Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with the effects of migration policy making in Europe on migrants in the Global South and links insights on immobility to social theories of time to examine the human consequences of current migration dynamics from the perspectives of migrants themselves. Based on in-depth ethnographic research, this is an invaluable learning resource that aims to challenge current international migration politics and policy-making.Trade Review''A vibrant, in-depth and accurate account of the lived experiences of European migration control and its lasting effects on neighbouring countries.'' Federica Infantino, FNRS/Université Libre de Bruxelles''Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over ten years this beautifully written, must-read book enables us to rethink the fundamental tools of the study of migration, migration policy and politics.'' Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol‘’This important and insightful book unites analysis of EU externalization policies in Africa with ethnographic depth on sub-Saharan migrants’ lives in Morocco, offering fresh perspectives on ‘transit’ migration and involuntary immobility.’’ Nauja Kleist, Danish Institute for International Studies“Stock’s haunting and critical analysis of the negative consequences for migrants of hostile migration politics in Morocco is a must-read for scholars, students, and practitioners wishing to go beyond dominant and simplistic narratives about migration which routinely dehumanize those forcibly (im)mobilized.” Ethnic and Racial Studies JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; EU Externalization Policies and their Impact on Migrants in Morocco; Travelling Adventures: Migration as an Existential Quest; Arriving in Morocco: Becoming Trapped in a Context of Uncertainty; Facing Time and the Absurd; Migrant Communities in Morocco; Waiting in Desperate Hope; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. Migration flows have led to new governance challenges and, at times, populist political backlashes. A key driver of migration is environmental conflict and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. Bringing together world-leading researchers from across political science, environmental studies, economics and sociology, this urgent book uses a multifaceted theoretical and methodological approach to delve into core questions and concerns surrounding migration, climate change and conflict, providing invaluable insights into one of the most pressing global issues of our time.Trade Review“A timely investigation…at a moment when such debates as the classification of climate refugees or effective, rights‐based governance in a changing global environment are centerstage.” World Medical and Health PolicyTable of ContentsEnvironmental and resource-related conflicts, migration and governance; Tim Krieger, Diana Panke and Michael Pregernig Renewable resource scarcity, conflicts, and migration; Tobias Ide Extractive resources, conflicts, and migration; Indra de Soysa Climate change, conflicts, and migration; Lisa Thalheimer and Christian Webersik The individual level: Selection effects; Diane C. Bates The individual level: Sorting effects; Tim Krieger, Laura Renner and Lena Schmid Migration governance on the state level: Policy developments and effects; Marc Helbling Environmental migration governance on the regional level; Federica Cristani, Elisa Fornalé and Sandra Lavenex Migration governance at the global level: Intergovernmental organizations and environmental change-induced migration; Martin Geiger The link between forced migration and conflict; Seraina Rüegger and Heidrun Bohnet Conflict-prone minerals, forced migration and norm dynamics in the Kimberley Process and ICGLR; J. Andrew Grant On the nexus between environmental conflict, migration and governance ─ concluding remarks. - Günther G. Schulze

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Book SynopsisIn an increasingly globalized world, mobility is a new defining feature of our lives, livelihoods and work experiences. This book is a first in utilising transnational migration studies as a new theoretical framework in management and organization studies. Ozkazanc-Pan presents a much-needed new concept for understanding people, work and organizations in a world on the move while attending to growing inequality associated with work in changing societies.Table of ContentsIntroduction Transnational migration studies Transmigrants Hybrid selves Cosmopolitans Diversity Research After Mobility: Multiculturalism Inequalities on the Move Mobile methodologies Imagining a Transnational Future for Research on Differences

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people as they transition to adulthood under the shadow of migration control. Drawing on unique longitudinal data, it illuminates how they conceptualize wellbeing for themselves and others in contexts of prolonged and politically induced uncertainty. The authors offer an in-depth analysis of the experiences of over one hundred unaccompanied young migrants, primarily from Afghanistan, Albania and Eritrea. They show the lengths these young people will go to in pursuit of safety, security and the futures they aspire to. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book champions a new political economy analysis of wellbeing in the context of migration and demonstrates the urgent need for policy reform.Table of ContentsIntroduction Conceptualizing Wellbeing in the Context of Migration and Youth Transitions Capturing Wellbeing in Transition: An Alternative Approach ‘Iron Rod’ or ‘Colander’? Welfare Regimes in England and Italy The Pursuit of Safety and Freedom Legal Integrity and Recognition Identity and Belonging Constructing Viable Futures as ‘Adults’ Emotional and Mental Wellbeing Friendships, Connections and Relationships Transnational Family and Connections Conclusion

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Book SynopsisShanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of ‘chronomobilities,’ which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisShanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of ‘chronomobilities,’ which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts. Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics of the present day. These case studies, covering Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America, are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field. As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research.Table of Contents1 Introduction - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, Eva Magdalena Stambøl 2 Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of `Liberated Africans´ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808-1860 - Laura Rosanne Adderley and Sharla M. Fett 3 Colonization, Territorialization, and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856-1918 - Ella Fratantuono 4 Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta & Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania - Clayton Boeyink, Nina Sahraoui and Elsa Tyszler 5 Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa - Eva Magdalena Stambøl and Leonie Jegen 6 Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection - Lina Ewert 7 Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission - Lucy Mayblin 8 The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya - Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen 9 Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands - Peter Teunissen and Penny Koutrolikou 10 The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India - Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil 11 Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity - Phillip Cole 12 Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia - Aurora Vergara-Figueroa and Jerónimo Botero Marino 13 The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement - Felicity Atieno Okoth 14 Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, and Eva Magdalena Stambøl

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Book SynopsisThis book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feelings and Migrants Come and Go, and Some Stay/Stick Part 1: Empathy 1. Witnessing as an Expression of Critical Empathy: An Examination of Audience Responses to a Refugee-Themed Documentary 2. Jacinda Ardern and the Politics of Leadership Empathy: Towards Emotional Communities of Transformation Part 2: Aspiration 3. Asian Americans and Asian Australians on Screen: Aspiring to Centre the Community through Comedy 4. Aspiration for Collective Progress: Diversity and Digital Intimacy as Practised by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (US), Sadiq Khan (UK), and Jagmeet Singh (Canada) Part 3: Belonging 5. Refugee Storytellers Claim Belonging: Agency, Community and Change Through the Arts 6. Belonging as Affect: Towards Paradigms for Reciprocal Care in Community-Based Research Conclusion: Care and Resilience in The Face of Increasing Precarity: COVID-19 and Beyond

