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University of Arizona Press Divided Peoples
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Walking Together
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University of Arizona Press Frontera Madrehood
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University of Arizona Press Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands
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University of Arizona Press Life Undocumented
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University of Arizona Press Accompaniment with Immigrant Communities
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University of Arizona Press Kids in Cages
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University of Arizona Press Contentious Citizenship
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University of Arizona Press Border Afterlives
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University of Arizona Press Border Afterlives
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University of Minnesota Press Alienhood
Book Synopsis"Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." This work explores this semantic duality. It offers a critical understanding of transnational culture. It examines "alienhood" and the impact it has on the daily experiences of migrants, legal or illegal.
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University of Minnesota Press Seeking Asylum
Book SynopsisUsing examples from Canada, Australia, and the United States, Mountz demonstrates the centrality of space and place in efforts to control the fate of unwanted migrants.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction: Struggles to Land in States of Migration, 1. Human Smuggling and Refugee Protection, 2. Seeing Borders like a State, 3. Ethnography of the State, 4. Crisis and the Making of the Bogus Refugee, 5. Stateless by Geographical Design, 6. In the Shadows of the State, 7. What Kind of State Are We In? Notes, Bibliography, Index
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University of Minnesota Press Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Christina Gerken has hold of a crucial issue, and her fine book makes clear that we have to confront the neoliberal paradigm to address questions of immigrant rights." —Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Building a Neoliberal Consensus1. Exclusionary Acts: A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Laws2. Family Values and Moral Obligations: The Logic of Congressional Rhetoric3. Dehumanizing the Undocumented: The Legislative Language of Illegality4. Manufacturing the Crisis: Encoded Racism in the Daily Press5. Entrepreneurial Spirits and Individual Failures: The Neoliberal Human Interest StoryConclusion: Legacies of Failed ReformAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Desis Divided
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sangay K. Mishra’s book is the first of its kind involving the politics of South Asians in the United States. Desis Divided fills an important gap in the study of Asian American politics and speaks to a larger literature on minority political incorporation, showing both the strengths and limitations of Desi political involvement."—Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside"Mishra paints a picture of a community whose heterogeneity has manifested itself in remarkable ways. There was so much about the South Asian American political experience that I did not truly appreciate until I read Desis Divided."—The Aerogram"Recommended."—CHOICE"An important, fresh take on the study of immigrant political behavior."—Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Situating Desis in U.S. Ethnoracial Politics1. South Asian Americans and Immigration Regimes: Exclusion, Ghadar Rebellion, and Silicon Valley2. Political Incorporation and New Immigrants: Beyond Racial Solidarity3. Race, Religion, and Communities: South Asians in the Post-9/11 United States4. Mapping the Modes of Mobilization5. Transnationalism and Political Participation: The Challenges of “In-Between” Americans6. Diasporic Nationalism and Fragments WithinConclusion: Negotiating Identities and Crafting SolidaritiesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Claiming Place On the Agency of Hmong Women
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important work for Asian American studies and ethnic studies."—CHOICE"This book should be hailed as a novel and welcome contribution to gender studies among Asian Americans."—Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and PowerChia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma VangPart I. History and Knowledge Production1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western TextsLeena N. Her2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective Ma Vang3. Rethinking Hmong Women’s Wartime Sacrifices: On Gender and SexualityChia Youyee VangPart II. Social Organization and Kinship4. The Women of “Dragon Capital”: Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang PaoMai Na Lee5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural WealthJulie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural SpacePrasit LeepreechaPart III. Art and Media 7. Hmong Women on the Web: Transforming Power through Social NetworkingFaith Nibbs8. Stitching Hmongness into Cloth: Pliable Identity and Cultural AgencyGeraldine Craig9. Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab ZooAline Lo Part IV. Gender and Sexuality10. Thinking Diasporic Sex: Cultures, Erotics, and Media across Hmong WorldsLouisa Schein11. Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong DiasporaBruce Thao12. Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Happiness among Hmong LGBTQKong PhaAfterwordCathy Schlund-VialsAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Construction of Equality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Construction of Equality is a timely and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the social and spatial politics of immigration and suburban development in Europe from the postwar period to the present, admirably complicating and enriching our understanding of both Europe and the Middle East."—Sheila Crane, University of Virginia"The first Syriacs—members of a Christian minority from Turkey and the Middle East—arrived in Sweden as refugees a half-century ago. Jennifer Mack has been notably versatile in combining participant observation with a wide range of other materials to offer this rich portrayal of the community in its changing habitat. At a time of dramatic crisis reporting about new refugee streams, it is good to learn about how one group has made its way over time."—Ulf Hannerz, author of Writing Future Worlds "Its approach to the Swedish welfare state, social democratic urban planning, and basic ideas on migration policies is thought-provoking and raises many important questions."—EuropeNow Journal "This is an important, rich work that challenges currently dominant thoughts on Swedish suburban development."—Antipode "The book not only shows the multiple facets of power relationships encountered by members of ethnic communities, but also provides significant arguments for the analysis of vernacular uses of spaces in their tasks. The Construction of Equality can be an important tool for understanding the cultural issues and political stakes that many professionals are confronted with when they try to involve refugees, immigrants, and ethnic communities in city development."—Buildings & Landscapes "The book is well written and easy to follow and has carefully integrated illustrations."—Journal of Planning Education and Research Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: Urban Design from Below1. Standards and Separatism: The Swedish Million Program, Syriac Enclaves, and Equality2. Visible Cities, Invisible Citizens: Service and Citizenship in the Centrum3. Making Mesopotälje: Sacred and Profane “Diaspora Space” in the City4. “Södertälje Is a Theater”: The Performance of Propriety and Ritual Infrastructure5. Greetings from Hollywood! Enclaves, Participation, and Dialogue from the Ghetto to the Mansion6. Safety in Numbers: Tolerance and Norms in Syriac DesignConclusion: The New PeripheryAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Ulster and North America Transatlantic Perspectives on the ScotchIrish
Book SynopsisThe 11 essays in this volume, originally presented at meetings of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium by scholars from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the USA, explore the nature of Scotch-Irish culture by examining values, traditions, demographics, and language.Trade ReviewThese essays should lay to rest any lingering doubts that the Scotch-Irish have made a major contribution to North American civilization in general and to that of the U.S. Upper South in particular. - Now & Then Magazine
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The University of Alabama Press Argentina and the Jews A History of Jewish Immigration Judaic Studies
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The University of Alabama Press The Saints of Progress
Book SynopsisA reshaping of traditional understandings of Costa Rica and its national identity. The Saints of Progress chronicles the development of the Tarrazú Valley, a historically remote coffee-growing region. Carmen Kordick traces the development of this region from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewKordick makes a substantial contribution to the literature on Costa Rica and joins an ongoing discussion (especially among Costa Rican scholars) of the prevalent Costa Rican national myths by debunking the idea of the nation as a timelessly peaceful land of primarily white yeoman farmers."" - Julie A. Charlip, author of Cultivating Coffee: The Farmers of Carazo, Nicaragua, 1880–1930 and coauthor of Latin America: An Interpretive HistoryTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Tarrazú: A Place, a Coffee, and a People Chapter 1. Tarrazú’s Founding and Settlement Chapter 2. Coffee, Downward Mobility, and Political Power in Tarrazú Chapter 3. Maintaining the Order: Gender, Class, State Authority, and Violence Chapter 4. Revolt in Tarrazú Chapter 5. The Civil War and Its Consequences Chapter 6. Migration and Shifting Class, Racial, and National Identities Chapter 7. National Belonging and Exclusion beyond Costa Rica’s Borders Conclusion. Costa Rica’s Cold War Exceptionalism Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Good Maya Women
Book SynopsisAnalyses how Indigenous women's migration contributes to women's empowerment in their home communities in Guatemala. This decolonial ethnographic analysis of Kaqchikel Maya women's linguistic and cultural activism demonstrates that marginalized people can and do experience empowerment and hope for the future of their communities.Trade Review“Bennett gives a unique and intimate look into the lives of Maya women activists and their fight to preserve Maya cultural and linguistic values in their rapidly globalizing communities. Good Maya Women makes several original contributions: first, it is multilingual, representing the voices of the Kaqchikel women whose lives she presents in their own words and in their own language; second, it looks at woman as the agents of cultural preservation and change, highlighting their power and unique status in their communities; finally, it considers how Maya communities resist and accommodate globalization.” —S. Ashley Kistler, editor of Faces of Resistance: Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity“Bennett deftly weaves together the words of the good Maya women that she interviews with cutting-edge sociolinguistic theories of identity, indexicality, intersectionality, and enregisterment, while engaging with wider discourses of glocalization and neoliberalism. Bennett’s fluency in the Kaqchikel Maya language and long-term engagement with these communities allows the women’s voices to shine through brightly.”—Judith M. Maxwell, coauthor of La ütz awäch?: Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language“Maya women have been variously portrayed as valiant heroes conserving traditional dress and language, as tragic victims of the double discrimination faced by Indigenous peoples and women, and as iconic symbols of Guatemalan tourism brochures and souvenir markets. In this remarkable book, Bennett uses her extensive knowledge of Kaqchikel Mayan to uncover the nuances and complexities of what it means to be a ‘good’ Maya woman. Focusing on the discourse of return migrants, this book builds an understanding of Maya women from their lived experience and the back and forth of social interactions. Bennett uses this perspective to interrogate developmentalist views of empowerment and Western traditions of feminism in novel and productive ways. She provides a new and valuable view of Maya women in Guatemala, but also makes an important contribution to understanding the role of grassroots activists and intellectuals in cultural and political change.”—Edward F. Fischer, author of The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing
