Migration, immigration and emigration Books
University of California Press Island of Hope
Book SynopsisWith thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergence of social solidarity initiatives and networks forged between citizens and noncitizens who work together to improve local livelihoods and mobilize for radical political change. Basing her argument on years of ethnographic fieldwork with frontline communities in Sicily, anthropologist Megan Carney asserts that such mobilizations hold significance not only for the rights of migrants, but for the material and affective well-being of society at large.Trade Review"This book will interest migration and social movements scholars, but also non-academic readers interested in deconstructing the crisis and emergency narrative surrounding Mediterranean migration and discovering solidarity experiences that challenge the neoliberal system." * International Migration Review *"Carney convincingly challenges the traditional view of Mediterranean migration as a crisis of the nation state and neoliberal economy, combining meticulous empirical analysis and thoughtful discussions." * Modern Italy *"A vibrant ethnographic study. . . .Thanks to this book, it is possible to look at solidarity networks with a more critical and questioning eye. Drawing on the extensive fieldwork that foregrounds the book, it will be an important resource for academics and researchers working on migration and solidarity." * International Migration *“[A] highly accomplished and relevant work.” * Quaderni d’Italianistica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1. Austerity and Migration as Mediterranean "Questions" 2. "There Is a Lot of Creativity on This Island" 3. The Reception Apparatus 4. Migrant Solidarity Work 5. Edible Solidarities 6. Caring for the Future: The Case of Migrant Youth Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Family Size and Achievement
£63.90
University of California Press License to Travel
Book SynopsisThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. InLicense to Travel, Patrick Bixby takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, you will: Peruse the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants.See how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority. Encounter intimate stories of vulnerability and desire along with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics. Witness the authority that travel documents exercise over our movements and our emotions as we circulate around the globe. With unexpected discoveries at every turn,License to Travelexposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.Trade Review"In License to Travel, Bixby explores the passport’s linguistic journey and much else. . . . An impressive survey." * Wall Street Journal *"A comprehensive, insightful history. . . . Bixby offers up a formidable survey of this everyday artifact and how it defines individuals and affords varying degrees of privilege and freedom, depending on one’s place of birth." * New York Times *"Neatly lays out the mighty power of the passport and the pains of passport inequality. . . . With License to Travel, Bixby also makes the argument that applying and carrying a passport is not just an administrative hoop that travelers must jump through: Having a passport gives us the freedom to travel—and the freedom to thrive." * AFAR Magazine *"Read this book and you’ll never again treat your passport so casually." * Geography Realm *"Bixby offers a new cultural history of the passport, exploring its pre-history, emergence and its current status today. This beautifully written and accessible book will be a great introduction for people wanting to learn more about passports and their politics of inclusion and exclusion." * LSE Review of Books *"This readable narrative history will interest all who travel abroad as well as those denied the opportunity." * CHOICE *"Charmingly written. . . . An appealing, accessible, and enlightening choice of reading on this subject." * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: "The Most Precious Book I Possess" Part One: A Prehistory of the Passport as We Know It 1 • Ancient Bodies, Ancient Citizens 2 • Great Sovereigns, Grand Tourists 3 • Modern Bodies, Modern Citizens Part Two: The Advent of the Passport as We Know It 4 • Modernists and Militants Part Three: The Passport as We Know It 5 • Expelled and Stateless 6 • Migrants and Marxists 7 • Alien and Indigenous Epilogue: Good Passports Bad Passports Notes Index
£18.90
University of California Press The Succeeders
Book SynopsisA powerful and challenging look at what success and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers. This book challenges dominant representations of the so-called American Dream, those patriotic narratives that focus on personal achievement as the way to become an American. This narrative misaligns with the lived experience of many first- and second-generation Latino immigrant youth who thrive because of the nurture of their loved ones. A story of social reproduction and change, The Succeeders illustrates how ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valuable, and who is an American are worked out by young people through their ordinary acts of striving in school and caring for friends and family. In this eye-opening book, Andrea Flores examines how ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valued, and who is considered to be an American are worked out by young people through ordinary acts of striving in school and caTrade Review"Through its focus on Latinx youth in the South, The Succeeders makes a much-needed contribution to studies on Latinx communities, immigration, and education." * CHOICE *"Flores skillfully presents a regional landscape of how Latina/o students currently experience belonging and through their critiques incite us to consider what belonging could be." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. "Be Somebody": The Stakes of Academic Achievement Part I Contexts of Belonging 1. City of Success: Living and Learning in Music City Part II Learning to Belong 2. Mowing the Lawn and Getting Pregnant: Latinidad and Educational Exceptionalism 3. "Your Story Is Your Ticket": Becoming a Moral Minority and Reproducing Exclusion Part III Unlearning to Belong 4. "Their Name Is Also Written on My Diploma":Striving for Parental Inclusion 5. "Education with Her Family": Caring for Siblings and Redefining Success 6. Somos Una Familia: Transforming Belonging and Making Friends into Family Conclusion. Graduations Appendix: The Succeeders Program Notes References Index
£23.75
University of California Press We Thought It Would Be Heaven
Book SynopsisResettled refugees in America face a land of daunting obstacles where small thingsone person, one encountercan make all the difference in getting ahead or falling behind. Fleeing war and violence, many refugees dream that moving to the United States will be like going to Heaven. Instead, they enter a deeply unequal American society, often at the bottom. Through the lived experiences of families resettled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau reveal how a daunting obstacle course of agencies and services can drastically alter refugees' experiences building a new life in America. In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, you see the American story. For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophesfood stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings readers into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists, workers, and policymakers can help refugee families thrive.Trade Review“We Thought it Would be Heaven is a convincing and accessible depiction of how refugee families in America navigate complexly interrelated institutions. . . . Refugee families . . . are astonished to learn how unequal and, at times, unjust America can be.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This is a beautifully written and clear book about the sometimes-ugly issues and often confusing situations which many refugees experience as they arrive in the United States and seek to make their lives there. . . . It is also an inspiring book, vividly relaying the views and feelings of members of families from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during their initial years in the US." * Process North *Table of ContentsContents List of Tables Introduction 1. Journeys to America: Lots of Red Tape 2. Hurdles and Knots Everywhere: Honoria Kimenyerwa 3. Problems Reverberate: Malu Malu and Mariamu Mahamba 4. How Cultural Brokers Help: Joseph and Georgette Ngoma 5. The Power of People Doing Their Jobs: Alain and Vana Msafiri Conclusion: Refugees in an Unequal America Acknowledgments Appendix A: Tables Appendix B: Key Ideas in More Depth Appendix C: How We Did the Study Notes Bibliography Index
£18.90
University of California Press Academic Apartheid
Trade Review"This book deserves a place on the reading lists and bookshelves of many readers. It is accessible for multiple audiences as the storytelling hooks the reader while also offering opportunities to reconsider several harmful policies and practices. . . If we hope to create a schooling system that is truly designed to serve all of its students - not just those who reflect the dominant white culture or fit into a specific frame - all of these actors must gain an understanding of how schools as institutions perpetuate racism and criminalization." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Drake has contributed a set of unique insights into global dynamics with hyperlocal implications. He does so with a depth and richness through which we come to know and inhabit this world." * Social Service Review *"Anyone who cares about equity in education should read this well-researched and well-written book to understand the causes and consequences of academic apartheid." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Segregated Schools and Disadvantaged Students in an Affluent Neighborhood 1. “If You’re Not in AP Classes, Then Who Are You?” 2. The Symbolic Criminalization of Failure 3. The Segregation of Teaching and Learning 4. The Institutionalization of Ethnic Capital 5. “We’ve Failed These Kids” Missed Opportunities and Signs of Hope Conclusion Methodological Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Open Hand Closed Fist
Book SynopsisHow does a group that lacks legal status organize its members to become effective political activists? In the early 2000s, Arizona's campaign of attrition through enforcement aimed to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they would self-deport. Undocumented activists resisted hostile legislation, registered thousands of new Latino voters, and joined a national movement to advance justice for immigrants. Drawing on five years of observation and interviews with activists in Phoenix, Arizona, Kathryn Abrams explains howthepracticesofstorytelling, emotion cultures, and performative citizenship fueled this grassroots movement. Together these practices produced both the open hand (the affective bonds among participants) and the closed fist (the pragmatic strategies of resistance) thathave allowed the movement to mobilize and sustain itself over time.Trade Review"In sum, Open Hand, Closed Fist is a must read for scholars of immigrant activism and, more broadly, for social movement scholars interested in the dynamic strategies of “challenger movements”. By offering a richly empirically illustrated and well-researched inside look into the Arizona movement, the book solves a piece of the puzzle in accounting for the spectacular rise of the immigrant rights movement in the United States." * Social Forces *
£22.50
University of California Press From Chinatown to Every Town
Book SynopsisFrom Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas. Liang's study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.Trade Review"The book’s key insight—that spatial assimilation is not just an individual level phenomenon, but rather is shaped by group-level dynamics and institutions—can be applied well beyond the Chinese restaurant industry." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Job Search: From Immigrant Networks to Market-Based Institutions 3. Making the Connection: The Story of the Chinatown Bus 4. Choices for New Immigrant Destinations 5. New Businesses in New Places: Adaptation and Race Relations 6. The Ties That Bind: Between Chinatown in Manhattan and New Immigrant Destinations 7. Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Analysis of Job Locations Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Reunion
Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cyclTrade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information
£64.00
University of California Press Reunion
Book SynopsisThis captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Búsqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members.Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military scorched-earth operation, with never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war. All book royalties ofReunionwill be donated by the author to Pro-Búsqueda and related causes.Trade Review"Barnert’s compassionate approach to her interviews helps bring to the surface many complex feelings for her subjects and, hopefully, contributes to their healing. This book, beautifully written from the heart, is an essential tool for anyone interested in recent Latin America history." * Science *"Barnert’s book is moving, her dedication and connection to the work of Pro-Búsqueda palpable." * Jacobin *Table of ContentsContents Author’s Note Foreword: Historical Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in El Salvador, by Philippe Bourgois Introduction Part 1 Pro-Búsqueda and the DNA Bank (Summer 2005) 1. Arriving 2. Guarjila with Father Jon 3. At the Nunnery 4. Guerrilleras 5. Morazán 6. Gunshots 7. Sonsonate with Ceci and Lucio 8. Fathers 9. Sonia’s Reunion 10. Carmen’s Reunion 11. Suchitoto with María Inés 12. Isabel and Gloria’s Reunion 13. Meeting Angela 14. Meeting Pedro 15. Sandrita and New Separations 16. La Esperanza 17. Coming Home Part 2 Fifty Interviews (Winter 2005–2006) 18. Father Jon’s Legacy 19. Back at Pro-Búsqueda 20. Pedro’s Testimony 21. El Norte Part 3 Angela’s Story (2006–2020) 22. Angela’s Phone Reunion 23. Return to El Salvador 24. Angela’s Reunion 25. Blanca and Ricardo 26. Remittance 27. Home to California with Angela 28. Berkeley Days Between 29. Angela’s El Salvador 30. Onward Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix A: Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981) by Philippe Bourgois Appendix B: Refugee Children’s Drawings of the Salvadoran Civil War by Elizabeth Barnert and Philippe Bourgois Notes Index Contact Information
£22.50
University of California Press Passport Entanglements
Book SynopsisPassport Entanglements traces the many tangled threadspolitical, historical, economic, global, and localthat are tied to the existence of Indonesianaspalor real but fake passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or clean up (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate riTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Terms and Abbreviations 1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements 2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor 3. Care and Control 4. Real and Fake 5. State and Society 6. Migrant and Citizen 7. Temporalities and Scales References Index
