Migration, immigration and emigration Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigration and the City
Book SynopsisThe majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a one-size-fits-all approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.Trade Review"Fong and Berry examine immigrants in the United States and Canada to give us a sweeping overview of the diverse experiences of immigrants in cities, mapping the ways immigrants shape the contours of cities and cities define immigrant experiences. This book is a necessary resource to anyone interested in immigration and urban studies."—Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California "Immigration and the City provides an illuminating and comprehensive portrait of how immigrants are being incorporated in cities in the United States and Canada, and how the immigrants and their children are, in turn, transforming the urban landscape in these two countries. The book offers a strong theoretical base from which to understand these processes and the social and economic forces that shape them."—John Iceland, Penn State University "The book forms a good and concise overview for those who are new to the field [and] is very useful in courses on Immigration and the City."—Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Residential Patterns of Immigrants in Cities Chapter 3: Housing Attainment, Ownership, and the Immigrant Experience in Global Cities Chapter 4: Immigration and Ethnic Community Chapter 5: Immigrant Business and Ethnic EconomiesChapter 6: Immigrants and the Foodscapes, Playscapes, and the Landscapes of Global Cities Chapter 7: Time Use among Immigrants: A Window to Acculturation into a New Society Chapter 8: Conclusions References Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigration and the City
Book SynopsisThe majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a one-size-fits-all approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.Trade Review"Fong and Berry examine immigrants in the United States and Canada to give us a sweeping overview of the diverse experiences of immigrants in cities, mapping the ways immigrants shape the contours of cities and cities define immigrant experiences. This book is a necessary resource to anyone interested in immigration and urban studies."—Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California "Immigration and the City provides an illuminating and comprehensive portrait of how immigrants are being incorporated in cities in the United States and Canada, and how the immigrants and their children are, in turn, transforming the urban landscape in these two countries. The book offers a strong theoretical base from which to understand these processes and the social and economic forces that shape them."—John Iceland, Penn State University "The book forms a good and concise overview for those who are new to the field [and] is very useful in courses on Immigration and the City."—Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Residential Patterns of Immigrants in Cities Chapter 3: Housing Attainment, Ownership, and the Immigrant Experience in Global Cities Chapter 4: Immigration and Ethnic Community Chapter 5: Immigrant Business and Ethnic Economies Chapter 6: Immigrants and the Foodscapes, Playscapes, and the Landscapes of Global Cities Chapter 7: Time Use among Immigrants: A Window to Acculturation into a New Society Chapter 8: Conclusions References Index
£15.19
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Borderlands
Book SynopsisThe images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places ? these liminal zones between countries and continents ? that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places? In this timely book, anthropologist Michel Agier addresses these questions and examines the character of the borderlands that emerge on the margins of nation-states. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork, he shows that borders, far from disappearing, have acquired a new kind of centrality in our societies, becoming reference points for the growing numbers of people who do not find a place in the countries they wish to reach. They have become the site for a new kind of subject, the bordTrade Review�In Borderlands, Michel Agier epitomizes what makes his standing unique in contemporary research: nothing less than the creation of a whole disciplinary field, empirical and theoretical, of urgent importance for our tragic present, the general anthropology of the displaced human in its multiple figures and locations, reversing traditional assessments of mobility and settlement, identity and strangeness, borders and neighbourhoods. He provides the missing link between the cosmopolitisms of yesterday and those we need for tomorrow.� Étienne Balibar, Université de Paris X NanterreTable of Contents Contents Introduction: The Migrant, the Border and the World Blocked at the border Indifference and solidarities Borders and walls Borderlands and their inhabitants: a banal cosmopolitism Part I: Decentring the World Chapter 1. The Elementary Forms of the Border The border as centre of reflection Temporal, social and spatial dimensions of the border ritual Community and locality: the border as social fact The sacred space in Salvador de Bahia The symbolic construction of the border An anthropology of/in the border Founding, naming, limiting Borderlands as uncertain places: Tocqueville at Saginaw Interval time: carnivals and deceleration Everything that the border is the place of Borders and identity Border situations and liminality Chapter 2. The World as ‘Problem’ War at the borders Is the world a problem? Cosmopolitical reality and realpolitik Economic globalization and the weakening of nation-states Landscapes, routes and networks: the shape of the world Violence at the border: the outside of the nation The ‘border police’, or what remains of nation-states The fiction of ‘national indigeneity’ and its naturalization Expulsions trace the boundary of national identity Humanitarian spaces as partial delocalization of sovereignty Walls of war Colonial war, war on migrants Questions about the ‘desire for walls’ Chapter 3. Border Dwellers and Borderlands: Studies of banal cosmopolitism The border dwellers: figures and places of relative foreignness Wandering as adventure and the border encampment Becoming a pariah and living in a camp Four ‘métèques’, and the squat as border The foreigner in his labyrinth, or the tiers-instruit Being-in-the-world on the border: a new cosmopolitan condition An ordinary cosmopolitism Part Two: The Decentred Subject Chapter 4. Questions of Method: Decentring Reconsidered Today A critical moment: the contemporary turn in anthropology The end of the ‘Great Divide’ From ethnic group to ethnic identities Identity-based essentialisms and ontologies Decentring reconceived Beyond cultural decentring The construction of epistemological decentring Political decentring. The question of the other-as-subject A contemporary and situational anthropology WYSIWYG: what you see is what there is The contribution of situational anthropology Chapter 5. Civilization, Culture, Race: Three Explorations in Identity Civilization as hyper-border: mirrors of Africa The 1950s: ‘One civilization accused by another!’ 1980s and 1990s: deconstructions, reinventions A global and diffuse African presence The migration of spirits: mobilities and identity-based cultures The devil, the priest and black culture (Colombian Pacific) The Tunda as urban monster (Charco Azul, Cali) Borders and temporalities of identity-based cultures Race and racism: how can one be black? Republic and racial thought in France Brazil: from ‘racial democracy’ to ‘multicultural nation’ Citizenship without identity Escaping the identity trap Chapter 6. Logics and Politics of the Subject An anthropology of the subject From person to individual: ethnology and sociology From subjectification to subjects: anthropology and philosophy The subject in situation: an ethnographic proposal The decentred subject: three situational analyses The ritual subject, or the subject as duplication of self and world The aesthetic subject, or the care of self and the subject as author The political subject, or the subject as a demand for citizenship Moments and politics of the other-subject Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition Notes Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Borderlands
Book SynopsisThe images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world. But what do we know about the border places ? these liminal zones between countries and continents ? that have become the focus of so much attention and anxiety today, and what do we know about the individuals who occupy these places? In this timely book, anthropologist Michel Agier addresses these questions and examines the character of the borderlands that emerge on the margins of nation-states. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork, he shows that borders, far from disappearing, have acquired a new kind of centrality in our societies, becoming reference points for the growing numbers of people who do not find a place in the countries they wish to reach. They have become the site for a new kind of subject, the bordTrade Review�In Borderlands, Michel Agier epitomizes what makes his standing unique in contemporary research: nothing less than the creation of a whole disciplinary field, empirical and theoretical, of urgent importance for our tragic present, the general anthropology of the displaced human in its multiple figures and locations, reversing traditional assessments of mobility and settlement, identity and strangeness, borders and neighbourhoods. He provides the missing link between the cosmopolitisms of yesterday and those we need for tomorrow.