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University of Alabama Press Public Loves Private Troubles
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The University of Alabama Press A Small but Spartan Band
Book SynopsisUntil this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies of particular Florida units that have appeared. Based on more than two decades of research, Waters and Edmonds have produced a study that covers all units from Florida in the ANV, and does so in an objective and reliable fashion. Drawn from what was then a turbulent and thinly settled frontier region, the Florida troops serving in the Confederacy were never numerous, but they had the good or bad luck of finding themselves at crucial points in several significant battles such as Gettysburg where their conduct continues to be a source of contention. Additionally, the study of these units and their service permits an examination of important topics affecting the Civil War soldier: lack of supplies, the status of folks at home, dissension over civilian control of soldiers and units from the various Confederate
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The University of Alabama Press Far East Down South
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The University of Alabama Press Dreamer Nation
Book SynopsisTells the story of how Dreamers in the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant rights and empower undocumented youth to proudly represent their lives and identities, all while under the ever-present threat of detention and deportation.Trade Review“Dreamer Nation is an elegantly written and thoroughly researched rhetorical history of undocumented youth activism during the Obama years. Ribero’s book will be beneficial to readers interested in social movements, queer of color critique, decolonial feminism, and anyone interested in immigration politics.”- J. David Cisneros, author of The Border Crossed Us: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
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University of Alabama Press Public Loves Private Troubles
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Ohio University Press A Bed Called Home
Book SynopsisIn the last three years the migrant labor hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theaters of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities.Trade Review“This is an excellent book: it is easy to read and provides a deep analysis of apartheid and its consequences by homing in on one particular kind of institution. It provides a means to self-examination for both black and white readers which is so much needed in South African writing now…A work which is among the best recent South African publications.” * Journal of Southern African Studies *
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Duke University Press The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Book SynopsisA study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigrationTrade Review“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is a wonderfully creative, playful, and serious piece of scholarship. Demonstrating that pleasure and critique need not be incompatible, Erica Rand offers not only a model for thinking about contemporary capitalism but a way to live in it.”—Miranda Joseph, author of Against the Romance of Community“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is quite simply a great book. Destined to become a classic in contemporary cultural studies, it is one of the few books I’ve read in the last year or so that has taught me something new on every page.”—Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture“Much as she did in her earlier book, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Erica Rand turns a kitsch artifact of consumer culture into a powerful tool for cultural analysis. In this insightful and engaging new work, she transforms an Ellis Island snow globe into a window through which we see how state control of borders and migrations structures sexuality, gender, desire, and family in unexpected ways. One of the best cultural studies books I’ve read in a long time.”—Susan Stryker, producer and codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria“Rand clearly demonstrates how the categories of liberty and citizenship depend precisely on particular kinds of exclusions—those individuals whose sexual identities and behaviors do not correspond with the dominant gendering and sexualizing of the statue herself.” -- Sarah Banet-Weiser * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: Respect and Reverence ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Coming to Ellis Island 1 1. Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island 41 2. Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Gender 67 3. The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch 107 4. Green Woman, Race Matters 130 5. A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever 153 6. Immigrant Peddlers 181 7. Product Packaging 207 8. "Decide an Immigrant's Fate" 239 Notes 263 Bibliography 311 Index 325
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Duke University Press The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Book SynopsisA study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigrationTrade Review“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is a wonderfully creative, playful, and serious piece of scholarship. Demonstrating that pleasure and critique need not be incompatible, Erica Rand offers not only a model for thinking about contemporary capitalism but a way to live in it.”—Miranda Joseph, author of Against the Romance of Community“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is quite simply a great book. Destined to become a classic in contemporary cultural studies, it is one of the few books I’ve read in the last year or so that has taught me something new on every page.”—Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture“Much as she did in her earlier book, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Erica Rand turns a kitsch artifact of consumer culture into a powerful tool for cultural analysis. In this insightful and engaging new work, she transforms an Ellis Island snow globe into a window through which we see how state control of borders and migrations structures sexuality, gender, desire, and family in unexpected ways. One of the best cultural studies books I’ve read in a long time.”—Susan Stryker, producer and codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria“Rand clearly demonstrates how the categories of liberty and citizenship depend precisely on particular kinds of exclusions—those individuals whose sexual identities and behaviors do not correspond with the dominant gendering and sexualizing of the statue herself.” -- Sarah Banet-Weiser * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: Respect and Reverence ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Coming to Ellis Island 1 1. Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island 41 2. Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Gender 67 3. The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch 107 4. Green Woman, Race Matters 130 5. A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever 153 6. Immigrant Peddlers 181 7. Product Packaging 207 8. "Decide an Immigrant's Fate" 239 Notes 263 Bibliography 311 Index 325
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Duke University Press A Forgetful Nation On Immigration and Cultural
Book SynopsisTakes on an idea central to American national mythology that the US is 'a nation of immigrants', open-armed and welcoming to foreigners. This work argues that Americans' treatment of immigrants and foreigners has long fluctuated between hospitality and hostility and that this ambivalence is fundamental to the construction of US national identity.Trade Review“By way of valuable new readings of Jefferson, Hamilton, Tocqueville, Crèvecoeur, and others, Ali Behdad has found a new way into established terrain. Neither pro- nor anti-immigration per se, this book traces the cultural workings and productions of immigration politics, an angle explored by few contributors to the immigration literature. A Forgetful Nation should be required reading for all those interested in the long and often hidden history of nation-building in the United States.”—Bonnie Honig, author of Democracy and the Foreigner“This book offers a deeply relevant argument in the wake of 9/11 and counter-terror. Ali Behdad provides psychological depth to immigration discourse with a nuanced examination of ‘forgetting’ as a mode of negation that both denies and acknowledges a past built on the exclusion of otherness.”—Russ Castronovo, author of Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States“A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States is an extraordinary work of cultural memory and an important contribution to critical historiography. In writing it, Ali Behdad has established a heretofore unrecognized connection between the culture’s mythical representation of itself as an ‘Immigrant Nation’ and the negation of the history of the violence inflicted against immigrants that this self-forgetful representation necessitated.” -- Donald E. Pease * Nations and Nationalism *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Nation and Immigration 1 Imagining America: Forgeful Fathers and the Founding Myths of the Nation 23 Historicizing America: Tocqueville and the Ideology of Exceptionalism 48 Immigrant America: Liberal Discourse of Immigration and the Ritual of Self-Renewal 76 Discourses of Exclusion: Nativism and the Imaginging of a “White Nation” 111 Practices of Exclusion: National Borders and the Disciplining of Aliens 143 Conclusion: Remembering 9/11 169 Notes 117 Bibliography 193 Index 205
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Duke University Press Cosmopolitan Anxieties
Book SynopsisExplores Germany's relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. This title examines the tensions in Germany between race-based ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and ambitions of multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the other.Trade Review“[An] extremely intelligent study of Turkish immigration to Berlin. . . . Highly recommended.” - A. A. Caviedes, Choice“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a fascinating and timely book that makes an important contribution to scholarship on German-Turkish relations, the new Europe, and immigration more broadly. It will be of great interest to scholars in these fields and to anyone interested in contemporary German society.” - Melissa L. Caldwell, European Journal of Sociology“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a vividly written ethnography that will attract readers who are interested in Turks and immigration politics in Germany, as well as the intercultural facets of Berlin. The multilayered study of belonging brings to our attention how Turkish guest workers in Germany are socially constructed as foreigners rather than immigrants or citizens. Therefore, this study clearly has an applied dimension. If policy makers read such analyses, they would more easily grasp the reasons why their current integration policy for ‘foreigners’ is bound to fail.” - Refika Sarıönder, Current Anthropology“This is a remarkable study which not only provides scholars in the fields of race and ethnicity, European studies and anthropology with real insights into the complexities and challenges facing Germany’s Turkish community, but also makes a disadvantaged community more visible.” - Daniel Faas, Ethnic and Migration Studies“In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel successfully conveys the particularities of Turkish experience in the German milieu as she moves across a variety of topics, including citizenship, cultural identity, religion, transnationalism, urbanism, and racism.”—Kevin Robins, author of The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities: Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity“Ruth Mandel has turned the long trajectory of her journey through the jostling identities of Turk, Muslim, Alevi, German, Jew, and American—often introspective, always nuanced, and richly painted with intense, intimate, and many-hued detail—into an intricate and yet lucid masterpiece of analytic as well as ethnographic dexterity. In the condescension of a well-meaning Berlin cultural elite toward the ‘demotic cosmopolitanism’ of the immigrants, and in the scream of irrepressible disgust evoked by the touch of an alien-seeming strand of hair, she gracefully but inexorably traces the lingering miasma of submerged or weakly confronted intolerance and challenges us to search out its traces in our own cultural milieu as well.