Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisSara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.Trade Review"[Farris's] reading of 'femonationalism' as a symptom of neoliberal capitalism gives little hope that a quick or effective solution is possible for the crises at hand. So we are left without certain answers, and that’s as it should be." -- Joan W. Scott * The Nation *"The pertinence of Farris’s volume, especially in the development of immigration policies, is undeniable." -- Visnja Krstic * Cultural Sociology *"Brilliant. . . . Through [Farris's] careful analysis of the political economic dimensions of femonationalism, certain elements of our contemporary landscape are illuminated with startling and disturbing clarity." -- Catherine Rottenberg * Jadaliyya *"A brave monograph." -- Judith Whitehead * Monthly Review *"In the Name of Women’s Rights is a timely book with an impressive scope and rich theoretical diversity. . . . A must-read for anyone concerned with the appropriation of feminism or the operation of Islamophobia in contemporary Europe." -- Julie E. Dowsett * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Welcome and invigorating." -- Peter Coviello * The Immanent Frame *“In the Name of Women’s Rights is an important and timely contribution to the fields of sociology, gender and women studies, and migration studies. Highly recommended." -- Maya El Helou * Refuge *"An incisive intervention in how we understand rescue narratives of Muslim and non-Western migrant men as perpetrators of violence against Muslim and non-Western migrant women. . . . An important contribution to a range of fields including but not limited to critical race theory, transnational studies, gender and sexuality studies, political science, and sociology." -- Sasha A. Khan * Feminist Formations *"A highly readable, insightful and alarming account of the deployment of a discourse of women’s rights by racist and nationalist movements in Europe. . . . This is a work that deserves to be widely read." -- Gargi Bhattacharyya * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Farris’s book is comprehensive, thorough, and masterly in accomplishing her key objective, which is, to draw feminist attention toward a new political economic configuration in which neoliberal conditions, feminist politics of gender equality, and right-wing nationalism coalesce to sustain exploitative ideological and material relations between western and nonwestern women. It is indeed a timely and needed study of the political and ethical costs to feminism of the concurrence of civilizational politics and neoliberal economics and thus has applications beyond the European context." -- Amina Jamal * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: In the Name of Women's Rights 1 1. Figures of Femonationalism 22 2. Femonationalism Is No Populism 57 3. Integration Policies and the Institutionalization of Femonationalism 78 4. Femonationalism, Neoliberalism, and Social Reproduction 115 5. The Political Economy of Femonationalism 146 Notes 183 Bibliography 229 Index 253

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Book SynopsisAlex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in huapango arribeño, a musical genre from north-central Mexico that helps Mexicans build communities on both sides of the US border and give voice to the transnational migrant experience.Trade Review"Chavez uses the songs of the borderlands to talk about immigration into the US and the culture that has sprung up around the border. He pulls in both history and current situations – and best of all, his own experiences as a Mexican academic and musician – to create a multidimensional, gorgeous book." -- Alejandra Oliva * Remezcla *"Bold and engaging. . . . Teeming with moments of intimacy, and a genuine attention to humanity. . . . Courageous and timely. . . . Sounds of Crossing will be of interest not only to scholars across disciplines and musical genres, as it relates aurality and aesthetics to political and social life, but also to non-academic lovers of music. This is a book of humanity, and a book of stories." -- Nandini Rupa Banerjee-Datta * Current Musicology *"Alex E. Chávez has made an important contribution in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, history, and immigration studies with his work, Sounds of Crossing. . . . A must read for those interested in the lives, experiences, and music of undocumented people in the United States." -- José R. López Morín * Anthropos *"Few scholarly works have attempted to link the study of popular music and literary practices to the experience of international migration and fewer still have done so in as compelling a way as Chávez has done." -- David Spener * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Sounds of Crossing succeeds in introducing Huapango Arribeno to the world, articulately weaving between the daunting cliffs of anthropological theory and the lush valleys of sung poetry and anecdote, carrying the mellifluous sounds of Espanol and a vihuela on its back, greeting across space and time, singing the songs of the unheard." -- Renata Yazzie * Linguistic Anthropology *"The rigor and depth of both the ethnographic and musical work in this text, and the joining of the two, is a rare find in contemporary ethnography." -- Kristina M. Jacobsen * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: American Border/Lands 1 1. Aurality and the Long American Century 34 2. Companions of the Calling 62 3. Verses and Flows at the Dawn of Neoliberal Mexico 130 4. Regional Sounds: Mexican Texas and the Semiotics of Citizenship 198 5. From Potosi to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border 232 6. Huapango sin Fronteras: Mapping What Matters and Other Paths 278 Conclusion: They Dreamed of Bridges 316 Epilogue: "Born in the U.S.A." 327 Appendix A: Musical Transcriptions 331 Appendix B: Improvised Saludados 349 Notes 361 References 387 Index 411

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Book SynopsisAlex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in huapango arribeño, a musical genre from north-central Mexico that helps Mexicans build communities on both sides of the US border and give voice to the transnational migrant experience.Trade Review"Chavez uses the songs of the borderlands to talk about immigration into the US and the culture that has sprung up around the border. He pulls in both history and current situations – and best of all, his own experiences as a Mexican academic and musician – to create a multidimensional, gorgeous book." -- Alejandra Oliva * Remezcla *"Bold and engaging. . . . Teeming with moments of intimacy, and a genuine attention to humanity. . . . Courageous and timely. . . . Sounds of Crossing will be of interest not only to scholars across disciplines and musical genres, as it relates aurality and aesthetics to political and social life, but also to non-academic lovers of music. This is a book of humanity, and a book of stories." -- Nandini Rupa Banerjee-Datta * Current Musicology *"Alex E. Chávez has made an important contribution in the fields of cultural anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore, history, and immigration studies with his work, Sounds of Crossing. . . . A must read for those interested in the lives, experiences, and music of undocumented people in the United States." -- José R. López Morín * Anthropos *"Few scholarly works have attempted to link the study of popular music and literary practices to the experience of international migration and fewer still have done so in as compelling a way as Chávez has done." -- David Spener * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Sounds of Crossing succeeds in introducing Huapango Arribeno to the world, articulately weaving between the daunting cliffs of anthropological theory and the lush valleys of sung poetry and anecdote, carrying the mellifluous sounds of Espanol and a vihuela on its back, greeting across space and time, singing the songs of the unheard." -- Renata Yazzie * Linguistic Anthropology *"The rigor and depth of both the ethnographic and musical work in this text, and the joining of the two, is a rare find in contemporary ethnography." -- Kristina M. Jacobsen * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: American Border/Lands 1 1. Aurality and the Long American Century 34 2. Companions of the Calling 62 3. Verses and Flows at the Dawn of Neoliberal Mexico 130 4. Regional Sounds: Mexican Texas and the Semiotics of Citizenship 198 5. From Potosi to Tennessee: Clandestine Desires and the Poetic Border 232 6. Huapango sin Fronteras: Mapping What Matters and Other Paths 278 Conclusion: They Dreamed of Bridges 316 Epilogue: "Born in the U.S.A." 327 Appendix A: Musical Transcriptions 331 Appendix B: Improvised Saludados 349 Notes 361 References 387 Index 411

