugees. This well-researched, inspiring book is a must-read for all teachers and policymakers, as we create ways to support our students to learn and have hope, even in the most challenging situations. -- Suha Tutunji, Director of Refugee Education, Jusoor, LebanonA rare book of immense depth, wisdom, and beauty. Millions of children are growing up amid the grave crises of our times: war and terror, unchecked climate change, and malignant kleptocratic states. Dryden-Peterson tells their story with empathy and heart but also with a keen eye for the details that point to the greater truths of refugee lives in cities and camps, in schools, and at homes around the world. This is the book for our times: urgent, brilliant, indispensable. -- Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, BostonRight Where We Belong is a rich painting of the human stories of refugees woven together with the factual context needed to understand, and feel, their world. Few authors could maintain the intellectual rigor necessary to tackle a topic of such emotional concern while also being fair to the international actors we urgently need to act. If you want to understand how to vividly describe complex social science research with humanity, read this book. If you want a master class on using cross-disciplinary methods of analysis for multifaceted problems, read this book. And, most critically, if you want to feel these young people’s yearning for a better future and understand the barriers to reaching that future, read this book. -- Benjamin Piper, Senior Director of Africa Education for RTI InternationalPertinent and urgent. It makes a compelling case for rethinking refugee education in ways that foster belonging for refugees and reinforce the duties and commitments of states, organizations, communities, and individuals toward them. -- Zachary Agele Lomo, St. Augustine International University, UgandaAn engaging read…The connections made between the curriculum and access to education and the resulting possibilities that refugee pupils have in their futures are unique, suggesting further ways that education can influence where individual refugees may be able to live, work, and belong in future. -- Ellen Bishop * Educational Review *
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Harvard University Press Migrations and Belongings
Book SynopsisMigrations and Belongings traces burgeoning population flows across several continents from 1870 to 1945 and explains the variables involved and the processes of acculturation by which “belonging” takes shape. Migration, it shows, is both a critique of unsatisfactory conditions in one society and a contribution of human capital to another.
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Harvard Department of the Classics CounterDiaspora
Book SynopsisFocusing on the return of the diasporic second generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Counter-Diaspora examines migration experiences of Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans growing up in the Greek diasporic setting, motivations for the counter-diasporic return, and evolving notions of the “homeland.”
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Harvard University Press America Classifies the Immigrants
Book SynopsisJoel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference have been. His focus ranges from the 1897 List of Races and Peoples, through changes in the civil rights era, to proposals for reform of the 2020 Census.Trade ReviewA work of exacting scholarship and exemplary good sense. Perlmann illuminates as no other scholar has the process by which Americans decided how to classify immigrants. His account offers a much richer and more complex picture of the story than is found in any other work of historical writing. -- David A. Hollinger, author of Postethnic AmericaPerlmann transforms our understanding of the history of government efforts to racially classify immigrants to the United States. He unearths a number of fascinating discoveries about a history that many thought was already well-known. His book will be essential reading for all serious scholars of immigration. -- Mara Loveman, author of National ColorsWe cannot understand America unless we understand race and immigration. To truly comprehend how these two histories overlap and intertwine, we need look no further than the United States government’s struggle to define, categorize, and count immigrants and members of racial and ethnic groups. It is Perlmann’s brilliant achievement to take what has too often been written as separate stories and tell it as one still unfinished story. -- Kenneth Prewitt, former Director of the United States Census Bureau, 1998–2000, and author of What Is Your Race?A readable and sophisticated discussion of the context of social science thinking about race, ethnicity, and national origins for official statistics on immigrant origins…A panoramic survey. It is a deeply researched and captivating book…Provides rich insights into the ways in which immigrants have been classified in America. -- Barry Edmonston * Population and Development Review *We can learn a lot from [this] book about how conflicting agendas, behemoth ambitions, and unwarranted optimism produced classification schemes that negatively affected the lives of millions of Americans and would-be immigrants. We might do well to pair that knowledge with a stronger sense of humility than our forbearers held as we move forward in our own research. -- Jessica H. Lee * Journal of Urban History *A cogent and compelling analysis of the muddle of meanings embedded in the terms race, peoples, national origins, and mother tongue as used by scholars, politicians, and administrators in the Bureau of Immigration and the U.S. Census Bureau. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Forward *An insightful examination of how the US adopted and revised categories of immigrants over almost 150 years…Well researched and lucidly presented. * Choice *Perlmann provides us with a brilliant historical account of how Southern and Eastern Europeans, particularly Jews, were thought about, classified, and rendered legible by the state. -- Michael Omi * American Journal of Sociology *A work of deep erudition, impressive for its temporal scope but no less because breadth does not come at the expense of a fine-grained account of governmental classificatory practices. The key episodes selected by the author allow us to probe what it means that immigration policy was propelled by official acts of discrimination…Meticulously written, clear, and provocative—a book not to be missed. -- David Cook-Martín * International Migration Review *A well-written, compelling analysis of how the U.S. statistical system grappled with the increasing heterogeneity of the origins of immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants from the turn of the 20th century to the present. It is a story that tells us as much (or more) about America—including its political decisions, the federal bureaucracy, attitudes toward race, and the social sciences over this period—as it does about the immigrants themselves. -- Barry R. Chiswick * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Rise of a Japanese Chinatown
Book SynopsisRise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 18941895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. It tells the story of how Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state during periods of war and peace.
