Migration, immigration and emigration Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism
Book SynopsisThis authoritative collection brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars in an increasingly important area of study. Social scientists and political analysts are becoming more and more aware of the importance of long-maintained or newly embellished links between post-migration communities and the societies from which they originate. Closely tied to this field is a renewed interest in 'diasporas' or globally dispersed groups whose collective experiences often draw on deep historical roots in more than one place.The articles selected for this volume represent key contemporary theories, comparative research and case studies. Contributors are drawn from the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, economics, cultural studies, political science and history. Migration, Diaporas and Transnationalism will be a valuable resource for students and professional researchers who have an interest in migration, globalization, ethnic relations, culture and identity.Trade Review'. . . this book is a valuable resource which has collected together an important range of contributions, many of which may not be easy to track down for the individual scholar.' -- Claire Dwyer, Progress in Human Geography'. . . this collection is a fine overview of contributions to an interesting and promising new research field, and it will be a good resource for professional scholars and especially for students in the field.' -- Boris Slijper, Journal of International Migration and IntegrationTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements • Introduction Part I: Reappraising Contemporary Migration 1. Harvey M. Choldin (1973), ‘Kinship Networks in the Migration Process’ 2. James T. Fawcett (1989), ‘Networks, Linkages, and Migration Systems’ 3. Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch and Cristina Blanc-Szanton (1992), ‘Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration’ 4. Panos Hatzipanayotou (1991), ‘International Migration and Remittances in a Two-Country Temporary Equilibrium Model’ 5. Charles B. Keely and Bao Nga Tran (1989), ‘Remittances from Labor Migration: Evaluations, Performance and Implications’ 6. Johanna Lessinger (1992), ‘Nonresident-Indian Investment and India’s Drive for Industrial Modernization’ 7. Aihwa Ong (1996), ‘Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making: Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the United States’ 8. Roger Rouse (1991), ‘Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism’ 9. Barbara Schmitter Heisler (1985), ‘Sending Countries and the Politics of Emigration and Destination’ 10. Charles W. Stahl and Fred Arnold (1986), ‘Overseas Workers’ Remittances in Asian Development’ Part II: Old and New Meanings of Diaspora 11. John A. Armstrong (1976), ‘Mobilized and Proletarian Diasporas’ 12. James Clifford (1994), ‘Diasporas’ 13. Robin Cohen (1995), ‘Rethinking “Babylon”: Iconclastic Conceptions of the Diasporic Experience’ 14. Robin Cohen (1996), ‘Diasporas and the Nation-State: From Victims to Challengers’ 15. Paul Gilroy (1991), ‘It Ain’t Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At. . .: The Dialectics of Diasporic Identification’ 16. Paul Gilroy (1994), ‘Diaspora’ 17. Stuart Hall (1990), ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’ 18. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1994), ‘Spaces of Dispersal’ 19. David D. Laitin (1995), ‘Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Nationality in the Post-Soviet Diaspora’ 20. Richard Marienstras (1989), ‘On the Notion of Diaspora’ 21. William Safran (1991), ‘Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return’ 22. Gabriel Sheffer (1986), ‘A New Field of Study: Modern Diasporas in International Politics’ 23. Gabriel Sheffer (1995), ‘The Emergence of New Ethno-National Diasporas’ 24. Ninian Smart (1987), ‘The Importance of Diasporas’ 25. Elliott P. Skinner (1993), ‘The Dialectic between Diasporas and Homelands’ Part III: Transnationalism: ‘Globalization From Below’ 26. Arjun Appadurai (1991), ‘Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology’ 27. A. Appadurai and C. Breckonridge (1989), ‘Editors’ Comment: On Moving Targets’ 28. Katy Gardner (1993), ‘Desh-bidesh: Sylheti Images of Home and Away’ 29. Akhil Gupta (1992), ‘The Song of the Nonaligned World: Transnational Identities and the Reinscription of Space in Late Capitalism’ 30. M. Kearney (1995), ‘The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism’ 31. Michael Kearney (1991), ‘Borders and Boundaries of State and Self at the End of Empire’ 32. Orlando Patterson (1975), ‘Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance: A Theoretical Framework and Caribbean Case Study’ 33. Yossi Shain (1995), ‘Multicultural Foreign Policy’ 34. John F. Stack, Jr. (1981), ‘Ethnic Groups as Emerging Transnational Actors’ Name Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Migration and Public Policy
Book SynopsisMigration and Public Policy brings together the most significant papers by leading scholars on both international and internal migration. It investigates the role of governments in encouraging, discouraging or forcing such migration. The book critically appraises the motivation for state intervention, including economic efficiency, strategic considerations or an attempt to achieve ethnic, racial or religious homogeneity, and the intended and unintended effects of this intervention.This authoritative collection will be a valuable resource for students, academics, politicians and policymakers who have an interest in migration policy.Trade Review'. . . this collection represents a most valuable repository of some of the best informed and analytically incisive studies on a subject which, far from fading, will be of increasing concern to academic and practitioner alike.' -- Anthony P. Maingot, International MigrationTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements • Introduction 1. Allan Findlay (1994), ‘An Economic Audit of Contemporary Immigration’ 2. Myron Weiner (1996), ‘Ethics, National Sovereignty and the Control of Immigration’ 3. Nasra M. Shah (1983), ‘Pakistani Workers in the Middle East: Volume, Trends and Consequences’ 4. Alejandro Portes (1978), ‘Toward a Structural Analysis of Illegal (Undocumented) Immigration’ 5. Saskia Sassen-Koob (1979), ‘Economic Growth and Immigration in Venezuela’ 6. James Jupp (1995), ‘From “White Australia” to “Part of Asia”: Recent Shifts in Australian Immigration Policy Towards the Region’ 7. Judith A. Fortney (1970), ‘International Migration of Professionals’ 8. A.M. Findlay (1988), ‘From Settlers to Skilled Transients: The Changing Structure of British International Migration’ 9. Vaughan Robinson (1995), ‘The Changing Nature and European Perceptions of Europe’s Refugee Problem’ 10. Nicholas P. Glytsos (1995), ‘Problems and Policies Regarding the Socio-Economic Integration of Returnees and Foreign Workers in Greece’ 11. Xiushi Yang and Sidney Goldstein (1990), ‘Population Movement in Zhejiang Province, China: The Impact of Government Policies’ 12. James H. Johnson and John Salt (1981), ‘Population Redistribution Policies in Great Britain’ 13. Thomas R. Leinbach (1989), ‘The Transmigration Programme in Indonesian National Development Strategy: Current Status and Future Requirements’ 14. Joost R. Hiltermann (1991), ‘Settling for War: Soviet Immigration and Israel’s Settlement Policy in East Jerusalem’ 15. Alan Mabin (1992), ‘Comprehensive Segregation: The Origins of the Group Areas Act and its Planning Apparatuses’ 16. Akbar S. Ahmed (1995), ‘“Ethnic Cleansing”: A Metaphor for Our Time?’ 17. Kimberly A. Hamilton (1997), ‘Europe, Africa, and International Migration: An Uncomfortable Triangle of Interests’ 18. Mike King (1993), ‘The Impact of Western European Border Policies on the Control of ‘Refugees’ in Eastern and Central Europe’ 19. Michael M. Cernea (1990), ‘International Refugee Flows and Development-Induced Population Displacement’ 20. William T.S. Gould (1988), ‘Government Policies and International Migration of Skilled Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa’ 21. Paul Boyle (1995), ‘Public Housing as a Barrier to Long Distance Migration’ 22. Barry N. Stein (1983), ‘The Commitment to Refugee Resettlement’ 23. Wolfgang Seifert (1997), ‘Admission Policy, Patterns of Migration and Integration: The German and French Case Compared’ 24. Tamar Horowitz (1996), ‘Value-Oriented Parameters in Migration Policies in the 1990s: The Israeli Experience’ 25. Keith H. Halfacree (1996), ‘Out of Place in the Country: Travellers and the “Rural Idyll”’ 26. Hazel Flett, Jeff Henderson and Bill Brown (1979), ‘The Practice of Racial Dispersal in Birmingham 1969-75’ 27. Vaughan Robinson (1989), ‘Up the Creek without a Paddle: Britain’s Boat People Ten Years On’ 28. Vaughan Robinson (1998), ‘The Development of Policies for the Resettlement of Quota Refugees in the UK, 1945-91’ 29. Sharon Stanton Russell (1992), ‘Migrant Remittances and Development’ 30. Graeme Hugo (1996), ‘Environmental Concerns and International Migration’ 31. Gertrud Neuwirth and Lynn Clark (1981), ‘Indochinese Refugees in Canada: Sponsorship and Adjustment’ 32. Roger Zetter (1991), ‘Labelling Refugees: Forming and Transforming a Bureaucratic Identity’ Name Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Economic Growth, Inequality and Migration
Book SynopsisDuring the growth process inequality may rise or decline, and the change in the level of inequality may, in turn, affect growth. An increase in inequality in one place and better prospects of growth and earnings elsewhere can trigger migration. As a result of these close affecting links between factors, each of the eighteen studies - a mix of both theoretical and empirical - is concerned with at least two of these issues, and is classified into one of three general parts in accordance with the theme that is mostly emphasised. The main focus of the papers appearing in the first part of the book is on inequality and its effects on growth, labour market integration and government policies. The book continues by dealing with migration, its determinants and its possible effect on the host country's output, employment and standard of living. Finally, the authors discuss economic growth and its relationship with trade, capital accumulation and internal and external debts.Economists and researchers studying development economics and migration studies will find this original book, with its innovative state-of-the-art studies, of great interest.Trade Review'The studies in this volume are state-of-the-art, uniformly well written, and address important themes. . . This volume deserves to be in every research holding dealing seriously with issues of migration, economic growth, and inequality.' -- Derek Hum, Journal of International Migration and Integration'This book is certainly a great reference for anyone interested in development economics not only because of the specific issues that it covers, but also in terms of the general approaches that it presents. Economists and researchers studying development economics and migration studies will find this collection of works of great usefulness and interest.' -- Christopher Bajada, Economic RecordTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Inequality: Implications for Growth, Labour Market Integration and Policy 1. Inequality and Economic Growth: A Review of the Literature 2. Growth and Income Inequality in Advanced, Capitalist, Stable Economies: Evidence from Australia 3. Median Income: Modelling and Implications for Assessing Growth and Convergence 4. Income Inequality among Different Regions in China’s Post-Reform Era 5. Income Inequality and Redistributive Government Spending: Theory and Panel Data Evidence 6. Employment Inequality, Employment Regulation and Social Welfare 7. Oligarchy Power and Inflation in Brazil Part II: Migration: Unemployment, Assimilation, Expected Returns and Risk 8. Migration, Unemployment and the Optimal Tax: Implications for Growth and Income Distribution 9. Supply, Demand and Disequilibrium in the Market of Immigrants 10. Migration Timing: Expected Returns, Risk Aversion and Assimilation Costs 11. The Effects of Income Disparities on Inter-Regional Migration in a Technologically Developed Country: Evidence from Australia 12. Populate or Perish: Scale, Growth and Australia’s Post-War Immigration 13. Demographic Change, Foreign Borrowing and Intergenerational Equity Part III: Growth: Trade, Capital Accumulation and Debts 14. Trade Liberalisation and Labour Markets in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence 15. Relative Wages and Trade in a Growing Small Open Economy: Mexico, 1987–95 16. R&D Spillovers and Export Performance: Evidence from the OECD Countries 17. Finite Lifetimes, Economic Policies and Capital Accumulation 18. Optimal Capital Accumulation with Trade, Sovereign Debt and Trustworthy Reputation Index
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Policy Press Spreading the 'burden'?: A review of policies to
Book SynopsisEuropean governments are now engaging in one of the largest exercises in social engineering that the continent has seen since the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees in Europe are now being denied their basic right to choose where they live and are instead being compulsorily dispersed. Spreading the 'burden' is: · the first book-length study of dispersal policies; · explicitly comparative in nature and written by three national experts; · highly topical and controversial as the review of dispersal policies is under way in many countries; · a valuable case-study of how society deals with 'outsider' groups and space. The book is essential reading for national and local policy makers, those interested in human rights, social policy and refugee studies, as well as human geographers and sociologists.Trade Review"The authors of this insightful book delve into asylum in a way that will appeal to many readers. This is an excellent book." Community Care"This book is definitely a frontrunner as it sets out to dispel widespread myths fuelled by the media's hype about 'the burden' of settling and integrating refugees. The authors offer a sophisticated analysis of 'the problem of dispersal' expressed in a clear and accessible language and with a persuasive argumentation that helps to discern logic from media and politicians' misrepresentations on this highly emotional political issue." Journal of Social Policy "This book does what it says on the cover. It will undoubtedly be of interest to a wide variety of policy people, whether they be politicians, government workers or those in the media ... most timely." Housing Studies"... a timely publication which throws open the debate on this political placebo. Its well-researched and intelligently written critique and comparison of dispersal policies in the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom make this essential reading for policy makers ... an important publication for anyone interested in the treatment of global refugees." Journal of European Affairs "This timely volume opens the way for debate, challenging dispersal policies while taking the policy-makers at their word." Journal of International Migration and Integration"The authors offer a sophisticated analysis of 'the problem of dispersal' expressed in a clear and accessible language and with a persuasive argument that helps to discern logic from media and politicians' misrepresentations on this highly emotional political issue." Journal of Social Policy"This book is well worth reading just for its up to date and comprehensive account of UK policies. To have such thorough discussions from other countries, making for easy comparisons with the UK, is a major bonus." Jamie Harding, School of the Built Environment, Northumbria University"Dispersal policies have been a political placebo, not an effective policy. This excellent book throws open this debate. It provides a systematic analysis of the effectiveness of dispersal policies and demonstrates best and worst practice." Ceri Peach, Department of Geography, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction; Defining the 'problem'; Dispersal policies in the Netherlands; Dispersal policies in Sweden; Dispersal policies in the UK; What works? Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of dispersal; Redefining the 'problem' and challenging the assumptions.