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Book SynopsisHow many questions could you answer in a pub quiz about British values? Designed to ensure new migrants have accepted British values and integrated, the UK's citizenship test is often portrayed as a bad pub quiz with answers few citizens know. With the launch of a new post-Brexit immigration system, this is a critical time to change the test. Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience of taking the test, and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries, to expose the test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a ‘bridge to citizenship’ which fosters greater inclusion and integration.Table of Contents1. A Bad Pub Quiz 2. Why Test for Citizenship? 3. A New Beginning 4. Not Learning from Mistakes 5. From Trivia to Trivial 6. Building Bridges and a Better Test 7. Conclusion and Recommendations

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. Amid the heavy politicisation and problematisation of male migrants in Europe, this ethnographic study casts new light on their experiences, struggles and everyday resistance. The author follows the journeys of those who seek, but have little hope of achieving, permanent residence status in European countries, tracking their successive migrations, detentions and deportations within and beyond the continent. She explores migrants’ tactics, the impact of precarity on their lives and the dual feelings of enduring hope and powerless vulnerability they experience. This is a sensitive and insightful analysis of how the European migration regime shapes, and is shaped by, migrants’ practices.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Intricate Migration Policies in a Heterogeneous Europe 3. Navigating Discourses: Masculinities, Racialisation and Vulnerabilities 4. Navigating Migration Control: Deromanticising Mobility 5. Navigating Uncertainty: Illegibility, Rumours and Hope 6. Navigating the Law: Tactics of Avoidance and Appropriation 7. Conclusion: Endurance and Exhaustion

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Book SynopsisThe word ‘refugee’ is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people. For lawyers, the main legal reference point is the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee law. Including an introduction to the historical and legal context, Colin Yeo draws on his experience as an immigration barrister to explain the present-day legal framework for global refugee protection. Chapters consider: • well-founded fear; • persecution; • the loss of refugee status and exclusion; • the rights of refugees; • and state responses to refugee claims. The book includes studies of key legal cases, reviews the successes and failures of the Convention and looks ahead to the future, including the impact of climate change and the Global Compact on Refugees. Communicating important legal concepts in an approachable way, this is an essential guide for students, lawyers and non-specialists.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Legal Framework 2. Well-founded Fear 3. Being Persecuted 4. Protection and Relocation 5. Reasons for Persecution 6. Cessation and Exclusion 7. Rights of Refugees 8. Refugee Status Determination Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration corridor. Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the ‘migration governance complex.’ They offer insights not only into the actors involved in the different components of migration governance, but also into the varying ways of interpreting and explaining the meaning and value of these interactions. Together, they enable readers to better understand migration in this important region, while also providing a model for analyzing global migration governance in practice in different parts of the world.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Mapping and Theorizing Migration Governance: Insights From the South-to-West Asian Migration Corridor Nicolas Blarel and Crystal A. Ennis Part II: Levels and Forms of Migration Governance 2. Gendered Mobility and Multi-Scalar Governance Models: Exploring the Case of Nurse Migration From India to the Gulf Margaret Walton-Roberts, S Irudaya Rajan, and Jolin Joseph 3. Understanding Irregularity in Legal Frameworks of National, Bilateral, Regional, and Global Migration Governance: The Nepal to Gulf Migration Corridor Anurag Devkota 4. State and Non-State Actors in Subnational Migration Governance from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to the Gulf: A Comparative Study C.S. Akhil and Aarathi Ganga Part III: Private Authorities and Transnational Actors 5. Two Bad Places at Once: Pakistani Labour Migrants and the Transnational Recruitment Industry to the Gulf Zahra Babar 6. “We Sent Our Sons across the Seven Rivers”: Tracing the Migratory Network and the Risky Migration of Bangladeshi Fishermen to Oman Marie Percot Part IV: Contestation and Absences in Migration Governance 7. Contested Governance and Sovereignty in the Kerala-Dubai Migration Corridor Crystal A. Ennis, and Nicolas Blarel 8. Kafala and Social Reproduction: Migration Governance Regimes and Labour Relations in the Gulf Faisal Hamadah 9. Invisiblized Migration, Unaccounted Work: The Governance of Women’s Migration for Paid Domestic Work From Nepal and Sri Lanka to the Gulf Neha Wadhawan Part V: Conclusion 10. Bottom-up Politics of Labour Migration: Perspectives From the South-to-West Asia Corridor for a More Inclusive Governance M. Stella Morgana

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Book SynopsisIn times of increasing migration flows, Greece is often viewed as the gateway to Europe for significantly high numbers of asylum-seeking individuals, including unaccompanied minors. Between 2016 and 2020, under Greek law unaccompanied children were to be temporarily placed in a protective environment upon irregular entry, pending referral to suitable accommodation. However, in reality they were being subjected to detention procedures instead. Giving voice to migrant children and professionals throughout, the author combines legal analysis with criminology and unveils the discrepancy between the law and practice. The findings demonstrate that unaccompanied children in Greece are criminalised through detention processes, while being deprived of the right to be heard. This book promotes child-friendly practices in the international migration setting, with a view to safeguarding the fundamental rights of unaccompanied minors experiencing detention upon arrival in host countries.Table of ContentsDisclaimer List of Diagrams and Tables List of Abbreviations (in Alphabetical Order) List of International Legislation (in Chronological Order) List of National Legislation (in Chronological Order) Abstract Notes on Author Recent Publications Preface Chapter 1: Introducing the Problem Statement I. From Current Aims… II. …to Chapter Analysis Chapter 2: Children’s Rights and Methodologies I. Focusing on the Right To Be Heard II. Achieving a Phenomenological Result III. Conducting Ipa in the Context of Migration Chapter 3: Criminals in Waiting I. Entering the Country Irregularly II. Addressing Detention Issues Chapter 4: Under the Research Lens I. Exploring Crimmigration II. Voicing Children Chapter 5: Recruitment and Data Collection I. Listening to the Minors’ Insights II. Witnessing the Practitioners’ Experience III. Combining Ipa With Focus Groups IV. Holding a Focus Group Session Chapter 6: Emergent Discussion Themes I. Concerns on Hygiene Matters II. Problematic Detention Setting III. Absence of Proper Services IV. Incidents of Abusive Behaviour Chapter 7: Ultimate Reflections I. Understanding Detention II. Implementing Changes Chapter 8: Reaching a Conclusion I. From Final Remarks… II. …to Future Research Paths References

