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Book SynopsisThe first major oral history project dedicated to the stories of Ugandan Asian refugees in Canada, Gifts from Amin explores the historical context of their expulsion from Uganda, the multiple motivations behind Canada’s decision to admit them, and their resilience over the past fifty years.Table of Contents Introduction Ch 1: Exploring the Historical Roots of the Expulsion Decree Ch 2: Dreams and Reality: Amin’s Expulsion Decree and the International Community’s Response Ch 3: “Thank you, Pierre”: Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1970s and the Decision to Admit Ugandan Asian Expellees Ch 4: “His Dream Became My Nightmare”: Canadian Operations and Life in Uganda during the 90-day Expulsion Period Ch 5: “An Honourable Place”: Establishing New Roots in Canada and Evaluating Resettlement Initiative Ch 6: From Refugees to Citizens: Integration, Commemoration, and Identities in Canada Conclusion: Gifts that Keep on Giving: Ugandan Asian Canadians in the 21st Century

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a toolkit for tackling the fundamental questions and challenges in planning and conducting migration research. It illustrates not only how to develop rigorous methodological procedures, but also how to effectively disseminate research findings to both academics and practitioners.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘In this rich compendium, Yeoh and Collins bring together leading scholars of transnationalism to look afresh at this important topic. Exploring both new empirical cases and new concepts, the authors provide novel insights into transnational relations and processes. This is a must-read book for those interested in cross-border interactions in the contemporary era.’ -- Katharyne Mitchell, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘Since the turn of the millennium, transnationalism has gradually taken its place as a key concept in social science. This welcome new Handbook provides fresh overviews alongside critical advances concerning a range of ever-salient, if not increasingly significant, theoretical understandings of transformative cross-border phenomena.’ -- Steven Vertovec, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany‘An up-to-date, invaluable mapping of the causes and consequences of social life across borders. The contributions to this volume go far beyond mobility and migration. They use a transnational lens to understand a range of institutions, processes, and relationships that have not been brought together before, including youth, labor unions, urbanization, and emotions. By doing so, they challenge fundamental assumptions about how identity, community, governance, and rights actually work in this early part of the twenty-first century. Theoretically rich and carefully argued, this Handbook is a welcome synthesis of this ever-more-present, dynamic understanding of social relations.’ -- Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College, US‘This is an invaluable collection of voices from the field of transnationalism research. The volume offers a rich new lexicon based on innovative case studies that will set the agenda for conceptualising transnationalism in years to come.’ -- Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Handbook on Transnationalism 1 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Francis L. Collins PART I CONCEPTUALISING TRANSNATIONALISM 2 Pre-national transnationalism and translocalism 30 David Featherstone 3 What, when and how transnationalism matters: a multi-scalar framework 45 Biao Xiang 4 Transnationalism and time: beyond the self, unity and relation 60 Sergei Shubin 5 Transnational ageing and the later life course 77 Vincent Horn 6 Transnationalism, affect and emotion 93 Raelene Wilding and Loretta Baldassar 7 Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism 110 Jørgen Carling PART II VARIETIES OF TRANSNATIONALISM 8 Transnational state practices and authoritarian politics 128 Gerasimos Tsourapas 9 Transnational migration and homemaking 141 Paolo Boccagni 10 Transnational organisations 155 Ludger Pries and Rafael Bohlen 11 The politics of transnational activism 169 Michele Ford 12 Transnational families in an age of migration 182 Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Theodora Lam and Shirlena Huang 13 Transnational young people: growing up and being active in a transnational social field 198 Valentina Mazzucato and Joan van Geel 14 Transnational urbanism in the South 211 Arnisson A.C. Ortega and Evangeline O. Katigbak 15 Transnational higher education 230 Johanna Waters and Maggi W.H. Leung 16 Transnational popular culture 246 Youna Kim 17 Transnational religion 262 Dominic Pasura PART III TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATIONS 18 Transnationalism and temporary labour migration 277 Matt Withers and Nicola Piper 19 International students as transnational migrants 294 Gracia Liu-Farrer 20 Transnational marriage migration in Asia and its friction 310 Juan Zhang 21 Transnational mobilities and return migration 325 Anastasia Christou and Brenda S.A. Yeoh 22 Connecting more than the origin and destination: multinational migrations and transnational ties 340 Anju M. Paul PART IV TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND CIRCULATIONS 23 Migrant transnationalism, remittances and development 356 Marta Bivand Erdal 24 Communications technologies and transnational networks 371 Jolynna Sinanan and Heather A. Horst 25 Transnationalism and care circulation: mobility, caregiving, and the technologies that shape them 388 Loretta Baldassar and Raelene Wilding 26 Ethnic entrepreneurship and its transnational linkages 404 Jacob R. Thomas and Min Zhou 27 Elite transnational networks, spaces and lifestyles 420 Sin Yee Koh Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book examines the unique relationship between migration, labour, and social reproduction in light of current global crises. Leading experts outline how border processes, precarious welfare states, labour markets and gendered and racialised conventions influence the labour and social reproduction of migrant workers.

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Book SynopsisThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don't develop into large and sustained mobilizations. Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo Theorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart Provides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countlessTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgments x 1 Sparks of Resistance 1 2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13 Part I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37 3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39 4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54 5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71 Part II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89 6 The Laissez]Faire State: Re]politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91 7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116 8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138 Part III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157 9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161 10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188 11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209 12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227 Notes 239 References 245 Index 262

