Migration, immigration and emigration Books
Cambridge University Press Relative Distance
Book SynopsisDrawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas moral, material, and affective facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.Trade Review'This book draws the reader into the lives of family members who, over decades, share an existence across geographical distance. Against the backdrop of wider social transformations, an extremely rich ethnography is explored with the support of a complex framework based on thorough insights into the essence of anthropology and migration studies. This is the anthropology of migration at its best.' Lisa Åkesson, University of Gothenburg'In all the scholarship on transnational kinship, Relative Distance is unique in focusing on the moral obligations and moral economies generated by migration. It reveals how the affective and the material are inextricably entangled, highlighting the tensions as well as intimacies generated by moral claims.' Cati Coe, Carleton University'The ties binding migrants to their homelands are often narrowly measured by economic remittances. In this powerful ethnographic study of Kenyans in the UK, Leslie Fesenmyer focuses instead on the dynamics of transnational families. She vividly and compellingly shows how reciprocity, mutuality and honour are embedded in obligations based on kinship and religion.' Robin Cohen, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Securing the future: family, livelihoods, and mobility; 2. Aspirations, obligations, and imagination in family migration; 3. The making of 'migrants'; 4. Kinship dilemmas: negotiating relatedness across space; 5. Weddings as transnational household rituals: marriage and other intimate relations; 6. Change and continuity: the social reproduction of families between Kenya and the United Kingdom; 7. Conclusion; References.
£72.25
Cambridge University Press The New Immigration Challenge
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms and universal human rights, the contributions expose the weaknesses and limitations of existing regulations and make proposals on how to improve them.The EU is often seen as a cosmopolitan project. Europe is supposed to be a community of states that aspires to be guided by cosmopolitan norms. However, the idea of a cosmopolitan Europe has never been unanimously shared, and in recent years, it has come under increasing scrutiny, particularly with regard to the EU's refugee policy. The guiding idea of this book is that a deeper philosophical understanding of the normative issues at stake can foster greater conceptual clarity and enrich political debates on the future of European refugee policy. The first pTable of ContentsIntroduction Marie Göbel & Andreas Niederberger Part 1: The European ‘Refugee Crisis’: A Crisis of What? 1. Europe’s Migration Policy between a Global and Local Legitimation Crisis Andreas Niederberger 2. The European ‘Refugee Crisis’ as a Crisis of European Cosmopolitanism: EU Refugee Policy and Non-Members’ Normative Powers Therese Herrmann 3. The ‘Refugee Crisis’: A Crisis of the European Asylum System Matthias Hoesch Part 2: Making Sense of ‘European Values’ 4. What Are European Values? Philosophical Reflections on an Opaque Political Concept Marie Göbel 5. Values, Goals, Norms: Some Remarks on Their Relationship Philipp Schink 6. References to European Values in the Political Sphere: Functions, Limits and Possibilities Regina Polak Part 3: Normative Consequences of European Values 7. Human Dignity and the EU’s Moral Obligations toward Non-Europeans Marcus Düwell 8. Human Rights and the EU’s Responsibilities toward Refugees Jos Philips 9. EU Refugee Policy: Cosmopolitan and/or Democratic? Martin Deleixhe 10. The Future of Europe’s Refugee Policy: Normative Conclusions and Recommendations Marie Göbel & Andreas Niederberger
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Taylor & Francis The Italian Diaspora in South Africa
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Taylor & Francis Postschool Pathways of MigrantOrigin Youth in
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the role of structure and agency in shaping post-school pathways for migrant-origin young people, providing new insights from countries with different migration histories and transition systems. The book collates the work of leading international scholars to cover a number of jurisdictions across Europe, looking in depth at migrant transitions in different contexts. The chapters examine the influence of different education systems, migration status, race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and resilience on the success of transitions to higher education and the labour market. The book highlights the need for host countries to put in place comprehensive policies to counter ethnic inequalities and discrimination in their education and labour market systems while facilitating and supporting immigrant youth in pursuing their post-school pathways.This timely book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of migration studies, sociology of education, and equity in education. Policymakers will find this book useful in informing policy development in education and the labour market.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Young EU Migrants in London in the Transition to