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value“Ruth Mandel’s study of the Turks of Germany is perhaps the most important single book yet written examining the complexity and contradictions of the Muslims in today’s Europe. Looking at the various communities (Turks, Alevis, and Kurds) that make up the Turkish presence in Germany and delineating the complexity of a German identity after the Shoah and German reunification as the background to the debates about these Islamic presences, Mandel is able to provide first-hand, sophisticated answers to the most troubling questions about the shifting world of Islam in Europe. A study that will quickly become a classic for any examination of Europe and Islam.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Multiculturalism and the Jews“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a fascinating and timely book that makes an important contribution to scholarship on German-Turkish relations, the new Europe, and immigration more broadly. It will be of great interest to scholars in these fields and to anyone interested in contemporary German society.” -- Melissa L. Caldwell * European Journal of Sociology *“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a vividly written ethnography that will attract readers who are interested in Turks and immigration politics in Germany, as well as the intercultural facets of Berlin. The multilayered study of belonging brings to our attention how Turkish guest workers in Germany are socially constructed as foreigners rather than immigrants or citizens. Therefore, this study clearly has an applied dimension. If policy makers read such analyses, they would more easily grasp the reasons why their current integration policy for ‘foreigners’ is bound to fail.” -- Refika Sarıönder * Current Anthropology *“[An] extremely intelligent study of Turkish immigration to Berlin. . . . Highly recommended.” -- A. A. Caviedes * Choice *“This is a remarkable study which not only provides scholars in the fields of race and ethnicity, European studies and anthropology with real insights into the complexities and challenges facing Germany’s Turkish community, but also makes a disadvantaged community more visible.” -- Daniel Faas * Ethnic and Migration Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Note on Language xxiii Introduction: Germany, Turkey, and the Space In-Between 1 Berlin: A Prelude 23 1. Shifting Cosmopolitics 27 2. "We Called for Labor, but People Came Instead" 51 3. Making Auslander 80 4. Haunted Jewish Spaces and Turkish Phantasms of the Present 109 5. Berlin's Kreuzberg: Topographies of Infraction 141 6. Beyond the Bridge: Two Banks of the River 155 7. Minor Literatures and Professional Ethnics 184 8. Practicing German Citizenship 206 9. Deracination to Diaspora: Leave and Leaving 232 10. Reimaginig Islams in Berlin 248 11. Veiling Modernities 294 Conclusion: Reluctant Cosmopolitans 311 Glossary 327 Notes 329 Works Cited 359 Index 403
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Duke University Press How to Be French
Book SynopsisPresents a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789. Focusing on the political and legal confrontations that policies governing French nationality have evoked and the laws that have resulted, this work teases out the rationales of jurists and lawmakers.Trade Review“How to Be French is a pioneering study of the fabrication of official ‘Frenchness’ since the Revolution of 1789, marshaling a plethora of fresh evidence and rereading more familiar sources in the service of an original, thoughtful, and provocative analysis. Patrick Weil is the most knowledgeable and insightful student of the institutional and judicial character of the French social tissue—of the political construction of cohesion in a land of immigration. He reminds the French of certain jagged truths they would prefer to forget; soberly, he draws lessons of great pertinence to other societies struggling to make multiplicity and heterogeneity work.”—Steven Laurence Kaplan, Goldwin Smith Professor of European History, Cornell University“How to be French is a critical history of nationality law and politics that illuminates decisive moments in the making of French nationality while making new and sophisticated theoretical claims about the articulations of nationality, the state, and history itself. This is a stupendous achievement by one of the most important French scholars and public intellectuals writing today.”—Peter Sahlins, author of Unnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After“This remarkable, award-winning book is sure to be extremely well received by English-language audiences. It provides a detailed, rigorous, chronologically wide, broadly comparative, and fascinating history of French nationality. How to Be French profoundly revises previous knowledge on the topic, and its comparative framework makes it essential reading not only to scholars of France but also to those interested in Germany, the United States, Algeria, and beyond.”— Eric T. Jennings, author of Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial SpasTable of ContentsAcronyms and Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One. The Construction of Modern Nationality Law in France 1. From the Old Regime to the Civil Code: The Two Revolutions in French Nationality 11 2. The Triumph of Jus Soli (1803-1889) 30 3. Naturalization Comes to the Aid of the Nation (1889-1940) 54 Part Two. Ethnic Crises in French Nationality 4. Vichy: A Racist and Anti-Semitic Nationality Policy 87 5. The Difficult Reestablishment of Republican Legislation 125 6. The Algerian Crisis in French Nationality 152 Conclusion to Parts One and Two 168 Part Three. Nationality in Comparison and In Practice 7. Jus Soli versus Jus Sanguinis: The False Opposition between French and German Law 173 8. Discrimination within Nationality Law 194 9. How Does One Become or Remain French? French Nationality in Practice 228 Conclusion 250 Glossary 255 Notes 263 Maps and Documents 375 Bibliography 409 Index 427
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Duke University Press Reproducing the French Race
Book SynopsisArgues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time.Trade Review“In this book, Camiscioli goes far beyond a skillful analysis of interwar immigration discourse and policies. . . . Camiscioli’s [argument is] smart, carefully constructed, thoroughly and widely documented. . .” - Brett A. Berliner, American Historical Review“Elisa Camiscioli’s Reproducing the French Race makes a significant contribution to the historiography of interwar France. It does so by integrating two fields that have too often been dealt with separately: gender andimmigration. . . . Beyond recasting the historiography of interwar France,Reproducing the French Race provides an important basis for comparing the mutual implication of sex and immigration in France today.” - Judith Surkis, H-France Review“Reproducing the French Race skillfully weaves together the discoursesof empire, corporeality, racialization, citizenship, and intimacy in a boldand innovative look at the foundational actions of republican citizenship,gendered identities, and the racial grammar of early twentieth-centuryFrance. Camicsioli’s command of the feminist scholarship aboutsexuality and empire renders the book accessible to non-Francophonespecialists, a welcome addition to our knowledge of the imperial roots ofcontemporary immigration.” - Michelle McKinley, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“Reproducing the French Race is well written and studiously argued. . . . Camiscioli’s work is worth reading and offers a cogent summary of the discursive origins of contemporary anti-immigration politics in France as well as the vitriolic debate over French national identity. . . . I recommend Camiscioli’s work as one of the more important studies of immigration and identity formation in early twentieth century France.” - James E. Genova, Left History“Elisa Camiscioli’s book is an intriguing examination of the importance of race and gender to late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French anxieties about population decline and national degeneration. . . . On the whole, Reproducing the French Race is a careful, well documented, and persuasively argued investigation. . . . [I]nsightful contribution to the growing literature on French universalism.” - Naomi J. Andrews, Canadian Journal of History“Camiscioli’s Reproducing Empire offers a very rewarding and pithy illumination of race and sex and the anxieties they produced in the French Third Republic (1870–1940). It is an impressive work. . . . This book gives longevity and intellectual breadth and depth to acute contemporary debates about the French nation and its jealously-guarded identity.” - Patricia O’Brien, Journal of Women’s History“Reproducing the French Race is an original, insightful, and very important contribution to the historiography of twentieth-century France. One of the best explorations of the intersections between race, gender, and national identity that I have seen, it has no parallel in existing histories of modern France.”—Tyler Stovall, coeditor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France“Reproducing the French Race skillfully traces underlying connections among immigration, gender, and national identity in interwar France, while fundamentally refiguring seemingly settled scholarship on pronatalism and labor rationalization by demonstrating the still under-recognized centrality of race to them. Elisa Camiscioli has written an accomplished and ambitious work that integrates issues typically treated separately into an innovative argument about ‘embodiment’ that challenges conventional assumptions about French republicanism as essentially abstract and universal.”—Gary Wilder, author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars“Reproducing the French Race is well written and studiously argued. . . . Camiscioli’s work is worth reading and offers a cogent summary of the discursive origins of contemporary anti-immigration politics in France as well as the vitriolic debate over French national identity. . . . I recommend Camiscioli’s work as one of the more important studies of immigration and identity formation in early twentieth century France.” -- James E. Genova * Left History *“Reproducing the French Race skillfully weaves together the discourses of empire, corporeality, racialization, citizenship, and intimacy in a bold and innovative look at the foundational actions of republican citizenship, gendered identities, and the racial grammar of early twentieth-century France. Camicsioli’s command of the feminist scholarship about sexuality and empire renders the book accessible to non-Francophone specialists, a welcome addition to our knowledge of the imperial roots of contemporary immigration.” -- Michelle McKinley * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“Camiscioli’s Reproducing Empire offers a very rewarding and pithy illumination of race and sex and the anxieties they produced in the French Third Republic (1870–1940). It is an impressive work. . . . This book gives longevity and intellectual breadth and depth to acute contemporary debates about the French nation and its jealously-guarded identity.” -- Patricia O'Brien * Journal of Women's History *“Elisa Camiscioli’s book is an intriguing examination of the importance of race and gender to late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French anxieties about population decline and national degeneration. . . . On the whole, Reproducing the French Race is a careful, well documented, and persuasively argued investigation. . . . [I]nsightful contribution to the growing literature on French universalism.” -- Naomi J. Andrews * Canadian Journal of History *“Elisa Camiscioli’s Reproducing the French Race makes a significant contribution to the historiography of interwar France. It does so by integrating two fields that have too often been dealt with separately: gender and immigration. . . . Beyond recasting the historiography of interwar France, Reproducing the French Race provides an important basis for comparing the mutual implication of sex and immigration in France today.” -- Judith Surkis * H-France, H-Net Reviews *“In this book, Camiscioli goes far beyond a skillful analysis of interwar immigration discourse and policies. . . . Camiscioli’s [argument is] smart, carefully constructed, thoroughly and widely documented. . .” -- Brett A. Berliner * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Embodiment and the Nation 1 1. Immigration, Demography, and Pronatalism 21 2. Labor Power and the Racial Economy 51 3. Hybridity and Its Discontents 75 4. Black Migrants, White Slavery: Metissage in the Metropole and Abroad 99 5. Intermarriage, Independent Nationality, and Individual Rights 129 Conclusion. Gender, Race, and Republican Embodiment 155 Notes 161 Bibliography 197 Index 223