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Book SynopsisPreviously published as the first volume of The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, this work is devoted exclusively to prehistoric migration, covering all periods and places from the first hominin migrations out of Africa through the end of prehistory.Trade Review“As a first port of call for students looking for dates, locations, and references, it is of great value in essay-writing but little beyond that.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 March 2016) "This immensely powerful narrative... is and will continue to be an invaluable and authoritative first point of call." (Journal of Anthropological Research, 1 October 2015) Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii 1 Prehistoric migration and the rise of humanity 1 Peter Bellwood Part I: The Peopling of the World during the Pleistocene 7 2 The earliest stages of hominin dispersal in Africa and Eurasia 9 Christine Hertler, Angela Bruch, and Michael Märker 3 Hominin migrations before Homo sapiens: Out of Africa – how many times? 18 Colin Groves 4 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: human biology 26 Mark Stoneking and Katerina Harvati 5 Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: archaeology 38 Peter Hiscock 6 Pleistocene migrations in the Southeast Asian archipelagos 49 François Sémah and Anne-Marie Sémah 7 The human colonization of Australia 55 Peter Hiscock 8 The human colonization of the Americas: archaeology 61 David J. Meltzer 9 The human colonization of the Americas: population genetics 70 Simon G. Southerton Part II: Holocene migrations 77 10 Neolithic migrations: food production and population expansion 79 Peter Bellwood 11 Human migrations and the histories of major language families 87 Peter Bellwood 12 Sub-Saharan Africa: linguistics 96 Christopher Ehret 13 Sub-Saharan Africa: archaeology 107 Peter Robertshaw 14 Sub-Saharan Africa: human genetics 115 Evelyne Heyer and Jorge Rocha 15 Levant and North Africa: Afroasiatic linguistic history 125 Václav Bla?ek 16 Levant and North Africa: archaeology 133 Gregory P. Gilbert 17 Ana tolia and the Balkans: archaeology 139 Mehmet Özdogan 18 Europe and western Asia: genetics and population history 146 Mark G. Thomas, Toomas Kivisild, Lounes Chikhi, and Joachim Burger 19 Europe and western Asia: Indo-European linguistic history 157 Paul Heggarty 20 Europe: Neolithic colonization 168 Ron Pinhasi 21 Northern Europe and Russia: Uralic linguistic history 178 Václav Bla?ek 22 Central Asia: genetics and archaeology 184 Ron Pinhasi and Evelyne Heyer 23 Northern and northeastern Asia: archaeology 191 Yaroslav V. Kuzmin 24 Northeastern and central Asia: “Altaic” linguistic history 197 Alexander Vovin 25 Eastern Asia: Sino-Tibetan linguistic history 204 Randy J. LaPolla 26 Eastern Asia: archaeology 209 Zhang Chi and Hung Hsiao-chun 27 Eastern Asia and Japan: human biology 217 Hirofumi Matsumura and Marc Oxenham 28 Japan: archaeology 224 Mark J. Hudson 29 Korea: archaeology 230 Seonbok Yi 30 South Asia: Dravidian linguistic history 235 Franklin C. Southworth and David W. McAlpin 31 South Asia: archaeology 245 Dorian Q. Fuller 32 Trans-Indian Ocean migration 254 Atholl Anderson 33 Southeast Asian mainland: linguistic history 259 Paul Sidwell 34 Southeast Asian mainland: archaeology 269 C. F. W. Higham 35 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: Austronesian linguistic history 276 Robert Blust 36 Southeast Asian islands: archaeology 284 Peter Bellwood 37 Southeast Asian islands and Oceania: human genetics 293 Murray P. Cox 38 Papua New Guinea: indigenous migrations in the recent past 302 Bryant Allen 39 Oceania: Lapita migration 308 Matthew Spriggs 40 Micronesian archaeology 314 Mike T. Carson 41 Polynesia, East and South, including transpacifi c migration 320 Atholl Anderson 42 Australia: linguistic history 327 Patrick McConvell 43 North America: Na Dene/Athapaskan archaeology and linguistics 333 R. G. Matson and M. P. R. Magne 44 North America: Eskimo-Aleut linguistic history 340 Michael Fortescue 45 North America: Paleoeskimo and Inuit archaeology 346 T. Max Friesen 46 Eastern North America: archaeology and linguistics 354 Dean R. Snow 47 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: linguistic history 362 Jane H. Hill 48 Mesoamerica and the southwestern United States: archaeology 369 Steven A. LeBlanc 49 Caribbean Islands: archaeology 376 William Keegan 50 Amazonia: linguistic history 384 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 51 Amazonia: archaeology 392 Michael Heckenberger 52 Andes: linguistic history 401 Paul Heggarty and David Beresford-Jones 53 Andes: archaeology 410 David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty Index 417

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations. It covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it all contributes to variations in crime, policing, and the overall justice system. Through acknowledging that some groups, especially people of color, are disproportionately influenced more than others in the case of criminal justice reactions, the War on Drugs, and hate crimes; this Handbook introduces the importance of studying race and crime so as to better understand it. It does so by recommending that researchers concentrate on ethnic diversity in a national and international context in order to broaden their demographic and expand their understanding of how to attain global change. Featuring contributions from top experts in the field, The Handbook of Race and Crime is presented in five sectionsATable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: Past, Present, and Future 1Meghan E. Hollis and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. Part I An Overview of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice 11 Introduction 13Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and Meghan E. Hollis 1 Intentional Inequalities and Compounding Effects: The State of Race and Justice Theory and Research 17Kevin Drakulich and Eric Rodriguez‐Whitney 2 Ethnicity and Crime 39Saundra Trujillo and Maria B. Velez 3 Immigration, Crime, and Victimization in the US Context: An Overview 65Philip M. Pendergast, Tim Wadsworth, and Joshua LePree 4 Hate Crime Research in the Twenty‐First Century 87Janice A. Iwama 5 Native American Crime, Policing, and Social Context 105Randall R. Butler and R. Steven Jones 6 Crime and Delinquency among Asian American Youth: A Review of the Evidence and an Agenda for Future Research 129Yue Zhuo and Sheldon Zhang 7 Racial and Ethnic Threat: Theory, Research, and New Directions 147Brian J. Stults and Nic Swagar 8 The Rise of Mass Deportation in the United States 173Daniel E. Martinez, Jeremy Slack, and Ricardo Martinez‐Schuldt Part II Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Race,Ethnicity, Crime, and Criminal Justice 203 Introduction 205Meghan E. Hollis and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. 9 Racisms and Crime: Racialized Elaborations of General Theories of Offending 209Stacy De Coster, Rena C. Zito, and Jennifer Lutz 10 What Was Old Is New Again: An Examination of Contemporary Theoretical Approaches Used in Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice Research 227Scott Wm. Bowman and Meghan E. Hollis 11 Racial Threat and Police Coercion 255Malcolm D. Holmes 12 “Fractured Reflections” in Cooley’s Looking Glass: Nonrecognition of Self‐Presentation as Racialized Experience 279Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Orlando Duck 13 Examining the Intersections of Gender and Sexual Orientation within the Discipline: A Case for Feminist and Queer Criminology 303Lindsay Kahle, Jill Leslie Rosenbaum, and Sanna King Part III Examining the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Criminal Justice System Involvement 327 Introduction 329Meghan E. Hollis and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. 14 Policing Race, Gender, and Ethnicity 331M. George Eichenberg and Shannon Hankhouse 15 Ethnographic Reflexivity: Geographic Comparisons of Gangs and Policing in the Barrios of the Southwest 353Robert J. Duran 16 Ethnicity, Immigration, and the Experience of Incarceration 371Kathryn Benier and Suzanna Fay‐Ramirez 17 The Puzzle of Prison Towns: Race, Rurality, and Reflexivity in Community Studies 393John M. Eason Part IV Examining the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Study of Crime and Criminal Justice 411 Introduction 413Meghan E. Hollis and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. 18 LGBTQ Populations of Color, Crime, and Justice:An Emerging but Urgent Topic 415Vanessa R. Panfil 19 Gender and Crime: Black Female Crime 435Andrea Leverentz 20 Intersectionality, Immigration, and Domestic Violence 457Edna Erez and Shannon Harper 21 A Case Study: Neighborhood Factors and Intimate and Non‐intimate Aggravated Assaults 475Amie L. Nielsen, Kristin Carbone‐Lopez, and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. Part V Comparative Approaches to Studying Race, Ethnicity,Crime, and Justice 505 Introduction 507Meghan E. Hollis and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. 22 Repatriation 509Shirley Leyro 23 Mass Deportation: Forced Removal, Immigrant Threat,and Disposable Labor in a Global Context 527Andrea Gomez Cervantes and Cecilia Menjivar Conclusion 547Meghan E. Hollis and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. Index 551

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disaporic Memories and Identities: A.P.Davidson& K.E.Kuah-Pearce The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney: A.P.Davidson Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia: D.Ip Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney: W.Lalich Generational Identities Through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs: L.Ngan Moving Through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s: A.P.Davidson& R.Dei Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns: K.E.Kuah-Pearce Politics, Commerce, and Construction of Chinese "Otherness" in Korea: Open Port Period (1876-1910): S.Choi Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: The Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China: J.Clammer Memories, Belonging and Home-making: Chinese Migrants in Germany: M.W.H. Leung A Century of Not Belonging - The Chinese in South Africa: D.Accone& K.L.Harris Look Who's Talking: Migration Narratives and Identity Construction: A.L.Wai-sum In Love with Music: Memory, Identity, and Music in Hong Kong's Diasporic Films: E.M.K.Cheung Conclusion: Through the Diasporic Looking-glass: A.P.Davidson Index