£63.90
University of California Press Passport Entanglements
Book SynopsisPassport Entanglements traces the many tangled threadspolitical, historical, economic, global, and localthat are tied to the existence of Indonesianaspalor real but fake passports that are carried by as many as a third of Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. The book explains how and why the HK Indonesian Consulate's attempts to regularize or clean up (pemutihan) these passports created significant problems for migrant workers. Passports and other types of documentation are said to facilitate migration and to offer migrant workers protection and care yet they can also be instruments of surveillance, control, and exploitation. Anthropologist Nicole Constable focuses on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, drawing from ethnographic examples of migrant workers who were found guilty of immigration fraud and sent to prison and of others who protested and resisted the new passport policies. She considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate riTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Terms and Abbreviations 1. Passports and Ethnographic Entanglements 2. Ethnographer and Interlocutor 3. Care and Control 4. Real and Fake 5. State and Society 6. Migrant and Citizen 7. Temporalities and Scales References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Abandoning Their Beloved Land
Book SynopsisAbandoning Their Beloved Landoffers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Programrelated responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.Trade Review"Abandoning Their Beloved Land adds a much-needed Mexican perspective on a program that encompassed thousands of lives in different political spheres and localities for over two decades." * H-Migration *"A major contribution to the literature on Chicana/o and ethnic studies, this volume will be invaluable for future research and scholarship on this critical subject." * CHOICE *"Meticulously researched, Abandoning Their Beloved Land provides an engaging narrative that makes this book accessible to non-academics, undergraduates, and graduate students alike." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 • “The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures”: Federal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 2 • “According to the Jurisdiction’s Necessities”: State-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 3 • “Long-Standing Political and Religious Differences”: Political-Religious Conflicts and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 4 • “Lack of Work and Lands to Sow”: The Agrarian Reform and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 5 • A “Mockery of Responsibility”: Municipal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Abandoning Their Beloved Land
Book SynopsisAbandoning Their Beloved Landoffers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Programrelated responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.Trade Review"Abandoning Their Beloved Land adds a much-needed Mexican perspective on a program that encompassed thousands of lives in different political spheres and localities for over two decades." * H-Migration *"A major contribution to the literature on Chicana/o and ethnic studies, this volume will be invaluable for future research and scholarship on this critical subject." * CHOICE *"Meticulously researched, Abandoning Their Beloved Land provides an engaging narrative that makes this book accessible to non-academics, undergraduates, and graduate students alike." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 • “The Urgent Need to Regulate Departures”: Federal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 2 • “According to the Jurisdiction’s Necessities”: State-Level Administration of the Bracero Program 3 • “Long-Standing Political and Religious Differences”: Political-Religious Conflicts and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 4 • “Lack of Work and Lands to Sow”: The Agrarian Reform and Bracero Migration in the Greater Bajío 5 • A “Mockery of Responsibility”: Municipal-Level Administration of the Bracero Program Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Textures of Terror
Book SynopsisInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration. Part memoir and part forensic investigation,Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemalaand how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in postconflict countries where violence never ended. Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, Textures of Terror offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, inTrade Review"A scathing critique of a dysfunctional justice system, the willful incompetence of those charged with upholding women’s rights and a cast of institutional actors who seem hostile to the very idea of justice." * ReVista *"Sanford has woven Textures of Terror into a testimonio that draws on the emotional power of the stories she witnessed to demand a response to the larger tragedy of feminicide in Guatemala, and the ongoing refusal or impossibility of the government to address it." * NACLA *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Dramatis Personae Introduction 1 The Night Claudina Isabel Did Not Come Home 2 Esperanza’s Story: Sold at 12 3 Cycles of Violence 4 #TengoMiedo (#IAmAfraid) 5 Paradise for Killers 6 Marked Women 7 Bittersweet Justice Notes References Index
£21.60
University of California Press Pressing Onward
Book SynopsisPressing Onwardcenters the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, engaging cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or press onward. Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritized populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, PressingOnward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid long-standing structural violence.Trade Review"[Cerdeña’s] own experiences as an activist and volunteer strengthen her commentary on the failures of health care services available to undocumented women, particularly in relation to prenatal and maternity needs. . . .. In the end, it is their words that give this work coherence and meaning. . . .Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: On Love Alone 1. Leaving 2. Moving 3. Arriving 4. Mothering 5. Surviving Conclusion: Onward Appendix A. Methods Appendix B. Ethnographic Tables Appendix C. Organizations for Immigration and Health Policy Reform and Activism References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Pressing Onward
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Cerdeña’s] own experiences as an activist and volunteer strengthen her commentary on the failures of health care services available to undocumented women, particularly in relation to prenatal and maternity needs. . . .. In the end, it is their words that give this work coherence and meaning. . . .Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: On Love Alone 1. Leaving 2. Moving 3. Arriving 4. Mothering 5. Surviving Conclusion: Onward Appendix A. Methods Appendix B. Ethnographic Tables Appendix C. Organizations for Immigration and Health Policy Reform and Activism References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Foreword, by Philippe Bourgois Acknowledgments Preface to the Updated Edition 1. Introduction: “Worth Risking Your Life?” 2. “We Are Field Workers”: Embodied Anthropology of Migration 3. Segregation on the Farm: Ethnic Hierarchies at Work 4. “How the Poor Suffer”:nEmbodying the Violence Continuum 5. “Doctors Don’t Know Anything”: The Clinical Gaze in Migrant Health 6. “Because They’re Lower to the Ground”: Naturalizing Social Suffering 7. Conclusion: Change, Pragmatic Solidarity, and Beyond Epilogue. We Provide Food for Your Table: Triqui Farmworkers Organizing for Change, coauthored with Jorge Ramirez-Lopez Appendix: On Ethnographic Writing and Contextual Knowledge Notes References Index
£56.80
University of California Press Banished Men
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£64.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigration and American Diversity
Book SynopsisThis engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a Nation of Immigrants who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America''s national solidarity and ethnic diversity.Trade Review"An intelligent and readily accessible synthesis of much scholarship on immigration and ethnicity, Donna Gabaccia's new book blends clearly written accounts with stimulating exercises for students. Authored by a leading immigration historian, Immigration and American Diversity covers its topics from their historical beginnings to ‘tomorrow's nation.' Werner Sollors, Harvard University "Gabaccia, a noted specialist in Sicilian and women's immigration history, gives a well-informed, fresh and intelligently idiosyncratic, account of immigrants in North Americafrom the pre-Columbian era to the present day." HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction. Student Exercise: American Diversity – and Me; American Diversity – and You. 1. Creating America; Creating Americans. 2. Americans and Aliens, 1750–1835. 3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820–1860. Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent. 4. Redefining the Nation, 1850–1900. Student Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?. 5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920. Student Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn. 6. Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-1945. 7. The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?. Student Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books. 8. Today's Immigrants; Tomorrow's Nation. Student Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on Local Communities. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
£104.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Immigration and American Diversity
Book SynopsisThis engaging textbook is a concise overview of a sweeping topic - American Immigration. Immigration is core to the history of America - a Nation of Immigrants who are diverse by definition. Beginning with the first arrival of migrants from Asia, Africa, and Europe, and ending with a discussion of the United States at the turn of the 21st century, this book offers an unflinching analysis of the complex relationship between America''s national solidarity and ethnic diversity.Trade Review"An intelligent and readily accessible synthesis of much scholarship on immigration and ethnicity, Donna Gabaccia's new book blends clearly written accounts with stimulating exercises for students. Authored by a leading immigration historian, Immigration and American Diversity covers its topics from their historical beginnings to ‘tomorrow's nation.' Werner Sollors, Harvard University "Gabaccia, a noted specialist in Sicilian and women's immigration history, gives a well-informed, fresh and intelligently idiosyncratic, account of immigrants in North Americafrom the pre-Columbian era to the present day." HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction. Student Exercise: American Diversity – and Me; American Diversity – and You. 1. Creating America; Creating Americans. 2. Americans and Aliens, 1750–1835. 3. Emigrants and Regional Strife, 1820–1860. Student Exercise: Catholic Nuns Testify in Court after the Burning of the Charlestown Convent. 4. Redefining the Nation, 1850–1900. Student Exercise: Can a Negro be a Nativist?. 5. Immigrants in a Nativist America, 1890-1920. Student Exercise, Determining the Geographic Origins of Immigrants at Century's Turn. 6. Migrants, Immigrants, and Scientific Racism, 1900-1945. 7. The Postwar USA: Nation of Immigrants or Multicultural Nation?. Student Exercise: Ethnicity, Authors, and their Books. 8. Today's Immigrants; Tomorrow's Nation. Student Exercise: This Week's Headlines: An Oral Report on Immigration's Impact on Local Communities. Conclusion. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theorizing Diaspora
Book SynopsisBringing together the key essays that have constituted this field since its inception and that point the way toward its future, Theorizing Diaspora is a central resource for understanding diaspora as an emergent and contested theoretical space. Anthologizes the most influential and critically received essays that have shaped the trajectory of diaspora studies. Offers classic statements that have defined the field by scholars including Appadurai, Gilroy, Radhakrishnan, and Hall. Presents divergent strains of multiple diasporas, including Chinese, Black African, Jewish, South Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean. Reflects the modalities and methodologies of scholars across the humanities and social sciences. Includes a postscript on diaspora in cyberspace and an extensive bibliography. Trade Review"Diaspora is one of the most critically debated terms in contemporary discussions of migration and identity. Bringing together key essays in the field, this superb collection offers us a comprehensive overview of diaspora's past politics and potential futures. Above all, it reminds us that diaspora is a distinctly human phenomenon, involving the displacement, movement, and separation of peoples." David L. Eng, Columbia University "Theorizing Diaspora speaks not only to those previously colonized and oppressed Others who have relocated from There to Here, but discusses why deracination is a process that affects all constituencies: those in the newly inhabited metropolis as well as those who remain behind." Grant Farred, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points Of Contention In Diaspora Studies. (Jana Evans Braziel And Anita Mannur). Part I: Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora. 1. Disjuncture And Difference In The Global Cultural Economy. (Arjun Appadurai). 2. The Black Atlantic As A Counterculture Of Modernity. (Paul Gilroy). Additional Readings On Modernity, Globalism, And Diaspora. Part II: Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora. 3. Diaspora: Generational Ground Of Jewish Diaspora. (Daniel Boyarin And Jonathan Boyarin). 4. Ethnicity In An Age Of Diaspora. (R. Radhakrishnan). 5. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Making Asian American Differences. (Lisa Lowe). Additional Readings On Ethnicity, Identity, And Diaspora. Part III: Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora. 6. Against The Lures Of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women And Intellectual Hegemony. (Rey Chow). 7. Returning(S): Relocating The Critical Feminist Auto-Ethnographer. (Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe). 8. In The Shadows Of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics And The Diasporic Dilemma. (Martin F. Manalansan IV). Additional Readings In Sexuality, Gender, And Diaspora. Part IV: Cultural Production And Diaspora. 9. Cultural Identity And Diaspora Stuart Hall. 10. Diaspora Culture And The Dialogic Imagination. (Kobena Mercer). 11. Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities In Motion. (Gayatri Gopinath). Additional Readings On Cultural Production And Diaspora. Post-Script: Cyber-Scapes And The Interfacing Of Diaspora. (Anita Mannur). Additional Readings On Diaspora And Cyberelectronics. Selected Bibliography of Works on Diaspora (Anita Mannur). Index.
