Migration, immigration and emigration Books

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisFew realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S. citizenship and have thus far been lost to history, though they have much to teach us about the increasingly international world of today. John H. Flores follows this revolutionary generation of Mexican immigrants and the transnational movements they created in the United States. Through a careful, detailed study of Chicagoland, the area in and around Chicago, Flores examines how competing immigrant organizations raised funds, joined labor unions and churches, engaged the Spanish-language media, and appealed in their own ways to the dignity and unity of other Mexicans. Painting portraits of liberals and radicals, who drew support from the Mexican government, and conservatives, who found a homegrown American ally in the Roman CathTrade Review"The Mexican Revolution in Chicago offers a unique transnational perspective on Mexican Chicago that will inspire more comparative research on other U.S. Mexican communities with diverse political traditions." --Journal of American History"A timely contribution to Chicanx history." --Reviews in American History"Flores uncovers a rich history of transnational social activism among Chicagoland’s Mexican immigrant revolutionary generation. His in-depth study provides a nuanced interpretation of the political activities of Mexican immigrants who resided neither solely in Mexico nor the United States, a subject often elided by researchers." --Pacific Historical Review"Recommended." --Choice"Flores's work is arguably the first comprehensive historical examination of the middle-class Mexican community of Chicago through the early Cold War. . . .A well-balanced picture of the outsized importance of the Mexican Revolution on immigrant life and politics far beyond the homeland, as well as the eventual decline of revolutionary-era life and politics in Mexican Chicago and Northwest Indiana." --American Historical Revie"Flores reminds us of the political heterogeneity of immigrants by exploring the Mexican Revolution's influence on the political development of Chicago's Mexican community in the 1920s and 1930s. Digging into original and relatively unmined Spanish-language sources in the city, he offers an account of both 'liberals' and 'traditionalists' and how their worldviews differed so dramatically. He also tells the tragic story of beloved leftist labor activist, Refugio Roman Martinez, whose untimely deportation symbolizes the legacy of the Cold War's Red Scare for Mexican Americans."--Lilia Fernandez, author of Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago"Flores's book is a remarkable contribution to a growing literature on Mexican migrant politics." --H-Net Reviews"The Mexican Revolution in Chicago is an integral part of a new canon of important historical literature on Mexican immigrant workers in U.S. history. " --Monthly Review "Well-researched and argued. Flores is the historian who has done the best work on how Mexico, as an 'imagined community,' bonded immigrants as 'Mexicans' and, at the same time, how the politics of Mexico divided them as a community. He does an excellent job in examining the role of political leadership and the political culture of Mexican Chicago."--Juan Mora-Torres, author of The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848–1910 "Flores does a masterful job of weaving the Chicago Mexican community experience within the realm of both United States and Mexican history during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as linking it to the early days of the broader Chicano Movement." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisExplores the West Indian experience in Paris and LondonTrade Review"In these expansive, fresh, adroit interpretations of Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Zadie Smith-White, and Andrea Levy, the author exposes the stark reality that race, and the prejudices attached to it, is a barrier to unequivocal assimilation. This study affirms that a diasporic duality persists as creolization slowly alters the metropole. Overall, an interesting read. " —Choice"Creolizing the Metropole is a significant contribution to scholarship." —New West Indian Guide"[This] book provides an extremely valuable contribution to the fields of postcolonial studies and European literary and film studies in at least three ways: it theoretically refines the conceptof creolization, it contributes to much-needed redefinitions of France and the United Kingdom as multicultural, and it foregrounds the aesthetic qualities of the works under study." —Research in African Literatures"An outstanding contribution to scholarship. Theoretically grounded and meticulously researched, it examines the complexities inherent in constructing new diaspora identities that are at once ethnic, national, and fluid." —Renée Larrier, Rutgers University"[T]he depth of analysis and rich detail provided through literary illustrations make this book a worthwhile read. It is highly recommended for advanced students and scholars studying Caribbean migrations and associated concerns of identity, citizenship and nationhood." —Social & Cultural GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Caribbean Diaspora and the Metropoles1. Caribbean Diasporic Identity: Between Home and Away2. Beyond a Boundary: Constructing Anglo-Caribbean and Franco-Antillean Identity3. Migration Pluralizes the Metropole: How a Small Island Revealed its White Teeth4. Creolizing the Hexagon: Periphery and Place in Desirada and Exile According to Julia5. Playing at Integration: Confrontation and Conflict in the Metropolitan SuburbsConclusion: (Re)Colonizing the MetropoleNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores racial barriers in modern globalized societiesTrade ReviewModernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora . . . is a fascinating look at the way racism and social exclusion are still at work in our modern societiesStudents and lecturers/professors will certainly find this book useful as a marker of social attitudes in developed western cities, that presents a desperate contradiction of official Government policy and public proclamation. * readthinkwriteteach.com *Highly recommended. * Choice *White should be applauded for her extensive fieldwork in Europe and North America, where she interviewed hundreds of individuals, mostly new immigrants and asylum seekers, whose accounts made up most of the book's primary research. . . . Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora continues an important conversation on the importance of race and its intersection with modernity in the modern world. * International Social Science Review *What this study accomplishes, and quite successfully, is constructing an important expansion of modernity to make room for the complications of white racism impacting African diasporic communities. * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin 1. Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society 2. Status, Numbers, and the "Retro" Revealed 3. Media Representation and Black Presence 4. Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life 5. A Community in the MakingPart 2. The Glitches of Modernity 6. Dublin: The Olukunle Elukanlo Case 7. New Orleans: Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity 8. Paris: The Liberating Quality of Race 9. Conclusion: Toward a Modern FutureNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisConsiders how to rethink diasporas and the geographies of differenceTrade Review"Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of 'diaspora' to address the cross-border movements of people in past and present... [and] in mapping diaspora as a process, invites future discussions and interrogations on the subject." -Rhacel Parrenas, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Routing Diasporas / Sukanya BanerjeePart 1. Interrogating Terms 1. The Middle Passages of Black Migration / Jenny Sharpe 2. Making the Exodus from Algeria "European": Family and Race in 1962 France / Todd Shepard 3. Enslaved Lives, Enslaving Labels: A New Approach to the Colonial Indian Labor Diaspora / Crispin Bates and Marina CarterPart 2. Maps of Intimacy 4. Empire, Anglo-India, and the Alimentary Canal / Parama Roy 5. Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms: Civil Rights, Immigration, and Conjugal Military Policy / Rachel Ida BuffPart 3. Nation, Narrative, Diaspora 6. Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora / Lok Siu 7. Building Associations: Nineteenth-Century Monumental Architecture and the Jew in the American Imagination / Martin A. Berger 8. Cultural Forms and World Systems: The Ethnic Epic in the New Diaspora / Betty JosephAfterword: Diaspora and the Language of Neoliberalism / Aims McGuinness and Steven C. McKayList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAffords a penetrating look at the unexpected results of the expansion of African business opportunities following the demise of apartheidTrade Review[This] book addresses economic, geographic, political, and historical issues and would make an excellent tool for teaching about contemporary Africa and the social impact of neoliberal reform policies. * Journal of African History *The story of post-apartheid South Africa's northward expansion warrants further scholarly attention, and this eminently readable book provides an important national case study on which others will build. * Journal of Modern African Studies *This is a skilfully interdisciplinary book. Schroeder burrows deep into political economy, but is equally comfortable interpreting symbolism, such as the masculinist imagery and 'neocolonial chic' . . . of South African investment advertisements. Throughout the book we see keen ethnographic attention to affect, especially the confusion, resentment, and bitterness felt by Tanzanians as the waters of racial inequity rise. * African Affairs *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction1. Frontline Memories2. Invasion3. Fault Lines4. Tanzanite for Tanzanians5. Bye, the Beloved Country6. White SpotsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAffords a penetrating look at the unexpected results of the expansion of African business opportunities following the demise of apartheidTrade Review[This] book addresses economic, geographic, political, and historical issues and would make an excellent tool for teaching about contemporary Africa and the social impact of neoliberal reform policies. * Journal of African History *The story of post-apartheid South Africa's northward expansion warrants further scholarly attention, and this eminently readable book provides an important national case study on which others will build. * Journal of Modern African Studies *This is a skilfully interdisciplinary book. Schroeder burrows deep into political economy, but is equally comfortable interpreting symbolism, such as the masculinist imagery and 'neocolonial chic' . . . of South African investment advertisements. Throughout the book we see keen ethnographic attention to affect, especially the confusion, resentment, and bitterness felt by Tanzanians as the waters of racial inequity rise. * African Affairs *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction1. Frontline Memories2. Invasion3. Fault Lines4. Tanzanite for Tanzanians5. Bye, the Beloved Country6. White SpotsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDescribes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple identities, which alter with time and changing circumstancesTrade Review"A significant contribution to studies of migration in Europe, ethnic/racial studies, studies of transnationalism, political studies of citizenship and belonging, as well as to the fields of sociology and anthropology." -Rebecca King-O'Riain, National University of IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Orientations 1. Many Multiplicities: Identity in an Age of Movement \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara 2. Ethnic Identities and Transnational Subjectivities \ Anna Rastas, University of TamperePart 2. The Complexities of Identities 3. Between Difference and Assimilation: Young Women with South and Southeast Asian Family Background Living in Finland \ Saara Pellander, University of Helsinki 4. Doing Belonging: Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds in Sweden \ Serine Gunnarsson, Uppsala University 5. To Be or Not to Be a Minority Group? Identity Dilemmas of Kashubians and Polish Tatars \ Katarzyna Warmińska, Cracow University of Economics 6. "When You Look Chinese, You Have to Speak Chinese": Highly Skilled Chinese Migrants in Switzerland and the Promotion of a Shared Language \ Marylène Lieber and Florence Lévy, Neuchatel UniversityPart 3. Family Matters 7. Intercountry Adoption: Color-b(l)inding the Issues \ Saija Westerlund-Cook 8. The Children of Immigrants in Italy: A New Generation of Italians? \ Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini, University of Milan 9. Possible Love: New Cross-cultural Couples in Italy \ Gaia Peruzzi, Sapienza University of RomePart 4. Modes of Multicultural Success? 10. Divided Identities: Listening to and Interpreting the Stories of Polish Immigrants in West Germany \ Mira Foster, University of California, Santa Barbara 11. The Politics of Multiple Identities in Kazakhstan: Current Issues and New Challenges \ Karina Mukazhanova, Karaganda State University and University of Oregon 12. Chinese Americans, Turkish Germans: Parallels in Two Racial Systems \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa BarbaraBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDescribes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple identities, which alter with time and changing circumstancesTrade Review"A significant contribution to studies of migration in Europe, ethnic/racial studies, studies of transnationalism, political studies of citizenship and belonging, as well as to the fields of sociology and anthropology." -Rebecca King-O'Riain, National University of IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Orientations 1. Many Multiplicities: Identity in an Age of Movement \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara 2. Ethnic Identities and Transnational Subjectivities \ Anna Rastas, University of TamperePart 2. The Complexities of Identities 3. Between Difference and Assimilation: Young Women with South and Southeast Asian Family Background Living in Finland \ Saara Pellander, University of Helsinki 4. Doing Belonging: Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds in Sweden \ Serine Gunnarsson, Uppsala University 5. To Be or Not to Be a Minority Group? Identity Dilemmas of Kashubians and Polish Tatars \ Katarzyna Warmińska, Cracow University of Economics 6. "When You Look Chinese, You Have to Speak Chinese": Highly Skilled Chinese Migrants in Switzerland and the Promotion of a Shared Language \ Marylène Lieber and Florence Lévy, Neuchatel UniversityPart 3. Family Matters 7. Intercountry Adoption: Color-b(l)inding the Issues \ Saija Westerlund-Cook 8. The Children of Immigrants in Italy: A New Generation of Italians? \ Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini, University of Milan 9. Possible Love: New Cross-cultural Couples in Italy \ Gaia Peruzzi, Sapienza University of RomePart 4. Modes of Multicultural Success? 