Migration, immigration and emigration Books
Cornell University Press Beyond Borders
Book SynopsisThrough a personal narrative approach,this book focuses on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China.Trade ReviewBeyond Borders is a tremendous work which details—with considerable intimacy and reflection—the lives of both Yunnanese Chinese in Burma as well as those who later migrated from Burma to Thailand, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Its nuanced attention to the historical relationship between the Kuomintang, civilian traders, the Shan insurgencies, and the Burmese government is compelling, especially since the information deals with firsthand accounts. Although the author could very easily bog the reader down with acronyms, dates, and events in military or political history, the priority placed on the subjects' lives allows the reader to assimilate the context inductively rather than with a preemptive road map of sorts. -- Jane M. Ferguson * Pacific Affairs Journal *If you enjoy a good gossip, nicely told and full of human interest, Beyond Borders will be of interest. For those with an interest in migration and human mobility, the volume provides a number of personal insights. -- Robert H. Taylor * Asian Affairs *Rather than focusing on social structures and globalization processes, Chang explicitly concentrates on individuals and biographies.... [W]e can certainly claim that a person-centered approach shakes up anthropological categories just as the lives of these individuals shake up political categories. -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *The strength of this book is the space the author gives to personal narratives. In this refreshing ethnography, Chang demonstrates how the vivid descriptions of life trajectories and intimate relationships of ordinary people, supported by clear explanations on the chaotic historical political circumstances in which they are grounded, can be more revealing than reconstituted realities inspired by scarce documentation available to foreign observers.... Besides the fascinating stories that nourish this account of a largely ignored Chinese diaspora, and the rigorous historical approach to their contemporary situation, this book is also a real pleasure to read. -- Caroline Grillot * Southeast Asian Studies *Undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from this text. Chang shows how ethnographers build rapport with informants, let them speak for themselves, and preserve the 'thicknesses' of their stories using first-person narratives.... this book is an eye-opening addition to the literature on borderland diasporas in Southeast Asia. -- Hiu Ling Chan * International Migration Review *Wen-Chin Chang's Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma provides a rich personal history of Yunnanese Chinese migrants in South-East and East Asia.... The significance of the book is in having recorded the voices of the voiceless. It successfully avoids analysing case studies through the lens of ethnicity theories.... All in all, this individual-centred ethnography, backed by its narrative power, provides a rich comprehension of people’s lives across borders. -- Tadayuki Kubo * International Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Migration History1. The Days in Burma: Zhang Dage 2. Entangled Love: Ae Maew 3. Pursuit of Ambition: Father and Son 4. Islamic Transnationalism: Yunnanese MuslimsPart II. (Transnational) Trade5. Venturing into "Barbarous" Regions: Yunnanese Caravan Traders 6. Transcending Gendered Geographies: Yunnanese Women Traders 7. Circulations of the Jade Trade: The Duans and the PengsEpilogue: From Mules to VehiclesGlossary References Index
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Cornell University Press Broad Is My Native Land
Book SynopsisWhether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia''s vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch tell the stories of Russians on the move, capturing the rich variety of their experiences by distinguishing among categories of migrantssettlers, seasonal workers, migrants to the city, career and military migrants, evacuees and refugees, deportees, and itinerants. So vast and diverse was Russian political space that in their journeys, migrants often crossed multiple cultural, linguistic, and administrative borders. By comparing the institutions and experiences of migration across the century and placing Russia in an international context, Siegelbaum and Moch have made a magisterial contribution to both the history of Russia and the study of global migration.The aTrade ReviewThe main merit of this work lies in its systematic approach, which allows authors to reveal the central place of migration in the history of Russia in the twentieth century. At the same time it greatly complements existing work on migration in Russia, dedicated primarily deportations, exile and other forms of forced migration. -- Gijs Kessler * Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research *Siegelbaum and Moch argue that, in reality, throughout three distinct periods in Russian history—the late imperial era, the Soviet years, and today—the phenomenon has been far more complex. The authors address what all this movement meant to these different groups and to society at large, offering insights into a little-understood aspect of Russian history. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *The work is chronologically ambitious—spanning the entire twentiethcentury and covering three different political systems—and thematically comprehensive.... Most importantly, by bringing a plethora of life stories into what could easily have been a dry, state-centric narrative, [the authors] provide a deeply human history of migration—the lives that it made, the lives that it changed, and the lives that it destroyed. -- Ian W. Campbell * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *This major work shows both the diversity and significance of migrations in twentieth-century Russia. A thought-provoking read, the book is recommended to all students and scholars of modern Russian history. -- Denis Kozlov * Slavic Review *A learned and highly readable work of spatial history, Broad Is My Native Land rescues the voices of accidental stories and life trajectories in this general vein, sharing the everyday tales of internal Russian/Soviet mobility beneath these sedentarist regimes and their useful, if mundane, aggregations of data that make settlement in Russia appear more legible, progressive, and common than it really was. -- Steven Seegel * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Resettlers2. Seasonal Migrants3. Migrants to the City4. Career Migrants5. Military Migrants6. Refugees and Evacuees7. Deportees8. ItinerantsConclusionSelected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare
Book SynopsisSweden is well known for the success of its welfare state. Many believe that success was made possible in part by the country''s ethnic homogeneity and that the increased diversity of Sweden's population is putting its welfare state at risk. Few, however, have suggested convincing mechanisms for explaining the precise relationship between relative ethnic homogeneity/heterogeneity and the welfare state. In this book Carly Elizabeth Schall acknowledges the important role of ethnic homogeneity in Sweden's thriving welfare state, but she argues that it mattered primarily because political elitesespecially social democratsmade it matter.Schall shows that diversity and the welfare state are related but that diversity does not undermine the welfare state in a straightforward way. Tracing the development of the Swedish welfare state from the late 1920s until the present day, she focuses on five historical periods of crisis. She argues that the story of Swedish national identity is a story oTrade ReviewIn The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine, Carly Schall examines the cultural conditions that facilitated the rise and fall of the welfare state in Sweden. In the process, she provides the readers with a nuanced understanding of the complex relationship that ties together welfare state, race/ethnicity, immigration, and nation—one that goes well beyond the specific case of Sweden and allows for potential comparisons with other countries. -- Francesca Degiuli, Fairleigh Dickinson University * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. HOMOGENEITY IN THE PEOPLE'S HOME Chapter 1. 1928–1932: Ethnic Nation and Social Democratic Consolidation Chapter 2. 1945–1950: Making the "People’s Home" Interlude 1. A Swedish Welfare State, a Welfare State for Swedes PART II. HETEROGENEITY IN THE PEOPLE’S HOME Chapter 3. 1968–1975: Security, Equality, and Choice: Expanding the People’s Home Chapter 4. 1991–1995: People’s Home No Longer? The Breakdown of the Miraculous Welfare Machine Interlude 2. Is There Room for Difference in Social Democracy? Chapter 5. The End of Social Democracy Hegemony Conclusions: Who Belongs in the Swedish People’s Home?
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Cornell University Press Policing Paris
Book SynopsisThe surveillance of immigrants and potential terrorists preoccupies leaders throughout the industrialized world. Yet these concerns are hardly new. Policing Paris examines a critical moment in the history of immigration control and political...Trade Review"After the First World War France replaced the United States as the leading destination for immigrants. Working through voluminous police records designed to identify and control hundreds of thousands of foreigners in Paris, Clifford Rosenberg reconstructs not only how a regime of intensive immigration surveillance was assembled but also how this regime came to serve as a mechanism for defining distinctions between citizen and foreigner, and between French and colonial. In Rosenberg's subtle and careful treatment, the policing of foreigners in the interwar years becomes the crucible less for Vichy than for the determination of identities in the modern welfare state." -- Michael Miller, University of Miami"Drawing on important files in Parisian police records, Clifford Rosenberg argues that the elaboration of record keeping about and control of immigrants in Paris in the interwar years was the first act in establishing the French welfare state. Policing Paris integrates current discussions of the bad treatment of immigrants from the colonial empire into a larger tradition of the reception of European foreign workers in France. Rosenberg gives us a nuanced and sophisticated treatment of the how and when of French racism against people from the colonies." -- Herman Lebovics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, author of Mona Lisa's Escort: André Malraux and the Reinvention of French Culture"Policing Paris displays an original and innovative way of approching immigration policy and French colonial power and practice through local history. This important book was very well researched.""This is political, social, and institutional history at its very best. Clifford Rosenberg transforms what is essentially a French story into a book that engages citizenship, the welfare state, immigration, and nationality in a global context. How the category of immigrant came to be defined, the legal rights (and lack thereof) that have attached to the particular status of foreigner, and the reasons for which immigrants have assimilated or not into their new homes are once again immediately relevant in Europe and the United States." -- Alice L. Conklin, The Ohio State University
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Cornell University Press Where Two Worlds Met
Book SynopsisDuring the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing...Trade ReviewKhodarkovsky offers a short survey of Kalmyk society and a larger narrative on relations between Russia and the Kalmyks until they returned to Mongolia in 1771.... The story reminds readers of a pervasive theme of Russian history, the dangerous frontier, on which the Kalmyks were a formidable player in action that included the Crimean and Nogay Tatars, the Yaik and Don Cossacks, and Ottoman Turkey and Poland. * Choice *Khodarkovsky's book is a detailed account of relations between Kalmyks and Russians prior to 1771. To provide greater balance than was previously available, he matches Russian sources with material gleaned from the Ottoman archives, and he provides an initial chapter on the structure of Kalmyk nomadic society. -- James Critchlow * Russian Review *One welcomes this book by a scholar who is prepared to tackle the slippery subject of the clash of the nomadic and the sedentary worlds from the vantage point of both.... Michael Khodarkovsky offers a meticulously documented and admirably clear chronological account of Russo-Kalmyk relations within the wider context of Kalmyk society, international relations, and regional politics. -- Lindsey Hughes * The Slavonic Review *This book is a piece of solid scholarship which contributes substantially to our understanding of the history of the inner Asian nomadic world and Russia's relations with it. -- Yuri Bregel * Slavic Review *This book should not elude any serious student of Eurasia, for it makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of the empire-borderland equation. -- Azade-Ayse Rorlich * American Historical Review *
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Cornell University Press Citizenship across Borders