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Duke University Press Tracking Europe
Book SynopsisA critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. It interrogates European discourses on free movement and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary debates and practices in Europe, social and cultural theories, historical texts, media representations, and critical art projects.Trade Review“Tracking Europe is a very timely work that explores some of the most pertinent and problematic issues involved in thinking and rethinking Europe. The book’s merits lie in both the analyses and ethnographic details of specific sites in which Europe is constructed, from port-authority surveillance to tourism and institutionalized cities of culture, and in its critical appropriation of noted studies in the fields of cultural studies and migration studies, theories of travel, and the philosophy of belonging.”—Iain Chambers, author of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity“Tracking Europe is an important book, very relevant to current world affairs. Ginette Verstraete transposes political and economic issues into a critical space of engagement with culture and the arts in a theoretically innovative and lively manner.”—Caren Kaplan, author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of DisplacementTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Mobility, Technology, and the Politics of Location in Europe 1 1. Heading for Europe: The Global Itinerary of an Idea 19 2. A Grand Tour through European Tourism 41 3. Europe in an Age of Digital Cultural Capitals 61 4. High-Tech Security, Mobility, and Migration 87 5. Diasporas in the B-Zones: Artistic Counterterritories 111 Notes 155 Bibliography & Filmography 181 Index 195
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Duke University Press Im Neither Here nor There
Book SynopsisHow immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from MexicoTrade Review“I’m Neither Here nor There is a powerful, highly original ethnography about the complexities of the Mexican migrant and Mexican American population in the United States. By drawing primarily on work by scholars of color about people of color, Patricia Zavella decenters staid ways of understanding immigration, such as assimilation and the underclass models. Her use of the concepts of peripheral vision, double vision, and border thinking are particularly effective, as is her political-economic analysis of capitalism and neoliberalism in Santa Cruz County, California, and the poverty and challenges that they create for the area’s working poor.”—Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon“Among the most original and important contributions of I’m Neither Here nor There are: its focus on one California region, which helps us to see that migrants do not come to an undifferentiated ‘United States,’ but rather to specific locations with distinct regional economic and social dynamics; its sensitivity to gender and sexuality as key sites where social change gets registered in the lives of individuals; and its brilliant discussions of the popular music of Los Tigres del Norte, Quetzal, and Lila Downs as repositories of collective memory, sites of moral instruction, and mechanisms for calling old and new communities into being through performance. Patricia Zavella also makes clear the causes and consequences of residential density and overcrowding in immigrant communities, surely one of the most important but least understood features of contemporary immigrant life. I’m Neither Here nor There is an outstanding work that will be welcomed by specialists as well as general readers. It makes unique and valuable contributions to scholarship and civic life and presents an exemplary model of sophisticated and socially engaged research.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“This is the way ethnography should be written: with stories that entice, analysis that dazzles, and just the right mix of humor, music, and in-your-face dignidad. Border and migration studies will never be the same after Patricia Zavella’s impassioned new book, I’m Neither Here nor There.”—Matthew Gutmann, Brown University“I’m Neither Here nor There is a compelling examination of structures of difference, of becoming and belonging, and of forms of border thinking that map spatio-conceptual cosmos and the human integuments that hold them together through ‘transcommunal subjectivity.’... If only every book were as intellectually productive, ethically inspiring, and politically compelling.” -- Scott Catey * North American Dialogue *“Patricia Zavella’s timely I’m Neither Here Nor There serves as an example of a broadly accessible approach to the study of the working poor. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in central California, Zavella analyses the daily challenges encountered by Santa Cruz County’s Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans, with an eye towards issues of family, gender, sexuality and legal status.” -- Angela S. García * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“With detail and sensitivity, Zavella illustrates how changing gender roles and generational expectations are affecting and transforming Mexican diaspora communities as migrants create inventive strategies for survival…. Theoretically sophisticated yet written in an accessible style, this book is especially apropos for graduate courses dealing with themes of globalization, immigration, transnationalism, and border life and is also recommended for general readers interested in these themes.” -- Regina Marchi * American Ethnologist *“The breadth of Patricia Zavella’s I’m Neither Here Nor There is staggering.... It is undeniable that Zavella is a rigorous, experienced, and sophisticated ethnographer who has made a monumental and original contribution with I’m Neither Here Nor There.... [It] amplifies the words of marginalized people who 'cannot shout' (p. xii) yet justifiably 'eel entitled to dignity in exchange for their labor'(p. xi).” -- Chad Broughton * American Journal of Sociology *“Zavella’s book is an important read for scholars of migration, transnationalism, citizenship, and political economy, as well as those whose work engages gender, sexuality and race. While set in the US, Zavella’s conceptual frame and analysis can be a useful tool for Canadian scholars, particularly those working in the areas of migrant integration, immigration status and radicalized poverty.” -- Paloma E. Villegas * Labour/Le Travail *“I’m Neither Here nor There by Patricia Zavella is impassioned, nuanced, powerful, and politically compelling. Above all, it is stunningly comprehensive in a way that only a senior scholar who has wrestled with her own research and chewed on existing scholarship for years can deliver. In one way or another, I’m Neither Here nor There addresses virtually every issue facing migrants in the U.S. and does so with remarkable sophistication.” -- Steve Striffler * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Mexican Diaspora in the United States 1 1. Crossings 25 2. Migrations 55 3. The Working Poor 89 4. Migrant Family Formations 123 5. The Divided Home 157 6. Transnational Cultural Memory 190 Epilogue 226 Appendix. Research Participants 233 Notes 239 References 281 Index 319
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Duke University Press Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
Book SynopsisThis collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America—within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States—during the past two centuries.Trade Review“The introductory essay by Hoerder… is exemplary…. Replete with innovative maps, his account decries the ‘Westward ho’ trope of the continent’s migration history distilled into an advance of civilization from the Atlantic coast across the prairies, to the neglect of population movements in the northern and southern US borderlands and of trans-Pacific immigration.” - Population and Development Review“For such a large topic, each contributor does an excellent job of summarizing his or her field, and the book comes together to present a swirling depiction of relocating populations that is complex yet understandable…. Overall, it is a well-written, enlightening account of dozens of population movements across modern North America that puts together current scholarship on migration in an interesting, readable manner.” - Zachary Adams, Southwestern Historical Quarterly“The significance of creating scholarly dialogue between the ever-expanding fields of migration history in the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, Central America, and the United States, not to mention studies of the southwestern borderlands, should not be overlooked. For scholars already well versed in current migration theory, this comparative aspect represents the volume’s greatest strength.” - Matthew Casey, Hispanic American Historical Review“Its most satisfying theme is the broad and varied challenge to traditional understandings of North American immigration experiences. By introducing under-studied immigrant groups, reversing directions in studies of immigrant travel, and otherwise forcing readers to reconsider various topics, this volume makes a strong statement…The various growing fields of transational history need scholarship that decentres the US-centric model and expands beyond borders, regions, directions, and peoples that have dominated this field of inquiry. This volume makes a strong contribution in that direction.” - Brendan Rensink, Canadian Journal of History“This collection achieves a feat of thematic and conceptual integration. It explores the demographic, socioeconomic, political, and symbolic role of migration in the formation of North American nations. Yet it transcends national borders and categories with examinations of the local, regional, borderlands, and hemispheric mobility of indigenous peoples, Asians, Europeans, Afro-descendants, Latinos, and Anglo- and French-Canadians, among other sub- and supra-national groups. The result is a combination of macro- and micro-perspectives that illuminates both the forest and the trees.”—José C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850–1930“This excellent collection is easily the best effort to date to interpret North American migrations. It takes seriously the inclusion of the Caribbean and Central America in its purview, successfully integrates analyses that range from the micro- to the macro-levels, and incorporates a long-term perspective that connects studies of ‘pre-historic’ Native America and the early-modern slave trade to modern studies of ‘immigration’ and ‘refugees.’ Best of all, it provides readers with a marvelous introduction to the ways that a North American perspective on human movement differs, often remarkably so, from the national perspectives developed within the historiographies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.”—Donna R. Gabaccia, author of Immigration and American Diversity: A Social and Cultural History“For such a large topic, each contributor does an excellent job of summarizing his or her field, and the book comes together to present a swirling depiction of relocating populations that is complex yet understandable…. Overall, it is a well-written, enlightening account of dozens of population movements across modern North America that puts together current scholarship on migration in an interesting, readable manner.” -- Zachary Adams * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *“The introductory essay by Hoerder… is exemplary…. Replete with innovative maps, his account decries the ‘Westward ho’ trope of the continent’s migration history distilled into an advance of civilization from the Atlantic coast across the prairies, to the neglect of population movements in the northern and southern US borderlands and of trans-Pacific immigration.” * Population and Development Review *“The significance of creating scholarly dialogue between the ever-expanding fields of migration history in the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, Central America, and the United States, not to mention studies of the southwestern borderlands, should not be overlooked. For scholars already well versed in current migration theory, this comparative aspect represents the volume’s greatest strength.” -- Matthew Casey * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps xi Preface / Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires xiii Introduction. Migration, People's Lives, Shifting and Permeable Borders: The North American and Caribbean Societies in the Atlantic World / Dirk Hoerder 1 Part I. Intersocietal Migrations 1. Mirando atrás: Mexican Immigration from 1876 to 2000 / Jaime R. Aguila and Brian Gratton 49 2. Through the Northern Borderlands: Canada-U.S. Migrations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Bruno Ramirez 76 3. The Making and Unmaking of the Circum-Caribbean Migratory Sphere: Mobility, Sex across Boundaries, and Collective Destinies, 1840–1940 / Lara Putnam 99 Part II. Connecting Borderlands, Littorals, and Regions 4. Population Movements and the Making of Canada-U.S. Not-So-Foreign Relations / Nora Faires 129 5. Greater Southwest North America: A Region of Historical Integration, Disjunction, and Imposition / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez with Dirk Hoerder 150 6. Independence and Interdependence: Caribbean-North American Migration in the Modern Era / Melanie Shell-Weiss 174 7. Migration to Mexico, Migration in Mexico: A Special Case on the North American Continent / Delia González de Ruefels with Dirk Hoerder 188 8. The Construction of Borders: Building North American Nations, Building a Continental Perimeter, 1890s–1920s / Angelika E. Sauer 210 9. The United States-Mexican Border as Material and Cultural Barrier / Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez 228 Part III. Complicating Narratives 10. Migration and the Seasonal Round: An Odawa Family's Story / Susan E. Gray 253 11. Market Interactions in a Borderland Setting: A Case Study of the Gila River Pima of Arizona, 1846–1862 / Dan Killoren 264 12. Paying Attention to Moving Americans: Migration Knowledge in the Age of Internal Migration, 1930s–1970s / James N. Gregory 277 13. The Black Experience in Canada Revisited / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu 297 14. Circumnavigating Controls: Transborder Migration of Asian-Origin Migrants during the Period of Exclusion / Yukari Takai 313 15. Migration and Capitalism: The Rise of the U.S.