� Étienne Balibar, Université de Paris X NanterreTable of Contents Contents Introduction: The Migrant, the Border and the World Blocked at the border Indifference and solidarities Borders and walls Borderlands and their inhabitants: a banal cosmopolitism Part I: Decentring the World Chapter 1. The Elementary Forms of the Border The border as centre of reflection Temporal, social and spatial dimensions of the border ritual Community and locality: the border as social fact The sacred space in Salvador de Bahia The symbolic construction of the border An anthropology of/in the border Founding, naming, limiting Borderlands as uncertain places: Tocqueville at Saginaw Interval time: carnivals and deceleration Everything that the border is the place of Borders and identity Border situations and liminality Chapter 2. The World as ‘Problem’ War at the borders Is the world a problem? Cosmopolitical reality and realpolitik Economic globalization and the weakening of nation-states Landscapes, routes and networks: the shape of the world Violence at the border: the outside of the nation The ‘border police’, or what remains of nation-states The fiction of ‘national indigeneity’ and its naturalization Expulsions trace the boundary of national identity Humanitarian spaces as partial delocalization of sovereignty Walls of war Colonial war, war on migrants Questions about the ‘desire for walls’ Chapter 3. Border Dwellers and Borderlands: Studies of banal cosmopolitism The border dwellers: figures and places of relative foreignness Wandering as adventure and the border encampment Becoming a pariah and living in a camp Four ‘métèques’, and the squat as border The foreigner in his labyrinth, or the tiers-instruit Being-in-the-world on the border: a new cosmopolitan condition An ordinary cosmopolitism Part Two: The Decentred Subject Chapter 4. Questions of Method: Decentring Reconsidered Today A critical moment: the contemporary turn in anthropology The end of the ‘Great Divide’ From ethnic group to ethnic identities Identity-based essentialisms and ontologies Decentring reconceived Beyond cultural decentring The construction of epistemological decentring Political decentring. The question of the other-as-subject A contemporary and situational anthropology WYSIWYG: what you see is what there is The contribution of situational anthropology Chapter 5. Civilization, Culture, Race: Three Explorations in Identity Civilization as hyper-border: mirrors of Africa The 1950s: ‘One civilization accused by another!’ 1980s and 1990s: deconstructions, reinventions A global and diffuse African presence The migration of spirits: mobilities and identity-based cultures The devil, the priest and black culture (Colombian Pacific) The Tunda as urban monster (Charco Azul, Cali) Borders and temporalities of identity-based cultures Race and racism: how can one be black? Republic and racial thought in France Brazil: from ‘racial democracy’ to ‘multicultural nation’ Citizenship without identity Escaping the identity trap Chapter 6. Logics and Politics of the Subject An anthropology of the subject From person to individual: ethnology and sociology From subjectification to subjects: anthropology and philosophy The subject in situation: an ethnographic proposal The decentred subject: three situational analyses The ritual subject, or the subject as duplication of self and world The aesthetic subject, or the care of self and the subject as author The political subject, or the subject as a demand for citizenship Moments and politics of the other-subject Conclusion: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition Notes Index
£16.14
John Wiley & Sons Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities
Book SynopsisGives voice to the Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh women and men who negotiated the complex and often dangerous world of emigration between 1815 and 1845. Using "information wanted" notices that appeared in colonial newspapers as well as emigrants' own accounts, this work illustrates that emigration was a family affair.Trade Review"Firmly grounded in the journals, diaries, and letters of emigrants who sailed from Britain and Ireland for Upper Canada between 1815 and 1845, Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities is a marvellously empathetic account of the emigrant experience." Catharine Wilson, University of Guelph
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Passage to Promise Land Voices of Chinese
Book SynopsisHow the Chinese community became an indispensable part of multicultural Canada.Trade Review"This remarkable work gives voice to women who defied the odds to wrestle ownership of their own lives and provide their children with an education. They remind us that the multicultural mosaic of Canada must be built on an understanding of cultural differences and on leveraging the richness of talents that diversity brings." Anna Wu, member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong
£32.40
McGill-Queen's University Press Contract Workers Risk and the War in Iraq
Book SynopsisUnderstanding why low-skilled workers in developing countries migrated to Iraq to support the US War on Terror.Trade Review"This book will no doubt stimulate further sociological research in many ways. It is elegantly composed, informatively written, and carefully argued. Moreover, Thomas cautiously and courageously addresses both urgent social issues and the previous research used in the analysis." American Journal of Sociology“Through a meticulous and cohesive mixture of migrants’ perspectives, empirical evidence, theoretical grounding, and policy recommendations, Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq presents a thoughtful discussion on labor migration that adds tremendously to the fields of public policy, political science, international relations, and African studies.” Abdul Karim Bangura, American University"Throughout his text, Thomas skillfully weaves together a myriad of methodologies and ideologies from disparate disciplines to critically analyze the contemporary phenomenon of Sierra Leonean labor migration to a conflict zone. Perhaps most significantly, Thomas's study bears the question of the role and responsibility of the American military in developing and enforcing policies for the fair recruitment, treatment, and protection of laborers, particularly in high-risk situations, where it is increasingly employing migratory contract workers. The contemporary cost of waging war needs to better account for the assumption of risk by migrant laborers, who increasingly find themselves employed in places where few others dare to go." H-War"Contract Workers, Risk, and the War in Iraq is a significant contribution to scholarship on military contracting and raises important questions about high-risk migration into warzones." International Migration Review"Thomas's exploration of race, in particular in looking at dynamics between African migrants and African-American soldiers, is rich and could be a study in and of itself. The processes and products of return migration that Thomas interrogates, specificall"Thomas' account of contract workers in Iraq provides detailed and first-hand insights from contract workers on military bases that will help to inform wider sociological work investigating the nature of contract work in the 21st century in all its forms.
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Mad Flight
Book SynopsisHow migrants from Quebec ended up stranded on São Paulo’s coffee plantations in the 1890s.Trade Review"A fascinating study of the ethnic and social history of late nineteenth-century Quebec and what drove people to migrate, as well as a significant and welcome addition to the social history of free labour and the coffee plantation system in São Paulo." Oliver Marshall, King's College London and the author of English, Irish, and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil"This little-known story deserves to be told and John Zucchi's hypothesis of 'mad flight' is intriguing and innovative in the Canadian context." Yves Frenette, Université de Saint-Boniface"John Zucchi has unearthed the fascinating story of a group of almost 500 Canadians (or residents of Canada) who decided in 1896 to accept recruiters' offers to emigrate as agricultural workers to the state of São Paulo, Brazil ... Revealing a mostly forgotten link between Canada and Brazil, Mad Flight is of immense value." Canadian Historical Review
£25.19
McGill-Queen's University Press Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism
Book SynopsisHow Buddhist immigrants in Toronto transmit their teachings and traditions to the next generation.Trade Review"Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism offers an incredible amount of valuable, useful information that adds considerably to previous scholarship, enhancing the understanding of Buddhism in Canada in new and significant ways." Charles S. Prebish, Pennsylvania State University
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities
Book SynopsisInvestigating the conditions that shape Chinese Canadian identities from various historical, social, and literary perspectives.Trade Review"Unlike conventional postcolonialist approaches to the issue of migration, which tend to represent the immigrant within the sphere of the host country only as the person in exile, the subject of displacement, or the so-called Other, The Transcultural Streams of Chinese Canadian Identities represents Chinese Canadian immigrants as a socially privileged group in their home country despite their marginalization in Canada." Leilei Chen, University of Alberta
£26.59
McGill-Queen's University Press From Righteousness to Far Right
Book SynopsisAn innovative ethnography of refugee resettlement in Sweden.Trade Review"Through a compelling analysis, Mc Cluskey demonstrates how central the day-to-day practices of everyday people are to understanding the emergence of big phenomena like the global rise of the far right, moving away from a focus on ideology or high politics." E-International Relations"This book provides a basic introduction to the field of critical security studies and would be a great text for individuals who are new to the Scandinavian region and the world of Far Right language." H-Net
£27.90
University of British Columbia Press The Chinese in Vancouver 194580 The Pursuit of
Book SynopsisWing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity.Trade ReviewNg’s analysis allows for a poignant human dimension to frame the inevitable passing of the old-timers’ generation, and also explains why these organizations continues to exist ... This book is a welcome addition to studies of the Chinese in Vancouver, as this community continues to thrive on Canada’s west coast. -- Paul Yee * British Columbia Historical News *Theoretically informed, concise, and solidly documented, Ng’s work is not just about the turbulent and fascinating history of Vancouver’s Chinese community. It also shows just how much the Chinese had to say and to debate among themselves about who and what defined them and their community as Chinese. -- Gary Watson * CBRA 4193 *... this detailed account includes considerable information on acculturation, socio-economic status, community activities both social and business, and problems associated with race... Writing is clear, organization coherent, details richly documented and gently tied to prior history of mainland China so the book has special value to historians. * Psychological Reports *Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Early Settlement and the Contours of Identity3 Renewed Immigration and Cultural Redefinition4 Local-Born Chinese and the Challenge to an Immigrant Discourse5 Old-Timers, Public Rituals, and the Resilience of Traditional Organizations6 Negotiating Identities between Two Worlds, 1945-707 Constructing Chineseness in the Multicultural Arena8 Beyond a ConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press The Chinese in Vancouver 194580