10. Divided Identities: Listening to and Interpreting the Stories of Polish Immigrants in West Germany \ Mira Foster, University of California, Santa Barbara 11. The Politics of Multiple Identities in Kazakhstan: Current Issues and New Challenges \ Karina Mukazhanova, Karaganda State University and University of Oregon 12. Chinese Americans, Turkish Germans: Parallels in Two Racial Systems \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa BarbaraBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFollowing Moldovan women who commute for six to twelve months at a time to work as domestics in Istanbul, Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe explores the world of undocumented migrants from a postsocialist state. Leyla J. Keough examines the gendered moral economies that shape the perspectives of the migrants, their employers in Turkey, their communities in Moldova, and the International Organization for Migration. She finds that their socialist past continues to color how the women view their labor and their roles within their families, even as they are affected by the same shifts in the global economy that drive migration elsewhere. Keough puts scholarship on gender and migration into dialogue with postsocialist studies and offers a critical assessment of international anti-trafficking efforts.Trade Review"Anyone interested in the phenomenon of migration, particularly the gender dynamics of international migration and the politics of 'trafficking' in an era of globalization, will find this book an invaluable contribution... This is ethnography at its best." -Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The "Returns" of Mobile Mothers2. Uplift in Gagauz Yeri3. Desiring a New Domestic4. Working in Istanbul5. Managing MigrationConclusion: Driven Women

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMigration and Mobility in the Modern Age is a much welcomed and topical publication, as it eloquently examines the numerous forms of movement from and across Central, Eastern Europe and Russia from a historical perspective and within a transregional framework. The interdisciplinary and transnational character of the volume departs from single country studies and offers an invitation to discuss the region comparatively and bring mobility in dialogue with similar phenomena elsewhere. In this sense, as well as many others, it succeeds admirably. * Comparative Literature Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Anika Walke Part I: Ways of Moving 1. Paris—St. Petersburg: Shrinking Spaces in the Nineteenth Century / Jan Musekamp 2. "A main station at one's front door": Bicycles, Automobiles, and Early Adapters' Dreams of Personal Mobility in Poland, 1885-1939 / Nathan Wood3. Walking with a Tolstoyan Dancer: Physical and Psychic Mobility in Vaslav Nijinsky's Diary / Nicole Svobodny4. Russian Resorts and European Leisure: Railroad Vacations, "Native" Sites, and the Making of a Russian (Post)Colonial Identity in Manchuria, 1920s-1930s / Chia Yin HsuPart II: People in Motion 5. Dynamic Bohemians: The Russian Artistic Circle in Paris (Russkii Artisticheskii Kruzhok v Parizhe) / Anna Winestein6. Sex at the Border: Trafficking as a Migration Problem in Partitioned Poland / Keely Stauter-Halsted7. Evacuation as Migration: The Soviet Experience during the Great Patriotic War / Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch8. Far from Home: Soviet and Non-Soviet Railway Workers' Experiences during the Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984 / Christopher J. WardPart III: Narratives of Migration 9. Traumatic Mobility: Motivating Collective Authorship in Siberian Narratives of Polish Exiles from the Inter-revolutionary Epoch (1832-62) / Elizabeth Blake10. Technology, the City, and the Body: Bergelson and Shklovsky in Berlin / Harriet Murav11. Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter / George Gasyna12. Journeys of Identity: From Soviet Jew to German Writer / Adrian Wanner

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMigration and Mobility in the Modern Age is a much welcomed and topical publication, as it eloquently examines the numerous forms of movement from and across Central, Eastern Europe and Russia from a historical perspective and within a transregional framework. The interdisciplinary and transnational character of the volume departs from single country studies and offers an invitation to discuss the region comparatively and bring mobility in dialogue with similar phenomena elsewhere. In this sense, as well as many others, it succeeds admirably. * Comparative Literature Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Anika Walke Part I: Ways of Moving 1. Paris—St. Petersburg: Shrinking Spaces in the Nineteenth Century / Jan Musekamp 2. "A main station at one's front door": Bicycles, Automobiles, and Early Adapters' Dreams of Personal Mobility in Poland, 1885-1939 / Nathan Wood3. Walking with a Tolstoyan Dancer: Physical and Psychic Mobility in Vaslav Nijinsky's Diary / Nicole Svobodny4. Russian Resorts and European Leisure: Railroad Vacations, "Native" Sites, and the Making of a Russian (Post)Colonial Identity in Manchuria, 1920s-1930s / Chia Yin HsuPart II: People in Motion 5. Dynamic Bohemians: The Russian Artistic Circle in Paris (Russkii Artisticheskii Kruzhok v Parizhe) / Anna Winestein6. Sex at the Border: Trafficking as a Migration Problem in Partitioned Poland / Keely Stauter-Halsted7. Evacuation as Migration: The Soviet Experience during the Great Patriotic War / Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch8. Far from Home: Soviet and Non-Soviet Railway Workers' Experiences during the Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984 / Christopher J. WardPart III: Narratives of Migration 9. Traumatic Mobility: Motivating Collective Authorship in Siberian Narratives of Polish Exiles from the Inter-revolutionary Epoch (1832-62) / Elizabeth Blake10. Technology, the City, and the Body: Bergelson and Shklovsky in Berlin / Harriet Murav11. Andrzej Stasiuk and the Myth of the Literary Gastarbajter / George Gasyna12. Journeys of Identity: From Soviet Jew to German Writer / Adrian Wanner

