Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisLooks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the 20th century. Using case studies, this book shows how specific trends in popular culture have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. It offers an introduction to the major approaches to the study of popular culture.Trade ReviewIn this eminently readable and insightful overview of U.S. cultural history in the last century, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey provide a view into the roiling production of American culture. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Eloquently written. * Popular Music *A thought-provoking examination of immigration history. * Choice *This books account of the interaction of immigration, popular culture, and mainstream America is loaded with brief chronicles of different levels of historieshistories of American immigration, popular culture forms, immigration laws, American cultural imperialism, and mainstream representations of immigration. * African American Review *Immigration and Popular Culture: An Introduction is an excellent and very necessary contribution to American Studies and to the complex and important relationship between the two topics in its title. -- Norma Coates * American Studies Journal *A sprawling and uniquely synthetic account of the role immigrants have played as performers, entrepreneurs, and as the subjects of the mass culture industry. Brings a stunning, transnational array of immigrant cultural forms, immigration policies, and cohorts together in new and important ways. -- Rachel Ida Buff,University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeRachel Rubin and Jeff Melnick show us the skinny on pop's melting pot. The cauldron does not burn off immigrant character, creating American sameness, but intensifies its many tastes. Ladle after ladle of ethnic infusions go into the potScarface to Gypsy Punks, pachuco zoot suiters to Ravi Shankar, Jimmy Cliff to West Side Story. They compound the terms of race and place until they reform the mainstream. And, suddenly, that old wasp canon has become just another ethnic style. -- W. T. Lhamon, Jr.,author, most recently, of Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Aliens, Inc.1. Hollywood, 1930: Jewish Gangster Masquerade 2. Los Angeles, 1943: Zoot Suit Style, Immigrant Politics 3. Broadway, 1957: West Side Story and the Nuyorican Blues 4. Monterey, 1967: The Hippies Meet Ravi Shankar 5. South Bronx, 1977: Jamaican Migrants, Born Jamericans, and Global Music6. Cyberspace, Y2K: Giant Robots, Asian Punks Afterword: Chelsea, 2006: Wandering Popular CultureAppendix: TimelineWorks CitedIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisLooks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the 20th century. Using case studies, this book shows how specific trends in popular culture have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. It offers an introduction to the major approaches to the study of popular culture.Trade ReviewIn this eminently readable and insightful overview of U.S. cultural history in the last century, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey provide a view into the roiling production of American culture. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Eloquently written. * Popular Music *A thought-provoking examination of immigration history. * Choice *This books account of the interaction of immigration, popular culture, and mainstream America is loaded with brief chronicles of different levels of historieshistories of American immigration, popular culture forms, immigration laws, American cultural imperialism, and mainstream representations of immigration. * African American Review *Immigration and Popular Culture: An Introduction is an excellent and very necessary contribution to American Studies and to the complex and important relationship between the two topics in its title. -- Norma Coates * American Studies Journal *A sprawling and uniquely synthetic account of the role immigrants have played as performers, entrepreneurs, and as the subjects of the mass culture industry. Brings a stunning, transnational array of immigrant cultural forms, immigration policies, and cohorts together in new and important ways. -- Rachel Ida Buff,University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeRachel Rubin and Jeff Melnick show us the skinny on pop's melting pot. The cauldron does not burn off immigrant character, creating American sameness, but intensifies its many tastes. Ladle after ladle of ethnic infusions go into the potScarface to Gypsy Punks, pachuco zoot suiters to Ravi Shankar, Jimmy Cliff to West Side Story. They compound the terms of race and place until they reform the mainstream. And, suddenly, that old wasp canon has become just another ethnic style. -- W. T. Lhamon, Jr.,author, most recently, of Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Aliens, Inc.1. Hollywood, 1930: Jewish Gangster Masquerade 2. Los Angeles, 1943: Zoot Suit Style, Immigrant Politics 3. Broadway, 1957: West Side Story and the Nuyorican Blues 4. Monterey, 1967: The Hippies Meet Ravi Shankar 5. South Bronx, 1977: Jamaican Migrants, Born Jamericans, and Global Music6. Cyberspace, Y2K: Giant Robots, Asian Punks Afterword: Chelsea, 2006: Wandering Popular CultureAppendix: TimelineWorks CitedIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the unprecedented challenges that the movement of peoples across national borders poses, for the people involved as well as for the places to which they travel and their countries of origin.Trade Review"Benhabib and Resnik have succeeded admirably in their aspiration ‘to reorient the lively debate concerning globalization, borders, migration and citizenship . . . .’ With the appearance of this volume, the debate will never be the same. It is an essential resource for serious students of the subject." -- Peter H. Schuck,Simeon E. Baldwin Professor, Yale Law School"Crossing disciplinary boundaries and navigating the comparative and transnational frontiers of migration, this extraordinary volume displaces the traditional male-centered perception of immigration without falling into an essentializing and unitary vision of the world’s diverse female migrants. Topical, timely, and well organized, the editors are to be congratulated for having assembled a collection that will undoubtedly stimulate a lasting debate in the field." -- Ayelet Shachar,author of The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality"The rare and much needed interdisciplinarity evident in this book makes it a key contribution to the subject. Each chapter engages a critical dimension of the larger puzzle. And the editors' introduction brilliantly lays out an expanded analytic terrain for the old and new questions addressed by the authors." -- Saskia Sassen,author of Territory, Authority, Rights"The broad themes brought forth by the contributors . . . offer a rich introduction to the important problems that will occupy scholars of immigration law and policy for many years to come." * The Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction I Situated Histories of Citizenship and Gender 1 Citizenship and Gender in the Ancient World 2 The Stateless as the Citizen's Other II Global Markets, Women's Work 3 Citizenship, Noncitizenship, and the Transnationalization of Domestic Work 4 A Bio-Cartography III Citizenship of the Family, Citizenship in the Family 5 The "Mere Fortuity of Birth"? 6 Transnational Mothering, National Immigration Policy, and European Law IV Engendered Citizenship in Practice 7 Global Feminism, Citizenship, and the State 8 Particularized Citizenship 9 Multiculturalism, Gender, and Rights V Reconfiguring the Nation-State: Women's Citizenship in the Transnational Context 10 Globalizing Fragmentation 11 Status Quo or Sixth Ground? Adjudicating Gender Asylum Claims 12 Intercultural Political Identity 13 Mobility, Migrants, and Solidarity 14 Citizenships, Federalisms, and Gender About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a rare full-scale look at an African immigrant congregation, the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in New York (PCGNY)Trade ReviewFrom Africato America provides a fascinating analysis of Ghanaian immigrants to the United States since the 1980s. This lively account paints a revealing picture of the real life of these immigrants, showing how their religious life as a community sustains them as they cope with the process of adaptation. -- John Mbiti,author of Introduction to African Religion, 2nd EditionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Coming to America: Ghanaians and U.S. Immigration 2 By the Hudson River: The Ghanaian Presence in New York 3 Remembering the Homeland: Ghana and Its People 4 How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song? PCGNY: An Overseas Mission 5 The Compound House: Communal Life and Welfare 6 Conflict and Cohesion: Gender and Intergenerational Relations 7 Ebenezer: Spirituality and Identity 8 Paddling on Both Sides: Analysis and Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisCaught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. This title provides insight into the many obstacles faced by battered immigrant women of colour, bringing their stories and voices to the fore.Trade Review"This book is a great resource for those interested in Women's and Gender Studies, Immigration Studies, Cultural Studies, Legal Studies, and Human Rights." -- Jenell Navarro * Women's Studies *"Villalón is able to provide a nuanced analysis of immigration law in such a manner that ordinary individuals...can easily understand the contradictions that are codified in the laws...it is the preseverance of the women chornicled in the book...that remains with the reader long after finishing the last page." -- Kristin Carbone-Lopez * Race and Justice *"[Villalón]'s book engages the reader with personal stories...[she] gives a well-written, detailed and sensitive account of how intersections of race, class, nationality and the bureaucratic complexities of the U.S. legal system affect the path to citizenship..." -- Laurie Paul * Feminism & Psychology *"By going beyond 'abstract notions of agency' and giving concrete examples that are placed within a historical and social context, the authors uncover the multidimensionality of women's agency and the role that the multiple patterns of oppression have in restraining it." -- Maria Isabel Ayala * Gender & Society *"Roberta Villalon's Violence Against Latina Immigrants tells a timely and compelling story illustrated by a refreshingly thorough application of ethnographic methods." -- Karen James Williams * Journal of Immigrant Minority Health *"A stunning documentation of the ways in which structural and cultural conditions in current immigration and Violence Against Women laws in the United States reinforce the hierarchies and intersections of race, class, and heterosexuality that impact on the lives of battered Latina immigrants." -- Natalie J. Sokoloff,author of Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender, and Culture"By locating the experiences of immigrant women and their advocates within a rich ethnographic study of state policies and organizational practices, Villalón paints a complex picture of the contradictions that contribute to the reproduction of inequality. This is activist scholarship at its best." -- Nancy A. Naples,author of Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work and the War Against Poverty"This book has a lot to offer and can be read as an analysis of an organization, how its vision changed from the pursuit for social justice when they were a grass roots group to providing a social service as the organization became formalized and professionalized and in the process more cautious about social change.The book is also an important contribution to other fields, notably women and immigration and violence against women as well as sociological and citizenship studies." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Approach 2 Violence against Latina Immigrants and Immigration Law 3 Formal Barriers to Citizenship 4 Informal Barriers to Citizenship 5 Resisting Inequality 6 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn era of mass immigration to the United States has brought newcomers from the most diverse class and national origins, legal statuses, and cultural backgrounds. Their children too come in all castes and hues, sometimes in unimaginable circumstances, and must adapt in highly variable and rapidly changing conditions. This fascinating volumethe most illuminating single book on the subject to dateemploys a wide-angle ecological framework to understand their developmental contexts, processes, and (at times paradoxical) outcomes, from health and mental health to identity and acculturation, language and religion, academic achievement and civic engagement. Transitions is a superb contribution, offering a wise and thorough assessment