Migration, immigration and emigration Books
MJ - Ohio University Press A History of the Excluded Making Family a Refuge from State in TwentiethCentury Tanzania Eastern African Studies
Book SynopsisThe twentieth-century history of Njombe, the Southern Highlands district of Tanzania, can aptly be summed up as exclusion within incorporation. Njombe was marginalized even as it was incorporated into the colonial economy.Trade Review“By charting the history of family dynamics among the Wabena from World War I through early independence, A History of the Excluded shines a particularly powerful light on how individuals experienced the demands of migrant labor and plantation conditions, the introduction of new farming technologies and business opportunities, and the policies of TANU national settlement and market controls—all within family, not state, parameters.” * African Studies Review *“A History of the Excluded is part of a recent trend in Africanist writing that does not celebrate the nation-state and nationalism, as an earlier optimistic historiography did, but rather sees them as a threatening presence that, connected to a global economy, brings poverty and insecurity.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
£36.27
Michigan State University Press Ethnicity in Michigan Issues and People
Book SynopsisThis introductory volume in the Discovering the Peoples of Michigan series outlines the processes of migration, as well as the relationships between ethnic groups and the trajectories of historical and social change in Michigan.
£10.92
Michigan State University Press The Albanians in Michigan Discovering the Peoples
Book SynopsisThe influx of Albanian migrants into Michigan is a result of both the upheavals in the Balkan regions and the opportunities that Michigan affords. This title explores the ways in which Michigan's Albanian community has remained more traditional in its orientation than in other areas.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Jews in Michigan Discovering the Peoples of
Book SynopsisSince the earliest days of the British fur trade, Jewish pioneers have made Michigan their home. This book captures the struggles and triumphs of Michigan's Jews as they worked to establish farms, businesses and synagogues, sparking commercial and residential developemnt throughout the state.
£10.92
Michigan State University Press Poles in Michigan Discovering the Peoples of
Book SynopsisOne of the most vibrant and influential ethnic groups in Michigan, Poles have a long history of migration and settlement in the Great Lakes State. This volume looks at the history of this community from the earliest Polish marriage in 1762 to the most recent post-Cold War migrations.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Asian Indians in Michigan Discovering the Peoples
Book SynopsisSince 1970, a growing number of Asian Indians have called Michigan home. Here, Arthur W. Helweg shows how Asian Indians in Michigan contribute to the richness and diversity of Michigan's culture through participation in local institutions, while maintaining an ethnic identity rooted in India.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Hungarians in Michigan Discovering the Peoples of
Book SynopsisThis work examines six distinct migrant streams that contributed to the formation of Michigan's Hungarian communities. It draws a dynamic picture of cultural retention and change among diverse Hungarian migrants.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Arab Americans in Michigan Discovering the
Book SynopsisThe state of Michigan contains one of the largest Arab American populations in the US. In spite of their considerable presence, they have been a misunderstood ethnic population, even before attacks of 9/11. This book outlines the origins, culture, religions, and values of a people whose influence has often exceeded their visibility in the state.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Scots in Michigan Discovering the Peoples of
Book SynopsisScots began settling in North America in the earliest colonial days. Alan T. Forrester notes that symbolic Scottish ethnicity - Highland games, Scottish festivals - is the only obvious relic of Scottish heritage in Michigan. He illuminates how much more of this legacy is part of this state.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Routes of Passage Rethinking the African Diaspora
Book SynopsisAddresses issues including: geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; and political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation.Table of ContentsThe Black Question in Brazil: An Issue Denied, Josildeth Gomes Consorte; The Evolution of Black Identity in the Dominican Republic, Edward Paulino; The Louvre Negresse: Interpretation and Illustration, Anne C. Meyering; The Politics of Space, the Poetics of Place: Africville, Africadia, and the African Diaspora in Canada, Raymond Familusi; Reflections on the African Diaspora in Israel, 1997, Marcus Shapley; Redefining a Collective Identity in the Struggle for State and National Identity in Ethiopia and Israel: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel), Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti; Asphalt Stages: Pickup Basketball and the Performance of Blackness, Michael Hanson; The Marimba Still Sounds: Building Cultural Pride and Political Resistance through Afro-Ecuadorian Music and Dance, Troy Peters; Transnational Politics: A Note on Black Americans and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Ruth Simms Hamilton; The African Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century: The Past is Prologue, Elliott P. Skinner.