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy concentrating on the local strategies of combination in the areas of uprootedness, Materka has made an interesting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of human behavior. References and the use of Polish words for important concepts are exemplary. . . . [H]er collection of narratives provides food for thought on the relation between formal regulation and human ingenuity. * Baltic Worlds *Materka has produced an eloquently written, exciting, and meticulously analyzed ethnographic history that marks an alternative to the vast majority of strictly archival-based historical literature on the German-Polish borderlands. Within the field of Polish history, this book is also an important contribution as the first extensive work on the critical role of informality in the politics, society, and economy of People's Poland. -- Peter Polak-Springer * H-German *Indeed, Dystopia's Provocateurs is an unorthodox scholarly work with regard to both content and form. Venturing beyond scholarly conventions, Materka smoothly blends ethnographic analysis with cultural criticism as she dissects the ghosts of kombinacja in post-1989 Poland (p. 173–193) and when she compares the current developments in Pomerania and Silesia (p. 201–210). . . . Dystopia's Provocateurs is a highly inspiring book not only for those interested in the history of East Central Europe, but also scholars working in the vibrant field of informality studies. -- Kornelia Kończal * Hsozkult *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Pronunciation and Translation AcronymsIntroduction1. History's Ghosts2. Kombinacja's Histories3. Recovering Territories4. Magical Stalinism5. Proletarian Memories6. Kombinacja's Ghosts 7. Border MemoriesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy concentrating on the local strategies of combination in the areas of uprootedness, Materka has made an interesting and valuable contribution to our knowledge of human behavior. References and the use of Polish words for important concepts are exemplary. . . . [H]er collection of narratives provides food for thought on the relation between formal regulation and human ingenuity. * Baltic Worlds *Materka has produced an eloquently written, exciting, and meticulously analyzed ethnographic history that marks an alternative to the vast majority of strictly archival-based historical literature on the German-Polish borderlands. Within the field of Polish history, this book is also an important contribution as the first extensive work on the critical role of informality in the politics, society, and economy of People's Poland. -- Peter Polak-Springer * H-German *Indeed, Dystopia's Provocateurs is an unorthodox scholarly work with regard to both content and form. Venturing beyond scholarly conventions, Materka smoothly blends ethnographic analysis with cultural criticism as she dissects the ghosts of kombinacja in post-1989 Poland (p. 173–193) and when she compares the current developments in Pomerania and Silesia (p. 201–210). . . . Dystopia's Provocateurs is a highly inspiring book not only for those interested in the history of East Central Europe, but also scholars working in the vibrant field of informality studies. -- Kornelia Kończal * Hsozkult *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Pronunciation and Translation AcronymsIntroduction1. History's Ghosts2. Kombinacja's Histories3. Recovering Territories4. Magical Stalinism5. Proletarian Memories6. Kombinacja's Ghosts 7. Border MemoriesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDuring a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades.Trade ReviewMigrant Anxieties is a compelling, up-to-date analysis of Italian migration cinema since the 1990s in a transnational perspective, under the critical lens of race, class, gender, and nationality. * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. After 1989: Projecting the Balkans2. Traffic from the East: Gender, Labor, and Biopolitics3. African Immigration in the 1990s4. Migration, Masculinity, and Italy's New Urban Geographies5. Imagining an Expanded Mediterranean Borderscape6. Living with Difference: From Noir to MelodramaAfterword: Accented and Transnational Filmmaking in ItalyFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSince the refugee crisis of 2015, the topic of migration has moved to the center of global political debates. Jannis Panagiotidis looks at immigration from Germany to Israel in three individual cases where migrants were not allowed to enter the country, showing that migration is never a simple matter of moving from place to place.Trade ReviewPanagiotidis takes full advantage of the potential for comparison, delving into the minutiae of legislation, political disputes, and individual case studies. His conclusions are as insightful as they are startling. -- Joseph Cronin - Queen Mary University of London * AJS Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Foreign Terms, Translation, and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Importance of the Unchosen OnesChapter 1: Originating DifferencesChapter 2: Free to ChooseChapter 3: Problematic OthersChapter 4: The Watershed PeriodChapter 5: The Soviet ExodusConclusion: The Rise and Demise of Co-Ethnic ImmigrationBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSince the refugee crisis of 2015, the topic of migration has moved to the center of global political debates. Jannis Panagiotidis looks at immigration from Germany to Israel in three individual cases where migrants were not allowed to enter the country, showing that migration is never a simple matter of moving from place to place.Trade ReviewPanagiotidis takes full advantage of the potential for comparison, delving into the minutiae of legislation, political disputes, and individual case studies. His conclusions are as insightful as they are startling. -- Joseph Cronin - Queen Mary University of London * AJS Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNotes on Foreign Terms, Translation, and TransliterationList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Importance of the Unchosen OnesChapter 1: Originating DifferencesChapter 2: Free to ChooseChapter 3: Problematic OthersChapter 4: The Watershed PeriodChapter 5: The Soviet ExodusConclusion: The Rise and Demise of Co-Ethnic ImmigrationBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRemaking Islam in African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices must change as they remake themselves and their religion. * Portuguese American Journal *Grounded in rich fieldwork in both Guinea-Bissau and Portugal conducted across 20 years, this book is an ethnographer's dream. Oozing with gorgeous ethnographic details, the book at the same time tackles all the issues one could hope to think about concerning West African Muslims' lives in Europe. Challenges of racism. Challenges of Islamophobia. Challenges by mainstream Muslims of heterodox practices. All these big-picture issues frame the stories Michelle Johnson exquisitely tells. -- Alma Gottlieb * AlmaGottlieb.com *Table of Contents1. Faith and Fieldwork in African Lisbon Part 1: Remaking Islam through Life Course Rituals 2. Name-Giving and Hand-Writing: Childhood Rituals and Embodying Islam 3. Making Mandinga, Making Muslims: Initiation, Circumcision, and Ritual Uncertainty 4. Distant Departures: Funerals, Post-Burial Sacrifices, and Rupturing Place and Identity Part 2: Remaking Islam through Rituals Beyond the Life Course 5. Reversals of Fortune: From Healing-Divining to Astrology 6. "Welcome Back from Mecca!": Reimagining the Hajj Epilogue: Faith, Food, and Fashion: Religion in