-Mexican Border / John Mason Hart 333 Part IV. Contemporary and Applied Perspectives 16. Central American Migration and the Shaping of Refugee Policy / María Cristina Garcia 347 17. Central American Transmigrants: Migratory Movement of Special Interest to Different Sectors within and outside Mexico / Rodolfo Casillas-R. 364 18. Interrogating Managed Migration's Model: A Counternarrative of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program / Kerry Preibisch 377 19. 1867 and All That . . .: Teaching the American Survey as Continental North American History / Angelika Sauer and Catherine O'Donnell 391 About the Contributors 399 Index 401
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Duke University Press The Gift of Freedom
Book SynopsisMimi Thi Nguyen examines the self-interested claims of the United States to provide freedom to others, even as it does so by generating violence and displacement through overpowering warfare.Trade Review"The Gift of Freedom is a dazzling book. Focusing on the figure of the Vietnamese refugee as a key to comprehending how the rhetoric of U.S. liberalism and freedom became hegemonic during the Cold War and in the contemporary post-9/11 period, Mimi Thi Nguyen offers an original approach to rethinking Cold War politics and U.S. liberal freedom."—David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy"The product of strikingly incisive thinking, The Gift of Freedom is a luminous theoretical contribution to our understanding of the terms and tactics of liberal modernity."—Kandice Chuh, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique“The Gift of Freedom is a bold, rich and sophisticated study providing significant contribution to current literature. . . . It forges new ground in the burgeoning disciplines of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Studies while advancing the fields of memory studies, affect studies, refugee studies,and cultural studies, offering powerful insights into the far-reaching,inescapable hold that the gift of freedom has over all our precarious lives.” -- LongT.Bui * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *“Nguyen provides a well-reasoned justification for considering refugees as figures instead of subjects. . . . The book unfolds a compelling, if cynical, story of how thoroughly power functions.” -- Thy Phu * Pacific Affairs *“In writing about Vietnamese refugees, Nguyen actually helps us to grow links with studies of Arab/Middle Eastern/Muslim racialization in and outside of the United States, as well as other assemblages of subjects that might also find themselves the targets in new wars for freedom.” -- Sylvia Shin Huey Chong * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Nguyen’s book is tremendously convincing. [It] is ambitious but soundly conceived and refreshingly well written. This book should prove instructive to scholars in areas where writerly sensitivity—generous engagement with ambiguous texts and the confidence to ask speculative, even oblique questions—is perhaps not as lauded as it should be.” -- Nicholas Gamso * Women's Studies Quarterly *“Nguyen offers a refreshing perspective on cultural formations rarely researched in area studies, and The Gift of Freedom is a major contribution to Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic studies. As such, this book is recommended to scholars of cultural studies, critical race studies, immigration and migration studies, transnationalism, Asian American studies, and Asian studies.” -- Laura Ha Reizman * Journal of Asian Studies *"The Gift of Freedom extrapolates from its case studies to make an arresting argument that freedom, especially when it is routed through liberal personhood, 'is not simply a ruse for liberal war but its core proposition' (xii)." -- Russ Castronovo * American Literature *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Empire of Freedom 1 1. The Refugee Condition 33 2. Grace, the Gift of the Girl in the Photograph 83 3. Race Wars, Patriot Acts 133 Epilogue. Refugee Returns 179 Notes 191 Bibliography 239 Index 267
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Duke University Press Bhangra and Asian Underground
Book SynopsisThrough their production and consumption of bhangra and Asian Underground music in the late 1990s, British Asian youth constructed masculinities and femininities with profoundly uneven implications for ethnic, racial, and national belonging.Trade Review“In a major exposition of the British Asian music scene, Bhangra and Asian Underground is a strident tour-de-force of the South Asian music scene during a critical phase of its development.” - Malaikah Fazal, Eastern Eye"Bhangra and Asian Underground is an important book. By focusing on how young British Asian women, particularly working-class women, negotiate questions of race, class, and nation through a gendered relation to popular culture, Falu Bakrania foregrounds the constitutive nature of class in British Asian women's lives."—Gayatri Gopinath, author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures"Falu Bakrania has written a fantastic book that provides an excellent account of the complex and contradictory ways that young men and women in Britain craft British Asian identities through the bhangra and Asian Underground music scenes. It was with pleasure that I 'met' Jess, Sukh, Leena, and the other girls and women. Bakrania's transcriptions of the interviews with men and women were fantastic and well-analyzed, truly conveying a sense of their struggles, joys, and humor. Bhangra and Asian Underground is a fabulous ethnography that will enjoy a wide readership."—Nitasha Tamar Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness"A welcome addition to the ethnographic literature dealing with music practices in Britain, and her sophisticated analysis considerably expands our knowledge of these musical forms and their attendant social and cultural conventions." -- Evangelos Chrysagis * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“...[O]ne of the only good books ever written about the influential Bhangra subculture. Bakrania opens the book recalling her cousins playing Bally Sagoo’s ‘Star Megamix,’ following all the strands that made up that moment in history until she has assembled a rich portrait of a unique movement in British culture.” -- Josephine Livingstone * Dazed and Confused *"Bhangra and Asian Underground is a rich ethnography of British Asian youth that will be of particular interest to scholars of popular culture and immigrant and diaspora formations." -- Stefan Fiol * Ethnomusicology *“Few book-length monographs have been devoted to these music genres, especially Asian underground, and Bhangra and Asian Underground is a welcome addition to the literature. The book should be of value to ethnomusicologists, scholars of popular music and of Asian Studies, since it addresses bhangra and Asian underground both as music forms and as musical subcultures in the British Asian community.” -- Iris Yellum * Journal of World Popular Music *“Bhangra and Asian Underground gives readers a window into the South Asian diaspora in London, as well as an opportunity to discover some terrific music. . . . [It] will appeal to a wide academic audience from fields including ethnomusicology, anthropology, women’s studies, and diaspora studies, as well as to any scholars interested in the complexities of identity and belonging.” -- Anna Oldfield * Popular Music and Society *“Bhangra and Asian Underground is an important book that makes significant contributions to the study of youth culture, popular music, and social identity. The author’s ethnographic research gives the reader an up close look at how young British Asians negotiate their identities by engaging with the contradictory demands of race, class, and gender.” -- Ryan Moore * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I. The Politics of Production 1. Mainstreaming Masculinity: Bhangra Boyz and Belonging in Britain 33 2. From the Margins to the Mainstream: Asian Underground Artists and the Politics of Not Being Political 70 Part II. The Club Cultures in Consumption 3. The Troubling Subjects of Wayward Asian Girls: Working-Class Women and Bhangra Club Going 117 4. Roomful of Asha: Middle-Class Women and Asian Underground Club Going 160 Conclusion. Bhangra and Asian Underground in the 2000s 187 Notes 203 Bibliography 227 Index 237
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Duke University Press Impossible Citizens
Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, Indian workers have flooded into Dubai, enabling its construction boom. Barred from becoming citizens, they comprise the emirate's largest noncitizen population. Neha Vora examines their existence in a state of permanent temporariness.Trade Review"In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora examines how Indians living in Dubai, where they are formally excluded from citizenship, create other forms of belonging through relationships with various communities—including Indians of other classes, other South Asians, and Emiratis—as well as particular spaces within the city-state. This book makes a strong argument with both theoretical and empirical significance that Indians are integral to the legitimacy of the Emirati state."—Ilana Feldman, author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–1967 "Neha Vora's Impossible Citizens is not only a fine ethnography of the 'permanently temporary' Indian population in Dubai, it is also a searching re-examination of concepts such as 'citizenship,' 'diaspora,' and 'democracy.' In the finest traditions of ethnographic work, Vora thoroughly undermines the usual scholarly use of these concepts by showing how little analytic purchase they give us in one case. She argues instead for a view in which migrants are not separated from citizens, and the economic causes of migration are not seen as disconnected from questions of social and cultural citizenship. Theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich, this study will be a necessary guide to modes of belonging in the contemporary globalized world."