Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisExploring in depth the journeys migrant youth take through the UK legal and care systems, this book contributes new thinking, from a social justice perspective, on migration and human rights for policy, practice and future research.Trade Review“The aspirations, experiences and trajectories of unaccompanied young migrants are at the core of this important edited collection which includes some of most knowledgeable experts in the field.” Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham“This important and timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of current challenges related to forced migration, from the perspective of unaccompanied children and youths’ subordinated position, while also emphasising their resilience.” Anna Lundberg, Linköping universityTable of ContentsForeword ~ Lord Alf Dubs Introduction ~ Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta and Katie Willis Section 1: Framing the youth migration debate Migration regimes and border controls: the crisis in Europe ~ Katie Willis and Sue Clayton Dilemmas and conflicts in the legal system ~ Sheona York and Richard Warren Caring for and about unaccompanied migrant youth ~ Anna Gupta Section 2: Exploring migrant youth identities Preface: Voices of separated migrant youth ~ Sue Clayton Narrating the young migrant journey: themes of self-representation ~ Sue Clayton From individual vulnerability to collective resistance: responding to the emotional impact of trauma on unaccompanied children seeking asylum ~ Gillian Hughes Spaces of belonging and social care ~ Louise Drammeh 'Durable solutions’ when turning 18 ~ Lucy Williams Section 3: International perspectives A relational approach to unaccompanied minor migration, detention, and protection in Mexico and the US ~ Mario Bruzzone and Luis Enrique González-Araiza Unaccompanied migrant youth in the Nordic countries ~ Hilde Lidén Life (forever) on hold: unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in Australia ~ Kim Robinson and Sandra M. Gifford Conclusion ~ Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta and Katie Willis

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Book SynopsisExploring in depth the journeys migrant youth take through the UK legal and care systems, this book contributes new thinking, from a social justice perspective, on migration and human rights for policy, practice and future research.Trade Review“The aspirations, experiences and trajectories of unaccompanied young migrants are at the core of this important edited collection which includes some of most knowledgeable experts in the field.” Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham“This important and timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of current challenges related to forced migration, from the perspective of unaccompanied children and youths’ subordinated position, while also emphasising their resilience.” Anna Lundberg, Linköping universityTable of ContentsForeword ~ Lord Alf Dubs Introduction ~ Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta and Katie Willis Section 1: Framing the youth migration debate Migration regimes and border controls: the crisis in Europe ~ Katie Willis and Sue Clayton Dilemmas and conflicts in the legal system ~ Sheona York and Richard Warren Caring for and about unaccompanied migrant youth ~ Anna Gupta Section 2: Exploring migrant youth identities Preface: Voices of separated migrant youth ~ Sue Clayton Narrating the young migrant journey: themes of self-representation ~ Sue Clayton From individual vulnerability to collective resistance: responding to the emotional impact of trauma on unaccompanied children seeking asylum ~ Gillian Hughes Spaces of belonging and social care ~ Louise Drammeh 'Durable solutions’ when turning 18 ~ Lucy Williams Section 3: International perspectives A relational approach to unaccompanied minor migration, detention, and protection in Mexico and the US ~ Mario Bruzzone and Luis Enrique González-Araiza Unaccompanied migrant youth in the Nordic countries ~ Hilde Lidén Life (forever) on hold: unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in Australia ~ Kim Robinson and Sandra M. Gifford Conclusion ~ Sue Clayton, Anna Gupta and Katie Willis

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Book SynopsisAn international comparison of labour markets, migrant professionals and immigration policies, and their interaction in relation to social work.Trade Review"This unique text provides accounts of 21st-century social work travellers who are taking pioneer paths. The editors have assembled case studies from around the globe to explore policy, practice and personal stories of migration and travel." Jill Manthorpe, King's College London"This timely and troubling book describes how employers and the profession should do more to release the goodwill and potential of the many migrant social workers." David N. Jones, Director, People Need People Consulting, former IFSW President and Global Coordinator of the Global Agenda for Social Work“Critical reading that clearly identifies the systematic barriers internationally educated social workers endure to transition into regulated social work practice in Canada.” Jan Christianson-Wood, President, Canadian Association of Social Workers“Chapters draw on the latest research into the experiences of transnational social workers, employers and the policy contexts that impact on transnational labour market mobility. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on new public management … An interesting and informative read and one I certainly recommend.” Professional Social Work Magazine.“Transnational Social Work will no doubt appeal to a range of practitioners and employers. I would hope to see regulators – particularly those in the statutory environment – joining the debates that this book will generate… I commend the book. It is a very timely publication that addresses what will be a continuing, and growing, professional issue.” Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work"… breaks new ground and deserves to be widely read… will appeal to practitioners and social work educators alike" Critical and Radical Social WorkTable of ContentsTransnational social work: opportunities and challenges of a global profession ~ Allen Bartley and Liz Beddoe Part One: Setting the transnational context Opportunities and challenges of a global profession: an international perspective ~ Karen Lyons New Public Management, migrant professionals and labour mobility: possibilities for social justice social work? ~ Donna Baines Part Two: Practitioner perspectives A complicated welcome: social workers navigate policy, organisational contexts and sociocultural dynamics following migration to Canada ~ Marion Brown, Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, Stephanie Ethier and Amy Fulton The experience of transnational social workers in England: some findings from research ~ Sue Hanna and Karen Lyons Transnational social workers in Australia: naivety in the transnational professional space ~ Allen Bartley Transnational social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand ~ Liz Beddoe Part Three: Employer/stakeholder views In search of better opportunities: transnational social workers in the UK navigating the maze of global and social mobility ~ Shereen Hussain Transnational social workers and the Australian labour market ~ Gai Harrison Powhiri: a safe space of cultural encounter to assist transnational social workers in the profession in Aotearoa New Zealand ~ Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata, Helen Simmons, Litea Meo-Sewabu and Antoinette Umugwaneza Consistency and change: internationally educated social workers compare interpretations and approaches in Canada and their countries of origin ~ Annie Pullen Sansfaçon, Marion Brown and Stephanie Ethier Part Four: Policy challenges, professional responses Readiness and regulation: perspectives of Canadian stakeholders on the labour mobility of internationally educated social workers ~ Marion Brown, Annie Pullen Sansfaçon and Kate Matheson Will she be right, mate? Standards and diversity in Australian social work ~ Karen Healy Recognising transnational qualifications in Australia ~ Angelika Papadopoulos Social work mobility in Europe: a case study from Ireland ~ Trish Walsh, George Wilson and Erna O’Connor Conclusion ~ Liz Beddoe and Allen Bartley

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an empirically-based view on Europeans' interconnections in everyday life. It looks at the ways in which EU residents have been getting closer across national frontiers. The book considers how people reconcile their increasing cross-border interconnections and a politically separating Europe of nation states and national interests.Trade Review''An excellent example of systematic sociological enquiry of Europeanisation. The book makes a significant contribution to the study of European identities and to the geography of transnational ties in Europe.'' Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex“Students of international politics, academics and politicians will find much to concern them in this well-constructed, balanced research project and, it is to be hoped, will also heed the warnings it exposes.” Journal of Community Engagement and ScholarshipTable of ContentsIntroduction. Social transnationalism in an unsettled continent ~ Favell and Recchi Cartographies of social transnationalism ~ Savage, Cunningham, Reimer and Favell The social structure of transnational practices ~ Salamo?ska and Recchi Cultural boundaries and transnational consumption patterns ~ Hanquinet and Savage Social transnationalism and supranational identifications ~ Pötzschke and Braun Explaining supranational solidarity ~ Díez Medrano, Ciornei and Apaydin Narratives and varieties of everyday transnationalism ~ Favell, Solgaard Jensen and Reimer Understanding Romanians’ cross-border mobility in Europe: movers, stayers and returnees ~ Barbulescu, Ciornei and Varela Transnational Turkey: the everyday transnationalism and diversity of Turkish populations in Europe ~ Duru, Favell and Varela Epilogue. Is social transnationalism fusing European societies into one? ~ Recchi Methodological appendix ~ Pötzschke, Braun, Ciornei and Apaydin