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Book Synopsis* Timely book examining the nature and impact of the changing migration policies in Germany, Italy and the UK. * Analyses the content of new legislation, as well as the policy debate and party political treatment of migration issues in each country.Trade Review"Christina Boswell's short overview of recent Western European migration policies is sober, crisp, businesslike, and useful" "This is indeed an important and useful book...Boswell helps us to get a good grip on the issues involved." Australian Journal of Political Science "This outstanding book cuts in a lucid and accessible way to the core of the key migration policy dilemmas facing Europe. It will be an indispensable guide for anyone with an interest in these important questions." Andrew Geddes, Jean Monnet Reader in EU Government and Politics, University of Liverpool "Provides an important insight into … one of the highly contested policy fields in Europe, focusing on what lessons can be learned … and what pitfalls policy-makers need to avoid. It should be on the desk of every immigration or interior ministry official in Europe who is struggling with the national and European debate." Elspeth Guild, Professor of European Immigration Law, University of Nijmegen, Partner, Kingsley Napley "Makes an invaluable contribution to one of the most high-profile issues in Europe today." Simon Green, University of Birmingham “Overall this is a book that provides a good comparative analysis of three countries in the EU. It brings together a wealth of material and will be an invaluable reference for students of migration.” Journal of Population ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Evolution of Postwar European Migration Policies. 2. New Policies on Labour Migration. 3. Asylum-seekers and Illegal Immigrants. 4. Labour Migration, Integration and Diversity. 5. The International Context. 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisEuropean migration policies are undergoing significant changes. After three decades of highly restrictive approaches, demographic changes and gaps in labour supply are prompting many European governments to liberalize their migration policies. Timely book examining the nature and impact of the changing migration policies in France, Germany and the UK. Analyses the content of new legislation, as well as the policy debate and party political treatment of migration issues in each country. Considers the implications of the new policies on other categories of migrants: asylum seekers, refugees and resident ethnic minorities. Trade Review"Christina Boswell's short overview of recent Western European migration policies is sober, crisp, businesslike, and useful" "This is indeed an important and useful book...Boswell helps us to get a good grip on the issues involved." Australian Journal of Political Science "This outstanding book cuts in a lucid and accessible way to the core of the key migration policy dilemmas facing Europe. It will be an indispensable guide for anyone with an interest in these important questions." Andrew Geddes, Jean Monnet Reader in EU Government and Politics, University of Liverpool "Provides an important insight into … one of the highly contested policy fields in Europe, focusing on what lessons can be learned … and what pitfalls policy-makers need to avoid. It should be on the desk of every immigration or interior ministry official in Europe who is struggling with the national and European debate." Elspeth Guild, Professor of European Immigration Law, University of Nijmegen, Partner, Kingsley Napley "Makes an invaluable contribution to one of the most high-profile issues in Europe today." Simon Green, University of Birmingham “Overall this is a book that provides a good comparative analysis of three countries in the EU. It brings together a wealth of material and will be an invaluable reference for students of migration.” Journal of Population ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Evolution of Postwar European Migration Policies. 2. New Policies on Labour Migration. 3. Asylum-seekers and Illegal Immigrants. 4. Labour Migration, Integration and Diversity. 5. The International Context. 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe Politics of Migration explores the opportunities and tensions posed by migration today and makes a series of strong, workable proposals for managing it effectively. An exploration of the opportunities and tensions posed by migration today. Written by some of the foremost international experts on migration and citizenship issues. Focuses on migration in Europe and North America. Covers issues such as the rise of the far right, the international politics of refugees, the impact of migration on labour markets and welfare states, citizenship, public opinion and the integration of Muslims in Europe. Makes strong, workable recommendations for managing migration more effectively. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Sarah Spencer (Institute of Public Policy Research). 2. Migration to Europe Since 1945: Its History and its Lessons: Randall Hansen (University of Oxford). 3. Managing Rapid and Deep Change in the Newest Age of Migration: Demetrios G. Papademetriou (Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC). 4. The Economic Impact of Labour Migration: Mark Kleinman (University of Bristol). 5. Refugees and the Global Politics of Asylum: Jeff Crisp (Head of the Evaluation and policy Analysis Unit at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees). 6. The Closing of the European Gates? The New Populist Parties of Europe: John Lloyd (Financial Times). 7. Muslims and the Politics of Difference: Tariq Modood (University of Bristol). 8. The Politics of European Union Migration Policy: Claude Moraes MEP (Member of the European Parliament). 9. The Politics of US Immigration Reform: Susan Martin (Georgetown University). 10. Migration and the Welfare State in Europe: Andrew Geddes (University of Liverpool). 11. Understanding Anti-Asylum Rhetoric: Restrictive Politics or Racist Publics?: Paul Statham (University of Leeds). 12. Immigration and the Politics of Public Opinion: Shamit Saggar (Yale University). 13. Immigration, Citizenship, Multiculturalism: Exploring the Links: Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario).

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Book Synopsis* A thought-provoking and controversial collection on the subject of migration, immigration and social policy. * Presents forthright yet realistic analyses of key issues. * Contributors are drawn from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, and bring a wide range of expertise to bear on the subject.Table of Contents1. Editorial Introduction: Catherine Jones Finer. 2. From Border Control to Migration Management: The Case for a Paradigm Change in the Western Response to Transborder Population Movement: Savitri Taylor. 3. European Union Policy on Asylum and Immigration. Addressing the Root Causes of Forced Migration: A Justice and Home Affairs Policy of Freedom, Security and Justice?: Channe Lindstrøm. 4. A Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut: Deportation, Detention and Dispersal in Europe: Liza Schuster. 5. Governance, Forced Migration and Welfare: Peter Dwyer. 6. The Experiences of Frontline Staff Working with Children Seeking Asylum: D. Dunkerley, J. Scourfield, T. Maegusuku-Hewett, N. Smalley. 7. When the Export of Social Problems Is No Longer Possible: Immigration Policies and Unemployment in Switzerland: Alexandre Afonso. 8. Why It Is Bad to Be Kind. Educating Refugees to Life in the Welfare State: A Case Study from Norway: Anniken Hagelund. 9. How Studies of the Educational Progression of Minority Children Are Affecting Education Policy in Denmark: Bjørg Colding, Hans Hummelgaard, Leif Husted. 10. New Destinations? Assessing the Post-migration Social Mobility of Minority Ethnic Groups in England and Wales: Lucinda Platt. Index.