—Akhil Gupta, author of Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India“Vora’s book is not merely an interesting narrative; it is also theoretically sophisticated, working through the Dubai case to argue an urgent need for questioning several core analytic concepts… she confidently ranges around questions of citizenship, migrancy and governmentality – including taxation and welfare – and deftly demonstrates how academic and popular discourse alike fail to disengage from the ‘imperial genealogies’ of their own epistemologies… Accordingly, this book deserves a readership beyond its obvious regional constituencies. Anyone thinking about state, citizenship, migration, rights or contemporary economies, or about the intellectual and political work that we do when we delineate and separate analytic domains, prising them from the flow of daily reactions and transactions that form social life, will find much here.” -- Caroline Osella * Times Higher Education *“Impossible Citizens is immediately engaging and sophisticated in its presentation of the myriad realities of the everyday lives of Indians in Dubai. . . . [T]he promise of the book is not just for those identifying with Area Studies or readers interested in Diaspora Studies and research on transnational ties that link South Asia with the other parts of the world, but also for those who wish to engage with thematic subjects of citizenship, migration and its links to ‘home’ economies and an anthropology of how neo-liberal economics affects the spatial, sensual and social architecture of cities.” -- Anandita Bajpai * South Asia *". . . a rich and comprehensive ethnography of Dubai’s Indian community that sets new standards for writing about 'guest workers' in the Gulf…. Impossible Citizens examines citizenship 'precisely through those who mark citizenship’s limits' — and in so doing, provides a compelling analysis of political governance that speaks to multiple disciplines and regions of the world.” -- Noora Anwar Lori * Middle East Journal *“[Vora’s] careful study of a group of migrants makes a compelling contribution to the anthropology of migration, transnationalism, and cities as well as to area studies of South Asia and the Middle East.” -- Kristin V. Monroe * Journal of Anthropological Research * "A rich ethnography which provides a fresh perspective on the Indian community in the rapidly changing city of Dubai." -- Sanjukta Mukherjee * International Migration Review *"Impossible Citizens will no doubt appeal to anyone interested in the Southasian diaspora and in new forms of citizenship." -- Tristian Brusle * Himal Southasian Magazine *"...this book is a remarkable study in the field of Gulf Studies, migration, diaspora, and citizenship. It challenges these concepts with the exceptional case of Dubai.... Her painstaking research has resulted in an extraordinary and extremely well documented contribution. The book is well organized and well written. It will be welcomed by students, professionals, and academics alike." -- Gijsbert Oonk * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"[W]ith Impossible Citizens, Vora—through her rich ethnographic work and her very well laid out arguments—contributes significantly to our understanding of citizenship, diaspora and belonging by introducing the largely understudied, highly multicultural yet stratified society of Dubai." -- Idil Akinci * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Exceptions and Exceptionality in Dubai 3 1. A Tale of Two Creeks: Cosmopolitan Productions and Cosmopolitan Erasures in Contemporary Dubai 36 2. An Indian City? Diasporic Subjectivity and Urban Citizenship in Old Dubai 65 3. Between Global City and Golden Frontier: Indian Businessmen, Unofficial Citizenship, and Shifting Forms of Belonging 91 4. Exceeding the Economic: New Modalities of Belonging among Middle-class Dubai Indians 117 5. Becoming Indian in Dubai: Parochialisms and Globalisms in Privatized Education 144 Conclusion. Reassessing Gulf Studies: Citizenship, Democracy, and the Political 171 Notes 191 Bibliography 221 Index 235
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Duke University Press Return
Book SynopsisSince the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged or demanded the return of emigrants. In this anthology, cases of return migration in Asia provide the ground for rethinking relations between nation-states and transnational mobility.Trade Review"This collection identifies an important patterning of migrations, one exerted by Asian nations pulling far-ranging emigrants and refugees toward home. Different chapters trace the exigency and enigma of return experienced by sojourners and soldiers in the 20th century, and expatriates and professionals in contemporary times. The book will be of interest to scholars working in anthropology, history, sociology, global studies, Asian studies, and critical geography."—Aihwa Ong, coeditor of Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate"This important volume creates a link between two phenomena that are often treated as oppositional, nation and (trans)nation. Focusing on return migration, the contributors show that space is more than place; it is a method for understanding global movements. The chapters illustrate how generation, class, and often flexible categories (returnee, refugee, and worker) place institutions and the people that they claim to serve in a constantly negotiated relationship. The conversation between scholars of different disciplines will stimulate wide-ranging debate."—Jeffrey Lesser, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980“This book is an excellent and well-written collection, and it is accessible to students and the educated reader as well as professional academics. Those interested in Asian studies, migration, and human diasporas will want to read it immediately.” -- Nobuko Adachi * American Ethnologist *“One of the collection’s strengths, and indeed one of the reasons that an edited volume provides an appropriate means of dealing with the question of return, is that it highlights how the differentiated and segmented relations that Asian states form with returnees require patterns of coalescence, as well as heterogeneity.” -- Brett Neilson * Asian Journal of Social Science *“In Return, Xiang, Yeoh, Toyota and eight other contributors offer insightful answers…. By highlighting the complexities of return migration in Asia, this edited volume surely achieves its set goal and constitutes an important contribution to the literature on returnees, refugees and migrants in Asia. Academics, specialists and students will welcome this volume as an important addition to the literature on cultural geography and Asia Studies.” -- Kai Chen * Cultural Geographies *“In sum, this volume offers highly readable, provocative critical analyses of return migration that force us to consider how it is regulated, and at what costs. It will be valuable for anyone interested in the complexities of return migration in Asia.” -- Glenda S. Roberts * Pacific Affairs *“Return is never just a simple move, as the book editors claim in the introduction and proceed to demonstrate through the different contributions. With return migration only recently emerging as an aspect of migration studies in its own right, this edited collection provides great stimulation for generating ideas of return migration in an advanced and multifaceted way. The book is highly recommended for students of the social sciences, in particular those concerned with mobility, migration, and nation-building.” -- Brigitte Suter * Border Criminologies *“Without a doubt, this will be a much quoted piece and will foreground many stimulating conversations on the return process. Migration scholars, policy advisers, program implementers, and donor agencies can greatly benefit from making this book a useful tool in analyzing how migrants and nation-states respond to the challenges of return.” -- Jean Encinas-Franco * Asian Politics & Policy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Return and the Reordering of Transnational Mobility in Asia / Xiang Biao 1 1. To Return or Not to Return: The Changing Meaning of Mobility among Japanese Brazilians, 1908–2010 / Koji Sasaki 21 2. Soldier's Home: War, Migration, and Delayed Return in Postwar Japan / Mariko Asano Tamanoi 39 3. Guiqiao as Political Subjects in the Making of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979 / Wang Cangbai 63 4. Transnational Encapsulation: Compulsory Return as a Labor-Migration Control in East Asia / Xiang Biao 83 5. Cambodians Go "Home": Forced Returns and Redisplacement Thirty Years after the American War in Indochina / Sylvia R. Cowan 100 6. Rescue, Return, in Place: Deportees, "Victims," and the Regulation of Indonesian Migration / Johan Lindquist 122 7. Return of the Global Indian: Software Professionals and the Worlding of Bangalore / Carol Upadhya 141 8. Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese / Melody Chia-Wen Lu and Shen Hyunjoon 162 Contributors 179 References 183 Index 205
£90.10
Duke University Press Return
Book SynopsisSince the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged or demanded the return of emigrants. In this anthology, cases of return migration in Asia provide the ground for rethinking relations between nation-states and transnational mobility.Trade Review"This collection identifies an important patterning of migrations, one exerted by Asian nations pulling far-ranging emigrants and refugees toward home. Different chapters trace the exigency and enigma of return experienced by sojourners and soldiers in the 20th century, and expatriates and professionals in contemporary times. The book will be of interest to scholars working in anthropology, history, sociology, global studies, Asian studies, and critical geography."—Aihwa Ong, coeditor of Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate"This important volume creates a link between two phenomena that are often treated as oppositional, nation and (trans)nation. Focusing on return migration, the contributors show that space is more than place; it is a method for understanding global movements. The chapters illustrate how generation, class, and often flexible categories (returnee, refugee, and worker) place institutions and the people that they claim to serve in a constantly negotiated relationship. The conversation between scholars of different disciplines will stimulate wide-ranging debate."—Jeffrey Lesser, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980“This book is an excellent and well-written collection, and it is accessible to students and the educated reader as well as professional academics. Those interested in Asian studies, migration, and human diasporas will want to read it immediately.” -- Nobuko Adachi * American Ethnologist *“One of the collection’s strengths, and indeed one of the reasons that an edited volume provides an appropriate means of dealing with the question of return, is that it highlights how the differentiated and segmented relations that Asian states form with returnees require patterns of coalescence, as well as heterogeneity.” -- Brett Neilson * Asian Journal of Social Science *“In Return, Xiang, Yeoh, Toyota and eight other contributors offer insightful answers…. By highlighting the complexities of return migration in Asia, this edited volume surely achieves its set goal and constitutes an important contribution to the literature on returnees, refugees and migrants in Asia. Academics, specialists and students will welcome this volume as an important addition to the literature on cultural geography and Asia Studies.” -- Kai Chen * Cultural Geographies *“In sum, this volume offers highly readable, provocative critical analyses of return migration that force us to consider how it is regulated, and at what costs. It will be valuable for anyone interested in the complexities of return migration in Asia.” -- Glenda S. Roberts * Pacific Affairs *“Return is never just a simple move, as the book editors claim in the introduction and proceed to demonstrate through the different contributions. With return migration only recently emerging as an aspect of migration studies in its own right, this edited collection provides great stimulation for generating ideas of return migration in an advanced and multifaceted way. The book is highly recommended for students of the social sciences, in particular those concerned with mobility, migration, and nation-building.” -- Brigitte Suter * Border Criminologies *“Without a doubt, this will be a much quoted piece and will foreground many stimulating conversations on the return process. Migration scholars, policy advisers, program implementers, and donor agencies can greatly benefit from making this book a useful tool in analyzing how migrants and nation-states respond to the challenges of return.” -- Jean Encinas-Franco * Asian Politics & Policy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Return and the Reordering of Transnational Mobility in Asia / Xiang Biao 1 1. To Return or Not to Return: The Changing Meaning of Mobility among Japanese Brazilians, 1908–2010 / Koji Sasaki 21 2. Soldier's Home: War, Migration, and Delayed Return in Postwar Japan / Mariko Asano Tamanoi 39 3. Guiqiao as Political Subjects in the Making of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979 / Wang Cangbai 63 4. Transnational Encapsulation: Compulsory Return as a Labor-Migration Control in East Asia / Xiang Biao 83 5. Cambodians Go "Home": Forced Returns and Redisplacement Thirty Years after the American War in Indochina / Sylvia R. Cowan 100 6. Rescue, Return, in Place: Deportees, "Victims," and the Regulation of Indonesian Migration / Johan Lindquist 122 7. Return of the Global Indian: Software Professionals and the Worlding of Bangalore / Carol Upadhya 141 8. Ethnicizing, Capitalizing, and Nationalizing: South Korea and the Returning Korean Chinese / Melody Chia-Wen Lu and Shen Hyunjoon 162 Contributors 179 References 183 Index 205
£22.49
Duke University Press Tropical Renditions
