Migration, immigration and emigration Books
MO - University of Illinois Press The Italian American Table
Book SynopsisRecasts Italian American food culture as an American "invention" resonant with traces of tradition.Trade Review"Written with passion and clarity, The Italian American Table represents a stunning achievement. While tackling an irresistible topic--the meaning of food in the lives of Italian immigrants and their children--Simone Cinotto has managed to write a book that should please a wide range of interdisciplinary scholars and readers."--The Journal of American History"Insightful, pathbreaking research. . . . a new perspective on the linkage between food and family. Recommended."--Choice"In clear, bright prose Cinotto focuses on the period spanning from 1920 to 1940, and thus extends beyond the years of intense Italian immigration to include generational change and later cultural reproduction… The book appropriately cleaves between Italian American immigrant's food culture and later attempts at selling 'Italian' food to white Americans… Food is part of a larger cultural economy here, and Cinotto sheds some light on its production as a symbol and commodity over several generations."--American Historical Review"Interesting insight on the culinary history of the Italian diaspora. The book introduces wider reflections on the role of food production, preparation, and consumption in immigrant communities, a theme that is as urgent today as it was in the past century."--Gastronomica"In recent years, food studies have become a growing area of interdisciplinary scholarship... Simone Cinott's book, The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City, makes a significant contribution to this body of scholarship... A rich and important edition. This admirable piece of scholarship transcends disciplinary boundaries and should interest scholars and students of history, ethnic studies, food studies, gender and urban studies, as well as those of business and marketing. It will join the ranks of the classic studies of Italian American History."--Journal of American Ethnic History"Simone Cinotto's The Italian American Table is a substantial documentation of beliefs most foodways scholars, and most Americans, already share: that food is important to Italian American families, that the entrepreneurial spirit of Italian American emigrants shared Italian food with an ever-wider group of non-Italian Americans, and that, to some extent, the food story of Italian life in America has already been told by popular fiction, film, and television in a way that orients our contemporary understanding of Italian Americans and Italian food... The Italian American Table is a fulfilling treatment of the domestic and commercial foodways particular to Italian Americans in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s."--Western Folklore"Full of rich analysis and insights, this first book-length scholarly study of Italian immigrant foodways in the United States offers an explanation for why and how food became so closely attached to the creation of Italian American ethnic identities. A convincing and significant contribution."--Donna Gabaccia, author of We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans"With rich descriptive detail that is fascinating and engagingly presented, The Italian American Table advances our understanding not only of Italians' migration experiences but of immigrants in general. Simone Cinotto uncovers a treasure trove of data from various historical sources and weaves it together into a clear and compelling narrative."--Carole M. Counihan, author of Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Florence
£103.00
MO - University of Illinois Press The Polish Hearst AmerykaEcho and the Public
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A superbly framed and detailed analysis of an influential crossover newspaper… In The Polish Hearst, Jaroszynska-Kirchmann exposes the fascinating, interconnected layers of ethnic history through Ameryka-Echo's multi-voiced record."--Polish American Studies “The Polish Hearst tells a compelling story that fills a void in the record of Antoni Paryski's contributions to the history of America's immigrant newspapers and augments the historiography of the American media to account for the contributions of the professional journalists and the readers-writers of the ethnic press as well."--Ohio Valley History "Recommended."--Choice"An important and groundbreaking work." --Journal of American Ethnic History"Who says creating a virtual community based on sharing information across space is new? Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann’s insightful study of Antoni Paryski, aka the Polish Hearst, the ethnic newspaper Ameryka-Echo, and the reader-writers who contributed to that Polish American paper, broadens our understanding of the letters of mobile people and how they created an ethnic public sphere."--Suzanne M. Sinke, author of Dutch Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880-1920"The author has done an uncommon job in thoroughly analyzing a significant ethnic newspaper and inserting it into the mainstream of contemporary print culture studies. The role of readers as authors is examined in detail and shows how very much more there is to be done with ethnic print, which has played too little a part in scholarship to date."