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Book SynopsisThroughout the twentieth century and into the twenty first, millions of people have been forced to flee their homes. The causes and consequences of this and international responses to displacement lie at the very heart of world politics, however these important issues have been largely neglected by its primary discipline: International Relations.Trade Review“It is a superb example of academic erudition at its best. For several decades, students have trawled through international relations theories but how many have applied them to such pressing contemporary global issues? For teachers of forced migration studies, this will be an invaluable resource. Forced Migration and Global Politics should be required reading for undergraduates and postgraduates alike.” (Journal of Intercultural Studies, 21 February 2013) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. International Relations Theories 2. Sovereignty and the State System 3. Security 4. International Cooperation 5. Global Governance 6. North–South Relations and the International Political Economy 7. Globalization 8. Regionalism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface, by Morgane NicotIntroduction: Control, Complexity, and Creativity, by David Kyle and Luigi Achilli1. Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered, by David Kyle and John Dale2. How the State Made Smuggling and Smuggling Made the State: Immigration Control and Evasion on the U.S.-Mexican Line, by Peter Andreas3. Multinational Initiatives Against Global Trafficking in Persons for Sexual Exploitation, 1899-1999, by Eileen P. Scully4. Multilateral Protocols on Trafficking and Smuggling: Divergent Paths of Cooperation and Disintegration Since 2000, by Sarah P. Lockhart5. Human Smuggling and Terrorism: Complex Adaptive Systems and Special Operations, by David C. Ellis6. The Unfolding of Migrant Smuggling Across the EU-Turkey Border: Structural, Institutional, and Agency-based Factors, by Ahmet Içduygu7. The Double Duality of Migrant Smugglers: An Analytical Framework, by Jørgen Carling8. Financial Elements of Clandestine Journeys: How You Pay Your Smuggler Matters, by Kim Wilson9. The Burners: Smuggling Networks and Maghrebi Migrants, by Matt Herbert10. Smuggling Migrants from Africa To Europe: Threat, Resource, or Bargaining Chip?, by Luca Raineri11. Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling Networks: The Case of North Korea, by Kyunghee Kook12. People Smuggling in Southeast Asia: Rohingya and Chin Stories of Agency, Freedom and Power in Cross Border Movement, by Gerhard Hoffstaedter13. The Experiences of Women as Facilitators of Irregular Migration – And What They Say About the Way We Think About Migrant Smuggling, by Gabriella Sanchez14. Enter the Boogeyman: Representations of Human Smuggling in Mainstream Narratives of Migration, by Luigi Achilli and Alice Massari15. Ecuadorean Migrant Smuggling: A Diversity of Contemporary Patterns and Dynamics, by Soledad Álvarez Velasco16. Combatting People Smuggling with the Same Crime? Australia's "Creative" Anti-smuggling Efforts in Indonesia, by Antje Missbach and Wayne Palmer17. The Rise of "Border Security": Chaos, Clutter, and Complexity in a Technological Arms Race, by Victor Manjarrez18. Transnational Struggles and the 'State': Biopower and Biopolitics in the Case of a Nigerian Human Trafficking Ring, by Gregory Feldman19. The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Smuggling Networks during the 21st Century, by Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios20. In Search of Protection: Irregular Mobility Among Palestinian Youth in Gaza, by Caitlin ProcterIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book teaches the impact of the sociopolitical climate on racial minority immigrants, as well as highlights theory, research, and practice concerning the various types of trauma and oppression faced. For racial minority immigrants in the United States, trauma can have both historical and ongoing sources. Today’s immigrants face a dangerous mix of rising nationalism and xenophobia, alarming rates of displacement within and across nations, war, trafficking, terrorism, and deportation. Multiple traumas stem from these experiences and can be exacerbated by interpersonal violence and other forms of marginalization within communities.This book examines the lasting impact of trauma for racial minority immigrants and subsequent generations. Each chapter explores both the stress and resilience of immigrant groups in the United States, as well as clinical or community-based efforts to address the multiple traumas that affect immigrants and their childrenTable of ContentsIntroduction: Challenges Facing Racial Minority ImmigrantsPratyusha Tummala-NarraPart I. Context of Xenophobia and Racism in the United States Chapter 1. Wounds that Never Heal: The Proliferation of Prejudice Toward Immigrants in the United StatesAngel D. Armenta, Miriam J. Alvarez, & Michael A. Zárate Chapter 2. Multifaceted Profiling and Violence: Experiences of Mexican and Central American Migrants to the United StatesHannah W. McDermott & Ricardo C. Ainslie Chapter 3. Xenophobia and Racism: Immigrant Youth Experiences, Stress, and ResilienceAmy K. Marks, G. Alice Woolverton, & Marit D. Murry Chapter 4. Racism and Xenophobia on College CampusesAnmol Satiani & Sindhu Singh Chapter 5. Microaggressions Toward Racial Minority Immigrants in the United StatesD. R. Gina Sissoko & Kevin Nadal Part II. Specific Forms of Trauma in Immigrant Communities Chapter 6. “Forever Foreigners”: Intergenerational Impacts of Historical Trauma from the World War II Japanese American IncarcerationDonna K. Nagata & Reeya Patel Chapter 7. Sociopolitical Trauma: Ethnicity, Race, and MigrationLillian Comas-Díaz Chapter 8. Racial Stress and Racialized Violence Among Black Immigrants in the United StatesMarisol L. Meyer, Monique C. McKenny, Esprene Liddell-Quintyn, Guerda Nicolas, & Gemima St. Louis Chapter 9. An Examination of Racial Minority Immigrants and the Trauma of Human TraffickingIndhushree Rajan & Thema Bryant-Davis Chapter 10. The Rippling Effects of Unauthorized Status: Stress, Family Separations, and Deportation and Their Implications for Belonging and DevelopmentCarola Suárez-Orozco, Guadalupe López Hernández, & Patricia Cabral Chapter 11. Interpersonal Violence and the Immigrant ContextPratyusha Tummala-NarraPart III. Resilience and Identity Chapter 12. Coping with Trauma: Resilience Among Immigrants of Color in the United StatesGermine H. Awad, Flor Castellanos, Jendayi Dillard, & Taylor Payne Chapter 13. Resilience and Identity: Intersectional Migration Experiences of LGBTQ People of ColorMatthew D. Skinta & Nadine Nakamura Part IV. Key Strategies for Intervention Chapter 14. Bullying Prevention for Asian American Families: Collaborations With School Districts and Community OrganizationsCixin Wang, Jia Li Liu, Kavita Atwal, & Kieu Anh Do Chapter 15. Toward a Liberatory Practice: Shifting the Ideological Premise of Trauma Work with ImmigrantsLara Sheehi & Leilani Salvo Crane Chapter 16. Human Rights, Policy, and Legal InterventionsDiya Kallivayalil & Robert P. Marlin Afterword: Looking to the Future Pratyusha Tummala-Narra