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Book SynopsisRadhika Mongia outlines the colonial genealogy of the modern nation-state by tracing how the British Empire monopolized control over migration, showing how between its abolition of slavery in 1834 and World War One, the regulation of Indians moving throughout the Commonwealth linked migration with nationality and state sovereignty.Trade Review"Indian Migration and Empire presents a detailed analysis of the history of colonial Indian migration of indentured labor to Mauritius, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Africa. . . . This illuminating research makes an important contribution to the fields of colonialism, migration, and political studies. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *"Methodologically innovative and theoretically rigorous . . . Mongia has written a pathbreaking book. In the wake of this work it will no longer be possible to tell the story of border-making without a scrutiny of how human labor was dehumanized on an imperial and global scale." -- Debjani Bhattacharyya * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Mongia’s book is a methodological tour de force in migration studies and theories of the state. But the commendable feat of this book is that these accomplishments do not stand apart – her contribution to migration studies is enriched by the careful theorising of states, at once colonial, transcolonial and metropolitan." -- Tarangini Sriraman * The Wire *"Indian Migration and Empire cautions us in the epilogue that the project of modern nation state and who belongs in such a nation state is a project still incomplete and can inflict terrible oppressions and restrictions as in the example of Iroquois/Haudenosaunee of North America. For this caution alone, this book is a must-read for all who are interested in historiography of migration and political theory." -- Mithilesh Kumar * Economic and Political Weekly *"Mongia’s account is a fresh, fascinating explanation of the intricacies of migration and its impact on host-countries, nation-state and bureaucratic development, and at the heart of it all, the emigrant. There has been a steady change in academia to consider a more global and cultural perspective, and this book is relevant to many scholars, including those in political science, history, sociology, women’s studies, migration, Asian studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, and global issues." -- Kathleen M. Davis * International Social Science Review *"Radhika Mongia’s fascinating analysis of Indian migration to South Africa and its history-making aftermath is fascinatingly readable. Indian Migration and Empire certainly places Mongia among the established scholars in the field." -- Tarique Niazi * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Indian Migration and Empire is a fresh and important contribution to our understanding of the modern world." -- Thomas R. Metcalf * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Migration of "Free" Labor: Contracting Freedom 22 2. Disciplinary Power and the Colonial State: The Bureaucracy of Migration Control 56 3. Gendered Nationalism, the Racialized State, and the Making of Migration Law: The Indian "Marriage Question" in South Africa 85 4. Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport 112 Epilogue. In History: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State 141 Notes 151 Bibliography 199 Index 221

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Book SynopsisIn Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture and helped establish China as a nation-state within a global system.Trade Review“This cutting-edge book will inspire future studies of transnational history. Highly recommended.” -- G. Li * Choice *"Building on approaches from postcolonial, literary, and cultural studies to criticize the nation-state and linear time, the book is really multiple books in one. At its heart lies the reconceptualization of diaspora . . . Diaspora’s Homeland sets out to raise new questions by bringing together three separate fields and in this, it certainly succeeds. . . . The book is based on meticulous research, including a wealth of multi-archival primary sources. In sum, the book not only offers a sweeping birds-eye view of modern Chinese history from a new perspective, but it also provides solid in-depth research on some less explored topics." -- Els van Dongen * Journal of Social History *"In this elegantly wrought and eloquently argued book, Chan revisits a familiar story—the emigration of an estimated twenty million Chinese in the century from 1840 to 1940—with fresh eyes, making the argument that the idea of China as a homeland and its emigrants as a diaspora were mutually constitutive. . . . Chan’s provocative framing of 'diaspora time' forces us also to rethink national time." -- Denise Y. Ho * Journal of Asian Studies *"Shelly Chan proposes an inspired, new approach to the study of migration and diasporas in her recent book. Rather than asking what impact migrants had on their overseas communities, she sets out to examine how mass emigration changed China. . . . Smart analysis and lucid prose pepper the book. Chan brilliantly demonstrates how rethinking diaspora studies has the potential to cut across the fields of modern Chinese history, overseas Chinese studies, and Asian American studies, which have too often remained only distant relations. Her work joins the best examples of recent transnational scholarship destined to have a major impact on reconfiguring these fields." -- Michelle T. King * Canadian Journal of History *"Diaspora's Homeland is a thoroughly enjoyable read . . . written in a crisp, clear, and entertaining way, free of jargon and convoluted expressions. . . . Geography undergraduates will find this book helpful for understanding how historical geography is constitutive of our transnational present, while its analytical method, conceptual claims, and empirical details will engage and stimulate postgraduates and scholars." -- Kean Fan Lim * Journal of Historical Geography *"With its innovative conceptualization, meticulous research and insightful narratives, Diaspora’s Homeland is a must-read for those who are interested in the study of both Chinese and global diasporas. It is also an excellent textbook for China-related graduate courses in the disciplines of history, political science and international studies." -- Sheng Ding * The China Quarterly *"The book’s greatest strength is its temporal and spatial vision. Shelly Chan castes aside traditional watersheds, offering instead unexpected juxtapositions and a unique chronology. . . . Chan masterfully rewrites the history of China and the overseas Chinese experience, contributing what will no doubt be the theoretically inspiring and highly cited concepts of diaspora time and diaspora moments." -- Phillip B. Guingona * Postcolonial Text *"Diaspora’s Homeland makes its greatest contribution in arguing for a migration history that is unbounded by standard periodizations and national boundaries, opening a conversation that other scholars can consider and engage." -- Meredith Oyen * American Historical Review *"Shelly Chan’s memorable work will be required reading for scholars of modern Chinese history and historians of the Chinese diaspora, and will have great appeal beyond these broad fields. Written in a clear and accessible way, it also would be a book well suited for advanced undergraduate history and Asian-American studies courses." -- Fredy González * Journal of Chinese Studies *"Diaspora’s Homeland is a groundbreaking study that will surely establish Chan as one of the leading specialists in the field. Her interdisciplinary approach and broad theoretical contribution make the book a critical reference for scholars in various disciplines. The light that it sheds on contemporary issues about China’s rise renders it useful for policy makers and the general public alike." -- Lisong Liu * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“Chinese mass migration’s impact on countries around the globe has been studied extensively. Research on the same migration processes’ impact on China, on the other hand, is scarce. Diaspora’s Homeland tackles this gap by focusing on the relationship between Chinese migrants and their ancestral homeland…. Presenting high-quality historical research, the book is definitely a must-read for scholars interested in new perspectives on modern Chinese (migration) history, as well as for those who want to learn more about transnational flows of ideas and capital fostered by a century of migration.” -- Helen Hess * ASIEN *Table of ContentsA Note on Romanization ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. A Great Convergence 17 2. Colonists of the South Seas 48 3. Confucius from Afar 75 4. The Women Who Stayed Behind 107 5. Homecomings 146 Conclusion and Epilogue 185 Notes 197 Bibliography 233 Index 261