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Book SynopsisDrawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, this book sheds light on the friendships, emotions, hopes and fears involved in establishing life as Europeans in Asia. It demonstrates how migration to Asian business centres has become a way of distinction and an alternative route of middle-class reproduction for young Europeans during that period. The perceived insecurities of life in the crisis-ridden EU result in these migrants’ onward migration or prolonged stays in Asia. Capturing the changing roles of Singapore and Japan as migration destinations, this pioneering work makes the case for EU citizens’ aspired lifestyles and professional employment that is no longer only attainable in Europe or the West.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: Spatial Mobility to Asia: Moving Ahead by Moving Out 1. The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations 2. Destination Singapore: The Dream of a Cosmopolis 3. Global City Tokyo: Japan’s Diversification from Within PART II: Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation 4. Singapore: Professionalising the Self 5. Tokyo: (Dis)Embedding in the Japanese Labour Market 6. Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens PART III: (Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind 7. Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home 8. Belonging through Romantic Relationships Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMichelle Peterie’s revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia’s onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee. As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia’s onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Studying Immigration Detention Immigration Detention in Australia Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons Bureaucratic Violence Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment Care and Resistance Forced Relocations Reverberating Harms Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair

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Book SynopsisMichelle Peterie’s revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia’s onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee. As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia’s onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Studying Immigration Detention Immigration Detention in Australia Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons Bureaucratic Violence Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment Care and Resistance Forced Relocations Reverberating Harms Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair

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Book SynopsisThe turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational level as individual exit behaviour, and seldom in relation to the cross-border mobility practices of migrant workers within and without the workplace. Drawing from labour process theory, the autonomy of migration, social reproduction, and industrial relations, this book explores the relationship between labour mobility and international migration under a global and historical perspective. Uncovering both the individual and collective actions by migrants inside and outside worker organizations, the authors develop a new understanding of migrants’ everyday mobilities as creative and life-sustaining strategies of social reproduction and labour conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Migration and Labour Turnover 1. Theorizing Labour Mobility Power 2. The Logistics of Living Labour 3. Enclaves of Differentiated Labour 4. The Field of Social Reproduction 5. Migrant Organizing Conclusion: Rethinking Worker Power Through Mobility

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Book SynopsisSyrian refugees who gained asylum in Germany following the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 quickly entered into an ‘integration regime’ which produced a binary notion of ‘well integrated’ migrants versus refugees falling short of the narrow social and political definitions of a ‘good’ refugee. Etzel’s rich ethnographic study shows how refugees navigated this conditional inclusion. While some asylum seekers gained international protection, others were left with limited agency to demand government accountability for the ever-moving target of integration. Putting a spotlight on the inconsistencies and failings of a universal approach to integration, this is an important contribution to the wider field of migration and anthropology of the state.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Arrival, Processing, Status 1. The Path to Asylum 2. Asylum Decisions and What Followed Thereafter Part 2: Integration 3. Young Refugee Men: Saarbrücken 4. Families: Osnabrück and Hameln Part 3: Stagnation, Independence, Dependence 5. Institutionalized Integration: Munich and Kassel 6. Pathways Forward and Pathways Uncertain Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth investigation into the digitizsation processes of Europe's border regime. With a focus on the European Union agency eu-LISA, one of the most significant actors in the digital border regime, it shows how sociotechnical imaginations drives the future of borders and European governance of mobility.

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Book SynopsisRelocating Identities in Latin American Cultures explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garces has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history.The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Cities & Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Exile & Identity. Re-readings of Gender Representation. Literature & Globalisation. Index.