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Book SynopsisThere were around 281 million international migrants throughout the world in 2020, nearly 4% of the global population. In the decades to come, thanks to ongoing conflict, violence, political instability and the effects of climate change, these numbers will only rise.This book adopts a broad perspective of psychological science, encompassing both causal and normative behavior, to explore topics related to immigration including gentrification, 'crimmigration,' and trust between immigrants and host-society authorities.To some, immigrants represent a threat to the established population''s jobs, standard of living, communities, culture, language, and safety. Others view immigrants as offering economic benefits to society including new sources of labor and consumption, and new technical skills and knowledge--not to mention the economic and personal benefits immigrants and their families might gain as well.While most immigrants leave their home counTable of Contents Contributors Chapter 1. Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives on Challenges and SolutionsFathali M. Moghaddam and Margaret J. Hendricks I. Immigration in Local Community Context Chapter 2. Immigration to Smaller Urban and Rural Communities: Challenges and OpportunitiesVictoria M. Esses and Bukun F. Adegbembo Chapter 3. (Not) In My Backyard! Threat Perceptions, Psychological Well-Being, and Collective Action Against Refugee SettlementAllard R. Feddes, Arnold A. P. van Emmerik, Hannah J. Arjangi-Babetti, Susan Bosdijk, Lisa Klawitter, Alex I. Macdougall, Annelies Heleen Romers, Sofia Tsaousoglou, and Bertjan Doosje Chapter 4. A Mural Cannot Replace Us: Immigrants, Gentrification, and DisplacementKipp Pietrantonio, Jasmin D. Llamas, and Keith McIntosh II. Immigration in a National Context Chapter 5. Welcoming New Members: Conflicting Reactions to ImmigrationYuen J. Huo and Tom R. Tyler Chapter 6. Immigrants as Threat and Opportunity: The Australian ExperienceMorgana Lizzio-Wilson, Susilo Wibisono, and Winnifred Louis Chapter 7. Attitude Polarization and Closed-Mindedness: The Immigration Issue in Malta From 2010 to 2020Gordon Sammut, Luke J. Buhagiar, Rebekah Mifsud, Katya DeGiovanni, and Noellie Brockdorff Chapter 8. Greek Talk on Migration: Constructions of Modernity Differentials and Cultural HierarchyNikos Bozatzis, Antonis Sapountzis, Liana Lardi, and Maria Xenitidou Chapter 9. Immigration Through a Cultural Prism: Characteristics and ChallengesJoaquim Pires Valentim Chapter 10. National Identity and Immigration: Threat From Undocumented Immigrants in the United StatesMargaret J. Hendricks Chapter 11. The Injustices of Crimmigration: Discretion, Detention, and DeportationJennifer Woolard III. Immigration in an International Context Chapter 12. Immigration to Chile in a Regional ContextRaimundo Salas Schweikart and Margaret J. Hendricks Chapter 13. Social Trust Among Refugees: Using a Human Rights Lens to Understand Refugee ExperiencesAron Tesfai, Michaela Hynie, Rubaiyat Karim, Gülay Kilicaslan, Cansu Ekmekcioglu, and Palmer Taylor Chapter 14. From Crimmigration to [Re]integration Following the Removal of "Undesirable" People From Australia to New ZealandVeronica Hopner, Darrin Hodgetts, Pita King, and Stuart Carr Chapter 15. The Equality–Difference Paradox: National Policies on PluralismSéamus A. Power and Michael Jindra IV. Looking Ahead Chapter 16. Toward Solutions for Harmonious Immigrant Integration: A Psychological PerspectiveFathali M. Moghaddam and Margaret J. Hendricks Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the processes and consequences of immigration to Philadelphia over timeTrade Review"One highlight of the volume is the new and nuanced look at populations long associated with Philadelphia... Perhaps the most important contribution of Global Philadelphia is to map more recent--and still largely unstudied--immigrant flows." - Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Philadelphia’s Immigrant Communities in Historical Perspective – Ayumi Takenaka and Mary Johnson OsirimPart I. Community Formation and Intra- (and Inter-) Ethnic Relations 2. 125 Years of Building Jewish Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia – Rakhmiel Peltz 3. Mapping Memories in Stone: Italians and the Transformation of a Philadelphia Landscape – Joan Saverino 4. Pan-Latino Enclaves in Philadelphia and the Formation of the Puerto Rican Community – Victor Vazquez-Hernandez 5. Opportunity, Conflict, and Communities in Transition: Historical and Contemporary Chinese Immigration to Philadelphia – Lena SzePart II. The Role of Institutions 6. German Immigration to Philadelphia from the Colonial Period through the Twentieth Century – Birte Pfleger 7. Changes in the Behavior of Immigrants: The Irish in Philadelphia – Noel J. J. Farley and Philip L. Kilbride 8. Healthcare Access for Mexican Immigrants in South Philadelphia – Jennifer AtlasPart III. Identity Formation in a Transnational Context 9. Philadelphia’s Haitian Community: Transnationalism and Unity in the Formation of Identity – Garvey F. Lundy 10. The New African Diaspora: Transnationalism and Transformation in Philadelphia – Mary Johnson Osirim 11. From Kerala to Philadelphia: The Experiences of Malayalee, Hindu Nurses in Philadelphia – Rasika Chakravarthy and Ajay Nair 12. The Other Asians in the Other Philadelphia: Understanding Cambodian Experiences in Neighborhoods, Classrooms, and Workplaces – Ellen Skilton-Sylvester and Keo Chea-YoungContributors Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the processes and consequences of immigration to Philadelphia over timeTrade Review"One highlight of the volume is the new and nuanced look at populations long associated with Philadelphia... Perhaps the most important contribution of Global Philadelphia is to map more recent--and still largely unstudied--immigrant flows." - Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Philadelphia’s Immigrant Communities in Historical Perspective – Ayumi Takenaka and Mary Johnson OsirimPart I. Community Formation and Intra- (and Inter-) Ethnic Relations 2. 125 Years of Building Jewish Immigrant Communities in Philadelphia – Rakhmiel Peltz 3. Mapping Memories in Stone: Italians and the Transformation of a Philadelphia Landscape – Joan Saverino 4. Pan-Latino Enclaves in Philadelphia and the Formation of the Puerto Rican Community – Victor Vazquez-Hernandez 5. Opportunity, Conflict, and Communities in Transition: Historical and Contemporary Chinese Immigration to Philadelphia – Lena SzePart II. The Role of Institutions 6. German Immigration to Philadelphia from the Colonial Period through the Twentieth Century – Birte Pfleger 7. Changes in the Behavior of Immigrants: The Irish in Philadelphia – Noel J. J. Farley and Philip L. Kilbride 8. Healthcare Access for Mexican Immigrants in South Philadelphia – Jennifer AtlasPart III. Identity Formation in a Transnational Context 9. Philadelphia’s Haitian Community: Transnationalism and Unity in the Formation of Identity – Garvey F. Lundy 10. The New African Diaspora: Transnationalism and Transformation in Philadelphia – Mary Johnson Osirim 11. From Kerala to Philadelphia: The Experiences of Malayalee, Hindu Nurses in Philadelphia – Rasika Chakravarthy and Ajay Nair 12. The Other Asians in the Other Philadelphia: Understanding Cambodian Experiences in Neighborhoods, Classrooms, and Workplaces – Ellen Skilton-Sylvester and Keo Chea-YoungContributors Index

