Migration, immigration and emigration Books
University of Texas Press Managed Migrations
Book SynopsisManaged Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.Trade ReviewManaged Migrations proposes new ways to look at labor, grower, and government interplay in developing a social system and workspace in South Texas's agricultural border region...While other historians have described the development of stable, segregated Mexican colonias within American communities before the 1970s, Salinas's unique contribution to the field is the description of a distinctive transborder farmworker community, an amalgam of social and work space that turned out to be fragile and dependent on highly local conditions. * Journal of Southern History *[Managed Migrations] provides textured, engaging coverage of border labor issues…an engaging addition to the literature on labor and immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Salinas offers up a worthy addition to the burgeoning literature on Texas….[Managed Migrations] makes deep analytical arguments about the connections between the South's system of labor immobility that derives from plantation agriculture and the West's free labor ideology rooted in mobility. Salinas's book ultimately shows how these two contradictory traditions combined in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Managed Migrations provides a grounded history of Texas agribusiness in El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and of its relationship to undocumented Mexican immigration and border enforcement…Managed Migrations will be deeply useful to historians of the U.S.-Mexico border and twentieth-century U.S. agribusiness and immigration. It will also be of value to anyone interested in the contemporary U.S.-Mexico borderlands--where border enforcement continues to manage labor and shape national politics. * Journal of American History *Managed Migrations is a study as paramount as it is timely…Cristina Salinas delivers a profound study of the ways that US and Mexican federal, state, and local governments sought to manage workers' migrations, and she ensures that the first-hand experiences of migrant workers are at the center of her transformative storytelling...Managed Migrations is a must-read. * Agricultural History *A splendid analysis of farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands…As lucid, interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state…The book is comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and worth consideration by scholars across the discipline. * H-Net Reviews *Managed Migrations is an important contribution to the literatures on Mexican immigration, the ethnic-Mexican diaspora, and the South Texas borderlands in that it brings a careful and nuanced view to what drove the migration system during the first half of the twentieth century. Workers, growers, and government officials are all given fair inclusion here. As such, Managed Migrations is a telling example of borderlands history, which focuses on what happens when people from different social groups or nation states come together and interact. Unfortunately, for the workers themselves the results seem overwhelmingly stark. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Managed Migrations addresses the central question of how, against all the evidence of this dysfunctional and racialized migration and labor system, the blame has historically been placed on undocumented migrants rather than on those who created it, maintain it, and continue to benefit from the exploitation of migrants’ precarious status. * American Historical Review *Managed Migrations is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students and would fit well in courses on the US-Mexico border, immigration, and labor history. Given the ongoing criminalization of undocumented workers and growers’ use of these workers not just in South Texas, but across the nation, it should be required reading for immigration activists and policymakers. As a reader, it is my (perhaps, overly idealistic) hope that the stories Salinas tells will inspire dramatic, meaningful reform of immigration laws and enforcement. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *An essential read if you want to understand how workers are managed by national (Mexico and US), state, and local actors. * Five Books, "The Best Books on Migrant Workers" *Salinas provides an engagingly written study that immerses readers in the agriculturally powerful region of South Texas...Salinas shows how growers shaped immigration law, the Border Patrol, and influenced demands for seasonal agricultural labor...Managed Migrations is a strong contribution to recent historiographies of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, United States history, immigration history, Mexican American and Latina/o history, and labor history. The book offers a compelling narrative for both specialists and those unfamiliar with the subject. * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals
Book SynopsisThe experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and forever illegals. Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition. Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility and invisibility emerged over the past forty yearsbookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trumpand how Central American immigrants and subsequent generations have contested their rhetorical disfiguration. Drawing from popular films and TV, news reporting, and social media, Padilla shows how Central Americans in the United States have been constituted as belonging nowhere, imagined as permanent refugees outside the boundaries of even minority representation. Yet in documentaries about cross-border transit throughTrade ReviewA well-researched, poignant discussion of the representations, misrepresentations, and erasures of the expanding Central American and Latinx communities in the US. [Padilla's] work seamlessly illustrates the significance and consequences of these representations, or lack thereof...Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Central Americans among “US” Chapter 1. Signifying US Central American Non-belonging Chapter 2. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film Chapter 3. Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez and the Perils of Being a “Good Immigrant” Chapter 4. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico’s Border Passage Chapter 5. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles Conclusion: Seeing beyond the Dominant Notes Works Cited Index
£66.60
University of Texas Press From Threatening Guerrillas to Forever Illegals
Book SynopsisThe experience of Central Americans in the United States is marked by a vicious contradiction. In entertainment and information media, Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans are hypervisible as threatening guerrillas, MS-13 gangsters, maids, and forever illegals. Central Americans are unseen within the broader conception of Latinx community, foreclosing avenues to recognition. Yajaira M. Padilla explores how this regime of visibility and invisibility emerged over the past forty yearsbookended by the right-wing presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trumpand how Central American immigrants and subsequent generations have contested their rhetorical disfiguration. Drawing from popular films and TV, news reporting, and social media, Padilla shows how Central Americans in the United States have been constituted as belonging nowhere, imagined as permanent refugees outside the boundaries of even minority representation. Yet in documentaries about cross-border transit throughTrade ReviewA well-researched, poignant discussion of the representations, misrepresentations, and erasures of the expanding Central American and Latinx communities in the US. [Padilla's] work seamlessly illustrates the significance and consequences of these representations, or lack thereof...Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Central Americans among “US” Chapter 1. Signifying US Central American Non-belonging Chapter 2. Domesticated Subject? The Salvadoran Maid in US Television and Film Chapter 3. Lance Corporal José Gutiérrez and the Perils of Being a “Good Immigrant” Chapter 4. Central American Crossings, Rightlessness, and Survival in Mexico’s Border Passage Chapter 5. The Cachet of Illegal Chickens in Central American Los Angeles Conclusion: Seeing beyond the Dominant Notes Works Cited Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Crossing Waters
Book Synopsis2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artistsreplete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto RiTrade ReviewMoreno seamlessly accommodates the Caribbean’s unruly multiplicities—of national contexts, identities, and migration pathways—without sacrificing nuance and specificity...Her capacious framing allows Crossing Waters to proceed assuredly through the folds of successive Caribbean geopolitical contexts—from the erosion of birthright citizenship in the Dominican Republic to shifting U.S. policy toward Cuban refugees—while maintaining a remarkably coherent arc...Moreno’s framing of migration as a process that often lacks a defined end resonates with the ongoingness of border studies writ large and Caribbean border and migration studies in particular...Scholars of migration would do well to follow Moreno’s impulse to understand border studies as both an anchor and a current. * ASAP/J *A momentous contribution that expands the field of Latinx Studies into Caribbean water and land. It opens many crucial and fruitful avenues of consideration for the overlooked study of the travails of Caribbean undocumented migration. * A Contracorriente *Crossing Waters is an excellent contribution to Caribbean migration studies, border studies, and Latinx literatures and cultures...[Moreno's] prose is insightful, clear, and defies traditional anthropological and necro-political contexts to argue for futurities that are not only more democratic but also centered on living and not dying. * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Rethinking the Borders of the Caribbean Archipelago Chapter 2. Puerto Rico: Border and Bridge to the Continental United States Chapter 3. Dominican Crossings: Displacements across Sea and Land Chapter 4. Cubans at Sea: The Balsero Crisis in Literature and Art Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Crossing Waters
Book Synopsis2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artistsreplete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto RiTrade ReviewMoreno seamlessly accommodates the Caribbean’s unruly multiplicities—of national contexts, identities, and migration pathways—without sacrificing nuance and specificity...Her capacious framing allows Crossing Waters to proceed assuredly through the folds of successive Caribbean geopolitical contexts—from the erosion of birthright citizenship in the Dominican Republic to shifting U.S. policy toward Cuban refugees—while maintaining a remarkably coherent arc...Moreno’s framing of migration as a process that often lacks a defined end resonates with the ongoingness of border studies writ large and Caribbean border and migration studies in particular...Scholars of migration would do well to follow Moreno’s impulse to understand border studies as both an anchor and a current. * ASAP/J *A momentous contribution that expands the field of Latinx Studies into Caribbean water and land. It opens many crucial and fruitful avenues of consideration for the overlooked study of the travails of Caribbean undocumented migration. * A Contracorriente *Crossing Waters is an excellent contribution to Caribbean migration studies, border studies, and Latinx literatures and cultures...[Moreno's] prose is insightful, clear, and defies traditional anthropological and necro-political contexts to argue for futurities that are not only more democratic but also centered on living and not dying. * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Rethinking the Borders of the Caribbean Archipelago Chapter 2. Puerto Rico: Border and Bridge to the Continental United States Chapter 3. Dominican Crossings: Displacements across Sea and Land Chapter 4. Cubans at Sea: The Balsero Crisis in Literature and Art Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Oaxaca in Motion
Book SynopsisAn expansive survey of the cultural fluctuations experienced by Oaxacan migrants both inside and outside of Mexico.Trade ReviewCogent portraits of the individuals and families [Sandoval-Cervantes] followed in both the home community and their migrant settings in Mexico and the US…Recommended. * CHOICE *[A] readable and insightful book…[Oaxaca in Motion] is an excellent introduction to the gender analysis of migration studies. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law Conclusion Notes References Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Oaxaca in Motion
Book SynopsisAn expansive survey of the cultural fluctuations experienced by Oaxacan migrants both inside and outside of Mexico.Trade ReviewCogent portraits of the individuals and families [Sandoval-Cervantes] followed in both the home community and their migrant settings in Mexico and the US…Recommended. * CHOICE *[A] readable and insightful book…[Oaxaca in Motion] is an excellent introduction to the gender analysis of migration studies. * American Ethnologist *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law Conclusion Notes References Index
£19.79
University of Texas Press The Right Kind of Suffering
Book SynopsisAn examination of Arab asylum seekers who feel compelled to package their tales of disenfranchisement and suffering to satisfy a deeply reluctant immigration system.Trade ReviewThis timely book humanizes refugees, particularly those from the Arab world, and will interest those studying gender and sexuality, asylum and refugee law, and Arab American studies. * CHOICE *The Right Kind of Suffering is an excellent study about the broken system of asylum for Arabic-speaking people. It would be an eye-opener for students and scholars of legal and gender studies, as well as cultural studies. * Arab Studies Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrow Pathways 1. “I’ve always been looking for my freedom” 2. “My life is a Bollywood film” 3. “I wish it was a happier ending” 4. “Many reasons to leave” Conclusion: Of Stories, Traumas, and Happy Endings Notes Index
£21.59
Duke University Press Home Rule