Book SynopsisLondon has long been a magnet for migrants, millions of whom have been attracted by its economic, educational and cultural roles as a truly global city. This book examines recent European migration to the London region through the narrated experiences of a large number of younger migrants from old' and new' EU member states, of varying educational and skill backgrounds.The research opens multiple windows into the lives of young EU migrants from six different countries before and after the 2016 Referendum on ''Brexit''. A key concept which lies at the core of the analysis is the interrelationship between geographical mobility and the youth transition to adulthood. Among the dimensions documented are study and employment trajectories, housing and social inclusion, identity and belonging, and transnational ties. By paying attention to young people''s own accounts of their mobile lives, the research pushes the boundaries of traditional understandings of youth transitions and life
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Patrolling the Homeland
Book SynopsisPatrolling the Homeland explores the tension surrounding the militarization of national borders through the perspective of US militia volunteers. Amidst a humanitarian crisis in which more than 7,800 people have lost their lives attempting to cross the border, US militias patrol the deserts along the Mexican border in camouflage, armed with assault rifles and night-vision goggles to protect the US. How and why US border militias conduct their activities is paramount to understanding similar movements, ideologies, and rhetoric around the world that oppose the movement of refugees and support the closing or restriction of international and regional borders.Based on extensive and engaging ethnography, Patrolling the Homeland explores not how people strive to be moral but how they maintain their self-perception as already and always moral individuals in spite of evidence to the contrary. This book signifies a creative and unique addition to morality and ethics Trade Review"This book is a unique study based upon ethnography in a very difficult area to secure access. It would not only be of interest to sociology/social studies related to immigration and border related studies but also criminology courses looking at policing in the broadest way." – Mark Button, University of Portsmouth"If one wants to understand the complexity of living in our contemporary world, then look no further than this book. John Parsons study of border militias in the United States offers a unique entree into the larger issues we all confront today. This is one of the most ethnographically and theoretically significant works in the anthropology of ethics that I have read in a long time." – Jarrett Zigon, University of Virginia.Table of ContentsPatrolling the Homeland - Volunteer Border Militias and the Power of Moral Assemblages 1. Border Watch 2. Morality 3. Ethnicity at the Nation’s Frontier 4. Experience, Narrative, and the Moral Imperative to Act 5. Embodied Narrative on the Border 6. The Moral Citizen, Virtue Ethics, and the Internal Ought 7. The Comfort to Act A World Without Self-Reflection
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive view of intergenerational mobility in the context of religious and caste dynamics in India. It is aimed at researchers in the field of economics, sociology, labour studies, development studies, minority and subaltern studies, & socioeconomics of disadvantaged socio-religious groups in India.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Spiralling of the Securitisation of Migration
Book SynopsisThis book investigates how migration has been transformed into a security threat in Europe. It argues that this process has taken place through a self-fulfilling spiralling process, which involves different actors and their specific narratives, practices and policies. The book examines how situations stemming from the so-called migration crisis' in the European Union (EU) have been dealt with by governments and non-governmental organisations. It also considers how actors treating migration as an ordinary phenomenon rather than a threat and sharing inclusive narratives can create the conditions for decelerating and eventually stopping securitisation processes. Some chapters examine the spiralling of the securitisation of migration in depth, by analysing increases in securitisation, as well as cases characterised by resistance. Others focus on examining the consequences of socially constructing migration as a crisis for the EU's relations with third countries. In sum, this book shows Table of Contents1. Introduction— The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: from the management of a ‘crisis’ to a governance of human mobility? 2. From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: security implications of EU- Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance 3. The ‘refugee crisis’ and its transformative impact on EU- Western Balkans relations 4. People as security risks: the framing of migration in the UK security- development nexus 5. The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy 6. The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices 7. EU border technologies and the co- production of security ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ 8. Overcoming borders: the Europeanization of civil society activism in the ‘refugee crisis’ 9. The role of non- state actors’ cognitions in the spiralling of the securitisation of migration: prejudice, narratives and Italian CAS reception centres