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Policy Press Understanding immigration and refugee policy:
Book SynopsisImmigration, particularly asylum, has become a major political issue in Britain and Europe and its impact on welfare, employment and 'social cohesion' highly contested. While asylum policy has become more punitive, dependence on immigrant labour has been increasingly acknowledged by governments which attempt to 'manage' migration to secure the benefits without the presumed costs. The book provides an essential background to understanding these debates. Based on documentary sources and primary research, it focuses mainly on Britain within an international and European context. The first part examines different theoretical approaches to understanding migratory flows and strategies. It explores forced and voluntary migration, the gender dimension in migration decisions and transnational links maintained by migrants. Part two focuses on continuities and change in migration policy and how boundaries have shifted to exclude and include different groups. It explores links between immigration policy, welfare and social exclusion, and migrants' experiences in negotiating and challenging these policies. The book concludes by questioning whether immigration controls can be justified on either ethical or practical grounds. The book will be a key text for students and researchers of migration and ethnicity, and of social policy and welfare. It will be of interest to professionals working with migrants and refugees and to all those concerned with migrant rights.Trade Review"Understanding Immigration and Refugee Policy ... is a readable textbook on modern-day migration ... strong on current policy development, including the implications for the often overlooked theme of gender ... [the book is] particularly effective at tracing the recent debate on Britishness and citizenship." Bulletin, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Autumn 2007"For an explanation of the history and the current position [on immigration and refugee policy], I must recommend Professor Rosemary Sales' book... In a six-month period, 1509 press articles were mainly characterised by an alarmism likely to spread fear and bigotry. Her book gives the facts." Bob Holman, The Herald, Society Section, 26/06/07"This book provides an excellent addition to the literature and a much needed overview to the key concepts and issues in global migration and the development of immigration and asylum policy. It addresses crucial themes enabling the reader to understand not only the complexity of international migration in the 21st century but also the development of policy and its impact on the the lives of migrants. The book is thought provoking and deserves to be read widely." Alice Bloch, City UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part One: Understanding migration; Contemporary migration flows: continuities and new directions; Immigration to Britain; Explaining migration; Forced and voluntary migration; Researching migration; Part Two: Understanding immigration policy; The development of British immigration policy; The European dimension; The current legislative framework in Britain; Migrants and welfare providers; The contemporary policy debate on immigration and asylum; The future of immigration policy
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Bristol University Press Doing research with refugees: Issues and
Book SynopsisThis book is the first specifically to explore methodological issues relating to the involvement of refugees in both service evaluation and development and research more generally. It builds on a two-year seminar series funded by the ESRC and attended by members of a range of statutory and voluntary organisations, as well as academics and refugees themselves. The participants jointly drew up a set of good practice guidelines that are re-produced in the book for the first time. Key features include a focus on the methodology for active involvement of refugees; a discussion of barriers to involvement; suggestions for overcoming barriers; analysis of existing practices and ideas for change and a discussion of the implications for policy, research and practice. Doing research with refugees is essential reading for anyone working with in the field. This includes academics, researchers, health and social care providers and voluntary organisations. Refugees themselves who are interested in their role in service evaluation, development and research will also find the book of interest.Trade Review"... a lively, accessible book with a humane and open approach to the subject. ... this is a useful and thorough guide for anyone planning to undertake research in this area. It is a thought provoking and sometimes moving account of a diverse group of people who have used research in an attempt to give refugees a greater voice in society." Diversity in Health and Social CareTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran; Refugees as researchers: experiences from the project 'Bridges and fences: paths to refugee integration in the EU' ~ Elizabeth Mestheneos; Limited exchanges: approaches to involving people who do not speak English in research and service development ~ Bogusia Temple and Rosalind Edwards; Breaking the silence: participatory research processes about health with Somali refugee people seeking asylum ~ Rhetta Moran, Zeinab Mohamed and Hermione Lovel; Home/lessness as an indicator of integration: interviewing refugees about the meaning of home and accommodation ~ Priya Kissoon; The community leader, the politician and the policeman: a personal perspective ~ Manawar Jan-Khan; Complexity and community empowerment in regeneration, 2002-04 ~ Felicity Greenham with Rhetta Moran; Refugee voices as evidence in policy and practice ~ Kirsteen Tait; Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees ~ Jennifer Harris and Keri Roberts; Why religion matters ~ M. Louise Pirouet; Action learning: a research approach that helped me to rediscover my integrity ~ Anna Maria Miwanda Bagenda.
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Policy Press Refugee community organisations and dispersal:
Book SynopsisThe book is distinctive in combining theoretical discussion on the role of networks, resources and social capital with fieldwork evidence and interviews with members of RCOs, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and statutory authorities. It critically examines the impact of dispersal and current legislative change on refugee communities and RCOs; explores the integrative role of RCOs; assesses the race relations framework in Britain and its effects on refugee organisations and provides a thorough and up-to-date literature review. Refugee community organisations and dispersal is essential reading for practitioners and policy makers, academics, researchers and students of social policy, social geography, sociology and politics. Members of NGOs working with refugees or in local government, community workers and members of refugee communities themselves will also be keenly interested in the book. Comparative issues raised by the research will be of direct interest to readers in other countries.Trade Review"This excellent book will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, and academics. I would expect it to become a standard text in the same way as earlier work by Carey-Wood and Robinson." Liza Schuster, Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Oxford University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; Refugee community organisations: paradigms and perspectives; Dispersal: policy and practice; Refugee community organisations in London: consolidation and competition; The institutional and policy framework in the regions; The development of RCOs in the regions; Dispersal, RCOs and refugee communities; Conclusions.
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Policy Press Identity in Britain: A cradle-to-grave atlas
Book SynopsisSixty million people live in Britain. Imagine sixty million. Imagine a map of sixty million. What would that map look like and what story would it tell us about identity in Britain today? Bethan Thomas and Danny Dorling have brought together this outstanding atlas to provide us with a unique visual picture of identity and geography combined. "Identity in Britain" explores our changing identities as we progress from infancy to old age and tells the story of the myriad geographies of life in Britain. Features and benefits include: over 280 full colour, detailed maps analysis of the contemporary neighbourhood geographies of people in Britain at various life stages clear introduction and how-to-use guide making the atlas highly accessible for a wide range of users locational reference maps to aid interpretation of the maps on each page Accompanying web resources, including locational cartograms Unlike conventional atlases of human geography, it allows us to see a range of data on a single map; further it allows us to easily see what social mixing does not occur as well as what does. Never before have we had such a vivid geographical picture of identity in Britain today. The atlas is essential reading for those interested in contemporary human identity and the social geography of early twenty first century Britain. It is also an invaluable resource for researchers working in a wide range of statutory and voluntary organisations, policy makers, journalists, politicians, students and academics.Trade Review"This is a veritable Domesday Book of 21st Century British identities, as rich in argument as in data. Each chapter is a feast - not just for social scientists but for anyone who cares about changing Britain for the better." Nick Pearce, Head of Strategic Policy, Cabinet Office"An incredibly rich source, 'Identity in Britain' includes over two hundred full colour maps based upon the data collected in the 2001 Census." urban-geography.org.uk 2008.MOVE NICK PEARCE'S TESTIMONIAL BACK"Thomas and Dorling's illustrative and provocative atlas, Identity in Britain, provides an important function of maps, offering a sense of where we are now, and where we might want to be. Look at it, and be thrilled by the pleasure that a new way of seeing things can bring." Helen Roberts, The Institute of Education, University of LondonNB Use quotes from People and Places on cover? (e.g. "Praise for...") NICK PEARCE'S TESTIMONIAL IN REVIEWS SECTIONTable of ContentsIntroduction: seven stages; At first the infant: ages 0-4; And then the whining schoolboy: ages 5-15; And then the lover: ages 16-24; Then a soldier: ages 25-39; And then the justice: ages 40-59; The lean and slippered pantaloon: those in old age 60-74; To end this strange eventful history, aged 75+; Conclusion: merely players?