Book SynopsisNandita Sharma traces the development of the categories of migrants and natives from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize how the idea of people's rights being tied to geographical notions of belonging came to be.Trade Review“Nandita Sharma has taken on the most burning issues of our times and written about them with clarity, grace, and power. She shows us a path from an oppressive past to a radical, humane future based on a ‘mobile politics of solidarity.’ This brilliant, timely book is a must-read for scholars and activists alike.” -- Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh“Home Rule is a bold, ambitious book that advances an original, complex, and controversial argument about the social and political production of binary oppositions and antagonisms between indigenous ‘Natives’ and ‘Migrants’. Bristling with important and exciting ideas, it challenges us to interrogate some of the most pernicious complacencies of contemporary political discourse, providing an innovative, wide-ranging examination of the global politics of autochthony and a far-reaching reconsideration of the postcolonial world order.” -- Nicholas De Genova, editor of * The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering *"Home Rule offers important arguments about how we understand the nature of othering across post-imperial contexts, especially in the face of global capitalism and continued faith in the nation state. Sharma’s rich analysis reminds us that there is more work to be done, particularly around alternative ways of understanding nationhood and sovereignty as seen and experienced by those most subject to discourses and practices of exclusion." -- Laura Madokoro * Social History *"Sharma’s Home Rule will spark many fruitful conversations among scholars and graduate students interested in migration, nationalism, and postcolonial thought and is a particularly strong example of the way postcolonial ideas can provide a powerful interpretive approach to timely issues of great sociological concern." -- Gregory J., Goalwin * Social Forces *"Aside from 2020's unforeseen circumstances, it is clear that Home Rule deals with the pressing issues of today's world, successfully historicizing the current, troubling characterization of migrants as colonial invaders and carefully contextualizing the intense disputes over national sovereignty in Israel-Palestine.… I would whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand more about the important history of migration or who wants a comprehensive overview of how the structures of imperialism have developed in today's postcolonial world." -- Zoë Miller * European Review of HIstory *"Taken in the round this is a stimulating and thought-provoking read, that seeks to challenge received perceptions and to articulate a different way to understand the role of national sovereignty within the changing global politics that structure our understandings of citizenship and immigration." -- John Solomos * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"With its length and sometimes a bit dense narrative structure, it might feel overwhelming at the start but it is definitely worth finishing. The breadth and wide range of examples is actually a strength.…This book is definitely worth a read for students and researchers interested in nation building and processes of othering across post-imperial contexts." -- Ilse van Liempt * International Migration *"A provocative critique of nation-state sovereignty . . . the book should inspire deep thinking about what remains a central but perhaps still too often underanalyzed." -- Miranda Johnson * American Historical Review *"Sharma’s profound critique of sovereignty as a mode of separation rather than one of freedom, autonomy, and an authentic postcolonial condition is an important intervention and re-assessment of where we have arrived. . . . The kind of critique that Sharma offers in Home Rule is one that unsettles how our political present has unfolded and in doing so Sharma writes against and significantly clarifies the limits of some political claims in our present moment." -- Rinaldo Walcott * Journal of World-Systems Research *"Home Rule is a provocative book that challenges prevailing conceptions of sovereignty at their core. Notions of belonging and national liberation are out the door, jettisoned by detailed accounts of the entanglements among imperialism, national liberation, and anti-immigrant politics now. The argument is expansive, the geographic and historical range daunting, the research and scholarly literatures engaged incredible. Sovereignty is dissected with exquisite skill." -- Victoria Hattam * Journal of World Systems Research *"I have never read a work like this. . . . Nandita Sharma has delivered a masterpiece that further fuels the cries for global justice." -- Douglas Thomas * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Home Rule: The National Politics of Separation 1 2. The Imperial Government of Mobility and Stasis 36 3. The National Government of Mobility and Stasis 62 4. The Jealousy of Nations: Globalizing National Constraints on Human Mobility 90 5. The Postcolonial New World Order and the Containment of Decolonization 117 6. Developing the Postcolonial New World Order 142 7. Global Lockdown: Postcolonial Expansion of National Citizenship and Immigration Controls 163 8. National Autochthonies and the Making of Postcolonial National-Natives 205 9. Postseparation: Struggles for a Decolonized Commons 268 Notes 285 Bibliography 299 Index 347
£80.75
Duke University Press The Fixer
Book SynopsisIn the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interviewto the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a fixer-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togoleseas well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.Trade Review"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalities. The Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning — once you start the book, it is hard to put down." -- Faranak Miraftab * International Migration Review *“Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.” -- Marius Kothor * African Studies Review *"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Business of Dreams 1 1. Border Practice 27 2. The Interview 45 3. Kinship by Other Means 63 4. Trading Futures 85 5. Embassy Indiscretions 109 6. Protest 124 7. Prison 134 8. America, Here We Come 148 9. Lomé 2018 171 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 207
£90.10
Duke University Press The Fixer
Book SynopsisIn the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street frenzy of the lottery sign-up period and the scramble to raise money for the embassy interviewto the gamesmanship of those adding spouses and dependents to their dossiers, the application process is complicated, expensive, and unpredictable. In The Fixer Charles Piot follows Kodjo Nicolas Batema, a Togolese visa broker-known as a fixer-as he shepherds his clients through the application and interview process. Relaying the experiences of the fixer, his clients, and embassy officials, Piot captures the ever-evolving cat-and-mouse game between the embassy and the hopeful Togoleseas well as the disappointments and successes of lottery winners in the United States. These detailed and compelling stories uniquely illustrate the desire and savviness of migrants as they work to find what they hope will be a better life.Trade Review"Extremely well written, The Fixer is a must-read for those striving for a more equitable world: their advocacy efforts around global mobility and migration cannot be understood divorced from global inequalities. The Fixer would be a great read for general readers, migration experts, policymakers, folks involved in advocacy for immigrants and displaced people, and students of immigration and transnational studies, as well as in courses on the challenges and ethics of ethnographic field research. Just a gentle warning — once you start the book, it is hard to put down." -- Faranak Miraftab * International Migration Review *“Scholars of Africa will appreciate how Piot combines his deep regional knowledge of Togo and his ethnographic expertise to highlight the larger global forces that shape the lives of migrant-refugees.” -- Marius Kothor * African Studies Review *"The Fixer demonstrates how skillful ethnography can help us better grasp the current political, economic, and cultural dynamics of migration as impacted by understandings of kinship, legitimacy, and local improvisation." -- Dubie Toa-Kwapong * Transforming Anthropology *"While the key theoretical interventions of the book are spelt out in the introduction, the rest of the book is written in clear prose accessible to academic and non-academic audiences. The book makes a fine contribution to migration studies, economic and legal anthropology, African studies, and US studies; it would be a great case study for graduate and undergraduate courses in these fields." -- Smoki Musaraj * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Business of Dreams 1 1. Border Practice 27 2. The Interview 45 3. Kinship by Other Means 63 4. Trading Futures 85 5. Embassy Indiscretions 109 6. Protest 124 7. Prison 134 8. America, Here We Come 148 9. Lomé 2018 171 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 207
£22.49
Duke University Press Deported Americans
Book SynopsisLegal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells the story of dozens of immigrants who were deported from the United States—the only country they have ever known—to Mexico, tracking the harmful consequences of deportation for those on both sides of the border.Trade Review"A deeply informed appeal to create more humane practices for noncitizens facing criminal deportation. . . . Caldwell looks systematically at the effects of deportation to Mexico on the spouses and children especially (drug abuse, depression, suicide, attractions to gangs) and how this inhumane banishment should be amended. A compelling, rigorously researched legal argument against the demonization of deportees." * Kirkus Reviews *"By telling their stories, Caldwell humanizes the crises these individuals endure, including those of spouses and children who face the decision of having to leave everything they know behind to be with their exiled loved ones. A stark portrayal of the contradictory, misguided, and ineffectual immigration laws that determine the futures of so many." -- Kenneth Otani * Booklist *"Accessible and eye-opening. . . . Caldwell’s extensive research, astute legal analysis, and readable prose make this a layperson-friendly introduction to a thorny problem." * Publishers Weekly * "Drawing on heart-rending interviews with deportees . . . Caldwell decries the inconsistencies between the legal definition of citizenship and people’s experiences of rootedness. She argues that citizenship should be based on a person’s cultural associations rather than on national boundaries." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *"Compelling, comprehensive and properly chilling." -- Andrea Plate * Asia Media International *"The publication of Deported Americans is immensely significant. . . . The literature on post-deportation life has shone light on the disorientation and alienation that accompany deportation. . . Caldwell is the first, however, to examine this population systematically in book-length form." -- Tobin Hansen * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Deported Americans bridges an imperative gap in the literature on immigration, legal policy, and family separation and provides helpful interpretive tools in the field of migration studies. It is a worthwhile resource for academics, policymakers, and practitioners interested in understanding the causes and consequences of migration and deportation policy." -- Kristina Lovato * International Migration Review *“Deported Americans is the result of a highly innovative, seven-year research project by Beth Caldwell.... I found this text an excellent introductory primer to the multi-layered, complex world of the deportation regime....” -- David C. Brotherton * Contemporary Sociology *“This meticulously well researched and written book should be read by everyone concerned with immigration reform, in any region in the world but particularly in the United States.” -- Judy Adler Hellman * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. In the Shadow of Due Process 17 2. Return to a Foreign Land 49 3. Life after Deportation 67 4. Deported by Marriage 101 5. Children of Deportees 127 Conclusion. Resistance and Reforms 153 Epilogue 189 Notes 193 Index 227
£90.10
Duke University Press Decolonizing Ethnography