Book SynopsisCitizenship across Borders offer a new way of looking at the emergent dynamics of transnational community development and electoral politics on both sides of the border.Trade ReviewCitizenship across Borders is a rich and very readable account of US-Mexico transnational politics. The book insists on specifying transnationalism in its geographical and historical contexts through detailed ethnographic study. The book will appeal to migration, citizenship, neoliberalism and border studies scholars, and moreover could be put to excellent use in the classroom. Geographers in particular will find the book useful for helping students think through scale and neoliberalism.... Smith and Bakker accomplish a lot in this book.... Their compelling discussion of the conditionalities placed on absentee balloting in the Zacatecas case (ie, home ownership) suggests forcefully how cross-border politics empowers hometown association leaders—often wealthy property owners—while excluding poorer working class or working-poor migrant members. As Smith and Bakker conclude, 'the new politics of inclusion on the global Mexican nation are also a politics of exclusion.' * Progress in Human Geography *Focusing on the personal experiences of several prominent migrants from Guanajuato and Zacatecas successfully engaged in binational, translocal, and transborder politics, Smith and Bakker offer a compelling, multisited ethnography of grassroots activism and transnational citizenship. Citizenship across Borders helps disentangle the questionable synergies between migration and development, the chal-lenges and opportunities for migrant political participation in national and subnational arenas and institutions, and the possibility that migrant participation in communities of origin portends greater civic engagement in domestic U.S. politics. * Latin American Research Review *In Citizenship across Borders, Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker provide us with a theoretically and empirically well informed analysis of transnational migrants parlaying their resources to achieve political influence and mobility in a context of voice, exit, and loyalty amid shifting policy environments. During five years of careful ethnographic research the authors uncovered a fascinating story of political change and development shaped by the unique circumstances of Mexican-U.S. migration.... The strength of this book lies in its careful, detailed, and theoretically well-informed research.... It is an important contribution to the rapidly growing research area of transnational political fields. * American Journal of Sociology *The focus of Citizenship across Borders is on the emerging phenomenon of 'transnational citizenship' among Mexican emigrants living in the United States.... The analysis is both deeply thoughtful and rich with insight, in part because of the complex and nuanced—yet tightly integrated—theoretical and empirical frames that structure the work. The book also benefits from a mature and extensive understanding of the histories and politics of both countries, as well as of the neoliberal project of globalization that has played such an important role in both countries (separately and in relationship) in recent decades. The result is an unusually valuable work that weaves together, and articulates clearly, the micropolitics and macropolitics in an evolving and dynamic transnational setting. * Perspectives on Politics *This innovative and rich ethnography of transnational politics and state policies across the U.S.-Mexican border is very welcome. The multiple foci of the book allows us to learn about policies, politics, events and leaders' experiences at the state and local levels, in Mexico and the United Sates, and is one of the book's strengths. Another is the interviews over time (with migrant leaders, Mexican officials and local residents), the participant observation of meetings and events in both Mexico and the United States, as well as the review of policy and institutional changes.... The three parts of the book are linked at a general level by a theoretical discussion of transnationalism. It is here that the book makes its most important contribution. * Contemporary Sociology *
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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 Taxi
Book Synopsis"Mathew, as a member of the Organizing Committee of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, has a unique perspective on the plight of immigrant taxi drivers.... Mathew explores the history of New York's taxicab industry, which has been in a cycle of...Trade ReviewIn 1998, as Biju Mathew reminds us in Taxi, a group of drivers24,000 cabbiesstaged an inspiring work stoppage in New York City. Theirs lasted only a day but showed that a group of "independent contractors"the Taxi Workers Alliancecould make gains through lobbying, publicity, and direct action even when deprived of formal collective bargaining rights. As Mathew movingly describes, the New York taxi driving workforce"Thanks to the forces of globalizationhas been "structured almost permanently into a culture of masculine bachelorhood" due to the forced separation of so many drivers from wives and families in their country of origin. -- Steve Early * New Labor Forum *
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Cornell University Press Creative State
Book SynopsisAt the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocco and Mexico featured prominently as sources of best practices in this area, with tailor-made financial instruments that brought migrants into the banking system, captured remittances for national development projects, fostered partnerships with emigrants for infrastructure design and provision, hosted transnational forums for development planning, and emboldened cross-border political lobbies.In Creative State, Natasha Iskander chronicles how these innovative policies emerged and evolved over forty years. She reveals that the Moroccan and Mexican policies emulated as models of excellence were not initially devised to link emigration to development, but rather were deployed to strengthen both governmeTrade ReviewAnyone interested in a deeper understanding of the link between labor migration and development or in unpacking the conceptual black box of how and in what ways migrant workers play a role in shaping home country development policy has much to learn from this book.... This book makes major contributions to the literature in at least three areas: labor migration and development, transnationalism, and the public policy process. It is also a joy to read. -- Janice Fine * British Journal of Industrial Relations *The strengths of Creative State are first to properly contextualize the history of emigration policies in Morocco and Mexico from the beginning of the twentieth century until 1963 and then to present two very interesting cases of collaboration between emigrant communities and state bureaucrats that took place in the subsequent forty years (1963-2003). Another strong point of her work is her bringing to the discussion the analyses by Mexican and Moroccan migrantologists that could only be consulted in their own languages.... Creative State will be a valuable resource in courses on migration policy and international planning, global cities, the global south, development studies, or transnational community development. * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms Maps Timeline1. Introduction: Interpretive Engagement in Morocco and Mexico 2. Discretionary State Seeing: Emigration Policy in Morocco and Mexico until 1963 3. Reaching Out: Beginning a Conversation with Moroccan Emigrants, 1963–1973 4. Relational Awareness and Controlling Relationships: Moroccan State Engagement with Moroccan Emigrants, 1974–1990 5. Practice and Power: Emigrants and Development in the Moroccan Souss 6. Process as Resource: Two Kings and the Politics of Rural Development 7. The Reluctant Conversationalist: The Mexican Government's Discontinuous Engagement with Mexican Americans, 1968–2000 8. From Interpretation to Political Movement: State-Migrant Engagement in Zacatecas 9. The Relationship between "Seeing" and "Interpreting": The Mexican Government's Interpretive Engagement with Mexican Migrants 10. Conclusion: Creating the Creative StateAppendix: Methodology Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Locating Migration
Book SynopsisIn this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities. This book provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging the nation-state, Locating Migration provides ethnographic insights into the various ways in which migrants and specific cities together mutually constitute and contest the local, national, and global. Cities are approached not as containers but as fluid and historically differentiated analytical entry points. Chapters explore migrants'' relationship to the neoliberal rebranding, redevelopment, and rescaTrade ReviewLocating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrantsis an attempt to examine migrants as integral to cities through analyses of scale, space, and temporal phenomena in different places. The editors want tosteer the study of migrants away froma narrow focus that has isolated ethnic communities and theorize the important role that migrants have had in shaping and being shaped by cities and the scale issues related to cities.. This book would be useful for anyone teaching courses in international planning, immigration, and planning, and planning history and theory. -- Elizabeth L. Sweet * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Migrants and Cities by Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick SchillerPart I: Migration and Cities: Reframing the Topic2. The Urban Question and the Scale Question: Some Conceptual Clarifications by Neil Brenner3. The Socioterritoriality of Cities: A Framework for Understanding the Incorporation of Migrants in Urban Labor Markets by Michael Samers4. Locality and Globality: Building a Comparative Analytical Framework in Migration and Urban Studies by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse CaglarPart II: Migrants as Scale Makers: Rescaling Urban Neighborhoods, Cities, and Their Regions5. Scalar Positioning and Immigrant Organizations: Asian Indians and the Dynamics of Place by Caroline B. Brettell6. Cities and the Social Construction of Hot Spots: Rescaling, Ghanaian Migrants, and the Fragmentation of Urban Spaces by Rijk van Dijk7. Transnational Migration and Rescaling Processes: The Incorporation of Migrant Labor by Ruba Salih and Bruno Riccio8. The Campaign for New Immigrants in Urban Regeneration: Imagining Possibilities and Confronting Realities by Judith Goode9. Rescaling Processes in Two "Global" Cities: Festive Events as Pathways of Migrant Incorporation by Monika Salzbrunn10. Downscaled Cities and Migrant Pathways: Locality and Agency without an Ethnic Lens by Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Caglar11. Remaking Locality: Uneven Globalization and Transmigrants' Unequal Incorporation by Bela Feldman-Bianco12. Afterword: An Ethnographic View of Size, Scale, and Locality by Gunther SchleeBibliography Biographical Notes Index
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Cornell University Press The Broken Village
Book SynopsisDaniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost overnight from a sleepy coffee-growing community to a hotbed of undocumented migration to and from the United States.Trade ReviewThe Broken Village is sure to become obligatory reading for social scientists considering the cultural shifts resulting from neoliberal policies and the retreat of the state in Latin America and beyond. It provides much-needed perspective on the relatively understudied country of Honduras. -- Sarah Lyon * American Anthropologist *Reichman analyzes human migration and economic globalization via ethnography of a small Honduran village between 2001 and 2006. The book's title evokes the twin dislocations of economic globalization affecting the village—the volatility of coffee markets following the demise of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989 and the upswing in global human migration in the two decades that followed. The book examines migration, religion, and coffee-planting strategies as various potential coping mechanisms for dealing with these dislocations.... Reichman writes briskly and well, making this book useful in undergraduate courses exploring globalization. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Integration and Disintegration 1. American Dream, American Work: Fantasies and Realities of Honduran Migrants 2. The Needy, the Greedy, and the Lazy: The Moral Universe of Migration 3. The Ashes of Progress: A Biography after Modernization 4. The Devil Has Been Destroyed: Mediation and Christian Citizenship 5. Justice at a Price: Risk and Regulation in the Global Coffee Market 6. Global Sociality, Postmodernity, and NeopopulismNotes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press No Family Is an Island
Book SynopsisGovernment bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using culture as a category to process people and dispense services, however, can create its own problems and unintended consequences. In No Family Is an Island, a comparative ethnography of Samoan migrants living in the United States and New Zealand, Ilana Gershon investigates how and when the categories cultural and acultural become relevant for Samoans as they encounter cultural differences in churches, ritual exchanges, welfare offices, and community-based organizations. In both New Zealand and the United States, Samoan migrants are minor minorities in an ethnic constellation dominated by other minority groups. As a result, they often find themselves in contexts where the challenge is not to establish the terms of the debate but to rewrite them. To navigate complicated and often unyielding bureaucracies, they must become skilled in whaTrade ReviewGershon provides a fine-grained analysis of distinctions within Samoan migrant societies that emphasise second-generation differences and the relationship between more established migrants and those they refer to pejoratively as 'fobs....' Avaluable [contribution]... to the gradually expanding literature on the Polynesian diaspora. -- John Connel * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I 1. Exchanging While Not-Knowing 2. The Moral Economies of ConversionPart II Introduction: Some Political and Historical Context 3. When Culture Is Not a System 4. Legislating Families as Cultural 5. Constructing Choice, Compelling CultureConclusionReferences Index
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Cornell University Press Conflicting Commitments
Book SynopsisGleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights.Trade ReviewGleeson captivates her readers with an in-depth, intricate, and diligent ethnographic approach to the question of labor rights enforcement for undocumented immigrants in the United States... She reaffirms the hands-on approach to investigating the discrepancy between rights in theory and rights in practice by being present at official meetings, being a scrupulous reader of county council minutes, and partaking in workers' rights rallies, asembleas, and charlas organized by civil society actors... Gleeson advances an important argument in explaining the divergent policies, practices, and outcomes of migrant rights enforcement in San Jose and Houston. -- Agnieszka Kubal, University of Oxford * American Journal of Sociology *This book provides a detailed analysis of the practical dimensions of workers' labor rights in San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas.... Gleeson... offers proposals for 'making rights real' for undocumented workers and creating procedures for enforceable claims. As the study shows, the task is administratively complex and politically problematic. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Immigrant Labor in the United States1. Work in Postindustrial America2. Implementing the Legal Rights of Undocumented Workers3. Place Matters: How Local Governments Enforce Immigrant Worker Rights4. Beyond Government: How Civil Society Serves, Organizes, and Advocates for Immigrant Workers5. Advocating across Borders: Consular Strategies for Protecting Mexican Immigrant WorkersConclusion: Making Rights Real for Immigrant WorkersNotes References Index