£54.79
Michigan State University Press Chaldeans in Michigan Discovering the Peoples of
Book SynopsisThis text discusses three major Chaldean community institutions - family, Church, and business - and the way they relate to each other. It also discusses recent developments within the Chaldean community, including relations with other Detroit-area groups and problems that have arisen due to a larger and more diverse population.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Scandinavians in Michigan Discovering the Peoples
Book SynopsisThe Scandinavian countries are commonly grouped together by their close historic, linguistic, and cultural ties. These age-old bonds continued to flourish both during and after the period of mass immigration to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Lithuanians in Michigan Discovering the Peoples
Book SynopsisPresents the history of an immigrant group that has struggled to maintain its identity. This title traces the ways that these groups have maintained their ethnic identity in Michigan in the face of changing demographics in their neighborhoods along with the challenges posed by newly arriving 'modern' Lithuanian immigrants.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Copts in Michigan Discovering the Peoples of
Book SynopsisThe Copts, or Egyptian Christians, are a relatively small and tight-knit ethno-religious group, numbering perhaps three thousand people and living mostly in the Detroit metropolitan area. Drawing on personal interviews, this book offers readers a view into this vibrant community.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press Discovering the Peoples of Michigan Reader
Book SynopsisReveals the unique contributions that have been made by different and often unrecognized communities in Michigan's historical social identity.Trade Review"Until publication of the series Discovering the Peoples of Michigan, readers looking for concise and accurate information about the numerous ethnic groups residing in the state had limited resources... The collection's structured, yet manageable format makes it valuable for everyone from casual local history enthusiasts to graduate students. The Discovering the Peoples of Michigan series is a significant scholarly endeavor that adds to the body of Michigan ethnic studies literature. - Michigan Historical Review"
£8.67
Michigan State University Press Emigration Nation Vocation The Literature of
Book SynopsisAround 1825, the point at which emigration to Canada began to be seen as a cure for poverty and joblessness in England, certain English writers began arguing that the vocation of middle-class emigrants was to recreate the English class system in Canada. This title explores how and why this ideology gained currency.
£8.95
Michigan State University Press Haitians in Michigan Discovering the Peoples of
Book SynopsisChronicles the challenges facing Haitian immigrants and their US-born children as they seek to maintain their cultural identity in the United States. Beginning with an outline of Haitian political history, this explains how Haiti and the United States have become linked by a shared history of commerce and colonialism.
£11.35
Michigan State University Press The Sweetness of Freedom Stories of Immigrants
Book SynopsisPresents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants’ narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travellers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Their stories reveal how they established new lives, how they endured homesickness and separation, what they gave up and what they gained.
£24.26
University of Wisconsin Press Swedes in Wisconsin Wisconsin Ethnic Wisconsin
Book SynopsisIn this study, Frederick Hale relates the reasons why the Swedish immigrants left for the New World. He also tells of their arduous journeys, and their establishment of communities in Wisconsin. This edition includes the selected letters of Swedish novelist and feminist Frederika Bremer.
£8.95
Wisconsin Historical Society Press Mexicans in Wisconsin People of Wisconsin
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£12.30
Wisconsin Historical Society Press How to Make a Life
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£19.51
Academy Chicago Publishers When the Diamonds Were Gone
Book SynopsisAfter a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian's beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to write a memoir and regain her former social position. Julian just wants to fit his war-damaged psyche into the American way of life.