Diaspora BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRemaking Islam in African Portugal highlights what being Muslim means in urban Europe and how Guinean migrants' relationships to their ritual practices must change as they remake themselves and their religion. * Portuguese American Journal *Grounded in rich fieldwork in both Guinea-Bissau and Portugal conducted across 20 years, this book is an ethnographer's dream. Oozing with gorgeous ethnographic details, the book at the same time tackles all the issues one could hope to think about concerning West African Muslims' lives in Europe. Challenges of racism. Challenges of Islamophobia. Challenges by mainstream Muslims of heterodox practices. All these big-picture issues frame the stories Michelle Johnson exquisitely tells. -- Alma Gottlieb * AlmaGottlieb.com *Table of Contents1. Faith and Fieldwork in African Lisbon Part 1: Remaking Islam through Life Course Rituals 2. Name-Giving and Hand-Writing: Childhood Rituals and Embodying Islam 3. Making Mandinga, Making Muslims: Initiation, Circumcision, and Ritual Uncertainty 4. Distant Departures: Funerals, Post-Burial Sacrifices, and Rupturing Place and Identity Part 2: Remaking Islam through Rituals Beyond the Life Course 5. Reversals of Fortune: From Healing-Divining to Astrology 6. "Welcome Back from Mecca!": Reimagining the Hajj Epilogue: Faith, Food, and Fashion: Religion in Diaspora BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn original contribution to the history of humanitarian relief, child-welfare work, and the social impact of the First World War in Central Europe. Richly detailed and deeply researched, Budapest's Children traces the dire effects of war and demise of Hapsburg rule on conditions in Hungary's capital city and examines the diversity and interaction of organizations and actors, foreign and domestic, concerned with aiding children and mothers. An insightful analysis of social conditions, relief work, and their representation, Budapest's Children elucidates the evolution and dynamics of interwar humanitarianism as well as the politics informing it. -- Heide Fehrenbach, Board of Trustees Professor, Northern Illinois UniversityContemporaries referred to Budapest in the immediate postwar years as the 'capital of human misery.' Friederike Kind-Kovács's meticulously researched and original study provides a compelling, and tragically topical, analysis of the impact of war and social disintegration on children. It also examines the ways in which suffering was instrumentalized in humanitarian aid programs, and the relationship between philanthropy and national prestige. It is an important contribution both to the history of childhood, and to the social and cultural history of imperial collapse in the interwar decades. -- Catriona Kelly, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UKBudapest's Children is a compelling, deeply researched, and all too timely account of the dire humanitarian crisis that gripped Budapest after World War I and of the valiant efforts of local and international aid workers to care for refugee children displaced by the collapse of the Habsburg empire. Rich with insights about the interaction of nationalist and internationalist politics and about the power that images of children's suffering have to move consciences and inspire action, this book is a magnificent contribution to the growing literature on war and its aftermath in East-Central Europe. -- Paul Hanebrink, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION1. MIGRATION: LIFE IN A DISPLACEMENT HUB2. HUNGER: STARVING IN THE CAPITAL CITY3. DEGENERATION: EMBODYING POSTWAR SUFFERING4. INSTITUTIONS: THE GENESIS OF CHILD PROTECTION5. INFRASTRUCTURES: MATERIALIZING 'GLOCAL' RELIEF6. BODIES: FEEDING BUDAPEST'S HUNGRY CHILDREN7. (INTER)NATIONALISM: THE POLITICS OF MATERIAL AID8. DISPLACEMENT: THE AMBIGUITY OF CHILD TRANSPORTS9. EDUCATION: WORKROOMS TO TEACH THE CHILDRENCONCLUSION: TRANSFORMATION: FROM AID TO SELF-HELPBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Solidly rooted in recent theoretical frameworks from memory studies, Of Memory and the Displaced provides a valuable combination of academic analyses and lengthy extracts from hitherto unexplored Irish-American migrants' memoirs. This pioneering publication challenges the predominant notion of a Catholic transatlantic diaspora in significant ways, by integrating the memories of women as well as non-Catholic immigrants, and by stressing the regional and linguistic variations among them. The included memoirs show how watershed events in both Ireland and the United States—such as the Great Famine and the American Civil War—were remembered by intercultural communities well into the twentieth century."—Marguérite Corporaal, Radboud University"O'Brien has produced an exceptionally rich and beautifully written study of Irish diasporic life narratives informed by the arguments of contemporary memory studies and autobiographical theory. Micro-analyses of four texts ranging from the Famine era to the late 20th century are balanced by a sophisticated and wide-ranging synthesis of eighteen other works which establishes patterns of experience and narrative recollection among Irish immigrants to the United States. Historically precise and theoretically erudite, this book will be an essential text for scholars of autobiography, immigration, memory studies, and Irish literature and culture."—Elizabeth Grubgeld, author of Disability and Life Writing in Post Independence Ireland

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Solidly rooted in recent theoretical frameworks from memory studies, Of Memory and the Displaced provides a valuable combination of academic analyses and lengthy extracts from hitherto unexplored Irish-American migrants' memoirs. This pioneering publication challenges the predominant notion of a Catholic transatlantic diaspora in significant ways, by integrating the memories of women as well as non-Catholic immigrants, and by stressing the regional and linguistic variations among them. The included memoirs show how watershed events in both Ireland and the United States—such as the Great Famine and the American Civil War—were remembered by intercultural communities well into the twentieth century."—Marguérite Corporaal, Radboud University"O'Brien has produced an exceptionally rich and beautifully written study of Irish diasporic life narratives informed by the arguments of contemporary memory studies and autobiographical theory. Micro-analyses of four texts ranging from the Famine era to the late 20th century are balanced by a sophisticated and wide-ranging synthesis of eighteen other works which establishes patterns of experience and narrative recollection among Irish immigrants to the United States. Historically precise and theoretically erudite, this book will be an essential text for scholars of autobiography, immigration, memory studies, and Irish literature and culture."—Elizabeth Grubgeld, author of Disability and Life Writing in Post Independence Ireland