--James P. Danky, author of The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of Political Culture, 1850–1940"In relating this resonant, deeply researched and broadly conceived story of Antoni Paryski, the classically self-made Polish American publisher, the author provides important insights into ethnicity, the hard-won American identities of the immigrants and their children, and the nature of community in modern, culturally diverse societies."--David A. Gerber, University at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of History"Well-written and broadly contextualized, this study about a key Polish American immigrant newspaper serves as an excellent starting point for anybody interested in the history of Polish Americans and the immigrant press in the United States during the twentieth century. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann opens a fresh perspective on the transformation of Polish America between the period of mass immigration around 1900 and the decline of ethnic life in recent decades."--Tobias Brinkmann, author of Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago "Does an admirable job in placing Antoni A. Paryski, the Ameryka-Echo, and his book publishing business firmly in the history not only of the Polish immigrant community, but within the historical context of Polish history, particularly the Positivist movement, and the history of journalism."--Dominic A. Pacyga, author of Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880–1922
£57.76
MO - University of Illinois Press Memories and Migrations Mapping Boricua and
Book SynopsisShaping a new understanding of Latina identity formationTrade Review"First rate... Both general readers and scholars should read this excellent collection, which ... contributes to a more nuanced understanding of United States history."--Hispanic American Historical Review "By reframing immigration through the multiple perspectives gained from studying 'regionalities,' the collection facilitates new understandings of diasporic subjectivities and their lived experiences."--Western Historical Quarterly "This anthology represents the rich variety of scholarship that has emerged in the field of Latina history."--Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsContributors include Gabriela F. Arredondo, John R. Chavez, Marisela R. Chavez, Yolanda Chavez Leyva, Maria E. Montoya, Lydia R. Otero, Vicki L. Ruiz, Elizabeth Salas, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, and Carmen Teresa Whalen
£30.86
MO - University of Illinois Press Hong Kong Movers and Stayers Narratives of
Book SynopsisHalf a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 - and nearly half of those returned within several years of leaving. Featuring stories of nine Hong Kong families, this title looks at the forces behind Hong Kong families' efforts at migration and settlement.Trade Review"There is no other study like this in the China migration literature, nor in the literature on emigration from Hong Kong. The thoroughness of this longitudinal research provides a highly nuanced account of how changes in family life over a period of fifteen years have affected motivations and outcomes for migration." --Nicole Newendorp, author of Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong"An impressive resource for academic researchers who will find a wealth of historical and institutional information if they are studying Hong Kong and China . . . . Overall it is a valuable contribution to the area of Asian studies, as well as migration studies and theory."--Canadian Ethnic Studies "Hong Kong Movers and Stayers is an engaging and superbly researched sociological ethnography that treats migration as a process and not a singular act of departure and settlement. . . . Indeed, the book represents collaborative work at its best."--Contemporary Sociology"A solid contribution to our knowledge about migration, not just in Hong Kong but more widely."--The China Quarterly
£32.78
MO - University of Illinois Press Building Filipino Hawaii
Book SynopsisDrawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, the author delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity.Trade Review"Building Filipino Hawai'i is a much-needed work on contemporary Filipino lives in the islands, in the fifty years since the resumption of significant emigration from the Philippines. Consistently argued and astutely theoretically framed. . . . Building Filipino Hawai'i promises to be the principal text on not only Filipinos, but also the contemporary experiences of ethnic and immigrant minorities in Hawai'i in the political context of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement."--Pacific Historical Review"An outstanding addition to a growing field of studies focused on Filipina/o American community building and identity formation."--Western Historical Quarterly "Labrador provides many necessary interventions to studies of Filipinos in the United States and helps further the reconceptualization of what it means to be Filipino throughout the Philippine diaspora and the ongoing production of global transnationalism."--The Journal of American History "Labrador provides an engaging and thoughtful study of Filipinos in Hawai'i, demonstrating how they have struggled to define and/or redefine their identity in the diaspora, by moving from the margins of Hawaii's society to becoming an integral part of it, while also maintaining their sense of Filipinoness."--Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego"Hawai'i is often held up as a model of liberal multiculturalism, a site in which a truly postracial order has been achieved. Labrador, however, demonstrates how the racial order in Hawai'i continues to be hierarchized, is premised on settler colonialism, and rests on a classed anti-immigrant sensibility. Building Filipino Hawai'i is an important read."--Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, author of Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World