Book SynopsisIn Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Trade Review"Balance’s book is a major contribution to a flowering of contemporary scholarship on the Filipino diaspora and musical performance. . . . From DJing and karaoke to performance art and indie Pinoise rock, Balance’s book draws out the rich implications of such musical scenes, and in doing so, shows how Filipino America has been made, and made uniquely meaningful, through music." -- Victor Bascara * Pacific Affairs *"With her careful survey of ethnographic texts and implicit use of ethnographic research techniques, Balance sets a new standard for accounts of popular music culture in performance studies." -- Neal Matherne * Ethnomusicology *"Tropical Renditions offers a script from which to begin rehearsing a multiscalar phonography of place, race, and music that is . . . relentlessly and productively disobedient." -- Anjeline de Dios * Southeast Asian Studies *"A gift to the fields of Asian studies, sound studies, and cultural studies, speaking between and across each in order to posit a theory of sound that is attuned to the affective and sociopolitical contours of the Filipinx diasporic experience. . . . Seminal in its theorizing of the social conditions that dictate how the Filipinx performing body is consumed." -- Casey Mecija * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Flip the Beat: An Introduction 1 1. Sonic Fictions 31 2. The Serious Work of Karaoke 56 3. Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes 87 4. Pinoise Rock 123 Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries 155 Notes 187 Bibliography 207 Index 219
£76.50
Duke University Press Tropical Renditions
Book SynopsisIn Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identity, publics, and politics as well as challenge dominant racial stereotypes. Trade Review"Balance’s book is a major contribution to a flowering of contemporary scholarship on the Filipino diaspora and musical performance. . . . From DJing and karaoke to performance art and indie Pinoise rock, Balance’s book draws out the rich implications of such musical scenes, and in doing so, shows how Filipino America has been made, and made uniquely meaningful, through music." -- Victor Bascara * Pacific Affairs *"With her careful survey of ethnographic texts and implicit use of ethnographic research techniques, Balance sets a new standard for accounts of popular music culture in performance studies." -- Neal Matherne * Ethnomusicology *"Tropical Renditions offers a script from which to begin rehearsing a multiscalar phonography of place, race, and music that is . . . relentlessly and productively disobedient." -- Anjeline de Dios * Southeast Asian Studies *"A gift to the fields of Asian studies, sound studies, and cultural studies, speaking between and across each in order to posit a theory of sound that is attuned to the affective and sociopolitical contours of the Filipinx diasporic experience. . . . Seminal in its theorizing of the social conditions that dictate how the Filipinx performing body is consumed." -- Casey Mecija * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Flip the Beat: An Introduction 1 1. Sonic Fictions 31 2. The Serious Work of Karaoke 56 3. Jessica Hagedorn's Gangster Routes 87 4. Pinoise Rock 123 Epilogue: Rakenrol Itineraries 155 Notes 187 Bibliography 207 Index 219
£25.19
Duke University Press Making Refuge Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston
Book SynopsisIn Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine.Trade Review"Besteman eschews social science jargon to tell her story with great insight and empathy. Her book should be required reading for policymakers currently debating what to do with refugees from Syria." -- Nichola van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *"Given Besteman’s unique perspective on the Somali Bantu community in Lewiston and her impressive scholarship on refugees, Africa and racism, it would be difficult to imagine any scholar having as rich and multi-faceted a frame of reference on the issue of refugees in Maine. ... Besteman’s writing offers an in-depth and timely analysis of the Somali Bantu experience in Lewiston, now in its second decade." -- Dave Canarie * Portland Press Herald *"Tensions between newcomers and established communities are as old as the US itself, and Making Refuge is a rich account of what is gained and what is lost in becoming American. Think of this book as your ringside seat to the birth of a new shared meaning of 'life the way it should be.'" -- Faith Nibbs * Times Higher Education *"[S]cholarly yet accessible. . . . The book neither loses itself in despair nor politicizes what she treats as the wholly human drama that it is." -- Jim Breithaupt * Bookslut *"It is a devastating read, full of complex geopolitical realities, crushing social revelations regarding race and poverty in America, the seemingly insurmountable problems the Somali Bantu in particular face, and a general public prone to nasty blog comments and xenophobia." -- D. L. Mayfield * Books & Culture *"The book is highly accessible, engaging, ethnographically rich, and written with real sensitivity, qualities that will resonate well with students. The book will also be useful to policy makers, NGOs, and refugee service providers." -- Stephanie R. Bjork * American Anthropologist *"In a time marked by continuous talk about refugee crisis and a rise in anti-immigrant sentiments, Making Refuge forms an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of displacement. Given the little ethnographically driven research there has been into the plight of Somali minority groups, the book also forms a significant historical document about a community in the making." -- Annika Lems * Society & Space *"Making Refuge is a superbly written, well-organized book with beautiful stories and photographs and sound but subtle theories that will make it a great book for undergraduates and graduate students and a must-read for anyone interested in refugees, human rights, the aftermaths of war and migration, race and ethnicity, and engaged anthropology." -- Jennifer Erickson * American Ethnologist *"Making Refuge is particularly relevant in a time when refugee resettlement is widely discussed, as it points to the flaws and contradictions of a system that expects refugees to be docile and thankful recipients of charity to gain resettlement but at the same time requires for them to become self-sufficient shortly after arriving in the country. Besteman offers many useful lessons to policy makers and those who provide services to refugees as well as students of immigrant incorporation." -- Cristina Ramos * African Studies Quarterly *"Besteman goes beyond simply portraying the lives of Somali Bantus in Lewiston, Maine and instead shows how the ethnic group ‘Bantu’ was created, along with the construction and dispute of the Bantu identity, both by those described as Bantus and those doing the labeling. . . . The richness of the data makes the community really come alive in the pages of the book." -- Bernadette Ludwig * Migration Studies *"Making Refuge deserves wide readership, both for its distinctive ethnographic foundations and salient conclusions. This timely work speaks to current controversies over refugees and resettlement with rich, data-driven analysis that shatters dominant narratives of integration and belonging." -- Emily Frazier * African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review *"Besteman’s book is the fruit of years of engagement with the people about whom she is writing, across two continents, allowing for a rich and intimate account which is a pleasure to read, seamlessly mixing the stories of particular individuals and families, more general analysis, and conceptual insight. A great strength of the account is its multidimensionality: close attention is paid to policy-making and bureaucratic processes, but also to the lived experiences and agency of refugees, and how they navigate these systems." -- Anna Lindley * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Powerful, persuasive, and illuminating, at once deeply intimate and broadly relevant. Making Refuge will interest students of all levels, professional anthropologists, members of the media, and an educated non-academic readership.” -- Daniel M. Goldstein * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Terms and Abbreviations ix Timeline of Events xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Refugees 1. Becoming Refugees 35 2. The Humanitarian Condition 57 3. Becoming Somali Bantus 77 Part II. Lewiston Introduction 103 4. We Have Responded Valiantly 115 5. Strangers in Our Midst 139 6. Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands 169 Part III. Refuge Introduction 205 7. Making Refuge 215 8. These Are Our Kids 243 Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be 277 Notes 291 References 313 Index 327
£75.65
Duke University Press Making Refuge Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston
Book SynopsisIn Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine.Trade Review"Besteman eschews social science jargon to tell her story with great insight and empathy. Her book should be required reading for policymakers currently debating what to do with refugees from Syria." -- Nichola van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *"Given Besteman’s unique perspective on the Somali Bantu community in Lewiston and her impressive scholarship on refugees, Africa and racism, it would be difficult to imagine any scholar having as rich and multi-faceted a frame of reference on the issue of refugees in Maine. ... Besteman’s writing offers an in-depth and timely analysis of the Somali Bantu experience in Lewiston, now in its second decade." -- Dave Canarie * Portland Press Herald *"Tensions between newcomers and established communities are as old as the US itself, and Making Refuge is a rich account of what is gained and what is lost in becoming American. Think of this book as your ringside seat to the birth of a new shared meaning of 'life the way it should be.'" -- Faith Nibbs * Times Higher Education *"[S]cholarly yet accessible. . . . The book neither loses itself in despair nor politicizes what she treats as the wholly human drama that it is." -- Jim Breithaupt * Bookslut *"It is a devastating read, full of complex geopolitical realities, crushing social revelations regarding race and poverty in America, the seemingly insurmountable problems the Somali Bantu in particular face, and a general public prone to nasty blog comments and xenophobia." -- D. L. Mayfield * Books & Culture *"The book is highly accessible, engaging, ethnographically rich, and written with real sensitivity, qualities that will resonate well with students. The book will also be useful to policy makers, NGOs, and refugee service providers." -- Stephanie R. Bjork * American Anthropologist *"In a time marked by continuous talk about refugee crisis and a rise in anti-immigrant sentiments, Making Refuge forms an important contribution to a more nuanced understanding of displacement. Given the little ethnographically driven research there has been into the plight of Somali minority groups, the book also forms a significant historical document about a community in the making." -- Annika Lems * Society & Space *"Making Refuge is a superbly written, well-organized book with beautiful stories and photographs and sound but subtle theories that will make it a great book for undergraduates and graduate students and a must-read for anyone interested in refugees, human rights, the aftermaths of war and migration, race and ethnicity, and engaged anthropology." -- Jennifer Erickson * American Ethnologist *"Making Refuge is particularly relevant in a time when refugee resettlement is widely discussed, as it points to the flaws and contradictions of a system that expects refugees to be docile and thankful recipients of charity to gain resettlement but at the same time requires for them to become self-sufficient shortly after arriving in the country. Besteman offers many useful lessons to policy makers and those who provide services to refugees as well as students of immigrant incorporation." -- Cristina Ramos * African Studies Quarterly *"Besteman goes beyond simply portraying the lives of Somali Bantus in Lewiston, Maine and instead shows how the ethnic group ‘Bantu’ was created, along with the construction and dispute of the Bantu identity, both by those described as Bantus and those doing the labeling. . . . The richness of the data makes the community really come alive in the pages of the book." -- Bernadette Ludwig * Migration Studies *"Making Refuge deserves wide readership, both for its distinctive ethnographic foundations and salient conclusions. This timely work speaks to current controversies over refugees and resettlement with rich, data-driven analysis that shatters dominant narratives of integration and belonging." -- Emily Frazier * African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review *"Besteman’s book is the fruit of years of engagement with the people about whom she is writing, across two continents, allowing for a rich and intimate account which is a pleasure to read, seamlessly mixing the stories of particular individuals and families, more general analysis, and conceptual insight. A great strength of the account is its multidimensionality: close attention is paid to policy-making and bureaucratic processes, but also to the lived experiences and agency of refugees, and how they navigate these systems." -- Anna Lindley * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Powerful, persuasive, and illuminating, at once deeply intimate and broadly relevant. Making Refuge will interest students of all levels, professional anthropologists, members of the media, and an educated non-academic readership.” -- Daniel M. Goldstein * PoLAR *Table of ContentsList of Terms and Abbreviations ix Timeline of Events xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Refugees 1. Becoming Refugees 35 2. The Humanitarian Condition 57 3. Becoming Somali Bantus 77 Part II. Lewiston Introduction 103 4. We Have Responded Valiantly 115 5. Strangers in Our Midst 139 6. Helpers in the Neoliberal Borderlands 169 Part III. Refuge Introduction 205 7. Making Refuge 215 8. These Are Our Kids 243 Conclusion: The Way Life Should Be 277 Notes 291 References 313 Index 327