of a vast field and of future directions for research, practice and policy. -- Rubén G. Rumbaut,co-author of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second GenerationOffers a stunning developmental psychology of childhood in motion. . . . These children enter the U.S. with and without parents or papers, with and without dreams, trauma or bellies full of hope. Through this book we bear witness to stories of the social and psychological processes they enact and embody, and the wildly varied outcomes they produce and endure. Beautifully written for the general public and college students, future teachers, lawyers, social workers and community members with a soul, Transitions is a mirror to yesterday, a GPS to tomorrow, and a vivid history of the contemporary reimagination of America. A gift to psychology and education, this study has been delicately midwifed and tenderly inscribed by creative and talented researchers, Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona Abo-Zena and Amy Marks. -- Michelle Fine,Graduate Center at the City University of New YorkThis important new book humanizes the experience of immigrant youth by illuminating how they cope with the numerous challenges they face in adjusting to a new country and culture. Insightful, informative and thought provoking, this book will be an invaluable resource to those who seek to move beyond the headlines to understand the experience of immigrant youth. -- Pedro A. Noguera,Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University

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Book SynopsisA realistic account of the porous US-Mexico border - from both sidesTrade ReviewThis engaging, entertaining, and educational 14-chapter book is a call to action for all to work on improving cross-border cooperation. Recommended for all readership levels. * CHOICE *[O]ne insight that is clearly articulated throughout this work is that the decisions that our governments make, whether unilaterally or cooperatively, have direct and critically important impact on their constituents. -- David Hatten * clcjbooks *"No doubt, borders are incredibly fascinating. And if you want a pleasant way to understand the multitude of factors driving the enormous legal and illicit traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border, then Run for the Border is the book for you. Benders detailed and nuanced review of the U.S.-Mexican border, its history and its complexity, is invaluable. It presents a very readable collection of historic to very modern examples demonstrating why people move goods and themselves in both directions. Benders rich analysis gives us the tools to understand what is wrongand occasionally right--with our trade, immigration and drug policies. In reviewing immigration reform and drug legalization Steve Bender makes some sober and some surprising policy suggestions. Run for the Border takes common U.S. border mythology and smashes it to pieces. What is left after reading this very interesting and compelling book is a much richer understanding of the U.S.-Mexico border. It uses history and modern cultural references to show what the border is and does. We also learn how and why people, legally and otherwise, have crossed goods and themselves over it for the past 150 years. Bender reveals the complexity of border traffic and shows us, strand by strand, how it works. Along the way, he also exposes the unfortunate fog of myths, stereotypes, and rank racism that have obscured our understanding of the border and the people who cross it. Run for the Borders fact-based approach gets us well beyond the din of the intense and sometimes bitter debate over immigration and drug policies. -- Raymond C. Caballero,former mayor of El Paso, TX"Benders account offers an important corrective to the idea that there is any single narrative that ought to drive the complex debate on immigration policy. With a series of graphic illustrations Bender explodes many of the myths about immigration and tells the complicated interlocking series of stories that have colored our understanding of the relationship this country has had with Mexico and which Mexico has had with us. It is an important and valuable contribution to the increasingly vituperative political debate on how to manage the border. -- Gerald Torres,author of The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming DemocracyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I . Running for the Border to Escape Justice 1 El Fugitivo Part I I . Economic Motivations for Southbound Border Runs 2 Gringos in Paradise 3 A Giant Sucking Sound Part I I I . Illicit Motivations for Southbound Border Runs 4 Margaritaville: The Lure of Alcohol 5 Losin' It: Prostitution and the Child Sex Trade 6 Going Southbound: Mexican Divorces and Medical Border Runs Part IV. Economic Motivations for Northbound Border Runs 7 Rum-Running for the Border 8 Acapulco Gold 9 Coming to America Part V. A Framework for Comprehensive Border Reform 10 Lessons from 150 Years of Border Crossings 11 Good Neighbor Immigration Policy viii | Contents 12 Reefer Madness 13 A Framework for Southbound Crossings 14 Laws the Border Leaves Behind Conclusion Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisOffers multiethnic and multidisciplinary perspectives on the challenges confronting immigrants adapting to a new society. This work also includes essays that analyze contemporary issues facing Muslim newcomers in the wake of September 11, 2001.Trade Review"The complex, ambiguous connections among the immigration past and present are given masterful treatment in From Arrival to Incorporation, which presents a series of case studies that are essential reading for anyone who seeks guidance in the interpretation of present-day immigration and its consequences for American society. This volume gives multidimensional depth to the contemporary landscape of diversity." -- Richard Alba,co-author of Remaking the American Mainstream"Given recent anti-immigrant sentiments and evolving policies regarding todays immigrants, From Arrival to Incorporation is timely in its emphasis on the need to move beyond a binary vision of immigrant experiences." * PsycCRITIQUES *"It offers a mixture of theory, historical methods, quantitative approaches, ethnographies, and commentaries that allow readers to compare articles in useful ways and suggests their utility in multiple settings." * Journal of World History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner, and Alan