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Book SynopsisProvides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on a neighbourhood level.Trade Review"This book is significant and valuable because it goes beyond conventional debates about migration and urban insecurity. It focuses on the ways in which people live with diversity, moving beyond simply celebrating or bemoaning `multiculturalism’. And it does so with the help of cases drawn from beyond the usual suspects, in and beyond Europe." - Allan Cochrane, The Open University “This book provides a timely and international comparative analysis of diversity and crucially shows that diversity does not deserve its negative connotation. Everyone concerned about diversity in contemporary cities should read this book.” – Maarten van Ham, Delft University of TechnologyTable of Contents1. Introduction: Living with Diversity in Deprived and Mixed Neighbourhoods. Stijn Oosterlynck, Gert Verschraegen and Ronald van Kempen 2. Diversity on the doorstep: living in socially and ethnically heterogeneous residential buildings in Geneva. Maxime Felder 3. Neighbourhood diversity in London: local perspectives and practices. Jamie Kesten and Tatiana Moreira de Souza 4. “Others” in diversified neighborhoods: What does social cohesion mean in diversified neighborhoods? A case-study in Istanbul. Ayda Eraydin 5. Nurturing solidarity in diversity: complementary currencies as a transformative practice in Ghent, Belgium. Anika Depraetere, Bart Van Bouchaute, Stijn Oosterlynck and Joke Vandenabeele 6. Interculturalism as Conservative Multiculturalism? New generations from an immigrant background in Milan, Italy, and the challenge to categories and boundaries. Eduardo Barberis 7. Bringing inequality closer. A comparative outlook at socially diverse neighborhoods in Chicago and Santiago de Chile. Javier Ruiz-Tagle 8. Ambiguities of vertical multiethnic coexistence in the city of Athens. Living together but unequally… Between Conflicts and Encounters. Dimitris Balampanidis and Panagiotis Bourlessas 9. Beyond the middle classes: Neighbourhood choice and satisfaction in the hyper-diverse contexts. Anouk K. Tersteeg and Ympkje Albeda 10. Living with diversity or living with difference? International perspectives on everyday perceptions of the social composition of diverse neighbourhoods. Katrin Großmann, Georgia Alexandri, Maria Budnik, Annegret Haase, Christian Haid, Christoph Hedtke, Katharina Kullmann and Galia Shokry

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Book SynopsisYouth migration is a global phenomenon, and it is gendered. This collection presents original studies on gender and youth migration from the 19th century onwards, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.Trade Review"A fascinating collection of research on gendered experiences and processes of migration in diverse international contexts." John Horton, University of NorthamptonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Youth Migration ~ Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; Part 1 Imperial Histories; Childhood and Imperial Training, 1875-1914 ~ Rebecca J. Bates; Waifs, Strays, and Foundlings: Illegitimacy, Gender, and Youth Migration from Britain, 1870-1930 ~ Ginger Frost; "Child Rescue at Home, Overseas Migration within the Empire": Child Emigration Society during Interwar Period (1918-1939) ~ Mairena Hirschberg; Part II Negotiating Identities; Senegalese Young Women in Paris and New York: Empowerment and Shifting Identities through Migration ~ Medina Ina Niang; Homophobia, Transphobia and the Homonationalist Gaze: Challenges of Young Bangladeshi Homosexuals and Transgenders in Migration ~ Raihan M. Sharif; From ‘Coming Out’ to ‘Undocuqueer’: Intersections between Illegality and Queerness within the U.S. Undocumented Youth Movement ~ Ina Batzke; Syrian Youth in Turkey: Gender and Problems Outside the Refugee Camps ~ Elif Gökçearslan Çifci and Dilek Kurnaz; Part III Education; Filipino Youth Professionals in Alberta, Canada: Shaping Gender and Education Landscapes? ~ Maria Veronica G. Caparas; Life in Cold Lake: Childhood, Mobility and Social Structures ~ Gabriel Asselin; Gender Gap among Second-generation Students in Higher Education: The Italian Case ~ Alessandro Bozzetti; Balancing Family, Aspirations, and Higher Education: The Gendered Experiences of Second Generation Arab American College Women ~ Pamela Aronson and Ivy Forsthe-Brown; Young, Educated, and Female: Narratives of Post-1991 Internal Albanian Migration ~ Ermira Danaj; Part IV Work; Characteristics and Gender Differences of Young Hungarian’s Attitudes and Intentions on Emigration ~ Ibolya Czibere and Andrea Rácz; Youth Perspectives: Migration, Poverty and the Future of Farming in Rural Ethiopia ~ Logan Cochrane and Siera Vercillo; Intersectional Experiences of Young Migrant Women in Istanbul ~ Bayram Ünal; Conclusion ~ Glenda Tibe Bonifacio.

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Book SynopsisLong term resident migrants to the UK still face significant barriers to citizenship. Dr Prabhat captures the experiences of those who successfully become British citizens through stories of belonging, citizenship, and the law. The book illuminates the gap between policy and practice in gaining British citizenship.Trade Review"Engagingly written and addresses a very timely, and urgent, area of debate." Sarah Neal, Professor of Sociology, University of SheffieldTable of ContentsIntroduction to trends and concepts in British citizenship; British citizenship and migration in stories; A folkloric account of citizenship and belonging; Myths and legends: stories of struggles and disappointment; A few fairy tales? stories of success; And, they lived happily ever after? Some conclusions.

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Book SynopsisWith cross-cultural perspectives from eight European countries, this book provides much-needed research on migration and social work. Focusing on the experiences and integration of refugees and asylum seekers, the text considers the impact of EU policies on borders and integration, and the rise of racism across European societies.Trade Review"This work represents an original overview of the holistic, transnational and cross-cultural perspectives of migration and asylum in Europe. An excellent book showing the reality of social work.” Alberto Ares Mateos, Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre Migraciones“A must for every library” The British Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsIntroduction - Emilio José Gómez Ciriano, Elena Cabiati and Sofia Dedotsi 1. The Contribution of Social Work Research to Promote Migration and Asylum Policies in Europe - Emilio José Gómez Ciriano 2. Participatory Art in Social Work: From Humanitarianism to Humanization of People on the Move - Darja Zaviršek 3. Grasping at Straws: Social Work in Reception and Identification Centres (RIC) in Greece - Marina Rota, Océane Uzureau, Malte Behrendt, Sarah Adeyinka, Ine Lietaert and Ilse Derluyn 4. Migrant Girls' Experiences of Integration and Social Care in Sweden - Elin Ekstron 5. “Come to my House!” – Homing Practices of Children in Swiss Asylum Camps - Clara Bombach 6. Transnational Dynamics of Family Reunification: Reassembling Social Work with Refugees in Belgium - Pascal Debruyne, Kaat Van Acker, Dirk Geldof and Mieke Schrooten 7. Open or Closed Doors? Accessibility of Italian Social Work Organisations Towards Ethnic Minorities People - Elena Cabiati 8. Refugee Children and Families in the Republic of Ireland: The Response of Social Work - Muireann Ní Raghallaigh 9. Sense of Place, Migrant Integration and Social Work - Susan Levy and Maura Daly 10. ‘If Not Now, When?’ – Reclaiming Activism into Social Work Education: The Case of an Intercultural Student-Academic Project with Refugees in UK and Greece - Sofia Dedotsi and Ruth Hamilton 11. EU Border Migration Policy and Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Greece: The Example of Lesvos and Samos Hotspots - Marina Rota, Ine Lietaert and Ilse Derluyn Epilogue: Time to Listen. Time to Learn, Time to Challenge…Because There is Hope - Emilio José Gómez Ciriano, Elena Cabiati and Sofia Dedotsi

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the journey of victims/survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking into and within the UK, from recruitment to representation to (re)integration. It offers crucial suggestions for better public awareness, policies and practices that will impact interventions in the UK and beyond.Table of ContentsForeword by Patricia Hynes Introduction: Victim journeys, survivors’ voice - Runa Lazzarino, J. Julia, Emily, and Carole Murphy Part I: Recruiting: business and tools 1. Criminal pyramid scheme: organised crime recruitment strategies - Sasha Jesperson and Rune Henriksen 2. Organ trafficking: a neglected aspect of modern slavery - Trevor Stammers 3. Online child sexual exploitation in the Philippines: addressing demand - Imogen Fell and Sasha Jesperson 4. The role of business in the exploitation and rehabilitation of victims of modern slavery - Colleen Theron Part II: Being a victim: discourses and representations 5. Trafficking on film: a critical survey - Jon Hackett 6. Discursive representations of the ‘invisible migrants’ on British social media - Thi-Diem-Tu Tran and Karen Sanders 7. Racialising and criminalising vulnerable migrants: the case of human trafficking and modern slavery - Neena Samota and Debbie Ariyo 8. Victims perpetrating a crime: a critique of responses to criminal exploitation and modern slavery in the UK - Craig H. Barlow Part III: Caring: practices and resilience 9. Subject-making in ambiguous systems: trafficking aftercare in the UK and beyond - Runa Lazzarino and Anne-Marie Greenslade 10. Sexual exploitation: framing women’s needs and experiences - Kathryn Hodges, Anta Brachou and Sarah Burch 11. Survivor support: how a values-based service can enhance access to psychological capital - Carole Murphy and Karen Anstiss 12. Imagining otherwise: art and movement as tools for recovery - Anna Westin 13. Monitoring and evaluating anti-trafficking measures - Ruth Van Dyke and Mike Dottridge Conclusion: Interrupting the journey - Carole Murphy and Runa Lazzarino

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Book SynopsisIn a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labour markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, this report finds that migrants can strengthen the urban labor force.