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Wits University Press A Long Way Home: Migrant worker worlds 1800–2014
Book SynopsisIn no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialisation been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South Africa.The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old mobility of African migrants across the continent but also, with the growing demand for labour in the mining industry, the importation of Chinese slaves. The essays and visual materials traverse homesteads, chiefdoms and mining hostels in their portrayal of migrant workers’ and their families’ attempts to maintain contact across large distances and uphold their rural customs, traditions and rituals in new spaces and locations. Together, they provide multiple perspectives on the lived experience of migrant labourers and celebrate their extraordinary journeys. A Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art exhibition entitled ‘Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys’ at the Wits Art Museum. The interdisciplinary nature of the contributions and the extraordinary collection of images selected to complement and expand on the text make this a unique collection.Table of ContentsNgezinyawo: Migrant Journeys; Slavery, Indenture and Migrant Labour: Maritime Immigration from Mozambique to the Cape, c.1780-1880; Walking 2 000 Kilometres to Work and Back: The Wandering; A Century of Migrancy from Mpondoland; The Migrant Kings of Zululand Benedict Carton; The Art of Those Left Behind: Women, Beadwork and Bodies; The Illusion of Safety: Migrant Labour and Occupational Disease on South Africa's Gold Mines; 'The Chinese Experiment': Images from the Expansion of South Africa's 'Labour Empire'; 'Stray Boys': The Kruger National Park and Migrant Labour; Surviving Drought: Migrancy and the Homestead Economy; Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s Sekibakiba; Verwoerd's Oxen: Performing Labour Migrancy in Southern Africa; 'Give My Regards to Everyone at Home Including Those I No Longer Remember': The Journey of Tito Zungu's Envelopes; Sophie and the City: Womanhood, Labour and Migrancy; Bungityala; Migrants: Vanguards of the Worker's Struggles?; Debt or Savings? Of Migrants, Mines and Money; Post-Apartheid Migrancy and the Life of a Pondo Mineworker.
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AU Press A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah
Book SynopsisZarah Petri was just a little girl when her family left Hungary to finda new life in Canada in the 1920s. She showed spunk and a greatimagination that would serve her well as a new immigrant and youngmarried woman. Zarah and her family lived through the Depression, andshe learned to make ends meet in any way she could, even bending thelaw if necessary. Her son John writes this touching memoir, told in thefirst person, in Zarah’s own unique voice. Her remembrances aresometimes funny, sometimes sad but always entertaining.Trade Review"Zarah's free spirit and sharp intelligence animate the narrative at every turn, making it the kind of story that once begun, a reader is loath to leave unfinished. - Tamara Palmer Seiler, University of Calgary"
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Liverpool University Press Jewish Socialists in the United States: The Cahan
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Liverpool University Press From Strangers to Citizens: The Integration of
Book SynopsisBetween 1550 and 1750 tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them religious refugees escaping persecution on the Continent, settled in Britain and its colonies, and in Ireland. They brought with them their formidable energies and talents and quickly assimilated themselves into the host society. The essays range from general considerations of trends towards integration in the immigrant communities to detailed case-studies of the movement into British society of individual immigrants; from studies of popular attitudes and government policy towards the newcomers to examinations of relations within the immigrant communities themselves and their structures for self-sufficiency. The immigrants' contributions to art, scholarship, manufacturing, theology and politics are also explored.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales; Introduction; The Netherlandish presence in England before the coming of the stranger churches, 1480-1560; Bringing Reformed theology to England's rude and symple people' Jean Veron, minister and author outside the stranger church community; Discipline and integration: Jan Laski's Church Order for the London Strangers' Church; Nicolas des Gallars and the Genevan connection of the stranger churches; Acontius's plea for tolerance; Europe in Britain: Protestant strangers and the English Reformation; Protestant refugees in Elizabethan England and confessional ; conflict in France and the Netherlands, 1562c.1610; Fictitious shoemakers, agitated weavers and the limits of popular xenophobia in Elizabethan London; The Dutch in Colchester in the 16th and 17th centuries: opposition and integration; Mayntayninge the indigente and nedie': the institutionalisation of social responsibility in the case of the resident alien communities in Elizabethan Norwich and Colchester; Melting into the landscape: the story of the 17th-century Walloons in the Fens; Insiders or outsiders? Overseas-born artists at the Jacobean court; A Dutch stranger . . . on the make': Sir Peter Lely and the critical fortunes of a foreign painter; Foreign artists and craftsmen and the introduction of the Rococo style in England; The production and patronage of David Willaume, Huguenot merchant goldsmith; Worthy of the monarch: immigrant craftsmen and the production of state beds, 16601714; Huguenot master weavers: exemplary Englishmen, 1700c.1750; Immigrants in the DNB and British cultural horizons, 15501750: the merchant, the traveller, the lexicographer and the apologist; Maps, spiders, and tulips: the ColeOrteliusL'Obel family and the practice of science in early modern London; The Huguenots and Medicine; That great and knowing virtuoso': the French background and English refuge of Henri Justel; Huguenot self-fashioning: Sir Jean Chardin and the rhetoric of travel and travel writing; Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: d'une integration reussie a l'Europe des savoirs; Emanuel Mendes da Costa: constructing a career in science; London's Portuguese Jewish community, 15401753; Embarrassing relations: myths and realities of the Ashkenazi influx, 16501750 and beyond; Slaves or free people? The status of Africans in England, 15501750; The first Turks and Moors in England; Greeks and Grecians' in London: the other' strangers; Irish Jewry in the 17th and 18th centuries; Sephardic settlement in the British colonies of the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries; Dutch merchants and colonists in the English Chesapeake: trade, migration and nationality in 17th-century Maryland and Virginia; The Dutch in 17th-century New York City: minority or majority?; Anglican conformity and nonconformity among the Huguenots of colonial New York; Jacob Leisler and the Huguenot network in the English Atlantic world; From ethnicity to assimilation: the Huguenots and the American immigration history paradigm; Creating order in the American wilderness: state-church Germans without the state; Rewriting the Church of England: Jean Durel, foreign Protestants and the polemics of Restoration Conformity; Henry Compton, Bishop of London (16761714) and foreign Protestants; An unruly and presumptuous rabble': the reaction of the Spitalfields weaving community to the settlement of the Huguenots, 166090; Huguenot integration in late 17th- and 18th-century London:; ; insights from records of the French Church and some relief agencies; Huguenot thought after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: toleration, Socinianism', integration and Locke; The newspaper The Post Man and its editor, Jean Lespinasse de Fonvive; The birth of political consciousness among the Huguenot refugees and their descendants in England (c.16851750); The Huguenots in Britain, the Protestant International' and the defeat of Louis XIV; Elites and assimilation: the question of leadership within Dublin's Corps du Refuge, 16621740; Conditions et preparation de l'integration: le voyage de Charles de Sailly en Irlande (1693) et le projet d'Edit d'accueil; The integration of the Huguenots into the Irish Church: the case of Peter Drelincourt; Good faith: the military and the ministry in exile, or the memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet and Jaques Fontaine; Writing the self: Huguenot autobiography and the process of assimilation; The English reception of the Huguenots, Palatines and Salzburgers, 16801734: a comparative analysis; The Naturalisation Act of 1709 and the settlement of Germans in Britain, Ireland and the colonies; German immigrants and the London book trade, 170070; Naturalisation and economic integration: the German merchant community in 18th-century London; A dearer country': the Frenchness of the Rev. Jean de la Flechere of Madeley, a Methodist Church of England vicar; Archbishop Thomas Secker (16931768), Anglican identity and relations with foreign Protestants in the mid-18th century; What's in a name?: self-identifications of Huguenot refugiees in 18th-century England; Index.
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Liverpool University Press Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Book SynopsisIt is now over 100 years since Cunningham wrote Alien Immigrants to England, which focused heavily upon the impact of immigration in later 16th and early 17th century England: it has yet to be supplanted by a comprehensive, up-to-date survey. Although much research has been completed on the subject, particularly during the past three decades, relatively little of this has appeared in mainstream history journals, while more general surveys have tended to concentrate upon the second wave of migration that followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.Trade Review"Fascinating and timely, this important book of essays restores the experience of immigration to its proper place as a vital part of England's history." -- Penelope Corfield, University of London."Indeed, the book deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in the history of the early modern period." -- Judith Spicksley, Local Population Studies, No. 76, Sprin 2006."...Goose gives an admirably thorough, authoritative, and balanced account of the important contribution made by these aliens to English economic developments in this period." -- Paul Slack, Population Studies, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2006."This wide-ranging volume overflows with ideas for further research. Its relevance is forcefully underlined by a recent headline in The Times (December 18, 2005), heralding a 'new Baltic state of East Anglia'; many migrants are arriving now from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to work in Eastern England. We have been over this ground before." Joan Thirsk, English Historical Review. Vol. 121: No.491 (April 2006).Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Sin and Salvation; The medieval doctrine of salvation; Martin Luther's theological breakthrough; Zwingli and the early Swiss reformers; Imparted and imputed righteousness; Predestination; Sin and salvation in the thinking of the radical reformers; Popular ideas on sin and salvation; Sacrament and Ritual; The sacramental tradition; The Reformation of the Sacraments; Baptism; The Eucharist; "By this book": Authority and Interpretation; Biblical Authority and the Church; Humanism and the Bible; "Sola Scriptura"; The authority of the Spirit; The vernacular Bible; The True Church in the Protestant Tradition: Theory and Organisation; The Reformation doctrines of the True Church: theory and practice; The Lutheran state church; The True Church in the Calvinist tradition; The Gathered Church in the doctrine of the Radical reformers; The clergy: priests or ministers?; Church and State: the Protestant Churches and Secular Authority; Church and State in the Lutheran tradition; Church and State in the Swiss Calvinist tradition; Church and State in Calvinist Germany; The radical reformers: the separation of church and state; The One Catholic Church and the nation-church; The Revolution of the Saints?; Social discipline and the reformation of manners; The common weal: poverty and social welfare; Literacy, Education and the Popular Response to the Reformation; Print and Protestantism; Oral culture and the spread of the Reformation; Faith and reason; Literacy and education; Visual culture, visual literacy and iconoclasm; Liturgy and the Articulation of Belief; The Reform of the Liturgy; The Eucharist; Baptism; Confirmation; Repentance and reconciliation; The Solemnisation of Matrimony; Death and burial; Singing the ritual: music and liturgy in the Protestant tradition; Shaping ritual: architecture and the visual appearance of worship; Ritual and Society: The Reshaping of Popular Religious Practice; Baptism; Ritual purification: childbirth and the churching of women; Repentance, confession and the Eucharist; Marriage and the ritual control of sexuality; Death, burial and the ritual community; The ritual of everyday life; Popular Belief and Folk Culture; Popular religion and the cults of the saints; The Pursuit of the Millennium; Witchcraft and witch persecution; Anti-semitism; Conclusion.