M. KrautPart I Thematic Approaches to Immigration and Incorporation1 America and RefugeesDavid W. Haines2 Migration, Immigration, and Naturalization in America Karen A. Woodrow-La?eld3 Immigrant Enclaves, Ethnic Goods, and the Adjustment Process Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller4 Asian Americans, Religion, and Race Paul SpickardPart II Case Studies5 "Meet Me at the Chat/Chaat Corner"Caroline B. Brettell6 Filipino Families in the Land of LincolnBarbara M. Posadas and Roland L. Guyotte7 Ethnic-Language Maintenance and Social Mobility Min Zhou and Xiyuan Li8 The Importance of Being ItalianTimothy J. MeagherPart III Contemporary Immigration and Incorporation9 The Immigrant as Threat to American SecurityGary Gerstle10 Post-9/11 Government Initiatives in Comparative and Historical Perspectives Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Anny Bakalian11 Immigrant "Transnationalism" and the Presence of the Past Roger WaldingerAbout the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexualityTrade ReviewAn urgent collection of essays by both activists and scholars that puts legislative and judicial histories into dialogue with activists' struggles to bring about social justice for immigrant communities. Its ever-present focus on social justice connects the specificity of individual historical struggles to broader political aspirations. -- Wendy Kozol,Oberlin CollegeImpressive, provocative and smart. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship is breathtaking in its timeliness and its broad scope. -- Erika Lee,author of At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943In the end, the most compelling scholarship lays bare the paradoxes of the past. The best historians go beyond identifying such paradoxes to redress gaps in analysis that reshape the field, and in Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship, Buff skillfully does this. * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Toward a Redefinition of Citizenship Rights Rachel Ida Buff Part I: Narratives of Refuge and Resistance 1. John S. W. Park2. Connie G. Oxford3. Scott Long, Jessica Stern, and Adam Francouer4. Eunice Hyunhye ChoPart II: Ambivalent Allies, Reluctant Rivals, and Disavowed Deviants 5. Dustin Tahmakera6. Robert Samuel Smith, Seneca Vaught, and Babacar M'Baye7. Isabel Guzman Molina8. Lisa Marie CachoPart III: Immigrant Acts 9. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas10. Christine Neumann-Ortiz11. Glenn OmatsuPart IV: Questions of Democracy 12. Victor C. Romero13. Rachel Ida Buff 14. Jeanne Petit15. Fred Tsao16. David ColePart V: Afterwords 17. Donald Pease18. Monisha Das GuptaAbout the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisReconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through the lens of mobility restrictions during the late Ottoman Empire. The book investigates how Ottoman security perceptions and travel regulations were directly linked to transnational security regimes battling against anarchism.Trade ReviewA very important book that fills a significant lacuna in our field. It is the product of meticulous labor in the archives and contains a great deal of previously unknown information." - Taner Akçam, Director of Armenian Genocide Research Program, UCLA

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Book Synopsis"Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." This work explores this semantic duality. It offers a critical understanding of transnational culture. It examines "alienhood" and the impact it has on the daily experiences of migrants, legal or illegal.

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Book SynopsisUsing examples from Canada, Australia, and the United States, Mountz demonstrates the centrality of space and place in efforts to control the fate of unwanted migrants.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction: Struggles to Land in States of Migration, 1. Human Smuggling and Refugee Protection, 2. Seeing Borders like a State, 3. Ethnography of the State, 4. Crisis and the Making of the Bogus Refugee, 5. Stateless by Geographical Design, 6. In the Shadows of the State, 7. What Kind of State Are We In? Notes, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Christina Gerken has hold of a crucial issue, and her fine book makes clear that we have to confront the neoliberal paradigm to address questions of immigrant rights." —Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Building a Neoliberal Consensus1. Exclusionary Acts: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws2. Family Values and Moral Obligations: The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric3. Dehumanizing the Undocumented: The Legislative Language of Illegality4. Manufacturing the Crisis: Encoded Racism in the Daily Press5. Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures: The Neoliberal Human Interest StoryConclusion: Legacies of Failed ReformAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sangay K. Mishra’s book is the first of its kind involving the politics of South Asians in the United States. Desis Divided fills an important gap in the study of Asian American politics and speaks to a larger literature on minority political incorporation, showing both the strengths and limitations of Desi political involvement."—Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside"Mishra paints a picture of a community whose heterogeneity has manifested itself in remarkable ways. There was so much about the South Asian American political experience that I did not truly appreciate until I read Desis Divided."—The Aerogram"Recommended."—CHOICE"An important, fresh take on the study of immigrant political behavior."—Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Situating Desis in U.S. Ethnoracial Politics1. South Asian Americans and Immigration Regimes: Exclusion, Ghadar Rebellion, and Silicon Valley2. Political Incorporation and New Immigrants: Beyond Racial Solidarity3. Race, Religion, and Communities: South Asians in the Post-9/11 United States4. Mapping the Modes of Mobilization5. Transnationalism and Political Participation: The Challenges of “In-Between” Americans6. Diasporic Nationalism and Fragments WithinConclusion: Negotiating Identities and Crafting SolidaritiesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important work for Asian American studies and ethnic studies."—CHOICE"This book should be hailed as a novel and welcome contribution to gender studies among Asian Americans."—Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and PowerChia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma VangPart I. History and Knowledge Production1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western TextsLeena N. Her2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective Ma Vang3. Rethinking Hmong Women’s Wartime Sacrifices: On Gender and SexualityChia Youyee VangPart II. Social Organization and Kinship4. The Women of “Dragon Capital”: Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang PaoMai Na Lee5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural WealthJulie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural SpacePrasit LeepreechaPart III. Art and Media 7. Hmong Women on the Web: Transforming Power through Social NetworkingFaith Nibbs8. Stitching Hmongness into Cloth: Pliable Identity and Cultural AgencyGeraldine Craig9. Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab ZooAline Lo Part IV. Gender and Sexuality10. Thinking Diasporic Sex: Cultures, Erotics, and Media across Hmong WorldsLouisa Schein11. Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong DiasporaBruce Thao12. Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Happiness among Hmong LGBTQKong PhaAfterwordCathy Schlund-VialsAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Construction of Equality is a timely and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the social and spatial politics of immigration and suburban development in Europe from the postwar period to the present, admirably complicating and enriching our understanding of both Europe and the Middle East."—Sheila Crane, University of Virginia"The first Syriacs—members of a Christian minority from Turkey and the Middle East—arrived in Sweden as refugees a half-century ago. Jennifer Mack has been notably versatile in combining participant observation with a wide range of other materials to offer this rich portrayal of the community in its changing habitat. At a time of dramatic crisis reporting about new refugee streams, it is good to learn about how one group has made its way over time."—Ulf Hannerz, author of Writing Future Worlds "Its approach to the Swedish welfare state, social democratic urban planning, and basic ideas on migration policies is thought-provoking and raises many important questions."—EuropeNow Journal "This is an important, rich work that challenges currently dominant thoughts on Swedish suburban development."—Antipode "The book not only shows the multiple facets of power relationships encountered by members of ethnic communities, but also provides significant arguments for the analysis of vernacular uses of spaces in their tasks. The Construction of Equality can be an important tool for understanding the cultural issues and political stakes that many professionals are confronted with when they try to involve refugees, immigrants, and ethnic communities in city development."—Buildings & Landscapes "The book is well written and easy to follow and has carefully integrated illustrations."—Journal of Planning Education and Research Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: Urban Design from Below1. Standards and Separatism: The Swedish Million Program, Syriac Enclaves, and Equality2. Visible Cities, Invisible Citizens: Service and Citizenship in the Centrum3. Making Mesopotälje: Sacred and Profane “Diaspora Space” in the City4. “Södertälje Is a Theater”: The Performance of Propriety and Ritual Infrastructure5. Greetings from Hollywood! Enclaves, Participation, and Dialogue from the Ghetto to the Mansion6. Safety in Numbers: Tolerance and Norms in Syriac DesignConclusion: The New PeripheryAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 11 essays in this volume, originally presented at meetings of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium by scholars from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the USA, explore the nature of Scotch-Irish culture by examining values, traditions, demographics, and language.Trade ReviewThese essays should lay to rest any lingering doubts that the Scotch-Irish have made a major contribution to North American civilization in general and to that of the U.S. Upper South in particular. - Now & Then Magazine

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Book SynopsisA reshaping of traditional understandings of Costa Rica and its national identity. The Saints of Progress chronicles the development of the Tarrazú Valley, a historically remote coffee-growing region. Carmen Kordick traces the development of this region from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewKordick makes a substantial contribution to the literature on Costa Rica and joins an ongoing discussion (especially among Costa Rican scholars) of the prevalent Costa Rican national myths by debunking the idea of the nation as a timelessly peaceful land of primarily white yeoman farmers."" - Julie A. Charlip, author of Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930 and coauthor of Latin America: An Interpretive HistoryTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Tarrazú: A Place, a Coffee, and a People Chapter 1. Tarrazú’s Founding and Settlement Chapter 2. Coffee, Downward Mobility, and Political Power in Tarrazú Chapter 3. Maintaining the Order: Gender, Class, State Authority, and Violence Chapter 4. Revolt in Tarrazú Chapter 5. The Civil War and Its Consequences Chapter 6. Migration and Shifting Class, Racial, and National Identities Chapter 7. National Belonging and Exclusion beyond Costa Rica’s Borders Conclusion. Costa Rica’s Cold War Exceptionalism Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUntil this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research, Waters and Edmonds have produced a study that covers all units from Florida in the ANV, and does so in an objective and reliable fashion. Drawn from what was then a turbulent and thinly settled frontier region, the Florida troops serving in the Confederacy were never numerous, but they had the good or bad luck of finding themselves at crucial points in several significant battles such as Gettysburg where their conduct continues to be a source of contention. Additionally, the study of these units and their service permits an examination of important topics affecting the Civil War soldier: lack of supplies, the status of folks at home, dissension over civilian control of soldiers and units from the various Confederate