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Book SynopsisIn Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture and helped establish China as a nation-state within a global system.Trade Review“This cutting-edge book will inspire future studies of transnational history. Highly recommended.” -- G. Li * Choice *"Building on approaches from postcolonial, literary, and cultural studies to criticize the nation-state and linear time, the book is really multiple books in one. At its heart lies the reconceptualization of diaspora . . . Diaspora’s Homeland sets out to raise new questions by bringing together three separate fields and in this, it certainly succeeds. . . . The book is based on meticulous research, including a wealth of multi-archival primary sources. In sum, the book not only offers a sweeping birds-eye view of modern Chinese history from a new perspective, but it also provides solid in-depth research on some less explored topics." -- Els van Dongen * Journal of Social History *"In this elegantly wrought and eloquently argued book, Chan revisits a familiar story—the emigration of an estimated twenty million Chinese in the century from 1840 to 1940—with fresh eyes, making the argument that the idea of China as a homeland and its emigrants as a diaspora were mutually constitutive. . . . Chan’s provocative framing of 'diaspora time' forces us also to rethink national time." -- Denise Y. Ho * Journal of Asian Studies *"Shelly Chan proposes an inspired, new approach to the study of migration and diasporas in her recent book. Rather than asking what impact migrants had on their overseas communities, she sets out to examine how mass emigration changed China. . . . Smart analysis and lucid prose pepper the book. Chan brilliantly demonstrates how rethinking diaspora studies has the potential to cut across the fields of modern Chinese history, overseas Chinese studies, and Asian American studies, which have too often remained only distant relations. Her work joins the best examples of recent transnational scholarship destined to have a major impact on reconfiguring these fields." -- Michelle T. King * Canadian Journal of History *"Diaspora's Homeland is a thoroughly enjoyable read . . . written in a crisp, clear, and entertaining way, free of jargon and convoluted expressions. . . . Geography undergraduates will find this book helpful for understanding how historical geography is constitutive of our transnational present, while its analytical method, conceptual claims, and empirical details will engage and stimulate postgraduates and scholars." -- Kean Fan Lim * Journal of Historical Geography *"With its innovative conceptualization, meticulous research and insightful narratives, Diaspora’s Homeland is a must-read for those who are interested in the study of both Chinese and global diasporas. It is also an excellent textbook for China-related graduate courses in the disciplines of history, political science and international studies." -- Sheng Ding * The China Quarterly *"The book’s greatest strength is its temporal and spatial vision. Shelly Chan castes aside traditional watersheds, offering instead unexpected juxtapositions and a unique chronology. . . . Chan masterfully rewrites the history of China and the overseas Chinese experience, contributing what will no doubt be the theoretically inspiring and highly cited concepts of diaspora time and diaspora moments." -- Phillip B. Guingona * Postcolonial Text *"Diaspora’s Homeland makes its greatest contribution in arguing for a migration history that is unbounded by standard periodizations and national boundaries, opening a conversation that other scholars can consider and engage." -- Meredith Oyen * American Historical Review *"Shelly Chan’s memorable work will be required reading for scholars of modern Chinese history and historians of the Chinese diaspora, and will have great appeal beyond these broad fields. Written in a clear and accessible way, it also would be a book well suited for advanced undergraduate history and Asian-American studies courses." -- Fredy González * Journal of Chinese Studies *"Diaspora’s Homeland is a groundbreaking study that will surely establish Chan as one of the leading specialists in the field. Her interdisciplinary approach and broad theoretical contribution make the book a critical reference for scholars in various disciplines. The light that it sheds on contemporary issues about China’s rise renders it useful for policy makers and the general public alike." -- Lisong Liu * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“Chinese mass migration’s impact on countries around the globe has been studied extensively. Research on the same migration processes’ impact on China, on the other hand, is scarce. Diaspora’s Homeland tackles this gap by focusing on the relationship between Chinese migrants and their ancestral homeland…. Presenting high-quality historical research, the book is definitely a must-read for scholars interested in new perspectives on modern Chinese (migration) history, as well as for those who want to learn more about transnational flows of ideas and capital fostered by a century of migration.” -- Helen Hess * ASIEN *Table of ContentsA Note on Romanization ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. A Great Convergence 17 2. Colonists of the South Seas 48 3. Confucius from Afar 75 4. The Women Who Stayed Behind 107 5. Homecomings 146 Conclusion and Epilogue 185 Notes 197 Bibliography 233 Index 261

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Book SynopsisRadhika Mongia outlines the colonial genealogy of the modern nation-state by tracing how the British Empire monopolized control over migration, showing how between its abolition of slavery in 1834 and World War One, the regulation of Indians moving throughout the Commonwealth linked migration with nationality and state sovereignty.Trade Review"Indian Migration and Empire presents a detailed analysis of the history of colonial Indian migration of indentured labor to Mauritius, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Africa. . . . This illuminating research makes an important contribution to the fields of colonialism, migration, and political studies. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *"Methodologically innovative and theoretically rigorous . . . Mongia has written a pathbreaking book. In the wake of this work it will no longer be possible to tell the story of border-making without a scrutiny of how human labor was dehumanized on an imperial and global scale." -- Debjani Bhattacharyya * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Mongia’s book is a methodological tour de force in migration studies and theories of the state. But the commendable feat of this book is that these accomplishments do not stand apart – her contribution to migration studies is enriched by the careful theorising of states, at once colonial, transcolonial and metropolitan." -- Tarangini Sriraman * The Wire *"Indian Migration and Empire cautions us in the epilogue that the project of modern nation state and who belongs in such a nation state is a project still incomplete and can inflict terrible oppressions and restrictions as in the example of Iroquois/Haudenosaunee of North America. For this caution alone, this book is a must-read for all who are interested in historiography of migration and political theory." -- Mithilesh Kumar * Economic and Political Weekly *"Mongia’s account is a fresh, fascinating explanation of the intricacies of migration and its impact on host-countries, nation-state and bureaucratic development, and at the heart of it all, the emigrant. There has been a steady change in academia to consider a more global and cultural perspective, and this book is relevant to many scholars, including those in political science, history, sociology, women’s studies, migration, Asian studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, and global issues." -- Kathleen M. Davis * International Social Science Review *"Radhika Mongia’s fascinating analysis of Indian migration to South Africa and its history-making aftermath is fascinatingly readable. Indian Migration and Empire certainly places Mongia among the established scholars in the field." -- Tarique Niazi * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Indian Migration and Empire is a fresh and important contribution to our understanding of the modern world." -- Thomas R. Metcalf * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Migration of "Free" Labor: Contracting Freedom 22 2. Disciplinary Power and the Colonial State: The Bureaucracy of Migration Control 56 3. Gendered Nationalism, the Racialized State, and the Making of Migration Law: The Indian "Marriage Question" in South Africa 85 4. Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport 112 Epilogue. In History: A Colonial Genealogy of the Modern State 141 Notes 151 Bibliography 199 Index 221

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Book SynopsisPatrick Ireland argues that it is incorrect to expect unavoidable conflict between Muslim immmigrants and European host socieites. His insighful work shows that institutions matter more than culture in determining the shape and style of ethnic relations.Trade ReviewA considerable feat of scholarship combining genuine innovation with real insight into Europe's complex politics of migration and ethnicity. - Andrew Geddes, University of Liverpool; ""Ireland has done a masterful job in addressing a number of interrelated issues: the entitlements of citizenship; socioeconomic integration and cultural diversity; and the future of the welfare state in face of the pressures of globalization. - William Safran, University of Colorado; ""A strikingly original analysis of how welfare reform affects immigrant incorporation."" - Gary P. Freeman, University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisThese factors breed distrust, disenfranchisement, and hatred-factors that potentially engender radicalization and can even threaten internal security.The contributors compare policies on these issues at three relational levels: between individual EU nations and the U.S., between the EU and U.S., and among EU nations.