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Book SynopsisHow native-born rural adolescents adapt to new immigrants in their communitiesTrade Review"A Midwestern Mosaic makes important contributions to several literatures. To political scientists, the book offers insights about the roles of time and racial context in the political socialization of adolescents and the importance of systematically analyzing rural politics. Contributions to immigration research focusing on non-traditional destinations includes information about how quickly adolescents can adapt to demographic change, the emphasis on political socialization, and the formal comparison of immigrant-receiving communities that, on their face, might appear to be quite similar. [Lay's] qualitative data also yield important insights about what high schools and other institutions in rapidly changing communities can do to encourage positive relationships between long-time residents and newcomers. For all of these reasons, this book will be of great interest to scholars, community leaders, policymakers, and others."--International Migration Review, Spring 2013 "A Midwestern Mosaic is well ahead of the curve. This book provides a comparative community case study of the implications of new minority growth in two new Hispanic rural destinations in Northwest Iowa... A Midwestern Mosaic provides an empirical benchmark on an important topic... [I]t is as much about racial and ethnic attitudes as it is about rural political socialization or the potential casual mechanisms that contribute to evolving attitudes (movement along the continuum between political left and right) among native-born rural youth and adolescents. In the end, A Midwestern Mosaic probably raises more (good) questions than it answers, but this is a positive feature of this short book." - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsA Midwestern Mosaic: Immigration and Political Socialization in Rural America; J. Celeste Lay; Table of Contents; Prologue and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Places and Political Learning; 1: Transformation of Small Town America; 2: A Natural Experiment in Iowa Towns; 3: Seeing Race: Attitudes toward Immigrants and Symbolic Racism; 4: No Retreat: Civic Withdrawal and Immigration; 5: Gradual Progress; 6: What Happened to My Town?; Conclusion: The Implications of a New Normal; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisHow community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid changeTrade Review"[A] valuable contribution to our understanding of the struggles newcomers face in the process of gaining full community membership... Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City is a fascinating book that illustrates the life world of three different groups, who all struggle with ongoing changes in their city. Thanks to this in-depth study the reader gets to know the city and its residents through the rich qualitative data and the excerpts that Ostrander provides throughout the text. The book is suitable for researchers and policy makers as well as community members with an interest in debates about the role of immigrants and other newcomers and their participation in urban civic and political life. It furthermore provides in-depth insights into the influence of voluntary associations in creating a space for immigrants' voices in a diverse and changing city." - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit OrganizationsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Overview of History, Demographics, and Politics 3 Major Redevelopment, Community Involvement, and Shared Governance 4 Old and New Immigrant Experiences, Today and Yesterday 5 Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement 6 Gentrification, Resident Displacement, and a Common Vision for the City's Future 7 Extending Social Citizenship, Remaking City Governance Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid changeTrade Review"[A] valuable contribution to our understanding of the struggles newcomers face in the process of gaining full community membership... Citizenship and Governance in a Changing City is a fascinating book that illustrates the life world of three different groups, who all struggle with ongoing changes in their city. Thanks to this in-depth study the reader gets to know the city and its residents through the rich qualitative data and the excerpts that Ostrander provides throughout the text. The book is suitable for researchers and policy makers as well as community members with an interest in debates about the role of immigrants and other newcomers and their participation in urban civic and political life. It furthermore provides in-depth insights into the influence of voluntary associations in creating a space for immigrants' voices in a diverse and changing city." - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit OrganizationsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Overview of History, Demographics, and Politics 3 Major Redevelopment, Community Involvement, and Shared Governance 4 Old and New Immigrant Experiences, Today and Yesterday 5 Immigrant Civic and Political Engagement 6 Gentrification, Resident Displacement, and a Common Vision for the City's Future 7 Extending Social Citizenship, Remaking City Governance Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIf you knew a runaway slave or an undocumented immigrant, would you tell?Trade Review"Park proposes a unique and innovative way to approach the quagmire of immigration reform. He uses the framework that Mark Twain used when presenting the dilemma of what is the proper response to a runaway slave and a young abandoned boy. It is Park's contention that there is much to be learned from comparing the current problems of illegal immigrants with those of fugitive slaves in antebellum America... He finds interesting linkages between the past mistreatment of people of color and what is happening today. The author pays some attention to the legal, educational, moral, and labor repercussions of the treatment of 'illegals.' Park's work is timely, well written, and extensively documented. It should find a wide audience among academics and the general population. Summing Up: Recommended."--Choice, January 2014Table of ContentsPart I STATUS AND ILLEGALITY IN AMERICAN PUBLIC LAW AND CULTURE 1 The Huckleberry Finn Problem2 Race, Law, and Personhood in Huckleberry FinnPart II THE COMPANY OF OTHERS 3 Slavery and Wage Slavery4 Illegal Workers5 Immigrant Activism in the Shadow of LawPart III GETTING AN EDUCATION 6 The Bread of Knowledge7 Race, Immigration, and the Promise of Equality8 Undocumented and UnafraidPart IV UNLAWFUL MIGRATIONS IN AMERICAN LAW AND SOCIETY 9 Utopian Visions and the Unlawful OtherAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected Books Cited Index

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Book Synopsis After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and ‘90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx Cambodians, closely following one woman and her family for several years as they survive yet resist their literal insertion into concentrated Bronx poverty. Eric Tang tells the harrowing and inspiring stories of these refugees to make sense of how and why the displaced migrants have been resettled in the “hyperghetto.” He argues that refuge is never found, that rescue discourses mask a more profound urban reality characterized by racialized geographic enclosure, economic displacement and unrelenting poverty, and the criminalization of daily life. Unsettled views the hyperghetto as a site of extreme isolation, punishment, and confinement. The refugees remain captives in late-capitaTrade Review “Scrupulous, courageous and fiercely argued, Unsettled is an ethnographic revelation. . . . Tang, a former organizer, brings to light the political ecology of a community that has survived war, genocide, and displacement and is now struggling to remake the Bronx hyperghetto, exposing in the process the ‘impossible’ condition that may be the fate of all refugee communities in the neoliberal city.” —Junot Díaz “Scholar-activist Eric Tang has written a brilliantly moving account of how politics, community dynamics, and family relationships shape life for Cambodian refugees who settled in the Bronx in the 1980s and 1990s. Unsettled is at once a stunning ethnography, a superb critical cultural studies project, and an outstanding example of engaged scholarship that will inspire new understandings about the movement of people and the creation of particular kinds of contested spaces. Tang’s riveting account of struggle, change, and resistance is a remarkable achievement.”—Beth Richie, Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at University of Illinois at Chicago“Unsettled is a contribution to the emergent field of ‘critical refugee studies,’ and documents a story of Cambodian refugee itinerancy and survival. Not an account of a transition from refugee hardship to redemptive U.S. citizenship, it is rather a description of uprooting, captivity, poverty, displacement, and fugitivity—and the ever elusive project of ‘arrival.’”—Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University

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Book Synopsis After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and ‘90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx Cambodians, closely following one woman and her family for several years as they survive yet resist their literal insertion into concentrated Bronx poverty. Eric Tang tells the harrowing and inspiring stories of these refugees to make sense of how and why the displaced migrants have been resettled in the “hyperghetto.” He argues that refuge is never found, that rescue discourses mask a more profound urban reality characterized by racialized geographic enclosure, economic displacement and unrelenting poverty, and the criminalization of daily life. Unsettled views the hyperghetto as a site of extreme isolation, punishment, and confinement. The refugees remain captives in late-capitaTrade Review “Scrupulous, courageous and fiercely argued, Unsettled is an ethnographic revelation. . . . Tang, a former organizer, brings to light the political ecology of a community that has survived war, genocide, and displacement and is now struggling to remake the Bronx hyperghetto, exposing in the process the ‘impossible’ condition that may be the fate of all refugee communities in the neoliberal city.” —Junot Díaz “Scholar-activist Eric Tang has written a brilliantly moving account of how politics, community dynamics, and family relationships shape life for Cambodian refugees who settled in the Bronx in the 1980s and 1990s. Unsettled is at once a stunning ethnography, a superb critical cultural studies project, and an outstanding example of engaged scholarship that will inspire new understandings about the movement of people and the creation of particular kinds of contested spaces. Tang’s riveting account of struggle, change, and resistance is a remarkable achievement.”—Beth Richie, Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at University of Illinois at Chicago“Unsettled is a contribution to the emergent field of ‘critical refugee studies,’ and documents a story of Cambodian refugee itinerancy and survival. Not an account of a transition from refugee hardship to redemptive U.S. citizenship, it is rather a description of uprooting, captivity, poverty, displacement, and fugitivity—and the ever elusive project of ‘arrival.’”—Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University