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Book SynopsisDiverse perspectives and groundbreaking research on gender and family issues affecting Muslim communities throughout North AmericaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge Part I: Values, Structure, and Variation in the Muslim Family 1. Islamic Values among American Muslims Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith 2. Immigrant Palestinian Women Evaluate Their Lives Louise Cainkar 3. Turkish-American Patterns of Intermarriage Barbara Bilge 4. Iranian Immigrant Women as Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles Arlene Dallalfar 5. Parents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North America Nimat Hafez Barazangi 6. Sex and the Single Shi'ite: Attitudes toward Mut'a Marriage in an American Lebanese Shiite Community Linda Walbridge 7. South Asian Families in the United States: Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian Muslims Nilufer Ahmed, Gladis Kaufman, and Shamim Naim 8. The International Family: A Case Study from South Asia Gladis Kaufman and Shamim Naim Part II: Practical Issues for Families 9. Health Issues among Muslim Families in the Dearborn Michigan Area Anahid Kulwicki 10. Knowledge and Perceptions of AIDS among Arab Muslims Anahid Kuwicki and Penny S. Cass 11. Challenges to the Arab-American Family and ACCESS, a Local Community Center Barbara C. Aswad and Nancy Adadow Gray 12. Ethnicity, Marriage, and Role Conflict: The Dilemma of a Second Generation Arab-American Jon Swanson 13. Adolescent Arab Girls in an American High School Charlene Eisenlohr 14. Care of the Elderly among Muslim Families Mary Cay Sengstock Part III: Immigrants' Life Stories 15. Life Experiences of Five Immigrants Linda Walbridge Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at trends in North American internal migration. This volume gathers established and new scholars working on North American immigration, transmigration, internal migration, and citizenship whose work analyzes the development of migrant and state-level institutions as well as migrant networks. With contemporary migration research most often focused on the development of transnational communities and the ways international migrants maintain relationships with their sending region that sustain the circularflow of people, ideas, and traditions across national boundaries it is useful to compare these to similar patterns evident within the terrain of internal migration. To date, however, international and internal migration studies have unfolded in relative isolation from one another with each operating within these distinct fields of expertise rather than across them. Although there has been some important linking, there has not been a recent major consideration of human migration that works across and within the various borders of the North American continent. Thus, the volume presents a variety of chapters that seek to consider human migration in comparative perspective across the internal/international divide. Marc S. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University; Donna R. Gabbaccia is the Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh; James R. Grossman is theVice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Contributors: Josef Barton, Wallace Best, Donna Gabbaccia, James Gregory, Tobias Higbie, Mae Ngai, Walter Nugent, Annelise Orleck, Kunal Parker, Kimberly Phillips, Bruno Ramirez, Marc Rodriguez Repositioning North American Migration History is a volume in Studies in Comparative History, sponsored by Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center forHistorical Studies.Trade ReviewThis collection, partly in homage to Dirk Hoerder, explores a variety of migratory experiences in and to North America in ways that provide a distinctive take on events that scholars might otherwise segregate, thus missing some rich comparisons. . . . Community membership is far more complex and contested than . . . most political theorists imagine. The essays in this volume consistently reveal that lesson, and those wishing to explore its implications will find this book especially provocative. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, March 2006 Repositioning North American Migration History is an excellent collection of scholarship that paves the way for future studies. . . . Similar to recent scholarly efforts to . . . move beyond fixed notions of the nation-state to imagine a wider geographic and conceptual frame of community, this volume enriches and expands our study of the history of North American migrants. -- Mark Overmyer-Velazquez * LABOR HISTORY, August 2007 *Table of ContentsCrossing Borders, Countering Exceptionalism - Walter Nugent Borderland Studies and Migration: The Canada/U.S. Case - Bruno Ramirez Constructing North America: Railroad Building and the Rise of Continental Migrations, 1850-1914 - Donna Gabaccia The Southern Diaspora: Twentieth-Century America's Great Migrations - James Gregory "Like the Flock of Swallows That Come in the Springtime": The Uneasy Place of Hobo Workers in Midwestern Economy and CultureCulture - Tobias Higbie Borderland Discontents: Mexican Migration in Regional Contexts, 1880-1930 - Josef Barton Braceros, "Wetbacks," and the National Boundaries of Class - Mae Ngai "War" What Is It Good For?": Conscription and Migration in Black America - Kimberly Phillips Thinking Space, Thinking Community: Lessons from Early American Immigration History - Kunal Parker The South and the City: Black Southern Migrants, Storefront Churches, and the Rise of a Religious Diaspora - Wallace Best Migrants and Citizens: Mexican American Migrant Workers and the War on Poverty in an American City - Marc S. Rodriguez I Decided I'd Marry the First Man Who Asked: Gendering Black Migration From Cotton Country to the Desert Southwest - Annelise Orleck

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Book SynopsisExamines the gendered dimension of Progressive-Era debates about literacy and immigration in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the logic that shaped immigration restriction policies throughout the twentieth century. Jeanne Petit argues that the literacy test debate was about much more than reading ability or the virtues of education. It also tapped into broader concerns about the relationship between gender, sexuality, race, and American national identity. The congressmen, reformers, journalists, and pundits whosupported the literacy test hoped to stem the tide of southern and eastern European immigration. To make their case, these restrictionists portrayed illiterate immigrant men as dissipated, dependent paupers, immigrant women as brood mares who bore too many children, and both as a eugenic threat to the nation's racial stock. Opponents of the literacy test argued that the new immigrants were muscular, virile workers and nurturing, virtuous mothers who wouldstrengthen the race and nation. Moreover, the debaters did not simply battle about what social reformer Grace Abbott called "the sort of men and women we want." They also defined as normative the men and women they were -- unquestionably white, unquestionably American, and unquestionably fit to shape the nation's future. Jeanne D. Petit is Associate Professor of History at Hope College.Trade ReviewJeanne D. Petit's new monograph on Progressive Era debates over immigration restriction through the lens of the literary test is a well-researched, thoughtful, and provocative addition to the historiography. Petit is one of the first historians of this subject to focus on the intersection of gender and race as central, intertwined elements in the arguments for and against immigrant restriction. * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY *The xenophobia exacerbated after the 9/11 attacks in America brings to sharp focus current immigration policies. . . [The Men and Women We Want] represents a timely contribution to the study of such policies by focusing on the debates about immigration restriction in America in the late nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. . . thus [the book] can become a point of reference in contemporary debates over immigration. * EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES *In her insightful new book. . . Jeanne Petit offers a thorough and detailed history of the immigration literacy test, from its genesis in the 1890s to its passage in 1917. [This book] is an essential contribution to the scholarship on the vital policy issue of the literacy test. . . . [It] sheds new light on the rise of restrictionist immigration policies in the United States. * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES *Petit has added notably to the understanding of this historical controversy by elucidating the influences of sex and gender as well as the activities of female participants. . . . [The book offers] innovative interpretations of early-20th-century US reaction to its increasingly diverse population. Recommended. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisIn the previous century, a large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents. George R. Nielsen, in this revised edition of his classic study of Wendish migration, carefully describes the details of immigration and weighs the possible explanations for the exodus, the settlement, and acculturation patterns that resulted. The earliest emigrants traveled to Australia, but despite efforts to encourage unity, they were unsuccessful, and no single, large Wendish settlement was formed. The largest number migrated to Texas, where at Serbin, under the leadership of pastor Jan Kilian, they formed a Wendish community, retaining their own language in church, school, and home. Local agricultural conditions, however, proved too poor to sustain many people, so the Wends of Texas also scattered and eventually lost most of their ethnic distinctiveness. Smaller numbers of Wends migrated to Canada, Nebraska, and South Africa. These Wends generally settled among Germans and were absorbed by the local German communities. This work promises to continue as the standard reference on the overseas resettlement of these distinctive people.Trade Review"One of the many contributions that Nielsen makes in the book is to demonstrate the complexity of the motives impelling a group of people to immigrate to another land.... Nielsen has carefully researched a complex topic, and his book will aid in filling in the mosaic of American and Australian immigration." - Southwestern Historical Quarterly "... perhaps the best [book] that has been published on this tiny, little-known group." - Western Historical Quarterly"