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNugent (Notre Dame) is a fine historian and a good storyteller. His latest book is a multilayered narrative of the movement of millions of Europeans to the Americas. Different from many other descriptions of the transatlantic passages, which tend to be focused on one side of the ocean (the lands of the senders) or the other (the countries of reception and resettlement), Crossings tears down what Frank Thistlewaite once called a saltwater curtain. Nugent moves—and moves his readers—back and forth across the Atlantic, describing the social and political conditions that pushed Europeans out of the Old World and the factors—not least of which was the promise of a better life—that pulled them into the New World, particularly to this country and to Argentina, Brazil, and Canada. Using a variety of social and demographic data by which to compare the several countries of immigration, the author challenges certain widely held assumptions about American [meaning US] exceptionalism. That is one of the subtexts in this interesting and informative work. Added bonuses include excellent maps, clearly presented tables, and a dozen classic photographs of the migrants at home in Europe, enroute to America, and in their new societies.Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870–1914 -- P. I. Rose * Smith College *Table of ContentsPart I: The Atlantic Region and Its Population1. What This Book Is About2. The Atlantic Region in the Late Nineteenth Century3. Fertility and Mortality4. Migration: General Patterns and MotivesPart II: The European DonorsIntroduction5. Britain (Englant-Wales and Scotland)6. Ireland7. Scandinavia8. The German Empire9. Austria-Hungary and Russia, Jews and Poles10. Italy11. Spain and PortugalPart III: The American ReceiversIntroduction12. Argentina13. Brazil14. Canada15. United States of America16. Modernization, Transition, and ExceptionalismNotes, List of Works Cited and Consulted, Index

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Book SynopsisMaltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. This study provides insight into race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context for understanding political trends in contemporary France.Trade Review"Intersects with very active areas of research in history and anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe and North Africa in a creative and innovative fashion." --Douglas Holmes, Binghamton UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A Song in Malta2. Maltese Settler Clubs in France3. A Hierarchy of Settlers and the Liminal Maltese4. The Algerian Melting Pot5. The Ambivalence of Assimilation6. The French-Algerian War and Its Aftermath7. Diaspora, Rejection, and Nostalgérie8. Settler Ethnicity and Identity Politics in Postcolonial France9. Place, Replaced: Malta as Algeria in the Pied-noir ImaginationNotesSources CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisSince 1990 more Africans have relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries. This collection of essays looks at the immigrant experience.Trade Review. . . engaging, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging . . . Highly recommended.July 2010 * Choice *The New African Diaspora captures one of the intellectual passions of a scholar with wide knowledge and expertise in African oral literatures who has maintained a consistent appreciation for and understanding of the aesthetic and material production of African peoples in the African Diaspora: this has to be acknowledged, recognized, and applauded. * African Studies Review *[The] authors provide a window onto the challenges these new immigrants face in leaving their homes and adapting to their new host environments, as well as the contributions they have made, particularly in the arts.23.3 2010 * Journal of Refugee Studies *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPart 1. Overviews1. Introduction: Can We "Go Home Again"?Isidore Okpewho2. Diaspora Dialogues: Engagements Between Africa and Its DiasporasPaul Tiyambe ZelezaPart 2. Leaving Home3. Togo on My MindAdzele K. Jones4. "I, Too, Want to Be a Big Man": The Making of a Haitian "Boat People"Georges E. Fouron5. Africa's Migration Brain Drain: Factors Contributing to the Mass Emigration of Africa's Elite to the WestAmadu Jacky KabaPart 3. Relocation and Redefinition6. "The West Is Cold": Experiences of Ghanaian Performers in England and the United StatesJames Burns7. Migration and Bereavement: How Ghanaian Migrants Cope in the United KingdomHelen Anin-Boateng8. Acculturation and the Health of Black Immigrants in the United StatesFlorence M. Margai9. Socio-Legal Barriers to the Full Citizenship of Recent African Immigrants in Canada: Some Preliminary ThoughtsObiora Chinedu Okafor10. The Effects of Immigration and Refugee Policies on Africans in the United States: From the Civil Rights Movement to the War on TerrorismCassandra R. Veney11. Immigrants and the American System of Justice: Perspectives of African and Caribbean BlacksJohn A. Arthur12. Africans Abroad: Comparative Perspectives on America's Post-Colonial AfricansBaffour K. Takyi13. Questions of Identity Among African Immigrants in AmericaMsia Kibona ClarkPart 4. A Measure of Success14. Immigration and African Diaspora Women ArtistsNkiru Nzegwu15. Emerging Communities: The Religious Life of New African Immigrants in the United StatesJacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani16. The Orisha Rescue MissionDonald Cosentino17. Redefining "Africa" in the Diaspora with New Media TechnologiesAzuka NzegwuPart 5. Transnational Perspectives18. Resisting "Race": Organizing African Transnational Identities in the United StatesJill M. Humphries19. African Video, Film Cinema, and Cultural Repackaging in the DiasporaFolu F. Ogundimu20. Excess Luggage: Nigerian Films and the World of ImmigrantsAkin Adesokan21. From the New Diaspora and the Continent: African American Return FigurationsJoseph McLaren22. Self, Place, and Identity in Two Generations of West African Immigrant Women Memoirs: Emecheta's Head Above Water and Danquah's Willow Weep for MeF. Odun Balogun23. Language, Memory, and the Transnational: Art of Wosene Worke KosrofAndrea E. Frohne24. Out Beyond Our Borders: Literary Travelers of the TransDiasporaSandra Jackson-Opoku25. The Guyana Diaspora and Homeland Conflict ResolutionPerry Mars26. The Ontological Imperative for the New African DiasporaAdeolu AdemoyoList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the 1990s, thousands of non-Jewish Latinos arrived in Israel as undocumented immigrants. This book follows these workers from their decision to migrate to their experiences finding work, establishing social clubs and evangelical Christian churches, and putting down roots in Israeli society.Trade ReviewThrough the discussion of the lives of Latino migrants in Israel, [the author] illustrates how non-governmental organizations worked to earn rights for these migrants and eventually win citizenships for a limited number of migrants' children. July 2011 * Contemporary Sociology *A unique study of undocumented immigrants from Latin America living in Israel, this study brings a wealth of previously unknown data about the tribulations of a population viewed as problematic in much of the Western world. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Latino Migrants in the Jewish State: Undocumented Lives in Israel provides a rare glance at the lives of labor migrants who reached Israel from different Latin American countries, mainly from Ecuador, Columbia, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. Based on fieldwork among Latinos in Israel, as well as among returnees, deportees and potential migrants in Ecuador, Kalir recreates in this book the full circle of migration flow from the decision making start point to the process of settling down, establishing social networks and integrating socially and culturally into the receiving society. * Journal of Jewish Identities *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Undocumented BelongingPart 12. Unsettling Setting: A Jewish State Dependent on Non-Jewish Labor3. Destiny and Destination: Latinos Deciding to Leave for IsraelPart 24. Shifting Strategies: From the Accumulation of Money toward the Accumulation of Belonging5. Divisive Dynamics: The Absence of Political Community and the Differentiations of the Recreational Scene6. The Religious Forms of Undocumented Lives: Latino Evangelical ChurchesPart 37. Israeli Resolution, Latino Disillusion: From Massive Deportation to Symbolic Legalization8. Conclusion: A New Assimilation?NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the twenty-first century it is estimated that one in three New York City residents is an immigrant. This book identifies two very distinct waves of Catholic Irish immigrants - one in the 1950s and one in the 1980s. It is based on surveys conducted among the 1980s group - the self-proclaimed "New Irish."Trade ReviewMost histories of New York City's Irish immigrants focus on the plight of the men and women who fled the potato famine in the mid, 19th century. However, a recent US census recorded over half a million persons of Irish ancestry living in NYC; historians know very little about this generation of Irish immigrants. In an effort to address this overlooked aspect of the city's history, Almeida (New York Univ.) explores the Catholic Irish immigrants who made their way to the city in the 1950s and 1980s. She surveys the experiences and expectations of midcentury immigrants and examines why the New Irish were forced to adapt their expectations and institutions to meet the social and cultural demands of life in New York City. Based on 52 interviews with Irish immigrants and material drawn from the US census, this is a solid piece of scholarship. Almeida undermines notions that the city's Irish community is a homogeneous entity, while demonstrating that probing the forces that mold Irish identity is a rewarding exercise. This survey of Irish community and identity building will be of particular interest to urban historians and specialists in ethnic studies. Undergraduate collections and above.January 2002 -- T. D. Beal * SUNY College at Oneonta *Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Background: When the Irish Ran New YorkChapter 2: The 1950s: "It Was a Great Time in AmericaChapter 3: The 1970s: The InterimChapter 4: The 1980s: The New IrishChapter 5: The Catholic Church: What Parish Are You From?Chapter 6: Who Are the Irish?ConclusionEpilogueBibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen people ask the question, What makes a football weekend at Notre Dame so special?members of the Notre Dame family know that it could take an entire book to give the whole answer. This is that book. It tells the gameday story with over one hundred color photographs that bring the experience alive from the perspectives of many different groups, and its words add a context that is rich in the traditions, community connections, values, and spirit that make Notre Dame unique. Writer Bill Schmitt and photographer Lou Sabo approached the question with the kind of wide-ranging curiosity that goes beyond sports books, guidebooks, and history books. Their work reveals that the answer comes from many sources and primarily from the people who share the experience. The book focuses on students, many of whom have no involvement on the field; Catholics and believers of all faiths; alumni; visitors from around the country and the world; South Bend neighbors and business owners; athletes;Trade Review“This book demonstrates what makes Notre Dame football so special—the unique community of friends, families, students, and the football team that takes place on Saturdays in the fall at this great university.” —Charlie Weis, Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame, 2005-present“This book should stand for decades as the authoritative account of a Notre Dame football weekend in all its aspects, from behind the scenes preparations to the hallowed traditions loved by millions. What a great keepsake for anyone who experiences this important piece of Americana.” —Matthew V. Storin, editor of The Boston Globe (1993-2001)“As head football coach at Notre Dame for 11 seasons, I was fortunate to witness firsthand the spectacle of young athletes achieving greatness on the field. But football weekends at Notre Dame are about so much more than the game. William Schmitt’s book perfectly captures all the traditions that reflect the unique spirit that is the University of Notre Dame.” —Ara Parseghian, Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame, 1964–74“Whether you’re visiting campus from a few miles away or from around the globe, you have to agree that football weekends at Notre Dame are unlike anything else in the world. With all the reunions and traditions and excitement, these weekends are really about the wonderful people and places of Notre Dame; Bill Schmitt captures that in this book.” —Charles F. Lennon, Jr., Executive Director, Notre Dame Alumni Association, and Associate Vice President, University Relations“Multiple views, including more than 100 photographs, help bring the experience of football on campus alive with perspectives from students, athletes, business owners, and alumni.” —Notre Dame Magazine"The author gives insight into the powerful combinations of education and faith, responsibility and generosity, team and family. Not your average college football narrative, he implores us to look beneath and beyond the institution to one person, one team, one college, one community, one country, one world." —In Michiana“Accordingly, transcending the conventions of sports programs and guidebooks, “Football Weekends at Notre Dame” does not restrict its focus to the athletic drama, the traditional pageantry, the singing of the fight song, and the marching of the band. It also invites the reader to consider the rich historical, cultural, and religious environment which is the gameday’s context and cause alike.” —University of Notre Dame: News & Information

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural Oaxacans to migrate, the historical and contemporary patterns of their migration, the effects of migration on families and communities, and the economic, cultural, and social reasonsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Studying Migration in Oaxaca's Central Valleys Chapter 1: The Household and Migration Chapter 2: History, Trajectory, and Process in Oaxacan Migration Chapter 3: Contemporary Migration Chapter 4: Migration, Socioeconomic Change, and Development Chapter 5: Nonmigrant Households Conclusion: Migration in Oaxaca's Central Valleys and Anthropology Appendix A: Characteristics of the Population by Community Appendix B: Household Survey Appendix C: Cultural Consensus Notes References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisJust in time for the 2008 election and the national immigration debate, this searing documentary of the largest single transnational migration in history forces us to face the tremendous human cost of a failed Mexican state and a relentlessly globalizingTable of Contents acknowledgments a short note photo section one part one. dreams and nightmares photo section two part two. what's your name? who's your daddy? is he rich like me? photo section three part three. a dream in the hole in our hearts photo section four afterword. baghdad notes bibliography extended captions