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Watkins Media Limited Here to Stay: Eastern Europeans in Britain
Book SynopsisBulgarian writer and international migration expert Yva Alexandrova tells the story of Eastern Europeans in the UK, and argues that progressive politics needs to be grounded in migrants’ actual experiences and not political expediency. She shows how attitudes to immigration have changed in the last twenty years in the wake of Brexit and a new wave of nativism that has swept across Britain, and makes a passionate and vivid argument for migrants as full participants in social and political life. At a time when racism, xenophobia and nationalism dominate politics in the UK and around the world, Here to Stay avoids the usual racist vox-pops and sensationalist political debate and instead tells the stories of the people whose voices rarely feature in debates about immigration: the migrants themselves.Trade Review"Yva Alexandrova excoriates the British media, political elite and even the labour movement over their condescension and hostility to East European migration. She tells the story of what it's like to be the target of a wave of nativism that swept through British politics in the last decade, from the lived experience of those around her." “Provocative and well-informed, Alexandrova gives voice to people who are a vital part of Britain’s political and social life, yet too often talked about rather than listened to. Pay attention.”
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Classical Press of Wales Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers
Book Synopsis'The Tiber has been joined by the Orontes'. So wrote the Roman satirist Juvenal, in a complaint about immigration to the Empire's capital. Rome was constantly sustained by immigrants. Some were voluntary: craftworkers, soldiers, teachers and intellectuals. Countless others came as slaves. What happened to them after their arrival? Did they try to keep contact with their homelands? Did they form distinctive communities within Rome? This book is a systematic study of Rome's foreign-born element. The author uses inscriptions and literature to explore the experiences of newcomers to the capital. The results are compared with the colourful Roman stereotypes of different immigrant groups.Table of ContentsIntroduction Section I: Evidence and Ancient Attitudes 1. The Evidence and the Problems 2. The Demographic and Legal Background 3. Attitudes to Foreigners Section II: Moving to Rome 4. Who Moved to Rome? 5. Why Did People Move to Rome? 6. The Practicalities of Moving to Rome Section III: Living at Rome 7. Aspects of Foreigners' Lives at Rome 8. Foreign Groups at Rome Conclusion Appendix: A List of Individual Immigrants Recorded in Inscriptions Glossary Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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International Maritime Economic History Association The Battle for the Migrants: Introduction of
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University of Nevada Press Possible Paradises: Basque Emigration to Latin America
Book SynopsisFrom Columbus's first voyage to "the Indies" in 1492, Basques participated in Spain's American enterprise. Supported by centuries of experience as mariners, shipbuilders, traders, miners, and ironworkers; encouraged toward emigration by restrictive inheritance laws and a land-poor territory; and conditioned by a culture that prized hard work and social solidarity, the Basques were poised to play a significant role in the exploration and development of the New World. The first Basques arrived with Columbus, and well into the twentieth century they continued to arrive seeking livelihood and refuge.Possible Paradises, José Manuel Azcona Pastor's engaging and meticulously researched study of Basque emigration to the Americas, is a path breaking work of monumental importance. Ranging over the entire former Spanish American empire from Tierra del Fuego to the U.S. Southwest and covering over five centuries of history, Azcona examines the roles and fates of the Basques who came to the New World. He also studies the impact of the New World on the Basque Country, from the importance in the modern Basque diet of such American foodstuffs as corn and beans to the encouragement given to traditional Basque industries by the colonizers' demand for ships and iron tools. He considers the role of Basques in the Spanish imperial expeditions of exploration and conquest; their participation in transatlantic commerce and communication.The Basque diaspora, although worldwide in dimension, has had its greatest presence and importance in the Americas. Azcona's pioneering study views the Basque presence in the New World through the broadest possible lens, linking Basque communities and activities from Argentina to the North American West.Foreword by William A. Douglass. Translation by Roland Vazquez.Trade ReviewAzcona Pastor gives an excellent and anecdotally detailed description of the activities of Basque individuals in the colonization period of Latin America....This publication will be especially useful to students of history and a must-read for beginning specialists in Basque involvement in Latin America."" - Journal of Contemporary European Studies""Azcona Pastor's use of archival and contemporary published materials lends fascinating detail to the narrative."" - The International History Review
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University of Nevada Press Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry:
Book SynopsisBasque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry is a rich and complex exploration of the history of Basque immigration to the rangelands of Nevada and the interior West. It looks critically at the Basque sheepherders in the American West and more broadly at the modern history of American foreign relations with Spain after the Second World War.Between the 1880s and the 1950s, the western open-range sheep industry was the original economic attraction for Basque immigrants. This engaging study tracks the development of the Basque presence in the American West, providing deep detail about the sheepherders' history, native and local culture, the challenges they faced, and the changing conditions under which the Basques lived and worked. Saitua also shows how Basque immigrant sheepherders went from being a marginalized labor group to a desirable, high-priced workforce in response to the constant demand for their labor power.As the twentieth century progressed, the geopolitical tide in America began to change. In 1924, the Restrictive Immigration Act resulted in a truncated labor supply from the Basque Country in Spain. During the Great Depression and the Second World War, the labor shortage became acute. In response, Senator Patrick McCarran from Nevada lobbied on behalf of his wool-growing constituency to open immigration doors for Basques, the most desirable laborers for tending sheep in remote places. Subsequently, Cold War international tensions offered opportunities for a reconciliation between the United States and Francisco Franco, despite Spain's previous sympathy with the Axis powers.This fresh portrayal shows how Basque immigrants became the backbone of the sheep industry in Nevada. It also contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of Basque immigration by exploring the role of Basque agricultural labor in the United States, the economic interests of Western ranchers, and McCarran's diplomacy as catalysts that eventually helped bring Spain into the orbit of western democracies.Trade Review"This is a story that is simultaneously transnational and intensely local. Historians of the American West are deeply indebted to this fine young historian."— Steven M. Avella, professor of history, Marquette University, Milwaukee"Iker Saiatua provides a fresh perspective on the story of Basque migration to the American West. His painstaking research uncovers new source material and applies current race and labor historiography, while personal anecdotes tie it all together." — John Bieter, author of An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in IdahoTable of Contents Note for Users ix Introduction: The Basque Frontier of the American West 1 Part I: After the Sheep Rush 1. The Promises of the Silver State: The Development of the Sheep Industry in Nevada, 1850–1900 29 2. Becoming Herders: Basque Immigration, Labor, and Settlement in Nevada, 1880–1910 54 Part II: The Struggle for Legitimacy 3. Encroaching Upon Forbidden Ground: Basque Immigrant Sheepherders and the Creation of National Forests in Nevada 83 4. “Desirable Immigrants”: Socio-Economic Ambivalence and Basque Labor in Nevada’s Sheep Industry, 1910–1939 111 Part III: The Making of a Good Sheepherder 5. “Grasping at a Straw”: The Basque Labor Shortage in the Nevada and Western Sheep Industry during the Second World War 151 6. The Indispensable Basque Sheepherder: Senator Patrick McCarran and the Sheep Lobby, the Exclusion of Mexicans, and the Recruitment of Basque Immigrants in the Western Sheep Industry during WWII 179 7. The Basque Immigrant Sheepherder Question and U.S.-Spanish Relations during the early Cold War, 1945–1954 215 Acknowledgments 265 Bibliography 267 About the Author 287 Index 289
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University of Nevada Press The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's
Book SynopsisThe Battle to Stay in America is the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government's crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative and personal, this is a story about mothers and fathers, lawyers and activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle for the identity of a nation. This is the quintessential story of the war on immigrants, as fought and felt on the front lines in the heart of America.Trade ReviewReviewed by the New York Review of Books:The destructive impact of this enforcement regime on day-to-day life in immigrant communities is described with refreshing clarity and heart by Michael Kagan in The Battle to Stay in America. Kagan, a law professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, tells stories of his neighbors and of clients at the university law clinic he runs. He provides an unusually accessible primer on immigration law and a valuable guide to the ways it currently works to perpetuate an excluded immigrant underclass with diminished rights."Table of Contents Preface: A Note About Word Choice Introduction 1 Part I: The Targets 1 The Graveyards of Nevada 11 2 Plan B 25 3 The Cleaners 43 Part II: The Attack 4 The Unaccompanied 61 5 Two Arrests 79 6 Psychological Warfare 92 Part III: The Defense 7 How to Talk to Your Neighbors About Immigration 111 8 The Strip Mall Resistance 129 9 Dirty Immigration Lawyers 146 10 The Coming Battle 160 Acknowledgments 169 Glossary 171 Notes 175 Bibliography 187 Index 000 About the Author 197
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Rutgers University Press From Bureaucracy to Bullets: Extreme Domicide and
Book SynopsisThere are currently a record-setting number of forcibly displaced persons in the world. This number continues to rise as solutions to alleviate humanitarian catastrophes of large-scale violence and displacement continue to fail. The likelihood of the displaced returning to their homes is becoming increasingly unlikely. In many cases, their homes have been destroyed as the result of violence. Why are the homes of certain populations targeted for destruction? What are the impacts of loss of home upon children, adults, families, communities, and societies? If having a home is a fundamental human right, then why is the destruction of home not viewed as a rights violation and punished accordingly? From Bureaucracy to Bullets answers these questions and more by focusing on the violent practice of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of the home, as a central and overlooked human rights issue.Trade Review“This innovative and noteworthy book adds an important perspective to human rights scholarship with valuable insight into the use of domicide as a political and military strategy.” -- Scott Harding * associate professor, University of Connecticut *"Tracking the widespread and often unseen practices of domicide – the deliberate destruction of home – this book forces us to rethink the meaning of home as a human right. Clear, rigorous, and persuasive, it makes the need for a Convention Against Domicide an urgent and necessary endeavor." -- Michael Vicente Pérez * assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis *“This innovative and noteworthy book adds an important perspective to human rights scholarship with valuable insight into the use of domicide as a political and military strategy.” -- Scott Harding * associate professor, University of Connecticut *"Tracking the widespread and often unseen practices of domicide – the deliberate destruction of home – this book forces us to rethink the meaning of home as a human right. Clear, rigorous, and persuasive, it makes the need for a Convention Against Domicide an urgent and necessary endeavor." -- Michael Vicente Pérez * assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis *Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Castles and Cages: A Theory of Home and Home Loss 2. The Difference Between Life and Death: The Human Right to Home 3. A Causal Pathway and Typology of Extreme Domicide Part II: From Bureaucracy To Bullets 4. “And Leave Them Burning Our Homes”: The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1952-1960) 5. No Place to Call Home: Mutually Assured Domicide in Cyprus (1974) 6. “The Cruelest Work I Ever Knew”: Domicide and The Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839) 7. Reducing Homes to Keys: The Occupation of Palestine and the Matrix of Control (1945-present) 8. "Their Home Will Be Razed Down to the Basement”: Chechnya’s Generations of Domicide (1944-2009) 9. Manufacturing Homogeneity: Domicide in Bosnia (1992-1995) 10. Wiping Neighborhoods Off the Map: The Syrian War (2011-present) 11. “All the Villages We Saw on the Way to the Sea Were Burning”: The Rohingya in Myanmar (2012-present) Part III: Conclusions 12. You Can’t Go Home Again: Justice, Reconciliation, and a Convention Against Domicide 13. Home Matters: Lessons Learned While Studying Extreme Domicide Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity through