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Harvard University Press A Nation by Design
Book SynopsisZolberg explores American immigration policy as a tool of nation building from the colonial period to the present. His book shows how America has struggled to shape the immigration process to construct the kind of population it desires.Trade ReviewA Nation by Design is the first comprehensive account of American immigration policy from the colonial period to the present. One of its great strengths is that it places American developments in a cross-national and comparative perspective. Professor Zolberg's breadth of knowledge and the range of his reading are remarkable. The book abounds in fresh insights and interpretations, comprehensiveness and richness of detail. This is a magnum opus. -- George Fredrickson, Stanford UniversityA Nation by Design is certain to become a standard reference for immigration scholars and a must-read for graduate students in the disciplines-history, political science, and sociology-that produce the bulk of these scholars. It provides a genuinely new perspective on the creation and centrality of immigration policy, and as befits a new point of view, it sketches a landscape with features that have not been visible before. -- Richard Alba, State University of New York at AlbanyA Nation by Design is a monumental work by one of America's most distinguished and most historically minded social scientists. No other book on immigration possesses its sweep, nor does any other analyze the history of American immigration policy as comprehensively and insightfully as this one does. For at least a generation, A Nation by Design will become the starting point for anyone seeking to delve into this complex and important subject. -- Gary Gerstle, University of MarylandThis beautifully realized and intellectually capacious analytical history moves the story of immigration policy from the side to the center of American political development. Deep, learned, and inventive, A Nation by Design profoundly alters what we know and how we think about demography and identity, membership and law, citizenship and belonging as it crosses the boundaries of disciplines, periods, and ideas. -- Ira Katznelson, Columbia UniversityIf you want to understand why the politics of immigration take the form they do, read Aristide R. Zolberg's richly informative book immediately...We now have in our hands a book so thoughtful, so extensively researched, and so balanced in its conclusions that if it does not inform both the current debate and the ones sure to follow, the debate is bound to be poorer even than it already is. -- Alan Wolfe * New Republic *Aristide Zolberg's A Nation by Design, offers the most comprehensive treatment of US immigration policy ever undertaken and is a major piece of scholarship that will prove indispensable to researchers for years to come. This achievement is no mean feat given the range of historical, political, economic, and sociological analyses of US immigration. What sets Zolberg's treatment apart is its unique historical depth and its realization of the importance of policies and practices other than those officially enacted by Congress--the focus of most earlier historical work on immigration policy...In many ways, immigration is America's never-ending debate. As Zolberg clearly shows, at every point in the history of the nation, from its inception as a dream among idealistic and free-thinking colonists to the present war on terrorism, immigration has figured prominently in debates about who us an American and what it means to be a citizen and resident of the United States. Over the course of US history, attacks on immigrants have waxed and waned, yet in the long run American society has incorporated an ever-widening array of peoples and nationalities into the national franchise. What distinguishes the current wave of anti-immigrant agitation from its predecessors is not its demonizing of foreigners or its harsh treatment of noncitizens, but its clever use of the fear of foreigners to launch a broader assault on the civil liberties not just of immigrants, but of all Americans. -- Douglas S. Massey * Population and Development Review *This is the book with which all of us working in the sphere will now have to measure up against. -- Kristofer Allersfeldt * History *Aristide R. Zolberg's A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America is an extraordinary achievement. In its sweep, erudition, conceptual precision, and analytic acuity, it may be the most important book on the history of immigration policy published in twenty-five years...One can find no better book than his to understand the role of immigration and immigration policy in the making of America. -- Gary Gerstle * Dissent *A brief review cannot highlight the insights and arresting observations peppered throughout every chapter of A Nation by Design...in this hyper-charged political climate Zolberg has provided a singular service. A Nation by Design is both an awesome work of scholarship and an indispensable source for understanding the seamy and complicated ancestry of America’s current politics of immigration. -- Michael B. Katz * Journal of Social History *[A] magisterial history of immigration policy. -- Ira Katznelson * New Republic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. From Empire to Republic 3. An Acquisitive Upstart 4. The American System 5. Tocqueville's Footnote 6. Seward's Other Follies 7. "An Intelligent and Effective Restriction" 8. A Nation Like the Others 9. The Ambiguitites of Reform 10. The Elusive Quest of Coherence 11. Why the Gates Were not Shut Conclusion: Natural Design in a Globalizing World Appendix: Immigration Graphs Notes Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Empire of Texts in Motion
Book SynopsisThe constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire at the turn of the twentieth century created numerous literary contact nebulae. This book analyzes three of them: semicolonial Chinese, occupied Manchurian, and colonial Korean and Taiwanese transculturations of Japanese literature.Trade Review[An] extraordinary encyclopedic enterprise. -- T. S. Yamada * Choice *Table of ContentsConventions Introduction: Empire, Transculturation, and Literary Contact Nebulae 1. Travel, Readerly Contact, and Writerly Contact in the Japanese Empire Part I: Interpretive and Interlingual Transculturation 2. Transcultural Literary Criticism in the Japanese Empire 3. Multiple Vectors and Early Interlingual Transculturations of Japanese Literature 4. From Cultural Innovation to Total War Part II: Intertextual Transculturation 5. Intertextuality, Empire, and East Asia 6. Spotlight on Suffering 7. Reconceptualizing Relationships: Individuals, Families, Nations 8. Questions of Agency: Raising Responsibility, Parodying Persistence, and Rethinking Reform Epilogue: Postwar Intra-East Asian Dialogues and the Future of Negotiating Transculturally Notes Works Cited Index
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Harvard University Press Learning a New Land
Book SynopsisOne child in five in America is a child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book details the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.Trade ReviewIn the fierce national debate about immigration, too many ignore the millions of children trying to find their way in a society that wants their parents' work, does not want to give them rights, but expects them to meet intense academic demands in a language they don't command, in communities from which their families may be expelled. The Suárez-Orozcos' remarkable study of immigrant students on both coasts challenges us to think about the consequences and to help these children realize their potential. -- Gary Orfield, Co-Director, Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, University of California, Los AngelesThis is a compelling report on a groundbreaking study of immigrant adaptation to America. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the possibilities and challenges immigrant children face in public schools, and make a strong case for practical strategies and new policies to enable them to become successful students and citizens. This is a must-read for teachers, policymakers, and educators who are invested in the future of our nation's increasingly multicultural schools. -- Kathleen McCartney, Harvard Graduate School of Education[Learning a New Land] examines how the children of immigrants are doing in American schools. It's a discouraging picture, and should be a wake-up call to anyone who cares about education. -- Josh Green * San Francisco Chronicle *This book offers the results of a five-year study that followed 400 children from China, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico, all newly arrived in the United States. These kids' struggles are so poignant. The statistics are amazing, too: One of every five children in America is the child of an immigrant, and one in five immigrant children has only one native English-speaking friend. -- Nell Casey * Cookie *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Long View on Immigrant Students 1. Academic Engagement and Performance 2. Networks of Relationships 3. Less-Than-Optimal Schools 4. The Challenge of Learning English 5. Portraits of Declining Achievers 6. Portraits of Low Achievers 7. Portraits of Improvers 8. Portraits of High Achievers Conclusion: Immigration Policy Dilemmas Notes References Acknowledgments Index Tables and Figures
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Harvard University Press Immigration Economics
Book SynopsisNearly 3% of the world’s population no longer live in the country where they were born. George Borjas synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows, and lays out with clarity a full spectrum of topics with crucial implications for framing debates over immigration.Trade ReviewThis excellent book is crisply and clearly written and makes a significant contribution to the fields of labor and immigration economics. It will be a go-to resource on immigration for many years to come. -- Gordon H. Hanson, University of California, San DiegoThis book is an excellent synthesis of a diverse set of theory and empirical work on immigration. It is well organized, with early chapters doing a good job of setting up the later ones. I have never seen a better job of bringing together such diverse topics as assimilation, selection, and labor market impacts. The author has done an effective job of simplifying the theories down to their essences; and developing equations that make the theories’ implications plain to see with simple algebra, often accompanied by a clear figure. It will be accessible and interest-provoking to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. -- Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College
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Harvard University Press The World of Plymouth Plantation
Book SynopsisOn the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world.Trade ReviewThanksgiving, Squanto, the Mayflower, and its compact—we all know the Pilgrims’ story, or we think we do. In this succinct, elegantly written book, Pestana introduces readers to the reality behind the myth. The World of Plymouth Plantation is about mothers as well as fathers, about a place where Native Americans were sometimes but not always friends, and where the rest of the world was never far away. -- Eliga H. Gould, author of Among the Powers of the EarthPestana has solved the conundrum of how to write about the Pilgrims and Plymouth. Employing a variety of inventive lenses, she treats Plymouth Plantation as a colony among colonies, interconnected with other ventures and with all kinds of Atlantic enterprises. The World of Plymouth Plantation is a model of how to write history and a must-read for anyone interested in early America. -- Karen Ordahl Kupperman, author of The Jamestown ProjectFour centuries on, Plymouth Colony still fascinates those in search of origin stories for the United States. For better or worse, patterns of English–Native relations, of religious zeal, of political democracy, and perhaps even of national independence all have been traced to a small band of seemingly extraordinary migrants who debarked in 1620. Yet, in this concise but learned book, Pestana shows just how ordinary those migrants were in the broader Atlantic context of the seventeenth century. That very ordinariness makes Plymouth matter more, rather than less, for our understanding of the nation’s past. -- Daniel K. Richter, author of Before the RevolutionThe story we all thought we knew is, in Pestana’s expert hands, transformed. Based on her meticulous excavation and skillful interpretation of the records generated by early settlers, The World of Plymouth Plantation takes us beyond the Mayflower, the rock, and the shared meal with natives to a place where real people lived and worked, experienced joy and sorrow, and connected with the world beyond the colony. -- Sharon V. Salinger, author of Taverns and Drinking in Early AmericaIn this compulsively readable book, Pestana breathes new life into Plymouth Plantation, too often imagined as an isolated and static place frozen in time. She demonstrates that the English men and women who occupied Plymouth lived in a complex world that defied Pilgrim stereotypes. Addressing topics that range from God and gender to guns and stockings, Pestana demonstrates that Plymouth, far from being an isolated incubator of American values, was embedded in transatlantic networks and entangled in complex webs of meaning all its own. -- Eric Hinderaker, author of Boston’s MassacreIlluminating…Adds depth to many founding legends of American culture…Pestana brings the early decades of the colony to rich and nuanced life. * Publishers Weekly *Explores Plymouth’s grip on the American historical imagination. -- Karin Wolf * Smithsonian *An impressive achievement…There’s virtually no tidbit that Pestana overlooks; giving fresh exposure to such details in different settings exposes a more complex, more alien, yet more recognizable Plymouth than many of us have seen before…Succinctly and ably does so much to shake up, refresh, and reengage a realer Plymouth Plantation…It is especially welcome during this quadricentenary observance of the Mayflower arrival. -- Michael Ditmore * American Literary History *