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Book SynopsisSamir Chopra is an immigrant, a voluntary exile, who discovers he can tell the story of his life through cricket, a game that has long been an influencereally, an obsessionfor him. In so doing, he reveals how his changing views on the sport mirror his journey of self-discovery. In The Evolution of a Cricket Fan, Chopra is thus able to reflect on his changing perceptions of self, and of the nations and cultures that have shaped his identity, politics, displacement, and fandom.Chopra's passion for the sport began as a child, when he rooted for Pakistan and against his native India. When he migrated, he became a fan of the Indian team that gave him a sense of home among the various cultures he encountered in North America and Australia. This shapeshifting exposes the rift between the Old and the New world, which Chopra acknowledges is cricket's greatest modern crisis. But it also illuminates the identity dilemmas of post-colonial immigrants in the Indian diaspora. Chopra's thoughts abou

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Book SynopsisSamir Chopra is an immigrant, a voluntary exile, who discovers he can tell the story of his life through cricket, a game that has long been an influencereally, an obsessionfor him. In so doing, he reveals how his changing views on the sport mirror his journey of self-discovery. In The Evolution of a Cricket Fan, Chopra is thus able to reflect on his changing perceptions of self, and of the nations and cultures that have shaped his identity, politics, displacement, and fandom.Chopra's passion for the sport began as a child, when he rooted for Pakistan and against his native India. When he migrated, he became a fan of the Indian team that gave him a sense of home among the various cultures he encountered in North America and Australia. This shapeshifting exposes the rift between the Old and the New world, which Chopra acknowledges is cricket's greatest modern crisis. But it also illuminates the identity dilemmas of post-colonial immigrants in the Indian diaspora. Chopra's thoughts abou

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Book SynopsisThe Illegal Immigration Relief Act (IIRA), passed in the small Rustbelt city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 2006, was a local ordinance that laid out penalties for renting to or hiring undocumented immigrants and declared English the city's official language. The notorious IIRA gained national prominence and kicked off a parade of local and state-level legislative initiatives designed to crack down on undocumented immigrants.In his cogent and timely book, UndocumentedFears, Jamie Longazel uses the debate around Hazleton's controversial ordinance as a case study that reveals the mechanics of contemporary divide and conquer politics. He shows how neoliberal ideology, misconceptions about Latina/o immigrants, and nostalgic imagery of Small Town, America led to a racialized account of an undocumented immigrant invasion, masking the real story of a city beset by large-scale loss of manufacturing jobs. Offering an up-close look at how the local debate unfolded in the city that set off this bTrade Review“Using a magnifying lens to study immigrant bashing in his hometown, Jamie Longazel brings into sharp focus the anti-Latino racism at the heart of national politics today. Even as we as a society struggle to build solidarity across racial divisions, powerful forces seek advantage in tearing us farther apart. The concentrated focus of Undocumented Fears helps us understand not only why this occurs but also how we might help replace fear with friendship, social division with a sense of shared humanity.”—Ian F. Haney López, author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class“Undocumented Fears offers an incredibly rich and insightful analysis of how the political dynamics in a struggling former coal mining town resulted in its becoming ground zero in the raging national debate over immigration. Longazel provides a bird’s-eye view of the politics—racial and otherwise—that led Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to enact laws designed to punish undocumented immigrants, with Latino migrants in the crosshairs. The clash of Latino immigrants with the ‘small town America’ ideal is a gripping story that deserves the scholarly attention offered by Longazel. As some might say after reading Undocumented Fears, ‘Only in America.’”—Kevin Johnson, author of The “Huddled Masses” Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights "The author blends sociological reasoning with the analysis of single stories, interviews, news reports, trial and city council transcripts; this makes the book interesting and appealing for the audience.... The book has several strengths, notably its original blend of thought and action. Moreover, Longazel’s work marks an excellent attempt to discuss Latino Threat Narrative roots and connections with national immigration patterns and neoliberal depoliticization. Also, several references and numerous appendixes demonstrate the issue is extensively researched and in-depth scrutinized.... [T]he book will surely stimulate discussion between scholars and practitioners. It should be required reading for anyone interested to investigate how dominant ideologies relating to race and social class embedded in immigration politics continue to divide and conquer ordinary people today."-- International Criminal Justice ReviewTable of ContentsAuthor's Comment on the Notes Section Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer 1. The Political Economy of Local Backlash 2. "The Straw That Broke the Camel's Back" 3. Lozano v. Hazleton and the Defense of White Innocence 4. "All We Can Do Is Show Them We Are a Respectable Bunch" Conclusion: Recovering Authenticity Appendix A: Data and Methods Appendix B: Full Text of the Illegal Immigration Relief Act Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImmigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants. She interrogates the rise of securitization, restrictive legislation, and the return of large-scale immigration raids and describes how these re-articulate and re-inscribe forms of racial and gender hierarchy. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants demonstrates how the ascendance of America as a security state serves as a template to scrutinize, harass, and encumber immigrants while also reconfiguring citizenship. Sampaio uses intersectional analysis coupled with theoretical and empirical approaches to develop a critical framework for analyzing current immigration politics. Sampaio provides a sustained and systematic examination of policy and enforcement shifts impacting LTrade Review"Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants makes a compelling case that government policies are thoroughly implicated in processes of racialization and gendering that mark some citizens as worthy of protection and others as dangerous threats to national security. In showing how recent immigration and securitization policies blur the boundaries between citizens and immigrants, and between immigrants and terrorist threats, Sampaio provides powerful lessons about the fragility of constitutional rights when Congress, the executive branch, and the courts concur that the nation's highest priority is security. This comprehensive empirical study sheds new light on the complex integration of immigration and securitization policies in the aftermath of September 11." -Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University "Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants is a wonderful addition to the literature on the social constructions of policy target populations. The sophisticated command of both case law and national and state policy is particularly helpful in understanding the complex trends in U.S. immigration policy in recent decades. Sampaio clearly and convincingly articulates her argument on the impact of federal-level anti-terror policies on the everyday experiences of Latinas/os, and her identification of a racialized/gendered set of discursive moves in the years surrounding 9/11 is especially strong." -Ange-Marie Hancock, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1. Reconfiguring Race and Gender in the War on Terrorism 2. Masculinist Protectionism, Racialized Demonization and the Formation of the Contemporary Security Regime in the War on Terrorism 3. Racialization of Latinas/os within American Immigration Policy 4. Securitizing Immigration Legislation 5. Terrorizing Immigrants: The Return of Large Scale Raids and Roundups and their Impact on Latina/o Communities 6. Race-Gendering Citizenship and the New Security State 7. The End of Terror? A New Administration and a New Chapter in Immigration Politics Index