Book SynopsisThe rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization. Trade Review"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: “Moving Images: Cinematic Contestations of Global Borders in the Digital Age,” by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan “Composite Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of Europe-in-Transition,” Marina Hassapopoulou “Undocumation: Documentary Animation’s Unsettled Borders,” Rebecca A. Sheehan “The Art of Witness in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada (2001),” Rosa-Linda Fregoso “The Cinematic Borderlands of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel,” Monica Hanna “Challenging European Borders: Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons,” Anita Pinzi “Remapping the Borderlands in ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?” Elena Lahr-Vivaz “Crossing through el Hueco: The Visual Politics of Smuggling in Colombian Migration Films,” Jennifer Harford Vargas “Toward a Transfrontera-Latinx Aesthetics: An Interview with Filmmaker and Artist Alex Rivera,” Frederick Luis Aldama “No-man's Land: Shifting Borders and Alternating Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema,” Anat Zanger and Nurith Gertz “Te Borders We Cross in Search of a Better World: On Border Crossing in Three of Amos Gitai’s Feature Films,” Yael Munk “Filipinos at the Border: Migrant Workers in Transnational Philippine Cinema,” José B. Capino
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Rutgers University Press Under Quarantine: Immigrants and Disease at
Book SynopsisUnder Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha’aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha’aliya. The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country’s crucible.Trade Review"With uncompromising care and sensitivity, Rhona Seidelman unpacks the 'great story' of 'Aliah to the newly created Israel and puts the medical dimension of migration at the center. An essential chapter in the history of the Mizrahim." -- Zvi Ben-Dor Benite * author of The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History *"An important contribution to the ever-growing body of Jewish and Israeli studies literature, Jewish immigration studies, and health and immigration scholarship. In particular, it facilitates a broader multidimensional perspective on a specific locus in its historical as well as current contexts." * AJS Review *"Immigrants and Quarantine at Israel’s Founding with Rhona Seidelman" * Infectious Historians Podcast *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Barbed Wire 1 Confines 2 Structure 3 Meaning 4 Memory Conclusion: Under Quarantine Epilogue: The Shaar Ha’aliya Memorial for Migrants and Medicine Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and
Book Synopsis2021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) Transnational migration has contributed to the rise of religious diversity and has led to profound changes in the religious make-up of society across the Western world. As a result, societies and nation-states have faced the challenge of crafting ways to bring new religious communities into existing institutions and the legal frameworks. Regulating Difference explores how the state regulates religious diversity and examines the processes whereby religious diversity and expression becomes part of administrative landscapes of nation-states and people’s everyday lives. Arguing that concepts of nationhood are key to understanding the governance of religious diversity, Regulating Difference employs a transatlantic comparison of the Spanish region of Catalonia and the Canadian province of Quebec to show how processes of nation-building, religious heritage-making and the mobilization of divergent interpretations of secularism are co-implicated in shaping religious diversity. It argues that religious diversity has become central for governing national and urban spaces. Trade Review“An excellent contribution to the scholarly literature on Western secularities and on the regulation of religion." -- James Spickard * author of Alternative Sociologies of Religion: Through Non-Western Eyes *“Fascinating and helpful…an absorbing and detailed study.” -- Roger Trigg * author of Religious Diversity: Philosophical and Political Dimensions *"Religious diversification and the rise of nationalism, coupled with increasing immigration and ever-contested state secularism, are dominant and far-reaching trends facing many societies today. Through an evocative comparison of Quebec and Catalonia, Marian Burchardt lucidly explores how these topics are framed in law, shaped by institutional practices and understood by political actors and ordinary members of the public. Regulating Difference is essential reading for anyone concerned with such profound issues marking our troubling times." -- Steven Vertovec * Editor of the Routledge international Handbook of Diversity Studies *"Marian Burchardt’s Regulating Difference is historically informed, theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. By juxtaposing Québec and Catalunya, the book makes important contributions to the literature on secularism and small nations. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of nationalism, the sociology of religion and secularism, and politics and religion more broadly." -- Geneviève Zubrzycki * author of Beheading the Saint: Nationalism, Religion and Secularism in Quebec *Immigration and secularization have radically increased cultural diversity around the world. What happens when ‘diversity’ evolves from a means of description into a mode of governance? In this cleverly designed comparative study of two ’stateless nations’, Marian Burchardt shows how the logic of ‘religious diversity’ is refracted through the logics of nationalism and bureaucracy at the macro and micro scales. Required reading for anyone interested in contemporary debates about religion, politics and secularity. -- Philip S. Gorski * author of The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe *Two stateless nations, Quebec and Catalonia, with historically majoritarian Catholic confessions, have become deeply secular societies. But Catalan and Quebecois nationalists with similar conceptions of laïcité or secularism have offered divergent responses to the challenges that the religious diversity brought by large numbers of new immigrants present to their national projects. Burchardt's book examines this comparative puzzle deftly, while enriching our understanding of the ways in which religious and secular cleavages and religious and national identities may become differently entangled. An important contribution to the emerging field of multiple secularities. -- José Casanova * author of Public Religions in the Modern World *"Burchardt’s study is illuminating in that it offers new frameworks for thinking about the relationship between national identity and religious identity. By examining the procedural and governmental frameworks that both enable and inhibit the inclusion of religious migrants, his study offers a needed corrective to studies that look to philosophical concepts such as “rights” to understand what it means for religious migrants to belong to a nation." * Reading Religion *"Regulating Difference is a methodologically rich and theoretically versatile addition to the fast-growing field of comparative historical secularity." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Religious Diversity, Secularism and Nationhood 1 Theorizing Religious Diversity and Secularism 2 Contesting Religious Diversity and Secularism 3 Spatializing Religious Diversity: Urban Administration, Infrastructure and Emplacement 4 The Limits of Religious Diversity: Regulating Full-Face Coverings 5 Making Claims to Religion as Culture: The Rise of Heritage Religion Conclusions Notes List of Laws and Cases Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press On Transits and Transitions: Trans Migrants and
Book SynopsisCelebrations of the “transgender tipping point” in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States.Trade Review"The first in depth study of U.S. transgender immigration policy, On Transits and Transitions deftly illuminates the U.S immigration policy in which transgender became a recognized asylum seeker category. By brilliantly exploding the myth that more visibility and recognition for marginalized transgender people means expanded justice and equity, Josephson teaches us that citizenship and national belonging are not 'equal opportunity,' but are instead subject to inequitable racial, national, and gender hierarchies that persist even as we might assume they are improving."— Aren Z. Aizura, author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment "Tristan Josephson critically examines how three very different policy regimes—asylum, immigration through marriage, and immigration detention—distill transgender migrants into the 'deserving' and everyone else. An indispensable contribution to the scholarship on trans migrants that exposes the limits of a politics of recognition."— Paisley Currah, author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender IdentityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Visibility and Immutability in Asylum Law and Procedure 2 Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations 3 Trans Citizenship: Marriage, Immigration, and Neoliberal Recognition 4 Transfer Points: Trans Migrants and Immigration Detention Coda Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press On Transits and Transitions: Trans Migrants and
Book SynopsisCelebrations of the “transgender tipping point” in the second decade of the twenty-first century occurred at the same time of heightened debates and anxieties about immigration in the United States. On Transits and Transitions explores what the increased visibility of trans people in the public sphere means for trans migrants and provides a counter-narrative to the dominant discourse that the inclusion of transgender issues in law and policy represents the progression of legal equality for trans communities. Focusing on the intersection of immigration and trans rights, Josephson presents a careful and innovative examination of the processes by which the category of transgender is produced through and incorporated into the key areas of asylum law, marriage and immigration law, and immigration detention policies. Using mobility as a critical lens, On Transits and Transitions captures the insecurity and precarity created by U.S. immigration control and related processes of racialization to show how im/mobility conditions citizenship and national belonging for trans migrants in the United States.Trade Review"The first in depth study of U.S. transgender immigration policy, On Transits and Transitions deftly illuminates the U.S immigration policy in which transgender became a recognized asylum seeker category. By brilliantly exploding the myth that more visibility and recognition for marginalized transgender people means expanded justice and equity, Josephson teaches us that citizenship and national belonging are not 'equal opportunity,' but are instead subject to inequitable racial, national, and gender hierarchies that persist even as we might assume they are improving." -- Aren Z. Aizura * author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment *"Tristan Josephson critically examines how three very different policy regimes—asylum, immigration through marriage, and immigration detention—distill transgender migrants into the 'deserving' and everyone else. An indispensable contribution to the scholarship on trans migrants that exposes the limits of a politics of recognition." -- Paisley Currah * author of Sex is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Visibility and Immutability in Asylum Law and Procedure 2 Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations 3 Trans Citizenship: Marriage, Immigration, and Neoliberal Recognition 4 Transfer Points: Trans Migrants and Immigration Detention Coda AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship
Book SynopsisWhen youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.Trade Review"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world."— Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis "A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging."— Benjamin Capistrant, associate professor, Smith CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or Help from the Hand? 4 Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of Property 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope”: Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the Ancestral Home 6 Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily Care 7 Shelter or Shame? Old Folks’ Homes 8 Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of Souls 9 On Beginnings and Endings Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Rutgers University Press Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship
Book SynopsisWhen youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.Trade Review"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world." -- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan * author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis *"A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging." -- Benjamin Capistrant * associate professor, Smith College *"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world." -- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan * author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis *"A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging." -- Benjamin Capistrant * associate professor, Smith College *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or Help from the Hand? 4 Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of Property 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope”: Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the Ancestral Home 6 Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily Care 7 Shelter or Shame? Old Folks’ Homes 8 Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of Souls 9 On Beginnings and Endings Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Rutgers University Press Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and