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Book SynopsisAs wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding the currents of a neoliberal wave, these immigrants became the center of vigorous public controversies around planning, home building, multiculturalism, and the future of Vancouver. Because of their class status and their financial capacity to remake space in their own ways, they became the key to a reshaping of Vancouver through struggles that are necessarily both global and local in context, involving global-real estate enterprises, the Canadian state, city residents, and others. In her examination of the story of the integration of transnational migrants from Hong Kong, Katharyne Mitchell draws out the myriad ways in which liberalism is profoundly spatial, varying greatly depending on the geographical context. In doing so, Mitchell shows why understanding the historically and geographically contingent nature of liberal thought and practice is crucial, particularly as we strive to understand the ongoing societies' transition to neoliberalism. Author note: Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography and the Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities at the University of Washington.Trade Review"[A] fascinating account .What is particularly interesting about Mitchell's work is her nuanced analysis of the crosscutting of class and 'racial' alliances that emerged.[T]his is an excellent read that historians, sociologists and geographers will find very useful." The Canadian Historical Review "The chapters of the book build skillfully on each other to create a coherently structured and generally well-argued thesis..[Crossing the Neoliberal Line is] outstanding in its attempt to inform, through grounded empirical research, some of the key social and political issues facing Western liberal democracies over the past two decades. It is essential reading for all with a broad interest in contemporary immigration in the West as well as those with a more particular interest in the urban consequences of transnational, transpacific forms of mobility." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers "A notable achievement of Katharyne Mitchell's book is to employ a sophisticated political economy while simultaneously avoiding many of the dangers of abstraction, for her grounded study of immigrant and capital flows between Hong Kong and Vancouver is attentive to the multi-layering of place and to multiple causes...Mitchell provides a compelling story...the empirical account is interwoven with illuminating theoretical materials, placing local events into broader conceptual territory. The interpretation that emerges is bold and frequently insightful...This is an impressive book that invites debate...It will generate stimulating seminar discussion and amply deserves a broad reading." Ethnic and Racial Studies "In this elegantly written study. .Mitchell does a wonderful job of challenging the reader to question what he or she really believes in terms of social liberalism, neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and many of the other 'isms' prevalent in contemporary social science literature. One walks away from this book with a new appreciation for how there are no easy assessments of the costs and benefits of, and implications of globalization for, the urban milieu." Environment and Planning A "analytically rich, empirically detailed and ethnographically grounded - Crossing the Neo-Liberal Line is a major accomplishment: the text is accessible, theoretically sophisticated, well documented, and grounded in an in-depth and complex understanding of social change and urban politics in Vancouver. Katharyne Mitchell is to be commended for writing an insightful book that deserves to be widely read." The Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "Crossing the Neoliberal Line is a beautifully written and analytically rich book. Katharyne Mitchell's innovative spatial ethnography sheds important light on the politics of racial formation, neighborhood transformation, and multiculturalism in Vancouver. She shows how the networks and practices of middle-class and wealthy Chinese transnational migrants to this Pacific Rim metropolis have interrupted and complicated constructions of 'home,' 'citizenship,' and 'cultural difference.' Her book is a pleasure to read and makes an important contribution to urban and transnational studies." --Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis, and author of Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization "A vivid account of the rise of a Pacific Rim city, Katharyne Mitchell's ethnography of transnational migration and urban change in Vancouver demonstrates how both social liberalism and neoliberalism are constituted in 'actually existing' spaces by real people. Theoretically rigorous and empirically rich, scholars of neoliberalism, globalization, transnationalism, and multiculturalism should all read this fascinating book." --Wendy Larner, Sociology, University of Auckland "In this lucid and compelling 'spatial ethnography,' Katharyne Mitchell wrestles the ideology of neoliberal globalism to earth. In the process, this innovative and theoretically rich book takes the debate on neoliberalism to a new place, exposing the subtle intersections between social liberalism and market fundamentalism in the real, lived spaces of the city." --Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This is a book you will want to read cover to cover--and indeed we did. While we were already familiar with some of the empirical cases from previous articles, it held our attention with its theoretical sophistication and engaging and lucid writing style...Mitchell is an exceptionally gifted scholar who, as this book shows, brings considerable theoretical insights to questions of how space is implicated in contemporary processes of neoliberalization, globalization, and transformations of narratives of nation and citizenship. She shows an excellent understanding of the coimplication of these processes, a deep empirical knowledge of shifts in these processes, and a talent for writing a compelling and engaging narrative that is rare among geographers." Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Neo/Liberal Disjunctures 2. Vancouver Goes Global 3. The Spatial Logic and Limits of Multiculturalism 4. Disturbing the Liberal Territory of Land Governance 5. Domesticity, Race, and Uncanny Homes 6. Conclusion: The Urban Spatial Politics of Liberal Formations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow the crowded neighbourhoods of New YorkTrade Review"Yee's study of the ethnoracial dynamics of lower Manhattan in this [pre-1930] period is well conceived, and well written. She convincingly dispels the myth of isolated ethnic enclaves populating the neighborhoods of what are commonly referred to as Chinatown and the Lower East Side by presenting a wealth of evidence to demonstrate the interweaving of the lives of people from differing cultural backgrounds. An Immigrant Neighborhood provides a lovely balance of interpretive material and the reconstruction of individual life stories." -Marilyn Halter, Boston University, author of Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity and Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Forming Households, Families, and Communities 2. Building Commercial Relations 3. Sustaining Life and Caring for the Dead 4. Mixing with the Sinners: The Anti-vice Movement 5. On (Un)Common Ground: Religious Politics in Settlements and Missions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 122

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Book SynopsisHow the crowded neighbourhoods of New YorkTrade Review"Yee's study of the ethnoracial dynamics of lower Manhattan in this [pre-1930] period is well conceived, and well written. She convincingly dispels the myth of isolated ethnic enclaves populating the neighborhoods of what are commonly referred to as Chinatown and the Lower East Side by presenting a wealth of evidence to demonstrate the interweaving of the lives of people from differing cultural backgrounds. An Immigrant Neighborhood provides a lovely balance of interpretive material and the reconstruction of individual life stories." -Marilyn Halter, Boston University, author of Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity and Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Forming Households, Families, and Communities 2. Building Commercial Relations 3. Sustaining Life and Caring for the Dead 4. Mixing with the Sinners: The Anti-vice Movement 5. On (Un)Common Ground: Religious Politics in Settlements and Missions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 122