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Immigration Detention and Social Harm
Book SynopsisVideo Abstract for ''Immigration Detention and Social Harm'' - Dr Michelle PeterieThis interdisciplinary edited collection is the first internationally to comprehensively explore the harms immigration detention imposes beyond the detainee'. Bringing together research from North America, the UK, Europe and Australia, it shows how the harms immigration detention imposes ramify beyond singular bodies, moments and locations reverberating through families and communities and echoing across time.The book is structured in three parts. Part One: Human Costs examines the harms immigrationdetention imposes on people who are not personally incarcerated, but whose lives are nonetheless entangled with detention regimes. Part Two: Societal Consequences highlights the corrosive impacts of immigration detention at the societal level, including the role migrant incarceration plays in naturalising a
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Taylor & Francis The New Helots
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Cambridge University Press The Comparative Politics of Immigration
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Cambridge University Press God and the Illegal Alien
Book SynopsisMillions of men, women, and children who enter the United States unlawfully are deemed 'illegal aliens' under United States immigration law. Where do these migrants stand within Christian ethics? This book explains the rise of the illegal alien and responds to the law through a theological account of politics.Trade Review'In the heated debates around 'illegal aliens' several matters cry out for explanation. Where did the term 'alien' arise, and when did it first appear in US law? Why do current immigration laws view foreigners like they do? Such questions require historical awareness and, for the Christian, substantive theological reasoning. Heimburger presents a legal history and offers a rich theology for the government's role in God's economy as 'neighbor'. This is a fresh, needful framework for our times.' M. Daniel Carroll R., Blanchard Professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College, Illinois and author of Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible'God and the Illegal Alien is a highly original contribution to the ethics of immigration. It is the most comprehensive, ecumenical, and lucid treatment of the subject that I know of from a theological perspective. At the same time, by careful attention to revealing details in American legal history, biblical sources, and political thought, Heimburger provides an impressive work of political theology that makes concrete what can be abstract in the renewed attention to that subject.' Eric Gregory, Princeton University, New Jersey'Robert W. Heimburger provides a compelling approach that defies otherness and difference in favor of foundational Christian ideals of love, caring, decency and respect. Drawing upon historical, theological, and legal sources, Heimburger reconfigures the current adversarial landscape by assessing theological debates about the common migrant roots that we all share, and the fundamental liberal values and the legal history that underwrite and provide legitimacy to the very idea of America.' Robert F. Barsky, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee'What is most impressive about God and the Illegal Alien is the depth and range of its theological appropriations. Heimburger demonstrates how potentially rich are a Christian's resources for thinking through, for instance, the value of the immigrant, the responsibilities of government, and the mission of the church. Each component of his reflections are elements for a thorough-going Christian engagement with immigration realities. The author has performed a wonderful service by carefully, and painstakingly, showing us that what Christians need is a good theology of politics to guide their thinking on this debated topic.' Latin American Theology'Heimburger's text is both timely and curious. Migration policies are on the front line of today's public policy discussions. His engagement of these policies through a theology of politics, though, is a complicated interweaving of arguments from common law, philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and the history of U.S. immigration practices.' John Francis Burke, Journal of Church and State'… Heimburger's work has the greatest promise, as it piggybacks on the weakness of democracy (democratic caprice), using its networks for good.' Myles Werntz, Marginalia