Book SynopsisIn The Chinese in Vancouver, Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity. He juxtaposes the cultural positions of different generations of Chinese immigrants and their Canadian-born descendants and unveils the ongoing struggle over the definition of being Chinese. It is an engrossing story about cultural identity in the context of migration and settlement, where the influence of the native land and the appeal of the host city continued to impinge on the consciousness of the ethnic Chinese.The Chinese in Canada is long overdue in view of the many previous studies that tend to describe Chinese people as victims of racial prejudice and discrimination and Chinese identity a matter of Western cultural hegemony. Ng's account gives the Chinese people their own voice and shows that the Chinese in Vancouver had much to say and often disagreed about the meaning of being Chinese.In his concluding chapter, Ng looks beyonTrade ReviewNg’s analysis allows for a poignant human dimension to frame the inevitable passing of the old-timers’ generation, and also explains why these organizations continues to exist ... This book is a welcome addition to studies of the Chinese in Vancouver, as this community continues to thrive on Canada’s west coast. -- Paul Yee * British Columbia Historical News *Theoretically informed, concise, and solidly documented, Ng’s work is not just about the turbulent and fascinating history of Vancouver’s Chinese community. It also shows just how much the Chinese had to say and to debate among themselves about who and what defined them and their community as Chinese. -- Gary Watson * CBRA 4193 *... this detailed account includes considerable information on acculturation, socio-economic status, community activities both social and business, and problems associated with race... Writing is clear, organization coherent, details richly documented and gently tied to prior history of mainland China so the book has special value to historians. * Psychological Reports *Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Early Settlement and the Contours of Identity3 Renewed Immigration and Cultural Redefinition4 Local-Born Chinese and the Challenge to an Immigrant Discourse5 Old-Timers, Public Rituals, and the Resilience of Traditional Organizations6 Negotiating Identities between Two Worlds, 1945-707 Constructing Chineseness in the Multicultural Arena8 Beyond a ConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Negotiated Memory Doukhobor Autobiographical
Book SynopsisThis demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations.Trade ReviewWhat Rak has written is a serious and worthwhile addition to our understanding of the way a marginalized people struggles, against all those social currents that would silence them, to find and honour a collective autobiographical voice. -- Myler Wilkinson, Selkirk College * BC Studies, Spring 2005 *In her methodologically ground-breaking book, Negotiated Memory, Julie Rak uses autobiographical discourse (as opposed to autobiographical genre), cultural context, and historical narrative to theorize about the relationships among the meanings of identity, place and nation…However, the book is much more than an innovative use of autobiographical discourse as a post-colonial tool useful in studying powerless groups. Negotiated Memory is also a rich cultural history of the migration and adaptation experiences of an often misunderstood religious group. -- Susan W. Hardwick, Department of Geography, University of Oregon * American Review of Canadian Studies, Autumn 2005 *This will be a useful and informative text for students of Canadian studies, as well as those interested in critical autobiography and identity theory ... Rak does a very good job of navigating the complex topography of Doukhobor autobiographical discourse within the Canadian historical landscape. -- Vicki S. Hallett * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, Winter 2006 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Beyond Auto-Bio-Graphe: Autobiography and Alternative Identities2 Doukhobor Beliefs and Historical Moments3 Vechnaiia Pamit in the Diaspora: Community Meanings of History and Migration4 Negotiating Identity: Doukhobor Oral Narratives5 Witness, Negotiation, Performance: Freedomite AutobiographyConclusion: Negotiating the “I” and “We” in AutobiographyNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Securing Borders
Book SynopsisDetention and deportation are the two most extreme sanctions of an immigration penality that polices noncitizens, identifies those deemed dangerous, diseased, deceitful, or destitute, and refuses them entry or casts them out. They play a key role in regulating national borders, citizens, and populations. But what determines whether a noncitizen is deserving or undeserving? And how have anxieties about risky outsiders and the quest for security shaped Canada's response to immigrants and refugees?Anna Pratt takes a close look at the discursive formations, transformations, and technologies of power that have surrounded the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War. She demonstrates that although the desire to fortify the border against risky outsiders has long been prominent in Canadian immigration penality, the degree to which concerns about security, crime, and fraud have come to govern the process is unprecedented.<Trade ReviewUltimately, Pratt writes convincingly of how (specific groups of) humans have become the object of management. This book also urges for research on a number of immigration management-related issues (e.g. discretion on the part of immigration officials). What I also consider a strength of the book is that it brings abundant light onto these minority ethnic groups in Canada that are relatively neglected by research … it will be invaluable for the researcher of immigration and ethnicity as well as to public official working with migrants and NGO workers. -- Georgios A. Antonopoulos, University of Durham * British Journal of Criminology Advance Access *Pratt’s book provides a complete and lucid analysis of the darker side of immigration policies in Canada. It maintains balance between a theoretical framework, historical backgrounders and practical illustrations, as well as between law and social science insights which will make reading accessible to a larger audience…It is, arguably the most complete and up-to-date Canadian book on detention and deportation. -- Sophie Dorais, McGill University * Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 21, no. 1, 2006 *This book goes a long way to render visible the material conditions and tangible practices of the detention and deportation of undeserving and undesirable non-citizens, who are essentially being criminalized for the mere act of migration. -- Harsha Walia * The Rain Review of Books, Issue 4:1, Winter 2006 *Anna Pratt, a sociologist who teaches criminology, examines an important aspect of Canada’s refugee policy – detention and deportation – from the perspective of human rights and social justice. She sees larger a pattern in connections between the federal government’s immigration and refugee policies, public concerns about crime and welfare fraud, media reporting on immigrant communities such as Toronto’s Somalis, and the trend towards neo-liberalism. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Review, Vol. 16, No.3 *Table of Contents1 Overview and Orientations2 Detention at the Celebrity Inn3 Reframing Discretion4 From Purity to Security5 Floods and Frauds6 Risky Refugees7 Discretion, Dangerousness, and National Security8 Criminals First9 Risk-Smart Borders10 ConclusionAppendix:NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada
Book SynopsisThis is the first collection in Canada to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of transnationalism.Trade ReviewTransnational Identities and Practices in Canada establishes the need for discussing ethnicity not just in relation to the Canadian nation-state (as it has been treated so far), but also in relation to the connections that ethnic groups maintain with other locations. In fact, each contributor points towards new directions for research that would offer a better understanding of transnationalism in the Canadian context. -- Dana Patrascu-Kingsley * Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 2, 2006 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Meaning and Significance of Transnationalism: Conceptual, Theoretical, and Research Issues / Lloyd Wong and Vic SatzewichPart 1: Transnationalism in Historical and Political Perspective1. The Politics of Transnationalism: Comparative Perspectives / Sarah V. Wayland2. Transnationalism and the Age of Mass Migration, 1880s to 1920s / Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder3. Unmaking a Transnational Community: Japanese Canadian Families in Wartime Canada / Pamela SugimanPart 2: Contemporary Patterns4. Characteristics of Immigrant Transnationalism in Vancouver / Daniel Hiebert and David Ley5. Transnational Urbanism: Toronto at a Crossroads / Valerie Preston, Audrey Kobayashi, and Myer Siemiatycki6. Contentious Politics and Transnationalism from Below: The Case of Ethnic and Racialized Minorities in Quebec / Micheline Labelle, François Rocher, and Ann-Marie Field7. The Caribbean Community in Canada: Transnational Connections and Transformations / Alan B. Simmons and Dwaine E. Plaza8. The Maple-Neem Nexus: Transnational Links of South Asian Canadians / Dhiru Patel9. The Invisible Transnationals? Americans in Canada / Kim Matthews and Vic Satzewich10. Latin American Transnationalism in Canada: Does It Exist, What Forms Does It Take, and Where Is It Going? / Luin Goldring11. The New "In-Between" Peoples: Southern-European Transnationalism / Luis L.M. Aguiar12. Whose Transnationalism? Canada, "Clash of Civilizations" Discourse, and Arab and Muslim Canadians / Sedef Arat-Koc13. Chinese Transnationalism: Class and Capital Flows / Lloyd Wong and Connie Ho14. Raising the Iron Curtain: Transnationalism and the Croatian Diaspora since the Collapse of 1989 / Daphne Winland15. Canadian Jewry and Transnationalism: Israel, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Diaspora / Stuart Schoenfeld, William Shaffir, and Morton WeinfeldConclusion / Vic Satzewich and Lloyd WongReferences; Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Race and the City