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Cornell University Press Mobilizing against Inequality
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this volume set out to study union strategies toward immigrant workers in four countries: Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and United States.Trade Review"The immigrant workforce is both victimized as the most precarious element of the low-wage workforce and scapegoated by nativist and anti-immigrant elements as the cause of low wages and terrible working conditions. Through several case studies examining immigrant worker organizing in the United States and Europe, Mobilizing against Inequality provides vital insights into the importance of organizing the immigrant workforce and fully integrating immigrants into the general society as the best way to protect and improve wages and working conditions across the board. These insights can inform the debate in the United States at a time when immigration policy is under close examination and change is on the horizon." -- Robert P. Deasy, immigration law and policy specialistTable of ContentsForeword by Ana Avendaño Acknowledgments List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Part I UNIONS AND THE MOBILIZATION OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS 1. Organizing Immigrant Workers Lowell Turner 2. Union Campaigns as Countermovements: "Best Practice" Cases from the United Kingdom, France, and the United States Maite Tapia, Lowell Turner, and Denisse Roca-Servat Part II CASES AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS 3. The United States: Tackling Inequality in Precarious Times Lee H. Adler and Daniel B. Cornfield 4. The United Kingdom: Dialectic Approaches to Organizing Immigrant Workers, Postwar to 2012 Maite Tapia 5. France: Battles for Inclusion, 1968–2010 Lowell Turner 6. Germany: Success at the Core, Unresolved Challenges at the Periphery Lee H. Adler and Michael Fichter Part III COMPARISONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 7. Opportunity and Choice for Unions Organizing Immigrant Workers: A Comparison across Countries and Industries Gabriella Alberti, Jane Holgate, and Lowell Turner 8. The Countermovement Needs a Movement (and a Counterstrategy) Janice Fine and Jane Holgate 9. Integrative Organizing in Polarized Times: Toward Dynamic Trade Unionism in the Global North Daniel B. Cornfield
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Cornell University Press The Impossible Border
Book Synopsis"An important and fascinating study of the history of migration across Weimar Germany's eastern border that addresses a number of key aspects of the history of Weimar Germany."—Richard Bessel, University of YorkTrade 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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Cornell University Press Beyond Borders
Book SynopsisThrough a personal narrative approach,this book focuses on the migration history and transnational trading experiences of contemporary Yunnanese Chinese migrants who reside in Burma and those who have moved from Burma and resettled in Thailand, Taiwan, and China.Trade ReviewBeyond Borders is a tremendous work which details—with considerable intimacy and reflection—the lives of both Yunnanese Chinese in Burma as well as those who later migrated from Burma to Thailand, Taiwan, and Mainland China. Its nuanced attention to the historical relationship between the Kuomintang, civilian traders, the Shan insurgencies, and the Burmese government is compelling, especially since the information deals with firsthand accounts. Although the author could very easily bog the reader down with acronyms, dates, and events in military or political history, the priority placed on the subjects' lives allows the reader to assimilate the context inductively rather than with a preemptive road map of sorts. -- Jane M. Ferguson * Pacific Affairs Journal *If you enjoy a good gossip, nicely told and full of human interest, Beyond Borders will be of interest. For those with an interest in migration and human mobility, the volume provides a number of personal insights. -- Robert H. Taylor * Asian Affairs *Rather than focusing on social structures and globalization processes, Chang explicitly concentrates on individuals and biographies.... [W]e can certainly claim that a person-centered approach shakes up anthropological categories just as the lives of these individuals shake up political categories. -- Jack David Eller * Anthropology Review Database *The strength of this book is the space the author gives to personal narratives. In this refreshing ethnography, Chang demonstrates how the vivid descriptions of life trajectories and intimate relationships of ordinary people, supported by clear explanations on the chaotic historical political circumstances in which they are grounded, can be more revealing than reconstituted realities inspired by scarce documentation available to foreign observers.... Besides the fascinating stories that nourish this account of a largely ignored Chinese diaspora, and the rigorous historical approach to their contemporary situation, this book is also a real pleasure to read. -- Caroline Grillot * Southeast Asian Studies *Undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from this text. Chang shows how ethnographers build rapport with informants, let them speak for themselves, and preserve the 'thicknesses' of their stories using first-person narratives.... this book is an eye-opening addition to the literature on borderland diasporas in Southeast Asia. -- Hiu Ling Chan * International Migration Review *Wen-Chin Chang's Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma provides a rich personal history of Yunnanese Chinese migrants in South-East and East Asia.... The significance of the book is in having recorded the voices of the voiceless. It successfully avoids analysing case studies through the lens of ethnicity theories.... All in all, this individual-centred ethnography, backed by its narrative power, provides a rich comprehension of people’s lives across borders. -- Tadayuki Kubo * International Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. Migration History1. The Days in Burma: Zhang Dage 2. Entangled Love: Ae Maew 3. Pursuit of Ambition: Father and Son 4. Islamic Transnationalism: Yunnanese MuslimsPart II. (Transnational) Trade5. Venturing into "Barbarous" Regions: Yunnanese Caravan Traders 6. Transcending Gendered Geographies: Yunnanese Women Traders 7. Circulations of the Jade Trade: The Duans and the PengsEpilogue: From Mules to VehiclesGlossary References Index
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Cornell University Press Broad Is My Native Land
Book SynopsisThe first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration.Trade ReviewThe main merit of this work lies in its systematic approach, which allows authors to reveal the central place of migration in the history of Russia in the twentieth century. At the same time it greatly complements existing work on migration in Russia, dedicated primarily deportations, exile and other forms of forced migration. -- Gijs Kessler * Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research *Siegelbaum and Moch argue that, in reality, throughout three distinct periods in Russian history—the late imperial era, the Soviet years, and today—the phenomenon has been far more complex. The authors address what all this movement meant to these different groups and to society at large, offering insights into a little-understood aspect of Russian history. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *The work is chronologically ambitious—spanning the entire twentiethcentury and covering three different political systems—and thematically comprehensive.... Most importantly, by bringing a plethora of life stories into what could easily have been a dry, state-centric narrative, [the authors] provide a deeply human history of migration—the lives that it made, the lives that it changed, and the lives that it destroyed. -- Ian W. Campbell * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *This major work shows both the diversity and significance of migrations in twentieth-century Russia. A thought-provoking read, the book is recommended to all students and scholars of modern Russian history. -- Denis Kozlov * Slavic Review *A learned and highly readable work of spatial history, Broad Is My Native Land rescues the voices of accidental stories and life trajectories in this general vein, sharing the everyday tales of internal Russian/Soviet mobility beneath these sedentarist regimes and their useful, if mundane, aggregations of data that make settlement in Russia appear more legible, progressive, and common than it really was. -- Steven Seegel * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Resettlers2. Seasonal Migrants3. Migrants to the City4. Career Migrants5. Military Migrants6. Refugees and Evacuees7. Deportees8. ItinerantsConclusionSelected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press RoundTrip to America
Book Synopsis"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States."—Journal of American HistoryTrade Review"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States." * Journal of American History *A wide-ranging and carefully researched work.... In telling the story of 'temporary immigrants,' Wyman displays a historian's eye for the big picture and a journalist's ear for compelling anecdotes. * Journal of Economic History *This book fills an important lacuna and will prove a welcome text for immigration history courses. * American Historical Review *Wyman has written a fine book about the 4,000,000 or so European immigrants to the United States who arrived in this country between 1880 and 1930 and who chose to return to their native lands.... Even though much of the material is familiar, getting to look at it from another perspective is extraordinarily worthwhile. * Labor History *Table of ContentsPart One: Migrants and Immigrants1. A Two-Way Migration2. Seasonal Migrations and the America FeverPart Two: American Realities3. Immigrants in an Industrializing Economy4. Leaving the Land of Bosses and Clocks5. Politics, Unions, and Postwar AmericanismPart Three: The Remigrant at Home6. Peasants Back on the Land7. Workers' Ideas Carried Back8. Churches, Traditions, and the RemigrantPart Four: A Round-Trip Journey Concluded9. The America Trunk Comes HomeMajor SourcesNotesIndex
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Cornell University Press Between Two Nations
Book SynopsisImmigrants come to the United States from all over Latin America in search of better lives. They obtain residency status, find jobs, pay taxes, and they have children who are American citizens by birth; yet decades may go by before they seek...Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to the growing literature on transnational immigrant communities.... Persuasive and engaging. * International Migration Review *This well-researched book provides an excellent and sophisticated analysis of a neglected issue: the political marginality of Latin American immigrants to the US, many of whom acquire residency but not citizenship as soon as they are able. * Choice *The questions asked in this book are fundamental to the future of the policy.... Jones-Correa offers a solid contribution to the emerging study of immigrant political adaption. * Political Science Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press The Korean American Dream Immigrants and Small
Book SynopsisKorean immigrants to the United States establish their own small businesses at a rate exceeding that of immigrants from any other nation, with more than one third of all Korean immigrant adults involved in small businesses. Kyeyoung Park examines this...Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the growing literature on Korean immigrant entrepreneurship. * American Journal of Sociology *Kyeyoung Park has done a careful study of Korean immigrants in Queens.... She has provided us with a valuable work on a growing community in the United States and its mixed response to adjusting in a new land with different values. It is clearly written and will be of interest to both the scholarly and the general reader. * Asian Thought and Society *Park provides a fresh angle of viewing the consequences of Korean business. * Contemporary Sociology *This book is a useful ethnographic study of anticipation, adaptation, and acculturation, and offers a contemporary perspective on an old process: that genesis of a new 'hyphenated' ethnic group. * Choice *This book, written by an anthropologist, is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Korean Americans.... The author's keen observation and thoughtful interpretation of the changes in family and kinship organizations among Korean immigrants are quite impressive. * International Migration Review *This is an excellent study that enriches our understanding of the experiences of Korean immigrants who have been striving to succeed in America's urban environment. Park writes with sensitivity yet objectivity, using the information drawn from her interviews to provide a rich portrayal of the Korean immigrant's lives and thoughts 'in all their contradictory aspects.'. * New York History *
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MB - Cornell University Press Accommodation without Assimilation Sikh Immigrants in an American High School
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University of Toronto Press Harvest of Stones
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University of Toronto Press A Nation of Immigrants Women Workers and
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines immigrants and racial-ethnic relations in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century to the post-1945 era.