LA Review of Books'Anyone working in this field (myself included) stands to benefit from Heimburger's careful legal-historical work. Heimburger also sets a high bar for scholars with interdisciplinary inclinations. And everyone should wrestle with his theology of politics. These are just a few of the great gifts Heimburger has given us in a book deserving of a wide readership.' Justin P. Ashworth, Modern Theology'I enjoyed this book very much, and I would recommend it to my fellow Americans …' John S. W. Park, Law and Politics Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Immigrant as Alien: 1. How the alien emerged: allegiance, English law, and federal immigration law; 2. Coming near to distant neighbors in God's world; Part II. The Alien as Unlawfully Present: 3. How aliens became illegal: sovereignty, Chinese migration, and federal immigration law; 4. The humble guard: governing immigration under God; Part III. An Unlawfully Present Alien from a Neighboring Country?: 5. How nationals of neighboring countries became illegal aliens: non-discrimination, Mexican migration, and federal immigration law; 6. Justice and mercy among neighbors; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Diplomacy Meets Migration
Book SynopsisDiplomacy Meets Migration examines diplomacy, migration, and the history of US relations with Cuba during the Cold War. Hideaki Kami draws on declassified US and Cuban diplomatic sources, as well as Miami-Cuban lobby records, to challenge traditional interpretations that mainly focus on the two national capitals, Washington and Havana. By incorporating Miami into the story of foreign affairs, Kami assesses the intersection between migration and diplomacy, and considers how migration emerged as a critical issue that shaped the dynamism of US relations with Cuba. Kami demonstrates that the US government reformulated its Cuban policy in response to Fidel Castro''s institutionalization of power, while simultaneously trying to build a new relationship with the Miami Cuban community, a new, politically mobilized constituency within US society. He shows how both migration control and migrant politics became important components of US foreign policy, which in turn influenced Cuban policy towarTrade Review'Kami has fashioned a compelling assessment of Cuban immigration as a factor of decisive policy importance, and thereupon to plumb deeply into the complexities of Cuba-US relations between the 1960s and the 1990s. He answers some old questions and, just as important, he has raised new ones.' Louis A. Pérez, The American Historical Review'Using an impressive array of multinational sources, Hideaki Kami weaves the compelling tale of how Cuba's migration became ultra-politicized and how, in turn, it sabotaged US diplomatic relations with the Castro regime. Never again should we discuss US-Cuban relations without due consideration for the Cuban diaspora.' Alan McPherson, author of Yankee No!'Diplomacy Meets Migration will find a prominent place on the shelves of scholars of the Cold War, immigration, and American politics. Smartly written and compellingly argued, this book reveals how leaders in Miami, Havana, and Washington, DC managed the complex political and policy issues arising at the intersection of diplomacy and migration. In telling this story, Hideaki Kami recasts our understanding of Cuban-American relations and shows himself as one of the best young historians of migration and America and the World.' Carl Bon Tempo, author of Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War'Kami's transnational approach to narrating how Cuban migrants actively shaped the US 'national interest' is valuable to scholars of international migration … To interlace previously disparate threads of Washington, Havana, and Miami's relationships with one another, Kami draws on an impressive range of sources.' Melissa Hampton, International Migration Review'Kami's remarkable study reminds us that migration remains a historical constant. Rare is the nation that exists without some portion of its citizens living abroad.' Jonathan C. Brown, Diplomatic History'Diplomacy Meets Migration is based on an impressive range of sources, including (recently declassified) US and Cuban government archives, records of Cuban-American lobby groups, and supporting materials from the diplomatic records of Canada, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom. The insights that Kami derives from these archives, as well as secondary sources that range from diplomatic histories to sociological studies, add up to an original analysis of US-Cuban relations throughout the Cold War.' Jorrit van den Berk, Diplomatica'Analysts disagree about how to explain a state's foreign policies. One group focuses on the effects the power distribution among states has on the actions of a state; a second group emphasizes the role of domestic politics; and a third concentrates on the ideas and beliefs of the state's leaders. Kami's excellent analysis transcends those artificial boundaries … he identifies the multiple external factors that affected the complex interactions between Havana, Washington, and Miami.' Alex Roberto Hybel, The AmericasTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Between revolution and counterrevolution; 2. The legacy of violence; 3. A time for dialogue?; 4. The crisis of 1980; 5. Acting as a 'superhero'?; 6. The two contrary currents; 7. Making foreign policy domestic?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Brexitland