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Book SynopsisIn this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and US imperialism.

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Book SynopsisBy the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century.Trade ReviewThis book provides greater nuance to historical studies of Asians in the South, but it also reiterates the significance of an intersectional and relational approach to the study of racial formation.--CHOICE

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Book SynopsisIn popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the ‘great American melting pot’. But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travellers and maritime labourers.

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Book SynopsisThe United States Diversity Visa Lottery was created to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. Dreamland tells the surprising story of this unlikely government program and its role in American life as well as the global story of migration.Trade ReviewA well-reasoned, evenhanded account of the immigration system . . . . Goodman offers a strong defense for the visa lottery, which is not weighted by country, allowing immigrants from all over Africa."—Kirkus Reviews Essential reading for those interested in the past and future of U.S. immigration policy."—Library Journal Phenomenally well-researched and wide-ranging . . . . a feat . . . . Goodman hops smoothly from topics as diverse as the history of Irish immigration to the impacts of structural adjustment in West Africa to the visa lottery's role in the first internet spam incident. Goodman chose her topic well. The visa lottery is a remarkable window into the role of the United States in a highly unequal world."—Tim Hirschel-Burns, Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book SynopsisAn insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States.

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Book SynopsisAn insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States.

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Book Synopsis International migration between countries in Latin America became increasingly important during the twentieth century, but for a long time it was the subject of only limited research. Scott Whiteford sets the Argentina-Bolivia experience in historical perspective by examining the macrolevel factors that influenced social change in both countries and brought streams of migration into Argentina. Seasonal labor, the expansion of capitalist agriculture, international migration, and urbanization are central topics in this in-depth study of Bolivian migrants in Northwest Argentina. Whiteford’s vivid portrayal of the lives and working conditions of the migrants is based on two years of research during which he lived with the workers on a sugar plantation and, after the harvest, accompanied them to other farms and to the city of Salta in their search for more work. He traces the development of plantation agriculture in Northwest Argentina and the processes by which the plantaTable of Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. Historical Context of Bolivian Migration to Argentina 3. Sugar Production and Seasonal Labor: Labor-Control Mechanisms 4. Recruiters, Canecutters, and the Work Camp 5. Working in the Fields, the Union, and Postharvest Planning 6. The Multiple Faces of the Labor Reserve 7. Urbanization and Seasonal Migration 8. The Search for Security 9. Different Perspectives of the City 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together leading scholars from Mexico and the United States in fields ranging from economics to anthropology, this timely anthology presents empirical research on key immigration policy issues and analyzes the many push-pull facets of Mexico-US mTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Policies, Dynamics, and Consequences of Mexican Migration to the United States (Harriett D. Romo) Part 1. Mexico-US Migration Legal Frameworks and Their Implications Chapter 1. Evolving Migration Responses in Mexico and the United States: Diverging Paths? (Francisco Alba) Chapter 2. An Economic Perspective on US Immigration Policy vis-à-vis Mexico (Pia M. Orrenius, Jason Saving, and Madeline Zavodny) Chapter 3. Mexican Migration Dynamics: An Uncertain Future (Jorge Durand) Chapter 4. Public Insecurity and International Emigration in Northern Mexico: Analysis at a Municipal Level (Liliana Meza González and Michael Feil) Chapter 5. Explaining Unauthorized Mexican Migration and Assessing Its Implications for the Incorporation of Mexican Americans (Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier) Part 2. Incorporation into Receiving Communities in the United States Chapter 6. “Ni de aquí, ni de allá”: Undocumented Immigrant Youth and the Challenges of Identity Formation amid Conflicting Contexts (Roberto G. Gonzales, Joanna B. Perez, and Ariel G. Ruiz) Chapter 7. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Student Success in Higher Education (Kandy Mink Salas, Henoc Preciado, and Raquel Torres) Chapter 8. Who Has the Right to Health Care and Why? Immigration, Health-Care Policy, and Incorporation (Milena Andrea Melo and K. Jill Fleuriet) Chapter 9. The Role of Elite Mexican Women Immigrants in Maintaining Language and Mexican Identity (Harriett D. Romo and Olivia Mogollon-Lopez) Part 3. Return Migration and Reincorporation Chapter 10. Mexican Social Policy and Return Migration (Agustín Escobar Latapí) Chapter 11. Students We Share Are Also in Puebla, Mexico: Preliminary Findings from a 2009–2010 Survey (Víctor Zúñiga, Edmund T. Hamann, and Juan Sánchez García) Epilogue: Continuing Immigration Developments (Janeth Martinez) Conclusion: Is Mexican Migration to the United States Different from Other Migrations? (Harriett D. Romo) Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEscobar examines the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants, delving into questions of reproduction, technologies of power, and social justice in a prison system that consistently devalues the lives of Latinas.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Shifting the Conversation from (Im)migrant Rights to Abolition Chapter 1. Understanding the Roots of Latina (Im)migrants' Captivity Chapter 2. Reinforcing Gendered Racial Boundaries: Unintended Consequences of (Im)migrant Rights Discourse Chapter 3. Violent Formations: Criminalizing and Disciplining (Im)migrant Women Chapter 4. Domesticating (Im)migration: Coordinating State Violence beyond the Nation-State Chapter 5. Emancipation Is Not Freedom: A Reflection and Critique of Advocacy Abolition Conclusion. Envisioning and Performing Freedom Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThrough an unprecedented analysis of two crucial energy sectors, this book illuminates the economic and political factors that caused the United States and Mexico to develop an asymmetrical codependency that disproportionally benefits the United States.Trade Review"This very interesting book advances our understanding of the way developing nations and wealthy nations depend on each other. Menchaca carefully surveys dependency studies that explain how wealthy nations exercise power over developing nations." * Choice *Table of Contents List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. From Dependency to Codependency Chapter 2. The Politics of Oil and National Security: The Beginning Chapter 3. US Dependency on Mexican Farm Labor: The Development of a Structure Chapter 4. Asymmetrical Codependency following Crisis Periods Chapter 5. Mexico Reopens the Oil Industry to US Investors Conclusion. Asymmetrical Codependency: A Functional Capitalist Relationship Appendix A. Pemex Assessment of Mexico’s Proven Crude Oil Reserves, 1976 to 2014 Appendix B. Pemex: Total Crude Oil Reserve Estimates, 2003 to 2014 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRecounting a forgotten episode in the Long Civil Rights Movement, this book analyzes how news reporting of forced deportations of Mexicans in the 1930s created representations of Mexican Americans that endure today.Trade ReviewTimely...the culmination of years of research on representations of Latino Americans in Texas. * American Journalism *[A] captivating study…They Came to Toil painstakingly demonstrates the role of the press in creating depictions of communities and thus shaping public memory. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *[Garza's] book is accessible, devoid of jargon, expertly organized, and amply sourced. The photographs are a powerful visual representation of repatriation. * Journal of American History *A well-researched microstudy that has as much to offer to students of history as it does to students of linguistics and journalism. * Journal of Arizona History *Garza unpacks the particularities of news framings, successfully connecting historical events with contemporary borderlands politics. * Western Historical Quarterly *An illuminating study of how media shapes American identity. * Pacific Historical Review *Garza's insightful and detailed analysis deconstructs and reveals several important angles of newspaper media representations of people of color and marginalized communities…They Came to Toil is an important contribution to Mexican-American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Media and Journalism Studies disciplines. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *A timely study...They Came to Toil is an impressive piece of scholarship that will benefit both historians and media scholars...Through her study, Garza reveals parallels between the Depression era and the past ten years of recordbreaking deportation numbers and increasingly visible nativism and white supremacy. While the book went to press only months after the election of Donald Trump, readers will now be better equipped to consider how media representations of border crossings, asylum seekers, and federal policy shape public discourse around people of Latinx descent and US policy. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *[They Came to Toil's] detailed news coverage from different points of view, gives a clear picture of attitudes toward immigrants in the midst of an economic collapse, a picture that is repeated to some degree during every U.S. economic recession...The detail of this book is certainly of value for anyone studying the Great Depression, whether from historical, economic, sociological or political viewpoint. * Journal of Borderlands Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. The Crisis: They Came to Toil . . . but They Could Not Stay 1. 1929: To Pave a Way through Hostile and Barren Lands 2. 1930: A Thousand Times Better Off with Mexican Labor 3. 1931: The Tragedy of the Repatriated 4. 1932–1933: A New Deal for American Pioneers 5. Conclusion and Epilogue Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2020 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Book Award Winner Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century. Needed at one moment, scorned at others, Mexican agricultural workers have moved back and forth across the US–Mexico border for the past century. In South Texas, Anglo growers’ dreams of creating a modern agricultural empire depended on continuous access to Mexican workers. While this access was officially regulated by immigration laws and policy promulgated in Washington, DC, in practice the migration of Mexican labor involved daily, on-the-ground negotiations among growers, workers, and the US Border Patrol. In a very real sense, these groups set Trade ReviewManaged Migrations proposes new ways to look at labor, grower, and government interplay in developing a social system and workspace in South Texas's agricultural border region...While other historians have described the development of stable, segregated Mexican colonias within American communities before the 1970s, Salinas's unique contribution to the field is the description of a distinctive transborder farmworker community, an amalgam of social and work space that turned out to be fragile and dependent on highly local conditions. * Journal of Southern History *[Managed Migrations] provides textured, engaging coverage of border labor issues…an engaging addition to the literature on labor and immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Salinas offers up a worthy addition to the burgeoning literature on Texas….