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Harvard University Press The Chinese Must Go
Book SynopsisWinner of the Ray Allen Billington PrizeWinner of the Ellis W. Hawley PrizeWinner of the Sally and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History PrizeA powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.Richard WhiteA riveting, beautifully written accountthat foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border.Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at DawnIn 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration policies incited this violence, and how this gave rise to the concept of the alien in America. Our story begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliensand long before Congress passed theTrade ReviewThe Chinese Must Go shows how a country that was moving, in a piecemeal and halting fashion, toward an expansion of citizenship for formerly enslaved people and Native Americans, came to deny other classes of people the right to naturalize altogether…The stories of racist violence and community shunning are brutal to read. Lew-Williams particularly excels at invoking the psychological effects of the law on Chinese people living in the United States after the exclusion acts passed. -- Rebecca Onion * Slate *In her skillful retelling of the history of white workers’ violence against Chinese immigrants and the formulation of laws to first restrict, and then exclude, Chinese laborers from the United States in the mid-late 19th century, Beth Lew-Williams weaves a story of racial discrimination and nativism that continues to resonate today. -- Andrea Worden * South China Morning Post *With scrupulous research and conceptual boldness, Lew-Williams applies the nuances of a ‘scalar’ lens to contrast anti-Chinese campaigns at local, regional, and national levels, producing a social history that significantly remakes the well-established chronology of Chinese exclusion by highlighting the role of anti-Chinese violence and vigilantism in advancing immigration controls on the Chinese from goals of restriction to exclusion. -- Madeline Y. Hsu, author of Asian American History: A Very Short IntroductionThe Chinese Must Go presents a powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely. It shows why nineteenth-century pogroms against the Chinese in the American West resonate today. White nationalists targeted Chinese immigrants as threats to their homes and jobs and blamed the American government for failing to seal the borders. -- Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896Moving seamlessly from the local to the international, The Chinese Must Go offers a riveting, beautifully written new account of Chinese exclusion, one that foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border. -- Karl Jacoby, Columbia UniversityAn original and compelling analysis of Chinese exclusion in the second half of the nineteenth century, analyzing how the outbreak of anti-Chinese violence in 1885 was both caused by and helped shape American immigration policies. -- Ray Allen Billington Prize JurySimultaneously a beautifully paced, moving read—a powerful and deeply humane account of the emergence of the racialized border, the consequences of which have echoed down to the present. -- Ellis W. Hawley Prize Jury
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Harvard University Press Right Where We Belong
Book SynopsisRefugee children have among the fewest educational opportunities, their formal schooling having been disrupted; their futures, beset by exclusion and uncertainty. Dryden-Peterson describes displaced students’ and teachers’ novel techniques to accomplish learning goals and build relationships, showing the way for policymakers, NGOs, and communities.Trade ReviewDespite the progress made in the past years, I see every day how refugee children are at a grave disadvantage when it comes to education. Through decades of careful research, Dryden-Peterson shows us why education for refugees matters, both now and for their futures, and what we can do about it. -- Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesThis magisterial volume lifts the voices of refugees around the world to advance the future of learning in an age of crisis and displacement. Based on decades of research, Dryden-Peterson highlights the ways that governments, civil society, scholars, and global agencies alike can learn from refugee communities to build more inclusive and humane education systems. -- Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University‘What do you need the most?’ I often ask refugees in war zones. ‘Better food, water, or health care?’ ‘Give us education for our children,’ they answer. Dryden-Peterson’s excellent and must-read book tell us why parents and grandparents prioritize schools above all else: Education is hope. -- Jan Egeland, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council and Former Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, United NationsHow can the refugee learn what she needs to stay, to migrate, or to return to her homeland? In Dryden-Peterson’s Right Where We Belong, the need for and definition of refugee education is made more meaningful and urgent through her telling of important human stories—of struggle, witness, and growth. -- Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires and PachinkoI went to school during a war. Now I train teachers of refugees. This well-researched, inspiring book is a must-read for all teachers and policymakers, as we create ways to support our students to learn and have hope, even in the most challenging situations. -- Suha Tutunji, Director of Refugee Education, Jusoor, LebanonA rare book of immense depth, wisdom, and beauty. Millions of children are growing up amid the grave crises of our times: war and terror, unchecked climate change, and malignant kleptocratic states. Dryden-Peterson tells their story with empathy and heart but also with a keen eye for the details that point to the greater truths of refugee lives in cities and camps, in schools, and at homes around the world. This is the book for our times: urgent, brilliant, indispensable. -- Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, BostonRight Where We Belong is a rich painting of the human stories of refugees woven together with the factual context needed to understand, and feel, their world. Few authors could maintain the intellectual rigor necessary to tackle a topic of such emotional concern while also being fair to the international actors we urgently need to act. If you want to understand how to vividly describe complex social science research with humanity, read this book. If you want a master class on using cross-disciplinary methods of analysis for multifaceted problems, read this book. And, most critically, if you want to feel these young people’s yearning for a better future and understand the barriers to reaching that future, read this book. -- Benjamin Piper, Senior Director of Africa Education for RTI InternationalPertinent and urgent. It makes a compelling case for rethinking refugee education in ways that foster belonging for refugees and reinforce the duties and commitments of states, organizations, communities, and individuals toward them. -- Zachary Agele Lomo, St. Augustine International University, UgandaAn engaging read…The connections made between the curriculum and access to education and the resulting possibilities that refugee pupils have in their futures are unique, suggesting further ways that education can influence where individual refugees may be able to live, work, and belong in future. -- Ellen Bishop * Educational Review *
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Harvard University Press Migrations and Belongings
Book SynopsisMigrations and Belongings traces burgeoning population flows across several continents from 1870 to 1945 and explains the variables involved and the processes of acculturation by which “belonging” takes shape. Migration, it shows, is both a critique of unsatisfactory conditions in one society and a contribution of human capital to another.
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Harvard Department of the Classics CounterDiaspora
Book SynopsisFocusing on the return of the diasporic second generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Counter-Diaspora examines migration experiences of Greek-Americans and Greek-Germans growing up in the Greek diasporic setting, motivations for the counter-diasporic return, and evolving notions of the “homeland.”
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Harvard University Press America Classifies the Immigrants
Book SynopsisJoel Perlmann traces the history of U.S. classification of immigrants, from Ellis Island to the present day, showing how slippery and contested ideas about racial, national, and ethnic difference have been. His focus ranges from the 1897 List of Races and Peoples, through changes in the civil rights era, to proposals for reform of the 2020 Census.Trade ReviewA work of exacting scholarship and exemplary good sense. Perlmann illuminates as no other scholar has the process by which Americans decided how to classify immigrants. His account offers a much richer and more complex picture of the story than is found in any other work of historical writing. -- David A. Hollinger, author of Postethnic AmericaPerlmann transforms our understanding of the history of government efforts to racially classify immigrants to the United States. He unearths a number of fascinating discoveries about a history that many thought was already well-known. His book will be essential reading for all serious scholars of immigration. -- Mara Loveman, author of National ColorsWe cannot understand America unless we understand race and immigration. To truly comprehend how these two histories overlap and intertwine, we need look no further than the United States government’s struggle to define, categorize, and count immigrants and members of racial and ethnic groups. It is Perlmann’s brilliant achievement to take what has too often been written as separate stories and tell it as one still unfinished story. -- Kenneth Prewitt, former Director of the United States Census Bureau, 1998–2000, and author of What Is Your Race?A readable and sophisticated discussion of the context of social science thinking about race, ethnicity, and national origins for official statistics on immigrant origins…A panoramic survey. It is a deeply researched and captivating book…Provides rich insights into the ways in which immigrants have been classified in America. -- Barry Edmonston * Population and Development Review *We can learn a lot from [this] book about how conflicting agendas, behemoth ambitions, and unwarranted optimism produced classification schemes that negatively affected the lives of millions of Americans and would-be immigrants. We might do well to pair that knowledge with a stronger sense of humility than our forbearers held as we move forward in our own research. -- Jessica H. Lee * Journal of Urban History *A cogent and compelling analysis of the muddle of meanings embedded in the terms race, peoples, national origins, and mother tongue as used by scholars, politicians, and administrators in the Bureau of Immigration and the U.S. Census Bureau. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Forward *An insightful examination of how the US adopted and revised categories of immigrants over almost 150 years…Well researched and lucidly presented. * Choice *Perlmann provides us with a brilliant historical account of how Southern and Eastern Europeans, particularly Jews, were thought about, classified, and rendered legible by the state. -- Michael Omi * American Journal of Sociology *A work of deep erudition, impressive for its temporal scope but no less because breadth does not come at the expense of a fine-grained account of governmental classificatory practices. The key episodes selected by the author allow us to probe what it means that immigration policy was propelled by official acts of discrimination…Meticulously written, clear, and provocative—a book not to be missed. -- David Cook-Martín * International Migration Review *A well-written, compelling analysis of how the U.S. statistical system grappled with the increasing heterogeneity of the origins of immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants from the turn of the 20th century to the present. It is a story that tells us as much (or more) about America—including its political decisions, the federal bureaucracy, attitudes toward race, and the social sciences over this period—as it does about the immigrants themselves. -- Barry R. Chiswick * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Rise of a Japanese Chinatown
Book SynopsisRise of a Japanese Chinatown focuses on a Chinese immigrant community in the Japanese port city of Yokohama from the Sino-Japanese War of 18941895 to the normalization of Sino-Japanese ties in 1972 and beyond. It tells the story of how Chinese immigrants found an enduring place within a monoethnic state during periods of war and peace.
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Harvard University Press Politics Self and Society
Book SynopsisHow to deal with the relationship between the individual and society as it reveals itself through politics is the large theme of these erudite and stylish essays by a leading scholar whose lifelong concerns have included political behavior, decision-making by groups, and legislative deportment. Truly interdisciplinary in his approach, Heinz Eulau has drawn on all the social sciences in his thirty years of research into the political behavior of citizens in the mass and of legislative elites at the state and local levels of government. Utilizing a variety of social and political theoriestheories of reference group behavior, social role, organization, conflict, exchange functions and purposive actionhe enriches the methodology of political science while tackling substantive issues such as social class behavior in elections, public policies in American cities, the structures of city councils, and the convergence of politics and the legal system. Eulau is ranked among the few scholars who have shaped the agenda of political science, and his latest work should also prove valuable for sociologists, social psychologists, and theorists of the social sciences.