Book SynopsisLong-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they create - continue to transform British politics. In this accessible and authoritative book Sobolewska and Ford show how deep the roots of this polarisation and volatility run, drawing out decades of educational expansion and rising ethnic diversity as key drivers in the emergence of new divides within the British electorate over immigration, identity and diversity. They argue that choices made by political parties from the New Labour era onwards have mobilised these divisions into politics, first through conflicts over immigration, then through conflicts over the European Union, culminating in the 2016 EU referendum. Providing a comprehensive and far-reaching view of a country in turmoil, Brexitland explains how and why this happened, for students, researchers, and anyone who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in which we live.Trade Review'Whether we like it or not, we are all living in Brexitland. In forensic detail, Sobolewska and Ford plot the long road of social change which led us here. En route, they look ahead to where the UK's explosive culture wars could take us next. Essential reading for those not wearing blinkers.' Adam Boulton, Sky News'Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford have produced the best account I have read of our cultural civil wars. The work is not just an explanation of the way we live now, but of how we reached a state of institutionalised rage and why peace will be so hard to find.' Nick Cohen, The Spectator and The Observer'Brexitland brilliantly unpicks the old and new forces that shaped our brittle political age. Who is exploiting the anger? And is it with us for good? A fascinating and convincing study: essential reading for anyone wanting to understand why tolerance of the other side in British politics seems to have disappeared. How did our political battleground turn so ugly and intolerant? Brexitland delves deep into decades of history and attitudes to race and ethnic identity to answer that question, and does it with style. Sobolewska and Ford have written the new political bible of our times: how did we stop debating and start shouting? Can normal service resume? Brexitland is a razor-sharp and compelling answer to those questions.' Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 News'A brilliant, original, powerful book. For Remainers, Brexiters or indeed anyone interested in why divided Britain cut itself adrift from the EU, this is unmissable. It is also totally riveting.' Toby Helm, The Observer'A sharp, accessible investigation of the key fault lines of modern British politics: education, immigration, age and identity.' Helen Lewis, author of Difficult Women'A brilliant bit of academic research, but written in a way that you or I can understand very easily.' Stephen Bush, Big Issue'A highly acute and insightful analysis, making telling use of extensive research, which induces the reader to think afresh about the political landscape we now find ourselves in and how we arrived here.' Andrew Rawnsley, The Observer'A sweeping and rigorous demographic and attitudinal study of recent British history.' William Davies, London Review of BooksTable of Contents1. Introduction: how Britain became Brexitland; 2. Social change, ehnocentrism and the emergence of new identity divides; 3. Divided over diversity: identity conservatives and identity liberals; 4. Legacies of empire: Commonwealth immigration and the historical roots of identity politics divides; 5. The long divorce: parties and voters parting ways; 6. The identity conservative insurgency and the rise of UKIP; 7: Change without recovery: how the coalition catalysed Labour's demographic transformation; 8. Brexitland awakened: identity politics and the EU referendum; 9. Dancing to a different tune: identity politics and political change in Scotland 2007–19; 10. Brexitland after Brexit: the electoral fallout from the EU referendum; 11. Conclusion: the new politics of Brexitland.
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Cambridge University Press Migration and Integration