[Managed Migrations] makes deep analytical arguments about the connections between the South's system of labor immobility that derives from plantation agriculture and the West's free labor ideology rooted in mobility. Salinas's book ultimately shows how these two contradictory traditions combined in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Managed Migrations provides a grounded history of Texas agribusiness in El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and of its relationship to undocumented Mexican immigration and border enforcement…Managed Migrations will be deeply useful to historians of the U.S.-Mexico border and twentieth-century U.S. agribusiness and immigration. It will also be of value to anyone interested in the contemporary U.S.-Mexico borderlands--where border enforcement continues to manage labor and shape national politics. * Journal of American History *Managed Migrations is a study as paramount as it is timely…Cristina Salinas delivers a profound study of the ways that US and Mexican federal, state, and local governments sought to manage workers' migrations, and she ensures that the first-hand experiences of migrant workers are at the center of her transformative storytelling...Managed Migrations is a must-read. * Agricultural History *A splendid analysis of farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands…As lucid, interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state…The book is comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and worth consideration by scholars across the discipline. * H-Net Reviews *Managed Migrations is an important contribution to the literatures on Mexican immigration, the ethnic-Mexican diaspora, and the South Texas borderlands in that it brings a careful and nuanced view to what drove the migration system during the first half of the twentieth century. Workers, growers, and government officials are all given fair inclusion here. As such, Managed Migrations is a telling example of borderlands history, which focuses on what happens when people from different social groups or nation states come together and interact. Unfortunately, for the workers themselves the results seem overwhelmingly stark. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Managed Migrations addresses the central question of how, against all the evidence of this dysfunctional and racialized migration and labor system, the blame has historically been placed on undocumented migrants rather than on those who created it, maintain it, and continue to benefit from the exploitation of migrants’ precarious status. * American Historical Review *Managed Migrations is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students and would fit well in courses on the US-Mexico border, immigration, and labor history. Given the ongoing criminalization of undocumented workers and growers’ use of these workers not just in South Texas, but across the nation, it should be required reading for immigration activists and policymakers. As a reader, it is my (perhaps, overly idealistic) hope that the stories Salinas tells will inspire dramatic, meaningful reform of immigration laws and enforcement. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *An essential read if you want to understand how workers are managed by national (Mexico and US), state, and local actors. * Five Books, "The Best Books on Migrant Workers" *Salinas provides an engagingly written study that immerses readers in the agriculturally powerful region of South Texas...Salinas shows how growers shaped immigration law, the Border Patrol, and influenced demands for seasonal agricultural labor...Managed Migrations is a strong contribution to recent historiographies of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, United States history, immigration history, Mexican American and Latina/o history, and labor history. The book offers a compelling narrative for both specialists and those unfamiliar with the subject. * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisManaged Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.Trade ReviewManaged Migrations proposes new ways to look at labor, grower, and government interplay in developing a social system and workspace in South Texas's agricultural border region...While other historians have described the development of stable, segregated Mexican colonias within American communities before the 1970s, Salinas's unique contribution to the field is the description of a distinctive transborder farmworker community, an amalgam of social and work space that turned out to be fragile and dependent on highly local conditions. * Journal of Southern History *[Managed Migrations] provides textured, engaging coverage of border labor issues…an engaging addition to the literature on labor and immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Salinas offers up a worthy addition to the burgeoning literature on Texas….[Managed Migrations] makes deep analytical arguments about the connections between the South's system of labor immobility that derives from plantation agriculture and the West's free labor ideology rooted in mobility. Salinas's book ultimately shows how these two contradictory traditions combined in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Managed Migrations provides a grounded history of Texas agribusiness in El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and of its relationship to undocumented Mexican immigration and border enforcement…Managed Migrations will be deeply useful to historians of the U.S.-Mexico border and twentieth-century U.S. agribusiness and immigration. It will also be of value to anyone interested in the contemporary U.S.-Mexico borderlands--where border enforcement continues to manage labor and shape national politics. * Journal of American History *Managed Migrations is a study as paramount as it is timely…Cristina Salinas delivers a profound study of the ways that US and Mexican federal, state, and local governments sought to manage workers' migrations, and she ensures that the first-hand experiences of migrant workers are at the center of her transformative storytelling...Managed Migrations is a must-read. * Agricultural History *A splendid analysis of farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands…As lucid, interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state…The book is comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and worth consideration by scholars across the discipline. * H-Net Reviews *Managed Migrations is an important contribution to the literatures on Mexican immigration, the ethnic-Mexican diaspora, and the South Texas borderlands in that it brings a careful and nuanced view to what drove the migration system during the first half of the twentieth century. Workers, growers, and government officials are all given fair inclusion here. As such, Managed Migrations is a telling example of borderlands history, which focuses on what happens when people from different social groups or nation states come together and interact. Unfortunately, for the workers themselves the results seem overwhelmingly stark. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Managed Migrations addresses the central question of how, against all the evidence of this dysfunctional and racialized migration and labor system, the blame has historically been placed on undocumented migrants rather than on those who created it, maintain it, and continue to benefit from the exploitation of migrants’ precarious status. * American Historical Review *Managed Migrations is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students and would fit well in courses on the US-Mexico border, immigration, and labor history. Given the ongoing criminalization of undocumented workers and growers’ use of these workers not just in South Texas, but across the nation, it should be required reading for immigration activists and policymakers. As a reader, it is my (perhaps, overly idealistic) hope that the stories Salinas tells will inspire dramatic, meaningful reform of immigration laws and enforcement. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *An essential read if you want to understand how workers are managed by national (Mexico and US), state, and local actors. * Five Books, "The Best Books on Migrant Workers" *Salinas provides an engagingly written study that immerses readers in the agriculturally powerful region of South Texas...Salinas shows how growers shaped immigration law, the Border Patrol, and influenced demands for seasonal agricultural labor...Managed Migrations is a strong contribution to recent historiographies of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, United States history, immigration history, Mexican American and Latina/o history, and labor history. The book offers a compelling narrative for both specialists and those unfamiliar with the subject. * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and forever illegals. Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition. Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility and invisibility emerged over the past forty yearsbookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trumpand how Central American immigrants and subsequent generations have contested their rhetorical disfiguration. Drawing from popular films and TV, news reporting, and social media, Padilla shows how Central Americans in the United States have been constituted as belonging nowhere, imagined as permanent refugees outside the boundaries of even minority representation. Yet in documentaries about cross-border transit throughTrade ReviewA well-researched, poignant discussion of the representations, misrepresentations, and erasures of the expanding Central American and Latinx communities in the US. [Padilla's] work seamlessly illustrates the significance and consequences of these representations, or lack thereof...Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Central Americans among “US” Chapter 1. Signifying US Central American Non-belonging Chapter 2. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film Chapter 3. Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez and the Perils of Being a “Good Immigrant” Chapter 4. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico’s Border Passage Chapter 5. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles Conclusion: Seeing beyond the Dominant Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and forever illegals. Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition. Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility and invisibility emerged over the past forty yearsbookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trumpand how Central American immigrants and subsequent generations have contested their rhetorical disfiguration. Drawing from popular films and TV, news reporting, and social media, Padilla shows how Central Americans in the United States have been constituted as belonging nowhere, imagined as permanent refugees outside the boundaries of even minority representation. Yet in documentaries about cross-border transit throughTrade ReviewA well-researched, poignant discussion of the representations, misrepresentations, and erasures of the expanding Central American and Latinx communities in the US. [Padilla's] work seamlessly illustrates the significance and consequences of these representations, or lack thereof...Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Central Americans among “US” Chapter 1. Signifying US Central American Non-belonging Chapter 2. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film Chapter 3. Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez and the Perils of Being a “Good Immigrant” Chapter 4. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico’s Border Passage Chapter 5. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles Conclusion: Seeing beyond the Dominant Notes Works Cited Index