£30.76
University of Washington Press The Sikh Diaspora
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University of Washington Press Living Together Living Apart Mixed Status
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Epigraph: The Freedom to Move / Lisa Speicher Muñoz Foreword / Mary Romero Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy / April M. Schueths and Jodie M. Lawston Part One | Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana / Giselle Stern Hernández 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States / April M. Schueths 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time / Rachel M. Hershberg and M. Brinton Lykes 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego–Tijuana Border / Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez 5. “We Thought We Had a Future”: Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families / Martha I. Zapata Roblyer and Joseph G. Grzywacz 6. Being Mixed-Status / Sheryl Tuliao Silva and Eric O. Silva Part Two | Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being 7. Voice of an American-Mexican / Neida Soto Arrington 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border / Heide Castañeda 9. “Someday I’m Going to Have Papers!” (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South / Scott Beck and Alma Stevenson 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership / Sarah Morando Lakhani 11. “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) / Eva Betancourt Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media 12. MIXED-UP / Carlos-Manuel 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse / Eric O. Silva 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? / Connie Oxford 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under “Secure Communities” / Diana M. Guelespe 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States / Shobha Hamal Gurung 17. Bringing Pedro Home / Emily Guzman 18. My Path to Happiness / Luis A. HernÁndez Contributors Index
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Chinas Second Continent
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future.One of the Best Books of the Year at • The Economist • The Guardian • Foreign Affairs
£14.24
Back Bay Books The Good Immigrant
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Little America
Book SynopsisA soon-to-be half-hour anthology series from Apple, airing starting January 2020, a gorgeous, intimate collective portrait of America's immigrants and thereby a portrait of the nation itself
£24.00
Random House USA Inc Outcasts United
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WW Norton & Co New York
Book SynopsisThe definitive pictorial history of the diverse peoples of the world who have made New York their home.
£42.74
WW Norton & Co Tears of Salt A Doctors Story of the Refugee
Book Synopsis"This is a personal, urgent, and universal book." —Gloria SteinemTrade Review"Tears of Salt is a tender personal memoir.… It is also a damning indictment of the broader, collective indifference of humankind to both the drowned and the saved." -- Philip Gourevitch"A work not to be missed.… [Bartolo] limns his narrative with great compassion and humanity." -- Marjorie Kehe - Christian Science Monitor"Heart-wrenching and relevant." -- Marion Winik - Minneapolis Star Tribune"Poignant." -- Uzodinma Iweala - New York Times Book Review"Through Dr. Bartolo we understand that it is impossible to do nothing in the face of such great human need." -- Vanity Fair"Equal parts memoir, celebration of [Lampedusa] and report from the front. Above all, though, it is a plea for compassion." -- Edward Morris - BookPage"At a time when our broken world seems to be encouraging, and lauding, the worst of humanity, along comes the remarkable Dr. Bartolo to show us what courage, integrity, and compassion look like. His life is a manual of what it means to be human." -- Rabih Alameddine"Tears of Salt…reveals the human side of suffering through the life of one man." -- Adele Annesi - Washington Independent Review of Books"Dr. Bartolo’s spare, poignant, angry account of his life as doctor to the refugees arriving on the shores of Italy is an unusual and important addition to the growing literature of migration. Anyone wanting to understand the disaster of what is happening around us should read this book." -- Caroline Moorehead
£12.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press How the Workers Became Muslims