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Princeton University Press Americans at the Gate The United States and
Book SynopsisUnlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This book explores the reasons behind the remarkable changes to American refugee policy, laws, and programs.Trade Review"The author is adept at unraveling the complex underpinnings and evolution of this postwar 'American identity,' utilizing an impressive range of archival and published sources... For those specializing in post-WW II US history, this is an essential contribution."--K.A. Tyvela, Choice "Carl J. Bon Tempo has done a solid overall job of examining the acceptance of refugees into the US during the Cold War. His book is concise and historically accurate... It deserves consideration by scholars of human rights, migration, and foreign policy. It provides a good base for dispersing information and facts to students as well and should be useful in undergraduate courses for this purpose."--Samuel S. Stanton, Jr., Law and Politics Book Review "In the post-war period, the United States admitted millions of refugees. In this ambitious book, Carl J. Bon Tempo set out to explain how and why this new American approach to refugee affairs developed and evolved between the early 1950s and the late 1980s. In doing so, the author decided to go beyond foreign policy imperatives to confront a multiplicity of factors, weighing the evolution of their relative significance. Set in the Cold War context, the impact of anticommunism at home and abroad constitutes the main element of this study. Indeed, the propaganda value of accepting refugees fleeing communism remained central to US policy and manifest in the persistence of the 'refugee equals European anticommunist' equation. Bon Tempo's study of how this equation evolved and receded--without totally disappearing over the period--is a major contribution of this book."--Cold War History "Carl Bon Tempo's new book offers a new perspective... By placing the overlapping and intertwined problems and dichotomies of the Cold War, human rights and, to a lesser extent, the Civil Rights movement as part of American refugee policies, this book deserves to be read."--Mario Menendez, Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines "This book is a superb introduction to the history of U.S. refugee politics and policy and an important contribution to American civic education."--Karen Jacobsen, Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Americans at the Gate 1 CHAPTER 1: "The Age of the Uprooted Man": The United States and Refugees, 1900-1952 11 CHAPTER 2: "A Mystic Maze of Enforcement": The Refugee Relief Program 34 CHAPTER 3: "From Hungary, New Americans": The United States and Hungarian Refugees 60 CHAPTER 4: "Half a Loaf": The Failure of Refugee Policy and Law Reform, 1957-1965 86 CHAPTER 5: "They Are Proud People": The United States and Refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 106 CHAPTER 6: "The Soul of Our Sense of Nationhood": Human Rights and Refugees in the 1970s 133 CHAPTER 7: Reform and Retrenchment: The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan Administration's Refugee Policies 167 EPILOGUE: The United States and Refugees after the Cold War 197 Notes 207 Index 257
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Princeton University Press Mafias on the Move How Organized Crime Conquers
Book SynopsisOrganized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. This book argues that mafiosi often find themselves abroad against their will, rather than through a strategic plan to colonize the territories. It charts the attempts of Calabrese 'Ndrangheta's move to the north of Italy.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime "It is hard not to feel sympathy for some of the Mafiosi Federico Varese describes in his meticulous study of mafia transplantation, as they struggle to make an impact in a foreign country where they don't speak the language and nobody is interested in the protection they have to offer. If Varese is right--and it would be hard to dispute his evidence--most mafia groups seeking new turf eventually either go back home with their tails between their legs or give up being gangsters and take up a less disreputable profession... Varese is one of the most acute students of global organised crime and a gripping storyteller."--Misha Glenny, London Review of Books "[Varese] is careful, painstaking, willing and able to pore through police, local authority and parliamentary files in search of hard facts. Yet he is as reckless as a freelance reporter out to make his name in the global badlands--trekking about the tougher areas of his native Italy, delving into the vicious gangs that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union and patiently acquiring on-the-ground knowledge of the Chinese crime world, growing at the same breakneck speed as the economy it both assists and corrupts."--John Lloyd, Financial Times "Few books on organized crime blend academic theory and popular interest as well as this book... [T]his is an excellent study."--Choice "Mafias on the Move offers a compelling and cautionary tale of the unintended consequences of state actions... Varese provides an insightful challenge to the conventional wisdom on the impact of globalization and an essential contribution to the literature on organized crime."--H. Richard Friman, Perspectives on Politics "Mr. Varese's quest leads him from Prohibition-era Manhattan to mid-century Italy to modern-day China... [Mafias on the Move] tells a compelling story that is as much about politics as crime."--Wall Street Journal "Varese has successfully blended a diversity of sources, including archival and government documents from several countries, interviews, journalism, and personal accounts, to establish a convincing and rich set of case studies examining both successful and failed mafia transplantations."--Public Choice "Varese's work should be of [broad] interest to anyone working in political economy... Through colorful and exciting case studies, this book contributes to the study of political economy by explaining the nature and mobility of mafia groups, identifying the importance of informal institutions, and showing how globalization can limit organized crime."--David Skarbek, Public Choice "[C]ompelling narrative... Well written and researched."--Economic Times "Mafias on the Move will undoubtedly confirm Federico Varese's stature as one of the most astute and insightful contemporary participants in the ongoing conversation about the fate of transnational criminal groups in the globalization era."--Venelin I. Ganev, European Journal of Sociology "[I]ntellectually absorbing and beautifully written... This excellent book well merits the high praise from John le Carre, Timothy Frye, and Susan Rose-Ackermann that appears on its cover."--Michael Levi, American Journal of Sociology "[T]his book is intriguing... As with any quality research, Varese's work creates more questions than answers."--Lee Brown, International Social Science Review "[A]ll will certainly appreciate the thought-provoking analysis and the agreeable prose."--Vincenzo Ruggiero, British Journal of CriminologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Mafia Transplantation 13 Chapter Three: The 'Ndrangheta in Piedmont and Veneto 31 Chapter Four: The Russian Mafia in Rome and Budapest 65 Chapter Five: Lessons from the Past: Sicilian Mafiosi in New York City and Rosario, circa 1880-1940 101 Chapter Six: The Future of the Mafias? Foreign Triads in China 146 Chapter Seven: Mafia Origins, Transplantation, and the Paradoxes of Democracy 188 Notes 203 References 237 Index 263
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Princeton University Press The Price of Rights
Book SynopsisMany low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. This title shows why you cannot always have both.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association "To what extent should countries encourage immigration? What rights should be conferred on immigrants, especially temporary ones? Ruhs emphasizes the uncomfortable tradeoffs built into every answer to those questions."--Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs, US "Ruhs's work is an excellent reality check for idealism within the immigrant advocacy community and a solid discussion on the rights of migrants and the trade-offs of policy decisions. It'd be a good addition to a graduate or higher-level undergraduate migration course reading list, or to the bookshelf of an academically minded policy maker."--Amy Grenier, Migrationist, US "We may argue with the detail of Ruhs's prescriptions for expanding labour migration schemes for low-skilled workers, but the substance of his ethical argument is not easily dismissed. To shut down labour migration--even in the name of protecting migrants' rights--is to deny opportunity to potential migrant workers, and to condemn them to living in the state of poverty they seek to overcome."--Peter Mares, Inside Story, Australia "This is an academic book, but very accessible, and I think it is an important one for anybody interested in the migration debate to read."--Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics "Ruhs makes many interesting observations of the regulation of labour migration and is therefore necessary reading for those interested in migration policy and law."--Jaana Palande, Nordic Journal of Migration Research "Supporters of the rights of migrants can and should read this book with a proper sense of gratitude that such a thoughtful piece of work which critically assesses exactly what we are trying to achieve has been written."--Don Flynn, Migrant Rights Network, UK "Ruhs's detailed documentation of the existence and variation in immigration policies has a crucial implication for the models that predict huge gains from unrestricted migration."--George Borjas, Journal of Economic Literature "In successive GFMD meetings and at the 2013 UN High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, civil society and migrant observers have continued to insist on a frank and honest discussion of human rights--a discussion which has been repeatedly frustrated. Hopefully Ruhs' provocative book will help begin that discussion."--Susan Gzesh, Journal on Migration and Human Security "The Price of Rights makes a critical contribution to the literature on labour migration by showing how the differential access to rights for migrant workers according to their skills has become a global trend. The coverage of the study is impressive, including a variety of countries from higher to lower income, spanning from Europe to the Middle East, the USA and Australasia."--Gabriela Alberti, British Journal of Industrial Relations "This is an excellent book. Ruhs is right to place migrant rights in the discussion about migration policy so vividly... Ruhs's solutions will be confrontational to some, however they are to be commended. Anyone interested in the overall flow of global migration would do well to understand how migrant rights plays a pivotal role."--Henry Sherrell, Value for Money "The Price of Rights makes a brave contribution to the debate on the ethics of immigration policy and the restrictions it imposes on the legal rights of migrant workers... [A] core strength of this study is the separation it makes between migrant rights in practice and rights migrants should have from a moral/ethical point of view."--Wayne Palmer, Asia Pacific Migration Journal "This excellent book deserves to be read and considered by anyone interested in immigration policies and the human rights of migrant workers."--Martin Provencher, CERIUM, University of Montreal "The book provides a good overview of the analytical and policy issues in this area of resarch, and the rigor of reasoning and the wealth of data it mobilizes constitute a useful reference in current debates."--Antoine Pecoud, Critique international "Through a rich discussion of existing labour migration policies, The Price of Rights unfolds an inspiring analysis... Could development and the objective of promoting more migration justify some restrictions to human rights? The Price of Rights goes about as far as an academic work can go in framing this important debate."--Benoit Mayer, Human Rights Law Review "In an area of policy with such a diverse range of interests and policy perspectives, Ruhs contributes an important framework for analysis that recognises the complexity of the ethical issues surrounding the employment of migrant workers within the geopolitics of economic migration and state practice. The Price of Rights is a valuable resource for policy-makers in choosing settings for labour migration programs and for academics grappling with the appropriate terms of analysis."--Alexander Reilly, Adelaide Law Review "The pity of Ruhs's book is that something like it wasn't available fifty or even forty years ago. Had it been, European policymakers might have managed their guestworker programs differently, or at least entered the process with their eyes wide open."--Roger Waldinger, American Interest "Ruhs has raised and analyzed the competing goods that lie at the heart of using low-skilled labor migration as a tool for development."--Philip Martin, Developing Economies "Ruhs' book offers an insightful and useful analysis for academics and policy-makers, as it attempts to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the complex international and national debates on migration, rights, and citizenship."--Karen Seegobin, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism "Scholars who can weave together moral philosophy and pragmatic policy debate are all too rare, but Ruhs is on strong footing in both camps. His ethical framework is compelling: We should prioritise citizens but actively promote the interests of sending countries, and recognise the moral weight of human rights principles without treating them as the only good."--Meghan Benton, European Journal of Development Research "The book [evinces] erudition ... meticulous research and a comprehensive understanding of the subject, and [a] nearly seamless integration of empirical, policy and normative elements... The author's command of knowledge and research skills demonstrates the best practices of scholarship ... appreciate the care he took to address the sensitivities in the controversies of key policy debates, the marshaling of both the positivist and the normative arguments, and the moral courage to take a stand in the advancement of migrant rights despite the known tradeoffs and opposition."--Comments by Best Book Award Committee 2013 (Martin Heisler, Pei-te Lien, and Daniel Tichenor), Migration and Citizenship Section, American Political Science Association "[T]he book is an important call to compromise in a policy area that is plagued by factions. Its central plea--to take migrants' interests seriously, by acknowledging that sometimes they require a temporary suspension of certain rights--is an important one for both academia and policy."