Book SynopsisMigration and Integration clarifies and proposes answers for all of the politically toxic questions associated with large-scale migration from the Global South to the Western liberal democracies. Driven by the conviction that the Alt-Right is using the issues of migration and integration effectively to batter the defenses of liberal democracy, Professor Tom Farer argues that despite its strength, the moral case for open borders should be rejected and that while broadly tolerant of different life styles, the state should enforce core liberal values. Examining closely the policies and practices of various European states, Farer draws on their experience, contrasts it with that of the United States, and provides a detailed strategy for addressing the issues of who should be allowed to enter, how migrant families should be integrated and cultural conflicts resolved. This remarkable elaboration of a liberal position on migration and integration to which moderate conservatives could adhere cTrade Review'This short cri de coeur, by a brave liberal lion unafraid to tackle liberal pieties, casts a long shadow across the right/left spectrum. Farer argues that rich states have a legal and moral right to bar migrants from the Global South and that tolerant national communities are worth defending - even if it takes biometric identity cards, off-shore sites for asylum claims, and litmus tests for determining entry. Not everyone will embrace his prescriptions but all will benefit from his thoughtful defense of liberal nationalism. His book sets the standard for thoughtful and eloquent commentary on the age's most inflammatory subject.' José E. Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, New York University'Farer is one of the sharpest legal minds of our era, with an unsurpassed ability to combine fierce liberalism with the unique ability to bring imagination into fundamental issues of our time. He broadens and deepens our field of vision, challenging us constantly to think creatively. This book is an excellent example of his inquisitive mind.' Claudio Grossman, Member of the UN International Law Commission, Dean Emeritus at American University'An indispensable response to the migration challenge that is at once humane and intelligently sensitive to the delicate issues at stake. I consider Tom Farer's brilliantly reasoned and lucidly written argument for a liberal nationalist-solution-oriented approach to migration as required reading for anyone concerned with preserving robust democracies in Europe and North America.' Richard Falk, Princeton University, New Jersey and author of Power Shift: On the New Global Order'The moderate center in American and European politics is bleeding votes to the right and the left because it has failed to come up with realistic policies on migration. Tom Farer, a distinguished human rights defender and international lawyer, addresses this challenge head-on with a witty, erudite, and passionate defense of a 'liberalism with borders' – a migration policy that reconciles human rights and national sovereignty in a tough-minded yet compassionate synthesis which deserves to redefine the debate on this key issue in modern politics.' Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector, Central European University, Budapest'Tom Farer's deeply researched, elegantly written, and humane book Migration and Integration confronts the question of how well-to-do, well-functioning countries in the North, particularly in Europe, should cope with the migration crisis. What should they do about the large numbers of people of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds who are leaving or fleeing turbulent, dangerous, and impoverished countries of the Global South to settle among them? Should the countries of the North accommodate the 'looming wave' of migrants? Can Europe's predominantly secular societies absorb and integrate millions of Muslim migrants while maintaining the best attributes of their own societies, including those that have become liberal cultural norms? Professor Farer is unblinking in describing the difficulties. He does not evade any hard questions. Asserting that 'My highest priority is the survival of liberal democracy, an outcome by no means assured', his thoughtful answers are based on that priority. Tom Farer's important book is essential reading for those who share that priority.' Aryeh Neier, Open Society Foundations and Founding Director of Human Rights Watch'Tom Farer has produced … the best possible statement of the liberal nationalist approach to migration and integration. It is, as it claims, 'liberalism without tears, conservatism without hate'. Farer argues that liberal democrats can meet the challenge of twenty-first-century mass migration, but only if they can rediscover the courage of their convictions while shedding policy dogmatism. The stakes could not be higher.' Tom Pegram, University College London'A timelier and better case for a liberal nationalism than Tom Farer's account cannot be imagined.' Monica Serrano, El Colegio de Mexico'Farer (Univ. of Denver) offers a conventional analysis of migration and integration through the lens of the liberal political tradition.' A. H. Fabos, Choice'… leaves readers with further knowledge on today's migration crisis, proposals for solutions, and the ambition to preserve liberal democracy for future generations.' Quinn Muscatel, AmeriQuestsTable of ContentsIntroduction, challenges to liberalism with borders; Part I. Entry and Integration: 1. The looming wave; 2. Sovereignty, nationalism, and human rights; 3. Integration and cultural difference: the liberal's dilemma; Part II. Exemplary National Experiences: 4. Nordic states: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; 5. The United Kingdom; 6. France; Part III. Hard Choices: 7. Migration and integration: options for the liberal state; 8. A model: problematical means for liberal ends.