£21.59
Duke University Press Exiled Home Salvadoran Transnational Youth in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exiled Home constitutes a timely and sophisticated scholarly piece that entails a thorough methodological discussion and makes for fascinating reading. By placing deportation within an institutional and policy context and considering the experiences of undocumented immigrants raised in or deported from the host country, the book complements an existing literature that is largely concerned with the reasons for migration, the situation of adult immigrants, and the impact of remittances. The work makes an impassioned plea to legalize youths who are US citizens in all but immigration status and should prove of interest in both academic and policy circles." -- Sonja Wolf * International Migration Review *"At a time when more people than ever are being displaced from their homelands, Coutin’s vivid, youth-centered analysis offers a potent and instructive understanding both of those who migrate and of those who are exiled home." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * American Anthropologist *"An illuminating example of how to effectively and creatively mesh theory with qualitative data. . . . A carefully crafted, humane portrayal of the broad-ranging and common experiences of Salvadoran migrant children living in the United States and those violently reinserted in El Salvador." -- Shirley A. Heying * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Exiled Home is a testament to many things—the importance of fieldwork, the significance of critical thought, the power of political participation—but the book also evidences the gift of longstanding ethnographic engagements." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Anthropological Quarterly *"For anyone wishing to understand what is at stake with the cancelation of TPS and DACA, the proposed changes to make asylum even harder to get, or the waves of caravans coming out of Central America, [Exiled Home] is essential. It will be useful and timely for courses from any discipline on immigration as well as political and legal anthropology." -- Amelia Frank-Vitale * Border Criminologies *"Focusing on Salvadoran migration, the book not only shows that Central American migration to the US is not new, but also that Salvadorans’ migratory experience is characterized by different forms of violence and uncertainty that are not bounded to national territories or categories. Exiled Home contributes to understanding how Salvadoran youth migrants expand what it means to be Salvadoran and American." -- Lurio Gutiérrez Rivera * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Exiled Home is an invaluable text, in which Susan Bibler Coutin builds upon her decades of critical ethnographic engagement with the Salvadoran diaspora to produce a theoretically rich and textured analysis of the children and youth who migrated with their families to the United States during the Salvadoran civil war (1980-92).” -- Irina Carlota Silber * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Violence and Silence 21 2. Living in the Gap 55 3. Dreams 95 4. Exiled Home through Deportation 129 5. Biographies and Nations 165 Conclusion. Re/membering Exiled Homes 205 Appendix 227 Notes 231 References 241 Index 265
£98.60
Duke University Press Exiled Home
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exiled Home constitutes a timely and sophisticated scholarly piece that entails a thorough methodological discussion and makes for fascinating reading. By placing deportation within an institutional and policy context and considering the experiences of undocumented immigrants raised in or deported from the host country, the book complements an existing literature that is largely concerned with the reasons for migration, the situation of adult immigrants, and the impact of remittances. The work makes an impassioned plea to legalize youths who are US citizens in all but immigration status and should prove of interest in both academic and policy circles." -- Sonja Wolf * International Migration Review *"At a time when more people than ever are being displaced from their homelands, Coutin’s vivid, youth-centered analysis offers a potent and instructive understanding both of those who migrate and of those who are exiled home." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * American Anthropologist *"An illuminating example of how to effectively and creatively mesh theory with qualitative data. . . . A carefully crafted, humane portrayal of the broad-ranging and common experiences of Salvadoran migrant children living in the United States and those violently reinserted in El Salvador." -- Shirley A. Heying * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Exiled Home is a testament to many things—the importance of fieldwork, the significance of critical thought, the power of political participation—but the book also evidences the gift of longstanding ethnographic engagements." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Anthropological Quarterly *"For anyone wishing to understand what is at stake with the cancelation of TPS and DACA, the proposed changes to make asylum even harder to get, or the waves of caravans coming out of Central America, [Exiled Home] is essential. It will be useful and timely for courses from any discipline on immigration as well as political and legal anthropology." -- Amelia Frank-Vitale * Border Criminologies *"Focusing on Salvadoran migration, the book not only shows that Central American migration to the US is not new, but also that Salvadorans’ migratory experience is characterized by different forms of violence and uncertainty that are not bounded to national territories or categories. Exiled Home contributes to understanding how Salvadoran youth migrants expand what it means to be Salvadoran and American." -- Lurio Gutiérrez Rivera * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Exiled Home is an invaluable text, in which Susan Bibler Coutin builds upon her decades of critical ethnographic engagement with the Salvadoran diaspora to produce a theoretically rich and textured analysis of the children and youth who migrated with their families to the United States during the Salvadoran civil war (1980-92).” -- Irina Carlota Silber * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Violence and Silence 21 2. Living in the Gap 55 3. Dreams 95 4. Exiled Home through Deportation 129 5. Biographies and Nations 165 Conclusion. Re/membering Exiled Homes 205 Appendix 227 Notes 231 References 241 Index 265
£25.19
Duke University Press Migrant Returns
Book SynopsisEric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland, showing migration to be a multidirectional, layered, and continuous process with varied and often fraught outcomes.Trade Review“An insightful and timely account of Filipino Americans and their newfound role as key players in the Philippines' bourgeoning retirement and real estate industries.” -- Paul Nadal * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Dense and carefully argued ... Migrant Returns captures the multiple dimensions associated with return migration and serves as a valuable resource for those interested in transnationalism, globalization, and migration scholarship." -- Armand Gutierrez * International Migration Review *"A rich ethnographic account of homing. . . . Migrant Returns is a paradigmatic illumination of the multiple landscapes—personal, familial, social, and cultural—created by re/settlement, representation, and ultimately return that are emblematic of any relocation ideology. . . . By articulating the multiple logics of global economies and local social geographies, [Pido] has given us a nuanced ethnographic plunge into the multidirectional complexities and paradoxical positions of the current global diasporic moment." -- Anastasia Christou * American Ethnologist *"Overall, this book usefully troubles the labels of returnee and retiree within migration studies.… Pido's ability to incorporate an analysis of the role of the Philippine state and transnational real estate brokers in exploiting but also perpetuating this tension, makes Migrant Returns a valuable addition to Philippine and diaspora studies." -- Anjy Mary Paul * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Preface ix Introduction. An Ethnography of Return 1 Part I: Departures 1. The Balikbayan Economy: Filipino Americans and the Contemporary Transformation of Manila 29 2. The Foreign Local: Balikbayans, Overseas Filipino Workers,and the Return Economy 49 3. Transnational Real Estate: Selling the American Dream in the Philippines 72 Part II. Returns 4. The Balikbayan Hotel: Touristic Performance in Manila and the Anxiety of Return 115 5. The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes 131 6. Domestic Affects: The Philippine Retirement Authority, Retiree Visas, and the National Discourse of Homecoming 148 Conclusion: Retirement Landscapes and the Geography of Exception 163 Epilogue 179 Notes 187 References 197 Index 209
£90.10
Duke University Press Migrant Returns
Book SynopsisEric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship between the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland, showing migration to be a multidirectional, layered, and continuous process with varied and often fraught outcomes.Trade Review“An insightful and timely account of Filipino Americans and their newfound role as key players in the Philippines' bourgeoning retirement and real estate industries.” -- Paul Nadal * Journal of Asian American Studies *"Dense and carefully argued ... Migrant Returns captures the multiple dimensions associated with return migration and serves as a valuable resource for those interested in transnationalism, globalization, and migration scholarship." -- Armand Gutierrez * International Migration Review *"A rich ethnographic account of homing. . . . Migrant Returns is a paradigmatic illumination of the multiple landscapes—personal, familial, social, and cultural—created by re/settlement, representation, and ultimately return that are emblematic of any relocation ideology. . . . By articulating the multiple logics of global economies and local social geographies, [Pido] has given us a nuanced ethnographic plunge into the multidirectional complexities and paradoxical positions of the current global diasporic moment." -- Anastasia Christou * American Ethnologist *"Overall, this book usefully troubles the labels of returnee and retiree within migration studies.… Pido's ability to incorporate an analysis of the role of the Philippine state and transnational real estate brokers in exploiting but also perpetuating this tension, makes Migrant Returns a valuable addition to Philippine and diaspora studies." -- Anjy Mary Paul * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Preface ix Introduction. An Ethnography of Return 1 Part I: Departures 1. The Balikbayan Economy: Filipino Americans and the Contemporary Transformation of Manila 29 2. The Foreign Local: Balikbayans, Overseas Filipino Workers,and the Return Economy 49 3. Transnational Real Estate: Selling the American Dream in the Philippines 72 Part II. Returns 4. The Balikbayan Hotel: Touristic Performance in Manila and the Anxiety of Return 115 5. The Balikbayan House: The Precarity of Return Migrant Homes 131 6. Domestic Affects: The Philippine Retirement Authority, Retiree Visas, and the National Discourse of Homecoming 148 Conclusion: Retirement Landscapes and the Geography of Exception 163 Epilogue 179 Notes 187 References 197 Index 209
£22.49