--Meghan Benton, European Journal of Development Research "Could development and the objective of promoting more migration justify some restrictions to human rights? These, as Ruhs clearly shows, are value-loaded questions that economists or experts cannot answer. Such questions must be the object of political debates through which societies define their values. The Price of Rights goes about as far as an academic work can go in framing this important debate."--Benoit Mayer, Human Rights Law Review "The Price of Rights is enlightening and provoking. Its breadth is deep."--Oxford Journals "Martin Ruhs has produced a volume destined to become a key reference for anyone interested in the regulation of labor migration."--Hania Zlotnik, International Migration ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Abbreviations xi Chapter 1 The Rights of Migrant Workers: Reframing the Debate 1 * Aims and Approach of the Book 2 * Outline of the Chapters and Main Arguments 4 * Terminology and Scope of This Book 10 Chapter 2 The Human Rights of Migrant Workers: Why Do So Few Countries Care? 13 * International Migrant Rights Conventions 13 * Ratification: Record and Obstacles 16 * Effectiveness 22 * Migrant Rights, Citizenship Rights, and Immigration Policy 23 Chapter 3 Nation-States, Labor Immigration, and Migrant Rights: What Can We Expect? 26 * The Objectives of Labor Immigration Policy 26 * Constraints and Variations in the Migration State 33 * Three Hypotheses 39 Chapter 4 An Empirical Analysis of Labor Immigration Programs in Forty-Six Countries 53 * Existing Research and the Scope of My Analysis 53 * Indicators for Measuring Openness to Labor Immigration 59 * Indicators for Measuring Migrant Rights 65 * Methods, Data, and Limitations 71 * Openness to Labor Immigration 74 * Migrant Rights 80 * Summary of Findings 87 Chapter 5 Regulating the Admission and Rights of Migrant Workers: Policy Rationales in High-Income Countries 91 * Explaining Greater Openness to Higher-Skilled Migrant Workers 91 * Why More Rights for Skilled Migrant Workers? 104 * Explaining Trade-Offs between Openness and Rights 111 * The National Interest: Expected Impacts Drive Labor Immigration Policies 120 Chapter 6 Labor Emigration and Rights Abroad: The Perspectives of Migrants and Their Countries of Origin 122 * Migrants: Emigration, Rights, and Human Development 122 * Sending Countries: Interests and Policy Choices 134 * Engaging with Trade-Offs 152 Chapter 7 The Ethics of Labor Immigration Policy 154 * What Consequences Should National Policymakers Care about, and for Whom? 156 * The Ethics of Temporary Labor Immigration Programs 166 * What Rights Restrictions Are Justifiable, and for How Long? 172 * Making Temporary Migration Programs Work 178 * Summary: The Case for Tolerating Some Trade-Offs between Openness and Rights 185 Chapter 8 The Price of Rights: What Next for Human Rights-Based Approaches to International Labor Migration? 187 * Blind Spots and Unintended Consequences of Human Rights 189 * UN Agencies' Reluctant Engagement with the Price of Rights 191 * Reframing the Human Rights-Based Approach to Migration 196 * Open Debate 199 Appendix 1 Tables A.1-10 201 Appendix 2 Overview of Openness Indicators 217 Appendix 3 Overview of Migrant Rights Indicators 221 References 227 Index 243
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Princeton University Press A Shoemakers Story Being Chiefly about French
Book SynopsisOn a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then their new employer lined them up and had them photographed. This work seeks to understand the social forces that brought this photograph into being, and the events it subsequently spawned.Trade Review"Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle."--Spartacus Educational "Although some historians might be put off by Lee's narrative style, it is a useful and informative method to access the complexity of American industrialization and especially to bring the voices of those who are often silent in the past to the forefront. Furthermore, for historians who are looking for model scholarship that uses photographs as more than illustrations, this book is a welcome and much-needed resource."--Krystyn R. Moon, American Historical Review "The rewards are everywhere present in Lee's research--and the pleasure of his writing. As a historian, Lee combines the local detail with the large issues, all the while turning elegant phrases and marshalling his account into a page-turning story that asserts, after all, 'what the author saw.'"--Ellen Wiley Tod, College Art Association "Innovative and ambitious, A Shoemaker's Story is a lucid and detailed account that is sophisticated in its methodology. Given the wide-ranging subject matter, Lee has produced a remarkably disciplined text, presenting the reader with a distinctive narrative tone that is mature, confident, and occasionally playful."--James Opp, Labour-Le Travail "Lee's lively and accessible account of their story is a must read for students and scholars of immigration and labor history."--Evelyn Sterne, Journal of American Ethnic History "A Shoemaker's Story will justifiably find a place in the historiography of photography, immigration, the visual culture of diaspora, and nineteenth-century industrialization. It is a model of research design, engaging narrative prose, and close attention to the specificity of form... Telling a new story in old-fashioned ways, [Lee] has crafted an exquisite piece of scholarship whose very title suggests the traditional detective work essential to both good history and compelling prose."--Elspeth H. Brown, CAA Reviews "A Shoemaker's Story gives us a history of these events, offering an instructive and vividly written case study into the development of industry and unions, the deskilling of labor, the growth of immigration, and the transformation of identities that characterized post Civil War America."--Mike Rabourn, Historical Journal of MassachusettsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter One: What the Shoe Manufacturer Saw 12 Chapter Two: What the Photographers Saw 74 Chapter Three: What the Crispins Saw 144 Chapter Four: What the Chinese Saw 197 Postscript 264 Acknowledgments 273 Notes 277 Index 299
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Princeton University Press When Ways of Life Collide
Book SynopsisThe Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream. This work demonstrates that there are deep conflicts of values in the Netherlands.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association "The authors of When Ways of Life Collide deem the Dutch multicultural experiment to be a grand and unequivocal failure. In their view, multiculturalism and liberal democracy are fundamentally incompatible. Their argument is a relatively simple one: By encouraging 'difference' among ethnic subgroups, multiculturalism ends up turning these groups into targets of resentment and thereby insuring their rejection by the majority culture."--Richard Wolin, The Nation "Sniderman and Hagendoorn expertly describe how, beginning in the 1980s, elite politicians and academics in the Netherlands advocated for an extreme form of accommodation for Dutch immigrants."--T.D. Boswell, Choice "When Ways of Life Collide is a provocative, yet empirical assessment of intrinsic, yet nebulous multiculturalism in today's society."--David Marx, David Marx.co.uk "When Ways of Life Collide is a clever book that offers insight into the attitudinal mechanics of prejudice. These are important issues with high political salience that should interest students of the Netherlands and many other countries around the world."--Rahsaan Maxwell, Review of Middle East Studies "This thought-provoking book provides many interesting insights into the relationships between a culture's values, prejudice, perceived cultural and economic threats, and exclusionary reactions against immigrants, derived from the analysis of a skillfully designed survey. It is relevant to a wide audience concerned with attitudes towards immigrant minorities, immigration, and multiculturalism, as well as to those interested in innovations in survey design."--Eline A. de Rooij, European Sociological ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO: Muslims 17 CHAPTER THREE: Prejudice 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Identity 71 CHAPTER FIVE: Top-Down Politics 100 CHAPTER SIX: Tolerance 123 A Note about the Data 139 Bibliography 141 Index149
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Princeton University Press Waiting for Jos233 The Minutemens Pursuit of
Book SynopsisThey live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen? Patriots? Racists? Vigilantes? Harel Shapira livedTrade ReviewWinner of a 2013 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association "A valuable look at the birth of a populist paramilitary formation, one whose opponents may not dismiss so easily after reading this evenhanded book."--Kirkus Reviews "This fascinating study is an honest, nuanced, and intimate look at not so much a movement but the people who make it happen. Shapira offers enough sociological theory to appeal to sociologists, but his stories of the Minutemen make this work appealing to all who want to understand the movement and immigration issues in general."--Library Journal "Regardless of one's political leanings, this is a promising, accessible book by a first-time academic author who describes the Minutemen he finds as, at heart, the detritus of lost wars and people who are 'afraid of America turning into Mexico.'"--Lee Maril, Times Higher Education "Applying basic principles of ethnographic research, Shapira was interested not so much in what the Minutemen had to say, but what they did and why. In describing, what they wear, what they carry, and how they spend their time, his book has the kind of authenticity that comes from painstaking observation. You can't phone it in. You have to go."--Julia Ann Grimm, Santa Fe New Mexican "Deeply insightful... Reading Waiting for Jose to learn about the mythic Minuteman movement doesn't simply satisfy the sociological curiosity of comprehending anti-immigrant warriors whose heyday may soon be coming to a close. It's also instructive in helping us realize that immigrants are not the only ones finding it difficult to 'assimilate' themselves to a very different America than the one many of us grew up in."--Esther Cepeda, Anchorage Daily News "Although the book will be of specific interest to those with an interest in migration, security, social movements, and masculinities, it invites a much broader readership. Its narrative style and uncomplicated prose make it accessible to a wider public. This, coupled with its accessible length and topical nature, makes it an ideal text for teaching at any level. Undergraduates and graduate students alike will find this a readable, refreshing, and insightful work."--Maryann Bylander, Journal on Migration and Human Security "Shapira, an ethnographer, writes with sensitivity and professional detachment."--John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times "Harel Shapira has crafted a fascinating and insightful account of the complex practices of civic identity in contemporary US society. In all, Waiting for Jose represents a significant contribution to current scholarship on social movements, border rhetorics, and the formation of the US civic imaginary."--D. Robert DeChaine, International Review of Modern Sociology "Shapira explores the Minutemen's varied motivations exceptionally well, even noting the organization's internal conflicts. His sociological explanations are relevant and help to interpret the Minutemen's culture... Waiting for Jose provides a unique vantage point of individuals experiencing a loss of place in an ever-increasing diverse America."--Leah N. Diaz, Contemporary Rural Social Work "Shapira has written a fine book about identity construction and masculinity fueled by racism and a longing for community. Very few books on politics do that."--Ronnee Schreiber, Perspectives on Politics "Shapira provides us with a window into the lives and practices of a group of ideologically inconsistent, sometimes confrontational, yet ultimately sympathetic, civic-minded actors."--Justin Allen Berg, American Journal of Sociology "Waiting for Jose brings the Minutemen's experience to the reader still warm. If the explanation is not airtight, it is because the Minutemen in the book are alive."--Nicolas Eilbaum, Contemporary Sociology "Shapria's balanced approach is quite rare, because he spends much time revealing close details of a conservative movement that was a precursor to the Tea Party; and he accomplishes this by writing with a level of empathy, balanced with professionalism that is refreshingly rare in today's political climate. Waiting for Jose would be a very suitable supplemental textbook for any Sociology or Political Science course dealing with issues of immigration on the United States southern border."--John R. Lewis, Journal of American Studies of TurkeyTable of ContentsThe Minutemen Chain of Command viii Acknowledgments xi Preface: A Place on the Border xv Introduction: All Quiet on the Southern Front 1 Chapter 1: American Dreams 27 Chapter 2: Camp Vigilance 39 Chapter 3: Gordon and His Guns 73 Chapter 4: Scenes from the Border 97 Chapter 5: Encounters 125 Conclusion: Belonging in America 145 Appendix: A Note on Methodology 153 Notes 163 Works Cited 171 Index 175
£31.50
Princeton University Press Creating a New Racial Order
Book SynopsisThe American racial order - the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities - is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. This title takes a look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Hochschild, Weaver, and Burch deliver a rich, novel account of the transformation of the new racial order in the U.S. They examine the beliefs, institutions, and history of the practices of race and ethnicity to show that events like September 11, Hurricane Katrina, and the election of Barack Obama reshaped a new generation's concept of race and ethnicity... This well-written book is a refreshingly welcome contribution that lays the foundation for a new generation of scholars and policy makers to study the political and social implications of an increasingly heterogeneous population. The book is essential reading."--Choice "Creating a New Racial Order is necessary reading that will easily find a place on syllabi for this and the next generation, to whom they dedicate the book, and on whom they are counting to work for a better racial future."--Jennifer Lee, American Journal of Sociology "One of the most appealing things about the book is its earnest call to action, which is really of the best kind: an appeal that simultaneously stresses the need for improvement while nurturing the optimism that change for the better is within reach... Creating a New Racial Order also deserves high marks for taking up such an important and timely matter, one with the most far-reaching of implications, and doing so in an unusually well-organized and -argued manner."--Ann Morning, Contemporary Sociology "Creating a New Racial Order does not reveal the outlines of any new racial order or any major new political movements, it helps us understand why a racially transformative politics might become possible, and the problems and prospects it faces. Those understandings are likely to be valuable for years to come."--Rogers M. Smith, Political Science Quarterly "Future historians may find that Hochschild, Weaver, and Burch got many things wrong, but I doubt they will fault them for lacking bold vision and intellectual courage. This important and timely book belongs not on the shelf but on the desk of every serious scholar of race, regardless of the discipline."--Matt Wray, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables xi Introduction xiii Part I: The Argument 1 Chapter 1. Destabilizing the American Racial Order 3 Part II : Creating a New Order 19 Chapter 2. Immigration 21 Chapter 3. Multiracialism 56 Chapter 4. Genomics 83 Chapter 5. Cohort Change 113 Chapter 6. Blockages to Racial Transformation 139 Part III : Possibilities 165 Chapter 7. The Future of the American Racial Order 167 Notes 183 References 213 Index 255