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University of Toronto Press Engendering Migrant Health
Book SynopsisVoluntary migrants to Canada are generally healthier than the average Canadian, but after ten years in the country they report poorer health and higher rates of chronic disease than those born here. Troublingly, women — particularly those from non-European countries — experience the most precipitous decline in health. What contributes to this deterioration, and how can its effects be mitigated?Engendering Migrant Health brings together researchers from across Canada to address the intersections of gender, immigration, and health in the lives of new Canadians. Focusing on the context of Canadian policy and society, the contributors illuminate migrants' testimonies of struggle, resistance, and solidarity as they negotiate a place for themselves in a new country. Topics range from the difficulties of Francophone refugees and the changing roles of fathers, to the experiences of queer newcomers and the importance of social unity to communal and inTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 1: Situating Migration, Gender and Health in Canada * Engendering Migrant Health in Canada Denise L. Spitzer* Work, Worries and Weariness: Towards an Embodied and Engendered Migrant Health Denise L. Spitzer* Examining the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Francophone Women Living Outside Quebec Mich le Kersit* Enhancing Inclusion: Settlement Services in Relation to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Newcomers Brian O'Neill and Kamala Sproule* The Fatherhood Experiences of Sudanese and Russian Newcomer Men: Challenges to Their Health and Well-Being David Este and Adamsu Tachble Part 2: The Sequelae of Suffering * The Mental Health and Well-Being of Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada Ilene Hyman* Gender-Based Interpersonal Violence and the Challenges of Integrated Canadian Communities Wilfreda Thurston* Liminality and Mental Well-being Among Non-Status Immigrant Women in Toronto: Qualitative Aspects of Stress, Stigma, Social Support and Control Laura Simich* Social Suffering and Witnessing: Exploring the Interface between Policy and Testimonial Narratives of Afghan Women in Canada Parin Dossa Part 3: Communities, Social Capital, Empowerment, and Resilience * Advocacy and Social Support: The Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op's Journey Towards Equity in Access to Health Lucenia Ortiz and the Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op* Women's Empowerment Through Community Work: Stories from the Hispanic Community in Ottawa Sara Torres, Alma Estable, Ana Mercedes Guerra and Nubia Cerme o* Global Ottawa AIDS Link (GOAL): Story of an "Un-Project" Carol Amaratunga, Laura Bisaillon, Allison Farber, Lucie Kalinda, Sujatha Liyanage, Felicite Murangira and Melissa Rowe* At the Intersection of Migration, Gender and Health: Accounting for Social Capital Bilkis Vissandjee, Stephanie Ann Claire Alexander, Alisha Nicole Apale and Madine Van der Platt Part 4: Conclusion * Engendering Migrant Health: Final Reflections Denise L. Spitzer References Contributors Index
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University of Toronto Press Recasting the Social in Citizenship
Book SynopsisPrevious notions of what constitutes "citizenship" within a country have been steadily challenged by the movement towards a globalized world. Examining the everyday habits of citizens and non-citizens, the contributors to Recasting the Social in Citizenship show how citizenship has increasingly been determined by social behaviours rather than by civil or political affiliations. Broadening the debate by interpreting the social not only as rights and privileges, but also as everyday struggles, this volume offers studies that range from environmental and security issues to transnational migration and military transformations. It further discusses debates over multiculturalism and integration and takes a fresh look at how social activities such as eating, commuting, smoking, as well as sexual habits of citizens and non-citizens have become increasingly governed by the state.Tracing developments in politics and social actions that have bound together citizens and non-citiTrade Review'Social in Citizenship, as a concept and a theoretical stance, demonstrates an evolution in our current understanding of citizenship. This book evolves knowledge... A shift in our understanding of citizenship is relevant at this time in history because the very essence of what it means to be a citizen in a democratic place has become entangled in confusion... "social in citizenship" reinforces our absolute interdependency and our core oneness as a humanity. ' -- Kyle Y. Whitefield; Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, vol 36:02:12010
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University of Toronto Press Recasting the Social in Citizenship
Book SynopsisPrevious notions of what constitutes citizenship within a country have been steadily challenged by the movement towards a globalized world. Examining the everyday habits of citizens and non-citizens, the contributors to Recasting the Social in Citizenship show how citizenship has increasingly been determined by social behaviours rather than by civil or political affiliations. Broadening the debate by interpreting the social not only as rights and privileges, but also as everyday struggles, this volume offers studies that range from environmental and security issues to transnational migration and military transformations. It further discusses debates over multiculturalism and integration and takes a fresh look at how social activities such as eating, commuting, smoking, as well as sexual habits of citizens and non-citizens have become increasingly governed by the state. Tracing developments in politics and social actions that have bound together citizens and non-citizTrade Review'Social in Citizenship, as a concept and a theoretical stance, demonstrates an evolution in our current understanding of citizenship. This book evolves knowledge... A shift in our understanding of citizenship is relevant at this time in history because the very essence of what it means to be a citizen in a democratic place has become entangled in confusion... "social in citizenship" reinforces our absolute interdependency and our core oneness as a humanity. ' -- Kyle Y. Whitefield; Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, vol 36:02:12010
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University of Toronto Press Engendering Migrant Health
Book SynopsisEngendering Migrant Health brings together researchers from across Canada to address the intersections of gender, immigration, and health in the lives of new Canadians.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 1: Situating Migration, Gender and Health in Canada * Engendering Migrant Health in Canada Denise L. Spitzer* Work, Worries and Weariness: Towards an Embodied and Engendered Migrant Health Denise L. Spitzer* Examining the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Francophone Women Living Outside Quebec Mich le Kersit* Enhancing Inclusion: Settlement Services in Relation to Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Newcomers Brian O'Neill and Kamala Sproule* The Fatherhood Experiences of Sudanese and Russian Newcomer Men: Challenges to Their Health and Well-Being David Este and Adamsu Tachble Part 2: The Sequelae of Suffering * The Mental Health and Well-Being of Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada Ilene Hyman* Gender-Based Interpersonal Violence and the Challenges of Integrated Canadian Communities Wilfreda Thurston* Liminality and Mental Well-being Among Non-Status Immigrant Women in Toronto: Qualitative Aspects of Stress, Stigma, Social Support and Control Laura Simich* Social Suffering and Witnessing: Exploring the Interface between Policy and Testimonial Narratives of Afghan Women in Canada Parin Dossa Part 3: Communities, Social Capital, Empowerment, and Resilience * Advocacy and Social Support: The Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op's Journey Towards Equity in Access to Health Lucenia Ortiz and the Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op* Women's Empowerment Through Community Work: Stories from the Hispanic Community in Ottawa Sara Torres, Alma Estable, Ana Mercedes Guerra and Nubia Cerme o* Global Ottawa AIDS Link (GOAL): Story of an "Un-Project" Carol Amaratunga, Laura Bisaillon, Allison Farber, Lucie Kalinda, Sujatha Liyanage, Felicite Murangira and Melissa Rowe* At the Intersection of Migration, Gender and Health: Accounting for Social Capital Bilkis Vissandjee, Stephanie Ann Claire Alexander, Alisha Nicole Apale and Madine Van der Platt Part 4: Conclusion * Engendering Migrant Health: Final Reflections Denise L. Spitzer References Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Native Diasporas
Book SynopsisThe arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas Trade Review"The essays in Native Diasporas offer fascinating case studies that simultaneously value local nuance and transnational/global contexualization across more than three centuries of history. They also offer fresh insights in the study of indigenous identities."—Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Western Historical Quarterly"This work will become a seminal text for people studying in the field."—Paul Moon, Te Kaharoa"This text is not only a timely addition to the Native American/American Indian studies discourse, but it also introduces a fresh way of discussing indigeneity and the complicated experience of those communities impacted by settler colonialism."—Clementine Bordeaux, American Indian Culture and Research Journal“The essays in Native Diasporas address a tremendously important and complicated subject—Indigenous identity.”—Barbara Krauthamer, author of Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South “In a powerful and timely way, Native Diasporas moves away from the ‘frontier’ as finite and from the ‘middle ground’ as an endpoint. Its essays pay attention to women’s agency, gender issues, economic and political dynamics, the history of changing policies, and to Indigenous responses and engagements with settler colonialism.”—Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University and coauthor of How to Write History that People Want to Read Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceBrooke N. Newman and Gregory D. SmithersIntroduction: “What Is an Indian?”—The Enduring Question of American Indian IdentityGregory D. SmithersPart 1. Adapting Indigenous Identities for the Colonial Diaspora1. Indigenous Identities in Mesoamerica after the Spanish ConquestRebecca Horn2. Rethinking the Middle Ground: French Colonialism and Indigenous Identities in the Pays d’en HautMichael A. McDonnell3. Identity Articulated: British Settlers, Black Caribs, and the Politics of Indigeneity on St. Vincent, 1763–1797Brooke N. Newman4. Religion, Race, and the Formation of Pan-Indian Identities in the Brothertown Movement, 1700–1800Linford D. Fisher5. “Decoying Them Within”: Creek Gender Identities and the Subversion of CivilizationFelicity DonohoePart 2. Asserting Native Identities through Politics, Work, and Migration6. Mastering Language: Liberty, Slavery, and Native Resistance in the Early Nineteenth-Century SouthJames Taylor Carson7. Resistance and Removal: Yaqui and Navajo Identities in the Southwest BorderlandsClaudia B. Haake8. Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturyJoy Porter9. Mixed-Descent Indian Identity and Assimilation PolicyKatherine Ellinghaus10. “All Go to the Hop Fields”: The Role of Migratory and Wage Labor in the Preservation of Indigenous Pacific Northwest CultureVera ParhamPart 3. Twentieth-Century Reflections on Indigenous and Pan-Indian Identities11. Tribal Institution Building in the Twentieth CenturyDuane Champagne12. Disease and the “Other”: The Role of Medical Imperialism in OceaniaKerri A. Inglis13. “Why Injun Artist Me”: Acee Blue Eagle’s Diasporic PerformativeBill Anthes14. Asserting a Global Indigenous Identity: Native Activism Before and After the Cold WarDaniel M. Cobb15. From Tribal to Indian: American Indian Identity in the Twentieth CenturyDonald FixicoContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Ethnicity and Equality
Book SynopsisIn the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. This title documents the socioeconomic inequalities, ethnic discrimination, and political neglect that have bred a volatile generation of minority ethnic youths deeply distrustful of a society they believe has failed them.Trade Review“Azouz Begag offers a compelling analysis of the unrest in the urban banlieues of the past thirty years and calls for changes in the failed ‘French model of integration.’ Alec Hargreaves's seamless translation and incisive introduction frame Begag's groundbreaking study and blueprint for ethnic harmony.”—Christopher P. Pinet, editor in chief of the French Review“A witty, humorous and at the same time profound and moving analysis of the current situation in crisis-ridden areas of French cities which not only presents facts but also proposes sound and reasonable solutions.”—Professor Dina Sherzer, Department of French and Italian, University of Texas at Austin“This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the challenges posed by living in an increasingly globalized world in which the accompanying cultural, religious, social, and political transformations force us to rethink our own identity.”—Dominic Thomas, author of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism“The political and ideological challenges of reconciling republicanism with the demands of diversity are well illustrated by Azouz Begag’s fine study, Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance.”—Richard Wolin, The Nation"Ethnicity and Equality is a powerful book which should be read by all those that are interested in issues of race, racism and multiracialism to understand its constraints and bottlenecks to a fully integrated society."—Mwelwa C. Musambachime, International Journal of World Peace"Anyone with an interest in post-colonial cultures and ethnic relations will find Begag's writings both stimulating and perceptive."—Mathilde von Bulow, Oxford Journal“The text is often autobiographical and anecdotal in nature. . . . Instead of lessening the text’s value, the honesty and forthrightness with which it is written is refreshing. . . . It is, to a large degree this kind of intermingling of the personal and historical that makes Ethnicity and Equality such a pleasure to read.”—Gretchen Head, Arab Studies Journal
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Stanford University Press Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring
Book SynopsisExperiencing both the enormous benefits and the serious detriments of globalization and economic restructuring, Southern California serves as a magnet for immigrants from many parts of the world. This volume advances an emerging body of work that centers this region''s future on the links between the two fastest-growing racial groups in California, Asians and Latinos, and the economic and social mainstream of this important sector of the global economy.The contributors to the anthologyscholars and community leaders with social science, urban planning, and legal backgroundsprovide a multi-faceted analysis of gender, class, and race relations. They also examine various forms of immigrant economic participation, from low-wage workers to entrepreneurs and capital investors. Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy documents the entrenchment of various immigrant communities in the socio-political and economic fabric of United States society and these communitiTrade Review"This volume is of central importance to the new literature on cities because of its unique coverage. It not only supplies stimulating material on topics neglected by other studies, but also treats the material in an original manner that supplies new insights."—Mark Gottdiener, State University of New York, Buffalo"This important and timely book is exciting because I know of no other comparative work within the context of the new global economy that focuses on changes in one metropolitan area. The idea of comparing Asian and Latino immigrant experiences is an inspired one, and the book is a model of scholarship and comparative studies."—Evelyn Hu-DeHart, University of Colorado at Boulder"A nuanced, detailed and politically informed volume whose strength lies in analysis embedded in a context. . . . This volume explores one niche, using original studies, and is thus able to build up a picture of jostling settlements and their interrelationship with earlier settlements (locals). More than that, it also creates an approach from which other researchers could benefit by following up the various sociological themes of the niche."—Canadian Journal of Sociology Online"This book is not just timely, but necessary for everyone trying to come to grips with a California that is changing every minute. It is a valuable resource for various fields across academia and for policymakers across the country."—Contemporary Sociology"Through comprehensive research on the global city of Los Angeles, the authors in this volume challenge established immigration and assimilation theories that permeate the popular imagination and our public policy , , , ,As a whole [Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy] presents an excellent 'snaphot' of current issues in immigration policy and studies and provides ample guidelines for the directions that future research and policy should take . . . .The book will be particularly useful for undergraduate courses on immigration, ethnic history, and public policy."—Economic Geography"This book succeeds in its objective of demonstrating the complexity of southern California's changing socio-economic landscape. The integration of broader political and economic processes with rich empirical analysis is a welcome addition to our understanding of the region . . . .The comparisons of Asian and Latino immigrant groups usefully highlight the differences and—more surprisingly, to some—the similarities between them."—Annals of the Association of American GeographersTable of ContentsList of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Marta Lopez-Garza and David R. Diaz Part I. Women in the Global Economy 2. Exploitation and abuse in the garment industry: the case of the Thai slave-labor compound in El Monte Julie A. Su and Chanchanit Martorell 3. Through economic restructuring, recession, and rebound: the continuing importance of Latina immigrant labor in the Los Angeles economy Kristine M. Zentgraf Part II. Macroeconomics: 4. the promises and dilemmas of immigrant ethnic economies Tarry Hum 5. Economics and ethnicity: poverty, race, and immigration in Los Angeles county Manuel Pastor, Jr Part III. The Informal Economy in Southern California: 6. A study of the informal economy and Latina/o immigrants in Greater Los Angeles Marta Lopez-Garza 7. Labor behind the front door: domestic workers in urban and suburban households Grace A. Rosales 8. Doing business: Central American enterprises in Los Angeles Norma Stoltz Chinchilla and Nora Hamilton Part IV. Changing Political and Social Terrain: 9. Latino Street vendors in Los Angeles: heterogeneous alliances, community-based activism, and the state Clair M. Weber 10. The politics of social services for a 'model minority': the union of Pan Asian communities Linda Trinh Vo 11. Community divided: Korean American politics in post-civil unrest Los Angeles Edward J. W. Park 12. Constructing 'Indianness' in Southern California: the role of Hindu and Muslim Indian immigrants Prema Kurien 13. A new and dynamic community: the case of Monterey Park, California Timothy P. Fong 14. The politics of adaptation and the 'good immigrant': Japanese Americans and the new Chinese immigrants Leland T. Saito Part V. Ethnicity, Race, and Racism: 15. Variation in attitudes toward immigrants measured among Latino, African American, Asian, and Euro-American students Grace A. Rosales, Mona Devich Navarro and Desdemona Cardosa 16. Racialized metropolis: theorizing Asian American and Latino identities and ethnicities in Southern California ChorSwang Ngin and Rodolfo D. Torres Part VI. Social Policy: 17. Salvadoran immigrants and refugees: demographic and socioeconomic profiles Claudia Dorrington 18. Environmental logic and minority communities David R. Diaz Appendix Index.