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Book Synopsis2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artistsreplete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto RiTrade ReviewMoreno seamlessly accommodates the Caribbean’s unruly multiplicities—of national contexts, identities, and migration pathways—without sacrificing nuance and specificity...Her capacious framing allows Crossing Waters to proceed assuredly through the folds of successive Caribbean geopolitical contexts—from the erosion of birthright citizenship in the Dominican Republic to shifting U.S. policy toward Cuban refugees—while maintaining a remarkably coherent arc...Moreno’s framing of migration as a process that often lacks a defined end resonates with the ongoingness of border studies writ large and Caribbean border and migration studies in particular...Scholars of migration would do well to follow Moreno’s impulse to understand border studies as both an anchor and a current. * ASAP/J *A momentous contribution that expands the field of Latinx Studies into Caribbean water and land. It opens many crucial and fruitful avenues of consideration for the overlooked study of the travails of Caribbean undocumented migration. * A Contracorriente *Crossing Waters is an excellent contribution to Caribbean migration studies, border studies, and Latinx literatures and cultures...[Moreno's] prose is insightful, clear, and defies traditional anthropological and necro-political contexts to argue for futurities that are not only more democratic but also centered on living and not dying. * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Rethinking the Borders of the Caribbean Archipelago Chapter 2. Puerto Rico: Border and Bridge to the Continental United States Chapter 3. Dominican Crossings: Displacements across Sea and Land Chapter 4. Cubans at Sea: The Balsero Crisis in Literature and Art Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artistsreplete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto RiTrade ReviewMoreno seamlessly accommodates the Caribbean’s unruly multiplicities—of national contexts, identities, and migration pathways—without sacrificing nuance and specificity...Her capacious framing allows Crossing Waters to proceed assuredly through the folds of successive Caribbean geopolitical contexts—from the erosion of birthright citizenship in the Dominican Republic to shifting U.S. policy toward Cuban refugees—while maintaining a remarkably coherent arc...Moreno’s framing of migration as a process that often lacks a defined end resonates with the ongoingness of border studies writ large and Caribbean border and migration studies in particular...Scholars of migration would do well to follow Moreno’s impulse to understand border studies as both an anchor and a current. * ASAP/J *A momentous contribution that expands the field of Latinx Studies into Caribbean water and land. It opens many crucial and fruitful avenues of consideration for the overlooked study of the travails of Caribbean undocumented migration. * A Contracorriente *Crossing Waters is an excellent contribution to Caribbean migration studies, border studies, and Latinx literatures and cultures...[Moreno's] prose is insightful, clear, and defies traditional anthropological and necro-political contexts to argue for futurities that are not only more democratic but also centered on living and not dying. * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Rethinking the Borders of the Caribbean Archipelago Chapter 2. Puerto Rico: Border and Bridge to the Continental United States Chapter 3. Dominican Crossings: Displacements across Sea and Land Chapter 4. Cubans at Sea: The Balsero Crisis in Literature and Art Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn expansive survey of the cultural fluctuations experienced by Oaxacan migrants both inside and outside of Mexico.Trade ReviewCogent portraits of the individuals and families [Sandoval-Cervantes] followed in both the home community and their migrant settings in Mexico and the US…Recommended. * CHOICE *[A] readable and insightful book…[Oaxaca in Motion] is an excellent introduction to the gender analysis of migration studies. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAn expansive survey of the cultural fluctuations experienced by Oaxacan migrants both inside and outside of Mexico.Trade ReviewCogent portraits of the individuals and families [Sandoval-Cervantes] followed in both the home community and their migrant settings in Mexico and the US…Recommended. * CHOICE *[A] readable and insightful book…[Oaxaca in Motion] is an excellent introduction to the gender analysis of migration studies. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of Arab asylum seekers who feel compelled to package their tales of disenfranchisement and suffering to satisfy a deeply reluctant immigration system.Trade ReviewThis timely book humanizes refugees, particularly those from the Arab world, and will interest those studying gender and sexuality, asylum and refugee law, and Arab American studies. * CHOICE *The Right Kind of Suffering is an excellent study about the broken system of asylum for Arabic-speaking people. It would be an eye-opener for students and scholars of legal and gender studies, as well as cultural studies. * Arab Studies Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrow Pathways 1. “I’ve always been looking for my freedom” 2. “My life is a Bollywood film” 3. “I wish it was a happier ending” 4. “Many reasons to leave” Conclusion: Of Stories, Traumas, and Happy Endings Notes Index

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Book SynopsisNandita Sharma traces the development of the categories of migrants and natives from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize how the idea of people's rights being tied to geographical notions of belonging came to be.Trade Review“Nandita Sharma has taken on the most burning issues of our times and written about them with clarity, grace, and power. She shows us a path from an oppressive past to a radical, humane future based on a ‘mobile politics of solidarity.’ This brilliant, timely book is a must-read for scholars and activists alike.” -- Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh“Home Rule is a bold, ambitious book that advances an original, complex, and controversial argument about the social and political production of binary oppositions and antagonisms between indigenous ‘Natives’ and ‘Migrants’. Bristling with important and exciting ideas, it challenges us to interrogate some of the most pernicious complacencies of contemporary political discourse, providing an innovative, wide-ranging examination of the global politics of autochthony and a far-reaching reconsideration of the postcolonial world order.” -- Nicholas De Genova, editor of * The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering *"Home Rule offers important arguments about how we understand the nature of othering across post-imperial contexts, especially in the face of global capitalism and continued faith in the nation state. Sharma’s rich analysis reminds us that there is more work to be done, particularly around alternative ways of understanding nationhood and sovereignty as seen and experienced by those most subject to discourses and practices of exclusion." -- Laura Madokoro * Social History *"Sharma’s Home Rule will spark many fruitful conversations among scholars and graduate students interested in migration, nationalism, and postcolonial thought and is a particularly strong example of the way postcolonial ideas can provide a powerful interpretive approach to timely issues of great sociological concern." -- Gregory J., Goalwin * Social Forces *"Aside from 2020's unforeseen circumstances, it is clear that Home Rule deals with the pressing issues of today's world, successfully historicizing the current, troubling characterization of migrants as colonial invaders and carefully contextualizing the intense disputes over national sovereignty in Israel-Palestine.… I would whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand more about the important history of migration or who wants a comprehensive overview of how the structures of imperialism have developed in today's postcolonial world." -- Zoë Miller * European Review of HIstory *"Taken in the round this is a stimulating and thought-provoking read, that seeks to challenge received perceptions and to articulate a different way to understand the role of national sovereignty within the changing global politics that structure our understandings of citizenship and immigration." -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"With its length and sometimes a bit dense narrative structure, it might feel overwhelming at the start but it is definitely worth finishing. The breadth and wide range of examples is actually a strength.…This book is definitely worth a read for students and researchers interested in nation building and processes of othering across post-imperial contexts." -- Ilse van Liempt * International Migration *"A provocative critique of nation-state sovereignty . . . the book should inspire deep thinking about what remains a central but perhaps still too often underanalyzed." -- Miranda Johnson * American Historical Review *"Sharma’s profound critique of sovereignty as a mode of separation rather than one of freedom, autonomy, and an authentic postcolonial condition is an important intervention and re-assessment of where we have arrived. . . . The kind of critique that Sharma offers in Home Rule is one that unsettles how our political present has unfolded and in doing so Sharma writes against and significantly clarifies the limits of some political claims in our present moment." -- Rinaldo Walcott * Journal of World-Systems Research *"Home Rule is a provocative book that challenges prevailing conceptions of sovereignty at their core. Notions of belonging and national liberation are out the door, jettisoned by detailed accounts of the entanglements among imperialism, national liberation, and anti-immigrant politics now. The argument is expansive, the geographic and historical range daunting, the research and scholarly literatures engaged incredible. Sovereignty is dissected with exquisite skill." -- Victoria Hattam * Journal of World Systems Research *"I have never read a work like this. . . . Nandita Sharma has delivered a masterpiece that further fuels the cries for global justice." -- Douglas Thomas * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Home Rule: The National Politics of Separation 1 2. The Imperial Government of Mobility and Stasis 36 3. The National Government of Mobility and Stasis 62 4. The Jealousy of Nations: Globalizing National Constraints on Human Mobility 90 5. The Postcolonial New World Order and the Containment of Decolonization 117 6. Developing the Postcolonial New World Order 142 7. Global Lockdown: Postcolonial Expansion of National Citizenship and Immigration Controls 163 8. National Autochthonies and the Making of Postcolonial National-Natives 205 9. Postseparation: Struggles for a Decolonized Commons 268 Notes 285 Bibliography 299 Index 347