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Cambridge University Press Migration and Integration
Book SynopsisMigration and Integration clarifies and proposes answers for all of the politically toxic questions associated with large-scale migration from the Global South to the Western liberal democracies. Driven by the conviction that the Alt-Right is using the issues of migration and integration effectively to batter the defenses of liberal democracy, Professor Tom Farer argues that despite its strength, the moral case for open borders should be rejected and that while broadly tolerant of different life styles, the state should enforce core liberal values. Examining closely the policies and practices of various European states, Farer draws on their experience, contrasts it with that of the United States, and provides a detailed strategy for addressing the issues of who should be allowed to enter, how migrant families should be integrated and cultural conflicts resolved. This remarkable elaboration of a liberal position on migration and integration to which moderate conservatives could adhere cTrade Review'This short cri de coeur, by a brave liberal lion unafraid to tackle liberal pieties, casts a long shadow across the right/left spectrum. Farer argues that rich states have a legal and moral right to bar migrants from the Global South and that tolerant national communities are worth defending - even if it takes biometric identity cards, off-shore sites for asylum claims, and litmus tests for determining entry. Not everyone will embrace his prescriptions but all will benefit from his thoughtful defense of liberal nationalism. His book sets the standard for thoughtful and eloquent commentary on the age's most inflammatory subject.' José E. Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, New York University'Farer is one of the sharpest legal minds of our era, with an unsurpassed ability to combine fierce liberalism with the unique ability to bring imagination into fundamental issues of our time. He broadens and deepens our field of vision, challenging us constantly to think creatively. This book is an excellent example of his inquisitive mind.' Claudio Grossman, Member of the UN International Law Commission, Dean Emeritus at American University'An indispensable response to the migration challenge that is at once humane and intelligently sensitive to the delicate issues at stake. I consider Tom Farer's brilliantly reasoned and lucidly written argument for a liberal nationalist-solution-oriented approach to migration as required reading for anyone concerned with preserving robust democracies in Europe and North America.' Richard Falk, Princeton University, New Jersey and author of Power Shift: On the New Global Order'The moderate center in American and European politics is bleeding votes to the right and the left because it has failed to come up with realistic policies on migration. Tom Farer, a distinguished human rights defender and international lawyer, addresses this challenge head-on with a witty, erudite, and passionate defense of a 'liberalism with borders' – a migration policy that reconciles human rights and national sovereignty in a tough-minded yet compassionate synthesis which deserves to redefine the debate on this key issue in modern politics.' Michael Ignatieff, President and Rector, Central European University, Budapest'Tom Farer's deeply researched, elegantly written, and humane book Migration and Integration confronts the question of how well-to-do, well-functioning countries in the North, particularly in Europe, should cope with the migration crisis. What should they do about the large numbers of people of diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds who are leaving or fleeing turbulent, dangerous, and impoverished countries of the Global South to settle among them? Should the countries of the North accommodate the 'looming wave' of migrants? Can Europe's predominantly secular societies absorb and integrate millions of Muslim migrants while maintaining the best attributes of their own societies, including those that have become liberal cultural norms? Professor Farer is unblinking in describing the difficulties. He does not evade any hard questions. Asserting that 'My highest priority is the survival of liberal democracy, an outcome by no means assured', his thoughtful answers are based on that priority. Tom Farer's important book is essential reading for those who share that priority.' Aryeh Neier, Open Society Foundations and Founding Director of Human Rights Watch'Tom Farer has produced … the best possible statement of the liberal nationalist approach to migration and integration. It is, as it claims, 'liberalism without tears, conservatism without hate'. Farer argues that liberal democrats can meet the challenge of twenty-first-century mass migration, but only if they can rediscover the courage of their convictions while shedding policy dogmatism. The stakes could not be higher.' Tom Pegram, University College London'A timelier and better case for a liberal nationalism than Tom Farer's account cannot be imagined.' Monica Serrano, El Colegio de Mexico'Farer (Univ. of Denver) offers a conventional analysis of migration and integration through the lens of the liberal political tradition.' A. H. Fabos, Choice'… leaves readers with further knowledge on today's migration crisis, proposals for solutions, and the ambition to preserve liberal democracy for future generations.' Quinn Muscatel, AmeriQuestsTable of ContentsIntroduction, challenges to liberalism with borders; Part I. Entry and Integration: 1. The looming wave; 2. Sovereignty, nationalism, and human rights; 3. Integration and cultural difference: the liberal's dilemma; Part II. Exemplary National Experiences: 4. Nordic states: Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; 5. The United Kingdom; 6. France; Part III. Hard Choices: 7. Migration and integration: options for the liberal state; 8. A model: problematical means for liberal ends.