Book SynopsisThe coauthors of Decolonizing Ethnography integrate ethnography with activist work in a New Jersey center for undocumented workers, showing how anthropology can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their own experiences.Trade Review"[Decolonizing Ethnography] offers an innovative way in which ethnography, practiced by the people who have been traditionally positioned as the ethnographic research objects, can be a powerful tool of self-empowerment, public advocacy, and personal transformation." -- Kheira Arrouche * LSE Review of Books *"Decolonizing Ethnography does not just critique colonialist academic practices, it seeks to do something different. ... Accessibly written, interesting, and effectively argued, [this book] will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in issues of migration, activism, ethnography, and knowledge production. ... Perhaps most importantly, Decolonizing Ethnography is a call to anthropology to reconsider its purpose and expand its relevance with research practices that redress the politicized nature of anthropological research and of the social worlds in which our research takes place." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * Anthropological Quarterly *"This work demonstrates specifically an exemplary form of ethnographic writing not necessarily as a model to follow, but as an encouragement and license to expand the direction of critical and reflexive thought that has been ascendant in American ethnographic research for the past 30 years. There are many lively 'moves' in expressing the vitality of this collaboration, none more powerful and exciting than the concluding script of activist theater. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. E. Marcus * Choice *"For occupational science as a field of study increasingly concerned with highlighting the daily experiences of Global South and marginalised groups, this book should be a valuable inspiration and guide. As a Eurocentric discipline, we have a way to go in decolonising theory production and the means by which we do so. This text may inspire us to continue on the path of liberation for our discipline and the communities with whom we study and collaborate." -- Juman Simaan * Journal of Occupational Science *“Decolonizing Ethnography provides an excellent background on engaged scholarship and a roadmap for how one team overcame hierarchies to collaborate across difference. It is an excellent tool for training students to design community-embedded research and will be useful for a range of syllabi (it’s already on mine!). The book also offers the rare chance to see undocumented worker-activists as scholars and authors, and that itself is a gift.” -- Abigail Andrews * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“As a collaboration, this book both advocates for and puts into practice data gathering and reporting techniques that continue to stand in opposition to anthropology’s standard modes of research. The book’s clarity of writing, its resolute tone had this reviewer conduct some soul-searching about her own position vis-à-vis the decolonial challenge.” -- Nora Haenn * Anthropos *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] is encouraging us to open our minds, addressing the colonial impact in academia, to decolonize and liberate ourselves from intellectual and academic colonization. This is a call for anthropologists to empower others to speak for themselves....” -- Hussein Masimbi and Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] discusses how to use anthropological knowledge to advance the causes of undocumented migrants in the United States. . . . [It] take[s] the bold step of centralizing migrants’ stories, dilemmas, and choices, and . . . reminds us that each story is unique with endings that are impossible to know.” -- Ana Hontanilla * Latin American Research Review *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] presents a wonderful examination of the development of a research project through partnership. . . . In an ethnographic analysis that is a cut way above most contemporary anthropology, [the book’s] four participants share their hopes and problems in joint project planning, implementation, writing, and publishing.” -- Thomas M. Wilson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents"broken poem" ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Colonial Anthropology and Its Alternatives 17 2. Journeys toward Decolonizing 38 3. Reflections on Fieldwork in New Jersey 59 4. Undocumented Activist Theory and a Decolonial Methodology 78 5. Undocumented Theater: Writing and Resistance 101 Conclusion 136 Notes 149 References 161 Index 179
£70.55
Duke University Press Deported Americans
Book SynopsisLegal scholar and former public defender Beth C. Caldwell tells the story of dozens of immigrants who were deported from the United Statesthe only country they have ever knownto Mexico, tracking the harmful consequences of deportation for those on both sides of the border.Trade Review"A deeply informed appeal to create more humane practices for noncitizens facing criminal deportation. . . . Caldwell looks systematically at the effects of deportation to Mexico on the spouses and children especially (drug abuse, depression, suicide, attractions to gangs) and how this inhumane banishment should be amended. A compelling, rigorously researched legal argument against the demonization of deportees." * Kirkus Reviews *"By telling their stories, Caldwell humanizes the crises these individuals endure, including those of spouses and children who face the decision of having to leave everything they know behind to be with their exiled loved ones. A stark portrayal of the contradictory, misguided, and ineffectual immigration laws that determine the futures of so many." -- Kenneth Otani * Booklist *"Accessible and eye-opening. . . . Caldwell’s extensive research, astute legal analysis, and readable prose make this a layperson-friendly introduction to a thorny problem." * Publishers Weekly * "Drawing on heart-rending interviews with deportees . . . Caldwell decries the inconsistencies between the legal definition of citizenship and people’s experiences of rootedness. She argues that citizenship should be based on a person’s cultural associations rather than on national boundaries." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *"Compelling, comprehensive and properly chilling." -- Andrea Plate * Asia Media International *"The publication of Deported Americans is immensely significant. . . . The literature on post-deportation life has shone light on the disorientation and alienation that accompany deportation. . . Caldwell is the first, however, to examine this population systematically in book-length form." -- Tobin Hansen * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Deported Americans bridges an imperative gap in the literature on immigration, legal policy, and family separation and provides helpful interpretive tools in the field of migration studies. It is a worthwhile resource for academics, policymakers, and practitioners interested in understanding the causes and consequences of migration and deportation policy." -- Kristina Lovato * International Migration Review *“Deported Americans is the result of a highly innovative, seven-year research project by Beth Caldwell.... I found this text an excellent introductory primer to the multi-layered, complex world of the deportation regime....” -- David C. Brotherton * Contemporary Sociology *“This meticulously well researched and written book should be read by everyone concerned with immigration reform, in any region in the world but particularly in the United States.” -- Judy Adler Hellman * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. In the Shadow of Due Process 17 2. Return to a Foreign Land 49 3. Life after Deportation 67 4. Deported by Marriage 101 5. Children of Deportees 127 Conclusion. Resistance and Reforms 153 Epilogue 189 Notes 193 Index 227
£22.49
Duke University Press Decolonizing Ethnography
Book SynopsisIn August2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local immigrant workers from Latin America—joined Alonso Bejarano and Goldstein as research assistants and quickly became equal partners for whom ethnographic practice was inseparable from activism. In Decolonizing Ethnography the four coauthors offer a methodological and theoretical reassessment of social science research, showing how it can function as a vehicle for activism and as a tool for marginalized people to theorize their lives. Tacking between personal narratives, ethnographic field notes, an original bilingual play about workers'' rights, and examinations of anthropology as a discipline, the coauthors show how the participation of Mijangos Garc&iacutTrade Review"[Decolonizing Ethnography] offers an innovative way in which ethnography, practiced by the people who have been traditionally positioned as the ethnographic research objects, can be a powerful tool of self-empowerment, public advocacy, and personal transformation." -- Kheira Arrouche * LSE Review of Books *"Decolonizing Ethnography does not just critique colonialist academic practices, it seeks to do something different. ... Accessibly written, interesting, and effectively argued, [this book] will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in issues of migration, activism, ethnography, and knowledge production. ... Perhaps most importantly, Decolonizing Ethnography is a call to anthropology to reconsider its purpose and expand its relevance with research practices that redress the politicized nature of anthropological research and of the social worlds in which our research takes place." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * Anthropological Quarterly *"This work demonstrates specifically an exemplary form of ethnographic writing not necessarily as a model to follow, but as an encouragement and license to expand the direction of critical and reflexive thought that has been ascendant in American ethnographic research for the past 30 years. There are many lively 'moves' in expressing the vitality of this collaboration, none more powerful and exciting than the concluding script of activist theater. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. E. Marcus * Choice *"For occupational science as a field of study increasingly concerned with highlighting the daily experiences of Global South and marginalised groups, this book should be a valuable inspiration and guide. As a Eurocentric discipline, we have a way to go in decolonising theory production and the means by which we do so. This text may inspire us to continue on the path of liberation for our discipline and the communities with whom we study and collaborate." -- Juman Simaan * Journal of Occupational Science *“Decolonizing Ethnography provides an excellent background on engaged scholarship and a roadmap for how one team overcame hierarchies to collaborate across difference. It is an excellent tool for training students to design community-embedded research and will be useful for a range of syllabi (it’s already on mine!). The book also offers the rare chance to see undocumented worker-activists as scholars and authors, and that itself is a gift.” -- Abigail Andrews * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“As a collaboration, this book both advocates for and puts into practice data gathering and reporting techniques that continue to stand in opposition to anthropology’s standard modes of research. The book’s clarity of writing, its resolute tone had this reviewer conduct some soul-searching about her own position vis-à-vis the decolonial challenge.” -- Nora Haenn * Anthropos *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] is encouraging us to open our minds, addressing the colonial impact in academia, to decolonize and liberate ourselves from intellectual and academic colonization. This is a call for anthropologists to empower others to speak for themselves....” -- Hussein Masimbi and Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] discusses how to use anthropological knowledge to advance the causes of undocumented migrants in the United States. . . . [It] take[s] the bold step of centralizing migrants’ stories, dilemmas, and choices, and . . . reminds us that each story is unique with endings that are impossible to know.” -- Ana Hontanilla * Latin American Research Review *“[Decolonizing Ethnography] presents a wonderful examination of the development of a research project through partnership. . . . In an ethnographic analysis that is a cut way above most contemporary anthropology, [the book’s] four participants share their hopes and problems in joint project planning, implementation, writing, and publishing.” -- Thomas M. Wilson * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of Contents"broken poem" ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. Colonial Anthropology and Its Alternatives 17 2. Journeys toward Decolonizing 38 3. Reflections on Fieldwork in New Jersey 59 4. Undocumented Activist Theory and a Decolonial Methodology 78 5. Undocumented Theater: Writing and Resistance 101 Conclusion 136 Notes 149 References 161 Index 179
£18.99
Duke University Press The Unspoken as Heritage
Book SynopsisIn this meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival, renowned historian Harry Harootunian explores the Armenian genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora by sketching the everyday lives of his parents, who escaped the genocide in the 1910s.Trade Review“‘Genocide’ was first coined to portray the brutality of the Turkish state as it murdered the Armenian population living within its borders. Yet the Armenian genocide has become largely invisible, a part of history erased from common awareness. Harry Harootunian's chronicle of the Armenian genocide's impact on his family's hellish life forces us to reexamine what we do not know about our pasts and the causes and consequences of our ignorance. Through this remarkable account, Harootunian refuses to let his family die twice.” -- Irene Silverblatt, Professor of Cultural Anthropology History, Duke University“The Unspoken as Heritage is a brave text offering something we all need: the recognition that a heritage shaped by catastrophe lingers, even thrives, in the unspoken and the everyday, rather than in the grand narratives of History. Harry Harootunian accounts for the unaccounted in the future tense, asking what should become of us as we live on in the wake of loss, rather than in the past tense of nationalist restoration. The rich and textured scraps of his parents lives, organized by ineradicable silence, here count for something potent: not the evidentiary, but the imaginative; not the exceptional, but the expectant.” -- David Kazanjian, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania"Elegantly written and intriguingly structured. . . For readers interested in the problem of genocide, in the silence of survivors, and in second-generation immigrants, The Unspoken as Heritage offers richly rewarding reflections from the point of view of someone who has confronted unanswered questions that have lingered from his childhood." -- Werner Sollors * Critical Inquiry *“Harry Harootunian has authored a timely and thought-provoking book on the Armenian Genocide. The Unspoken as Heritage strikes a balance between the facts of the historical events and the author’s own personal journey to comprehend the full and complete tragedy that tore to shards his parents’ lives.” -- Barbara Erysian * Canadian Journal of History *“Professor Harootunian has managed to produce a book of profound depth and beauty. It is equal parts a personal memoir, a sociological examination of the Armenian Genocide and its often-unexamined psychological effects on survivors and their children, and a meditation of what it is to be a second-generation immigrant in a country ensconced in mythic self-glorification.” -- Artyom H. Tonoyan * Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies *“[The Unspoken as Heritage] is very rich and flows smoothly.... Harootunian’s study about his own family (as a singular case) sheds light upon what happened to the Armenians who ran away from the Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the twentieth century (as a collective process).” -- Pedro Bogossian-Porto * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. The Unrealized Everyday: By Way of an Introduction 1 2. Unnoticed Lives/Unanswered Questions 17 3. Traces of a Vanished Everyday 37 4. History's Interruption: Dispossession and Genocide 87 5. House of Strangers/Diminished Lives 114 Epilogue. Returning to Ani 149 Notes 161 Bibliography 171 Index 175