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Book SynopsisImmigration politics has been significantly altered by the advent of America's war on terror and the proliferation of security measures. In her cogent study, Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants, Anna Sampaio examines how these processes are racialized and gendered and how they impose inequitable burdens on Latina/o immigrants. She interrogates the rise of securitization, restrictive legislation, and the return of large-scale immigration raids and describes how these re-articulate and re-inscribe forms of racial and gender hierarchy. Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants demonstrates how the ascendance of America as a security state serves as a template to scrutinize, harass, and encumber immigrants while also reconfiguring citizenship. Sampaio uses intersectional analysis coupled with theoretical and empirical approaches to develop a critical framework for analyzing current immigration politics. Sampaio provides a sustained and systematic examination of policy and enforcement shifts impacting LTrade Review"Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants makes a compelling case that government policies are thoroughly implicated in processes of racialization and gendering that mark some citizens as worthy of protection and others as dangerous threats to national security. In showing how recent immigration and securitization policies blur the boundaries between citizens and immigrants, and between immigrants and terrorist threats, Sampaio provides powerful lessons about the fragility of constitutional rights when Congress, the executive branch, and the courts concur that the nation's highest priority is security. This comprehensive empirical study sheds new light on the complex integration of immigration and securitization policies in the aftermath of September 11." -Mary Hawkesworth, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University "Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants is a wonderful addition to the literature on the social constructions of policy target populations. The sophisticated command of both case law and national and state policy is particularly helpful in understanding the complex trends in U.S. immigration policy in recent decades. Sampaio clearly and convincingly articulates her argument on the impact of federal-level anti-terror policies on the everyday experiences of Latinas/os, and her identification of a racialized/gendered set of discursive moves in the years surrounding 9/11 is especially strong." -Ange-Marie Hancock, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1. Reconfiguring Race and Gender in the War on Terrorism 2. Masculinist Protectionism, Racialized Demonization and the Formation of the Contemporary Security Regime in the War on Terrorism 3. Racialization of Latinas/os within American Immigration Policy 4. Securitizing Immigration Legislation 5. Terrorizing Immigrants: The Return of Large Scale Raids and Roundups and their Impact on Latina/o Communities 6. Race-Gendering Citizenship and the New Security State 7. The End of Terror? A New Administration and a New Chapter in Immigration Politics Index

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Book SynopsisGiven the limited economic opportunities in rural Nepal, the desire of young men of all income and education levels, castes and ethnicities to migrate has never been higher. Crossing the Border to India provides an ethnography of male labor migration from the western hills of Nepal to Indian cities. Jeevan Sharma shows how a migrant's livelihood and gender, as well as structural violence impacts his perceptions, experiences, and aspirations.Based on long-term fieldwork, Sharma captures the actual experiences of crossing the border. He shows that Nepali migration to India does not just allow young men from poorer backgrounds to save there and eat here, but also offers a strategy to escape the more regimented social order of the village. Additionally, migrants may benefit from the opportunities offered by the open-border between India and Nepal to attain independence and experience a distant world. However, Nepali migrants are subjected to high levels of ill treatment. Thus, while the idTrade Review"Crossing the Border to India is an important contribution to the scholarship on migration, development, and masculinities. Sharma provides a new perspective for understanding the complex relationship between immigration, work, and gender."--Men and Masculinities

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Book SynopsisMigration to new destinations in Europe and the United States has expanded dramatically over the past few decades. Within these destinations, there is a corresponding greater variety of ethnic, cultural, and/or religious diversity. This timely volume, The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations, considers the challenges posed by this proliferation of diversity for governments, majority populations, and immigrants.The contributors assess the effectiveness of the policy and political responses that have been spawned by increasing diversity in four types of new immigrant destinations: intermediate destination countriesIreland and Italy; culturally distinct regions experiencing new migration such as Catalonia in Spain or the American South; new destinations within traditional destination countries like the state of Utah and rural towns in England; and early migration cycle countries including Latvia and Poland. The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations examines how these new destinations f

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Book SynopsisThe refugee is conventionally considered a powerless figure, eagerly cast aside by both migrant and host communities. In his book, The Refugee Aesthetic, Timothy August investigates how and why a number of Southeast Asian American artists and writers have recently embraced the figure of the refugee as a particularly transformative position. He explains how these artists, theorists, critics, and culture-makers reconstruct their place in the American imagination by identifying and critiquing the underlying structures of power that create refugees in the contemporary world.August looks at the outside forces that shape refugee representation and how these expressions are received. He considers the visual legacy of the Southeast Asian refugee experience by analyzing music videos, graphic novels, and refugee artwork. August also examines the power of refugee literature, showing how and why Southeast Asian American writers look to the refugee position to disentangle their comTrade Review"[A] welcome contribution that expands the archives and critical methods related to Southeast Asian diasporas.... [It] fruitfully raise[s] the issue of how Asian American studies, critical refugee studies, and Vietnamese studies are related."—Journal of Vietnamese Studies

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Book SynopsisThe refugee is conventionally considered a powerless figure, eagerly cast aside by both migrant and host communities. In his book, The Refugee Aesthetic, Timothy August investigates how and why a number of Southeast Asian American artists and writers have recently embraced the figure of the refugee as a particularly transformative position. He explains how these artists, theorists, critics, and culture-makers reconstruct their place in the American imagination by identifying and critiquing the underlying structures of power that create refugees in the contemporary world.August looks at the outside forces that shape refugee representation and how these expressions are received. He considers the visual legacy of the Southeast Asian refugee experience by analyzing music videos, graphic novels, and refugee artwork. August also examines the power of refugee literature, showing how and why Southeast Asian American writers look to the refugee position to disentangle their comTrade Review"[A] welcome contribution that expands the archives and critical methods related to Southeast Asian diasporas.... [It] fruitfully raise[s] the issue of how Asian American studies, critical refugee studies, and Vietnamese studies are related."—Journal of Vietnamese Studies

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Book SynopsisDespite being characterized as a nation of immigrants, the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with new Latinx and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s. Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called the deportation terror. Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organiz

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Book SynopsisDespite being characterized as a nation of immigrants, the United States has seen a long history of immigrant rights struggles. In her timely book Against the Deportation Terror, Rachel Ida Buff uncovers this multiracial history. She traces the story of the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born (ACPFB) from its origins in the 1930s through repression during the early Cold War, to engagement with new Latinx and Caribbean immigrants in the 1970s and early 1980s. Functioning as a hub connecting diverse foreign-born communities and racial justice advocates, the ACPFB responded to various, ongoing crises of what they called the deportation terror. Advocates worked against repression, discrimination, detention, and expulsion in migrant communities across the nation at the same time as they supported reform of federal immigration policy. Prevailing in some cases and suffering defeats in others, the story of the ACPFB is characterized by persistence in multiracial organiz

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Book SynopsisNearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy.The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrantincorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism. Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provisi

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Book SynopsisNearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy.The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrantincorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism. Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provisi

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Book SynopsisEvery day, undocumented immigrants are rendered vulnerable through policies and practices that illegalize them. Moreover, they are socially constructed into dangerous criminals and taxpayer burdens who are undeserving of rights, dignity, and respect. Meghan Conley's timely book, Immigrant Rights in the Nuevo South, seeks to expose and challenge these dehumanizing ideas and practices byexamining the connections between repression and resistance for unauthorized immigrants in communities across the American Southeast. Conley uses on-the-ground interviews to describe fear and resistance from the perspective of those most affected by it. She shows how, for example, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act in Georgia prompted marches and an action that became a day of non-compliance. Likewise, an enforcement lottery that created unpredictable threats of arrest and deportation in the region mobilized immigrants to organize and demonstrate. However, as immigrant rights activists m

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Book SynopsisAs widespread environmental degradation threatens the basic human rights of a large proportion of the world's population, we are also confronting the worst migration crisis in the modern era. Emerging Threats to Human Rights searches among the interrelated causes of these overlapping crises. The editor and contributors to this timely anthology assess how environmental resources, state violence, and the deprivation of nationality/citizenship are linked to gain a better understanding of how human rights abuses intersect with patterns of migration. As some refugees flee violence at home, they arrive in an asylum country only to experience violence at the hands of the native population. Likewise, those denied citizenship rights in their country become vulnerable to human traffickers and other rights violations when they flee.Bringing together scholars of resource dilemmas, violence, and citizenship as well as lawyers and human rights practitioners, Emerging Threats to Human Rights begins

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