Book SynopsisPresents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Racing against Time and Place2 Systemic Racism in Canada3 Toronto: Political Participation and Chinese Canadian Community Groups in the Multicultural City4 Systemic Racism in the United States5 Los Angeles: Political Mobilization and the Place of Chinese/Asian American Community Groups in the Multicultural City6 Conclusion: Racing into the Future Appendix: InterviewQuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Organizing the Transnational
Book SynopsisThis collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.Trade ReviewWith Organizing the Transnational: Labour, Politics, and Social Change, Luin Goldring and Sailaja Krishnamurti present the diversity and expression of transnationalism as both concept and reality. By incorporating non-academics in this discussion, the collection expands the current debate on transnationalism to include the perspectives of non-governmental actors and agencies. ... As such, the book serves as a springboard to share and debate the origins and manifestations of transnational identity in the Canadian context. -- David Dorey, International Settlement Canada, Vol. 21, No. 4, Spring 2008Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Luin Goldring and Sailaja KrishnamurtiPart 1: Institutions, Policies, and Identities1 State and Media Construction of Transnational Communities: A Case Study of Recent Migration from Hong Kong to Canada / Myer Siemiatycki and Valerie Preston2 Emerging Postnational Citizenships in International Law: Implications for Transnational Lives and Organizing / Susan J. Henders3 Transnational Nationalism: Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada / Sarah V. Wayland4 Demystifying Transnationalism: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Promise of Nation Building / Uzma Shakir5 On Tim Hortons and Transnationalism: Negotiating Canadianness and the Role of Activist/Researcher / Leela ViswanathanPart 2: States, Transnational Labour, and Diasporic Capital6 Globalizing Work, Globalizing Citizenship: Community–Migrant Worker Alliances in Southwestern Ontario / Kerry Preibisch7 Forcing Governments to Govern in Defence of Noncitizen Workers: A Story about the Canadian Labour Movement’s Alliance with Agricultural Migrants / Stan Raper8 Transnationalism, Development, and Social Capital: Tamil Community Networks in Canada / R. Cheran9 Dancing Here, “Living” There: Transnational Lives and Working Conditions of Latina Migrant Exotic Dancers / Gloria Patricia and Díaz Barrero10 Transnational Work and the Labour Politics of Gender: A Study of Male and Female Mexican Migrant Workers Employed in Canada / Ofelia Becerril11 Development and Diasporic Capital: Nonresident Indians and the State / Pablo S. BosePart 3: Transnational Organizing and Social Change12 The Institutional Landscapes of Salvadoran Refugee Migration: Transnational and Local Views from Los Angeles and Toronto / Patricia Landolt13 The South Asia Left Democratic Alliance: The Dilemmas of a Transnational Left / Aparna Sundar14 Transnationalism and Political Participation among Filipinos in Canada / Philip F. Kelly15 Transnational Organizing in the Americas / Rusa Jeremic16 The Challenges of Extraterritorial Participation: Peru’s Advisory Councils for Peruvians Abroad / Gaby Motta and Carlos Enrique Terry (with Luin Goldring)Conclusion / Sailaja Krishnamurti and Luin GoldringReferences; Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Becoming Multicultural
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how global human rights norms intersected with domestic political identities and institutions to transform Canada and Germany into diverse multicultural societies in the second half of the twentieth century.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Building Walls, Bounding Nations3 Between Two Worlds4 Dismantling White Canada5 Guest Workers into Germans6 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press So Near Yet So Far
Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth look at the multiple dimensions of CanadaUS relations in the areas of politics, security, trade, and energy, with a particular emphasis on the period since 9/11.Trade ReviewGeoffrey Hale’s So Near Yet So Far offers an original look at the public and behind-the-scenes work of Canada-US relations, but it’s probably not a pool-side read for a holiday vacation. Hale’s informative work reads more like a textbook, suited for the trade, foreign policy, and energy and resource buffs…[it] is a thoughtfully-organized read, using short chapters, concise lists and tightly-written conclusions to drive Hale’s points home. -- Michelle Zilio * iPolitics *Hale has…composed a thorough assessment of what he calls: “the three dimensions of Canada–U.S. Relations”; the political and procedural elements of the relationship; and a detailed examination of four policy fields. Highly recommended. * Inside Queen’s Park Newsletter, For Your Bookshelf *So Near Yet So Far invites readers to rethink our relationship with an open mind, stripped of smugness or “ideological agendas.” -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *Hale’s book is a useful commentary on the history of the bilateral relationship, and an often insightful analysis of recent and current issues…overall, an informative study of an important relationship. -- G.A. McBeath, University of Alaska Fairbanks * Choice, Vol 50, No 6 *His research is comprehensive and his understanding of both countries impressive, his drafting crystalline and at times engagingly witty…he addresses with great sophistication, and amusingly, the political-strategic, trade-commercial and the psychological cultural dimensions of a relationship that has always risked inspiring fear and loathing in Canada and indifference and neglect in the United States…he is excellent on the challenges Canada faces in engaging key U.S. actors, including the administration of the day and Congress, and the instruments Canada has developed to promote its interests in the United States…Hale’s is a “must read” for any new provincial premier in Canada (and relevant political and bureaucratic colleagues). -- David Malone * Literary Review of Canada *Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Elephant and the Beaver – Proximity and Distance in PerspectivePart 1: Three Dimensions of Canada–US Relations2 Guns, Globes, and Gardening: The Political–Strategic Dimension3 Multi-Level Games: The Trade–Commercial Dimension4 Neighbo(u)rs, Friends, and Strangers: The Psychological–Cultural DimensionPart 2: Tactics and Strategies – Political and Procedural Dimensions5 Governing from the Centre? Political and Policy Coordination in the Management of Canada–US Relations6 Network Diplomacy: Engaging the Executive Branch7 Canada and Congress8 Canadian Public Diplomacy in the United States: Promoting Canadian Interests, Fostering Networks of Interest9 Beyond the Beltway: Federalism, Regionalism, and Cross-Border RelationsPart 3: Specific Policy Fields10 Smart Borders or Thicker Borders? Homeland Security and Public Safety Policies11 Security, Facilitation, and the Border: Strategic Drift, Operational Segmentation12 “Just a Trade Dispute?” Proximity and Distance from Different Perspectives13 Shared Energy, Shared Energies? Engaging American Energy Policies in a North American Context14 Conclusion: Managing Bilateral Relations in an Evolving North AmericaNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Photography Memory and Refugee Identity
Book SynopsisA nuanced look at the relationship between memory and photography as reflected in the experiences of Estonian refugees en route to Canada aboard the SS Walnut in 1948.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Passengers’ Perspectives: The Voyage andDetention, 1948-49 2 Arrival by Boat and the Media, 1948 3 Still Photos Come to Life at the Pier 21 Museum in1999 4 Memories and Stories Sixty Years Later 5 Nationalism and Identity in Retrospect Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Remembering the Samsui Women
Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, thousands of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, with others working in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as red-head-scarf, after the headgear that protected them from the sun. In Singapore, the women have been celebrated as pioneering figures for their hard work and resilience, and in China for the sacrifices they made for their families. Remembering the Samsui Women looks at who these women really are and at how both countries have commemorated their experiences. It is an illuminating study of the connection between memory and nation, including the politics of what is remembered and what is forgotten.Trade ReviewThis book is a fascinating study of the Samsui women who migrated in the early twentieth century from Sanshui in China to what is today Singapore to work, among other occupations, as unskilled laborers in the construction industry … the wealth of materials consulted – from textbooks to films to oral histories – is impressive, making the book a salient resource for those interested in both Asian migrations and the politics of social memory-making. -- Hamzah Muzaini, National University of Singapore * International Migration Review *This book is laudable research on how issues and discourses have been revolving around Samsui women … [it] is empirically rich and theoretically intriguing. It is worth recommending to those who are interested in gendered migration and social memory in national history. -- Yow Cheun Hoe, Nanyang Technological University * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Chinese Migration and Entangled Histories2 Politics of Memory Making3 Local and Transnational Entanglements4 From China to Singapore5 Beyond Working Lives6 Samsui Women, Ma Cheh, and Other Foreign WorkersConclusion: Social Constructions of the PastGlossary; Notes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Pinay on the Prairies
Book SynopsisAn investigation into the experiences of Filipino women in Canada’s Prairie provinces, which reveals much about their understanding of transnational identities, feminism, migration, diaspora, and the rubric of multiculturalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Gender, Migration, and Feminism2 Pinay Migration3 Welcoming Prairies4 Making Meanings: Identities and Integration5 Building Bridges: Activism and Community Engagement6 Vested TransnationalismConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Immigration Canada