£86.70
Duke University Press The Unspoken as Heritage
Book SynopsisIn this meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival, renowned historian Harry Harootunian explores the Armenian genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora by sketching the everyday lives of his parents, who escaped the genocide in the 1910s.Trade Review“‘Genocide’ was first coined to portray the brutality of the Turkish state as it murdered the Armenian population living within its borders. Yet the Armenian genocide has become largely invisible, a part of history erased from common awareness. Harry Harootunian's chronicle of the Armenian genocide's impact on his family's hellish life forces us to reexamine what we do not know about our pasts and the causes and consequences of our ignorance. Through this remarkable account, Harootunian refuses to let his family die twice.” -- Irene Silverblatt, Professor of Cultural Anthropology History, Duke University“The Unspoken as Heritage is a brave text offering something we all need: the recognition that a heritage shaped by catastrophe lingers, even thrives, in the unspoken and the everyday, rather than in the grand narratives of History. Harry Harootunian accounts for the unaccounted in the future tense, asking what should become of us as we live on in the wake of loss, rather than in the past tense of nationalist restoration. The rich and textured scraps of his parents lives, organized by ineradicable silence, here count for something potent: not the evidentiary, but the imaginative; not the exceptional, but the expectant.” -- David Kazanjian, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania"Elegantly written and intriguingly structured. . . For readers interested in the problem of genocide, in the silence of survivors, and in second-generation immigrants, The Unspoken as Heritage offers richly rewarding reflections from the point of view of someone who has confronted unanswered questions that have lingered from his childhood." -- Werner Sollors * Critical Inquiry *“Harry Harootunian has authored a timely and thought-provoking book on the Armenian Genocide. The Unspoken as Heritage strikes a balance between the facts of the historical events and the author’s own personal journey to comprehend the full and complete tragedy that tore to shards his parents’ lives.” -- Barbara Erysian * Canadian Journal of History *“Professor Harootunian has managed to produce a book of profound depth and beauty. It is equal parts a personal memoir, a sociological examination of the Armenian Genocide and its often-unexamined psychological effects on survivors and their children, and a meditation of what it is to be a second-generation immigrant in a country ensconced in mythic self-glorification.” -- Artyom H. Tonoyan * Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies *“[The Unspoken as Heritage] is very rich and flows smoothly.... Harootunian’s study about his own family (as a singular case) sheds light upon what happened to the Armenians who ran away from the Ottoman Empire in the beginning of the twentieth century (as a collective process).” -- Pedro Bogossian-Porto * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. The Unrealized Everyday: By Way of an Introduction 1 2. Unnoticed Lives/Unanswered Questions 17 3. Traces of a Vanished Everyday 37 4. History's Interruption: Dispossession and Genocide 87 5. House of Strangers/Diminished Lives 114 Epilogue. Returning to Ani 149 Notes 161 Bibliography 171 Index 175
£22.79
Duke University Press Paper Trails
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.Trade Review“The rich collection of case studies in Paper Trails reminds us that states have increasingly refined their surveillance techniques. A must-read for anyone interested in how the issuing of the identifications and documents that pervade our everyday lives give states power over the populations—both citizens and immigrants—they govern.” -- Leo R. Chavez, author of * The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *“Offering a unique way to think about the materiality of immigrant life and the ways that papers shape migrants' identities, experiences, rights, and sense of belonging, this volume tells a compelling story about the need to center documents in the study of international migration.” -- Leisy J. Abrego, coeditor of * We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States *“Documents, or ‘papers,’ both reflect and help construct a global reality of heightened border policing and profound socioeconomic inequality. By powerfully illuminating the work that documents do in producing the state and people of unequal status, and the tactics people employ to contest citizenship-related forms of exclusion, Paper Trails provides valuable tools for those engaged in the struggle to realize a more just world.” -- Joseph Nevins, author of * Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid *“Paper Trails is a substantial and well-edited collection of research. It is an interesting, theoretically engaging and empirically rich book. It is undoubtedly an important contribution to migration studies and social sciences in general.” -- Shahram Khosravi * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“A group of preeminent scholars of immigration have produced a stellar collection of essays. . . . [Paper Trails] is an invaluable addition to our understanding of how the everyday processes of documentation operate in systems of state governance. . . . It deserves a wide readership.” -- Susan J. Terrio * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Paper Trails is an important contribution for students and researchers in migration studies, as well as practitioners in the field.” -- Sandra King-Savic * Refuge *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Paper Trails: Migrants, Bureaucratic Inscription, and Legal Recognition / Sarah B. Horton 1 Part I. Foundations: Controlling Space and Time 27 1. The "People Out of Place": State Limits on Free Mobility and the Making of Im(migrants) / Nandita Sharma 31 2. And About Time Too . . .: Migration, Documentation, and Temporalities / Bridget Anderson 53 3. Documenting Membership: The Divergent Politics of Migrant Driver's Licenses in New Mexico and Arizona / Doris Marie Provine and Monica W. Varsanyi 74 Part II. Documents as Security, Documents as Visibility 103 4. Documented as Unauthorized / Deborah A. Boehm 109 5. Opportunities and Double Binds: Legal Craft in an Era of Uncertainty / Susan Bibler Coutin 130 6. Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts: Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona / Cecilia Menjívar 153 Part III. Resistance and Refusals 179 7. Knowing Your Rights in Trump's America: Paper Trails of Community Empowerment / Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz 185 8. Strategies of Documentation among Kichwa Transnational Migrants / Juan Thomas Ordóñez 208 Conclusion: Documents as Power / Josiah Heyman 229 Contributors 249 Index 253
£98.60
Duke University Press Paper Trails
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.Trade Review“The rich collection of case studies in Paper Trails reminds us that states have increasingly refined their surveillance techniques. A must-read for anyone interested in how the issuing of the identifications and documents that pervade our everyday lives give states power over the populations—both citizens and immigrants—they govern.” -- Leo R. Chavez, author of * The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *“Offering a unique way to think about the materiality of immigrant life and the ways that papers shape migrants' identities, experiences, rights, and sense of belonging, this volume tells a compelling story about the need to center documents in the study of international migration.” -- Leisy J. Abrego, coeditor of * We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States *“Documents, or ‘papers,’ both reflect and help construct a global reality of heightened border policing and profound socioeconomic inequality. By powerfully illuminating the work that documents do in producing the state and people of unequal status, and the tactics people employ to contest citizenship-related forms of exclusion, Paper Trails provides valuable tools for those engaged in the struggle to realize a more just world.” -- Joseph Nevins, author of * Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid *“Paper Trails is a substantial and well-edited collection of research. It is an interesting, theoretically engaging and empirically rich book. It is undoubtedly an important contribution to migration studies and social sciences in general.” -- Shahram Khosravi * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“A group of preeminent scholars of immigration have produced a stellar collection of essays. . . . [Paper Trails] is an invaluable addition to our understanding of how the everyday processes of documentation operate in systems of state governance. . . . It deserves a wide readership.” -- Susan J. Terrio * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Paper Trails is an important contribution for students and researchers in migration studies, as well as practitioners in the field.” -- Sandra King-Savic * Refuge *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Paper Trails: Migrants, Bureaucratic Inscription, and Legal Recognition / Sarah B. Horton 1 Part I. Foundations: Controlling Space and Time 27 1. The "People Out of Place": State Limits on Free Mobility and the Making of Im(migrants) / Nandita Sharma 31 2. And About Time Too . . .: Migration, Documentation, and Temporalities / Bridget Anderson 53 3. Documenting Membership: The Divergent Politics of Migrant Driver's Licenses in New Mexico and Arizona / Doris Marie Provine and Monica W. Varsanyi 74 Part II. Documents as Security, Documents as Visibility 103 4. Documented as Unauthorized / Deborah A. Boehm 109 5. Opportunities and Double Binds: Legal Craft in an Era of Uncertainty / Susan Bibler Coutin 130 6. Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts: Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona / Cecilia Menjívar 153 Part III. Resistance and Refusals 179 7. Knowing Your Rights in Trump's America: Paper Trails of Community Empowerment / Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz 185 8. Strategies of Documentation among Kichwa Transnational Migrants / Juan Thomas Ordóñez 208 Conclusion: Documents as Power / Josiah Heyman 229 Contributors 249 Index 253
£25.19
Duke University Press Viapolitics
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301
£75.65
Duke University Press Viapolitics
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301
£20.69
Duke University Press Disappearing Rooms
Book SynopsisIn Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castañeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in US immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scène offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist dynamics of carceral space. Castañeda draws upon her experiences in immigration trials as an interpreter and courtroom companion to analyze the scenography—lighting, staging, framing, gesture, speech, and choreography—of specific rooms within the immigration enforcement system. Castañeda’s ethnographies of proceedings in a “removal” office in New York City, a detention center courtroom in Texas, and an asylum office in the Northeast reveal the depersonalizing violence enacted in immigration law through its embodied, ritualistic, and affective components. She shows how the creative practices of detained and disappeared people liTrade Review"The book … is a quintessential one in times of increasing hatred towards immigrants. This timely book will help the reader understand the intensity of immigration crises and the need for the growth of a humanitarian world than a world with borders." -- T.S. Gangothri * Social Identities *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Removal Room: Disappearance and the Practice of Accompaniment 19 2. The Prison-Courtroom: No-Show Justice in Family Detention 56 3. Bring Me the Room: Tragic Recognition and the Right Not to Tell Your Story 91 Coda 129 Notes 135 References 159 Index 177
£67.15
Duke University Press Borderland Dreams
Book SynopsisIn Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the Korean dream that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to leave to live better at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and postCold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.Trade Review“Offering ethnographically rich insights into labor migration between China and South Korea from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s, June Hee Kwon tracks ethnic and kin affinities and tensions amid changing political and global economic conditions, providing nuanced descriptions and analysis of the distinct temporal-spatial experiences of the Korean Chinese migrants entangled in transnational flows of labor, money, and consumption. Borderland Dreams makes an important contribution to scholarship on translocal and transnational migration, political economy, ethnicity, and China and East Asia.” -- Julie Y. Chu, author of * Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China *“Borderland Dreams tells a powerful, complex, and ethnographically driven story about capitalist modernity in China, ethnicity, borders and labor migration, remittance economies, and the temporalities of global capitalism. Drawing on highly original and important fieldwork, June Hee Kwon depicts the dreams, aspirations, and frustrations of her interlocutors through lively and engaging prose.” -- Eleana J. Kim, author of * Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Winds of Migration 1 Part I: The Rising Korean Dream 1. Ethnic Borderland 29 2. The Un/Welcoming Homeland 52 Part II: Dreams in Flux 3. Rhythms of “Free” Movement 77 4. The Work of Waiting 100 Part III: Dreaming Anew 5. The Leaving and the Living 123 6. Break the Cycle! 150 Conclusion. The Afterlife of the Korean Dream 177 Notes 187 References 213 Index 231
£76.50
Duke University Press Unsettled Labors
Book SynopsisRachel H. Brown explores the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israel's eldercare industry, showing that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced.