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Book SynopsisA remarkable examination of U.S. citizens, particularly retirees, who migrate to Mexican towns such as San Miguel de Allende and reverse the conventional wisdom about immigration and identity.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Reversing the Lens Chapter One: Southern Pulls and Northern Pushes Chapter Two: High-Tech Migrants: Technology and Transterritoriality Chapter Three: Waving the Red, White, and Azul: The Transnational Politics of Americans in Mexico Chapter Four: "They Love Us Here!": Privileged Belonging in a Global World Chapter Five: Rethinking the Fence Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read." * China Quarterly *"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book." -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China 1. Who Is a “Peasant Worker”? 2. Speaking of Oneself 3. A Place of Encounters 4. Earning, Spending, Consuming 5. Negotiating Success Conclusion: Making Place, Making Class

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Book SynopsisExplores the origins, development, and significance of the European Branches of the Chinese Communist Organizations (ECCO), highlights the differences between it and the Communist home organization, and describes its impact on the Chinese Communist Party. This title provides information and analysis about the political leadership of modern China.Trade Review"Levine’s book at once touches on three fascinating aspects of modern Chinese history; the ‘generational conflict’ that shaped the vision and mentality of the May Fourth youth, the intercultural experience of the first group of Chinese students in modern Europe, and, in a sense, the ‘foreign origins’ of the Chinese Revolution. . . . [An] enormous contribution to the study of modern Chinese education, society, and politics.”—Journal of Developing Societies“Stimulating and thought-provoking, and an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the Chinese Communist movement." * China Information *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue The Rise of the Work-Study Movement Four Voyagers to Europe A New World A Fork in the Road The Chosen Path Shifting Currents Conclusion: The Found Generation Appendix 1: Biographies Appendix 2: Organizations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImmigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status familiesfamilies that include both citizens and noncitizensthis is more than a political issue: it's a deeply personal one. Undocumented family members and legal residents lack the rights and benefits of their family members who are US citizens, while family members and legal residents sometimes have their rights compromised by punitive immigration policies based on a strict citizen/noncitizen dichotomy. This collection of personal narratives and academic essays is the first to focus on the daily lives and experiences, as well as the broader social contexts, for mixed status families in the contemporary United States. Threats of raids, deportation, incarceration, and detention loom large over these families. At the same time, their lives are characterized by the resilience, perseverance, and resourcefulness necessary to maintain strong family bonds, both within the United States aTable of Contents Epigraph: The Freedom to Move / Lisa Speicher Muñoz Foreword / Mary Romero Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy / April M. Schueths and Jodie M. Lawston Part One | Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana / Giselle Stern Hernández 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States / April M. Schueths 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time / Rachel M. Hershberg and M. Brinton Lykes 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego–Tijuana Border / Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez 5. “We Thought We Had a Future”: Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families / Martha I. Zapata Roblyer and Joseph G. Grzywacz 6. Being Mixed-Status / Sheryl Tuliao Silva and Eric O. Silva Part Two | Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being 7. Voice of an American-Mexican / Neida Soto Arrington 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border / Heide Castañeda 9. “Someday I’m Going to Have Papers!” (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South / Scott Beck and Alma Stevenson 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership / Sarah Morando Lakhani 11. “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) / Eva Betancourt Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media 12. MIXED-UP / Carlos-Manuel 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse / Eric O. Silva 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? / Connie Oxford 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under “Secure Communities” / Diana M. Guelespe 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States / Shobha Hamal Gurung 17. Bringing Pedro Home / Emily Guzman 18. My Path to Happiness / Luis A. HernÁndez Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read." * China Quarterly *"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book." -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China 1. Who Is a “Peasant Worker”? 2. Speaking of Oneself 3. A Place of Encounters 4. Earning, Spending, Consuming 5. Negotiating Success Conclusion: Making Place, Making Class

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Book SynopsisBased on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area.Trade ReviewThe story of Ole Hendricks provides a valuable and grounded glimpse of music and social life in rural America in the nineteenth century, bringing into focus the long-overlooked importance of commonplace books-that is, handwritten music notebooks-in the performance and preservation of traditional music." - Paul Tyler, Old Town School of Folk Music"A thorough personal history that brings to light a previously little-known musician, Norwegian American fiddler Ole Hendricks. This excellent, well-rounded introduction makes both this history, as well as his tunebook, available for readers and musicians." - Laura Ellestad, University of South-Eastern Norway

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Book SynopsisExamines the rich history of Irish experiences on land and at sea, offering new perspectives on migration and mobility in the Pacific world and of the Irish role in the establishment and maintenance of the British Empire.

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Book SynopsisInsightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it

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