Book SynopsisAn essential primer for readers interested in tracing the development and dynamics of Canada’s immigration program and understanding the impact of recent federal reforms on Canadian society.Trade ReviewWith careful attention to the disparate and often contradictory arguments about the usefulness of immigration – and by extension immigrants – to the nation, Immigration Canada rethinks and reframes notions of citizenship and settlement in an increasingly transnational age. -- Rachel Wong, York University * British Journal of Canadian Studies *Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Reappraising Migration1 Twenty-First-Century Migration: Canada in the New Global Reality2 Global Migration, International Migrants: Patterns, Perspectives, ParadoxesPart 2: Immigration Canada3 Who Got In? Who Gets In? Continuity and Change in Canada’s Immigration Program4 Recalibrating Canada’s Immigration Program: Customizing Immigrants, Commodifying Migrant Labour5 Canada’s Refugee Status Determination Process: Controversies, Challenges, Changes6 American Exceptionalism: Contesting Immigration, Confounding ImmigrantsPart 3: Experiencing Immigration, Immigrant Experiences7 Assessing Immigration: Costs and Benefits, Impacts and Effects, Perceptions and Realities8 Immigrant Experiences: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful9 Integrating Immigrants: Inclusive Multiculturalism as Immigrant GovernancePart 4: Repositioning Immigrant Governance – Negotiating a New Global Migration Order10 Rethinking Immigrant Governance: The Challenges of Complex Diversity11 Customizing Citizenship: Recalibrating Identity and Belonging in a Postnational Canada12 Rethinking Immigration, Reframing Immigrants: Evolving Realities, Emerging Challenges, Shifting DiscoursesNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Cultivating Connections
Book SynopsisIn the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For these men, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada''s Chinese settlers men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies. This book offers an incisive look at the organizations, relationships, and ties that were critical in forging and sustaining life yet it also serves as a remarkable record of the voices of some of the Prairies' most resilient and resourceful pioneers.Trade ReviewCultivating Connections provides a nuanced analysis of the gendered and racial experiences of Chinese Prairie Canadians and is an excellent contribution to the literature on the history of immigration and migration, social geography, and women’s history. -- Cayley B. Bower, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Affective Regimes, Nationalism, and the KMT2 Reverend Ma Seung3 Bachelor Uncles: Frank Chan and Sam Dong4 Affect through Sports: Mark Ki and Happy Young5 Married Nationalists: Charles Yee and Charlie Foo6 Women beyond the Frame7 Early Chinese Prairie Wives8 Quongying’s Coins and Sword9 Chinese Prairie DaughtersConclusionAppendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Cultivating Connections
Book SynopsisIn the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For these men, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada''s Chinese settlers men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies. This book offers an incisive look at the organizations, relationships, and ties that were critical in forging and sustaining life yet it also serves as a remarkable record of the voices of some of the Prairies' most resilient and resourceful pioneers.Trade ReviewCultivating Connections provides a nuanced analysis of the gendered and racial experiences of Chinese Prairie Canadians and is an excellent contribution to the literature on the history of immigration and migration, social geography, and women’s history. -- Cayley B. Bower, University of Western Ontario * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 1, Spring 2016 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Affective Regimes, Nationalism, and the KMT2 Reverend Ma Seung3 Bachelor Uncles: Frank Chan and Sam Dong4 Affect through Sports: Mark Ki and Happy Young5 Married Nationalists: Charles Yee and Charlie Foo6 Women beyond the Frame7 Early Chinese Prairie Wives8 Quongying’s Coins and Sword9 Chinese Prairie DaughtersConclusionAppendix; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Not Fit to Stay
Book SynopsisIn the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, public leaders including physicians, union leaders, civil servants, journalists, and politicians latched on to unsubstantiated public health concerns to justify the exclusion of South Asians from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. Not Fit to Stay examines how and why South Asians were excluded from immigration through legislation that took effect in Canada and the United States in the early twentieth century. This book is an important study of how white North Americans saw first-wave South Asian immigrants as separate from, and inferior to, other groups in the evolving racial hierarchy on the west coast of North America.Trade ReviewNot Fit to Stay acquaints modern readers with the “hookworm strategy” of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace’s research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws … Not Fit To Stay is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “Leprosy and Plague Riot in Their Blood”: The Germination of a Thesis, 19062 Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion3 “The Public Health Must Prevail”: Enforcing Exclusion4 Amoebic and Social Parasites, 1910–135 South Asians, Public Health, and Eugenic Theory6 Franchise DeniedConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography
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University of British Columbia Press Not Fit to Stay
Book SynopsisNot Fit to Stay reveals how officials used panic about public health concerns as a basis for excluding early twentieth-century South Asian immigrants from entering Canada and the United States.Trade ReviewNot Fit to Stay acquaints modern readers with the “hookworm strategy” of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace’s research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws … Not Fit To Stay is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “Leprosy and Plague Riot in Their Blood”: The Germination of a Thesis, 19062 Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion3 “The Public Health Must Prevail”: Enforcing Exclusion4 Amoebic and Social Parasites, 1910–135 South Asians, Public Health, and Eugenic Theory6 Franchise DeniedConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography
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University of British Columbia Press Contemporary Slavery
Book SynopsisContemporary slavery has recently and unexpectedly emerged as a source of both popular fascination and a spur to political mobilization. This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical and visual performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to combat contemporary slavery are too often sensationalist, self-serving, and superficial; and therefore end up failing the crucial test of speaking truth to power. The widely held notion that anti-slavery is one of those rare issues that transcends politics or ideology is only sustainable because the underlying issues at stake have been constructed and demarcated in a way that minimizes direct challenges to dominant political and economic Trade ReviewContemporary Slavery is a must-read for every academic, practitioner, and activist working in the field of slavery and human trafficking… Each of the chapters provides a new perspective, and the strongest impact is gained by just this: the holistic, diverse representation of observations, analysis, and research ... this book is an invaluable compilation of thoughtful, nuanced chapters, which build a case for more careful academic engagement with the language of slavery. -- Journal of Human Trafficking * Nandor Kunst & Kurttuli Lingenfelter *
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University of British Columbia Press The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist
Book SynopsisLeading scholars investigate the complex role that competing moral economies play in ethnic and nationalist conflicts.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Moral Economies of Ethnic and Nationalist Claims / Bruce J. Berman and Stephen J. Larin1 Moral Economy, Hegemony, and Moral Ethnicity: The Cultural Politics of Modernity / Bruce J. Berman2 Majimboism and Kenya’s Moral Economy of Ethnic Territoriality / Gabrielle Lynch3 Rights, Wrongs, and Reciprocity: Change and Continuity among Kenyan Maasai / Lotte Hughes4 “Economic Man in East Africa”: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Moral Economy in Tanzania / Emma Hunter5 China: The Moral Economy of Empire / André Laliberté6 Establishing a Buddhist Economy in Thailand: Competing Perspectives on Moral Economy in State and Society / Manuel Litalien7 From Patron-Clientelism to Ethnonationalism: Moral Economy and Transitions in Palestinian Arab Elite Political Mobilization in Israel / Oded Haklai8 Modernity, the Canadian State, and the Shifting Politics of Ethnocultural Claims Making / Yasmeen Abu-Laban9 Aboriginal Identities, Moral Economies, and the Canadian Settler State / Leslie DoucetConclusion: Moral Economy and the Analysis of Ethnic and Nationalist Politics / André Laliberté and Stephen J. LarinIndex
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University of British Columbia Press A Family Matter
Book SynopsisA Family Matter investigates the implications for immigrants and refugees of the Canadian government's definition of what constitutes family.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Invisibility of Family in the Canadian Conversation 2 Inside/Outside Families: The Politics of Relationship Recognition in Canadian Law and Policy3 The Role of Relationships in Canadian Refugee Determination Process for Sexual Minorities4 An Education in Conjugality: Experiences of Common-Law Couples with Spousal Sponsorship5 Canada’s Anti–Marriage Fraud Campaign and the Production of “Legitimate” Conjugal Citizens6 Rethinking ConjugalityConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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University of British Columbia Press A Family Matter