£15.26
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, Subs of University of California - San Diego Four Generations of Nortenos New Research from
Book SynopsisDrawing on decades of fieldwork in a high-emigration town in central Mexico, as well as nearly a thousand interviews, this title investigates who migrates, how people-smuggling operates, whether border enforcement affects decisions to migrate, and migration's impact on family, health, and hometown economy.Table of ContentsThe Dynamics of Migration: Who Migrates? Who Stays? Who Settles Abroad? - J. Jarvis, A. Ponce, S. Rodriguez, and L. Cajigal Garcia. Is US Border Enforcement Working? - J. Sisco and J. Hicken. Coyotaje: The Structure and Functioning of the People-Smuggling Industry - J. Fuentes and O. Garcia. Jumping the Legal Hurdles: Getting Visas, Green Cards, and U.S. Citizenship - L. Vazquez, M. Luna Gomez, E. Law, and K. Valentine. Development in a Remittance Economy: What Options Are Viable? - P. Nichols, A. Macias Macias, E. Diaz, and A. Frenkel. Outsiders in Their Own Hometown? The Process of Dissimilation - J. Serrano, K. Dodge, G. Hernandez, and E. Valencia. Families in Transition: Migration and Gender Dynamics in Sending and Receiving Communities - L. Muse-Orlinoff, J. Cordova, L. Angulo, M. Kanungo, and R. Rodriguez. The Migrant Health Paradox Revisited - E. Oristian, P. Sweeney, V. Puentes, J. Jimenez, and M. Ruiz.
£22.95
Baraka Books SaintLaurent Montreals Main
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£21.21
St Martin's Press You Sound Like a White Girl
Book SynopsisAN INDIE BESTSELLERMost Anticipated by ELLE Bustle Bloomberg Kirkus HipLatina SheReads BookPage The Millions The Mujerista Ms. Magazine and moreUnflinching Ms. Magazine Phenomenal BookRiot An essential read Kirkus, starred review Necessary Library Journal Powerful Joaquin Castro Illuminating Reyna Grande A love letter to our people José Olivarez I have been waiting for this book all my life Paul OrtizBestselling author Julissa Arce calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans in this powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants.You sound like a white girl. These were the woTrade Review"Now, Arce has come out with another volume that examines the costs of that success. In a careful, forcefully argued polemic, she picks apart the myth of American assimilation. No matter how much she effaced her Mexican background, Arce argues, she still didn't have a White person's privileges ." --Bloomberg "This is an important book that challenges the idea of American exceptionalism with equal parts passion, fury, intimacy, and ignored history. Arce celebrates the Mexican American immigrant experience in all its vibrancy and nuance while fearlessly naming the pain inflicted by American racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia. An essential read to better understand America and its immigrant stories." --Kirkus, starred review "With bold, clear writing, Arce calls for immigrants and communities of color to reject assimilation, turn away from the white gaze and embrace their unique cultures, histories and identities, which deserve celebration. This book is a confident step forward for Arce as a writer and public thinker." --BookPage, "2022 Preview: Most Anticipated Nonfiction" "I'm so glad Arce wrote about this important topic, and how we should resist the insidious ways colonialism affects the world." --Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, The Meteor "A necessary counterpoint to the narrative of the American dream." --Library Journal "Examines the damage caused by America's push for assimilation, breaking down the myth that newcomers must abandon their culture to achieve a sense of belonging." --ELLE "In this unflinching book, Julissa Arce guts the idea that to live in America means immigrants must abandon their own histories, cultures and languages and assimilate to dominant norms." --Ms. Magazine "You should read You Sound Like a White Girl by Julissa Arce...In this phenomenal book, Arce argues against pressures for Latine people and other BIPOC to assimilate into white culture." --BookRiot "A narrative that questions and dismantles the idea that assimilation will lead to belonging, success, and acceptance in America for citizens of color (and specifically immigrants)" --The Millions "By centering Latinx history and culture, memoirist and cultural critic Julissa Arce boldly challenges narrow notions of American identity." --Kelly Blewett, BookPage "Rather than attempt to become unaccented, English-speaking Americans, Arce argues, Latinx immigrants should endeavor to maintain their language, culture, food, and other traditions on U.S. soil." --Bustle, The Most Anticipated Books of March 2022 "Arce unapologetically challenges the age-old notion that America is stronger when it's newest immigrants relinquish their culture, language and identity by merging to whiteness. This book spares no one and nothing in uncovering the cultural and societal forces that convince many young people longing for acceptance in America that their skin is too dark to be beautiful, their English too accented and their customs