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Stanford University Press Postcolonial Hospitality
Book SynopsisHospitality has emerged as a category in recent French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration. Concentrating primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa, this book considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the 20th century.Trade Review"...Rosello's book represents an important contribution to the fields of immigration and identity studies; it bridges the gap between the political and the literary, demonstrating not only the power of social discourse to shape cultural production, but also the power of metaphor to shape the everyday world." -- Dayna Oscherwitz * Southern Methodist University *"Rosello's analysis is rich and wide-ranging. It deepens understanding of the material she discusses and makes one eager to see the films and read the novels she analyzes." -- CHOICE"This timely book anticipated the wave of anti-immigrant reactions revealed by the spring elections in France and other European Union (EU) states. . . . Postcolonial Hospitality contributes to the immigration debate and to the interpretation of contemporary culture, within France and beyond its borders." -- H-France Review of Books
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Stanford University Press Women in Motion
Book SynopsisBased on fieldwork in ten Asian countries, this book examines cross-national patterns and the impact of globalization, state policies, individual autonomy, and social factors on various women's international migration.Trade Review"In a welcome study of migrant domestic workers, Nana Oishi offers us a rare contextual integration of analysis at the international, state, society, and individual level, not only of the sending and receiving countries, but also of those that resist allowing women workers to labor overseas, regardless of need... This meticulous study is relevant to both policy makers and graduate students seeking to place research in a global context." -- Heather Dell * University of Illinois at Springfield, Feminist Formations *"Elucidating how government policies interact with women's motivations to shape labor migration in Asia, Nana Oishi makes an important contribution to our understanding of how globalization generates and perpetuates the migration of women. She writes with intelligence and empathy about the opportunities and risks that migration entails. A highly readable and interesting book." -- Hania Zlotnik, Director, Population Division * United Nations *"This book is highly stimulating and comprehensive in scope." -- Contemporary Sociology"A recent severe increase in demand for female migrant workers prompted Oishi to study the international migration of women. Her ethnographic fieldwork in 10 Asian countries is collected for scholars and policy makers in order to better understand the plight of these women." -- Reference & Research Book News"One of the most comprehensive comparative studies of women's migration to date." -- Kristen Hill Maher * San Diego State University *"Nana Oishi's groundbreaking book documents the important theoretical and policy implications posed by female migrants' experiences, and offers a vivid and sympathetic description of the actual experiences of these women living so far from home. Wide ranging in scope, brilliantly argued, and drawing on a breathtaking scope of empirical research, this book is destined to be an instant classic to students of international migration, globalization, Asian societies, and gender studies, as well as an indispensable guide for policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and state officials." -- Mary C. Waters * Harvard University *
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Stanford University Press Dreaming of Gold Dreaming of Home
Book SynopsisThis book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and magazines, supplemented by fieldwork and interviews as well as recent scholarship in Chinese social history, the author presents a much richer depiction than we have had heretofore of the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in Gold Mountain.Long after the gold in California ran out and prejudice confined them to dismal Chinatowns, generations of Chinesemostly men from rural areas of southern Chinacontinued to migrate to the United States in hopes of bettering the family's lot by remitting much of the meager sums they earned as laundrymen, cooks, domestic workers, and Chinatown merchants.Economic hardships and U.S. Exclusion Trade Review"An outstanding book, and exemplar of how to do a transnational study that captures the often globe-spanning histories of migrants out of Asia. . . . Hsu's imaginative use of both English and Chinese language sources is impressive. . . . Besides being a wonderful archival historian, Hsu also writes well, and she weaves a tapestry of the larger contexts of historical events in both China and the United States by threading in the poignant examples of individual lives." -- Journal of Asian American Studies"Well-argued" -- International Migration Review"A work of impressive scholarship—there is new and important information on almost every page of this book. It will be required reading for Asian Americanists, immigration historians, students of transnationalism and diaspora, and social historians of 20th-century China." -- Robert G. Lee * Brown University *"This well-researched book is an important addition to the literature on Chinese American history; and as a well-written social history with insights into the key links between Taishan and America, it enhances our understanding of the richness and complexities of Taishanese transnational experiences." -- The Journal of American History"Most previous studies have tended to set the spotlight on the Gold Mountain, and had very little data on the impact of overseas Chinese immigrants on their homeland. The present volume fills this research gap. It demonstrates how a transnational approach can print a balance sheet showing how the Taishanese measured the long periods of hardship they endured in the Gold Mountain against the opportunities to actualize their committments to their families in Taishan and to thd Taishan community. Unlike other studies of the Chinese in America, this volume tells a complete story." -- Ethnic and Racial Studies"Hsu, a third-generation Chinese American, has a facility in her ancestral language unusual for members of her generation, so that this work has the bilingual strengths usually associated with China-born scholars." -- Immigrants and Minorities"A superior achievement. It is clearly written, based on a wide variety of sources in two languages from two continents, and closely and acutely reasoned. One hopes to see more work from this most promising young scholar." -- Immigrants and Minorities"This imaginatively conceived and researched study illustrates the possibilities offered by a transnational approach to the study of migrant populations but also some of the fundamental problems it presents. The study draws skillfully upon contemporary reconceptualizations of migration that seek to overcome the limitations of nation-based approaches . . . .Hsu presents an informative and illuminating account of migration to North America from the Taishan county of Guangdong province on South China and its consequences for Taishan economy and society . . . .The author is successful throughout in bringing to light previously unknown material and adding valuable detail to earlier studies of Chinese migrant experience in China and the United States." -- Journal of American Ethnic History"This is a wonderful book. It is a work of the highest scholarly standards, impeccably researched, and is also readable, touching, and perceptive." -- The International History Review“Recipient of the 2002 Association of Asian American Studies’ book award, Hsu is able to call on her talents as both a Chinese and Asian American historian to weave a transnational analysis of the immigration history of Taishanese in both locations.”—Journal of Asian StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. California dreamin': migration and dependency; 3. Slipping through the Golden Gate: immigration under Chinese exclusion; 4. Fragmented families: surviving the Gold Mountain dream; 5. Magazines as marketplaces: a community in dispersion; 6. Heroic returns: the railroad empire of Chen Yixi, 1904-1939; 7. Conclusion: dismantling the Gold Mountain dream; Appendices; Select bibliography.