Book SynopsisA Family Matter investigates the implications for immigrants and refugees of the Canadian government’s definition of what constitutes “family.”Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Invisibility of Family in the Canadian Conversation 2 Inside/Outside Families: The Politics of Relationship Recognition in Canadian Law and Policy3 The Role of Relationships in Canadian Refugee Determination Process for Sexual Minorities4 An Education in Conjugality: Experiences of Common-Law Couples with Spousal Sponsorship5 Canada’s Anti–Marriage Fraud Campaign and the Production of “Legitimate” Conjugal Citizens6 Rethinking ConjugalityConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Enforcing Exclusion
Book SynopsisIn Canada's liberal dream, the law extends its benefits to everyone. But the law also determines who is included in that everyone. Migrant workers, long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education due to their lack of permanent status.Enforcing Exclusion recasts what migration status means to both the state and to non-citizens. Through interviews with migrants and their advocates, Sarah Marsden shows that migrants face barriers in law, policy, and practice, affecting their ability to address adverse working conditions and their interactions with institutions such as hospitals, schools, and employment standards boards. In documenting the impact of precarious migration status on people's lives, Marsden questions the adequacy of human-rights-based responses in addressing its exclusionary effects. Trade ReviewAlthough this book takes an anthropological approach and focuses on precarious migrants in Canada, its interdisciplinarity makes it relevant to a broader audience. Through testimonies and life stories, it provides a much-needed account of how immigration laws and policies foster the exclusion of migrants in their daily lives. It will be enriching for anyone researching immigration law and policy from a legal or political perspective, as well as for anyone studying the anthropology and sociology of migration. -- Celine Hocquet * Oxford Law Review *Enforcing Exclusion should be on every immigration lawyer’s bookshelf. -- Andrea Black * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Creation and Growth of Precarious Migration in Canada: “Illegal” Migration and the Liberal State2 Status, Deportability, and Illegality in Daily Life3 Working Conditions and Barriers to Substantive Remedies4 Exclusion from the Social State: Health, Education, and Income Security5 Multi-Sited Enforcement: Maintaining Subordinate Membership6 Rights and Membership: Toward Inclusion?PostscriptAppendix A: Migrant Participant ProfilesAppendix B: Sample Interview ScriptNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Enforcing Exclusion
Book SynopsisIn Canada's liberal dream, the law extends its benefits to everyone. But the law also determines who is included in that everyone. Migrant workers, long welcomed in Canada for their labour, are often excluded from both workplace protections and basic social benefits such as health care, income assistance, and education due to their lack of permanent status.Enforcing Exclusion recasts what migration status means to both the state and to non-citizens. Through interviews with migrants and their advocates, Sarah Marsden shows that migrants face barriers in law, policy, and practice, affecting their ability to address adverse working conditions and their interactions with institutions such as hospitals, schools, and employment standards boards. In documenting the impact of precarious migration status on people's lives, Marsden questions the adequacy of human-rights-based responses in addressing its exclusionary effects. Trade ReviewAlthough this book takes an anthropological approach and focuses on precarious migrants in Canada, its interdisciplinarity makes it relevant to a broader audience. Through testimonies and life stories, it provides a much-needed account of how immigration laws and policies foster the exclusion of migrants in their daily lives. It will be enriching for anyone researching immigration law and policy from a legal or political perspective, as well as for anyone studying the anthropology and sociology of migration. -- Celine Hocquet * Oxford Law Review *Enforcing Exclusion should be on every immigration lawyer’s bookshelf. -- Andrea Black * Canadian Law Library Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Creation and Growth of Precarious Migration in Canada: “Illegal” Migration and the Liberal State2 Status, Deportability, and Illegality in Daily Life3 Working Conditions and Barriers to Substantive Remedies4 Exclusion from the Social State: Health, Education, and Income Security5 Multi-Sited Enforcement: Maintaining Subordinate Membership6 Rights and Membership: Toward Inclusion?PostscriptAppendix A: Migrant Participant ProfilesAppendix B: Sample Interview ScriptNotes; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Unmooring the Komagata Maru
Book SynopsisUnmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the Komagata Maru incident.Trade ReviewUnmooring is an important transnational text that sheds light on the history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest as well as their present. -- Dharitri Bhattacharjee, Western Washington University * BC Studies, Issue 209 *Overall, this book is a well-written, rich and complex exploration of an event that illuminates Canadian nationalism and racisms and the transnational disciplining of brown bodies across borders, as well as historical anti-imperialist and contemporary anti-racist and anticolonial struggles. As a book that makes a vital contribution to political science and, indeed, the social sciences more broadly, Unmooring the Komagata Maru deserves an important place in university classrooms and research libraries across Canada and beyond. -- Elaine Coburn, Glendon College, York University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Itinerant Subjects of Empire: Unmooring the Komagata Maru / Davina Bhandar and Rita Kaur DhamoonPart 1: The Politics of Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Journey of the Komagata Maru 1 Right to the Empire?: British Imperial Citizenship before the First World War / Ian Christopher Fletcher2 The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, War-Time Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta / Suchetana Chattopadhyay3 Resistance Struggles: Facing Lies, Deception, and Racism / Satwinder Kaur BainsPart 2: Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts 4 The Komagata Maru as Event: Legal Transformations in Migration Regimes / Radhika Mongia5 Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies: Reading Tamil “Irregular Arrivals” through the History of the Komagata Maru / Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Nayani Thiyagarajah, and Nishant Upadhyay6 Temporary Arrivals: The Komagata Maru Passengers and Migrant Labour / Davina BhandarPart 3: Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production7 The Komagata Maru Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works / Kaori Mizukami8 (Mis)Representing the Komagata Maru in Indian Print Cultures / Irina Spector-Marks9 The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border / Ayesha HameedPart 4: Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation10 When Home and Harem Collide: The "Hindu Women’s Question": A Mass Spectacle of the Canadian Nation, Family, and Modernity / Enakshi Dua11 The Komagata Maru Recontextualized: Memory, History, and Diasporic Sikh Subnationalism in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Rajender Kaur12 Past Wrongs and a New National Imaginary: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident / Alia Somani13 The Politics of Empire: Minor History on a Global Scale / Renisa Mawani14 Poems: Still Chanting Denied Shores / Tariq MalikAppendix 1: Historical Figures cited in the ChaptersAppendix 2: BC Government Apology, May 23, 2008Appendix 3: Canadian Government Apology, May 18, 2016List of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Unmooring the Komagata Maru
Book SynopsisUnmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the Komagata Maru incident.Trade ReviewUnmooring is an important transnational text that sheds light on the history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest as well as their present. -- Dharitri Bhattacharjee, Western Washington University * BC Studies, Issue 209 *Overall, this book is a well-written, rich and complex exploration of an event that illuminates Canadian nationalism and racisms and the transnational disciplining of brown bodies across borders, as well as historical anti-imperialist and contemporary anti-racist and anticolonial struggles. As a book that makes a vital contribution to political science and, indeed, the social sciences more broadly, Unmooring the Komagata Maru deserves an important place in university classrooms and research libraries across Canada and beyond. -- Elaine Coburn, Glendon College, York University * Canadian Journal of Political Science *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Itinerant Subjects of Empire: Unmooring the Komagata Maru / Davina Bhandar and Rita Kaur DhamoonPart 1: The Politics of Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Journey of the Komagata Maru 1 Right to the Empire?: British Imperial Citizenship before the First World War / Ian Christopher Fletcher2 The Last Stretch of the Journey: The Komagata Maru, War-Time Political Radicalism, and Migrant Workers from Punjab in Calcutta / Suchetana Chattopadhyay3 Resistance Struggles: Facing Lies, Deception, and Racism / Satwinder Kaur BainsPart 2: Migration Regimes in Colonial Contexts 4 The Komagata Maru as Event: Legal Transformations in Migration Regimes / Radhika Mongia5 Borders, Boats, and Brown Bodies: Reading Tamil “Irregular Arrivals” through the History of the Komagata Maru / Nadia Hasan, Sailaja Krishnamurti, Omme-Salma Rahemtullah, Nayani Thiyagarajah, and Nishant Upadhyay6 Temporary Arrivals: The Komagata Maru Passengers and Migrant Labour / Davina BhandarPart 3: Colonial Temporalities of Memory and Cultural Production7 The Komagata Maru Incident as Described in Two Japanese Works / Kaori Mizukami8 (Mis)Representing the Komagata Maru in Indian Print Cultures / Irina Spector-Marks9 The Time and Sound of the Nautical Border / Ayesha HameedPart 4: Disrupting Colonial Formations of Nation10 When Home and Harem Collide: The "Hindu Women’s Question": A Mass Spectacle of the Canadian Nation, Family, and Modernity / Enakshi Dua11 The Komagata Maru Recontextualized: Memory, History, and Diasporic Sikh Subnationalism in Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? / Rajender Kaur12 Past Wrongs and a New National Imaginary: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident / Alia Somani13 The Politics of Empire: Minor History on a Global Scale / Renisa Mawani14 Poems: Still Chanting Denied Shores / Tariq MalikAppendix 1: Historical Figures cited in the ChaptersAppendix 2: BC Government Apology, May 23, 2008Appendix 3: Canadian Government Apology, May 18, 2016List of Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Putting Family First