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] remarkable study on the ways racism has taken in Western Europe, in particular in relations between Muslim immigrants and Western European states. Yilmaz has made a first-rate intervention on the discussion concerning national, popular, and ethnic identities in the contemporary world. His contribution to contemporary scholarship is outstanding.”—Ernesto Laclau, author of On Populist Reason“Yilmaz’s important book charts the rise of culture as the dominant framework through which we now understand the politics of migration in Europe. He gives a theoretically sophisticated account of the production of the ‘Muslim immigrant,’ the rise of right-wing populism, and the way ‘progressive’ values—including those of feminism and gay rights—have come to serve racist and exclusionary ends.”—Ben Pitcher, University of Westminster“Guided by an original reformulation of hegemony theory that highlights the transformative effects of media-driven moral panics, this book offers a deep dive into contemporary anti-immigration discourse in Europe. With great insight, Yilmaz unveils the relations of power undergirding the seemingly benign ‘common sense’ definitions of the immigration ‘problem.’”—Rodney Benson, author of Shaping Immigration News“In this beautifully written and brilliantly argued book, Ferruh Yilmaz shows how moral panics and political mobilizations against Muslim ‘difference’ function in western nations to obscure pervasive oppressions of race and class. Drawing deftly on advanced currents in studies of communication and cultural studies, How the Workers Became Muslims demonstrates the dynamism of discourse as a social force. Yilmaz reveals how the prevailing categories and classifications that are deployed in political discourse deliberately direct attention toward conflicts over cultural norms and values in order to deflect attention away from material and political conflicts over resources and rights. This book shows how anti-Muslim mobilizations are not merely manifestations of cultural racism and Islamophobia, but rather key tools for the perpetuation of class dominance and the occlusion of class conflicts.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Dr. Yilmaz’s book is a highly original and sophisticated study of public discourse on immigration in Denmark. The argument he puts forward here is significant for its understanding of the social and political changes in Europe in the last two decades. Yilmaz’s work sheds important new light on the politics of immigration and is particularly effective in showing how immigration politics has restructured the basic ways in which social and political interests are conceived in Europe. Beyond the issue of immigration, Yilmaz makes important interventions in theoretical and methodological discussions about political discourse and ‘ideological hegemony.’ This important book will make a real impact and will be widely read, both as a statement about contemporary European politics and as a statement about how to study discourse and political power.”—Daniel C. Hallin, University of California–San Diego
£72.95
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Irish Diaspora Tales of Emigration Exile and
Book SynopsisExplores the lives of over forty men and women – great and otherwise – whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history.Trade Review'This fascinating assortment of case histories, spread across 1,400 years and six continents, is an impressive feat of research. All of the chapters are based on a solid body of up-to-date historical writing. The summaries of often-complex historical background to the lives explored are models of lucid compression. The short biographies themselves are lively yet judicious, packed with vivid detail but willing, where necessary, to question or dismiss colourful legend. And the reader will come away with a new sense of the many ways in which Ireland has interacted with the world beyond its shores, and of some of the extraordinary careers that have resulted' - BBC HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction – Emerald Exodus • Columbanus & the Merovingian Kings • Virgilius of Salzburg • The Carolingian Irish • Brendan the Navigator & The Monks of Iceland • Helias of Cologne • Jacobo of Ireland & the Mongol Empire • Luke Wadding & The Vatican Elite • Don Guillén - The Original Zorro • Lord Bellomont's Piratical Venture • George Berkeley – The ‘Irish Plato’ & Bermuda College • Richard Brew - Slave Trader • The Abbé de Firmont • Hercules Mulligan - Washington's Spy • James Hoban - Architect of the White House • General Gough - Conqueror of the Punjab • Pat Watkins – Crusoe of the Galápagos • Chile's Irish Patriots • John Field – A Muscovy Nocturne • Frederick Young - Father of the Gurkhas • Dr James Barry - Caesarean Pioneer • The Texan Revolution • Sir George Gore - Buffalo Slayer • Margaret of New Orleans • Children of the Famine • Little Al Cashier • Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Father of The Canadian Confederation • The Railroad Men • Eliza Lynch - First Lady of Paraguay • John Philip Holland - Father of The Submarine • Nellie Cashman - The Angel of the Wild West • The Grace Brothers' Conquest of Peru • Annie Moore - The First Emigrant Through Ellis Island • Margaretta Eagar – The Last Tsar’s Governess • The Moore Brothers - Hollywood Stars • Louis Brennan - The Wizard of Oz • Violet Gibson – Killing Mussolini • Don Patricio O'Connell – Barça’s Saviour • Lord Haw-Haw - The Voice of Nazi Germany • Brendan Bracken - Churchill's Spin Doctor • Patrick Gallagher - Vietnam Hero • The Irish in the White House • Epilogue – Reflections on Irish Identity
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Random House USA Inc Call Me American A Memoir
Book SynopsisAbdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. Desperate to make a living, Abdi used his language skills to post secret dispatches, which found an audience of worldwide listeners. Eventually, though, Abdi was forced to flee to Kenya. In an amazing stroke of luck, Abdi won entrance to the U.S. in the annual visa lottery, though his route to America did not come easily. Parts of his story were first heard on the BBC World Service and This American Life. Now a
£14.24
Vintage Espanol Stranger Spanish Edition Stranger The Challenge