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Book SynopsisTells the story of how Dreamers in the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant rights and empower undocumented youth to proudly represent their lives and identities, all while under the ever-present threat of detention and deportation.Trade Review“Dreamer Nation is an elegantly written and thoroughly researched rhetorical history of undocumented youth activism during the Obama years. Ribero’s book will be beneficial to readers interested in social movements, queer of color critique, decolonial feminism, and anyone interested in immigration politics.”- J. David Cisneros, author of The Border Crossed Us: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity

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Book SynopsisIn the last three years the migrant labor hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theaters of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities.Trade Review“This is an excellent book: it is easy to read and provides a deep analysis of apartheid and its consequences by homing in on one particular kind of institution. It provides a means to self-examination for both black and white readers which is so much needed in South African writing now…A work which is among the best recent South African publications.” * Journal of Southern African Studies *

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Book SynopsisExplores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, this book focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a trans-national fight for Khalistan.Trade Review“Historical anthropology at its best, The Nation's Tortured Body explores the history and politics of the Sikhs in a complex, and contested, transnational context. Axel’s book evocatively charts the ways in which the crossing and marking of boundaries have shaped the foundational identities of a diasporic community, providing a graphic illustration of the multiple meanings of the idea of ‘homeland’ in our contemporary postcolonial world.”—Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia University“This groundbreaking study of the Sikh diasporic world is also a brilliant ethnography of violence and loss. Tacking deftly between the politics of images and the imagination, Axel shows how the iconic social categories produced in the colonial encounter shape the struggle over the politics of place, person and body in contemporary India. This book will surely change the ways in which we see how colonialism, diaspora and the politics of separatism inform the formation of modern subjects with mobile loyalties.”—Arjun Appadurai, University of Chicago“Provocative and informative . . . . The arguments and the material covered constitute a helpful corpus for reference and thoughtful discussion. The layout of the volume is excellent, and the numerous maps, pictures, and posters illustrating various points enhance its value. . . . Recommended as an informed and provocative reexamination of dynamics within the Sikh diaspora . . . .” -- N. Gerald Barrier * Journal of Asian Studies *"A provocative reading of Sikh historical figures and events. . . . It provides valuable examples of transnational flows and the working of the social imaginary. Those interested in diaspora studies, gender studies, postcolonial theory, transnationalism, historical anthropology, and the anthropology of violence will want to take note." -- Verne A. Dusenbery * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Promise and Threat 1 1: The Maharaja's Glorious Body 39 2: The Restricted Zone 79 3: The Tortured Body 121 4: Glassy Junction 158 5: The Homeland 197 Conclusion 224 Notes 237 Bibliography 263 Index 291

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Book SynopsisA study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigrationTrade Review“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is a wonderfully creative, playful, and serious piece of scholarship. Demonstrating that pleasure and critique need not be incompatible, Erica Rand offers not only a model for thinking about contemporary capitalism but a way to live in it.”—Miranda Joseph, author of Against the Romance of Community“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is quite simply a great book. Destined to become a classic in contemporary cultural studies, it is one of the few books I’ve read in the last year or so that has taught me something new on every page.”—Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture“Much as she did in her earlier book, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Erica Rand turns a kitsch artifact of consumer culture into a powerful tool for cultural analysis. In this insightful and engaging new work, she transforms an Ellis Island snow globe into a window through which we see how state control of borders and migrations structures sexuality, gender, desire, and family in unexpected ways. One of the best cultural studies books I’ve read in a long time.”—Susan Stryker, producer and codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria“Rand clearly demonstrates how the categories of liberty and citizenship depend precisely on particular kinds of exclusions—those individuals whose sexual identities and behaviors do not correspond with the dominant gendering and sexualizing of the statue herself.” -- Sarah Banet-Weiser * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: Respect and Reverence ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Coming to Ellis Island 1 1. Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island 41 2. Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Gender 67 3. The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch 107 4. Green Woman, Race Matters 130 5. A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever 153 6. Immigrant Peddlers 181 7. Product Packaging 207 8. "Decide an Immigrant's Fate" 239 Notes 263 Bibliography 311 Index 325