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into the South Asian community in Mid-South America to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative study views the aftermath of ethnic cleansing, as it examines the transformation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland from the end of the Second World War, through the Cold War, and into the twenty-first century.Trade Review“What happened to the Sudetenland, and its Germanspeaking inhabitants after the expulsions of 1945– 1948? In this pioneering study Eagle Glassheim presents a compelling set of answers, tracing multiple strands of the story on all sides of the post-1945 borders, as huge numbers of refugees challenged East and West German governments and their fragile postwar societies, while also demonstrating how its new inhabitants came to see the region as home.” —Pieter M. Judson, European University Institute

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Book SynopsisPresents a truly international selection of works by more than seventy Italian-language poets who are writing in countries from Australia to VenezuelaTrade Review"This book is at the same time a vast discovery and an intimate conversation. All my life I have been curious about the other Italians. I lived in Italy for a year and came to know my relatives there at the same time that I visited the blank spaces where my grandparents and parents and sisters and cousins might have been. Reading this spectacular anthology, I have begun to know the other other Italians, those who have settled in the world's wide spaces, places I have never seen, and to know these distant cousins by way of those elusive truths that only poets can tell." -- -Robert Viscusi The Wolfe Institute "Poets of the Italian Diaspora: A Bilingual Anthology is both an historical and ground-breaking book. It is at the forefront in the recognition of Italophone literature, something that Italy should have unearthed decades ago. With this anthology, Bonaffini and Perricone offer the reader, for the first time, a broad panorama of modern and contemporary Italian lyrical writing outside the geo-cultural boundaries of Italy." -- -Anthony Julian Tamburri Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute "Perricone and Bonafini have collected the best Italian emigre poets from around the world. Here is a rich sampling of their poetry. Whether you call them immigrants, exiles, refugees or displaced persons, every one speaks from the soul with an Italian accent, expressing sentiments of a global phenomenon through a shared native language. The accompanying translations enable English speakers to connect to their experiences. The result is a collection that enables comparative Italian Diasporan studies on a scale never before attempted." -- -Fred Gardaphe John D. Calandra Institute "An outstanding pioneering work that will mark a milestone in Italian Studies and will serve as the foundation of a new discipline, the literature of the Italian Diaspora." -- -Sante Matteo Miami University

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Book SynopsisPresents a truly international selection of works by more than seventy Italian-language poets who are writing in countries from Australia to VenezuelaTrade Review"This book is at the same time a vast discovery and an intimate conversation. All my life I have been curious about the other Italians. I lived in Italy for a year and came to know my relatives there at the same time that I visited the blank spaces where my grandparents and parents and sisters and cousins might have been. Reading this spectacular anthology, I have begun to know the other other Italians, those who have settled in the world's wide spaces, places I have never seen, and to know these distant cousins by way of those elusive truths that only poets can tell." -- -Robert Viscusi The Wolfe Institute "Poets of the Italian Diaspora: A Bilingual Anthology is both an historical and ground-breaking book. It is at the forefront in the recognition of Italophone literature, something that Italy should have unearthed decades ago. With this anthology, Bonaffini and Perricone offer the reader, for the first time, a broad panorama of modern and contemporary Italian lyrical writing outside the geo-cultural boundaries of Italy." -- -Anthony Julian Tamburri Dean, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute "Perricone and Bonafini have collected the best Italian emigre poets from around the world. Here is a rich sampling of their poetry. Whether you call them immigrants, exiles, refugees or displaced persons, every one speaks from the soul with an Italian accent, expressing sentiments of a global phenomenon through a shared native language. The accompanying translations enable English speakers to connect to their experiences. The result is a collection that enables comparative Italian Diasporan studies on a scale never before attempted." -- -Fred Gardaphe John D. Calandra Institute "An outstanding pioneering work that will mark a milestone in Italian Studies and will serve as the foundation of a new discipline, the literature of the Italian Diaspora." -- -Sante Matteo Miami University

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Book SynopsisThrough the rendering of Catholic Church migration’s debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labor and sexuality at the heart of Catholicism in Europe.Trade Review"In Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return, Valentina Napolitano offers her readers a complex portrait of the diasporic world of trans-Atlantic Catholicism, told through the stories of particular Latin American immigrant communities in Rome. Napolitano is singularly positioned to perform the ethnographic work that underlies this study, and she has written a moving account that contributes to the growing field of the anthropology of Christianity and that will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists, religionists, students of migration and globalization, and women's and gender studies scholars." -- -Elizabeth Castelli Barnard College "Napolitano's book is a rich ethnography of the historically fraught relationship between the Vatican and its Latin American flock. In this moment of heightened anxiety about immigration and shrinking church following in Europe, Napolitano deftly tracks the fissure between communitas and otherness that haunts European Catholicism today. Told through the lives of Latin American immigrants to Italy, this wonderful book shows us what it means to live a faith that is losing hold of its civilizational mission." -- -Saba Mahmood University of California, Berkeley "...the project of injecting Catholic realities into the burgeoning field of the anthropology of Christianity is vital, and Migrant Hearts demonstrates the kind of sophisticated studies it can produce." -MarginaliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Catholic Humanitas 1. Migrant Terrains in Italy and Rome 2. The "Culture of Life" and Migrant Pedagogies 3. The Legionaries of Christ and the Passionate Machine 4. Migrant Hearts 5. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Nexus of Affects 6. Enwalled: Translocality, Intimacies, and Gendered Subjectivity Epilogue Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book rethinks Italy’s formation and development on a trans-national map through cultural analysis of travel, living and work spaces as depicted in literary, filmic and musical texts. By demonstrating how today’s immigration in Italy is pre-occupied by its past emigration and colonialism, the book stresses commonalities and dispels preoccupations.Trade Review"Fiore's book is a marvelous read. Glowing with humanity, she wears her knowledge lightly. In this book the study of contemporary, post-colonial Italy is filtered through the centuries of the Italian migrant experience. Thus much used terms such as 'diasporic', 'hybridity' and 'liminal' are given human faces. A mastery of the theoretical literature on space, place and the immigrant/emigrant experience is joined by a fascinating analysis of novels, films, social reportage and nursery rhymes in order to bring to life the 'pre-occupation' of the formative experience of the Italian diaspora for modern Italy and the 'preoccupation' of today's Italy where the previous invisibility of the 'New Italians', the sons and daughters of the global migrations of the late twentieth and early twentieth centuries, are reshaping notions of citizenship and belonging. Highly recommended." -- -Carl Levy Goldsmiths, University of London "A sophisticated and brilliant work of theoretical scaffolding, one that never loses sight of the perils of its own iconoclastic undertaking. Pre-Occupied Spaces' extremely well-crafted structure helps the reader navigate from one text to the other, while the theoretical architecture of the book guides the reader through the impressive proliferation of well-researched texts and critical references." -- -Cristina Lombardi-Diop Loyola University Chicago "Teresa Fiore reminds readers that Italy is a country that has long been defined by 'border crossing, movements, displacements and differences,' Its 'emigrants' and 'immigrants' have sparked similarly troubled preoccupations wherever, whenever and in whatever direction they have moved. Using the tools of cultural analysis, Fiore offers a stunning analysis of the boats, houses, and workplaces where nations have repeatedly imagined both themselves and their others, usually through futile efforts to culturally and permanently affix people to particular places." -- -Donna R. Gabaccia University of TorontoTable of ContentsPreface Introduction. All at One Point: The Un/likely Connections between Italy’s Emigration, Immigration, and (Post-)Colonialism Part I. Waters: Migrant Voyages and Ships from/to Italy Aperture I: An Osean of Pre-occupation and Possibilities: The Show L’orda 1. Crossing the Atlantic to Meet the Nation: The Emigration Ship in Mignonette’s Songs and Crialese’s Nuovomondo 2. Overlapping Mediterranean Routes in Marra’s Sailing Home, Ragusa’s The Skin Between Us, and Tekle’s Libera Part II. Houses: Multi-Ethnic Residential Spaces as Living Archives of Pre-occupation and Invention Aperture II. A Multi-Cultural Project in a National Square: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio 3. Displaced Italies and Immigrant “Delinquent” Spaces in Pariani’s Argentinian Conventillos and Lakhous’ Roman Palazzo 4. Writing the Pasta Factory and the Boarding House as Trans-National Homes: Public and Private Acts in Melliti’s Pantanella and Mazzucco’s Life Part III. Workplaces: A Creative Re-occupation of Labor Spaces against Exploitation Aperture III. Labor on the Move: Rodari’s Construction Workers and Kuruvilla’s Babysitter 5. Edification between Nation and Migration in Cavanna’s Les Ritals and Adascalitei’s “Il giorno di San Nicola” 6: The Circular Routes of Colonial and Post-Colonial Homecare: Però’s and Ciaravino’s Alexandria and Ghermandi’s “The Story of Woizero Bekelech and Signor Antonio” Conclusions. Italy as an Imagi-Nation Laboratory: The Citizenship Law between In and Outbound Flows Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the experiences of undocumented students at Jesuit institutions of higher education. Based on an extensive study that incorporated survey research and in-depth interviews, the study presents the perspectives of students, staff, and the institutions, and is framed within immigration’s historical and legal contexts.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations for the Study of Undocumented College Students Chapter 3 Immigration, Jesuit Higher Education and the Undocumented Chapter 4 Becoming Allies in Eradicating Longstanding Legal Barriers Chapter 5 Alma Mater, Mater Exulum Jesuit Education and Immigration in America: A Moral Framework Rooted in History and Mission Chapter 6 Unsure: The Experiences of Students Who Are Undocumented at Jesuit Colleges CHAPTER 7 From Research to Action: Jesuit Institutional Practices in Response to Undocumented Students Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book chronicles the experiences of undocumented students at Jesuit institutions of higher education. Based on an extensive study that incorporated survey research and in-depth interviews, the study presents the perspectives of students, staff, and the institutions, and is framed within immigration’s historical and legal contexts.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations for the Study of Undocumented College Students Chapter 3 Immigration, Jesuit Higher Education and the Undocumented Chapter 4 Becoming Allies in Eradicating Longstanding Legal Barriers Chapter 5 Alma Mater, Mater Exulum Jesuit Education and Immigration in America: A Moral Framework Rooted in History and Mission Chapter 6 Unsure: The Experiences of Students Who Are Undocumented at Jesuit Colleges CHAPTER 7 From Research to Action: Jesuit Institutional Practices in Response to Undocumented Students Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHow is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.Trade Review"Against the naive utopias of radical democracy and of liberal democracy alike, Vardoulakis presents us with 'agonistic democracy'-a non-teleological and paradoxical political practice that constitutes the condition of possibility as well as the only real alternative to sovereign power. Stasis before the State is a truly remarkable and memorable book." -- -Cesare Casarino University of Minnesota, Cultural Critique Senior Editor "A beautiful and lyrical book. Over the course of nine theses Vardoulakis contends with some of the central issues of contemporary politics and shows that we need not fear conflict but should embrace it as a critical aspect of democratic life." -- -James Martel San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsPreamble, or On Agonistic Monism Thesis 1 Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty Thesis 2 Sovereign violence is always justified violence Thesis 3 The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty Intermezzo 1 Sovereignty and the Refugee Thesis 4 Judgment is constitutive of democracy Thesis 5 Judgement establishes the agonistic relation between democracy and sovereignty by dejusti-fying violence Thesis 6 Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political and the ethical Intermezzo 2 The Refugee and Resistance to Sovereign Power Thesis 7 Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution Thesis 8 Stasis, or agonistic monism, names the forms of the relation between democracy and sover-eignty Thesis 9 Stasis underlies all political praxis Vardoulak