Book Synopsis“Hay veces en que me siento como un extraño en el país donde he pasado más de la mitad de mi vida. No es por falta de oportunidades, ni una queja. Es, más bien, una especie de desilusión. Jamás me imaginé que después de 35 años en Estados Unidos iba a seguir siendo un stranger para muchos. Pero eso soy.” Jorge Ramos, periodista galardonado con premios Emmy, reconocido presentador del Noticiero Univisión y considerado “la voz de los sin voz” de la comunidad latina, fue expulsado de una rueda de prensa del candidato presidencial Donald Trump en Iowa en el año 2015 tras cuestionar sus planes sobre inmigración. En este manifiesto personal, Ramos explora qué significa ser un inmigrante latino, o simplemente un inmigrante, en los Estados Unidos de nuestros días. Mediante datos y estadísticas, su olfato para encontrar historias y su pro
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Random House USA Inc Stranger
Book Synopsis“There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many. But that’s how it is”. Jorge Ramos, an Emmy award-winning journalist, Univision’s longtime anchorman and widely considered the “voice of the voiceless” within the Latino community, was forcefully removed from an Iowa press conference in 2015 by then-candidate Donald Trump after trying to ask about his plans on immigration. In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current research and statistics, with a journalist’s nose for a story, and interweaving his own personal experience, Ramos shows us the changing face of America
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Random House USA Inc A Beginners Guide to America
Book SynopsisA stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of human beings endure when they uproot their lives to become Americans by choice (The Boston Globe).Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a guide for the newly arrived, and providing practical information and advice, Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as
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Vintage Espanol App Kid Spanish Edition
Book SynopsisEsta es la historia de Michael Sayman, quien a sus trece años creó una empresa de desarrollo de aplicaciones iOS que llamó la atención de Mark Zuckerberg. Desde entonces, ha trabajado para Facebook, Google y, actualmente, para Roblox, la conocida empresa de juegos virtuales. Emprendedor por naturaleza e hijo de inmigrantes hispanos, Michael luchó desde niño por encontrar su lugar en el mundo. En App Kid, nos cuenta cómo, a raíz del colapso del negocio familiar que llevaban sus padres, aprendió a programar por sí mismo, lanzando una aplicación para iPhone que llegó a recaudar miles de dólares al mes, lo suficiente para mantener a flote a su familia. Entrado en la adolescencia, nos comparte la increíble experiencia que vivió al pasar de la escuela secundaria directamente al mundo profesional, entrando a trabajar en Facebook como su empleado más joven
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Vintage Espanol Patrias Cuatro amigos dos países y el destino de
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Elizabeth Aprahamian Remarkable Rebirth The Early History of the
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Random House USA Inc HomeLand
Book SynopsisA moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land—this is a “winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of unknowns accrue into a life” (Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror).When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she’d given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself?In a deft mix of memoir and reportage, drawing on literature and
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Penguin Young Readers La cosecha del imperio. Historia de los latinos
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves One Family and
Book SynopsisOne of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the YearA remarkable book...indispensable.--The Boston GlobeA sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced.--The New York TimesThis is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation.--Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedThe definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age--the age of global migration. In a monumental
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Welcoming the Stranger Irish Migrant Welfare in
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Vintage Canada Maximum Canada Toward a Country of 100 Million
Book SynopsisTo face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many? Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. That wasn’t by accident. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated this country, attracting few of the people and building few of the institutions needed to sustain a sovereign nation. In fact, during most years before 1967, a greater number of people fled Canada than immigrated to it. Canada’s growth has faltered and left us underpopulated ever since. At Canada’s 150th anniversary, a more open, pluralist and international vision has largely overturned that colonial mindset and become consensus across the country and its major political parties. But that consensus is ever fragile. Our small population continues to hamper our competitive clout, our ability to act independently in a
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Arcadia Publishing German Settlers of South Bend Voices of America
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Pluto Press The Unchosen