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Stanford University Press The Boundaries of the Republic
Book SynopsisIn this first comprehensive history of immigrant inequality in France, Mary D. Lewis chronicles the conflicts arising from mass immigration between the First and Second World Wars, the uneven rights arrangements that emerged during this time, and their legacy for contemporary France.Trade Review"Lewis has written a fine book about France's conflicted dealings with its own history of immigration, and has shown how and why the issue is so central to any understanding of that nation's history as a whole." -- American Historical Review"Lewis...has written a still richer, more complex work, [and] has caught the intricate interplay that influenced immigration (and refugee) experiences throughout the 1930s." -- Journal of Social History"The Boundaries of the Republic is a brilliant corrective to a standard view that contrasts Republican and assimilationist France with, say, Germany of the past century and its ethno-cultural regime of rights. The book demonstrates the complex fault lines and intricate administrative machinery on the basis of which French authorities went about deciding who was a temporary migrant and who was potentially an immigrant who could contribute to the national population." -- Ethnic and Racial Studies"Mary Dewhurst Lewis's Boundaries of the Republic is a book with many virtues. It will surely be seen as a major contribution to the history of French immigration and therefore to the making of modern France." -- Gregory Mann * Columbia University, French Politics, Culture and Society *"The greatest strength of Lewis's book is the way she tells the story of immigrants from a local and often individual perspective, challenging in the process not only the French republican myth of inclusivity, but also the traditional representation of the French state as 'Jacobin': it provides a valuable reminder that even the most centralized state cannot entirely control its population." -- Times Literary Supplement"This is a very sophisticated project. Rarely has the interplay between state and society, with vector lines running up and down, and with deflection coming in at all angles, been so deftly handled." -- Michael Miller * Journal of Social History *"This is a very good book. Mary Dewhurst Lewis... brings balance and outstanding scholarship to discussions of migrant rights which, although focusing on the interwar years in France, have a contemporary ring." -- Modern and Contemporary France"Lewis makes an impressive contribution to the study of both French immigration and the French state itself." -- Social History"The Boundaries of the Republic is a sophisticated analysis that makes a major contribution to the field of immigrant history, urban history, and the history of international human rights policy. This is an extremely important book." -- Vicki Caron"In this meticulously researched account, Mary Dewhurst Lewis documents the contingent nature of migrant rights in interwar Lyon and Marseille, the largest French cities outside of Paris....Lewis skillfully weaves these narratives together to demonstrate how a liberal republic like France reconciled its purported egalitarianism with restrictions on immigration and residency rights." -- Law and History Review"Lewis's book is a major contribution to the existing scholarship on French and European immigration, the history of the French Third Republic 'in the provinces,' and the history of the republican ideology of universal rights more generally. The book is deeply researched and highly innovative in its particular focus on migrant practices and interactions with the "state" and employers." -- Alice Conklin * The Ohio State University *"The Boundaries of the Republic is an extraordinary accomplishment. It is brilliantly conceived at a time when it is important to disseminate the highest quality histories of immigration." -- Leslie Page Moch * Michigan State University *Table of Contents[toc] @fmct: Contents @toc4: List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Sources and Acknowledgments @toc2: Introduction Chapter 1: Workers of the World Claim Rights: The Origins and Limitations of France's Guest-Worker Regime Chapter 2: From Labor Contract to Social Contract: The Impact of the Depression on Migrant Rights in Lyon Chapter 3: Working the "Marseille System": The Politics of Survival in the Port City Chapter 4: Privilege and Prejudice: The Invention of a New Immigration Regime in the Mid-1930s Chapter 5: Refuge or Refusal? The Vicissitudes of Refugee Rights between the Wars Chapter 6: Subjects, Not Citizens: North African Migrants and the Paradoxes of Republican Imperialism Chapter 7: The Insecurity State: Migrant Rights and the Threat of War Conclusion: Republican France, One and Divisible? Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Democracy in Immigrant America
Book SynopsisDemocracy in Immigrant America provides a comprehensive analysis of democratic participation among first- and second-generation immigrants in the United States, addressing the questions that are integral to understanding the present-day realities of immigrant politics: How are immigrants changing the racial and ethnic makeup of the American electorate? How do their numbers compare to those in the early 20th century? Do traditional models of political behavior explain the voting participation of immigrants, and should new factors related to immigrant adaptation be considered? By addressing these questions, Democracy in Immigrant America points the way forward for a new research agenda in immigrant politics.Trade Review"Democracy in Immigrant America presents a wealth of new insights into immigrant political incorporation, while persistently and profitably challenging existing models of political participation. Ramakrishnan's book should make an immediate impact in several disciplines and be of considerable interest to policy analysts, political consultants, interest group advocates, and party activists."—Taeku Lee, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley"No question is more challenging to the understanding of the future of American democracy than the impact of immigration on our political and social life. Karthick Ramakrishnan's book is an important and sophisticated analysis of the subject. He brings new data and new understanding. It will be of value to all who want to know what the future of American civic life will be." -- Professor Sidney Verba * Harvard University *"Ramakrishnan has written a thorough and well-researched book that provides important tests of the factors that influence immigrant political behavior. This is a timely and fascinating topic whose complexity is managed quite effectively by the author....This book is an interesting read that addresses the issue of immigrant participation from a comprehensive standpoint." -- Democracy & Society"Karthick Ramakrishnan unifies the scholarship on Latino and Asian American voting behavior with the scholarship on immigrant voting behavior to present a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of ethnic voting in the United States. All scholars of American voting behavior who seek to understand the nation's future electorates should have this volume on their shelves." -- Louis DeSipio, School of Social Sciences, University of California * Irvine *Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Democracy in Immigrant America List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Studying the Newcomers 3. A Matter of Numbers: Immigrant Demographics and the Electoral Process 4. Are the Newcomers Exceptional? The Applicability of Traditional Models to Immigrant Political Participation 5. From Newcomers to Settlers: Immigrant Adaptation and Political Participation 6. Were They Pushed? Political Threat, Institutional Mobilization, and Immigrant Voting 7. Beyond the Ballot Box: Nonvoting Political Behavior Across Immigrant Generations 8. The Future of Immigrant Political Participation: Directions in Policy and Research Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Reinventing the Republic
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration.Trade Review"Raissiguier makes a passionate and rigorous contribution to the contemporary debate on how traditionally universalist France treats and defines subjects who do not fall neatly within Republican categories. This is a compelling and timely study about who has the right or power to symbolize Frenchness. Raissiguier provides us with a careful and detailed history of grassroots movements, working at the intersection between ethnic, gender, and queer issues, and showing exactly how a Western democracy is forced to reevaluate its core values as it seeks to respond to significant changes in its social fabric." -- Mireille Rosello * University of Amsterdam *"What a smart, engaging book. By taking seriously the experiences, ideas and strategies of African women in France, Catherine Raissiguier makes visible the women activists inside the vibrant sans-papiers immigrant rights movement. She shows us why social movements cannot be understood without a feminist curiosity. In the process, she reveals the gendered racialized fissures in contemporary French political culture." -- Cynthia Enloe * author of The Curious Feminist *"[T]his book makes an important contribution to work on gender, migration, race, and nation in France and Europe. . . . It should be widely read by all those who are interested in French and European immigration policies as well as by those who want a better understanding of how discrimination works in the law and politics in the global North today." -- Susan Terrio * Journal of Women, Politics & Policy *"This book provides an insightful and much needed analysis of the sans papières—the women of the sans papiers movement. Raissiguier persuasively argues for the exclusionary nature of French republicanism by exposing the links between the struggles of the sans papières and those for parité and Pactes Civils de Solidarité; in the process, she shows how racism, homophobia, and sexism work together to create outsiders within." -- Miriam Ticktin * The New School *"[Reinventing the Republic makes] an important contribution to the study of the struggle for rights by migrant movements in Europe . . . Catherine Raissiguier takes a novel approach to the French debate by substituting the central concept of personhood for the normative considerations defined by elite national politics." -- Catherine Lloyd * SIGNS *"By adopting a feminist approach to her analysis, Raissiguier highlights the often overlooked role and contributions of the sans-papières in the movement, as well as the hurdles, such as gender bias, that they had to overcome. This rigourous study brings to the fore the precarious situations that many sans-papières face in France." -- Leslie Kealhopper * French Studies *
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Stanford University Press Uneasy Reunions
Book SynopsisThis book is about the migrations for family reunion that have taken place in post-1997 Hong Kong between mothers and children living in mainland China and their long-absent husbands and fathers, residents of Hong Kong.Trade Review"Uneasy Reunions achieves what all ethnography aspires to: rich and textured portraiture of a corner of the human experience that speaks to the largest issues and experiences of our times. . . . [It] strikes a perfect balance: careful ethnographic portraiture, well-chosen scaffolding of relevant area and theoretical literature, and pitch-perfect reference to other global instances of migration across political difference. We applaud Newendorp for this parsimonious, evocative, inspired, and analytically impeccable contribution to the ethnography of East Asia." -- Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Chair, 2009 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize Committee"[This book is] a testament to Newendorp's sensitivity and skill as an ethnographer and her facility with the Cantonese language . . . Newendorp excels in presenting complex ideas in clear ways. She takes on many sophisticated debates from what it means to be Chinese in different 'Chinese' locations to the complexities of power and mobility in a transnational milieu. Overall, the book makes a unique and refreshing contribution . . . This ethnography will have broad appeal to a wide variety of readers." -- Caren Freeman * Journal of International Migration & Integration *"This empathetic ethnography explores identity, migration, and difference through the prism of contemporary mainland Chinese women married to Hong Kong men who are seeking rights to live and form families in Hong Kong. Since Hong Kong formally returned to the People's Republic of China in 1997, many families who share culture and national citizenship nonetheless have remained separated by political history and divergent cultural formations. Images and expectations divide as well as unite women who want to migrate and the society that receives them, as the author shows through extensive fieldwork since 2000 with wives, children, social workers (an especially rich portrait), and other Hong Kongers." -- CHOICE"This study is a contribution to our understanding of the city's dynamic social and political life .... Newendorp provides remarkably nuanced details of the daily challenges, desires, and hopes of immigrant women." -- Helen Siu * Journal of Anthropological Research *"This book provides a compelling contribution to the topic of marital immigration from China and sheds light on the new challenges Hong Kong faces as a post-colonial society. By integrating issues central to the transnational world in which we live, Newendorp delivers an engaging and well-researched ethnography of citizenship." -- Sara Friedman * Indiana University, author of Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China *Table of Contents[table of contents] Contents Acknowledgments 1. Split-Families, Reunited Families, and Political Difference 2. The Moral and Legal Landscape of Reuniting Families in Hong Kong 3. Mainland Wives, Hong Kong Husbands 4. Immigrant Homespace 5. Adapting to Life in Hong Kong 6. Fashioning (Reunited) Family Life 7. Acting Responsibly 8. Uneasy Reunions Notes Works Cited Index
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Stanford University Press Imperial Citizens
Book SynopsisExamines how immigrants acquire American ideas about race, both pre- and post-migration, in light of U.S. military presence and U.S. cultural dominance over their home country, drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations of Koreans in Seoul and Los Angeles.Trade Review"In a compelling analysis of the varied ways that racial categories and racial meanings are formed in both South Korea and the United States, Nadia Kim expands ourunderstanding of how race 'travels.' She demonstrates the global, hegemonic reach of U.S. racial ideology and captures the ways Korean American immigrants position themselves in distinctive racial contexts. Attentive to class, gender, and generational differences, Kim shows us how Korean Americans come to learn, and to resist, dominant patterns of racialization." -- Michael Omi, University of California * Berkeley *"I cannot overstate the many contributions of this book and its elegant treatment of nuanced arguments at the cutting edge of debates in the study of race, immigration, and globalization . . . In sum, Imperial Citizens is a sophisticated yet accessible book and would be excellent material for undergraduate and graduate courses in studies of immigration, race and ethnicity, and globalization. It is fluidly written, meticulously researched, and convincingly argued." -- Miliann Kang * Journal of International Migration and Integration *"A masterful demonstration of the globalization of white racism! Nadia Kim's interviews with Korean immigrants and their children reveal integral links between U.S. global hegemony and immigration. This book depicts the human tragedy of Korean American hyper-conformity in a nation that perpetuates white supremacy: preference for white beauty leading to plastic surgery; women preferring white men who exoticize or abuse them; and Korean internalization of white-racist attitudes toward Americans of color." -- Joe R. Feagin * Texas A&M University *"In the process of analyzing Korean and American racial ideologies, Kim uses a well-developed theoretical framework. . . . Kim's research and analysis offers a fresh perspective within the field and provide a strong reminder of the power that keeps 'racial concepts' firmly tied to the structures of superiority justification." -- Jeong Duk * Asian Anthropology *"Nadia Kim writes cogently and compellingly about Korean and Korean American attitudes, beliefs, and concerns about race, gender, and much more. In providing a transnational and historical perspective, Imperial Citizens is a model of enlightened and engaged scholarship." -- John Lie, University of California * Berkeley *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations xxx Note on Terminology xxx Acknowledgments xxx 1 Introduction: Imperial Racialization 1 2 Ethnonationality, "Race," and Color--The Foundation 000 3 Racialization in South Korea 1: Koreans and White America 000 4 Racialization in South Korea 2: Koreans and White-Black America 000 5 Navigating the Racial Terrain of LA and the USA 000 6 Korean Americans Walk the Line of Color and Citizenship 000 7 Visibly Foreign (and Invisible) Subjects: Battling Prejudice and Racism 000 8 Second-Generation "Foreign Model Minorities": Battling Prejudice and Racism 000 9 Transnational Feedback: Racial Lessons from Korean America 000 10 Postlude 000 Appendix 000 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press The Migration Apparatus