too ethnic to be truly American. Ultimately, You Sound Like A White Girl is a powerful call for and celebration of self-acceptance. If you could take Rodolfo Gonzales epic poem 'I Am Joaquin' and explain it through compelling, personal narrative in twenty-first century America, You Sound Like A White Girl would be it." -- Joaquin Castro "Illuminating. You Sound Like a White Girl debunks age-old historical myths and instead offers us forgotten truths that will help us make sense of our country today. You will not think the same after reading this book." -- Reyna Grande, award-winning author of The Distance Between Us "A love letter to our people--full of fury and passion. You Sound Like a White Girl tells us about who we are, where we came from, and most importantly, helps us imagine a future where we can live in all our beauty and power." -- Jose Olivarez, award-winning poet and author of Citizen Illegal "I have been waiting for this book all my life. Julissa Arce brilliantly dismantles the idea that we must reject our languages, our histories, and the teachings of our elders to fit into a flawed society. Arce asks us to draw on our ancestors' wisdom as well as our own experiences to rebuild this society on the foundations of self-respect, mutuality, and care for others. She convincingly demonstrates that a nation humbled by the global pandemic can be reinvigorated by the courage and compassion of immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean." -- Paul Ortiz, award-winning author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States "To so many immigrants throughout history, including many in my own Mexican American community, assimilation has meant repressing or abandoning their languages and cultures to fit in. In You Sound Like a White Girl, Julissa Arce challenges that notion with a clear eye and exacting rebuke, urging us to recognize and cherish the traditions and cultures that immigrants have contributed to our nation." -- Julian Castro, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary
£14.39
Raintree NineteenthCentury Migration to America Childrens
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£7.88
Nolo U.S. Immigration Made Easy
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£40.49
Abrams Undocumented A Workers Fight
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Remarkable…The artwork is deliberately evocative of Mesoamerican logography, with figures and perspectives that feel at once bizarre and totally familiar.” -- Vulture“Undocumented, featuring multi-award winning author/illustrator Tonatiuh's (The Princess and the Warrior) vibrant, stylized illustrations, is an all-too-real discussion about fair pay and the hostility U.S. citizens often display toward undocumented immigrants.” -- Shelf Awareness“By focusing on the narrative of one immigrant worker, Tonatiuh breaks the mammoth issues of immigration and workers rights into an easy-to-swallow bite, allowing the reader to easily engage with an often intimidating topic. The personal is again political. Highly recommended.” -- Kirkus"Multiple Pura Belpré Medal and Honor–awarded Tonatiuh (Diego Rivera, 2011) channels his interest in the Mixtec codex format to create a superb modern odyssey, stupendously illustrated in his signature contemporary adaptation of pre-Columbian art forms, presented on accordion pages in a handsome slip-case." -- Booklist online“Although Juan is a fictional character, the story is a very real one: many undocumented workers are mistreated by employers, but are too afraid to speak up.“ -- GeekDad“The book gives eloquent voice to the millions of undocumented people who come here with dreams of helping their families and work hard, contributing so much to this country.” -- Booklist online
£19.66
Heinemann Educational Books Immigration Hot Topics
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£27.99
Heinemann Library, Div of Reed Elsevier Hot Topics Immigration
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£10.40
Temple University Press,U.S. As French as Everyone Else
Book SynopsisShedding new light on integration and citizenship in France to reveal the ways in which immigrants do --and do not--share the attitudes of the majority population.Trade Review"As French as Everyone Else? is a timely, unique, and major contribution. Brouard and Tiberj-leading French political science researchers-offer a concise book on the important case of France. Given the relatively large size of the country's immigrant population and its political and social significance, its study is especially relevant. These scholars examine in depth the cultural, political, and religious attitudes of this very important community. It is one about which little is known, in a scientific sense, until now." -Michael Lewis-Beck, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa and author of How France Votes, The French Voter: Before and After the 2002 Elections, and French Presidential ElectionsTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Why this question? 1: Are the new french mroe religious and less laique? 2: Integration into the french political system 3: A welfare culture? 4: Women, mores and homosexuality 5: Racism and anti-semitism 6: Integration and equal opportunity 7: What identity/indentities? Conclusion French like everyone else Methodological annex