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Book SynopsisHow is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.Trade Review"Against the naive utopias of radical democracy and of liberal democracy alike, Vardoulakis presents us with 'agonistic democracy'-a non-teleological and paradoxical political practice that constitutes the condition of possibility as well as the only real alternative to sovereign power. Stasis before the State is a truly remarkable and memorable book." -- -Cesare Casarino University of Minnesota, Cultural Critique Senior Editor "A beautiful and lyrical book. Over the course of nine theses Vardoulakis contends with some of the central issues of contemporary politics and shows that we need not fear conflict but should embrace it as a critical aspect of democratic life." -- -James Martel San Francisco State UniversityTable of ContentsPreamble, or On Agonistic Monism Thesis 1 Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty Thesis 2 Sovereign violence is always justified violence Thesis 3 The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty Intermezzo 1 Sovereignty and the Refugee Thesis 4 Judgment is constitutive of democracy Thesis 5 Judgement establishes the agonistic relation between democracy and sovereignty by dejusti-fying violence Thesis 6 Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political and the ethical Intermezzo 2 The Refugee and Resistance to Sovereign Power Thesis 7 Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution Thesis 8 Stasis, or agonistic monism, names the forms of the relation between democracy and sover-eignty Thesis 9 Stasis underlies all political praxis Vardoulak

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Book SynopsisNapoli/New York/Hollywood investigates the work of Italian immigrant performers and the impact of the traditions of the Italian stage within the history of Hollywood cinema and of American media from 1895 to today.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Italian Performers in American Silent Cinema 21 2. Aristocrats, Acrobats, Latin Lovers, and Waiters: Italians in American Silent Cinema 70 3. A Filmic Grand Tour: American Silent Films “Made in Italy” 100 4. American Cinema in Italian: The Formation of Italian American Culture 157 5. Italian Actors in Classical Hollywood Cinema 209 6. Transnational Neorealism: Toward an Italian American Film Hegemony 253 Acknowledgments 297 Notes 301 Index 349

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Book SynopsisNapoli/New York/Hollywood investigates the work of Italian immigrant performers and the impact of the traditions of the Italian stage within the history of Hollywood cinema and of American media from 1895 to today.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Italian Performers in American Silent Cinema 21 2. Aristocrats, Acrobats, Latin Lovers, and Waiters: Italians in American Silent Cinema 70 3. A Filmic Grand Tour: American Silent Films “Made in Italy” 100 4. American Cinema in Italian: The Formation of Italian American Culture 157 5. Italian Actors in Classical Hollywood Cinema 209 6. Transnational Neorealism: Toward an Italian American Film Hegemony 253 Acknowledgments 297 Notes 301 Index 349

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments, ix Introduction: Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion in Postwar America, 1 1. Italian American Identity and Politics: World War II to the Cold War, 17 2. The Italian American Immigration Reform Lobby, 49 3. Refugees and Relatives: Italian Americans and the Refugee Relief Act, 84 4. Resettlement Assistance and “A New Standard of Living”, 111 5. The Corsi Affair, 147 6. From Refugee Relief to Family Reunification, 175 7. The End of the National Origins System and the Limits of White Ethnic Liberalism, 202 Conclusion: The Deep Roots of White Ethnicity, 1965 and Beyond, 235 Notes, 243 Bibliography, 325 Index, 343

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments, ix Introduction: Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion in Postwar America, 1 1. Italian American Identity and Politics: World War II to the Cold War, 17 2. The Italian American Immigration Reform Lobby, 49 3. Refugees and Relatives: Italian Americans and the Refugee Relief Act, 84 4. Resettlement Assistance and “A New Standard of Living”, 111 5. The Corsi Affair, 147 6. From Refugee Relief to Family Reunification, 175 7. The End of the National Origins System and the Limits of White Ethnic Liberalism, 202 Conclusion: The Deep Roots of White Ethnicity, 1965 and Beyond, 235 Notes, 243 Bibliography, 325 Index, 343