Book SynopsisThe Migration Apparatus examines the daily practices of European Union migration policy officials as they attempt to harmonize legal channels for labor migrants while simultaneously cracking down on illegal migration.Trade Review"Gregory Feldman's The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor and Policymaking in the European Union not only provides an ethnography of the wider policies of the European migration apparatus that determine [irregular migration, borders, and migration policy], but also offers some inspiring Foucauldian interpretation about the securitization of migration . . . [The Migration Apparatus] also offers a grander global perspective on EU migration and security policy that offers a wider frame [than other] books."—Franck Düvell, Migration Studies"This is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, which ends on a passionate note as the author gives expression to his fears that the creeping moral indifference induced by the language and culture of the 'migration apparatus' will give rise to ever more brutality beyond our borders."—Frances Webber, Race and Class"The Migration Apparatus is an informative and innovative book. . . I recommend this book to students and scholars who are interested in migration, the European Union, apparatuses of security, networks, and non-local ethnography."—Malene H. Jacobsen, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography"If we are to work as anthropologists and ethnographers on the most pressing of social issues, we must attend to apparatuses; we must, following Foucault, attend to tools, tactics, and devices that appear mundane but actually carry great weight. Gregory Feldman's The Migration Apparatus challenges anthropologists to think in terms of non-local ethnographic encounters with the specific intellectuals of EU policy and security. This is an extraordinary book on tools, tactics, and devices filled with conceptual tools and devices, and tactics for ethnography in the present moment."—Mark Maguire, Irish Journal of Anthropology"The Migration Apparatus is a well-sourced, timely, and stimulating analysis, a significant contribution to the study of international migration and of how contemporary migration movements become governed in the EU. The author provides an innovative methodology, setting the course for a novel research agenda that does not attempt to reduce complexity but seeks instead to trace heterogeneous actors, narratives, and rationales which, while camouflaged in a language of freedom and rights, contain and create novel forms of control, social inequality, and violence. This engaging and thought-provoking read is a much-needed ethnographic contribution to the interrelated fields of international migration, policy-making, and security studies. It is relevant for scholars and policymakers alike and suggests multiple avenues for further research into the intricate world of migration governance."—Maurice Stierl, International Migration Review"Based on an innovative methodology in anthropology of public policy, this rich book makes an useful contribution to, and is critical to, the debate on migration policies in Europe."—Romain Felli, Le Temps [Translated from French]"This book has a most intriguing title—the migration apparatus—which promises not only an anthropological and ethnographic approach to analyzing European Union (EU) migration policy but also tantalizes Foucauldians interested in the use of the concept of 'apparatus' in such a field. The book delivers on both promises to excellent effect . . . [A] very interesting book, well researched and well constructed."—Elspeth Guild, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Feldman provides a distinctive, thought-provoking look at the interacting welter of agencies, companies, and institutions central to shaping EU immigration policies. This is a signal contribution to the literature on immigration, mobility, citizenship, and new non-state nexuses of control—as well as to innovations in anthropological methodology. A fascinating book."—Donald Brenneis, University of Calfornia, Santa Cruz"This book deals with some truly imperative, topical issues—from refugees and migrants, to cross-border policing, to the curious processes by which an integrated EU immigration policy has evolved. Feldman provides a new method for studying highly mediated connections and opens up an important space for thinking about contemporary migration policy."—Cris Shore, University of Auckland"The Migration Apparatus will make major, cutting-edge contributions to several fields. Both the specific arguments-for example, about how the concept of circular migration is easing tensions-and the general arguments-about how EU policy is made and works-are fresh and exciting. An important book about an important topic."—Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University"Recommended."—D. B. Robertson, CHOICE
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Stanford University Press Diasporic Homecomings
Book SynopsisDiasporic Homecomings provides a comparative, analytical overview of the major ethnic return migrant groups in Europe and East Asia through an in-depth, ethnographic account of their experiences.Trade Review"This volume offers a nuanced approach to ethnicity and culture, showing that the mutual ethnic affinity causing diasporic descendants to return-migrate is primarily based on essentialised assumptions of shared ethnicity that are quickly challenged as both migrants and hosts discover a multitude of cultural differences between them. The relevance of this volume exceeds the limits of migration studies and offers fresh perspectives for ethnic studies and identity theory as it addresses the close relationship between the social construction of ethnic identities and shifting class positions embedded in social context."—Heidi Dahles, Journal of Intercultural Studies"The editor's introduction and conclusion provide a succinct overview and analysis of some primary concerns, the ambivalent nature of diasporic homecomings, ethnic consequences for return migrants and their hosts, and the impact of government policies on immigration, citizenship, and the changing meanings of home and homeland. This well-integrated volume makes an important contribution to migration and diasporic studies . . . Highly recommended."—D. A. Chekki, Choice"Takeyuki Tsuda and his collaborators have successfully opened up a new field of inquiry with this ethnographically rich, comparative work. They have focused our attention on the return migration of those who trace their ethnic origins to countries in Europe, Asia, and Israel. There is nothing like this book currently available. It will become an instant classic in migration and diaspora studies."—Leo R. Chavez, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation"[T]his is a book worth reading or using in classroom . . ."—John Liu, American Journal of Sociology"This volume is a sweeping portrayal of one of the most intriguing population movements in the world today-migration across international borders driven by both economic need and ethnic affinity. The scholarship, by an international assemblage of top experts, is meticulous and rich in both empirical data and theoretical insights."—Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California-San Diego
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Stanford University Press Moving Matters
Book SynopsisTells the stories of people who have lived in several countries in order to reveal how mobility shapes subjectivity, social life, and politics.Trade Review"Susan Ossman's most recently published book entitled Moving Matters: Paths of Serial Migration offers its readers a welcomed change as she presents her analysis in an original manner that makes this book a joy to read. At the same time, by maneuvering skillfully between her ethnographic data and her thought-provoking analysis of it, she succeeds to add new insights concerning the topic she set out to study . . . Besides offering nuanced insights for scholars dealing with topics such as migration, mobility, borders, and home, Ossman's book will also be highly useful for students in the field of anthropology and ethnology. The latter recommendation for readers is grounded in my argument that this book can be seen to provide one of the finest examples for how one may go about analyzing data that have been collected by means of ethnographic field work, and how to present it in the form of a written ethnography."—Laura Hirvi, Nordic Journal of Migration Research"[A]n extended essay that tries to weave together her own experiences moving among countries, her interviews with other serial migrants, and her engagement with a theoretical literature, mostly on migration and identity. . . . Recommended."—D. W. Haines, Choice"This deeply personal and subtle work both critiques and transcends the key concepts of writing about identity in recent decades. It instead invests itself in the experience of serial migration as the focus for working through the unresolvable binds of existence that permanent resettlement in a foreign society engenders. The precision and originality of Ossman's exploration owe much to the richness of her fieldwork and research on individuals, including herself, who move from one, to another, and then another society in their lifetimes."—George Marcus, University of California, Irvine
£81.90
Stanford University Press Moving Matters
Book SynopsisTells the stories of people who have lived in several countries in order to reveal how mobility shapes subjectivity, social life, and politics.Trade Review"Susan Ossman's most recently published book entitled Moving Matters: Paths of Serial Migration offers its readers a welcomed change as she presents her analysis in an original manner that makes this book a joy to read. At the same time, by maneuvering skillfully between her ethnographic data and her thought-provoking analysis of it, she succeeds to add new insights concerning the topic she set out to study . . . Besides offering nuanced insights for scholars dealing with topics such as migration, mobility, borders, and home, Ossman's book will also be highly useful for students in the field of anthropology and ethnology. The latter recommendation for readers is grounded in my argument that this book can be seen to provide one of the finest examples for how one may go about analyzing data that have been collected by means of ethnographic field work, and how to present it in the form of a written ethnography."—Laura Hirvi, Nordic Journal of Migration Research"[A]n extended essay that tries to weave together her own experiences moving among countries, her interviews with other serial migrants, and her engagement with a theoretical literature, mostly on migration and identity. . . . Recommended."—D. W. Haines, Choice"This deeply personal and subtle work both critiques and transcends the key concepts of writing about identity in recent decades. It instead invests itself in the experience of serial migration as the focus for working through the unresolvable binds of existence that permanent resettlement in a foreign society engenders. The precision and originality of Ossman's exploration owe much to the richness of her fieldwork and research on individuals, including herself, who move from one, to another, and then another society in their lifetimes."—George Marcus, University of California, Irvine
£20.89
Stanford University Press New Destination Dreaming
Book SynopsisNew Destination Dreaming examines how the rural South, as a "new destination" far from the traditional American immigrant urban gateways, affects Hispanic newcomers' patterns of economic, sociocultural, and political incorporation.Trade Review"With New Destination Dreaming, Helen B. Marrow has established herself as one of the most insightful and original scholars on the dispersion of the immigrant Latino population. By taking economic context, class configurations, and race relations seriously, Marrow shows how newcomers encounter both promise and peril in the Deep South." -- Rubén Hernández-León, University of California * Los Angeles *"New Destination Dreaming is an important study. Marrow's brilliant analysis of the incorporation of Hispanic immigrants into the rural and small-town South is replete with original insights. Guided by a sophisticated theoretical framework, Marrow uses an imaginative research design (based on ethnographic field work, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation) to ask questions that have not been raised before. In the process she collects rich comparative data that are rigorously and creatively examined. This book is a must-read, especially for students of immigration, and race and ethnic relations." -- William Julius Wilson"Immigration has come to small town America, and in New Destination Dreaming Helen Marrow offers a penetrating look at how Latino immigrants are faring in two rural southern counties. Drawing on rich observations and detailed interviews, she chronicles the efforts of hard-working migrants of humble origins and tenuous legal status to survive and even prosper in a foreign land while negotiating the complex and often conflicting currents of race, class, and citizenship. The book focuses a clarifying lens on the challenges of assimilation in places that have little experience of diversity beyond the black-white color line and no real history of immigration. It shines new light on old issues and will be of interest to all serious students of immigration." -- Douglas S. Massey". . .[New Destination Dreaming] provides much food for thought . . ." -- Gregory Weeks * American Journal of Sociology *
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Stanford University Press The Headscarf Debates
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Korteweg and Yurdakul's The Headscarf Debates is a truly exciting and valuable addition to the scholarly production on Muslim women's veiling in Turkey and contemporary Europe (specifically France, the Netherlands, and Germany) . . . [T]his is a very fine contribution to the headscarf debate in Europe, adding much to the current scholarship at the level of approach, methodology, and coverage."—Sahar Amer, Sociology of Religion"The authors provide a well-structured, in-depth comparative analysis based on detailed case study material, painstakingly well informed by a vast array of data, which makes a compelling read . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the controversies around Islam and national identity and is a very valuable research resource."—June Edmunds, Ethnic and Racial Studies"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, is a detailed and thoughtful work of comparative cultural sociology."—Andrew J. Perrin, Scatterplot"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging is an excellent comparative addition to the literature on Muslim immigrants and their children's inclusion and exclusion in debates about national identity in Europe. Korteweg and Yurdakul's strength lies in analyzing the specific history and socio-politics of each country—France, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany—in framing the headscarf . . . Overall, the book is an impressive and highly useful work for understanding how four nations have reached their current, contested rules about Muslim women's dress and what this says about their uneasy and unfinished attempts to re-imagine the national self."—Caitlin Killian, Reviews and Critical Commentary"Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul turn the debates over Islamic headscarves to new use. At a time when the presence of new visible minorities forces citizens to articulate what unites 'us,' their analysis provides new understandings of the issues at stake."—John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, author of A New Anthropology of Islam"Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul transcend the usual discourse on Muslim women's headscarves and develop instead a debate best understood from the situated gazes of various participants—a debate in which Muslim women or women of Muslim origins need to be seen as equal participant subjects and not just objects of the discussions."—Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, is a detailed and thoughtful work of comparative cultural sociology. It focuses on four debates in Europe about the wearing of headscarves (in all four cases, actually niqabs, misrepresented as burkas, as the book nicely explains). Using extensive analysis of media and legal discourse, it shows similarities but, more interestingly, differences among the debates in France, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany. These differences highlight persistent cultural differences in the relationship between state, citizens, and religion: differences the book describes as 'conflicts of national belonging.'"—Andrew Perrin, Scatterplot