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Book SynopsisFrom one of the country's "most distinguished and most historically minded social scientists," a collection of essays on the importance of comparative cultural analysisTrade Review"Ever since the late 1960s…Aristide Zolberg has crafted wonderfully engaging essays that have profoundly altered our understanding of politics and society in Africa, Europe and the United States. His writing has been deeply…global, especially with its focus on the large-scale movement of populations and their reception in new locations….Zolberg has been one of our most creative and informed scholars in the social sciences, at work on issues that really matter." —Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University"Each of the chapters in How Many Exceptionalisms? is a major academic contribution on its own terms. They show us how Zolberg has extricated key conceptual tools from the complicated architectures of social and political life—the management of diversity, the interactions of culture and history, the role of state formation in creating refugees, the limits of ‘crisis’ perspectives, and more. Together this selection of articles is one of those rare cases where the whole is indeed more than the sum of its parts. As the foremost contributor to macrohistorical analysis of international migration, Zolberg knows how to choose his essays: their sequence is a narrative that shows us how he got there, and does so with a grand geopolitical sweep."—Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages"[A] thoughtful reflection on macroanalysis.... Zolberg has presented us with a deeply global book. Its geographic sweep, historical depth, and theoretical eclecticism will surely nourish our curiosities about the past and present."—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Explorations in Political Macroanalysis 1. Patterns of National Integration 2. Moments of Madness 3. The Making of Flemings and Walloons: Belgium, 1830-1914 4. International Migration Policies in a Changing World System 5. Origins of the Modern World System: A Missing Link 6. The Formation of New States as a Refugee-Generating Process 7. How Many Exceptionalisms? 8. The Great Wall Against China: Responses to the First Immigration Crisis, 1885-1925 9. Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy 10. Why Islam Is Like Spanish: Cultural Incorporation in Eurpoe and the United States (co-authored by Long Litt Woon) 11. International Engagement and American Democracy: A Comparative Perspective Index

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Book SynopsisHow the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each sideTrade Review"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States–Mexico relations. The moving stories—of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating—are very compelling and have broad appeal."—Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon Table of ContentsContentsForeword, by Arthur Schmidt Acknowledgments Introduction: Lived Borders 1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier 2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home 3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse 4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker 5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor 6. A Caregiver Commuter 7. A Border Acrobat 8. The Mexicali Panther 9. A Young Mexican American 10. Guarding the American Dream Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each sideTrade Review"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States-Mexico relations. The moving stories-of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating-are very compelling and have broad appeal." -Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and OregonTable of ContentsContents Foreword, by Arthur Schmidt Acknowledgments Introduction: Lived Borders 1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier 2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home 3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse 4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker 5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor 6. A Caregiver Commuter 7. A Border Acrobat 8. The Mexicali Panther 9. A Young Mexican American 10. Guarding the American Dream Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA fresh, responsible approach to addressing undocumented Mexican migration through substantial investment in Mexico's infrastructure and economyTrade Review"In this broad, comprehensive overview, Hing packages and re-packages ongoing debates about the forces that impel Mexican migrants to move northward... What makes the book special is the way Hing builds Canada (a NAFTA beneficiary) and Ireland into the puzzle of optimal and ethical policy strategies... Summing Up: Recommended." - ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Time to Think Broadly 1. The NAFTA Effect 2. Revolutionary Mexico: A Brief Economic and Political History 3. Canadian Stability and Responsibility 4. The European Union Strategy 5. Celtic Tiger: The Irish Example 6. The Failed Enforcement Approach: "There Ain't No Reason to Treat Them Like Animals" 7. Contemplating North American Integration and Other Alternatives Epilogue: The Ethical Border: Thinking Outside the (Big) Box Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA novel and interdisciplinary volume on the dynamics of migration with comparative case studies of the Caribbean experienceTrade Review"It is rare for an edited collection to cohere from cover to cover. Readers will find a great diversity of voices challenging canonical discourses on assimilation, immigrant incorporation, and identity formation, all in one volume. The research reported in Caribbean Migration would have required an in-depth, multi-sited, multi-lingual, mixed-method comparative study. Scholars of migration will be grateful the three editors decided instead to compile these essays into a well-organized, interdisciplinary volume." —Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Caribbean Migrations to Western Europe and the United States 1. Theorizing anout and beyond Transnational ProcessesPart I: State Policies and Migrants' Strategies 2. Colonial Racism, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: The Lessons of the Migration Experiences of French-Speaking Caribbean Populations 3. From the Periphery to the Core: A case Study on the Migration and Incorporation of Recent Caribbean Immigrants in the Netherlands 4. Puerto Ricans in the United States and French West Indian Immigrants in FrancePart II: Identities, Countercultures, and Ethnic Resilience 5. Puerto Rican Migration and Settlement in South Florida: Ethnic Identities and Transnational Spaces 6. Racialized Culture and Translocal Counter-Publics: Rumba and Social Disorder in New York and Havana 7. The Making of Suriland: The Binational Development of a Balck Community between Tropics and the Noth SeaPart III: Incorporation, Entrepreneurship, and Household Strategies 8. Cubans and Dominicans: Is There a Latino Experience in the United States? 9. Dominican Women, Heads of Households in Spain 10. Identity and Kinship: Caribbean Transnational NarrativesAbout the Contributors index

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Book SynopsisGetting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico.

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Book SynopsisGetting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico.