Book SynopsisAn intimate look at the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in IsraelTrade Review'Equipped with a profound knowledge of the plight of non-Jews who have come to Israel in search of work and asylum, Mya Guarnieri Jaradat brings their struggles to life in all of their complexity' -- Neve Gordon, co-author of The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford University Press, 2015)'The world needs more journalists with Guarnieri Jaradat's dedication, compassion, and unblinking intelligence. The Unchosen is as clear-eyed as it is heartfelt ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Israel' -- Ben Ehrenreich, journalist and author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine (Penguin, 2016)'An engaging book ... its contribution to the debate on migration is timely and useful' -- Haaretz'A crucial text for understanding the current refugee crisis in Israel' -- n+1'An exemplary and affecting piece of reportage' -- Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Black Market Kindergartens 2. The New Others: Migrant Workers 3. The Second Wave: A 'Flood' of African Asylum Seekers 4. 'Our Boss Took His Dogs to the Bomb Shelters But Left Us in the Fields': Thai Workers Doing 'Hebrew Work' 5. 'Clean and Tidy': Foreigners in Israel after Operation Cast Lead 6. Black City: The 'Infiltrators' 7. Jewish Girls for the Jewish People: The Knesset and the High Court 8. The Only Darfuri Refugee in Israel Postscript Notes Index
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. Nothing But the Truth
Book SynopsisINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A critically acclaimed, intimate and no-holds-barred memoir by Canada’s top defence lawyer, Nothing But the Truth weaves Marie Henein’s personal story with her strongly held views on society’s most pressing issues.Marie Henein, arguably the most prominent lawyer in the country, has written a memoir that is at once raw, beautiful, and altogether unforgettable. Her story, as an immigrant from a tight-knit Egyptian-Lebanese family, demonstrates the value of strong role models—from her mother and grandmother, to her brilliant uncle Sami who died of AIDS. She learned the value of hard work, being true to herself and others, and unapologetically owning it all. Marie Henein shares here her unvarnished view on the ethical and practical implications of being a criminal lawyer, and how the job is misunderstood and even demonized. Ironically, her most successful cases
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Governing Irregular Migration
Book SynopsisThis thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe's southern borders. David Moffette analyzes Spain's processes of immigration governance and reveals the complicated series of legal obstacles facing many migrants.Differential access to border mobility is a central concern of contemporary politics, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the European Union, where external borders have been strengthened to prevent irregular entry and internal borders have been removed to promote free circulation. Moffette draws on interviews with policymakers and on more than three decades of parliamentary debates, laws, and policy documents to show that culture, labour, and security issues intersect to create a regime of migration governance that is at once progressive and repressive. A detailed empirical analysis of Spanish immigration policy, this book provides a thought-provoking and insightful contriTable of Contents1 Studying the Governing of Irregular Migration2 Early Problematizations: “Immigrants,” “Foreign Workers,” and “Illegals”3 Culture: Race, Religion, and the National Imaginary4 Labour: Flows, Workers, and the Labour Market5 Security: Threats, Crime, and State Sovereignty6 Multiscalar Governance: Borderwork, Desirability, and Deportability7 Governing Immigration through ProbationNotes; References; Index
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Beacon Press Parenting with an Accent
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Sarton Award for NonfictionMerging real stories with research and on-the-ground reporting, an award-winning journalist and immigrant explores multicultural parenting and identity in the USThrough her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country.With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. Sh
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Beacon Press Parenting with an Accent
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Sarton Award for NonfictionMerging real stories with research and on-the-ground reporting, an award-winning journalist and immigrant explores multicultural parenting and identity in the USThrough her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country.With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. Sh
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Random House USA Inc Futureface
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The University Press of Kentucky The Mentelles
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The Catholic University of America Press Refuge in the Lord Catholics Presidents and the
Book SynopsisWhen Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, immigration and refugee policy was among the unresolved matters that he inherited from his predecessor, Jimmy Carter. Over three decades later, it remains largely unresolved, due not only to the men who would inhabit the White House, but to interest groups and members of Congress, many of them Catholic, on all sides of the issue.