£75.65
Duke University Press Sanctuary Everywhere
Book SynopsisIn Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls for expanded sanctuary are insufficient when dealing with the everyday workings of immigration enforcement. Through fieldwork in migrant clinics, shelters, and the Sonoran Desert, Sostaita demonstrates that, as a sacred practice, sanctuary cannot be fixed in any one destination or mandate. She turns to those working to create sanctuary on the move, from a deported nurse offering medical care on the border to incarcerated migrant women denying rules on touch in detention facilities to collectives set up to honor those who died crossing the border. Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices t
£70.55
New York University Press Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court
Book SynopsisPROSE Award- Psychology FinalistA timely and important contribution to the study of immigration court from a psychological perspectiveEvery day, large numbers of immigrants undertake dangerous migration journeys only to face deportation or removal proceedings once they arrive in the U.S. Others who have been in the country for many years may face these proceedings as well, and either group may seek to gain lawful status by means of an application to USCIS, the benefits arm of the immigration system. Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court examines the growing role of mental health professionals in the immigration system as they conduct forensic mental health assessments that are used as psychological evidence for applications for deportation relief, write affidavits for the court about the course of treatment they have provided to immigrants, help prepare people emotionally to be deported, and provide support for immigrants in detention centers. Many immigrants appear in immigraTrade ReviewThe interdisciplinary focus in this important text is novel and important. Several chapters address topics that are typically neglected from the literature on immigrant and refugee mental health, such as competency, violence risk, and vicarious trauma. . . . Indispensable for anyone who works within immigration court. -- Barry Rosenfeld, Fordham UniversityAn important contribution that speaks to a growing area of need and professional interest. This book provides essential information for both psychologists and attorneys. -- Nadine Nakamura, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University
£25.19
New York University Press Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court
Book SynopsisPROSE Award- Psychology FinalistA timely and important contribution to the study of immigration court from a psychological perspectiveEvery day, large numbers of immigrants undertake dangerous migration journeys only to face deportation or removal proceedings once they arrive in the U.S. Others who have been in the country for many years may face these proceedings as well, and either group may seek to gain lawful status by means of an application to USCIS, the benefits arm of the immigration system. Mental Health Evaluations in Immigration Court examines the growing role of mental health professionals in the immigration system as they conduct forensic mental health assessments that are used as psychological evidence for applications for deportation relief, write affidavits for the court about the course of treatment they have provided to immigrants, help prepare people emotionally to be deported, and provide support for immigrants in detention centers. Many immigrants appear in immigraTrade ReviewThe interdisciplinary focus in this important text is novel and important. Several chapters address topics that are typically neglected from the literature on immigrant and refugee mental health, such as competency, violence risk, and vicarious trauma. . . . Indispensable for anyone who works within immigration court. -- Barry Rosenfeld, Fordham UniversityAn important contribution that speaks to a growing area of need and professional interest. This book provides essential information for both psychologists and attorneys. -- Nadine Nakamura, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University
£73.80
New York University Press Organizing While Undocumented
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsHonorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationAn inspiring look inside immigrant youth's political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and howdespite this riskmany of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movement's epicentersSan Francisco, Chicago, and New York Cityto explain the impressive political success of the undocumented immigrant community. He shows how their identities as undocumented immigrants, but also as queer individuals, people of colTrade ReviewNever before have I read an empirical and theoretical book-length treatise on intersectionality as the identity politics of a US social movement, in this case, one of the most prominent: that of unauthorized immigrant youth. This highly sophisticated analysis centers the organizing of the usually-unseen Asian ethnics without papers and interrelates social axes and activist strategies by way of the undocuqueer movement. Organizing While Undocumented is an indispensable read for anyone interested in the intersection of race, legal status, queer identity, and gender in activism and for anyone seeking a model of meticulous and incisive analysis that is both razor-sharp and inspiring. -- Nadia Y. Kim, author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LAOrganizing While Undocumented is a timely and powerful book that makes a major contribution to contemporary debates over immigration and citizenship. The courage and tenacity of undocumented Latino and Asian youth activists shine through in this book, revealing inspiring stories of personal and societal transformation. -- Rick Baldoz, author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946Since the massive immigrant-rights protests of 2006, the undocumented youth movement has emerged as one of the most powerful social movements of our time. Organizing While Undocumented offers an enlightening perspective of the more nuanced aspects of identify formation and cross-issue campaigns that undergird the importance and influence of this social movement. Timely and incredibly relevant, this book is a must-read for those interested in the contemporary processes of migration, identity, and protest. -- Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in AmericaThe book does a great job highlighting how immigrant-rights activists think about and mobilize their intersectional identities to advance their civil rights agenda locally and nationally. [...] Escudero’s work will certainly be a model to conduct further work on mobilizations around immigrant rights. * Social Forces *
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New York University Press From Deportation to Prison
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book AwardA thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcementCriminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase? From Deportation to Prison unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiativeThe Criminal Alien Program (CAP)designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails and prisons. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, the findings in this book reveal how the Criminal Alien Program quietly set off a punitive turn in immigration enforcement that has fundamentally altered detention, deportation, and criminTrade ReviewPatrisia Macias-Rojas book,From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America, provides rich insight into domestic border security in the Southern Arizona/Sonora region. * Theory in Action *This is an important book that scholars of both immigration and criminalization should read. The argument [namely, that the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) is responsible for a large portion of deportations] is well constructed and provocative, and Macías-Rojas breaks new empirical and theoretical ground. * International Migration Review *In From Deportation to Prison, Patrisia Macías-Rojas aptly situates the current deportation regime within a broader historical context by drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, hundreds of in-depth interviews in southern Arizona, and archival research in Washington, DC. Furthermore, Macías-Rojas contributes to the burgeoning deportation literature by drawing connections between the current deportation regime and mass incarceration in the United States. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Patrisia Macías-Rojas is a sociologist and yet her in-depth ethnographic fieldwork will be very familiar to readers with a background in Anthropology Political and legal anthropologists, especially those working with fraught social issues, will likely consider Macías-Rojas research design a model of exceptionally solid empirical work. * Polar Journal *From Deportation to Prison provides a fascinating and original view of the day-to-day workings of the immigration detention system, based on fieldwork, interviews, and archival research conducted over a 10 year period. An exciting and high-quality work. -- Susan Bibler Coutin, author of Nation of EmigrantsPatrisia Macias-Rojas' commanding book narrates the profound restructuring of immigration policies in the US. Using rich ethnographic data and sharp policy analyses, she shows how the merging of enforcement and deportation policies with the rigid structures of the criminal justice system result in a vicious punishment regime. The book makes a compelling case for cross-movement organizing and is essential reading for scholars, activists and policy makers. -- Beth E. Richie,author of Arrested JusticeThe book largely brackets out activities of the powerful private prison-industrial complex, an important player in the growing criminalization of immigrants the book significantly our understanding of how and why the current immigration enforcement debacle came to be. It will be of particular interest scholars of race and immigration, inequality, and public policy. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press Medical Legal Violence
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis insightful, accessible ethnography reveals the broad and deep reach of the punitive immigration regime, which enlists even the medical personnel whose goal is to heal people. It is an excellent contribution to several fields and will be read widely. * Cecilia Menjívar, author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala *Comparing immigrant-serving clinics across red, blue, and purple states, Meredith Van Natta captures with clarity and conviction the urgency of reforming both the US medical and immigration policy landscapes. Her careful analysis is both striking and humanizing, as she tells the stories of health care providers’ and patients’ heartache, fear, persistence, and triumph during critical political moments during the Obama and Trump eras. Medical Legal Violence is a must-read for anyone interested in immigration and health care policy in the United States. * Leisy J. Abrego, author of Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders *For decades, punitive federal immigration policy, rising interior enforcement, and a social welfare system that treats health care as a consumer good has wielded ‘medical legal violence’ onto the lives of Latinx immigrants. In this timely book, Van Natta deftly shows how the situation became even worse after 2016, as both immigrants and the mission-driven safety-net clinicians and staff working to treat them faced new and uncertain ‘decision-scapes’ in accessing treatment. The results—more people blocked from and foregoing care, more people forced to let their illness progress to the point of acute and costly emergency care, and more providers torn between their personal and medical ethics and the US laws and bureaucracies that prioritize insecurity over health—are no less than a national disaster. * Helen B. Marrow, author of New Destination Dreaming Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South *This vividly written book tells the painful story of how US anti-immigrant policies have permeated the nation’s medical system, making it increasingly difficult to meet the health care needs of an impoverished population who often lack English fluency and legal documentation. Rich in ethnographic and environmental detail, Medical Legal Violence highlights the political struggles between two broken systems in need of reform—health care and immigration—and the chilling effects this battle has on the health outcomes and well-being of migrants. An invaluable resource for public officials, as well as academics, Van Natta’s work powerfully addresses the dire health care needs of our most vulnerable yet essential members in our society. * Jacqueline Hagan, author of Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey *
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New York University Press Citizen Student Soldier
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) programs have experienced unprecedented expansion in American public schools. The program and its proliferation in poor, urban schools districts with large numbers of Latina/o and African American students is not without controversy. Public support is often based on the belief that the program provides much-needed discipline for at risk youth. Meanwhile, critics of JROTC argue that the program is a recruiting tool for the U.S. military and is yet another example of an increasingly punitive climate that disproportionately affect youth of color in American public schools. Citizen, Student, Soldier intervenes in these debates, providing critical ethnographic attention to understanding the motivations, aspirations, and experiences of students who participate in increasing numbers in JROTC programs. These students have complex reasons for their participation, reasons that challenge the reductive idea that they are either dangeroTrade ReviewCitizen, Student, Soldieroffers a nuanced portrait of the nexus between race, militarism, and contemporary public education, giving fresh insight to the deeply intertwined histories of Latina/os and military service. Written in accessible prose and drawing from Latina/o studies, political science, anthropology, and critical military studies, Perezs text represents an invaluable contribution toward our understanding of race, social membership. National belonging and what it means to be a & good citizen. * Lat Stud *Citizen, Student, Soldieris an important book for scholars and students of U.S. anthropology. It could form the backbone for a course on an increasingly militarized homeland that stubbornly remains invisible. By making & America visible, Perez also makes it available for critique. * American Anthropologist *Readers will find detailed descriptions of marginalized youths attempts to undertake positive forms of development that might lead to social inclusion. Perez puts these descriptions in context in terms of the current debates about citizenship in the US, including civic obligation, social opportunity, and US militarism in the & land of opportunity. * CHOICE *In this important and much anticipated work anthropologist extraordinaire Gina Pérez provides a powerful portrait of the making of American citizenship today. By examining Latino/a youth and their aspirations and attitudes towards the JROTC in relation to the rapid expansion of the military and larger neoliberal policies of retrenchment, Perez challenges narrow understandings of citizenship through a rich portrayal that truly honors their voices and dreams. -- Arlene Davila,New York UniversityPresents a provocative analysis of how young Latinas and Latinos navigate the JROTC program, where significant portions of the participants are students of color and young women, in the context of neoliberalism and the new American militarism. Pérez argues persuasively that Latina/o youths aspirations for recognition as full citizens within limited structural conditions lead them toward the personal, social, and economic benefits offered by the military. Her work provides a fresh perspective on Latino youth, the military as an avenue for upward mobility, and citizenship in the post 9/11 era. -- Patricia Zavella,University of California, Santa CruzPerezs new book is a very readable, even conversational, account of the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps or JROTC in a high school in OhioCitizen, Student, Soldier is highly accessible, depending more heavily on descriptions and interviews than on theoretical argument. While Perez does engage some of the theoretical questions of the day, the book is not especially theory-driven. That is mostly a positive for making the book readable and relevant * Anthropology Review Database *