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Book SynopsisA study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigrationTrade Review“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is a wonderfully creative, playful, and serious piece of scholarship. Demonstrating that pleasure and critique need not be incompatible, Erica Rand offers not only a model for thinking about contemporary capitalism but a way to live in it.”—Miranda Joseph, author of Against the Romance of Community“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is quite simply a great book. Destined to become a classic in contemporary cultural studies, it is one of the few books I’ve read in the last year or so that has taught me something new on every page.”—Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture“Much as she did in her earlier book, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Erica Rand turns a kitsch artifact of consumer culture into a powerful tool for cultural analysis. In this insightful and engaging new work, she transforms an Ellis Island snow globe into a window through which we see how state control of borders and migrations structures sexuality, gender, desire, and family in unexpected ways. One of the best cultural studies books I’ve read in a long time.”—Susan Stryker, producer and codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria“Rand clearly demonstrates how the categories of liberty and citizenship depend precisely on particular kinds of exclusions—those individuals whose sexual identities and behaviors do not correspond with the dominant gendering and sexualizing of the statue herself.” -- Sarah Banet-Weiser * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: Respect and Reverence ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Coming to Ellis Island 1 1. Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island 41 2. Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Gender 67 3. The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch 107 4. Green Woman, Race Matters 130 5. A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever 153 6. Immigrant Peddlers 181 7. Product Packaging 207 8. "Decide an Immigrant's Fate" 239 Notes 263 Bibliography 311 Index 325

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Book SynopsisTakes on an idea central to American national mythology that the US is 'a nation of immigrants', open-armed and welcoming to foreigners. This work argues that Americans' treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long fluctuated between hospitality and hostility and that this ambivalence is fundamental to the construction of US national identity.Trade Review“By way of valuable new readings of Jefferson, Hamilton, Tocqueville, Crèvecoeur, and others, Ali Behdad has found a new way into established terrain. Neither pro- nor anti-immigration per se, this book traces the cultural workings and productions of immigration politics, an angle explored by few contributors to the immigration literature. A Forgetful Nation should be required reading for all those interested in the long and often hidden history of nation-building in the United States.”—Bonnie Honig, author of Democracy and the Foreigner“This book offers a deeply relevant argument in the wake of 9/11 and counter-terror. Ali Behdad provides psychological depth to immigration discourse with a nuanced examination of ‘forgetting’ as a mode of negation that both denies and acknowledges a past built on the exclusion of otherness.”—Russ Castronovo, author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States“A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States is an extraordinary work of cultural memory and an important contribution to critical historiography. In writing it, Ali Behdad has established a heretofore unrecognized connection between the culture’s mythical representation of itself as an ‘Immigrant Nation’ and the negation of the history of the violence inflicted against immigrants that this self-forgetful representation necessitated.” -- Donald E. Pease * Nations and Nationalism *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Nation and Immigration 1 Imagining America: Forgeful Fathers and the Founding Myths of the Nation 23 Historicizing America: Tocqueville and the Ideology of Exceptionalism 48 Immigrant America: Liberal Discourse of Immigration and the Ritual of Self-Renewal 76 Discourses of Exclusion: Nativism and the Imaginging of a “White Nation” 111 Practices of Exclusion: National Borders and the Disciplining of Aliens 143 Conclusion: Remembering 9/11 169 Notes 117 Bibliography 193 Index 205

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Book SynopsisExplores Germany's relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. This title examines the tensions in Germany between race-based ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and ambitions of multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the other.Trade Review“[An] extremely intelligent study of Turkish immigration to Berlin. . . . Highly recommended.” - A. A. Caviedes, Choice“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a fascinating and timely book that makes an important contribution to scholarship on German-Turkish relations, the new Europe, and immigration more broadly. It will be of great interest to scholars in these fields and to anyone interested in contemporary German society.” - Melissa L. Caldwell, European Journal of Sociology“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a vividly written ethnography that will attract readers who are interested in Turks and immigration politics in Germany, as well as the intercultural facets of Berlin. The multilayered study of belonging brings to our attention how Turkish guest workers in Germany are socially constructed as foreigners rather than immigrants or citizens. Therefore, this study clearly has an applied dimension. If policy makers read such analyses, they would more easily grasp the reasons why their current integration policy for ‘foreigners’ is bound to fail.” - Refika Sarıönder, Current Anthropology“This is a remarkable study which not only provides scholars in the fields of race and ethnicity, European studies and anthropology with real insights into the complexities and challenges facing Germany’s Turkish community, but also makes a disadvantaged community more visible.” - Daniel Faas, Ethnic and Migration Studies“In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel successfully conveys the particularities of Turkish experience in the German milieu as she moves across a variety of topics, including citizenship, cultural identity, religion, transnationalism, urbanism, and racism.”