£48.45
Temple University Press,U.S. As French as Everyone Else
Book SynopsisShedding new light on integration and citizenship in France to reveal the ways in which immigrants do --and do not--share the attitudes of the majority population.Trade Review"As French as Everyone Else? is a timely, unique, and major contribution. Brouard and Tiberj-leading French political science researchers-offer a concise book on the important case of France. Given the relatively large size of the country's immigrant population and its political and social significance, its study is especially relevant. These scholars examine in depth the cultural, political, and religious attitudes of this very important community. It is one about which little is known, in a scientific sense, until now." -Michael Lewis-Beck, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa and author of How France Votes, The French Voter: Before and After the 2002 Elections, and French Presidential ElectionsTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Why this question? 1: Are the new french mroe religious and less laique? 2: Integration into the french political system 3: A welfare culture? 4: Women, mores and homosexuality 5: Racism and anti-semitism 6: Integration and equal opportunity 7: What identity/indentities? Conclusion French like everyone else Methodological annex
£20.99
Guilford Publications The Age of Migration International Population
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£116.71
Arcadia Publishing Kings Park Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Mexican Americans in Torrance Images of America
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Around Bethany Images of America
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£21.24
History Press On a Wisconsin Family Farm
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£20.39
History Press Irish Immigrants in Michigan A History in Stories
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£20.39
History Press Italians of the North End
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£21.24
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Detention Empire Reagans War on Immigrants and
Book SynopsisUsing newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of US war-making and domestic carceral trends. Drawing on refugee studies, community archives, protest artifacts, and oral histories, this book also shows how migrants resisted state repression.
£26.96
Bloomsbury Continuum The Strange Death of Europe
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£17.00
Cornell University Press Voices from the Soviet Edge
Book SynopsisJeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the extensive oral histories Sahadeo has collected, he shows how the energy of these migrants, denigrated as Blacks by some Russians, transformed their families'' lives and created inter-republican networks, altering society and community in both the center and the periphery of life in the two capitals.Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as friendship of peoples alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migranTrade ReviewThe study is well documented and includes an appendix of the interviews. The book is recommended for all university levels. * Choice *Jeff Sahadeo's critically important study brings to life the experiences of a diverse array of migrants to Moscow and Leningrad from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Asian Russia that challenge us to rethink late Soviet society as a society on the move. -- Meredith L. Roman, The College at Brockport (SUNY) * H-Russia *Jeff Sahadeo's critically important study brings to life the experiences of a diverse array of migrants to Moscow and Leningrad from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Asian Russia that challenge us to rethink late Soviet society as a society on the move...Sahadeo however rightfully cautions us against dismissing these memories simply as the products of nostalgia. He highlights how the consistent themes that migrants raised in their life narratives—many of which he beautifully weaves throughout the book's seven chapters—provide a window into complex late Soviet realities. -- Meredith L. Roman, The College at Brockport (SUNY) * H- Net (H-Diplo) *Jeff Sahadeo's book Voices from the Soviet Edge provides a remarkable and empathic portrait of migrant life stories in the late Soviet Union and illustrates the highly mobile nature of the Soviet Union... the book is not only a profound contribution to historical scholarship that challenges the interpretation of the late Soviet era as purely stagnating by highlighting societal dynamism. It is also an insightful work for migration scholars that focus on the post-Soviet migration regime, providing them with a rich historical context of contemporary mobility flows. * Eurasian Geography & Economics *In virtually every chapter of the book, Sahadeo engages with theoretical and comparative literature on postcolonial