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Book SynopsisAlthough they are among the most important sources of the history of the American Southwest, the lives of ordinary immigrants from Mexico have rarely been recorded. Educated and hardworking, Luis G. Gómez came to Texas from Mexico as a young man in the mid-1880s. He made his way around much of South Texas, finding work on the railroad and in other businesses, observing the people and ways of the region and committing them to memory for later transcription. Few of the 150,000 immigrants in the last half of the nineteenth century left written records of their experiences, but Gómez wrote his memoir and had it privately published in Spanish in 1935. Crossing the Rio Grande presents an English edition of that memoir, translated by the author’s grandson, Guadalupe Valdez Jr., with assistance from Javier Villarreal, a professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. An introduction by Thomas H. Kreneck explains the book’s value to scholarship and describes what has been learned of the publication history of the original Spanish-language volume. “Gómez says explicitly in the prologue to his memoirs that the purpose of recording the events of his life is to entertain; however, his memoirs accomplish much more than this as they fill a void in the history of the American Southwest of the late nineteenth century.”—Journal of the American Studies Association for TexasTrade Review“Luis G. Gómez says explicitly in the prologue to his memoirs that the purpose of recording the events of his life is to entertain; however, his memoirs accomplish much more than this as they fill a void in the history of the American Southwest of the late nineteenth century. Mexican immigrants formed an important part of the Southwest at that time, although few recorded accounts of the lives of immigrants from this era remain.”--Journal of the American Studies Association for Texas |“In 1884 a young man crossed from Matamoros to Brownsville fleeing conflict in Mexico and seeking his fortune in Texas. As a scenario this has no particularly unusual traits. In fact, it’s almost commonplace. What makes the tale engaging in this case is the voice telling it. A distinct personality resonates throughout this delightful book and pulls the read back in time to contemplate many of the same elements that make up the contemporary immigration debate.”--Southwestern Historical Quarterly |" . . . a vital contribution to the growing literature on Mexicans and Mexican Americans. . . . unique because few documents by Mexicans of this period have been found or published."--Journal of Southern History

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Book SynopsisEssays exploring the effect of time on translation studies.This volume brings together 12 essays on the relation between temporality and translation, engaging in both theoretical reflection and consideration of concrete case studies. The essays can be read independently, but three major themes run through them and facilitate a discussion about the many ways in which the theoretical and practical consideration of temporality may provide new insights and research directions for translation studies.The first main theme is temporal metaphors for translation. Why do so few metaphors that describe translation relate to time? How have the few metaphors relating to time that have been used impacted the development of the field? What new metaphors might be useful?The second theme is the relation between translation and modernity as a new experience of temporality. In China, as in many countries outside Europe, the passage to modernity has been inextricably bound up in the act of translation, either of European texts into Chinese as a way of "importing" modernity or the translation of Chinese texts into European languages as a gauge of quality and a sign that China has become modern.Third is the translation of temporality and the competing temporalities of source and target texts. How are the nuances of temporality translated, and how do any shifts that occur affect the meaning of the translation? Different cultures have different concepts of time; Nida famously gave the example of a South American language where the past is seen as existing in front of a person while the future is behind them, because they know ("see") the past but cannot know the future. Several essays engage with these and related issues.

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Book SynopsisKhabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.Table of Contents Chapter 1: Peyaara se Pyaar or the Love for Guava Chapter 2: Maachher Bazaar, Fish for Life Chapter 3: Feeding the Future Ex-in-Laws or Mr. and Mrs. Mohgan’s Able Assistant Chapter 4: In Search of Goat Curry Chapter 5: When Indira Died Chapter 6: Dessert in Kolkata Summers: Search for Naru Chapter 7: Orange, Green, and White: An Indian Marriage Chapter 8: Of Papers, Pekoe, Poetry, and Protests in 2019 India Chapter 9: Memory and What Makes a Family Chapter 10: The Rituals of the Great Pause

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance, embodiment, and nuances of racialized identities (blackened bodies) in empirical contexts. He looks into the durability and (in)flexibility of race and racial discourse through an imbricated and multidimensional understanding of racial identity and racial positioning.In doing so, Saucier examines how Cape Verdean youth negotiate their identity within the popular fabrication of “multiracial America.” He also explores the ways in which racial blackness has come to be lived by Cape Verdean youth in everyday life and how racialization feeds back into the experience of these youth classified as black through a matrix of social and material settings.Saucier examines how ascriptions of blackness and forms of black popular culture inform subjectivities. The author also examines hip-hop culture to see how it is used as a site where new (and old) identities of being, becoming, and belonging are fashioned and reworked. Necessarily Black explores race and how Cape Verdean youth think and feel their identities into existence, while keeping in mind the dynamics and politics of racialization, mixed-race identities, and anti-blackness.

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Book SynopsisFor most migrants, developing communication strategies in host countries is vital for finding social connections, navigating the pressures of assimilation, and maintaining links to their original cultures. Migrant World Making explores this process of constructing a homeplace by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to connect with multiple communities. Since what it means to be a migrant differs from person to person, the contributors to this edited collection showcase numerous practices migrants adopt to communicate and connect with others as they forge their own identities in globalized yet highly nationalistic societies. With varying aspirations and motives for seeking new homes, migrants build communities by telling stories, engaging in social media activism, protesting, writing scholarly criticism, and using many other modes of communication. To match this variety, the transnational scholars represented here use a wide array of rhetorical, cultural, and communication methodologies and epistemologies to describe what the experience of migration means to those who have lived it.

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Book SynopsisThe roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms Settlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding, the influenza epidemic of 1918, economic depressions, and two World Wars. Many of these houses still exist in the original neighborhoods where they confront the problems of today and advocate for their communities. Christodora House, founded in 1897 as “The Young Women’s Settlement,” played an important role in the life of immigrants and other residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For over 50 years, residents and volunteers at Christodora House provided classes, clubs, recreational activities, and medical and dental clinics for thousands of New Yorkers, and then continued to operate programs out of public housing and other locations for more than two decades. The building at 143 Avenue B, now housing condominiums, has had a tumultuous history since 1948 but still stands, towering over its tenement neighborhood in the East Village. Christodora Inc. is now a nonprofit foundation with offices in Midtown Manhattan, whose staff works with underserved New Yorkers, including youth in the public school system, carrying on a long, distinguished history of service to the city and country.Trade Review"“More than just the history of one building or organization, Skyscraper Settlement provides an engaging examination of a profoundly important movement – largely shaped by women – that offers a hopeful message for today. Christodora's evolution from its founding in 1897 shows how flexibility and practical idealism can produce powerful change for the common good. Milambiling's enthusiasm is palpable as she sets the scene with tales of her archival sleuthing and insights gained from the words of the women who created this remarkable organization . . . This book is an inspiring read for those who seek a caring society founded on nonprofit innovation partnered with effective service delivery by the government.”" -- Sarah Peskin * Board Chair, the Frances Perkins Center *"“A creative and illuminating synthesis of local and large-scale history. It masterfully fuses a fascinating account of a settlement house in New York’s Lower East Side, from its founding by two young middle-class women in 1897 to the present, into a wider inquiry on urbanization, migration, progressivist ideology, religion-based philanthropy, and inter-class and ethnic encounters. In the process, the author fittingly pays tribute to forgotten individuals who, regardless of the prejudices of their times, devoted much of their lives to helping others.”" -- José C. Moya * Professor of History, Barnard College; Director, the Forum on Migration *