Book SynopsisWhen migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role.Putting Family First is the fruit of a four-year academiccommunity partnership to investigate the experience of immigrant families settling in Greater Toronto. Contributors explore the integration trajectory of immigrant families, from newcomers' initial reception to their deep involvement in and attachment to their receiving society. Chapters examine the interrelated themes of the policy environment, children and youth, gender, labour markets and work, and community supports, making insightful connections between concepts such as neoliberalism, resilience, and social capital.Putting Family First applies rigorous academic research to solve practical problems, illustrating how the family context can be mobilized to facilitate the successful integration of newcomers and offeTable of ContentsForeword / Olivia ChowPrefaceIntroduction / Harald Bauder, Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, and John ShieldsPart 1: The Myth of the Self-Sufficient Immigrant 1 Immigrants Are Family Members, Too / Beth Martin 2 Neoliberalism and the Framing of Contemporary Canadian Immigration Policy / Jesse Root, John Shields, and Erika Gates-Gasse 3 Community Support for Immigrants and Their Families / Shuguang Wang and Skylar Maharaj 4 A Systems Approach to Immigrant Families and the Labour Market / Diane Dyson, Ezekiel Roos-Walker, and Charity-Ann Hannan5 Looking beyond Class, Culture, Race, and Ability in Family Safety / Karline Wilson-Mitchell and Andrea RobertsonPart 2: The Family Advantage 6 The Five W’s of Migration and Settlement Decision Making / Sepali Guruge, Mia Hershkowitz, and Corinne Hart 7 How Families Shape Settlement Trajectories / Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, Marc Yvan Valade, and Tania Dargy 8 Immigrant Women’s Roles in Family Settlement / Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali and Assel Baitubayeva 9 Children, Youths, and Resilience / Henry Parada, Ana Leticia Ibarra, Erin Mulvale, and Fabiola Limón Bravo 10 Social Capital, Newcomer Youth, and Family Resilience / Marc Yvan Valade and Vappu Tyyskä 11 The Economic and Labour Market Dynamics of Family Settlement / John Shields and Omar Lujan 12 Settling on Services / John Shields, Maria Gintova, Sepali Guruge, Reena Tandon, and Mia Hershkowitz 13 The Family Advantage / Marc Yvan Valade and Karline Wilson-Mitchell Conclusion and Policy Recommendations / Harald BauderAppendix: Methods / Marc Yvan Valade and Maria GintovaIndex
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Putting Family First
Book SynopsisWhen migrants reach their new home, we often interpret their settlement and integration as an individual process driven largely by the labour market. But family plays a crucial role.Putting Family First is the fruit of a four-year academiccommunity partnership to investigate the experience of immigrant families settling in Greater Toronto. Contributors explore the integration trajectory of immigrant families, from newcomers' initial reception to their deep involvement in and attachment to their receiving society. Chapters examine the interrelated themes of the policy environment, children and youth, gender, labour markets and work, and community supports, making insightful connections between concepts such as neoliberalism, resilience, and social capital.Putting Family First applies rigorous academic research to solve practical problems, illustrating how the family context can be mobilized to facilitate the successful integration of newcomers and offeTable of ContentsForeword / Olivia ChowPrefaceIntroduction / Harald Bauder, Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, and John ShieldsPart 1: The Myth of the Self-Sufficient Immigrant 1 Immigrants Are Family Members, Too / Beth Martin 2 Neoliberalism and the Framing of Contemporary Canadian Immigration Policy / Jesse Root, John Shields, and Erika Gates-Gasse 3 Community Support for Immigrants and Their Families / Shuguang Wang and Skylar Maharaj 4 A Systems Approach to Immigrant Families and the Labour Market / Diane Dyson, Ezekiel Roos-Walker, and Charity-Ann Hannan5 Looking beyond Class, Culture, Race, and Ability in Family Safety / Karline Wilson-Mitchell and Andrea RobertsonPart 2: The Family Advantage 6 The Five W’s of Migration and Settlement Decision Making / Sepali Guruge, Mia Hershkowitz, and Corinne Hart 7 How Families Shape Settlement Trajectories / Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali, Marc Yvan Valade, and Tania Dargy 8 Immigrant Women’s Roles in Family Settlement / Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali and Assel Baitubayeva 9 Children, Youths, and Resilience / Henry Parada, Ana Leticia Ibarra, Erin Mulvale, and Fabiola Limón Bravo 10 Social Capital, Newcomer Youth, and Family Resilience / Marc Yvan Valade and Vappu Tyyskä 11 The Economic and Labour Market Dynamics of Family Settlement / John Shields and Omar Lujan 12 Settling on Services / John Shields, Maria Gintova, Sepali Guruge, Reena Tandon, and Mia Hershkowitz 13 The Family Advantage / Marc Yvan Valade and Karline Wilson-Mitchell Conclusion and Policy Recommendations / Harald BauderAppendix: Methods / Marc Yvan Valade and Maria GintovaIndex
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University of British Columbia Press North of El Norte
Book SynopsisNorth of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada.Paloma Villegas considers changing Canadian immigration policy and practice, and the implications of these changes for Mexican migrants without permanent resident status. Her analysis addresses the context in Mexico, the experience of border crossing, policies to restrict migration, and migrants'' options to achieve secure status. Villegas also provides an assessment of the barriers migrants encounter once in Canada, specifically in the labour market, in their creative pursuits, and in accessing health care.Drawing on interviews, policy documents, media accounts, and literature from local social service organizations, North of El Norte concludes that migration and by extension migrant illegalization is assembled, produced, and negotiateTrade ReviewNorth of El Norte is by every measure a timely and welcome contribution to critical debates. -- Chris Alexander * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Immigration Trajectories1 Assembling Insecuritization in Mexico2 Transit and Encountering Borders3 Assembling Discursive and Affective Productions of “Illegality” through Visa RestrictionsPart II: Immigration Status Trajectories4 Navigating a Shifting and Exclusionary Refugee Determination System5 Yearning for Secure StatusPart III: Internal and Interlocking Borders6 Access to Health Care and Temporal Negotiations of Internal Borders7 At the Intersection of Precarious Work and Status8 Creative Practices amid Internal BordersConclusionAppendix: Participant Information at a GlanceReferences, Index
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University of British Columbia Press North of El Norte
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University of British Columbia Press Twice Migrated Twice Displaced
Book SynopsisTwice Migrated, Twice Displaced explores the lives of Gulf South Asians who arrived in the Greater Toronto Area from India and Pakistan via Persian Gulf countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Tania Das Gupta reveals the multiple migration patterns of this unique group, analyzing themes such as gender, racial, and religious discrimination; class mobility; the formation of transnational families; and identities in a post-9/11 context.Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced concludes that neoliberal economies in South Asia, the Gulf, and Canada create conditions for flexible labour by privatizing and diminishing social welfare. As migrants then search for employment, families are split across borders making those relationships more precarious. The ambivalent, hybrid identities that result have implications for Canada in terms of community building, diaspora, citizenship, and migrants' sense of belonging.Trade Review“Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced may highlight the experiences of those who have settled in Toronto. But through its tight focus, it brings larger dynamics, playing out across the country, vividly to life.” -- Elaine Coburn, York University * Literary Review of Canada *Tania Das Gupta has published a powerful book that will capture the attention of anyone interested in the topic of migration, not only in Canada, but worldwide. -- Paul May, Department of Political Science, Universite du Quebec a Montreal * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Locating the Transnational within a Racialized, Gendered, Neo-Liberal Global Capitalism2 "Western Comforts and Eastern culture": The First Migration to the Gulf3 "We Did Not Land in the Ground; We Landed in the Ditch": The Second Migration to Canada4 Hybrid, Flexible and Reactive Identities5 Two-step Migrations, Split Families and Ambivalent Canadians Conclusion Appendix 1: Overview of Interviewees in the Study Appendix 2: Informed Consent FormAppendix 3: Interview Guide for the Twice Migrated from South AsiaAppendix 4: Informed Consent Form Appendix 5: Interview guide for Twice Migrated YouthNotes; References; index
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University of British Columbia Press Forging Diasporic Citizenship
Book SynopsisForging Diasporic Citizenship is a work of narrative research that explores the nature and implications of “diasporic citizenship” as it is evolving among German-born, Turkish-origin Berliners.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Model: Being and Belonging Together2 Constituting Germans and Outsiders3 Hostility–Hospitality: Accommodating the Ausländer4 Homesickness–Homelessness: Negotiating Displacement5 Borderlands6 Forging Diasporic CitizenshipConclusion: Becoming a ChameleonNotes; References; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Forging Diasporic Citizenship