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Book SynopsisIn the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interviewto the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a fixer-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togoleseas well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.Trade Review"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalities. The Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning — once you start the book, it is hard to put down." -- Faranak Miraftab * International Migration Review *“Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.” -- Marius Kothor * African Studies Review *"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Business of Dreams 1 1. Border Practice 27 2. The Interview 45 3. Kinship by Other Means 63 4. Trading Futures 85 5. Embassy Indiscretions 109 6. Protest 124 7. Prison 134 8. America, Here We Come 148 9. Lomé 2018 171 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 207

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Book SynopsisIn the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interviewto the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a fixer-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togoleseas well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.Trade Review"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalities. The Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning — once you start the book, it is hard to put down." -- Faranak Miraftab * International Migration Review *“Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.” -- Marius Kothor * African Studies Review *"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Business of Dreams 1 1. Border Practice 27 2. The Interview 45 3. Kinship by Other Means 63 4. Trading Futures 85 5. Embassy Indiscretions 109 6. Protest 124 7. Prison 134 8. America, Here We Come 148 9. Lomé 2018 171 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 207

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Book SynopsisLegal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells the story of dozens of immigrants who were deported from the United States—the only country they have ever known—to Mexico, tracking the harmful consequences of deportation for those on both sides of the border.Trade Review"A deeply informed appeal to create more humane practices for noncitizens facing criminal deportation. . . . Caldwell looks systematically at the effects of deportation to Mexico on the spouses and children especially (drug abuse, depression, suicide, attractions to gangs) and how this inhumane banishment should be amended. A compelling, rigorously researched legal argument against the demonization of deportees." * Kirkus Reviews *"By telling their stories, Caldwell humanizes the crises these individuals endure, including those of spouses and children who face the decision of having to leave everything they know behind to be with their exiled loved ones. A stark portrayal of the contradictory, misguided, and ineffectual immigration laws that determine the futures of so many." -- Kenneth Otani * Booklist *"Accessible and eye-opening. . . . Caldwell’s extensive research, astute legal analysis, and readable prose make this a layperson-friendly introduction to a thorny problem." * Publishers Weekly * "Drawing on heart-rending interviews with deportees . . . Caldwell decries the inconsistencies between the legal definition of citizenship and people’s experiences of rootedness. She argues that citizenship should be based on a person’s cultural associations rather than on national boundaries." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *"Compelling, comprehensive and properly chilling." -- Andrea Plate * Asia Media International *"The publication of Deported Americans is immensely significant. . . . The literature on post-deportation life has shone light on the disorientation and alienation that accompany deportation. . . Caldwell is the first, however, to examine this population systematically in book-length form." -- Tobin Hansen * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Deported Americans bridges an imperative gap in the literature on immigration, legal policy, and family separation and provides helpful interpretive tools in the field of migration studies. It is a worthwhile resource for academics, policymakers, and practitioners interested in understanding the causes and consequences of migration and deportation policy." -- Kristina Lovato * International Migration Review *“Deported Americans is the result of a highly innovative, seven-year research project by Beth Caldwell.... I found this text an excellent introductory primer to the multi-layered, complex world of the deportation regime....” -- David C. Brotherton * Contemporary Sociology *“This meticulously well researched and written book should be read by everyone concerned with immigration reform, in any region in the world but particularly in the United States.” -- Judy Adler Hellman * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. In the Shadow of Due Process 17 2. Return to a Foreign Land 49 3. Life after Deportation 67 4. Deported by Marriage 101 5. Children of Deportees 127 Conclusion. Resistance and Reforms 153 Epilogue 189 Notes 193 Index 227

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Book SynopsisThe coauthors of Decolonizing Ethnography integrate ethnography with activist work in a New Jersey center for undocumented workers, showing how anthropology can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their own experiences.Trade Review"[Decolonizing Ethnography] offers an innovative way in which ethnography, practiced by the people who have been traditionally positioned as the ethnographic research objects, can be a powerful tool of self-empowerment, public advocacy, and personal transformation." -- Kheira Arrouche * LSE Review of Books *"Decolonizing Ethnography does not just critique colonialist academic practices, it seeks to do something different. ... Accessibly written, interesting, and effectively argued, [this book] will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in issues of migration, activism, ethnography, and knowledge production. ... Perhaps most importantly, Decolonizing Ethnography is a call to anthropology to reconsider its purpose and expand its relevance with research practices that redress the politicized nature of anthropological research and of the social worlds in which our research takes place." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * Anthropological Quarterly *"This work demonstrates specifically an exemplary form of ethnographic writing not necessarily as a model to follow, but as an encouragement and license to expand the direction of critical and reflexive thought that has been ascendant in American ethnographic research for the past 30 years. There are many lively 'moves' in expressing the vitality of this collaboration, none more powerful and exciting than the concluding script of activist theater. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. E. Marcus * Choice *"For occupational science as a field of study increasingly concerned with highlighting the daily experiences of Global South and marginalised groups, this book should be a valuable inspiration and guide. As a Eurocentric discipline, we have a way to go in decolonising theory production and the means by which we do so. This text may inspire us to continue on the path of liberation for our discipline and the communities with whom we study and collaborate." -- Juman Simaan * Journal of Occupational Science *“Decolonizing Ethnography provides an excellent background on engaged scholarship and a roadmap for how one team overcame hierarchies to collaborate across difference. It is an excellent tool for training students to design community-embedded research and will be useful for a range of syllabi (it’s already on mine!). The book also offers the rare chance to see undocumented worker-activists as scholars and authors, and that itself is a gift.” -- Abigail Andrews * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“As a collaboration, this book both advocates for and puts into practice data gathering and reporting techniques that continue to stand in opposition to anthropology’s standard modes of research. The book’s clarity of writing, its resolute tone had this reviewer conduct some soul-searching about her own position vis-à-vis the decolonial challenge.” -- Nora Haenn * Anthropos *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] is encouraging us to open our minds, addressing the colonial impact in academia, to decolonize and liberate ourselves from intellectual and academic colonization. This is a call for anthropologists to empower others to speak for themselves....” -- Hussein Masimbi and Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] discusses how to use anthropological knowledge to advance the causes of undocumented migrants in the United States. . . . [It] take[s] the bold step of centralizing migrants’ stories, dilemmas, and choices, and . . . reminds us that each story is unique with endings that are impossible to know.” -- Ana Hontanilla * Latin American Research Review *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] presents a wonderful examination of the development of a research project through partnership. . . . In an ethnographic analysis that is a cut way above most contemporary anthropology, [the book’s] four participants share their hopes and problems in joint project planning, implementation, writing, and publishing.” -- Thomas M. Wilson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents"broken poem" ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Colonial Anthropology and Its Alternatives 17 2. Journeys toward Decolonizing 38 3. Reflections on Fieldwork in New Jersey 59 4. Undocumented Activist Theory and a Decolonial Methodology 78 5. Undocumented Theater: Writing and Resistance 101 Conclusion 136 Notes 149 References 161 Index 179

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Book SynopsisLegal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells the story of dozens of immigrants who were deported from the United Statesthe only country they have ever knownto Mexico, tracking the harmful consequences of deportation for those on both sides of the border.Trade Review"A deeply informed appeal to create more humane practices for noncitizens facing criminal deportation. . . . Caldwell looks systematically at the effects of deportation to Mexico on the spouses and children especially (drug abuse, depression, suicide, attractions to gangs) and how this inhumane banishment should be amended. A compelling, rigorously researched legal argument against the demonization of deportees." * Kirkus Reviews *"By telling their stories, Caldwell humanizes the crises these individuals endure, including those of spouses and children who face the decision of having to leave everything they know behind to be with their exiled loved ones. A stark portrayal of the contradictory, misguided, and ineffectual immigration laws that determine the futures of so many." -- Kenneth Otani * Booklist *"Accessible and eye-opening. . . . Caldwell’s extensive research, astute legal analysis, and readable prose make this a layperson-friendly introduction to a thorny problem." * Publishers Weekly * "Drawing on heart-rending interviews with deportees . . . Caldwell decries the inconsistencies between the legal definition of citizenship and people’s experiences of rootedness. She argues that citizenship should be based on a person’s cultural associations rather than on national boundaries." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *"Compelling, comprehensive and properly chilling." -- Andrea Plate * Asia Media International *"The publication of Deported Americans is immensely significant. . . . The literature on post-deportation life has shone light on the disorientation and alienation that accompany deportation. . . Caldwell is the first, however, to examine this population systematically in book-length form." -- Tobin Hansen * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Deported Americans bridges an imperative gap in the literature on immigration, legal policy, and family separation and provides helpful interpretive tools in the field of migration studies. It is a worthwhile resource for academics, policymakers, and practitioners interested in understanding the causes and consequences of migration and deportation policy." -- Kristina Lovato * International Migration Review *“Deported Americans is the result of a highly innovative, seven-year research project by Beth Caldwell.... I found this text an excellent introductory primer to the multi-layered, complex world of the deportation regime....” -- David C. Brotherton * Contemporary Sociology *“This meticulously well researched and written book should be read by everyone concerned with immigration reform, in any region in the world but particularly in the United States.” -- Judy Adler Hellman * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. In the Shadow of Due Process 17 2. Return to a Foreign Land 49 3. Life after Deportation 67 4. Deported by Marriage 101 5. Children of Deportees 127 Conclusion. Resistance and Reforms 153 Epilogue 189 Notes 193 Index 227