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. New Approaches to John Fante’s Ask the Dust From the Particular to the Universal: Vittorini’s Italian Adaptation of Ask the Dust | 15 Valerio Ferme When Spirituality Ebbs and Flows: Religion and Diasporic Alienation in Ask the Dust | 43 Suzanne Manizza Roszak “Sad Flower in the Sand”: Camilla Lopez and the Erasure of Memory in Ask the Dust | 58 Meagan Meylor “A Ramona in Reverse”: Writing the Madness of the Spanish Past in Ask the Dust | 83 Daniel Gardner 2. Sibling Arts: Ask the Dust in Dance, Music, the Graphic Novel, and French Dancing with the Dust: Translating Ask the Dust to the Stage | 111 J’aime Morrison Ask the Lyrics: John Fante in Music | 127 Chiara Mazzucchelli Watch Out or You’ll End up in My Novel: The Lost World of Ask the Dust | 145 Robert Guffey Don’t Ask the French | 157 Philippe Garnier 3. Ask the Dust and Its Effects: Readers and Writers Respond Amid the Dust | 167 Miriam Amico The Passion That Became a Festival | 177 Giovanna DiLello I Had Bandini: Reading Ask the Dust in Prison | 193 Joel Williams Writing in the Dust | 201 Alan Rifkin How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel | 213 Ryan Holiday 4. Ask the Dust and Its Due: Two Filmmakers and Bukowski Pay Tribute Interview with Robert Towne | 237 Nathan Rabin Letters from Los Angeles | 245 Jan Louter “My Dear Bukowski,” “Hello John Fante”: Preface to Ask the Dust | 261 John Fante and Charles Bukowski 5. The Attic, the Archive, and Beyond From Family to Institutional Memory: A Conversation with Stephen Cooper | 273 Teresa Fiore Prelude to “Prologue to Ask the Dust” | 281 Stephen Cooper Goodbye, Bunker Hill | 290 John Fante The Road to John Fante’s Los Angeles | 296 Stephen Cooper Acknowledgments | 315 List of Contributors | 319 Bibliography | 325 Index | 331

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. New Approaches to John Fante’s Ask the Dust From the Particular to the Universal: Vittorini’s Italian Adaptation of Ask the Dust | 15 Valerio Ferme When Spirituality Ebbs and Flows: Religion and Diasporic Alienation in Ask the Dust | 43 Suzanne Manizza Roszak “Sad Flower in the Sand”: Camilla Lopez and the Erasure of Memory in Ask the Dust | 58 Meagan Meylor “A Ramona in Reverse”: Writing the Madness of the Spanish Past in Ask the Dust | 83 Daniel Gardner 2. Sibling Arts: Ask the Dust in Dance, Music, the Graphic Novel, and French Dancing with the Dust: Translating Ask the Dust to the Stage | 111 J’aime Morrison Ask the Lyrics: John Fante in Music | 127 Chiara Mazzucchelli Watch Out or You’ll End up in My Novel: The Lost World of Ask the Dust | 145 Robert Guffey Don’t Ask the French | 157 Philippe Garnier 3. Ask the Dust and Its Effects: Readers and Writers Respond Amid the Dust | 167 Miriam Amico The Passion That Became a Festival | 177 Giovanna DiLello I Had Bandini: Reading Ask the Dust in Prison | 193 Joel Williams Writing in the Dust | 201 Alan Rifkin How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel | 213 Ryan Holiday 4. Ask the Dust and Its Due: Two Filmmakers and Bukowski Pay Tribute Interview with Robert Towne | 237 Nathan Rabin Letters from Los Angeles | 245 Jan Louter “My Dear Bukowski,” “Hello John Fante”: Preface to Ask the Dust | 261 John Fante and Charles Bukowski 5. The Attic, the Archive, and Beyond From Family to Institutional Memory: A Conversation with Stephen Cooper | 273 Teresa Fiore Prelude to “Prologue to Ask the Dust” | 281 Stephen Cooper Goodbye, Bunker Hill | 290 John Fante The Road to John Fante’s Los Angeles | 296 Stephen Cooper Acknowledgments | 315 List of Contributors | 319 Bibliography | 325 Index | 331

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | xiv Introducción | xv Translator’s Note | xxxii Nota de Traductora | xxxiii Asylum Seeker | 2 Asilo | 3 Accompaniment | 10 Acompañamiento | 11 Camp | 18 Campamento | 19 Caravan | 26 Caravana | 27 Citizen | 32 Ciudadana | 33 Climate Refugee | 40 Refugiada Climática | 41 Denizen | 48 Habitante | 49 Deportee | 56 Deportade | 57 Detainee | 64 Detenide | 65 DREAMer | 72 DREAMer | 73 Enemy Alien | 80 Extranjero Enemigo | 81 Expatriate | 88 Expatriada | 89 Foreign-Born | 96 Nacides en el Extranjero | 97 Fugitive | 104 Fugitivo | 105 Guest Worker | 112 Trabajador Invitado | 113 Illegal Alien | 118 Extranjero Ilegal | 119 Immigrant | 124 Inmigrante | 125 Itinerant | 130 Nómade | 131 Know Your Rights | 138 Conozca Sus Derechos | 139 Migrant | 144 Migrante | 145 People on the Move | 152 Personas en Movimiento | 153 Refugee | 160 Refugiade | 161 Sanctuary | 168 Santuario | 169 Unaccompanied Minor | 176 Menor Desacompañade | 177 Undocumented | 184 Indocumentado | 185 Unhoused | 192 Sin Casa | 193 Vagrant | 200 Vagante | 201 Visa | 208 Visa | 209 Xenophobia | 216 Xenofobia | 217 Zero Tolerance | 226 Tolerancia Cero | 227 Epilogue: The Right to Stay Home | 234 Epilogo: El Derecho de Quedarse en Casa | 235 Acknowledgments | 242 Agradecimientos | 243 Works Cited | 247 Para Leer Más | 257 Resources for People on the Move / Recursos Para Personas en Movimiento | 259

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | xiv Introducción | xv Translator’s Note | xxxii Nota de Traductora | xxxiii Asylum Seeker | 2 Asilo | 3 Accompaniment | 10 Acompañamiento | 11 Camp | 18 Campamento | 19 Caravan | 26 Caravana | 27 Citizen | 32 Ciudadana | 33 Climate Refugee | 40 Refugiada Climática | 41 Denizen | 48 Habitante | 49 Deportee | 56 Deportade | 57 Detainee | 64 Detenide | 65 DREAMer | 72 DREAMer | 73 Enemy Alien | 80 Extranjero Enemigo | 81 Expatriate | 88 Expatriada | 89 Foreign-Born | 96 Nacides en el Extranjero | 97 Fugitive | 104 Fugitivo | 105 Guest Worker | 112 Trabajador Invitado | 113 Illegal Alien | 118 Extranjero Ilegal | 119 Immigrant | 124 Inmigrante | 125 Itinerant | 130 Nómade | 131 Know Your Rights | 138 Conozca Sus Derechos | 139 Migrant | 144 Migrante | 145 People on the Move | 152 Personas en Movimiento | 153 Refugee | 160 Refugiade | 161 Sanctuary | 168 Santuario | 169 Unaccompanied Minor | 176 Menor Desacompañade | 177 Undocumented | 184 Indocumentado | 185 Unhoused | 192 Sin Casa | 193 Vagrant | 200 Vagante | 201 Visa | 208 Visa | 209 Xenophobia | 216 Xenofobia | 217 Zero Tolerance | 226 Tolerancia Cero | 227 Epilogue: The Right to Stay Home | 234 Epilogo: El Derecho de Quedarse en Casa | 235 Acknowledgments | 242 Agradecimientos | 243 Works Cited | 247 Para Leer Más | 257 Resources for People on the Move / Recursos Para Personas en Movimiento | 259

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Book SynopsisNew York City, one of the world’s most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest overseas Japanese populations in the world. Among them are artists and designers who produce cutting-edge work in fields such as design, fashion, music, and art. Japanese New York offers an intimate, ethnographic portrait of these Japanese creative migrants living and working in NYC.