Book SynopsisPrecarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, “legal”/“illegal,” and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging. Trade Review"This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely." -- Cecilia Menjívar * co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises *"Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality." -- Jonathan Xavier Inda * author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship CATHERINE S. RAMÍRE Z, JUAN POBLETE, SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, STEVEN C. McKAY, AND FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFERPart I Mobility and Migration 1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship BRIDGET ANDERSON 2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of “Chain Migration” ADRIÁN FÉLIX 3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States LEISY J. ABREGO AND ALEJANDRO VILLALPANDO 4 The Waste of Globalization’s Party ALEJANDRO GRIMSON 5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O’odham Reservation FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER 6 A State-to-Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile TSERING WANGMO DHOMPAPart II Labor and Precarity 7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective MARCEL PARET 8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California SHANNON GLEESON 9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore RHACEL SAL A ZAR PARREÑAS AND KRITTIYA KANTACHOTE 10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the “World’s Factory” BIAO XIANG 11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in Medellín, Colombia CLAUDIA MARIA LÓPEZPart III Belonging and (Non)citizenship 12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN AND VÉRONIQUE FORTIN 13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States JUAN POBLTE 14 Denizenship 227 NICHOLAS DE GENOVA 15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the Future CATHERINE S. RAMÍREZ 16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association EMILY MITCHELL-EATON Afterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism TANYA GOLASH-BOZA Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration:
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, and the site of sustained political interventions in several states around the world. Covering cases as varied as the United States, Canada, Japan, Iran, France, Belgium or the Netherlands, among others, contributors reveal how marriage and partner migration have become battlegrounds for political participation, control, and exclusion. Which forms of attachments (towards the family, the nation, or specific individuals) have become framed as risks to be managed? How do such preoccupations translate into policies? With what consequences for those affected by them, in terms of rights and access to citizenship? The book answers these questions by analyzing the interplay between issues of security, citizenship and rights from the perspectives of migrants and policymakers, but also from actors who negotiate encounters with the state, such as lawyers, non-governmental organizations, and translators. Trade Review"Seldom have I been so excited by an edited collection! This stimulating volume offers diverse disciplinary and geographical approaches to marriage and partner migration – increasingly recognized as a crucial aspect of international mobility. Troubling the binaries which often dog the subject - legal vs emotional, love vs interest, state vs intimacy and migrant vs citizen – Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration offers both an exciting and wide-ranging introduction for newcomers to this fascinating field, and fresh perspectives for those of us already hooked." -- Katharine Charsley * author of Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying 'Back Home' *"This multidisciplinary gem explores the emotional intimacies and legal intricacies of citizenship in today’s fraught context of ‘family’ migration politics. Doing so reveals the structural centrality of state-sanctioned marriage for reproducing – through eurocentric paradigms of love, citizenship and resource distribution – crises of sexual, racial and economic inequality. Not what most expect, and well worth a read." -- V. Spike Peterson * co-author of Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: Thinking in Constellations: Marriage and Partner Migration in Relation to Security, Citizenship, and Rights ANNE-MARIE D’AOUST PART ONE Policing Rights and Belonging: Histories and Legacies of Marriage Migration Management 1 The Odd Couple: Gender, Securitization, Europeanization, and Marriages of Convenience in Dutch Family Migration Policies (1930–2020) BETTY DE HART 2 “A Necessary Evil”? The Problematization of Family Migration in French Parliamentary Debates on Family Migration, 1974–1993 SASKIA BONJOUR AND MASSILIA OURABAH 3 “All the Time, Hard Time”: Narrative, Agency, and History in the Sinse Taryeong of Korean Marriage Migrants JI-YEON YUH PART TWO Intersectional Effects of Contemporary Marriage and Partner Migration Management: Stratification of Rights 4 What Do States Regulate When They Regulate Spousal Migration? A Study of France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Denmark HELENA WRAY 5 “I’m Not a Bad Guy, I Swear”: Analyzing Emotion Work and Negotiations of Criminality and Masculinity in Vietnamese-Canadian Men’s Participation in “Fake Wedding” Arrangements GRACE K. TRAN 6 Moral Economies of Family Reunification in the Trump Era: Translating Natural Affiliation, Autonomy, and Stability Arguments into Constitutional Rights KERRY ABRAMS AND DANIEL PHAM PART THREE Navigating the Security State: Couples and State Bureaucracies 7 Negotiating Trust and Suspicion: Lawyers as Actors in the Moral Political Economy of Marriage Migration Management in Canada ANNE-MARIE D’AOUST 8 Intimacy Brokers: The Fragile Boundaries of Activism for Heterosexual and Same-Sex Binational Couples in France 171 LAURA ODASSO AND MANUELA SALCEDO ROBLEDO 9 He Said, She Said: The Complexity of Oral Relationship Narratives as Written Factual Evidence in Belgian Marriage Fraud Investigations MIEKE VANDENBROUCKE PART FOUR Challenging Neoliberal Affective Regimes: Care, Work, and Economy 10 “I Don’t Even Know Where My Heart Is Anymore”: Migrant Bachelors and Immigrant Wives Lost in Time, Space, and Im/mobility PARDIS MAHDAVI 11 Intimate Citizens: Filipina Migrant Hostesses in Japan RHACEL SALAZAR PARREÑAS 12 Same-Sex Marriage against the Deportation State EITHNE LUIBHÉID 13 Epilogue: Love Triangle: Nation, Spouse, Citizen AUDREY MACKLIN Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community
Book SynopsisIn From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York. Trade Review“Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding.” -- Miguel Centeno * Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University *"This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market." -- Nancy López * co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) *Table of Contents Prologue 1 Introduction 2 The Migration of Women and Race: A Typology 3 The New Spaces and Faces of Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York City 4 “Unos Duermen de Noche y Otros de Día”: The Living Arrangements of Undocumented Families 5 An Intersectional View at Social Mobility, Race, and Migration 6 “¡Y Ellos Pensaban que Yo Era Blanca!” Racial Capital and Ambiguous Identities Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Immigrant Agency: Hmong American Movements and
Book SynopsisThrough a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to make sustained claims on and have their interests represented in public policies. The author, Yang Sao Xiong argues that the key to understanding how immigrants incorporate themselves politically is to understand how they mobilize collective action and make choices in circumstances far from racially neutral. Immigrant groups, in response to political threats or opportunities or both, mobilize collective action and make strategic choices about how to position themselves vis-à-vis other minority groups, how to construct group identities, and how to deploy various tactics in order to engage with the U.S. political system and influence policy. In response to immigrants’ collective claims, the racial state engages in racialization which undermines immigrants’ political standing and perpetuates their marginalization.Trade Review"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *Table of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresList of MapsList of Abbreviations1 Immigrant Agency2 History and Contexts of Exit3 Campaign for Justice4 Battle for Naturalization5 Movement for Inclusion6 Racialized Political Incorporation and Immigrant RightsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
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Rutgers University Press Transnational Cultural Flow from Home: Korean
Book SynopsisWhen the first wave of post-1965 Korean immigrants arrived in the New York-New Jersey area in the early 1970s, they were reliant on retail and service businesses in the minority neighborhoods where they were. This caused ongoing conflicts with customers in black neighborhoods of New York City, with white suppliers at Hunts Point Produce Market, and with city government agencies that regulated small business activities. In addition, because of the times, Korean immigrants had very little contact with their homeland. Korean immigrants in the area were highly segregated from both the mainstream New York society and South Korea. However, after the 1990 Immigration Act, Korean immigrants with professional and managerial backgrounds have found occupations in the mainstream economy. Korean community leaders also engaged in active political campaigns to get Korean candidates elected as city council members and higher levels of legislative positions in the area. The Korean community's integration into mainstream society also increasingly developed stronger transnational ties to their homeland and spurred the inclusion of "everyday Korean life" in the NY-NJ area.Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts. This publication was supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-P-009). Trade Review"Full of rich and fascinating material on the Korean community in the New York area, this valuable book shows that, at the same time as Korean immigrants have become increasingly incorporated into American society, they also seek to preserve and promote a wide range of homeland cultural practices and traditions." -- Nancy Foner * author of One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America *"In this innovative and rigorous investigation of Koreans’ engagement with transnational cultural linkages to their homeland, Pyong Gap Min finds that migrants’ participation in activities that promote Korean ethnic culture facilitates both their assimilation to host country activities and their involvement in transnational cultural linkages embedded in the country of origin. This analysis significantly advances our understanding of Korean immigrants’ adaptation to the US while providing a compelling challenge to classical theories of immigrant assimilation more generally." -- Steven J. Gold * author of The Israeli Diaspora *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 The Korean Community in Greater New York 3 Transnational Cultural Events Held in the Korean Community in 2001 and 2014 4 Korean-Language Schools 5 The Movement to Promote Korean to American Schools 6 Korean Food 7 Korean Cultural Festivals and Parades 8 Korean Traditional Performing Arts 9 Korean Contemporary Music and Dance Performances 10 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and
Book SynopsisRadical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration re-imagines the ethical relationship of host societies towards newcomers by applying the concept of hospitality to two specific realms that impact the lives of immigrants in the United States: policy and media. The book calls attention to the moral responsibility of the host in welcoming a stranger. It sets the stage for the analysis with a historical background of the first host-guest diads of American hospitality, arguing that the early history of American hospitality was marked by the degeneration of the host-guest relationship into one of host-hostage, normalizing a racial discrimination that continues to plague immigration hospitality to this day. Author Nour Halabi presents a historical policy and media discourse analysis of immigration regulation and media coverage during three periods of US history: the 1880s and the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1920s and the National Origins Act and the 2000s and the Muslim travel ban. In so doing, it demonstrates how U.S. immigration hospitality, from its peaks in the post-Independence period to its nadir in the Muslim travel ban, has fallen short of true hospitality in spite of the nation’s oft-touted identity as a “nation of immigrants.” At the same time, the book calls attention to how a discourse of hospitality, although fraught, may allow a radical reimagining of belonging and authority that unsettles settler-colonial assumptions of belonging and welcome a restorative outlook to immigration policy and its media coverage in society.Trade Review"An important book that focuses on a fundamental contradiction between the legal protection offered to immigrants to the USA through the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution on the one hand, and the anti-immigrant sentiment, which inflects public discourse and ever more restrictive immigration policies on the other. Writing from her first-hand experience of having to negotiate the immigration process for herself and her family, the author advocates her unique vantage point. She takes an historico-political perspective to explore shifting policies around immigration, both legislative (regulatory hospitality) and media-oriented (media hospitality), the extent to which immigrants are or are not ‘welcomed’ to the USA, and how different orientations contribute to how immigrants can ‘build’ a home in their adopted country. The methodology for data collection during the three sample periods is well-described and the rationale for the choice of periods is persuasive as is the volume of material analysed; the archival research is impressive. It is a significant and scholarly book which provides some important insights through its use of the ‘hospitality’ concept and its historical orientation." * Judges for the 2023 Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association Outstanding Book Award *"Nour Halabi masterfully tracks the representation of immigrants in American media and how it shapes popular perceptions about immigrants and policies on immigration. She brings attention to the silenced histories of immigration in the US context and invites us to make the connections between these silences and the current reality of these marginalized groups." -- Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed * Department of Entertainment & Media Studies, University of Georgia *"The media plays a key role in shaping immigration discourse in the United States. Nour Halabi’s excellent book, Radical Hospitality, sheds light on how contradictory ideas of hospitality and xenophobia can both exist through her analysis of immigration regulation and media coverage during key historical periods of U.S. history from the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Muslim travel ban." -- Nancy Yuen * author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism *Table of Contents1 The Case for Hospitality 2 Poisoned Beginnings: The Birth of the (Immigrant) Nation 3 The Move to Exclude: Chinese Exclusion Act (1880s) 4 The Rise of Nativism: National Origins Act (1920s) 5 The Shift to National Security: Patriot Act (2000s) 6 Conclusion: The Future of American Hospitality Appendix A: Note on Reflexivity and Methods Appendix B: Regulatory Documents Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press All Work Is Cultural Work