Book SynopsisAround the world, a new kind of diasporic citizenship is appearing, especially among diasporic people such as German-born Berliners of Turkish origin. Drawing on interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period, Forging Diasporic Citizenship explores the dynamics of everyday life for these Ausländer (or outsiders). These people are obliged to define themselves by their Otherness, but it is their relatedness to German society that transgresses traditional concepts of both German and Turkish identity. In this work of narrative research, Gül Çaliskan explores the tensions between the experience of displacement and the politics of accommodation as the Ausländer make claims to citizenship, articulate the ways they are rooted, and seek to achieve recognition. Through examining the social encounters, life events, and everyday practices of these German-born Ausländer, Forging Diasporic Citizenship constructs a theoretically sophisticated, transnationally applicableTable of ContentsIntroduction1 The Model: Being and Belonging Together2 Constituting Germans and Outsiders3 Hostility–Hospitality: Accommodating the Ausländer4 Homesickness–Homelessness: Negotiating Displacement5 Borderlands6 Forging Diasporic CitizenshipConclusion: Becoming a ChameleonNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Refugees Are Not Welcome Here
Book SynopsisState-controlled refugee protection in Canada has gone through paradoxical developments in recent decades. While refugee rights have expanded, access to these rights has tightened. Previously unrecognized groups such as women experiencing gender-based violence and LGBT populations are now considered legitimate refugees. Yet, the implementation of stringent administrative measures has made it harder for refugees to secure protection. Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here draws on archival and media sources, interviews, and organizational data to examine how refugee claims are administered within a complex and contradictory regime that maintains significant legal and bureaucratic silos. Azar Masoumi explains why state-controlled refugee protection persists despite its many failures, not only in Canada but globally. This rigorous study deftly argues that the paradoxical interplay between refugee law and claim-processing bureaucracies is symptomatic of a larger illogic: reliance onTable of ContentsIntroduction: States of Paradox, the Paradox of StatesPart 1: The Early Years, 1946–921 Forty Years of Beginnings: The Origins of Systematic Refugee Protection in Canada2 With Rights Came the Rightless: Bureaucracy and RestrictionismPart 2: The Middle Trenches, 1993–20063 A Nice Symbolic Gesture: The Making of the Gender Guidelines4 The Losing Game of Protection: Administrative Failure and Restrictionist SalvagePart 3: Recent Times, 2007–17 5 Pivoting on Gay: Sexual Rights and Migration Restriction6 Protection on Life Support: Bureaucracy, Intersectionality, and SOGIE ProtectionConclusion: For Whose Protection?Appendixes; Notes; List of References; Index
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MB - Cornell University Press Accommodation without Assimilation Sikh
Book SynopsisA holistic portrait which reveals why Sikh high school students, despite language barriers, prejudice, and significant cultural differences, often outperform their majority peers and other United States minority groups.Trade ReviewA real contribution to the field of educational anthropology.... Gibson demonstrates what can be learned by focusing on success rather than on failure. * American Anthropologist *A very good book on a subject that should be of concern not only to anthropologists, but to educators, parents with school-aged children, indeed anyone who wishes to understand why certain ethnic groups seem to be more successful than others in using the American educational system to achieve upward mobility. * American Ethnologist *
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Cornell University Press Homeland Calling Exile Patriotism and the Balkan
Book SynopsisOver the last ten years, many commentators have tried to explain the bloody conflicts that tore Yugoslavia apart. But in all these attempts to make sense of the wars and ethnic violence, one crucial factor has been overlooked—the fundamental roles...Trade ReviewAlthough the Balkan wars of the 1990s were homegrown, diasporas from Australia to North America played more than a cameo role. Hockenos is the first person with enough curiosity and drive to unravel systematically the connections between the Croat, Serb, and Albanian emigre populations and Franjo Tudjman, Slobodan Milosevic, and others who presided over the Balkan calamity. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *For almost twenty years Hockenos has reported extensively on Eastern European life and times, including the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia. He also works for a European think tank focused on the future of the Balkans. Homeland Calling... documents the impact of exile activists on their homelands of Croatia, Serbia, and Albania. Tracking how the émigr's raised large amounts of money for weapons, political campaigns, and the lobbying of Western governments, Hockenos concludes that exile leaders didn't cause the wars, but they effectively turbocharged them by supporting radically nationalistic policies and actions. -- Barbara A. Melville * Skidmore Scope *
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Cornell University Press Transnational Tortillas
Book SynopsisReveals how management regimes and company policy on each side of the U.S.-Mexico border apply different strategies to exploit their respective workforces' vulnerabilities.Trade ReviewTransnational Tortillas is a case study of two tortilla factories owned by the same company but located across the U.S.-Mexico border from each other. This transnational company organizes labor control differently in the two social and political contexts: The Mexican factory deploys a 'gender regime,' employing young women on the factory floor under the sexist supervision of men; while the U.S. factory uses an 'immigration regime,' employing undocumented Mexican men for the worst jobs and the night shift and Mexican American men (who are U.S. citizens) for the better jobs, some of which are unionized. -- Christine L. Williams * Gender & Society *Carolina Bank Munoz has written a passionate, polemical, but scrupulously objective volume on the intersection of race, gender, and class in two tortilla factories located on opposite sides of the United States–Mexico border in California. -- Julio César Pino * Enterprise & Society *The ethnographic data presented in Transnational Tortillas are impressive. The authorobserved workplace practices in both factory sites and interviewed managers and workers, giving us an insight not only into the mundanities of workplace practice on the production lines of a transnational tortilla firm, but also providing a look at the everyday lives of the workers themselves. -- Juanita Elias * International Studies Review *Ultimately, Bank Munoz has woven together admirably the macro, meso, and micro levels of state policies, labor markets, and workplace dynamics, producing a well-written, accessible, and fascinating account of exploitation and resistance among tortilla workers along the border. Transnational Tortillas should be of considerable value to scholars and students of labor, immigration, and global production. -- Gretchen Purser * Contemporary Sociology *Table of Contents1. The Tortilla Behemoth and Global Production 2. The Political Economy of Corn and Tortillas 3. A Tale of Two Countries: Immigration Policy and Globalization in the United States and Mexico 4. Hacienda CA: Immigration Regime 5. Hacienda BC: Gender Regime 6. Fighting Back? Resistance in the Age of Neoliberalism 7. Shop-Floor Politics in the Twenty-First Century
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Cornell University Press The Impossible Border
Book SynopsisBetween 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany''s eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the border from the new Polish state, Russian émigrés poured into the German capital, and East European Jews sought protection in Germany from the upheaval in their homelands. Nor was the movement in one direction only: German Freikorps sought to found a soldiers'' colony in Latvia, and a group of German socialists planned to settle in a Soviet factory town.In The Impossible Border, Annemarie H. Sammartino explores these waves of migration and their consequences for Germany. Migration became a flashpoint for such controversies as the relative importance of ethnic and cultural belonging, the interaction of nationalism and political ideologies, and whether or not Germany could serve as a place of refuTrade ReviewIn this excellent book, Annemarie H. Sammartino offers a lively transnational investigation of how a shifting eastern border and mass migration contributed to a 'crisis of sovereignty' in Germany during and immediately after the First World War.... She succeeds brilliantly not only in showing how Weimar was weakened by its inability to control its eastern border or achieve ideological coherence in its conception of people, state and territory, but also in explaining how for the political right-wing, the deceptively simple criterion of race and longing for a utopian east together led to an abandonment of territorial frontiers and the adoption of a new, ultimately destructive national project based on boundaries of blood. -- Alexander Watson * German History *Sammartino's title hardly does justice to the scope of her short but inspiring, well-written, well-researched, and thought-provoking work. As she explains, borders define differences determined by various mixtures of history, culture, and geography. Sammartino tests Hannah Arendt's theory of totalitarianism as a transnational form of analysis through the lens of the fluidity of borders throughout eastern Europe during and after WWI. Where context defines borders, German victory in the East inspired hope in an expanded German state, whereas defeat redefined the East as a final frontier to escape the ignominy of Germany's postwar collapse.... Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Crisis of Sovereignty 1. "German Brothers": War and Migration 2. "Now We Were the Border": The Freikorps Baltic Campaign 3. Socialist Pioneers on the Soviet Frontier: Ansiedlung Ost 4. "We Who Suffered Most": The Immigration of Germans from Poland 5. "A Flooding of the Reich with Foreigners": The Frustrations of Border Control 6. Anti-Bolshevism and the Bolshevik Prisoners of War 7. "A Firm Inner Connection to Germany": Naturalization Policy 8. Tolerance and Its Limits: Russians, Jews, and Asylum Conclusion: The Legacy of CrisisAppendix: Maps— German Gains in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March Prospective German Settlements in the Former Russian Empire German Territorial Losses after World War IBibliography Index
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