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Harvard University Press Politics Self and Society
Book SynopsisHow to deal with the relationship between the individual and society as it reveals itself through politics is the large theme of these erudite and stylish essays by a leading scholar whose lifelong concerns have included political behavior, decision-making by groups, and legislative deportment. Truly interdisciplinary in his approach, Heinz Eulau has drawn on all the social sciences in his thirty years of research into the political behavior of citizens in the mass and of legislative elites at the state and local levels of government. Utilizing a variety of social and political theoriestheories of reference group behavior, social role, organization, conflict, exchange functions and purposive actionhe enriches the methodology of political science while tackling substantive issues such as social class behavior in elections, public policies in American cities, the structures of city councils, and the convergence of politics and the legal system. Eulau is ranked among the few scholars who have shaped the agenda of political science, and his latest work should also prove valuable for sociologists, social psychologists, and theorists of the social sciences.
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Princeton University Press Americans at the Gate The United States and
Book SynopsisUnlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This book explores the reasons behind the remarkable changes to American refugee policy, laws, and programs.Trade Review"The author is adept at unraveling the complex underpinnings and evolution of this postwar 'American identity,' utilizing an impressive range of archival and published sources... For those specializing in post-WW II US history, this is an essential contribution."--K.A. Tyvela, Choice "Carl J. Bon Tempo has done a solid overall job of examining the acceptance of refugees into the US during the Cold War. His book is concise and historically accurate... It deserves consideration by scholars of human rights, migration, and foreign policy. It provides a good base for dispersing information and facts to students as well and should be useful in undergraduate courses for this purpose."--Samuel S. Stanton, Jr., Law and Politics Book Review "In the post-war period, the United States admitted millions of refugees. In this ambitious book, Carl J. Bon Tempo set out to explain how and why this new American approach to refugee affairs developed and evolved between the early 1950s and the late 1980s. In doing so, the author decided to go beyond foreign policy imperatives to confront a multiplicity of factors, weighing the evolution of their relative significance. Set in the Cold War context, the impact of anticommunism at home and abroad constitutes the main element of this study. Indeed, the propaganda value of accepting refugees fleeing communism remained central to US policy and manifest in the persistence of the 'refugee equals European anticommunist' equation. Bon Tempo's study of how this equation evolved and receded--without totally disappearing over the period--is a major contribution of this book."--Cold War History "Carl Bon Tempo's new book offers a new perspective... By placing the overlapping and intertwined problems and dichotomies of the Cold War, human rights and, to a lesser extent, the Civil Rights movement as part of American refugee policies, this book deserves to be read."--Mario Menendez, Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines "This book is a superb introduction to the history of U.S. refugee politics and policy and an important contribution to American civic education."--Karen Jacobsen, Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Americans at the Gate 1 CHAPTER 1: "The Age of the Uprooted Man": The United States and Refugees, 1900-1952 11 CHAPTER 2: "A Mystic Maze of Enforcement": The Refugee Relief Program 34 CHAPTER 3: "From Hungary, New Americans": The United States and Hungarian Refugees 60 CHAPTER 4: "Half a Loaf": The Failure of Refugee Policy and Law Reform, 1957-1965 86 CHAPTER 5: "They Are Proud People": The United States and Refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 106 CHAPTER 6: "The Soul of Our Sense of Nationhood": Human Rights and Refugees in the 1970s 133 CHAPTER 7: Reform and Retrenchment: The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan Administration's Refugee Policies 167 EPILOGUE: The United States and Refugees after the Cold War 197 Notes 207 Index 257
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