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New York University Press Banned
Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Best Book Award, Law Category, given by the American Book FestExamines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administrationWithin days of taking office, President Donald J. Trump published or announced changes to immigration law and policy. These changes have profoundly shaken the lives and well-being of immigrants and their families, many of whom have been here for decades, and affected the work of the attorneys and advocates who represent or are themselves part of the immigrant community. Banned examines the tool of discretion, or the choice a government has to protect, detain, or deport immigrants, and describes how the Trump administration has wielded this tool in creating and executing its immigration policy. Banned combines personal interviews, immigration law, policy analysis, and case studies to answer the following questions: (1) what does immigration enforcement and discretion look like in the time of Trump? (2) whTrade Review"This meticulously argued work succeeds in illuminating with plain language what the immigration system obscures behind jargon and steel bars." * STARRED Library Journal *"Now more than ever we need experts such as Professor Shoba Wadhia to make sense of the senseless immigration policies put forth by the Trump administration. Banned combines thoughtful analysis of immigration law and policy with insightful case studies and interviews, culminating in a powerful reminder of the human toll taken on individuals and families caught in the crossfire of prejudice and fear. Banned is a clarion call to reassert humane immigration policy as a core American value." -- Chris Coons, United States Senator"Banned is a significant witness to this unprecedented time in immigration policy." * William Stock, Founding Partner, Klasko Immigration Law Partners, and Past President, American Immigration Lawyers Association *"Banned presents a fascinating discussion of the significant immigration policy changes undertaken by the Trump administration, from the Muslim travel ban to asylum and detention issues. Having represented individuals subject to the travel ban, I have personally seen the tragedies caused by an inhumane and discriminatory policy. Shoba Wadhia shines a bright light on the depth of the drastic changes being made to a country founded by and for immigrants." -- Mahsa Khanbabai, Khanbabai Immigration Law"Banned is a thoughtful look at the immigration initiatives of the Trump administration. Shoba Wadhia critically examines immigration enforcement and the exercise of discretion in immigration matters by the new administration . . . Banned is a definite “must read” for anyone interested in what perhaps has been one of the most rapid periods of change in immigration enforcement ever." -- Kevin R. Johnson, Dean, School of Law, and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicanx Studies, University of California, Davis"When he began separating immigrant children from their parents, what President Trump did not count on was that the resistance would include the sharp eye and careful pen wielded by the erstwhile Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, in her splendid work, Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump. Professor Wadhia is the best counterpoint to the President, as she has gathered all the evidence of his political perfidy, and has shown clearly how his attempts to upend international norms have failed to gain traction." -- Michael A Olivas, author of No Undocumented Child Left Behind: Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren"Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is an ideal chronicler of how the architecture of immigration law has dramatically changed under the Trump Administration. After the Muslim ban was announced, Wadhia became an indispensable part of the network of lawyers and activists who mobilized in response. In Banned, Wadhia uses accessible language and a community-centered approach to explain the impact of the Muslim ban, family separation, temporary protected status, and other immigration policies on the daily lives of people. Banned is a vital resource for activists, organizers, lawyers, and practitioners seeking to better understand the current political moment." -- Deepa Iyer, Author of We Too Sing America; South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future"From separating families to banning Muslims to countless other cruelties, President Trump has claimed an almost limitless power to banish immigrants and refugees from our land. The nation’s leading expert on immigration enforcement eloquently exposes the illegality of these policies and their devastating impact on immigrant and refugee families." * Stephen H. Legomsky, John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus, Washington University in St Louis School of Law, and former Chief Counsel, US Citizenship & Immigration Services *"Very accessibly written, the book will be a great resource for those with little concrete knowledge of immigration issues in the Trump era. Minimal use of jargon makes the book valuable to a very wide audience, including readers across the entire spectrum of higher education." * Choice *"Shoba Wadhia provides a great deal of food for thought for readers." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *"Banned ... [provides] valuable insight into the many layers of discretion that impact persons crossing borders, beginning with the first encounter that migrants have with border officials, and extending all the way to the highest levels of an administration that has sought to implement far-reaching changes in policy without regard for longstanding rules against arbitrary and capricious behavior." * International Journal of Refugee Law *"Banned is an excellent book for a general audience reader hoping to gain a quick understanding of immigration changes under Trump, as well as for a reader more familiar with immigration law who will appreciate seeing the major currents organized and described so deftly in a short space." * International Migration Review *
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New York University Press The New American Servitude
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist AnthropologyExamines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States Care for America's growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as a niche employment sector, funneling their friends and relatives into this occupation. However, elder care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. In The New American Servitude, Coe demonstrates how these workers often struggle to find a sense of political and social belonging. They are regularly subjected to racial insults and demonstrations of powerand effectively turned into servantsat the hands of other members of th
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New York University Press The Italian Squad
Book SynopsisThe unknown inside story of the NYPD's Italian-born detectives who fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved immigrant communityThe story begins in Sicily, on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in New York were celebrated even in Italy. The Italian Squad, by veteran New York City journalist and historian Paul Moses, explores the lives of the nationally celebrated detectives who followed in the slain Petrosino's footsteps as leaders of the New York City investigative squad: Anthony Vachris, Charles Corrao, and Michael Fiaschetti. Drawing on new primary sources such as private diaries and city, state, and federal documents, this dramatic narrative history follows the Italian Squad across the first two decades of the twentieth century as its deTrade Review"In his new book, reporter-historian Paul Moses writes about the NYPD officers who fought the extortion racket known as the Black Hand during the early part of the 20th century—and did so from a position of ethnic familiarity. Immigrants fighting immigrants, Italians battling Italians, crime fighters operating from within the community that was being preyed upon." * Wall Street Journal *"Moses provides the definitive account of a fascinating chapter in New York City’s law enforcement history. New York history nuts will be in heaven." * Publishers Weekly *"An original and deeply researched book that challenges many of the myths distorting our understanding of organized crime in the twentieth century. Paul Moses gracefully conjures the gritty world of Italian policemen, the struggles of the immigrant community they served, the complex realities of NYPD politics, and the formation of a transnational underworld stretching from New York to Sicily." -- Daniel Czitrom, author of New York Exposed"A well-researched examination of a little-known corner of the NYPD’s past." * Kirkus Reviews *"A story of ethnic stereotypes, immigration battles, and police brutality." * New York Daily News *"A thoughtful, enlightening, deeply researched exploration of the origins of organized crime in the United States. Moses brings to light the real-life origins of the Mafia and the attempts of Italian-American members of the NYPD to bring it to heel. The issues of ethnicity and criminality that Moses addresses are as timely today as they were a century ago. The Italian Squad is an engrossing read from first page to last." -- Peter Quinn, mystery writer, historian, and author of Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York"In this absorbing tale of a New York City plagued by bombings, blackmail, and child kidnappings, the unsung heroes of The Italian Squad battle ruthless Black Hand thugs as well as fierce Italian-American prejudice. Moses skillfully tells the little known story of how a group of undercover cops risked their lives to help a vulnerable Italian immigrant population grow and thrive." -- Maria Laurino, author of The Italian Americans: A History"In this impeccably researched book, Paul Moses does a masterful job bringing to life the brave men on the front lines of what was a new era in law enforcement. The Italian Squad is a must read for any student of history and organized crime." -- Matt Birkbeck, author of The Life We Chose and The Quiet Don"Moses shows how the Italian Squad was one of the first examples of community policing. With a reporter’s eye for detail and a writer’s feel for the sweep of history, Moses brings to life not only Petrosino, martyred during an investigation in Italy, but those many men and women who continued his fight for law and order for nearly two decades." -- Helene Stapinski, author of Murder in Matera"For Gang Land's money, this book should be required reading for law enforcement, a reminder of how powerful organized crime can grow when it's ignored." -- Jerry Capeci * Gang Land *"The Italian Squad is a true-crime story expertly told and, though set in a bygone century, relevant to today’s concerns about immigration, prejudice, and policing." * PopMatters *"Historian Moses carefully strips away the mythology that has always shrouded the Italian squad and instead offers a nuanced portrait of brave, but flawed men who fought the good fight for their people and their city." * Italia Report USA *"In this explosive story, Moses carefully strips away the mythology that has always enveloped the Italian Squad and offers instead a nuanced portrait of brave but flawed men who fought the good fight for their people and their city." * The Brooklyn Daily Eagle *
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New York University Press Homeward Bound
Book SynopsisFirsthand accounts of migrants who settled in Britain offer new insights into empire, belonging, migration, and diasporaHomeward Bound shines a light on a neglected aspect of twentieth-century migration history. It compares two groups of migrantsSouthern Irish Protestants and the British in Indiawho returned to Britain from Ireland and India after independence in 1922 and 1947. By looking across national boundaries, Niamh Dillon explores both individual and collective narratives of imperial identity in the late British Empire and the prompts for return. For both groups, the success of national independence movements in the first half of the twentieth century was cataclysmic and prompted a large-scale migration to Britain. Between 1911 and 1926, the number of Protestants in the Irish Free State dropped from approximately 313,000 to 208,000, and much of the British population left India. Although these numbers are significant, these two groups have largely beTrade ReviewIn Homeward Bound Niamh Dillon uses her unusually long experience of long in-depth oral history interviews to highlight the memories and feelings of men and women and their families faced with the sudden collapse of a British Empire which had seemed so secure, on which the sun had never set. Homeward Bound is rich with the detail of Dillon's own recordings. But her book is all too rare in two other ways. Firstly by also using archival sources, which allow some statistical analysis, it is a model of mixed methods. And secondly, through contrasting the 'twilight of empire' in India and Ireland she brings out the variety of personal experience in the same years. The Irish Protestants could hang on because they had land and business interests; those once closest to power in India simply fled. Her book not only tells rich stories; it is a model of historical analysis. * Paul Thompson, Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of Essex, founder-editor of Oral History and author of The Voice of the Past, The Edwardians, and Living the Fishing *This excellent study opens up important new ground for many historians. It is a major contribution to understanding a relatively neglected aspect of Irish history, and adding understandings of Britishness and specifically Englishness. Moreover, it is a model of methods in comparative history, and scholars of both India and the British Empire will learn much from taking an Irish angle and perspective on their subjects. -- Professor Richard S. Grayson, Goldsmiths, University of LondonA compelling and highly original exploration of the end of empire through the moving comparative testimonies of southern Irish Protestants and British settlers in India. Dillon examines notions of ‘home’ and belonging, education, class and gender, and how these conflicted with independence movements and resistance to empire. The migrants’ eventual decision to leave amounted to an ‘imperial diaspora’ as they adjusted to homes and lives in a post-colonial Britain. -- Rob Perks, MBE, former Lead Curator of Oral History and Director of National Life Stories at the British LibraryFollows the slow motion collapse of the British Empire, through the fine detail of archive and oral history. Dillon’s fine-grained and sensitive discussion with two such communities, as they negotiate the meaning of ‘home,’ offers insights to similar