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Rutgers University Press Citizenship Political Engagement and Belonging
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the processes of immigration, political behavior, and citizenship in both the United States and Europe. This book contains essays, which draw on issues of race, national identity, and religion.Trade ReviewAn innovative and exciting book that has much to add to our understanding of international migration and citizenship. -- Steven J. Gold * author of Israeli Diaspora *A pathbreaking collection that takes us a long way to understanding the effects of transnational migration on notions of national identity, state policies, and the strategies immigrants develop for becoming recognized as legitimate members of their new communities whether in the United States or other parts of the world. -- Leo Chavez * University of California, Irvine *This ethnographic collection is an important addition to the literature on transnational migration and related issues of identity, citizenship, and belonging. The book's major strength is that it brings together material from the US and Western Europe, an approach that offers valuable insights not just on the range of immigrant experiences, but on the diversity of national contexts in which migrants find themselves. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Inclusion and Exclusion: Discourses of Belonging Part II. Political Mobilization and Claims Making Part III. New Spaces of Citizenship Afterword: Some Concluding Reflections References Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press In Lady Libertys Shadow The Politics of Race and
Book SynopsisRobyn Magalit Rodriguez explores the impact of anti-immigrant municipal ordinances on a range of immigrant groups living in different types of suburban communities. Although it is a case study of New Jersey, In Lady Liberty's Shadow offers crucial insights that can shed fresh light on the national immigration debate.Trade Review"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez makes an original intellectual contribution to the study of migration control that places the politics of race, anti-blackness, and suburban governance at the center of the analysis!" -- Alfonso Gonzales * author of Reform Without Justice *"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez has written an important book for anyone who embraces, chafes at, or aspires to being an American. In Lady Liberty's Shadow reminds us that the specificity of the U.S. suburb reflects and fuels the generality of whiteness in which we all live and breathe. Rightly marking 9/11 as a political launchpad for the latest era of xenophobia and racism, Rodriguez vividly brings together the too-often separate narratives of race and empire, of Trayvon Martin and San Bernadino. This is a deeply personal, refreshingly vulnerable, and urgent piece of scholarship." -- Soya Jung * Senior Partner, ChangeLab *"Rodriguez brilliantly sheds light on border enforcement in New Jersey suburbs, linking alarming local and national policies, Jim Crow segregation and 'Juan Crow' xenophobia, to expose threats to American social justice." -- Allan Punzalan Isaac * author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America *"In Lady Liberty’s Shadow is a heartfelt, enjoyable, and edifying text that tries 'to make sense of anti-immigrant local ordinances in a place where they don’t make sense.'" * American Journal of Sociology *"Implore[s] readers to recognize the hidden work immigrants have continually performed in both cities and suburbs. They also reveal the racialization that immigrants and their descendants experienced and continue to experience in these spaces. This scholarship showcases how urban spaces outside of the Northeast shape immigrant identities and racial politics." * Journal of Urban History *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 The Politics of Immigration and Race in the “Garden State”2 My Hometown: Immigration and Suburban Imaginaries3 The New “Main Street”?: Ethnoburbs and the Complex Politics of Race4 Being the Problem: Perspectives from Immigrant New Jerseyans5 Fighting on the Homefront6 Conclusion NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Arizona Press Ambivalent Journey
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University of Arizona Press SALVADORANS IN COSTA RICA
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University of Arizona Press Because I Dont Have Wings
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University of Arizona Press Educating Across Borders
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University of Arizona Press Undocuments
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University of Arizona Press North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
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University of Arizona Press La Gente Struggles for Empowerment and Community
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The University of Alabama Press The Border Crossed Us Rhetorics of Borders
Book SynopsisThe Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national belonging. But the relationship between borders and citizenship breeds perpetual anxiety over the purported sanctity of the border, the security of a nation, and the integrity of civic identity. In The Border Crossed Us, Josue David Cisneros addresses these themes as they relate to the US-Mexico border, arguing that issues ranging from the Mexican-American War of 18461848 to contemporary debates about Latina/o immigration and border security are negotiated rhetorically through public discourse. He explores these rhetorical battles through case studies of specific Latina/o struggles for civil rights and citizenship, including debates about Mexican American citizenship in the 1849 California Constituti