migration and race. In addition, Sahadeo's oral history methodology offers a welcome corrective to state-centered views of Soviet society. Exploring these crucial themes through individuals' stories, Voices from the Soviet Edge should find a wide readership among historians, anthropologists, and other students of Soviet and post-Soviet societies. * Journal of Modern History *Voices from the Soviet Edge is carefully organized to balance the goals of providing historical and comparative context and allowing the migrants' voices to be heard. It is well-written throughout. I highly recommend Voices from the Soviet Edge for all who are interested in the Soviet Union. It is indeed a major contribution to rethinking the "nature" of that simultaneously familiar and strange world. * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *
£54.70
Fulcrum Inc.,US Boxing for Cuba: An Immigrant's Story
Book SynopsisIn 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.Trade Review"I really enjoyed it." —President Bill Clinton "The book is lovely, beautifully written and so evocative of a time and place." —Anna Quindlen "Growing up in a wealthy, privileged family in Havana in the 1950s, Guillermo seemed to lead an idyllic life, but, in fact, he and his brothers lay awake for hours as their parents raged at each other long into the night. Then Castro came to power, and, in 1961, Guillermo's parents sent the boys to the U.S. with more than 14,000 other Cuban children on Operation Peter Pan. When relatives in Miami failed to meet the Vidal brothers, they found themselves in an orphanage in Denver, where they suffered brutal abuse. After many years, their parents joined them; Vidal grew up to be mayor of Denver, and today he is a Hispanic business leader. Cuban Americans will certainly take pride in the successful immigrant story here, but the candor of the personal drama at home gives the book added depth and resonance. Paralleling the broader context of political uproar in Cuba and the missile crisis are the raging battles between the parents, from which there wasno escape." --Booklist
£16.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Migration, Transnationalization and Race in a
Book SynopsisWhen you think of American immigration, what images come to mind? Ellis Island. East Side tenements. Pushcarts on Eighth Avenue. Little Italy. Chinatown. El Barrio. New York City has always been central to the immigrant experience in the United States. In the last three decades, the volume of immigration has increased as has the diversity of immigrant origins and experiences. Contemporary immigration conjures up old images but also some new ones: the sweatshops and ethnic neighborhoods are still there, but so are cell phones, faxes, e-mails, and the more intense and multilayered involvement of immigrants in the social, economic, and political life of both home and host societies.In this ambitious book, nineteen scholars from a broad range of disciplines bring our understanding of New York's immigrant communities up to date by exploring the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic, gender dynamics in the City.Urban and suburban, Asian, European, Latin American, and Caribbean, men and women and children the essays here analyze the complex forces that shape the contemporary immigrant experience in New York City and the links between immigrant communities in New York and their countries of origin. Hector R. Cordero-Guzman is an Assistant Professor at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School University in New York City. Robert C. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College and part of the Barnard Project on Migration and Diasporas. Ramon Grosfoguel is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College.Trade Review"Innovative and illuminating, this book is exactly what we need at this time: an examination of specific instances which capture the features, the meaning and the implications of transnationalism. This volume is exciting because it includes a younger generation of researchers. One of the book's strengths is that it combines a focus on migration with a focus on the city. Through this detailed lens, [the editors] make a contribution to our understanding of larger cross-boarder dynamics." --Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and author of The Global City 2001 "One hears a lot about transnationalism these days. But the word is used so loosely that it often loses any real meaning. This book puts some meat on the bones of transnationalism by showing how it unfolds among various immigrant groups in one particular city--New York--not only now, but in the past. It reveals both the fascinating diversity and remarkable similarity of transnationalism as it plays out across different groups and times." --Douglas S. Massey, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "These sure-handed editors have produced a rich, varied, and sophisticated picture of how immigration is changing the face of America's gateway city, New York. Exploring a dozen immigrant groups, the leading scholars reveal how class, gender, transnational ties, discrimination, and