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Rutgers University Press Between Care and Criminality: Marriage,
Book SynopsisBetween Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.Trade Review"This exquisitely nuanced ethnography takes anti-carceral feminism to new heights! In tracing how 'coercive violence' amongst migrant families in Australia comes to be defined and policed, Zeweri demonstrates how Muslim women are still being used to justify anti-immigrant policies, whether they are framed as victim or threat. Most importantly, she shows that intimate forms of violence cannot be understood outside the violence of war, displacement and detention." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Between Care and Criminality offers unique insights into how social policies are lived on the ground by frontline workers, community leaders, and the young people who they target. The book resists the static portrayals of forced marriage in providing empirical examples of families who negotiate tensions surrounding marriage decisions within the context of family dynamics." -- Reva Jaffe-Walter * author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth *"Between Care and Community, a well-documented, well researched analysis of forced marriage prevention policy, both informs and unsettles. Helena Zeweri makes a real contribution to studies on the anthropology of marriage and biopolitics of intimacy, and poses important questions concerning first generation migrant women and notions of family, culture, and the domestic." -- Frances Julia Riemer * author of Working at the Margins: Moving Off Welfare in America *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: An Emergent Regime of Truth Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Forced Marriage Prevention Chapter 2: The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced Marriage Scenario Planning Chapter 3: Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in Prevention Work Chapter 4: Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical Narratives Chapter 5: Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of Displacement Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State Acknowledgements Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the
Book SynopsisWays of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn’t mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people’s struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode. An interview with the author (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html)Trade Review"Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization.' By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multidimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing."— Jacqueline Bhabha, author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age "Ways of Belonging examines what it means when young people reside in a place while not being of that place and how they carve out spaces of their own in the face of uncertainty and invisibility. Based on an impressive study, this remarkable book shines an important light on the nuances of contemporary migration and the policies that have produced ambiguous belonging. Theoretically insightful, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this is a must-read for scholars and policymakers alike." — Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America "Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policymakers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience."— Carola Suárez-Orozco, coeditor of Transitions: The Development of Children of ImmigrantsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Removable Children 2 Hidden Traces 3 Failing to Be Called 4 Getting Used to Here 5 Double Binds 6 Hopes and Departures Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the
Book SynopsisWays of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn’t mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people’s struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode.An interview with the author (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html)Trade Review"Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policymakers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience." -- Carola Suárez-Orozco * coeditor of Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants *"Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization.' By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multidimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing." -- Jacqueline Bhabha * author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age *"Ways of Belonging examines what it means when young people reside in a place while not being of that place and how they carve out spaces of their own in the face of uncertainty and invisibility. Based on an impressive study, this remarkable book shines an important light on the nuances of contemporary migration and the policies that have produced ambiguous belonging. Theoretically insightful, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this is a must-read for scholars and policymakers alike." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Removable Children 2 Hidden Traces 3 Failing to Be Called 4 Getting Used to Here 5 Double Binds 6 Hopes and Departures ConclusionAcknowledgments Notes References Index
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Migration and Radicalization: Global Futures
Book SynopsisThis book explores the connections between migration and terrorism and extrapolates, with the help of current research and case studies, what the future may hold for both issues. Migration and Radicalization: Global Futures looks at how migrants and terrorists have both been treated as Others outside the body politic, how growing migrant flows borne of a rickety state system cause both natives and migrants to turn violent, and how terrorist radicalization and tensions between natives and migrants can be reduced. As he contemplates potential global futures in the light of migration and radicalization, Gabriel Rubin charts a course between contemporary migration and terrorism scholarship, exploring their interactions in a methodologically rigorous but theoretically bold investigation. Table of ContentsChapter One: The Great Migration and Possible Futures Chapter Two: Migration and Terrorism Chapter Three: Causes of Migration: The Trouble with Boxes Chapter Four: Possible Futures Chapter Five: Solutions to Migration, Solutions to Terrorism?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG International Migration, Remittances and Brain
Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs). It analyzes the most recent global, regional and national data as well as the arguments for and against the emigration of highly skilled personnel and remittances, thereby highlighting policies aimed at optimizing the link between migration and development. The book examines in depth the arguments against "brain drain", namely the loss of skilled labor, wasted public investment in higher education, and reduced tax revenues. It also presents the arguments in favor, emphasizing on the transfer of scientific knowledge, the incentive effect of increased education spending, and participation in international networks. It addresses the central issue of emigration of medical personnel from developing countries and its consequences on the population.The book focuses on the effects of remittances on poverty and inequalities. They improve health conditions, raise education levels and empower women. Positive effects include the stabilizing function of remittances and the improvement of external accounts. Other effects are subject to conflicting assessments such as the reduction of labor supply and the "Dutch disease". The focus is on institutions who integrate economic, social and political incentives in order to establish remittances at the heart of development policies.The book provides a reference for students and research centers devoted to development economics, centers for international migration studies, and research units focusing on population, migration, and development.Table of ContentsChapter 1 MAJOR TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OVER THE LAST 25 YEARS PART I EMIGRATION OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED LABOR FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CHAPTER 2 INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION TRENDS OF HIGHLY SKILLED WORKERS CHAPTER 3 EMIGRATION OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL FROM THE PVD, OR THE "BRAIN DRAIN". GOOD OR BAD FOR DEVELOPMENT? CHAPTER 4 EMIGRATION OF HEALTH PERSONNEL FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PART II REMITTANCES TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CHAPTER 5 VOLUME OF REMITTANCE FLOWS AND PREVAILING TRENDS CHAPTER 6 THE DECISION TO REMIT: DETERMINANTS AND ACTORS CHAPTER 7 REMITTANCES AND HOUSEHOLD WELFARE CHAPTER 8 THE IMPACT OF REMITTANCES ON THE ECONOMY OF THE COUNTRIES OF EMIGRATION CHAPTER 9 REMITTANCES, AN INSTRUMENT OF DEVELOPMENT POLICY CONCLUSION
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Israel and the Diaspora: Jewish Connectivity in a
Book SynopsisThis collected volume is based on the proceedings of a symposium held in 2018 at York University, Canada, which was held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Israel. This symposium highlighted contemporary Jewish identity, Israel-Diaspora relations, and how Jewish life has been transformed in light of various types of antisemitism. The book considers the diasporic Jewish experiences through examining the intersections between various Jewish communities sociologically, historically, and geographically.The text covers world Jewry in general, and each of the diaspora and Israeli Jewries more specifically in the context of mutual responsibility, but also focuses on areas of tension concerning values and political matters. The challenges of antisemitism, racism, and nationalism are explored in terms of the relationship of the Jewish diasporas to their host countries. This text also covers antisemitism, which may take the form of traditional antisemitism or of the new antisemitism in the era of anti-Israel activity related to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The latter movement is especially prevalent on university campuses and has an impact on students, faculty, and staff. This volume is unique in its international perspective in examining issues of Jewish identity, Israel-diaspora relations, and antisemitism and will appeal to students and researchers working in the field.Table of ContentsIsrael at 70 and World Jewry: One People or Two?.- Israel-Diaspora Relations in the 21st Century: Continuities and Discontinuities.- The Evolution of North American Jews’ Relations with Israel from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class of 1994-95 (5755).- The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Potential Impact on Jewish Young Adults’ Relationship to Israel and Jewish Identity.- Segmented and Transnational Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora.- Keeping the Flame Alive: The Formation of Transnational Identities among Jewish Emigrants from Israel.- Holocaust, Memory, Migration: The Burden of Catastrophe among Israelis in Germany.- The Faculty Assault on Academic Freedom (USA).- Antisemitism, Anti-Israelism, and Canada in Context.- Jewish Students’ Experiences in the Era of BDS: Exploring Jewish Lived Experience and the New Antisemitism on Canadian Campuses.- Is Anti-Israelism Antisemitism? Evidence from Great Britain.- The BDS Movement in Australia.- Epilogue: Summary, Discussion, and Looking Beyond.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and
Book SynopsisThis open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses several categories of migrants including medical staff, farm labourers, construction workers, care and domestic workers and international students. It looks at border closures for non-citizens, disruption for temporary migrants as well as at special arrangements made for essential (migrant) workers such as doctors or nurses as well as farmworkers, ‘shipped’ to destination with special flights to make sure emergency wards are staffed, and harvests are picked up and the food processing chain continues to function. The book illustrates how the pandemic forces us to rethink notions like membership, citizenship, belonging, but also solidarity, human rights, community, essential services or ‘essential’ workers alongside an intersectional perspective including ethnicity, gender and race.Table of ContentsPart I. Pandemic Borders, Belonging, and Exclusion1 Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception: Migration and Membership During Pandemic Times Anna Triandafyllidou2 (In)Essential Bordering: Canada, COVID, and Mobility Audrey Macklin3 Territorial and Digital Borders and Migrant Vulnerability Under a Pandemic Crisis Petra Molnar4 Vulnerability and Resilience in the Covid-19 Crisis: Race, Gender, and Belonging Eileen Boris5 Sanctuary Cities and Covid-19: The Case of Canada Mireille Paquet, Noémie Benoit, Idil Atak, Meghan Joy, Graham Hudson, and John ShieldsPart II Pandemics and ‘Essential’ Migrants6 Migrant Care Labour, Covid-19, and the Long-Term Care Crisis: Achieving Solidarity for Care Providers and Recipients Lena Gahwi and Margaret Walton-Roberts7 Pandemic Shock Absorbers: Domestic Workers’ Activism at the Intersection of Immigrants’ and Workers’ Rights Anna Rosińska and Elizabeth Pellerito8 Essential Farmworkers and the Pandemic Crisis: Migrant Labour Conditions, and Legal and Political Responses in Italy and Spain Alessandra Corrado and Letizia Palumbo9 The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19 Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi10 Voluntary and Forced Return Migration Under a Pandemic Crisis Zeynep Sahin Mencutek11 Return Migration from the Gulf Region to India Amidst COVID-19 S Irudaya Rajan and H. Arokkiaraj12 Internal Migration and the Covid-19 Pandemic in India S Irudaya Rajan and R. B. Bhagat
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Palgrave MacMillan Remittances as Social Practices and Agents of
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Introduction to Migration Studies: An Interactive