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Book SynopsisIn August2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local immigrant workers from Latin America—joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers'' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos Garc&iacutTrade Review"[Decolonizing Ethnography] offers an innovative way in which ethnography, practiced by the people who have been traditionally positioned as the ethnographic research objects, can be a powerful tool of self-empowerment, public advocacy, and personal transformation." -- Kheira Arrouche * LSE Review of Books *"Decolonizing Ethnography does not just critique colonialist academic practices, it seeks to do something different. ... Accessibly written, interesting, and effectively argued, [this book] will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in issues of migration, activism, ethnography, and knowledge production. ... Perhaps most importantly, Decolonizing Ethnography is a call to anthropology to reconsider its purpose and expand its relevance with research practices that redress the politicized nature of anthropological research and of the social worlds in which our research takes place." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * Anthropological Quarterly *"This work demonstrates specifically an exemplary form of ethnographic writing not necessarily as a model to follow, but as an encouragement and license to expand the direction of critical and reflexive thought that has been ascendant in American ethnographic research for the past 30 years. There are many lively 'moves' in expressing the vitality of this collaboration, none more powerful and exciting than the concluding script of activist theater. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. E. Marcus * Choice *"For occupational science as a field of study increasingly concerned with highlighting the daily experiences of Global South and marginalised groups, this book should be a valuable inspiration and guide. As a Eurocentric discipline, we have a way to go in decolonising theory production and the means by which we do so. This text may inspire us to continue on the path of liberation for our discipline and the communities with whom we study and collaborate." -- Juman Simaan * Journal of Occupational Science *“Decolonizing Ethnography provides an excellent background on engaged scholarship and a roadmap for how one team overcame hierarchies to collaborate across difference. It is an excellent tool for training students to design community-embedded research and will be useful for a range of syllabi (it’s already on mine!). The book also offers the rare chance to see undocumented worker-activists as scholars and authors, and that itself is a gift.” -- Abigail Andrews * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“As a collaboration, this book both advocates for and puts into practice data gathering and reporting techniques that continue to stand in opposition to anthropology’s standard modes of research. The book’s clarity of writing, its resolute tone had this reviewer conduct some soul-searching about her own position vis-à-vis the decolonial challenge.” -- Nora Haenn * Anthropos *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] is encouraging us to open our minds, addressing the colonial impact in academia, to decolonize and liberate ourselves from intellectual and academic colonization. This is a call for anthropologists to empower others to speak for themselves....” -- Hussein Masimbi and Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] discusses how to use anthropological knowledge to advance the causes of undocumented migrants in the United States. . . . [It] take[s] the bold step of centralizing migrants’ stories, dilemmas, and choices, and . . . reminds us that each story is unique with endings that are impossible to know.” -- Ana Hontanilla * Latin American Research Review *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] presents a wonderful examination of the development of a research project through partnership. . . . In an ethnographic analysis that is a cut way above most contemporary anthropology, [the book’s] four participants share their hopes and problems in joint project planning, implementation, writing, and publishing.” -- Thomas M. Wilson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents"broken poem" ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Colonial Anthropology and Its Alternatives 17 2. Journeys toward Decolonizing 38 3. Reflections on Fieldwork in New Jersey 59 4. Undocumented Activist Theory and a Decolonial Methodology 78 5. Undocumented Theater: Writing and Resistance 101 Conclusion 136 Notes 149 References 161 Index 179

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Book SynopsisIn this meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival, renowned historian Harry Harootunian explores the Armenian genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora by sketching the everyday lives of his parents, who escaped the genocide in the 1910s.Trade Review“‘Genocide’ was first coined to portray the brutality of the Turkish state as it murdered the Armenian population living within its borders. Yet the Armenian genocide has become largely invisible, a part of history erased from common awareness. Harry Harootunian's chronicle of the Armenian genocide's impact on his family's hellish life forces us to reexamine what we do not know about our pasts and the causes and consequences of our ignorance. Through this remarkable account, Harootunian refuses to let his family die twice.” -- Irene Silverblatt, Professor of Cultural Anthropology History, Duke University“The Unspoken as Heritage is a brave text offering something we all need: the recognition that a heritage shaped by catastrophe lingers, even thrives, in the unspoken and the everyday, rather than in the grand narratives of History. Harry Harootunian accounts for the unaccounted in the future tense, asking what should become of us as we live on in the wake of loss, rather than in the past tense of nationalist restoration. The rich and textured scraps of his parents lives, organized by ineradicable silence, here count for something potent: not the evidentiary, but the imaginative; not the exceptional, but the expectant.” -- David Kazanjian, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania"Elegantly written and intriguingly structured. . . For readers interested in the problem of genocide, in the silence of survivors, and in second-generation immigrants, The Unspoken as Heritage offers richly rewarding reflections from the point of view of someone who has confronted unanswered questions that have lingered from his childhood." -- Werner Sollors * Critical Inquiry *“Harry Harootunian has authored a timely and thought-provoking book on the Armenian Genocide. The Unspoken as Heritage strikes a balance between the facts of the historical events and the author’s own personal journey to comprehend the full and complete tragedy that tore to shards his parents’ lives.” -- Barbara Erysian * Canadian Journal of History *“Professor Harootunian has managed to produce a book of profound depth and beauty. It is equal parts a personal memoir, a sociological examination of the Armenian Genocide and its often-unexamined psychological effects on survivors and their children, and a meditation of what it is to be a second-generation immigrant in a country ensconced in mythic self-glorification.” -- Artyom H. Tonoyan * Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies *“[The Unspoken as Heritage] is very rich and flows smoothly.... Harootunian’s study about his own family (as a singular case) sheds light upon what happened to the Armenians who ran away from the Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the twentieth century (as a collective process).” -- Pedro Bogossian-Porto * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. The Unrealized Everyday: By Way of an Introduction 1 2. Unnoticed Lives/Unanswered Questions 17 3. Traces of a Vanished Everyday 37 4. History's Interruption: Dispossession and Genocide 87 5. House of Strangers/Diminished Lives 114 Epilogue. Returning to Ani 149 Notes 161 Bibliography 171 Index 175

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Book SynopsisIn this meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival, renowned historian Harry Harootunian explores the Armenian genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora by sketching the everyday lives of his parents, who escaped the genocide in the 1910s.Trade Review“‘Genocide’ was first coined to portray the brutality of the Turkish state as it murdered the Armenian population living within its borders. Yet the Armenian genocide has become largely invisible, a part of history erased from common awareness. Harry Harootunian's chronicle of the Armenian genocide's impact on his family's hellish life forces us to reexamine what we do not know about our pasts and the causes and consequences of our ignorance. Through this remarkable account, Harootunian refuses to let his family die twice.” -- Irene Silverblatt, Professor of Cultural Anthropology History, Duke University“The Unspoken as Heritage is a brave text offering something we all need: the recognition that a heritage shaped by catastrophe lingers, even thrives, in the unspoken and the everyday, rather than in the grand narratives of History. Harry Harootunian accounts for the unaccounted in the future tense, asking what should become of us as we live on in the wake of loss, rather than in the past tense of nationalist restoration. The rich and textured scraps of his parents lives, organized by ineradicable silence, here count for something potent: not the evidentiary, but the imaginative; not the exceptional, but the expectant.” -- David Kazanjian, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania"Elegantly written and intriguingly structured. . . For readers interested in the problem of genocide, in the silence of survivors, and in second-generation immigrants, The Unspoken as Heritage offers richly rewarding reflections from the point of view of someone who has confronted unanswered questions that have lingered from his childhood." -- Werner Sollors * Critical Inquiry *“Harry Harootunian has authored a timely and thought-provoking book on the Armenian Genocide. The Unspoken as Heritage strikes a balance between the facts of the historical events and the author’s own personal journey to comprehend the full and complete tragedy that tore to shards his parents’ lives.” -- Barbara Erysian * Canadian Journal of History *“Professor Harootunian has managed to produce a book of profound depth and beauty. It is equal parts a personal memoir, a sociological examination of the Armenian Genocide and its often-unexamined psychological effects on survivors and their children, and a meditation of what it is to be a second-generation immigrant in a country ensconced in mythic self-glorification.” -- Artyom H. Tonoyan * Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies *“[The Unspoken as Heritage] is very rich and flows smoothly.... Harootunian’s study about his own family (as a singular case) sheds light upon what happened to the Armenians who ran away from the Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the twentieth century (as a collective process).” -- Pedro Bogossian-Porto * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. The Unrealized Everyday: By Way of an Introduction 1 2. Unnoticed Lives/Unanswered Questions 17 3. Traces of a Vanished Everyday 37 4. History's Interruption: Dispossession and Genocide 87 5. House of Strangers/Diminished Lives 114 Epilogue. Returning to Ani 149 Notes 161 Bibliography 171 Index 175