political action are shaping the formation of new Americans in a renewed city." --John Mollenkopf, Director, Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center, and co-author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction Robert C. Smith, Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, and Ramon Grosfoguel Part I: Transnationalization, Globalization and Migration 1. Transnationalism, Then and Now: New York Immigrants Today and at the Turn of the Century Nancy Foner 2. The Generation of Identity: Haitian Youth and the Transnational Nation-State Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick Schiller 3. Political Incorporation and Re-Incorporation: Simultaneity in the Dominican Migrant Experience Pamela M. Graham 4. Suburban Transmigrants: Long Island's Salvadorans Sarah Mahler 5. The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules: The Political Dimension of Recent Chinese Immigration to New York Zai Liang 6. Gendered and Racialized Circulation-Migration: Implications for the Poverty and Work Experience of New York's Puerto Rican Women Dennis Conway, Adrian J. Bailey, and Mark Ellis Part II: Migration and Socio-Economic Incorporation in New York City 7. Class, Race, and Success: Indian-Americans Confront the American Dream Johanna Lessinger 8. Ethnic Niches and Racial Traps: Jamaicans in the New York Regional Economy Philip Kasinitz and Milton Vickerman 9. Neither Ignorance nor Bliss: Race, Racism and the West Indian Immigrant Experience Vilna Bashi 10. Peruvian Historical Networks for Migration in New York City Alex Julca 11. Entrepreneurship and Business Development among African-Americans, Koreans, and Jews: Exploring Some Structural Differences Jennifer Lee 12. When Co-ethnic Assets Become Liabilities: Mexicans, Ecuadorian and Chinese Garment Workers in New York City Margaret M. Chin
£69.95
Temple University Press,U.S. Migration, Transnationalization and Race in a
Book SynopsisWhen you think of American immigration, what images come to mind? Ellis Island, East Side tenements, Pushcarts on Eighth Avenue, Little Italy, Chinatown, and El Barrio. New York City has always been central to the immigrant experience in the United States. In the last three decades, the volume of immigration has increased as has the diversity of immigrant origins and experiences. Contemporary immigration conjures up old images but also some new ones: the sweatshops and ethnic neighborhoods are still there, but so are cell phones, faxes, e-mails, and the more intense and multilayered involvement of immigrants in the social, economic, and political life of both home and host societies. In this ambitious book, nineteen scholars from a broad range of disciplines bring our understanding of New York's immigrant communities up-to-date by exploring the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic, gender dynamics in the City. Urban and suburban, Asian, European, Latin American, and Caribbean, men and women and children the essays here analyze the complex forces that shape the contemporary immigrant experience in New York City and the links between immigrant communities in New York and their countries of origin.Hector R. Cordero-Guzman is an Assistant Professor at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School University in New York City. Robert C. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College and part of the Barnard Project on Migration and Diasporas. Ramon Grosfoguel is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College.Trade Review"Innovative and illuminating, this book is exactly what we need at this time: an examination of specific instances which capture the features, the meaning and the implications of transnationalism. This volume is exciting because it includes a younger generation of researchers. One of the book's strengths is that it combines a focus on migration with a focus on the city. Through this detailed lens, [the editors] make a contribution to our understanding of larger cross-boarder dynamics." --Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and author of The Global City 2001 "One hears a lot about transnationalism these days. But the word is used so loosely that it often loses any real meaning. This book puts some meat on the bones of transnationalism by showing how it unfolds among various immigrant groups in one particular city--New York--not only now, but in the past. It reveals both the fascinating diversity and remarkable similarity of transnationalism as it plays out across different groups and times." --Douglas S. Massey, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "These sure-handed editors have produced a rich, varied, and sophisticated picture of how immigration is changing the face of America's gateway city, New York. Exploring a dozen immigrant groups, the leading scholars reveal how class, gender, transnational ties, discrimination, and political action are shaping the formation of new Americans in a renewed city." --John Mollenkopf, Director, Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center, and co-author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction Robert