Book SynopsisThis open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. It also covers politics, policies and governance as well as specific research methods. As an interactive guide, this book develops an innovative format that brings a connection with various online sources. This means that whereas the chapters bring together literature in a coherent way, they are also connected to IMISCOE's online interactive Migration Research Hub for further reading and for more empirical material on migration and diversity. As such, this textbook provides a very useful introductory reading for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for policymakers, policy advisors, and all those interested in studies on migration and migration-related diversities.Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Information and Communications Technology in
Book SynopsisThe book provides a holistic review, presenting a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary, international, and evidence-based approach to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in migration. The book brings together different views and multifaceted responses to ICT-based migration management, examining their overlap, conflict, and synergies. The book is a major addition to the field, tackling important debates concerning humanitarianism and securitization in the reception of migrants, as well as exploring the role of digital technology in aiding migrant integration. The authors explore contentious areas such as the use of new technologies deployed on borders for migration management and border security under the umbrella of smart border solutions including drones, AI algorithms, and face recognition, which are widely criticized for ignoring the fundamental human rights of migrants. The research presented will depart from the euphoric appraisals that technology has made things easier for migrants and those who assist them, to critically examine the bane and boon, benefits and afflictions, highlighting the barriers, as well as the solutions, including several under-researched aspects of digital surveillance and the digital divide.This edited volume has been developed by the MIICT project, funded under the EU Horizon 2020 Action and Innovation programme, under grant agreement No 822380. Provides a positive approach to the integration of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions Offers a strategic approach to providing digital services for migrants at an EU, national and local level Bridges the gap between academia and front-line practitioners’ work by providing theoretical, policy, ethical, and methodological recommendations Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1 – The relevance of ICTs in migration.- Minority rights.- Migration knowledge production and the shaping of perceptions of Europe.- Integrate services to integrate migrants.- Part 2 – Reviewing perspectives and experiences.- The Challenges and opportunities of ICT along the Road to Europe.- From a digital breach to a usage and positioning gap.- Developing migration focused ICT tools with marginalised groups.- ICTs and Migration.- The Challenges of co-design and co-creation for migrant integration.- Easing migrants’ access to public services.- Part 3 – Developing migration-related ICTs.- Micado Architecture.- The challenges of co-creation processes on developing ICT solutions for migrant inclusion.- Experiences from the development of ICT tools for and with migrants through NADINE platform.- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in designing AI-based solutions for migrants integration: REBUILD project.- Skill matching for migrant guidance based on AI tools.- Personalised interaction or how we can improve migrants’ experience when using a digital companion through a mobile app.- Immerse Architecture.- Authoring tools for young migrants.- Part 4 – Legal, ethical and societal considerations.- Assessing the socio-economic, technological and political impact of ICT tools for migrant integration.- Protecting Migrants’ Data.- Shaping ICT policies for integrative and inclusive digital services.- Legal and Ethical Frameworks Applicable to Social Media Analytics in the Context of Migration.- The Legal Framework Applicable to the Design and Use of ICTs in Migrants’ Integration.- Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Information and Communications Technology in
Book SynopsisThe book provides a holistic review, presenting a multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary, international, and evidence-based approach to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in migration. The book brings together different views and multifaceted responses to ICT-based migration management, examining their overlap, conflict, and synergies. The book is a major addition to the field, tackling important debates concerning humanitarianism and securitization in the reception of migrants, as well as exploring the role of digital technology in aiding migrant integration. The authors explore contentious areas such as the use of new technologies deployed on borders for migration management and border security under the umbrella of smart border solutions including drones, AI algorithms, and face recognition, which are widely criticized for ignoring the fundamental human rights of migrants. The research presented will depart from the euphoric appraisals that technology has made things easier for migrants and those who assist them, to critically examine the bane and boon, benefits and afflictions, highlighting the barriers, as well as the solutions, including several under-researched aspects of digital surveillance and the digital divide.This edited volume has been developed by the MIICT project, funded under the EU Horizon 2020 Action and Innovation programme, under grant agreement No 822380. Provides a positive approach to the integration of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees using Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions Offers a strategic approach to providing digital services for migrants at an EU, national and local level Bridges the gap between academia and front-line practitioners’ work by providing theoretical, policy, ethical, and methodological recommendations Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1 – The relevance of ICTs in migration.- Minority rights.- Migration knowledge production and the shaping of perceptions of Europe.- Integrate services to integrate migrants.- Part 2 – Reviewing perspectives and experiences.- The Challenges and opportunities of ICT along the Road to Europe.- From a digital breach to a usage and positioning gap.- Developing migration focused ICT tools with marginalised groups.- ICTs and Migration.- The Challenges of co-design and co-creation for migrant integration.- Easing migrants’ access to public services.- Part 3 – Developing migration-related ICTs.- Micado Architecture.- The challenges of co-creation processes on developing ICT solutions for migrant inclusion.- Experiences from the development of ICT tools for and with migrants through NADINE platform.- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in designing AI-based solutions for migrants integration: REBUILD project.- Skill matching for migrant guidance based on AI tools.- Personalised interaction or how we can improve migrants’ experience when using a digital companion through a mobile app.- Immerse Architecture.- Authoring tools for young migrants.- Part 4 – Legal, ethical and societal considerations.- Assessing the socio-economic, technological and political impact of ICT tools for migrant integration.- Protecting Migrants’ Data.- Shaping ICT policies for integrative and inclusive digital services.- Legal and Ethical Frameworks Applicable to Social Media Analytics in the Context of Migration.- The Legal Framework Applicable to the Design and Use of ICTs in Migrants’ Integration.- Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and ‘strong ties’. This open access book addresses key questions about the role of networks in migration contexts, particularly in relation to how migrants and their descendants, access the labour market and develop their employment trajectories over time. Rather than adopting a narrow essentializing ethnic lens, the research presented in this book explores intersectional identities of class, generation and gender. By focusing on the kinds of capital circulating between ties, including the dark side of social capital, the book offers insights into power dynamics and the potentially exclusionary dimension of networks. Taking a long term view, across generations, the research in this book shows how migrants and their descendants mobilize resources to tackle discrimination and enhance their position within particular labour markets. Drawing on robust quantitative and rich qualitative data, this book provides a primary source to students, scholars and policy-makers focusing on issues of migration, social networks, social mobility as well as labour market inequalities.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting Networks: setting the conceptual and methodological scene.- Chapter 2. The direct and indirect role of migrants’ networks in accessing diverse labour market sectors: an analysis of the weak/ strong ties continuum.- Chapter 3. Are “weak ties” really weak? Social capital reliance among second generation Turkish lawyers in Paris.- Chapter 4. Context matters: the varying roles of social ties for professional careers of immigrants’ descendants.- Chapter 5. Access to employment of the second generations in France: unequal role of family and personal networks by Origins and Gender.- Chapter 6. Social capital, immigrants and their descendants - the case of Sweden.- Chapter 7.Activating Social Capital: Steep mobility of descendants of immigrants at the top of the corporate business sector.- Chapter 8. Reciprocity within Migrant Networks: The Role of Social Support for Employment.- Chapter 9. Networks in Migration Processes.- Chapter 10. Early-career academics’ transnational moves: The gendered role of vertical social ties in obtaining academic positions abroad.- Chapter 11: Epilogue. Where Did Weak and Strong Ties Go Wrong?.
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Springer International Publishing AG Crises and Migration: Critical Perspectives from
Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic researchers, civil society organizations and the state to frame human mobility issues; second, it investigates migrants’ agency under conditions of crisis; and third, it discusses whether “migration crisis” is a conjunctural or structural phenomenon in the region. Chapters in this contributed volume investigate the crisis-migration nexus in seven Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Uruguay – by discussing different human mobility phenomena, such as the migrant caravans that departed from Central America bound to Mexico and the United States; the Nicaraguan exodus caused by the political crisis in the country; the perception of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia’s media; the presence of Caribbean migrants in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Crisis and Migration: Critical Perspectives from Latin America will be of interest to a wide range of social scientists interested in migration studies, as well as to policy makers and civil society organizations. This book offers a fresh look at the way we conceive, represent, and think about the relationship between crisis and human mobility. As the volume’s contributions show, a critical examination of the notion of crisis is a first step towards a more comprehensive understanding of the plight of present-day migrants worldwide.Table of ContentsAt the Crisis-Migration Crossroads: Scope and Limits Part I Venezuelan Migration and Crime in Colombia: Migrant Stigmatization in the Media and its Connection to a Crisis of (Failed) Integration of Said Migrants “Migration Crisis” and Migrant Caravans (October 2018-January 2019) in Mexico: An Analysis from Contemporary Academic Publications Emerging from Crisis: Transformations in Uruguayan Migration Management of Venezuelan Migration Part II The COVID 19 Pandemic as Crisis: Immobility of Workers in Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina Parting and Keep on Existing. Crisis and Reproduction of the Existence of Migrants and their Collectives in the City of Rosario Mobility and Crisis in Nicaragua. Narratives and Subjectivities of Forced Migration Part III Migration Crisis in Brazil and Treatment of Venezuelan Migrants Nicaraguans in Costa Rica: Continued Crisis as Context in Nicaragua and as Breakdown of Normality in Costa Rica Violent Contexts and “Crisis” in Mexico-Central America and Colombia-Venezuela Cross-border Dynamics, 2010-2020
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Springer International Publishing AG Gender-Based Violence in Migration:
Book SynopsisWith contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts. This book engages micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis by foregrounding a conceptualization of GBV that addresses both its interpersonal and structural causes. Chapters explore how GBV frameworks and migration management intersect, bringing to the forefront the specific inequalities these intersections produce for migrant women. Drawing upon several disciplines, the authors engage in co-writing a critical engagement which proposes an original understanding of how the concepts of intersectionality, vulnerability and precarity speak to each other from a feminist perspective. This volume will be of interest to scholars/researchers and policymakers in Gender Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Trauma Studies, Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies.Table of ContentsPart I Against Essentialism and Beyond Abstract Universalism: Theorising Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts 1 Thinking about Gender and Violence in Migration: An Introduction 2 Vulnerability, Precarity and Intersectionality: A Critical Review of Three Key Concepts for Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts Part II Policy Intersections: Combating Gender-Based Violence and Managing Migration3 Countering ‘Their’ Violence: Framing Gendered Violence Against Women Migrants in Austria4 The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy Gender-Based Violence and Immigration Frameworks 5 Gender-based Violence as a ‘Consequence of Migration’: How Culturalist Framings of GBV Ignore Structural Violence Against Migrant Women in France 6 Crimmigration and Gender-Based Violence Against Women Asylum Seekers in Israel Part III Understanding Policy Implications, Foregrounding Women’s Voices 7 Vulnerability and Resiliency: Immigrant Women, Social Networks and Family Violence 8 Between the Law and a Hard Place—A Victim of Trafficking Meets the Norwegian Migration Regime 9 Gender-Based Violence as a Continuum in the Lives of Women Seeking Asylum: From Resistance to Patriarchy to Patterns of Institutional Violence in France10 Conclusion
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