groups, seeking a place as empires collapse throughout the world, and offers us routes out of dead end discourses of empire. -- Patrick O’Sullivan, Visiting Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies, London Metropolitan UniversityOpens up new possibilities for oral history and is a welcome addition to the history of everyday imperialism. Not only does Dillon show how life history approaches can make colonial mentalities visible, but by taking a comparative approach she reveals how geographical and historical contexts shaped colonial consciousness. At the same time, the oral histories are deftly handled as evidence and to retell some remarkable stories. -- Graham Smith, Deputy Head of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle UniversityCritically explores the changing meaning of ‘home’ for the individuals and families who composed Britain’s imperial network. Featuring a wonderful combination of archival materials and oral histories, Homeward Bound provides a valuable comparison across imperial sites to examine commonalities and divergences in the meaning(s) of belonging. -- Erica Wald, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of LondonThis rich and sensitive treatment looks at how the homes of both these groups were more than family spaces, but also sites laden with imperial values. It is a history in uneasiness, of tensions with local populations before they leave, and of not fitting in as expected when they return ‘home’: viewed as not being a metropolitan elite, but rather another sector of the imperial diaspora. -- Ida Milne, editor, Irish Literary SupplementThe first three chapters are especially stimulating reads, the interviews at their heart providing insights into the complexities of British imperial diasporic identity and the manner in which these identities informed real life decisions as they were reshaped by historic events. Dillon’s exploration of the gender dimension to the experience of both British Indians and Irish Protestants is a primary strength of the book. In the final analysis, Homeward Bound demonstrates that the experiences of the ‘returnees’ were as much defined by contrasts as commonalities and leaves us with much to consider. I look forward to Dillon’s future research. * The Irish Story *Homeward Bound reverberates with subjective ambivalences about macropolitical change and its diasporic effects. Dillon’s generous quotations provide her interviewees with the space to unfurl both their instinctive affinity with 'returning' to Britain, and their laments for a lost place and status. Theoretically sophisticated and textually rich. * Irish Studies Review *Homeward Bound makes an important contribution to our understanding of imperial British identity at the end of Empire as well as shining a light on the experiences of migrants whose ‘return’ was triggered by the process of decolonisation and independent statehood. Its richly textured source material, rooted in these life stories, offers a model of comparative work for understanding how notions of belonging and home were shaped across the imperial diaspora. * Twentieth Century British History *A welcome addition to the study of 'return migration' in the twentieth century. Homeward Bound also contributes to scholarship on the comparative and connected histories of India and Ireland and it will surely prompt thoughts and reflections amongst specialists in those fields.... full of fascinating material that contributes to our wider understanding of imperial migration and comparative history... [and] the interviewees’ testimonies always stand out for their richness and detail. * H-Net Reviews *A thoughtful and detailed exploration of the comparisons and contrasts between two of Britain's imperial territories and the impact felt by the thousands of people who returned 'home' from those locations in the post-colonial era... For anyone interested in researching the background of family during this period, in particular, the findings will strike a chord.... The result is a book which is both an enjoyable and informative read. * The Journal of the Families in British India Society *
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New York University Press America As Seen on TV
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed BookThe surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and unrealistic. What happens, then, when people who grew up on American television decide to come to the United States? What do they expect to find, and what do they actually find? In America, As Seen on TV, Clara E. Rodriguez surveys international college students and foreign nationals working or living in the US to examine the impact of American television on their views of the US and on their expectations of life in the United States. She finds that many were surprised to learn that America is racially and economically diverse, and that it is not the easy-breezy, happy endings culture portrayed in the mTrade Review"This insightful book delves into the influence that watching US TV shows has on the viewers preconceptions and perceptions about race, class, and gender, and to what extent they are aware of this influence[A] timely and important contribution in understanding the global dominance of US TV." * Choice *"It may be useful for undergraduate courses in research methodology, particularly for the open and honest introduction that explains Rodriguezs reason for conducting the study in the first place. Rodriguezs expertise as a sociologist comes through here and she is systematic in approach and easy and enjoyable to read in analysis." * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *"This is an interesting and important book, as it provides sorely lacking data on not only viewer impressions of television (rather than the content analyses more common in media studies) but also on those of two populations of viewers; it also provides insight into how foreigners see the United States. This book would be very useful in an introduction to sociology class, as well as classes related to globalization or media studies. It is accessible for an undergraduate or even high school audience." * American Journal of Sociology *"All in all, the book presents interesting empirical findings ... It would most certainly be of interest to academics interested in audience research and the role of American TV." -- European Journal of Communication"Clara Rodríguez has produced an incisive and provocative study. Through intensive interviews and a thoughtful examination of scholarly literature on the media, she has provided a revealing examination of American televisions influence on global perceptions of the life and values of the United States.This is a landmark study of televisions role in shaping popular views of our nation, particularly its racial, ethnic, class, and gender diversity." -- Carlos E. Cortés, author of The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity"This engaging book provides a nuanced probing of the vast and complex literature on the & soft power of television here and abroad to examine how TV shapes the views of foreign born and U.S. millennials about representations of class, race, ethnicity, and gender in America. Through grounded analysis, the findings reveal not only the influence of viewers social and cultural backgrounds on their reception of American television programs, they also transform our understanding of the cultural embeddedness of the global television industry." -- Denise Bielby, author of Global TV: Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market"This book has valuable insights for those studying American soft power but offers even more to students and scholars interested in the impact of the representation of minority groups on television, as Rodríguez emphasizes questions of race, class and gender diversity in American television. Unlike previous studies which have mainly focused on international audiences viewing in their home countries, Rodríguez focuses on how depictions of American life on television can impact immigrants’ perceptions and expectations of America before and after arrival." * Critical Studies in Television *
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New York University Press Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government
Book SynopsisAs a nation ofimmigrants, the United States has long accepted that citizens who identify withan ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties; yet Americans have at timesregarded the persistence of foreign ties with suspicion, seeing them as a sign ofpotential disloyalty and a threat to national security. Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government bringstogether a group of distinguished scholars of international politics andinternational migration to examine this contradiction in the realm of Americanpolicy making, ultimately concluding that the relationship between diasporagroups and the government can greatly affect foreign policy. This relationshipis not unidirectionalas much as immigrants make an effort to shape foreignpolicy, government legislators and administrators also seek to enlist them infurthering American interests.From Israel to Cuba and from Ireland to Iraq, the casestudies in this voluTrade ReviewThe array of case studies on Diaspora groups in the US in this edited volume provides not only critical insights into the evolution and status of those groups, but also offers astute analyses of their diverse and complex relationships with the US government as they seek to influence policy toward the homeland. Framed throughout by a well-articulated & divergence/convergence analytical approach, this volume facilitates comparative analysis and is a must-read for anyone engaged with issues related to Diaspora populations and transnational migration. -- Robert E. Maguire,author of Haiti Held HostageThese thoughtful essays carefully focus on the constraints diaspora groups face as they engage in foreign policy in their host and home countries.The book's emphasis on the how US state actors interact with diasporic groups underscores why such groups are less threatening to US interests than is often assumed. -- Rodolfo de la Garza,author of Latinos and U.S. Foreign Policy: Lobbying for the Homeland?Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix introduc tion 1 Diaspora-Government Relations in Forging US Foreign Policies 3 Josh DeWind and Renata Segura dia spor a s 2 The Effects of Diasporas' Nature, Types, and Goals on Hostland Foreign Policies 31 Gabriel Sheffer compe ting convergent or divergent intere s t s? 3 Between JDate and J Street: US Foreign Policy and the Liberal Jewish Dilemma in America 61 Yossi Shain and Neil Rogachevsky 4 Palestinians, Diasporas, and US Foreign Policy 76 Mohammed A. Bamyeh when dia spor a intere s t s shape foreign pol ic y 5 America's Role in the Northern Ireland Peace Process 97 Joseph E. Thompson 6 Cuban Americans and US Cuba Policy 132 Lisandro Perez viii Contents when government interests shape foreign policy 7 Diaspora Lobbying and Ethiopian Politics 163 Terrence Lyons 8 The Haitian Diaspora: Building Bridges after Catastrophe 185 Daniel P. Erikson diaspora-government convergence in policy making 9 The Iraqi Diaspora and the US Invasion of Iraq 211 Walt Vanderbush historical perspective 10 Convergence and Divergence Yesterday and Today in Diaspora-National Government Relations 239 Tony Smith Contributors 269 Index 273
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New York University Press The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMaya Pagni Barak demonstrates and argues convincingly that no amount of procedural justice reforms will protect non-citizen immigrant populations from the US deportation regime. The regime’s tentacles run too deep in these targeted communities to formally ensure their social inclusion. An essential read for those who care about our democratic future. * David Brotherton, co-author of Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile *Too often, those of us thinking about how to reform the immigration system get lost in the minutiae of procedural law. Barak re-centers us: through gripping personal stories and diligent research, Barak paints a picture of a system in a straitjacket, which, instead of responding to the human suffering it should address, is used as a means of social control of marginalized populations. This is an urgent reading for those who are thinking deeply about how to ‘humanize’ this broken system and those trying to help undocumented people navigate the current labyrinth. * Steven Dudley, author of MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang *Barak draws from interviews and ethnographic observations to make a cogent case that the immigration court system needs far more than procedural reforms; it requires a radical reimagining. This book will be especially useful in classes on immigration and procedural justice as Barak eloquently weaves heart-wrenching stories with clear explanations of our complex system of immigration laws and courts. * Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism *
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New York University Press The Slow Violence of Immigration Court
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMaya Pagni Barak demonstrates and argues convincingly that no amount of procedural justice reforms will protect non-citizen immigrant populations from the US deportation regime. The regime’s tentacles run too deep in these targeted communities to formally ensure their social inclusion. An essential read for those who care about our democratic future. * David Brotherton, co-author of Banished to the Homeland: Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile *Too often, those of us thinking about how to reform the immigration system get lost in the minutiae of procedural law. Barak re-centers us: through gripping personal stories and diligent research, Barak paints a picture of a system in a straitjacket, which, instead of responding to the human suffering it should address, is used as a means of social control of marginalized populations. This is an urgent reading for those who are thinking deeply about how to ‘humanize’ this broken system and those trying to help undocumented people navigate the current labyrinth. * Steven Dudley, author of MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang *Barak draws from interviews and ethnographic observations to make a cogent case that the immigration court system needs far more than procedural reforms; it requires a radical reimagining. This book will be especially useful in classes on immigration and procedural justice as Barak eloquently weaves heart-wrenching stories with clear explanations of our complex system of immigration laws and courts. * Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism *
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New York University Press States of Return
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New York University Press States of Return
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New York University Press Forced Out