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Book SynopsisBased on her research in Brazil and Japan, Mieko Nishida challenges the essentialized categories of the Japanese in Brazil and Brazilians in Japan, with special emphasis on gender. Nishida deftly argues that Japanese Brazilian identity has never been static. Rather it is about being and becoming, a process of identity in motion.

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Book SynopsisA sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan's hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves-something not attempted before in scholarship on this era.

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Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive study of the dynamic and often contentious relationship between migrations and border controls in US-occupied Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyus, examining the American interlude in Northeast Asia as a closely integrated, regional history.Trade ReviewWe historians already know that Japan was cosmopolitan during the imperial period but, with notable exceptions, has worked hard to exclude migrants and refugees in the postwar era. The author does an important intellectual and political public service by presenting an explanation of why this might be." —Lori Watt, Washington University in St. Louis"The occupation of Japan led by United States forces is generally recorded as a success as it guided the erstwhile enemy back into the family of nations. Matthew Augustine’s book examines this history’s dark side, that of the Japan-based Koreans and Okinawans who faced the decision of where they would restart their lives following Japan’s surrender." —Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University

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Book SynopsisOffers the first historical study of Nisei Shin Buddhists in the US during the tumultuous period between World War II and the early decades of the Cold War. This book examines Nisei-led adaptations to American Shin Buddhist institutions and organizations in an effort to reconstitute Nikkei Buddhist communities following the end of World War II.Trade ReviewMasatsugu’s book is a well-researched and important contribution to the fields of Japanese American history, US immigration and ethnic history, American religious history, and other areas of study. It is packed with fascinating evidence about a subject, Nisei Buddhism, that has yet to find its historian." —Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisOffers the first historical study of Nisei Shin Buddhists in the US during the tumultuous period between World War II and the early decades of the Cold War. This book examines Nisei-led adaptations to American Shin Buddhist institutions and organizations in an effort to reconstitute Nikkei Buddhist communities following the end of World War II.Trade ReviewMasatsugu’s book is a well-researched and important contribution to the fields of Japanese American history, US immigration and ethnic history, American religious history, and other areas of study. It is packed with fascinating evidence about a subject, Nisei Buddhism, that has yet to find its historian." —Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California

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Book SynopsisThis collection of photographs by Edward J. Kemper captures the day-to-day life of the German-American community of Hermann during the years 1895 to 1920. Accompanied by supporting commentary from the editors, the images explore the economic, cultural and social life of the community.

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Book SynopsisDuring the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed Pinochet’s coup, people began fleeing Chile. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives.Trade ReviewA compelling and moving account."—Marjorie Agosín, author of Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994Table of Contents Introduction Translator's Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter One. The Diaspora in Context: Chilean Politics, 1970-1994 Chapter Two. Prelude to Exile: The Military Coup Chapter Three. Paths to Exile Chapter Four. Resistance and Exile Chapter Five. The Diaspora: Exile on Four Continents Chapter Six. The Diaspora: Exile in Western Europe Chapter Seven. Political Life in Exile: Fighting the Dictatorship from Afar Chapter Eight. Exilesʼ Return, 1978-1988: Struggle on Many Fronts Chapter Nine. Return to a New Exile, 1988-1994 Selected Bibliography List of Interviews Index

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Book SynopsisThe expert contributors hail from a number of diverse international law backgrounds (including refugee law, human rights law, humanitarian law, labour law, WTO law and others), allowing them to synthesize many different perspectives and present a comprehensive, cohesive and timely study of a complicated and fractured topic.Trade Review‘This book, offers an outstanding collection of learned essays from over thirty expert contributors – including the editors – from top universities, government bodies and institutions worldwide. . . In this volume of almost 700 pages, there is much food for thought for the researcher and an almost endless supply of valuable references in the copious footnoting throughout. What a time saver! Additionally, there’s a detailed index of almost twenty-three pages at the back. From graduate students, to seasoned international practitioners, anyone involved in the often extremely difficult human rights issues generated by migration will appreciate the book’s practical as well as scholarly approach to this sensitive, diverse and increasingly complex area of law. The book therefore makes an important contribution to current literature on the subject.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘This comprehensive volume succeeds in its aim to solidify the place of international migration law as a distinctive field of study and intellectual engagement, and this book represents a must-read for any student, scholar, or policy-maker interested in the cutting edge and wide-ranging issues and topics within this burgeoning field.’ -- Michelle Foster, Journal of Refugee StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Transnational Movement of Persons under General International Law: Mapping the Customary Law Foundations of International Migration Law Vincent Chetail PART I: CONFRONTING REALITIES IN TIMES OF GLOBALISATION: THE MOVE OF PEOPLE AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY 2. Irregular Migration, State Sovereignty and the Rule of Law Catherine Dauvergne 3. National Security, Terrorism and the Securitization of Migration Idil Atak and François Crépeau 4. Extraterritorial Migration Control and the Reach of Human Rights Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 5. Smuggling and Trafficking of Human Beings Ryszard Piotriowicz 6. The Removal of Irregular Migrants in Europe and America Stephen H. Legomsky PART II: HUMAN RIGHTS, ALIENHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP: IDENTIFYING THE GLOBAL NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK 7. Detention of Migrants: Harsher Policies, Increasing International Law Protection Beth Lyon 8. Family Unity in Migration Law: The Evolution of a More Unified Approach in Europe Hélène Lambert 9. Migration and Discrimination: Non-Discrimination as Guardian against Arbitrariness or Driver of Integration? Wouter Vandenhole 10. Minority and Cultural Rights of Migrants Helen O’Nions 11. Diplomatic Protection and Consular Assistance of Migrants Annemarieke Vermeer-Künzli 12. Citizenship, Nationality, and Statelessness Peter J. Spiro PART III: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE FORGOTTEN REALITY OF MIGRANT WORKERS 13. United Nations Treaty Bodies and Migrant Workers David Weissbrodt and Justin Rhodes 14. Human Dignity or State Sovereignty? The Roadblocks to Full Realisation of the UN Migrant Workers Convention Lori A. Nessel 15. Economic Migration and Mode 4 of GATS Joel P. Trachtman 16. Labour Migration and the European Union Elspeth Guild PART IV: REFUGEES AND THE CHANGING PATTERN OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION 17. The Mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff 18. The Principle of Non-Refoulement in International Refugee Law Rebecca M.M. Wallace 19. The Asylum Procedures and the Assessment of Asylum Requests Jens Vedsted-Hansen 20. Persecution: Towards a Working Definition Hugo Storey 21. Exclusion under Article 1F since 2001: Two Steps Backwards, One Step Forward Geoff Gilbert 22. Subsidiary Protection and Other Alternative Forms of Protection Hemme Battjes 23. The Limitations of Voluntary Repatriation and Resettlement of Refugees Marjoleine Zieck PART V: INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND THE NEW CHALLENGES OF FORCED MIGRATION 24. Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: National and International Responsibilities Roberta Cohen 25. The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Search for a Universal Framework of Protection for Internally Displaced Persons Walter Kälin 26. International Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons Stephane Ojeda 27. The African Contribution to the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: A Commentary on the 2009 Kampala Convention Moetsi Duchatellier and Catherine Phuong