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Stanford University Press The Headscarf Debates
Book SynopsisExplores how the headscarf has become a political symbol used to reaffirm or transform national stories of belonging. Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul juxtapose current cultural and political debates and interviews with social activists in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey to chart how the headscarf can reaffirm old or produce new national identities.Trade Review"Korteweg and Yurdakul's The Headscarf Debates is a truly exciting and valuable addition to the scholarly production on Muslim women's veiling in Turkey and contemporary Europe (specifically France, the Netherlands, and Germany) . . . [T]his is a very fine contribution to the headscarf debate in Europe, adding much to the current scholarship at the level of approach, methodology, and coverage."—Sahar Amer, Sociology of Religion"The authors provide a well-structured, in-depth comparative analysis based on detailed case study material, painstakingly well informed by a vast array of data, which makes a compelling read . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the controversies around Islam and national identity and is a very valuable research resource."—June Edmunds, Ethnic and Racial Studies"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, is a detailed and thoughtful work of comparative cultural sociology."—Andrew J. Perrin, Scatterplot"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging is an excellent comparative addition to the literature on Muslim immigrants and their children's inclusion and exclusion in debates about national identity in Europe. Korteweg and Yurdakul's strength lies in analyzing the specific history and socio-politics of each country—France, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany—in framing the headscarf . . . Overall, the book is an impressive and highly useful work for understanding how four nations have reached their current, contested rules about Muslim women's dress and what this says about their uneasy and unfinished attempts to re-imagine the national self."—Caitlin Killian, Reviews and Critical Commentary"Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul turn the debates over Islamic headscarves to new use. At a time when the presence of new visible minorities forces citizens to articulate what unites 'us,' their analysis provides new understandings of the issues at stake."—John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, author of A New Anthropology of Islam"Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul transcend the usual discourse on Muslim women's headscarves and develop instead a debate best understood from the situated gazes of various participants—a debate in which Muslim women or women of Muslim origins need to be seen as equal participant subjects and not just objects of the discussions."—Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, is a detailed and thoughtful work of comparative cultural sociology. It focuses on four debates in Europe about the wearing of headscarves (in all four cases, actually niqabs, misrepresented as burkas, as the book nicely explains). Using extensive analysis of media and legal discourse, it shows similarities but, more interestingly, differences among the debates in France, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany. These differences highlight persistent cultural differences in the relationship between state, citizens, and religion: differences the book describes as 'conflicts of national belonging.'"—Andrew Perrin, Scatterplot
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Stanford University Press Insufficient Funds
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.Trade Review"In this brilliant landmark study, Hung Thai takes us into the world of Vietnamese immigrants, their lives in the United States and their visits back home where some are greeted as heroic patrons, others as ostentatious spenders, and still others as envious observers of their poor kin who now enjoy luxuries they themselves can ill afford. Through its many, rich close-up portraits, and big-picture lens, this book shifts the way we see migration, family and social class. A must read." -- Arlie Hochschild * University of California, Berkeley, co-editor (with Barbara Ehrenreich) of Global Woman, author of The Outsourced Self *"This book by sociologist Thai is a rare combination of 98 personal interviews with low-wage Vietnamese-Americans and their poor relatives in Vietnam. The writing is elegant and blends fascinating block quotations with pithy sentences that summarize main points . . . Social scientists, especially economists, will value the book's insights on monetary circulation and low-wage labor . . . Highly recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *"Written by a sociologist doing long-term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Insufficient Funds is a fascinating account of the ways in which money is given, received, and spent in transnational Vietnamese families . . . The book compellingly analyses the ways in which transnational family relationships are shaped by the flow of money from the United States to Vietnam." -- Minh T.N. Nguyen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Thai convincingly shows that migrant money may be less about maintaining family relations than about performing the American Dream . . . Insufficient Funds will appeal to scholars in sociology, anthropology, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. It can be used in teaching as the frank testimonies are accompanied by a comprehensive discussion of scholarship on money, migration, and consumption." -- Allison Truitt * Journal of Anthropological Research *"In Insufficient Funds Hung Cam Thai presents a mesmerizing narrative of money and migration among low-wage Vietnamese transnational families in the United States and their non-migrant relatives in Vietnam . . . Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in both Vietnam and the United States, Thai is able to dig into the fabric of cultural expectations, self-worth, and emotional economies embedding these monetary exchanges . . . I find this an extraordinary book advancing a well-grounded theoretical argument with ample empirical evidence presented in an easy-to-follow manner that will attract not only academics, but also those interested in knowing migrants' life stories." -- Hasan Mahmud * European Journal of Development Research *"Insufficient Funds is a major contribution to our understanding of the culture of remittances and transnational families in the world today. With rich narratives and deft analyses, it sheds light on the complex meanings and dynamics of money, obligations, status, and worth in transnational families." -- Nazli Kibria * Boston University *Table of Contents1. Six Tales of Migrant Money 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade 3. Money as a Currency of Care 4. The Migrant Provider Role 5. The American Dream in Vietnam 6. Compensatory Consumption 7. Emulative Consumption 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption 10. Tall Promises Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
£81.90
Stanford University Press Insufficient Funds
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.Trade Review"In this brilliant landmark study, Hung Thai takes us into the world of Vietnamese immigrants, their lives in the United States and their visits back home where some are greeted as heroic patrons, others as ostentatious spenders, and still others as envious observers of their poor kin who now enjoy luxuries they themselves can ill afford. Through its many, rich close-up portraits, and big-picture lens, this book shifts the way we see migration, family and social class. A must read." -- Arlie Hochschild * University of California, Berkeley, co-editor (with Barbara Ehrenreich) of Global Woman, author of The Outsourced Self *"This book by sociologist Thai is a rare combination of 98 personal interviews with low-wage Vietnamese-Americans and their poor relatives in Vietnam. The writing is elegant and blends fascinating block quotations with pithy sentences that summarize main points . . . Social scientists, especially economists, will value the book's insights on monetary circulation and low-wage labor . . . Highly recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *"Written by a sociologist doing long-term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Insufficient Funds is a fascinating account of the ways in which money is given, received, and spent in transnational Vietnamese families . . . The book compellingly analyses the ways in which transnational family relationships are shaped by the flow of money from the United States to Vietnam." -- Minh T.N. Nguyen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Thai convincingly shows that migrant money may be less about maintaining family relations than about performing the American Dream . . . Insufficient Funds will appeal to scholars in sociology, anthropology, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. It can be used in teaching as the frank testimonies are accompanied by a comprehensive discussion of scholarship on money, migration, and consumption." -- Allison Truitt * Journal of Anthropological Research *"In Insufficient Funds Hung Cam Thai presents a mesmerizing narrative of money and migration among low-wage Vietnamese transnational families in the United States and their non-migrant relatives in Vietnam . . . Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in both Vietnam and the United States, Thai is able to dig into the fabric of cultural expectations, self-worth, and emotional economies embedding these monetary exchanges . . . I find this an extraordinary book advancing a well-grounded theoretical argument with ample empirical evidence presented in an easy-to-follow manner that will attract not only academics, but also those interested in knowing migrants' life stories." -- Hasan Mahmud * European Journal of Development Research *"Insufficient Funds is a major contribution to our understanding of the culture of remittances and transnational families in the world today. With rich narratives and deft analyses, it sheds light on the complex meanings and dynamics of money, obligations, status, and worth in transnational families." -- Nazli Kibria * Boston University *Table of Contents1. Six Tales of Migrant Money 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade 3. Money as a Currency of Care 4. The Migrant Provider Role 5. The American Dream in Vietnam 6. Compensatory Consumption 7. Emulative Consumption 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption 10. Tall Promises Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
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Stanford University Press Life Behind the Lobby
Book SynopsisThis book examines how Indian American motel owners have created a successful immigrant business niche, yet still suffer significant social and cultural inequalities.Trade Review"For many motel owners, Dhingra says, it's more than a job. 'They talk about it in the same way as if they'd built their own car—in a really sincere and emotional way,' he said, adding that when he'd walk through a motel with the owners, they would often brag about how they'd done remodeling, new wiring or put in new carpeting. 'It's not just a business to them; it's a way of life. They may not make a lot of money, but most are able to send their kids to college, provide a living and it's also seen as a property investment.'" -- Matthew Hilburn * Voice of America *"Life Behind the Lobby assesses a central debate about U.S. migration: should the achievements of self-employed migrants be regarded as evidence of the openness, tolerance, and meritocracy of an increasingly neoliberal American society, or should their sacrifices, confrontations with racism, and feelings of social marginalization be taken as proof of the enduring place of discrimination, inequality, and white privilege? Pawan Dhingra's sophisticated and highly original analysis does much to advance our understanding of international migration, ethnic entrepreneurship, and migrants' ability to work collectively to cope with, if not fully overcome, the circumstances they face." -- Steven J. Gold * Michigan State University, author of The Store in the Hood: A Century of Business and Conflict (2010) *"This book is necessary reading for any race, ethnicity, or immigration scholar as it provides a critical and necessary contribution to the literature—one that further reveals the subethnic, socioeconomic, and gender diversity within the ethnic category of Asian Indian Americans, and more broadly, within the racial category of Asian America." -- Monica M. Trieu * American Journal of Sociology *"A strength of this book is its focus on the Indian state of Gujarat, the home of the Patels, because most research on immigrants ignores regional differences. . . Recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *Read interviews with the author at: NPR's All Things Considered Wall Street Journal's India Real Time blog Voice of America Colorlines Chronicle of Higher Education Hyphen Magazine The Times of India"Pawan Dhingra has written a pioneering book on the world of American motels and hotels. Close attention to the stories told by the people who work in the trade allows Dhingra to go behind the stereotypes, and give us a tale of human beings struggling to make livings and lives. This is a people's sociology of hotel work." -- Vijay Prashad * Trinity College *"Dhingra conducted more than 100 interviews with motel owners, observing their families at work, over a period of several years to research in detail the grand story of entrepreneurship, the American dream and exceptionalism. The question he poses: Are the achievements of motel owners' proof of acceptance and openness of an American society or are their battles with race or culture evidence that discrimination and inequity continue to exist?" -- Nitish Rele * Khaas Baat *"In Life Behind the Lobby, Dhingra, who was born in India but grew up in the US, tells how Indian Americans came to dominate the motel business. . . Dhingra's empathy for the motel owners he has interviewed is obvious in the easy way he begins to speak in their words, whether quoting directly or simply imagining himself in their shoes. . . Dhingra's expertise in connection with Indian American motel owners will serve him well as he curates a traveling exhibit on Indian American heritage for the Smithsonian Institution." -- Greg Varner * Colorlines.com *"Nearly half of the motels in the U.S. are owned by Indian Americans . . . Pawan Dhingra set out to examine why such an ubiquitous and distinctly American roadside fixture became so popular among this community, focusing on a surge of Gujarati motel keepers who contributed to the 'Patel motel' phenomenon . . . From participating in community volleyball games to attending local Diwali festivals, Mr. Dhingra dove headfirst into a world he described as being 'uniformly generous.' In tracing the daily lives of Indian American moteliers, Mr. Dhingra discovered a world brimming with long hours, low wages and an intense dependence on the family network." -- Aarti Virani * The Wall Street Journal *
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