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Book SynopsisThe roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms Settlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding, the influenza epidemic of 1918, economic depressions, and two World Wars. Many of these houses still exist in the original neighborhoods where they confront the problems of today and advocate for their communities. Christodora House, founded in 1897 as “The Young Women’s Settlement,” played an important role in the life of immigrants and other residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For over 50 years, residents and volunteers at Christodora House provided classes, clubs, recreational activities, and medical and dental clinics for thousands of New Yorkers, and then continued to operate programs out of public housing and other locations for more than two decades. The building at 143 Avenue B, now housing condominiums, has had a tumultuous history since 1948 but still stands, towering over its tenement neighborhood in the East Village. Christodora Inc. is now a nonprofit foundation with offices in Midtown Manhattan, whose staff works with underserved New Yorkers, including youth in the public school system, carrying on a long, distinguished history of service to the city and country.Trade Review"“More than just the history of one building or organization, Skyscraper Settlement provides an engaging examination of a profoundly important movement – largely shaped by women – that offers a hopeful message for today. Christodora's evolution from its founding in 1897 shows how flexibility and practical idealism can produce powerful change for the common good. Milambiling's enthusiasm is palpable as she sets the scene with tales of her archival sleuthing and insights gained from the words of the women who created this remarkable organization . . . This book is an inspiring read for those who seek a caring society founded on nonprofit innovation partnered with effective service delivery by the government.”" -- Sarah Peskin * Board Chair, the Frances Perkins Center *"“A creative and illuminating synthesis of local and large-scale history. It masterfully fuses a fascinating account of a settlement house in New York’s Lower East Side, from its founding by two young middle-class women in 1897 to the present, into a wider inquiry on urbanization, migration, progressivist ideology, religion-based philanthropy, and inter-class and ethnic encounters. In the process, the author fittingly pays tribute to forgotten individuals who, regardless of the prejudices of their times, devoted much of their lives to helping others.”" -- José C. Moya * Professor of History, Barnard College; Director, the Forum on Migration *

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking investigation into the hidden mental health effects of border walls, revealing the harm they bring to all who live near them. Today, there are at least seventy border walls: from the US–Mexico border to the seventeen thousand miles of barbed wire that wall off Bangladesh from India, as well as the five-layer fence between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Border walls protect us, the argument goes, because they keep danger out. But what if the walls themselves endanger everyone who lives near them - on both sides? In this thoroughly reported, eye opening work, science journalist Jessica Wapner reveals the unforeseen mental health effects of security walls - including depression and anxiety, despondence, excitability, suicidal ideation, paranoia, and more. Doctors first noticed these conditions proliferating among people who lived along the Berlin Wall, and they gave the overarching affliction a name: wall disease. Wapner builds on this research, following the trail of psychological harm around the world today. Weaving together interviews with those living up against walls and expert testimonies from psychologists, economists, geographers, and other specialists, Wapner explores the growing epidemic of wall disease - and illuminates how neither those “outside” nor “inside” are immune.

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Book SynopsisThe legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino civil rights leaders. Pycior notes that the Mexican immigrant associations instrumental in the landmark 2006 immigration reform marches echo mutualista societies at their peak in the 1920s. Then Mexican immigrants from San Diego to New York engaged in economic, medical, cultural, educational, and legal aid. This path-breaking study culminates with an examination of Southwest community organizing networks as crucial counterweights to the outsize role of large financial contributions in the democratic political process. It also finds ways in which this community organizing echoes the activity of mutualista groups in the very same neighbourhoods a century ago.

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Book SynopsisThe volume represents the continuing of the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.This year's YIS project received many positive feedbacks and signals of interest, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world. This fifth volume directs attention to relevant and actual psycho-social phenomena as the development of identity in terms of self identity, social identity and local identity.The volume is directed to students, researchers and clinicians, interested in deepening theoretical and methodological issues and improve clinical practices and research cultures.

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Book SynopsisThe volume represents the continuing of the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.This year's YIS project received many positive feedbacks and signals of interest, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world. This fifth volume directs attention to relevant and actual psycho-social phenomena as the development of identity in terms of self identity, social identity and local identity.The volume is directed to students, researchers and clinicians, interested in deepening theoretical and methodological issues and improve clinical practices and research cultures.

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Book SynopsisThis is a ground-breaking research study on Black immigrant identities in South African schools. It is the first major book on racial integration and immigrant children in South African schools. The overall aim of this study is to investigate how immigrant students negotiate and mediate their identity within the South African schooling context.This study set out to explain this complex phenomenon, guided by the following research objectives: One, to describe how immigrant student identities are framed, challenged, asserted and negotiated within the institutional cultures of schools. Two, to evaluate the extent to which the ethos of these schools has been transformed towards integration in the truest sense and to determine how immigrant students perceive this in practice? Three, to explore the `transnational social fields’ in terms of social networks and cross-border linkages of immigrant students and how this impacts on their identity formation. Four, to determine if there are any new forms of immigrant student self-identities that are beginning to emerge? Five, to determine the extent to which racial desegregation has been accompanied by social integration between immigrant and local students. Six, to determine the impact of the South African social/schooling context on immigrant student identity formation. And seven, to identify critical lessons and `good practice’ that could be learnt and used to accelerate the racial desegregation and social integration of immigrant students in South African schools.

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