—Kevin Robins, author of The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities: Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity“Ruth Mandel has turned the long trajectory of her journey through the jostling identities of Turk, Muslim, Alevi, German, Jew, and American—often introspective, always nuanced, and richly painted with intense, intimate, and many-hued detail—into an intricate and yet lucid masterpiece of analytic as well as ethnographic dexterity. In the condescension of a well-meaning Berlin cultural elite toward the ‘demotic cosmopolitanism’ of the immigrants, and in the scream of irrepressible disgust evoked by the touch of an alien-seeming strand of hair, she gracefully but inexorably traces the lingering miasma of submerged or weakly confronted intolerance and challenges us to search out its traces in our own cultural milieu as well.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value“Ruth Mandel’s study of the Turks of Germany is perhaps the most important single book yet written examining the complexity and contradictions of the Muslims in today’s Europe. Looking at the various communities (Turks, Alevis, and Kurds) that make up the Turkish presence in Germany and delineating the complexity of a German identity after the Shoah and German reunification as the background to the debates about these Islamic presences, Mandel is able to provide first-hand, sophisticated answers to the most troubling questions about the shifting world of Islam in Europe. A study that will quickly become a classic for any examination of Europe and Islam.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Multiculturalism and the Jews“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a fascinating and timely book that makes an important contribution to scholarship on German-Turkish relations, the new Europe, and immigration more broadly. It will be of great interest to scholars in these fields and to anyone interested in contemporary German society.” -- Melissa L. Caldwell * European Journal of Sociology *“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a vividly written ethnography that will attract readers who are interested in Turks and immigration politics in Germany, as well as the intercultural facets of Berlin. The multilayered study of belonging brings to our attention how Turkish guest workers in Germany are socially constructed as foreigners rather than immigrants or citizens. Therefore, this study clearly has an applied dimension. If policy makers read such analyses, they would more easily grasp the reasons why their current integration policy for ‘foreigners’ is bound to fail.” -- Refika Sarıönder * Current Anthropology *“[An] extremely intelligent study of Turkish immigration to Berlin. . . . Highly recommended.” -- A. A. Caviedes * Choice *“This is a remarkable study which not only provides scholars in the fields of race and ethnicity, European studies and anthropology with real insights into the complexities and challenges facing Germany’s Turkish community, but also makes a disadvantaged community more visible.” -- Daniel Faas * Ethnic and Migration Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Note on Language xxiii Introduction: Germany, Turkey, and the Space In-Between 1 Berlin: A Prelude 23 1. Shifting Cosmopolitics 27 2. "We Called for Labor, but People Came Instead" 51 3. Making Auslander 80 4. Haunted Jewish Spaces and Turkish Phantasms of the Present 109 5. Berlin's Kreuzberg: Topographies of Infraction 141 6. Beyond the Bridge: Two Banks of the River 155 7. Minor Literatures and Professional Ethnics 184 8. Practicing German Citizenship 206 9. Deracination to Diaspora: Leave and Leaving 232 10. Reimaginig Islams in Berlin 248 11. Veiling Modernities 294 Conclusion: Reluctant Cosmopolitans 311 Glossary 327 Notes 329 Works Cited 359 Index 403

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Book SynopsisPresents a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789. Focusing on the political and legal confrontations that policies governing French nationality have evoked and the laws that have resulted, this work teases out the rationales of jurists and lawmakers.Trade Review“How to Be French is a pioneering study of the fabrication of official ‘Frenchness’ since the Revolution of 1789, marshaling a plethora of fresh evidence and rereading more familiar sources in the service of an original, thoughtful, and provocative analysis. Patrick Weil is the most knowledgeable and insightful student of the institutional and judicial character of the French social tissue—of the political construction of cohesion in a land of immigration. He reminds the French of certain jagged truths they would prefer to forget; soberly, he draws lessons of great pertinence to other societies struggling to make multiplicity and heterogeneity work.”—Steven Laurence Kaplan, Goldwin Smith Professor of European History, Cornell University“How to be French is a critical history of nationality law and politics that illuminates decisive moments in the making of French nationality while making new and sophisticated theoretical claims about the articulations of nationality, the state, and history itself. This is a stupendous achievement by one of the most important French scholars and public intellectuals writing today.”—Peter Sahlins, author of Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After“This remarkable, award-winning book is sure to be extremely well received by English-language audiences. It provides a detailed, rigorous, chronologically wide, broadly comparative, and fascinating history of French nationality. How to Be French profoundly revises previous knowledge on the topic, and its comparative framework makes it essential reading not only to scholars of France but also to those interested in Germany, the United States, Algeria, and beyond.”— Eric T. Jennings, author of Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial SpasTable of ContentsAcronyms and Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One. The Construction of Modern Nationality Law in France 1. From the Old Regime to the Civil Code: The Two Revolutions in French Nationality 11 2. The Triumph of Jus Soli (1803-1889) 30 3. Naturalization Comes to the Aid of the Nation (1889-1940) 54 Part Two. Ethnic Crises in French Nationality 4. Vichy: A Racist and Anti-Semitic Nationality Policy 87 5. The Difficult Reestablishment of Republican Legislation 125 6. The Algerian Crisis in French Nationality 152 Conclusion to Parts One and Two 168 Part Three. Nationality in Comparison and In Practice 7. Jus Soli versus Jus Sanguinis: The False Opposition between French and German Law 173 8. Discrimination within Nationality Law 194 9. How Does One Become or Remain French? French Nationality in Practice 228 Conclusion 250 Glossary 255 Notes 263 Maps and Documents 375 Bibliography 409 Index 427

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