Book SynopsisFeatures the stories of undocumented mothers who reunite with their children in the US years after fleeing violence at homeFacing escalating chaos and violence in their home countries, many Central American mothers have found that a desperate flight to the north was their only choice. Many left their children behind in order to spare them the hardships of the journey. If they made it across the border without getting locked up or deported, they entered a country increasingly unwilling to recognize claims of asylum. This book features the stories of women who crossed the border without encountering immigration authorities, in some cases several times, and settled in the greater Washington, DC, area, living in the shadows for years. By centering on the voices of the women themselves, it offers an intimate look at what drove them from home and the challenges they face in reuniting years later with their children. Forced Out traces the women's evolving attitudes toward the violence embTrade ReviewDeft storytelling, seasoned legal and anthropological understanding, and an unflinching moral compass—these are some of the attributes that make Susan Terrio’s probing study of Central American women’s forced migration to the United States such a valuable addition to the literature on this searing, contemporary issue. -- Jacqueline Bhabha, author of Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?Clear, vivid, and emotionally impactful. . . . The stories featured are diverse, usefully selected, and revealing. The quality of fieldwork is clear; this sort of intimacy represents a real accomplishment in ethnography. -- Josiah Heyman, The University of Texas at El PasoTerrio does a beautiful job of articulating the experiences of the undocumented Central American women whose stories are woven throughout the book. . . . Playing with the metaphor of the mouth of the shark, she leads us through their experiences as they run from the shark, are swallowed and spit out by the shark, and escape with devastating bruises. . . . Though they escape physically from the shark that is the violence in Central America, it follows them through their complicated, difficult transnational relationships with family members. Their stories, and Terrio’s narratives, depict intergenerational histories of abuse and agency, of harm and decision making within the limited bounds available to these women and their children. -- Marjorie Zatz, University of California, Merced
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New York University Press The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
Book SynopsisHow the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracyIn the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, sTrade ReviewImpressive in scope, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration explores popular culture, political rhetoric, and legal discourses from the 1980s and early 1990s as staging grounds for the transformation of multiculturalism and the erosion of welfare policies in ways that anticipated contemporary neoliberal debates. Well-researched and clearly argued, Perrys comparative emphasis on several migratory groups will make a significant contribution to immigration studies. An ambitious book. -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith,author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the U.S.Provocative and well-researched,The Cultural Politics of US Immigrationanalyzes the public sentiment, congressional discourse, and cultural politics surrounding immigration reform.Methodologically innovative, Leah Perry pulls multiple disciplinary threads in order to produce a unique paradigm for studying the relationship between popular culture and public policy. -- Isabel Molina-Guzmán,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media
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New York University Press Immigrants Under Threat
Book SynopsisCo-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationA portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation is fraught with risk, but everywhere immigrants confront repression and dispossession, they also manifest resistance in ways big and small. Immigrants Under Threat shifts the conversation from what has been done to Mexican immigrants to what they do in response. From private strategies of avoidance, to public displays of protest, immigrant resistance is animated by the massive demographic shifts that started in 1965 and an immigration enforcement regime whose unprecedented scope and intensity has made daily life increasingly perilous. Immigrants Under Threat focuses on the way the material needs of everyday life both enable and constrain participation iTrade ReviewIn this beautifully written and analytically rich text, James C. Scott meets Tilly, Tarrow, and McAdam. Employing a comparative case study approach focusing on two California cities (one with open and one with closed political opportunity structures), Prieto draws from three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork and over 60 interviews with activists and community members in order to enrich our understanding of the relationship between immigrants’ quotidian strategies of survival and their decisions to participate (or not) in public community activism. * Mobilization Journal *Immigrants Under Threat is a captivating text that renders heart-wrenchingly clear what it is like to live as a target during the current era of mass deportation. Drawing from extensive ethnographic work with immigrant communities, Prieto elucidates how immigrants vulnerabilities place severe constraints on their ability to organize. This book makes it clear that deportability, legal violence, and precarity shape the lives and possibilities of immigrants and their families today. Theoretically-informed and powerfully written, this book is a must read for both migration and social movements scholars and students. -- Tanya Golash-Boza, Author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global CapitalismGreg Prieto deploys the concept of material moorings to illuminate immigrants dilemma: their trust in the police to address grievances and their rejection of police racialized tactics in immigration enforcement. At its core, this book makes a compelling case for linking immigrants private strategies of avoiding detection and deportation with their activism and public contention. It is rich, engaging, insightful, and a welcome exploration of the conditions that both constrain and inspire immigrant social movement organizing. Highly recommended. -- Cecilia Menjívar, Co-Author of Immigrant FamiliesA modest masterpiece, Immigrants Under Threat appears just when we need it most! Deeply immersed in the immigrant experience, Greg Prieto explores peoples sense of identity, their political orientation and activism, and their acute consciousness of repression and modes of resistance to it. With a thorough grasp of US immigration politics historically and in the present Prieto gives so much: a beautiful and respectful ethnography, a guide to the immigrants rights movement, and a probing glimpse of grassroots Latin@ politics today. Along the way, Prieto teaches community organization skills, reflects on US nativism and how to resist it, and shows what action research is all about. The strength and clarity of Latin@ immigrants in the US today, individually and collectively, comes through very strongly. Highly recommended for adoption in the social sciences and Latin@ studies, as well as in humanities and cultural studies courses across the disciplines. -- Howard Winant, Co-Author of Racial Formation in the United StatesImmigrants Under Threat offers an engaging, persuasive account of the range of ways undocumented immigrants perceive and respond to the threat of deportation. Greg Prieto challenges scholars, policymakers, and activists alike to look beyond avoidance strategies to also consider the novel—and, sometimes, very visible—ways undocumented immigrants resist an increasingly punitive U.S. immigration system through social movement participation. * Social Forces *Immigrants Under Threat is an important contribution to ongoing discussions of immigration, policing, and social movements. Given the ongoing crises along the U.S.-Mexico border and President Trump’s overt animosity and directed racism at Mexican Americans and immigrants, it is a timely read. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
Book SynopsisHow the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracyIn the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy. Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents, congressional debates, and popular media, sTrade ReviewImpressive in scope, The Cultural Politics of US Immigration explores popular culture, political rhetoric, and legal discourses from the 1980s and early 1990s as staging grounds for the transformation of multiculturalism and the erosion of welfare policies in ways that anticipated contemporary neoliberal debates. Well-researched and clearly argued, Perrys comparative emphasis on several migratory groups will make a significant contribution to immigration studies. An ambitious book. -- Claudia Sadowski-Smith,author of Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the U.S.Provocative and well-researched,The Cultural Politics of US Immigrationanalyzes the public sentiment, congressional discourse, and cultural politics surrounding immigration reform.Methodologically innovative, Leah Perry pulls multiple disciplinary threads in order to produce a unique paradigm for studying the relationship between popular culture and public policy. -- Isabel Molina-Guzmán,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media
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New York University Press The New American Servitude
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist AnthropologyExamines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States Care for America's growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as a niche employment sector, funneling their friends and relatives into this occupation. However, elder care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. In The New American Servitude, Coe demonstrates how these workers often struggle to find a sense of political and social belonging. They are regularly subjected to racial insults and demonstrations of powerand effectively turned into servantsat the hands of other members of th
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New York University Press From Deportation to Prison
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book AwardA thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcementCriminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over the last two decades, as national debates about immigration and criminal justice reforms became headline topics. What lies behind this unprecedented increase? From Deportation to Prison unpacks how the incarceration of over two million people in the United States gave impetus to a federal immigration initiativeThe Criminal Alien Program (CAP)designed to purge non-citizens from dangerously overcrowded jails and prisons. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, the findings in this book reveal how the Criminal Alien Program quietly set off a punitive turn in immigration enforcement that has fundamentally altered detention, deportation, and criminTrade ReviewPatrisia Macias-Rojas book,From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America, provides rich insight into domestic border security in the Southern Arizona/Sonora region. * Theory in Action *This is an important book that scholars of both immigration and criminalization should read. The argument [namely, that the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) is responsible for a large portion of deportations] is well constructed and provocative, and Macías-Rojas breaks new empirical and theoretical ground. * International Migration Review *In From Deportation to Prison, Patrisia Macías-Rojas aptly situates the current deportation regime within a broader historical context by drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, hundreds of in-depth interviews in southern Arizona, and archival research in Washington, DC. Furthermore, Macías-Rojas contributes to the burgeoning deportation literature by drawing connections between the current deportation regime and mass incarceration in the United States. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Patrisia Macías-Rojas is a sociologist and yet her in-depth ethnographic fieldwork will be very familiar to readers with a background in Anthropology Political and legal anthropologists, especially those working with fraught social issues, will likely consider Macías-Rojas research design a model of exceptionally solid empirical work. * Polar Journal *From Deportation to Prison provides a fascinating and original view of the day-to-day workings of the immigration detention system, based on fieldwork, interviews, and archival research conducted over a 10 year period. An exciting and high-quality work. -- Susan Bibler Coutin, author of Nation of EmigrantsPatrisia Macias-Rojas' commanding book narrates the profound restructuring of immigration policies in the US. Using rich ethnographic data and sharp policy analyses, she shows how the merging of enforcement and deportation policies with the rigid structures of the criminal justice system result in a vicious punishment regime. The book makes a compelling case for cross-movement organizing and is essential reading for scholars, activists and policy makers. -- Beth E. Richie,author of Arrested JusticeThe book largely brackets out activities of the powerful private prison-industrial complex, an important player in the growing criminalization of immigrants the book significantly our understanding of how and why the current immigration enforcement debacle came to be. It will be of particular interest scholars of race and immigration, inequality, and public policy. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press Organizing While Undocumented
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsHonorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationAn inspiring look inside immigrant youth's political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and howdespite this riskmany of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movement's epicentersSan Francisco, Chicago, and New York Cityto explain the impressive political success of the undocumented immigrant community. He shows how their identities as undocumented immigrants, but also as queer individuals, people of colTrade ReviewNever before have I read an empirical and theoretical book-length treatise on intersectionality as the identity politics of a US social movement, in this case, one of the most prominent: that of unauthorized immigrant youth. This highly sophisticated analysis centers the organizing of the usually-unseen Asian ethnics without papers and interrelates social axes and activist strategies by way of the undocuqueer movement. Organizing While Undocumented is an indispensable read for anyone interested in the intersection of race, legal status, queer identity, and gender in activism and for anyone seeking a model of meticulous and incisive analysis that is both razor-sharp and inspiring. -- Nadia Y. Kim, author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LAOrganizing While Undocumented is a timely and powerful book that makes a major contribution to contemporary debates over immigration and citizenship. The courage and tenacity of undocumented Latino and Asian youth activists shine through in this book, revealing inspiring stories of personal and societal transformation. -- Rick Baldoz, author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946Since the massive immigrant-rights protests of 2006, the undocumented youth movement has emerged as one of the most powerful social movements of our time. Organizing While Undocumented offers an enlightening perspective of the more nuanced aspects of identify formation and cross-issue campaigns that undergird the importance and influence of this social movement. Timely and incredibly relevant, this book is a must-read for those interested in the contemporary processes of migration, identity, and protest. -- Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in AmericaThe book does a great job highlighting how immigrant-rights activists think about and mobilize their intersectional identities to advance their civil rights agenda locally and nationally. [...] Escudero’s work will certainly be a model to conduct further work on mobilizations around immigrant rights. * Social Forces *
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