C. Smith, Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, and Ramon Grosfoguel Part I: Transnationalization, Globalization and Migration 1. Transnationalism, Then and Now: New York Immigrants Today and at the Turn of the Century Nancy Foner 2. The Generation of Identity: Haitian Youth and the Transnational Nation-State Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick Schiller 3. Political Incorporation and Re-Incorporation: Simultaneity in the Dominican Migrant Experience Pamela M. Graham 4. Suburban Transmigrants: Long Island's Salvadorans Sarah Mahler 5. The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules: The Political Dimension of Recent Chinese Immigration to New York Zai Liang 6. Gendered and Racialized Circulation-Migration: Implications for the Poverty and Work Experience of New York's Puerto Rican Women Dennis Conway, Adrian J. Bailey, and Mark Ellis Part II: Migration and Socio-Economic Incorporation in New York City 7. Class, Race, and Success: Indian-Americans Confront the American Dream Johanna Lessinger 8. Ethnic Niches and Racial Traps: Jamaicans in the New York Regional Economy Philip Kasinitz and Milton Vickerman 9. Neither Ignorance nor Bliss: Race, Racism and the West Indian Immigrant Experience Vilna Bashi 10. Peruvian Historical Networks for Migration in New York City Alex Julca 11. Entrepreneurship and Business Development among African-Americans, Koreans, and Jews: Exploring Some Structural Differences Jennifer Lee 12. When Co-ethnic Assets Become Liabilities: Mexicans, Ecuadorian and Chinese Garment Workers in New York City Margaret M. Chin
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Temple University Press,U.S. Accent on Privilege: English Identities and
Book Synopsis"Accent on Privilege" looks at the complexities of immigration, asking how native and immigrant construct race, gender, class and national identity. Katharine Jones investigates how white English immigrants live in the United States and how they use their status as privileged foreigners to gain the upper hand with Americans. Their privilege, she finds, is created by both American Anglophilia and the ways they perform their identities as "proper" English women and men in their host country. Jones looks at the cultural aspects of this performance: how English people play up their accents, "stiff upper lip," sense of humor and fashion even the way they drink beer.The political and cultural ties between England and the US act as a backdrop for the identity negotiations of these English people, many of whom do not even consider themselves to be immigrants. This unique exploration of the workings of white privilege offers an important new understanding of the paradoxes of how class, gender, and race are formed in the US and, by implication, in the UK. Katharine W. Jones is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Philadelphia University.Trade Review"It is to be hoped that very few Americans will read this book. In a most un-English way, it gives away all the trade secrets of the tribe that cares not to speak its name." --Christopher Hitchens, author of Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies "Immigration from England to the United States, so often 'invisible' to historians and to contemporary observers, is here shown to be a fascinating lens through which the transatlantic workings of identity and privilege may be acutely observed. Capturing the speech, longings, confusions, dress and politics of three dozen contemporary migrants, Accent on Privilege brilliantly shows how race in the United States is apprehended and negotiated by immigrants whose 'difference' constitutes an advantage." --David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois and the author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past "Herself an English immigrant, Jones (sociology, Philadelphia Univ.) analyzes the experiences of 34 other white upper- or middle-class English immigrants to the United States. She reveals the variety of methods these immigrants used to enhance or minimize their English identities in daily interactions with Americans (e.g., manipulation of their accents, their fashions, even how they drink beer). She also explores how America's love affair with all things English creates both advantages and restrictions for the immigrants and how they manipulate this Anglophilia to their advantage." --Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. "I Want to Be Able to Be English When I Want to Be": Identities as Sites of Contestation 2. Avoiding Extremes: Negotiating Nationalism and Nostalgia 3. Responding to Privilege: Class, Race, Nation, and Anglophilia 4. "Gee, I Love Your Accent": English People and Americans Interact 5. White Mischief? Doing Conceptual Work with Empire, Race, and Gender 6. "The English Are ... Not Racist, but ... Just English": Imagining a White Nation 7. To Be English or Not? Constructing Identities in the U.S. Appendix: Descriptions of Interviewees Notes References Index
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Orbis Books (USA) Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on
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