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Princeton University Press Exceptional People
Book SynopsisA guide to debate and action. It charts the past and present of international migration and makes practical recommendations that allow everyone to benefit from its unstoppable future growth. It also allows individuals to escape destitution, human rights abuses, and repressive regimes.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2011 PROSE Award in Sociology & Social Work, Association of American Publishers One of the Best Books in Politics and Current Affairs, The Economist for 2011 One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "This is a book of bold ambitions ably fulfilled. Mr. Goldin and his co-authors offer a history of migration, from man's earliest wanderings in Africa to the present day... After filling in the historical background, the authors give a rigorous but readable guide to the costs and benefits of modern migration."--The Economist "[A]n essential read ... [the authors'] arguments are buttressed by a deep understanding of the past, a comprehensive engagement with the present, and a clear vision of the future."--Sarah Hackett, Times Higher Education "In Exceptional People, the authors carry out an evenhanded assessment of the costs and benefits of international migration. They find that all involved--the countries that receive immigrants, those that send them, and immigrants most of all--prosper when movement across borders is allowed without hindrance. Anti-immigration campaigners who consult Exceptional People will encounter hard-to-refute arguments that favor free movement; advocates of open borders will find in the book the data and reasoning they need to fortify their case."--Karunesh Tuli, ForeWord Reviews "Goldin's conclusion is that western governments should simply accept the inevitable and open their borders, in line with economic demand--albeit within the framework of some pan-national treaty and institution. After all, as he points out, it is odd that there is no global body to oversee the movement of people, as there is with finance and trade. If that liberalization occurred, he thinks it would deliver an 'economic boost as high as $39,000bn over 25 years'. More surprisingly, he also argues that a 'tipping point' will be reached soon, which could shift the political debate. As world population levels stabilize in the next 50 years, a global labor shortage could prompt fierce competition for migrants."--Gillian Tett, Financial Times "Exceptional People is an absorbing study albeit academic. It strongly advocates the need to establish a global migration agenda and clearly shows that the advantages of migration far outweigh the disadvantages: Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future."--Arab News "Exceptional People is an excellent book. It would make a great addition to readings lists for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses dealing extensively with migration. Its wide scope will provide plenty of ideas for new academic projects, and its conclusions invite reflection and further discussion."--Chris Minns, EH.net "Migratory movements have been a persistent component of the human condition, and motivation for migration has varied considerably over time and with respect to the world's constantly shifting political and economic realities. This excellent book provides a broad history of migration... [R]equired reading for anyone interested in the future implications of this most compelling of human activities."--Choice "Exceptional People is packed with surprising insights... [T]his is a book of bold ambitions ably fulfilled."--Daily Star, Bangladesh "This book deserves to be widely read. Its principal messages that migration has been an integral part of human history and that migration brings real benefits to origin and destination countries, as well as to the migrants themselves, are well taken."--Ronald Skeldon, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities "Exceptional People is a wonderful reference for a wide audience. With its comprehensive review of the scholarly field, clear articulation of the migration debates, constant insights, practical policy suggestions, and rich collections of data (including thirty-seven figures and fourteen tables), the book is a great resource for researchers as well as policy makers. Its chronological structure and elegant writing style, together with many boxed cases illustrating specific groups and events of migration, also make it easy to read and suitable for classroom use."--Lisong Liu, Journal of World History "I found the book very readable and interesting... The third part of the book is particularly insightful and provides an agenda for the free movement of people that can be debated. The book covers a lot of material and would be perfect as an introductory text for undergraduate and graduate courses on migration... [I]t is a refreshing read from ordinary 'doom and gloom' readings. I recommend it wholeheartedly."--James Raymer, Journal of Regional Science "This is a careful and thorough re-examination of migration in modern society which demolishes most of the substantive arguments against greater support for international migration."--Jonathan Dresner, World History Connected "The book by Goldin et al is a stimulating work that takes the reader on a very complete journey along the past, present and future of international migrations... [B]esides offering a very careful and elaborated historical review, its main contribution lies in offering an interdisciplinary analysis of these processes. Very well and clearly written, the book is interesting and captivating for a very wide audience, not just for the scientific community or the experts in migration studies."--Juan Felipe Mejia, European Journal of Development Research "[T]his is a fine book that provides much insight. It is not an economics book and does not claim to be one. But it is a book that many economists, and anyone interested in migration, would do well to read."--Tim Hatton, Economic Record "This study is clearly written and well argued. With a comprehensive index, meticulous notes and a large bibliography, its sources are easily accessible to every reader. Its arguments are controversial and ... deserve thoughtful consideration by anyone involved in the issue, especially legislators and policy makers."--Eleanor L. Turk, Yearbook of German-American Studies "The authors have written the book I had considered undertaking as capstone of my work, but undoubtedly carried out better than I would have on my own... Highly ambitious, the book largely delivers what it promises, a broad theoretically based understanding of the role of migration in shaping the course of human history, without succumbing to the temptation of striving to achieve a general theory of migration."--Aristide R. Zolberg, Ethnic & Racial StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 PART I : PAST Chapter 1: Migration from Prehistory to Columbus 11 Early Migration 12 Connecting Humanity 18 Migration and Humanity 37 Chapter 2: Global Migrations: Toward a World Economy 39 The Age of Exploration 40 Imperialism and Coercion 45 Unfree Migrations: Slavery and Indentured Labor 47 Global "Free" Migrations (ca. 1840-1914) 57 Builders of the Modern World 67 Chapter 3: "Managed" Migration in the Twentieth Century (1914-1973) 69 The End of the Liberal Period 70 The Interwar Period: Economic Decline and Regulated Migration 77 Post-WWII Migrations 85 Finding Reasons to Regulate 92 PART II: PRESENT Chapter 4: L eaving Home: Migration Decisions and Processes 97 Micro-Level: Individuals and Families 99 Meso-Level: Networks and Systems 103 Macro-Level: Demographic, Political, and Economic Conditions 109 Individual, Society, and National Influences 120 Chapter 5: I mmigration and Border Control 121 Channels and Flows of Migration 122 Economic Migration 127 Social Migration 140 Refugee Migration 147 Border Control 153 Beyond Border Controls 160 Chapter 6: T he Impacts of Migration 162 Impacts on Receiving Countries 164 Impacts on Sending Countries 178 Impacts on Migrants 193 Impacts on Societies and Migrants 209 PART III : FUTURE Chapter 7: T he Future of Migration 213 The Backdrop of Globalization 215 Supply of Migrants 219 Demand for Migrants 241 Chapter 8: A Global Migration Agenda 259 Thought Experiments 261 A Long-Term Vision of Freer Movement 265 Principles for Global Migration 270 The Need for Global Leadership 281 Notes 287 References 331 Index 359
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Princeton University Press Mafias on the Move
Book SynopsisOrganized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West. As Federico Varese explains in this compelling and daring book, the truth isTrade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime "It is hard not to feel sympathy for some of the Mafiosi Federico Varese describes in his meticulous study of mafia transplantation, as they struggle to make an impact in a foreign country where they don't speak the language and nobody is interested in the protection they have to offer. If Varese is right--and it would be hard to dispute his evidence--most mafia groups seeking new turf eventually either go back home with their tails between their legs or give up being gangsters and take up a less disreputable profession... Varese is one of the most acute students of global organised crime and a gripping storyteller."--Misha Glenny, London Review of Books "[Varese] is careful, painstaking, willing and able to pore through police, local authority and parliamentary files in search of hard facts. Yet he is as reckless as a freelance reporter out to make his name in the global badlands--trekking about the tougher areas of his native Italy, delving into the vicious gangs that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union and patiently acquiring on-the-ground knowledge of the Chinese crime world, growing at the same breakneck speed as the economy it both assists and corrupts."--John Lloyd, Financial Times "Few books on organized crime blend academic theory and popular interest as well as this book... [T]his is an excellent study."--Choice "Mafias on the Move offers a compelling and cautionary tale of the unintended consequences of state actions... Varese provides an insightful challenge to the conventional wisdom on the impact of globalization and an essential contribution to the literature on organized crime."--H. Richard Friman, Perspectives on Politics "Mr. Varese's quest leads him from Prohibition-era Manhattan to mid-century Italy to modern-day China... [Mafias on the Move] tells a compelling story that is as much about politics as crime."--Wall Street Journal "Varese has successfully blended a diversity of sources, including archival and government documents from several countries, interviews, journalism, and personal accounts, to establish a convincing and rich set of case studies examining both successful and failed mafia transplantations."--Public Choice "Varese's work should be of [broad] interest to anyone working in political economy... Through colorful and exciting case studies, this book contributes to the study of political economy by explaining the nature and mobility of mafia groups, identifying the importance of informal institutions, and showing how globalization can limit organized crime."--David Skarbek, Public Choice "[C]ompelling narrative... Well written and researched."--Economic Times "Mafias on the Move will undoubtedly confirm Federico Varese's stature as one of the most astute and insightful contemporary participants in the ongoing conversation about the fate of transnational criminal groups in the globalization era."--Venelin I. Ganev, European Journal of Sociology "[I]ntellectually absorbing and beautifully written... This excellent book well merits the high praise from John le Carre, Timothy Frye, and Susan Rose-Ackermann that appears on its cover."--Michael Levi, American Journal of Sociology "[T]his book is intriguing... As with any quality research, Varese's work creates more questions than answers."--Lee Brown, International Social Science Review "[A]ll will certainly appreciate the thought-provoking analysis and the agreeable prose."--Vincenzo Ruggiero, British Journal of CriminologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Chapter One: Introduction 1 Chapter Two: Mafia Transplantation 13 Chapter Three: The 'Ndrangheta in Piedmont and Veneto 31 Chapter Four: The Russian Mafia in Rome and Budapest 65 Chapter Five: Lessons from the Past: Sicilian Mafiosi in New York City and Rosario, circa 1880-1940 101 Chapter Six: The Future of the Mafias? Foreign Triads in China 146 Chapter Seven: Mafia Origins, Transplantation, and the Paradoxes of Democracy 188 Notes 203 References 237 Index 263
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Princeton University Press Impossible Subjects