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.Trade Review“The rich collection of case studies in Paper Trails reminds us that states have increasingly refined their surveillance techniques. A must-read for anyone interested in how the issuing of the identifications and documents that pervade our everyday lives give states power over the populations—both citizens and immigrants—they govern.” -- Leo R. Chavez, author of * The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *“Offering a unique way to think about the materiality of immigrant life and the ways that papers shape migrants' identities, experiences, rights, and sense of belonging, this volume tells a compelling story about the need to center documents in the study of international migration.” -- Leisy J. Abrego, coeditor of * We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States *“Documents, or ‘papers,’ both reflect and help construct a global reality of heightened border policing and profound socioeconomic inequality. By powerfully illuminating the work that documents do in producing the state and people of unequal status, and the tactics people employ to contest citizenship-related forms of exclusion, Paper Trails provides valuable tools for those engaged in the struggle to realize a more just world.” -- Joseph Nevins, author of * Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid *“Paper Trails is a substantial and well-edited collection of research. It is an interesting, theoretically engaging and empirically rich book. It is undoubtedly an important contribution to migration studies and social sciences in general.” -- Shahram Khosravi * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“A group of preeminent scholars of immigration have produced a stellar collection of essays. . . . [Paper Trails] is an invaluable addition to our understanding of how the everyday processes of documentation operate in systems of state governance. . . . It deserves a wide readership.” -- Susan J. Terrio * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Paper Trails is an important contribution for students and researchers in migration studies, as well as practitioners in the field.” -- Sandra King-Savic * Refuge *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Paper Trails: Migrants, Bureaucratic Inscription, and Legal Recognition / Sarah B. Horton 1 Part I. Foundations: Controlling Space and Time 27 1. The "People Out of Place": State Limits on Free Mobility and the Making of Im(migrants) / Nandita Sharma 31 2. And About Time Too . . .: Migration, Documentation, and Temporalities / Bridget Anderson 53 3. Documenting Membership: The Divergent Politics of Migrant Driver's Licenses in New Mexico and Arizona / Doris Marie Provine and Monica W. Varsanyi 74 Part II. Documents as Security, Documents as Visibility 103 4. Documented as Unauthorized / Deborah A. Boehm 109 5. Opportunities and Double Binds: Legal Craft in an Era of Uncertainty / Susan Bibler Coutin 130 6. Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts: Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona / Cecilia Menjívar 153 Part III. Resistance and Refusals 179 7. Knowing Your Rights in Trump's America: Paper Trails of Community Empowerment / Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz 185 8. Strategies of Documentation among Kichwa Transnational Migrants / Juan Thomas Ordóñez 208 Conclusion: Documents as Power / Josiah Heyman 229 Contributors 249 Index 253

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.Trade Review“The rich collection of case studies in Paper Trails reminds us that states have increasingly refined their surveillance techniques. A must-read for anyone interested in how the issuing of the identifications and documents that pervade our everyday lives give states power over the populations—both citizens and immigrants—they govern.” -- Leo R. Chavez, author of * The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *“Offering a unique way to think about the materiality of immigrant life and the ways that papers shape migrants' identities, experiences, rights, and sense of belonging, this volume tells a compelling story about the need to center documents in the study of international migration.” -- Leisy J. Abrego, coeditor of * We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States *“Documents, or ‘papers,’ both reflect and help construct a global reality of heightened border policing and profound socioeconomic inequality. By powerfully illuminating the work that documents do in producing the state and people of unequal status, and the tactics people employ to contest citizenship-related forms of exclusion, Paper Trails provides valuable tools for those engaged in the struggle to realize a more just world.” -- Joseph Nevins, author of * Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid *“Paper Trails is a substantial and well-edited collection of research. It is an interesting, theoretically engaging and empirically rich book. It is undoubtedly an important contribution to migration studies and social sciences in general.” -- Shahram Khosravi * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“A group of preeminent scholars of immigration have produced a stellar collection of essays. . . . [Paper Trails] is an invaluable addition to our understanding of how the everyday processes of documentation operate in systems of state governance. . . . It deserves a wide readership.” -- Susan J. Terrio * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Paper Trails is an important contribution for students and researchers in migration studies, as well as practitioners in the field.” -- Sandra King-Savic * Refuge *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Paper Trails: Migrants, Bureaucratic Inscription, and Legal Recognition / Sarah B. Horton 1 Part I. Foundations: Controlling Space and Time 27 1. The "People Out of Place": State Limits on Free Mobility and the Making of Im(migrants) / Nandita Sharma 31 2. And About Time Too . . .: Migration, Documentation, and Temporalities / Bridget Anderson 53 3. Documenting Membership: The Divergent Politics of Migrant Driver's Licenses in New Mexico and Arizona / Doris Marie Provine and Monica W. Varsanyi 74 Part II. Documents as Security, Documents as Visibility 103 4. Documented as Unauthorized / Deborah A. Boehm 109 5. Opportunities and Double Binds: Legal Craft in an Era of Uncertainty / Susan Bibler Coutin 130 6. Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts: Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona / Cecilia Menjívar 153 Part III. Resistance and Refusals 179 7. Knowing Your Rights in Trump's America: Paper Trails of Community Empowerment / Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz 185 8. Strategies of Documentation among Kichwa Transnational Migrants / Juan Thomas Ordóñez 208 Conclusion: Documents as Power / Josiah Heyman 229 Contributors 249 Index 253

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301

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Book SynopsisIn Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castañeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in US immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scène offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist dynamics of carceral space. Castañeda draws upon her experiences in immigration trials as an interpreter and courtroom companion to analyze the scenography—lighting, staging, framing, gesture, speech, and choreography—of specific rooms within the immigration enforcement system. Castañeda’s ethnographies of proceedings in a “removal” office in New York City, a detention center courtroom in Texas, and an asylum office in the Northeast reveal the depersonalizing violence enacted in immigration law through its embodied, ritualistic, and affective components. She shows how the creative practices of detained and disappeared people liTrade Review"The book … is a quintessential one in times of increasing hatred towards immigrants. This timely book will help the reader understand the intensity of immigration crises and the need for the growth of a humanitarian world than a world with borders." -- T.S. Gangothri * Social Identities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Removal Room: Disappearance and the Practice of Accompaniment 19 2. The Prison-Courtroom: No-Show Justice in Family Detention 56 3. Bring Me the Room: Tragic Recognition and the Right Not to Tell Your Story 91 Coda 129 Notes 135 References 159 Index 177

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Book SynopsisIn Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the Korean dream that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to leave to live better at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and postCold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.Trade Review“Offering ethnographically rich insights into labor migration between China and South Korea from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s, June Hee Kwon tracks ethnic and kin affinities and tensions amid changing political and global economic conditions, providing nuanced descriptions and analysis of the distinct temporal-spatial experiences of the Korean Chinese migrants entangled in transnational flows of labor, money, and consumption. Borderland Dreams makes an important contribution to scholarship on translocal and transnational migration, political economy, ethnicity, and China and East Asia.” -- Julie Y. Chu, author of * Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China *“Borderland Dreams tells a powerful, complex, and ethnographically driven story about capitalist modernity in China, ethnicity, borders and labor migration, remittance economies, and the temporalities of global capitalism. Drawing on highly original and important fieldwork, June Hee Kwon depicts the dreams, aspirations, and frustrations of her interlocutors through lively and engaging prose.” -- Eleana J. Kim, author of * Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Winds of Migration 1 Part I: The Rising Korean Dream 1. Ethnic Borderland 29 2. The Un/Welcoming Homeland 52 Part II: Dreams in Flux 3. Rhythms of “Free” Movement 77 4. The Work of Waiting 100 Part III: Dreaming Anew 5. The Leaving and the Living 123 6. Break the Cycle! 150 Conclusion. The Afterlife of the Korean Dream 177 Notes 187 References 213 Index 231

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Book SynopsisRachel H. Brown explores the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israel's eldercare industry, showing that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced.

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