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Book SynopsisDuring the last few decades the world has experienced an unprecedented level of cross-border migration. The book provides various North American and European case studies that quantify socio-economic consequences of migration for host societies and for immigrants themselves.Trade ReviewThis book examines migration in a rapidly globalizing economy where it disrupts such relatively stable patterns as the trip to work, home, school and shopping on the one hand, and is itself transformed by continuously evolving ITC technology, declining relative transport cost and immigration policy dynamics. The perspective is global yet provides the reader with empirically based work representing Europe, North America and Asia, and international comparative studies changing migration patterns impact on trade and culture. --Roger R. Stough, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PROLOGUE 1. Migration Impact Assessment: A State of the Art Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot PART I: LABOUR AND HOUSING MARKETS 2. The Local US Labour Market Impacts of Low-skilled Migration from Mexico Paul S. Davies, Michael J. Greenwood, Gary L. Hunt, Ulrich Kohli and Marta Tienda 3. The Effects of Immigration on US Wages and Rents: A General Equilibrium Approach Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giovanni Peri 4. Ethnic Concentration, Cultural Identity and Immigrant Self-employment in Switzerland Giuliano Guerra, Roberto Patuelli and Rico Maggi PART II: DIVERSITY 5. A Socio-economic Impact Analysis of Urban Cultural Diversity: Pathways and Horizons Tüzin Baycan and Peter Nijkamp 6. Cultural Avoidance and Internal Migration in the USA: Do the Source Countries Matter? Alessandra Faggian, Mark D. Partridge and Dan S. Rickman PART III: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION 7. Economic Performance of Migrant Entrepreneurs in the High-tech Sector: Design and Application of the GALAXY Model Mediha Sahin, Alina Todiras, Peter Nijkamp and Enno Masurel 8. Immigration and Innovation in European Regions Ceren Ozgen, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot PART IV: THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 9. The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-analysis Murat Genc, Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot 10. A Dual Labour Market for International Migrants in a Tourism-driven Economy Haime Croes and Pieter Hooimeijer PART V: POLITICAL ECONOMY 11. Can a Legalization Programme for Immigrants Generate Conflict Among Natives? Jesús Clemente and Gemma Larramona 12. Profiles of Estonian Immigrants and their Participation in the Finnish Welfare System Mari Kangasniemi and Merja Kauhanen EPILOGUE 13. Migration Impact Assessment: Retrospect and Prospect Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot and Mediha Sahin Index

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Book SynopsisThis highly original book provides an innovative analysis of EU migration and asylum law and its interplay with equality issues in order to assess the current integration framework for third-country nationals and to explore future scenarios in the European Context.Trade Review‘. . . an excellent research tool for academics and practitioners alike, as well as journalists of course and indeed anyone making serious enquiries into migration and refugee issues.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister MagazineTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preamble Madeline Garlick, Stephen Davis and Adriano Silvestri Introduction: Integration for Third-Country Nationals in the EU – the Challenge of Equality Sonia Morano-Foadi PART I: FRAMEWORK CHAPTERS 1. The Evolution of the Concept of Union Citizenship after the Lisbon Treaty Elspeth Guild 2. The Equality Clauses in the EU Directives on Non-discrimination and Migration/Asylum Sonia Morano-Foadi and Karin de Vries 3. Integration Policy at European Union Level Micaela Malena and Sonia Morano-Foadi PART II-1: ASYLUM-SEEKERS AND REFUGEES: CASE STUDIES ON THE UK, ITALY AND GREECE 4. Inequality for Asylum-Seekers and People Entitled to Protection in the European Union Madeline V. Garlick 5. The United Kingdom’s Implementation of the EU Asylum-Seekers’ Reception Directive Katia Bianchini 6. Refugee Integration in Italy: Shortcomings and Future Scenarios Micaela Malena 7. Equal Before the Law? The Case of Asylum Procedures and Detention of Asylum-Seekers in Greece Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi PART II-2: ECONOMIC MIGRANTS AND LONG-TERM RESIDENTS: CASE STUDIES ON BELGIUM, GERMANY, SPAIN, THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND THE UK 8. Third-Country Nationals, Integration and Access to Employment and Occupation under EU Law Moritz Jesse 9. Care, Labour and Migration Policies in Germany: Implications for the Rights of Migrant Domestic and Care Workers Maria Kontos 10. Immigration Policies in Finland: Economic Marginalisation and the Residence-based Welfare Regime’s Support for Humanitarian Migrants Aino Saarinen in collaboration with Susanna Mehtonen 11. The EU Researcher Directive and its Implementation in German Immigration Law Kay Hailbronner 12. Long-term Residents’ Integration in Spain at a Crossroads: Rights-based Approach or Downhill Towards Restrictiveness? Diego Acosta Arcarazo 13. Access to Employment and Occupation in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom Moritz Jesse PART III-3: FAMILY MEMBERS: CASE STUDIES ON GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS AND SPAIN 14. Inequalities of Family Members of EEA and non-EEA Nationals: ‘Integration’ and Barriers to Family Reunification in the Post-Lisbon Era Keith Puttick and Cordelia Carlitz 15. Language Skills as a Requirement for Family Reunification of Spouses in Germany: Respecting Respect for Family Life? Cordelia Carlitz 16. The Dutch Act on Integration Abroad: A Case of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination? Karin de Vries 17. The Adaptation of Spanish Law on Family Reunification to International and European Law Carmen Pérez González Conclusions Sonia Morano-Foadi and Micaela Malena Index

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Book SynopsisHere Valerie Miner provides an account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories.

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Book SynopsisMichigan's Finns flocked to diverse cultural organizations that span a broad ideological spectrum. This book examines a wide range of organizations, including religious institutions, temperance societies, working-class political and labor groups, the cooperative movement, and a nationalist association of Finns.

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Book SynopsisThe "Great American Problem" at the beginning of the 20th century was immigration. Robert Zeidel introduces the nine members of the Dillingham Commission, created by the immigrant act of 1907, as they meticulously gathered the facts for their 41-volume report. In general, the Dillingham Commission reached positive conclusions.Trade Review"A sophisticated, engaging, attentive account of one of the most intellectually interesting eras in American political development.... This book is splendid." - Cheryl Shanks, Williams College; "This thoroughly researched work is the fullest treatment yet of the Dillingham Commission, filling an important gap in the historiography of American immigration policy." - Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati"Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction—The Dillingham Commission and Progressive Reform 1. "An Exhaustive Investigation" 2. "No Man Afraid of the Facts" 3. "Every Part of Europe" 4. "Observations at Home" 5. "Craniometry" 6. "Vast Mass of Valuable Facts" 7. "Most Feasible Means" 8. "Mathematical Certainty" Epilogue: Assessing the End of an Era Notes Bibliography Index

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