Book SynopsisTraces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Winner of the 2005 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Co-Winner of the 2004 History Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies Co-Winner of the 2004 First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Winner of the 2004 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 Winner of the 2004 Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society "[A] deeply stimulating work... Ngai's undeniable premise--as pertinent today as ever--is that the lawfully regulated part of our immigration system is only the tip of the iceberg. Even as we have allowed legal immigrants, mostly from Europe, through the front door, we have always permitted others, generally people of color, to slip in the back gate to do essential jobs."--Tamar Jacoby, Los Angeles Times Book Review "'Legal' and 'illegal,' as Ngai's book illustrates, are administrative constructions, always subject to change; they do not tell us anything about the desirability of the persons so constructed."--Louis Menand, New Yorker "Ngai pulls no punches, arguing that in most cases ... illegal [immigrants] were stigmatized by negative racial stereotypes and branded as dangerous... [I]t belongs in every library and should be referenced in every ethnic studies course."--Choice "May Impossible Subjects indeed lead to bold changes? Ngai creates that possibility, through altering our vision of immigration history, in showing us the constructed and contingent nature of its legal regulation. Impossible Subjects is essential reading."--Leti Volpp, Michigan Law Review "Ngai's book is a stunning piece of scholarship... [F]or background reading of 'illegal immigration' that takes a broader view, this is an outstanding book."--David M. Reimers, International History Review "Ngai has produced a valuable reinterpretation of twentieth-century American immigration history, one that will push other scholars of race, immigration, and policy in new directions as well."--Charlotte Brooks, Journal of American History "Impossible Subjects offers an important contribution to U.S. histories of race, citizenship, and immigration. This stunning history of U.S. immigration policy dispels the liberal rhetoric that underlies popular notions of immigrant America, as it establishes the designation of Asians and Mexicans as perpetual racial others. Everyone in the field of race and immigration should read this thought provoking book."--Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, American Journal of Sociology "This superb book by historian Mae Ngai addresses the emergence of the legal and social category of 'illegal immigrant' in the United States... Ngai addresses the subject ... in a variety of historical contexts and each casts a different light on their deeply ambiguous condition."--Linda Bosniak, Journal of International Migration and Integration "Moving beyond the telos of immigrant settlement, assimilation, and citizenship and the myth of 'immigrant America,' Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects conceptualizes immigration not as a site for assessing the acceptability of the immigrants, but as a site for understanding the racialized economic, cultural, and political foundations of the United States."--Yen Le Espiritu, Western Historical Quarterly "Mae Ngai's book ... offers a fascinating reinterpretation and critique of the United States as a mythicized 'nation of immigrants.' Ngai demonstrates the critical role that colonialism, foreign policy considerations and racial politics played in shaping U.S. immigration and national identity... Ngai's book is an extraordinary contribution to U.S. immigration history and a stimulating read."--Dr. Alison Pennington, Planck Yearbook of United Nations LawTable of ContentsList of Figures and Illustrations xi List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Note on Language and Terminology xix Foreword to the New Paperback Edition xxi Introduction: Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History 1 PART I: THE REGIME OF QUOTAS AND PAPERS 15 1The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law 21 2Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens 56 PART II: MIGRANTS AT THE MARGINS OF LAW AND NATION 91 3From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration in the Invisible Empire 96 4Braceros, "Wetbacks," and the National Boundaries of Class 127 PART III: WAR, NATIONALISM, AND ALIEN CITIZENSHIP 167 5The World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and the Citizenship Renunciation Cases 175 6The Cold War Chinese Immigration Crisis and the Confession Cases 202 PART IV: PLURALISM AND NATIONALISM IN POST-WORLD WAR II IMMIGRATION REFORM 225 7The Liberal Critique and Reform of Immigration Policy 227 Epilogue 265 Appendix 271 Notes 275 Archival and Other Primary Sources 357 Index 369
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Princeton University Press Creating a New Racial Order How Immigration
Book SynopsisThe American racial order - the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities - is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. This book looks at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Hochschild, Weaver, and Burch deliver a rich, novel account of the transformation of the new racial order in the U.S. They examine the beliefs, institutions, and history of the practices of race and ethnicity to show that events like September 11, Hurricane Katrina, and the election of Barack Obama reshaped a new generation's concept of race and ethnicity... This well-written book is a refreshingly welcome contribution that lays the foundation for a new generation of scholars and policy makers to study the political and social implications of an increasingly heterogeneous population. The book is essential reading."--Choice "Creating a New Racial Order is necessary reading that will easily find a place on syllabi for this and the next generation, to whom they dedicate the book, and on whom they are counting to work for a better racial future."--Jennifer Lee, American Journal of Sociology "One of the most appealing things about the book is its earnest call to action, which is really of the best kind: an appeal that simultaneously stresses the need for improvement while nurturing the optimism that change for the better is within reach... Creating a New Racial Order also deserves high marks for taking up such an important and timely matter, one with the most far-reaching of implications, and doing so in an unusually well-organized and -argued manner."--Ann Morning, Contemporary Sociology "Creating a New Racial Order does not reveal the outlines of any new racial order or any major new political movements, it helps us understand why a racially transformative politics might become possible, and the problems and prospects it faces. Those understandings are likely to be valuable for years to come."--Rogers M. Smith, Political Science Quarterly "Future historians may find that Hochschild, Weaver, and Burch got many things wrong, but I doubt they will fault them for lacking bold vision and intellectual courage. This important and timely book belongs not on the shelf but on the desk of every serious scholar of race, regardless of the discipline."--Matt Wray, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables xi Introduction xiii Part I: The Argument 1 Chapter 1. Destabilizing the American Racial Order 3 Part II : Creating a New Order 19 Chapter 2. Immigration 21 Chapter 3. Multiracialism 56 Chapter 4. Genomics 83 Chapter 5. Cohort Change 113 Chapter 6. Blockages to Racial Transformation 139 Part III : Possibilities 165 Chapter 7. The Future of the American Racial Order 167 Notes 183 References 213 Index 255
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Princeton University Press Strangers No More
Book SynopsisStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries--France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands--and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This syTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2017 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association "A welcome stocktaking of how 'low-status' immigrants have fared in North America and several Western European countries. The value added by this volume is the compact compilation of comparative data on key domains of integration, from the labor market to intermarriage."--Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Richard Alba and Nancy Foner have written what will undoubtedly become the "go-to' book for comparisons of immigration on both sides of the Atlantic. Clearly written, meticulously researched, and insightfully analyzed, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe helps readers easily capture the broad mechanisms driving migration and integration today."--Peggy Levitt, Contemporary Sociology "Richard Alba and Nancy Foner took on an impossible task: to write a comprehensive, but also empirically grounded, account of the integration of people they call 'low-status' migrants, across the main distinct fields of integration, covering the experiences of the four main Western European immigration countries and the US and Canada, all within a country comparative framework. Given this high ambition with regard to substance and scope, this book stands unrivalled and unmatched as an achievement. Few scholars possess the depth of knowledge or mastery of the arts to take on such a challenge. Remarkably, the book delivers such a high degree of informed understanding across the boards that it will stand as a benchmark and reference point for leading and junior scholars, as well as advanced students and informed publics."--Paul Statham, Ethnic and Racial Studies Review "[An] extraordinary and interesting book... [This] book, a rich and nuanced view of immigration in these six countries, should be required reading for understanding how these six nations deal with immigrants and their integration into the larger society."--David M. Reimers, Journal of American Studies "This study really is comparative immigration scholarship at its very best. It exposes best practices and successes, encourages countries to learn from each other, and contends that existing problems can be solved and integration achieved. At a time when both North America and Western Europe's diversity is too often portrayed as an insurmountable challenge, this book gives us hope."--Sarah Hackett, Patterns of PrejudiceTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Strangers No More: The Challenges of Integration 1 2 Who Are the Immigrants? The Genesis of the New Diversity 19 3 Economic Well-being 47 4 Living Situations: How Segregated? How Unequal? 68 5 The Problems and Paradoxes of Race 98 6 Immigrant Religion 118 7 Entering the Precincts of Power 143 8 Educating the Second Generation 169 9 Who Are the "We"? Identity and Mixed Unions 197 10 Conclusion: The Changing Face of the West 221 Notes 247 References 267 Index 315
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Princeton University Press Foreign Relations American Immigration in Global
Book SynopsisHistories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign Relations takes a comprehensive look at the linksTrade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society "Gabaccia's book is a rare treat for immigration scholars. She takes the hackneyed idea that U.S. immigration policy reflects U.S. domestic policy exclusively and turns it on its head, demanding that readers reframe immigration debates as U.S. foreign relations and, more specifically, trade relations... The book would be an excellent teaching tool to explain how to challenge what scholars assume that they know."--Choice "By deftly weaving the stories of individuals and families into her discussion--not so much as illustrations of a generalized story as the basic elements of this story--Gabaccia has opened new windows onto the history of American immigration."--Orm Overland, Journal of American History "[T]he book's expansive connections and extensive research signal its author as an impressive senior scholar in the field."--Deborah Cohen, Diplomatic History "[T]he book is an excellent summary of U.S. migration history (for which Gabaccia's strength is well known) and a courageous, insightful exploration of America's international history. In laying out the analysis concisely she not only expands migration history but provides a model for linking historical fields together. In so doing, she also expands the methodology of world history."--Patrick Manning, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Isolated or Independent? American Immigration before 1850 24 Chapter 2: Empire and the Discovery of Immigrant Foreign Relations, 1850-1924 70 Chapter 3: Immigration and Restriction: Protection in a Dangerous World, 1850-1965 122 Chapter 4: Immigration and Globalization, 1965 to the Present 176 Conclusion: "The Inalienable Right of Man to Change His Home and Allegiance" 222 Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading 235 Notes 247 Index 263
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Princeton University Press Americans at the Gate The United States and
Book SynopsisUnlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents who at times successfully slowed admissionsTrade Review"The author is adept at unraveling the complex underpinnings and evolution of this postwar 'American identity,' utilizing an impressive range of archival and published sources... For those specializing in post-WW II US history, this is an essential contribution."--K.A. Tyvela, Choice "Carl J. Bon Tempo has done a solid overall job of examining the acceptance of refugees into the US during the Cold War. His book is concise and historically accurate... It deserves consideration by scholars of human rights, migration, and foreign policy. It provides a good base for dispersing information and facts to students as well and should be useful in undergraduate courses for this purpose."--Samuel S. Stanton, Jr., Law and Politics Book Review "In the post-war period, the United States admitted millions of refugees. In this ambitious book, Carl J. Bon Tempo set out to explain how and why this new American approach to refugee affairs developed and evolved between the early 1950s and the late 1980s. In doing so, the author decided to go beyond foreign policy imperatives to confront a multiplicity of factors, weighing the evolution of their relative significance. Set in the Cold War context, the impact of anticommunism at home and abroad constitutes the main element of this study. Indeed, the propaganda value of accepting refugees fleeing communism remained central to US policy and manifest in the persistence of the 'refugee equals European anticommunist' equation. Bon Tempo's study of how this equation evolved and receded--without totally disappearing over the period--is a major contribution of this book."--Cold War History "Carl Bon Tempo's new book offers a new perspective... By placing the overlapping and intertwined problems and dichotomies of the Cold War, human rights and, to a lesser extent, the Civil Rights movement as part of American refugee policies, this book deserves to be read."--Mario Menendez, Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines "This book is a superb introduction to the history of U.S. refugee politics and policy and an important contribution to American civic education."--Karen Jacobsen, Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Americans at the Gate 1 CHAPTER 1: "The Age of the Uprooted Man": The United States and Refugees, 1900-1952 11 CHAPTER 2: "A Mystic Maze of Enforcement": The Refugee Relief Program 34 CHAPTER 3: "From Hungary, New Americans": The United States and Hungarian Refugees 60 CHAPTER 4: "Half a Loaf": The Failure of Refugee Policy and Law Reform, 1957-1965 86 CHAPTER 5: "They Are Proud People": The United States and Refugees from Cuba, 1959-1966 106 CHAPTER 6: "The Soul of Our Sense of Nationhood": Human Rights and Refugees in the 1970s 133 CHAPTER 7: Reform and Retrenchment: The Refugee Act of 1980 and the Reagan Administration's Refugee Policies 167 EPILOGUE: The United States and Refugees after the Cold War 197 Notes 207 Index 257
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