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The University of Alabama Press From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions
Book SynopsisBased on long-term ethnographic and archival research, this book considers the intersection of tourism, multiculturalism, and nation building. Carla Guerron Montero analyses the ways in which tourism becomes a vehicle for the development of specific kinds of institutional multiculturalism and nation-building projects.Trade ReviewProvides a clear and comprehensive narrative of Afro-Antillean struggles for recognition in Panama." - Baron L. Pineda, author of Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito CoastTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Panameñismo and Panameñidad: Converging Ideologies in the Construction of Panamanian National Identity Chapter 2. Panama's Temporary Migrants: The Afro-Antillean Presence in the National Narrative Chapter 3. "Panama Is More Than a Canal": The Twenty-First Century and the Panamanian Tourism Industry Chapter 4. Touring the Archipelago of Bocas del Toro Chapter 5. Afro-Antilleanness Represented: Museums, Theme Parks, and the Manufacturing of History Chapter 6. The Permanent Attractions: Music and Cuisine as Malleable "Ethnic Commodities" Chapter 7. Conclusions: Afro-Antillean Identity Construction, International Tourism, and the New Symbols of Panameñidad Glossary Notes References Index
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. On a Collision Course The Dawn of Japanese
Book SynopsisIn five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective. This translated volume brings a transnational perspective to this critical chapter of early Japanese American history.Trade Review“Professor Sakata’s pioneering archival work and scholarship anticipated the transnational turn in United States immigration and ethnic history while also challenging perspectives in Japanese studies. In particular, his broad and deep knowledge of both English and Japanese language sources informs these original and important essays on early Japanese migration that will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across multiple fields and areas of study.” —David K. Yoo, vice provost and professor, UCLA“At last, On a Collision Course provides English-speaking readers with invaluable access to the scholarship of Yasuo Sakata, arguably one of the foremost trailblazers in Japanese American studies. Superbly translated, the volume highlights the contemporary relevance of Sakata’s works published in Japan over a quarter of a century ago. While based on impeccable empirical research, the selected essays offer an in-depth look at how the early Japanese immigrant experience unfolded in the intertwined contexts of US-Japan diplomacy and the local race politics of the American West. Still with ample power to inspire, Sakata’s studies represent migration history writing at its best and are a must-read for anyone interested in transpacific working-class migration and Japanese American history.” —Eiichiro Azuma, associate professor of history and Asian American studies, University of Pennsylvania“Yasuo Sakata in On a Collision Course lays out the challenges of researching the Japanese American history: the massive loss of historical archives during the 1906 San Francisco Great Fire and the 1942–5 internment; and the commonplace practice of secondhand citations and historical distortions in the Nikkei communities’ publications in early decades. How could one overcome these problems, if at all? This is a must-read text for those who seek an answer to this question.” —Yuma Totani, professor of history, University of Hawaii, and author of The Tokyo War Crimes Trial “This is an exceptionally erudite and timely publication of Yasuo Sakata’s historical studies of migration between Japan and the United States during the Meiji era. Sakata’s research amounts to essential reading on the place of Issei labor and patterns of mobility caught between the expansionist and exclusionist policies of two rising world powers. Appearing for the first time in English translation, with a preface by Kaoru Ueda and critical introduction by Masako Iino, it provides nuanced, multilayered analyses of the archives on both sides of the Pacific instrumental for restoring this vital transnational history.” —Seth Jacobowitz, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures, Yale University, and author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan“Yasuo Sakata was a pioneer, approaching early Japanese American studies as a field deserving of scholarly attention from both sides of the Pacific. His insistence on the need for bilingual facility and reliance on trustworthy historical documents and archives was only rarely possible, but it will continue to be a beacon and vision for aspiring scholars in the field. This translated volume is most welcome; it is a major contribution.” —Franklin Odo, John J McCloy Visiting Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy, Amherst College“Revisiting pioneers’ works always results in ‘new’ findings, perspectives, and surprises. This translated collection of essays written by a pioneer scholar of Japanese American history, Yasuo Sakata, shows us the significance of how historians decipher primary sources, master the languages of research, and pay attention to both micro- and macroperspectives. Scholars who are interested in US-Japan history, immigration history, and Japanese American studies will benefit from reading his valuable essays for better understanding the development of historical research on Japanese immigrants and their descendants in the United States.” —Mariko Iijima, Associate Professor, Sophia University
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