£22.49
Cambridge University Press Bread Cement Cactus
Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the meaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up. From her ancestral village, in a region notorious for its gangsters, to the mega-city where she now lives, Zaidi provides a nuanced perspective on forging a sense of belonging as a minority and a migrant in places where other communities consider you an outsider, and of the fragility of home left behind and changed beyond recognition. Zaidi is the 2019/ 2020 winner of the Nine Dots Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. This title is also available as Open Access.Trade Review'A wonderful book. A profound journey through memory, language, land and culture. Beautifully written, soberly devised, exquisitely sensitive to nuance. It grapples with identity fractured, identity remade, identity reclaimed, and elevates memoir to a literary art form.' Bidisha, journalist, broadcaster, film-maker and author of Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices'Annie Zaidi's gripping memoir of her brave, persistent and poignant search for a place to call her own will ring many bells in many hearts. It is a timely account of the uprooting and alienation of a contemporary Indian woman who is one amongst a multitude of other minorities.' Lord Meghnad Desai, Member of the House of Lords, and author of The Raisina Model: Indian Democracy at 70 and The Rediscovery of India'Zaidi resets the perspectives from which we understand and remember the experience of home. With the same intuitiveness that permeates her sensitive fictions, she uses the personal to lay bare the new universality of home, redefining it as an unsettled, turbulent condition that we must continuously contend, negotiate, and compromise with to our incremental loss.' Musharraf A. Farooqi, author of Between Clay and Dust and The Merman and the Book of Power'A compelling exploration of the intimate and political sides of an itinerant life. … (A) haunting evocation of belonging and dislocation in contemporary India.' Ashish Ghadiali, The ObserverTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Survivors Shall be Prosecuted; 2. Gur, Imarti, Goons; 3. Listening to Mother; 4. The Wandering Brother; 5. Passport to Irrecoverable Places; 6. Mixed Blood; 7. Outsiders at Home; 8. Grave Politics; 9. Place Like Home; Select Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cities and Social Movements
Book SynopsisThrough historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don't develop into large and sustained mobilizations. Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo Theorizes movements from the bottom-up, presenting an urban grassroots account in order to identify how movement networks emerge or fall apart Provides a unique contribution by examining how geography is implicated in the evolution of social movements, discovering how and why the networks constituting movements grow by tracing where they develop Demonstrates how efforts to enforce national borders trigger countlessTable of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgments x 1 Sparks of Resistance 1 2 Rethinking Movements from the Bottom Up 13 Part I The Birth of Immigrant Rights Activism 37 3 Making Space for Immigrant Rights Activism in Los Angeles 39 4 Radical Entanglements in Paris 54 5 Placing Protest in Amsterdam 71 Part II Urban Landscapes of Control and Contention 89 6 The Laissez]Faire State: Re]politicizing Immigrants in Los Angeles 91 7 The Uneven Reach of the State: The Partial Pacification of Paris 116 8 The Cooptative State: The Pacification of Contentious Immigrant Politics in Amsterdam 138 Part III New Geographies of Immigrant Rights Movements 157 9 Los Angeles as a Center of the National Immigrant Rights Movement 161 10 Paris as Head of Splintering Resistances 188 11 Divergent Geographies of Immigrant Rights Contention in the Netherlands 209 12 Conclusion: Sparks into Wildfires 227 Notes 239 References 245 Index 262
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Palgrave Macmillan Globalization and Borders Death at the Global Frontier Transnational Crime Crime Control and Security
Book SynopsisWinner of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Christine M Alder Book Prize 2013Controlling border crossing has become an urgent concern under conditions of globalization, leading Western governments to introduce increasingly coercive control measures. Far from eradicating spontaneous border crossing, this defensive geography has fuelled illicit people-smuggling markets, and forced asylum seekers and illegalized travellers into increasingly hazardous journeys. Drawing on data from official sources, media reports and lists of deaths collated by non-governmental organizations in Europe, Australia and North America, this book draws direct parallels between the border control policies adopted across the Global North, and a mounting death toll of illegalized border crossers. It analyses the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities. Trade Review“Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering in Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier draw attention to this urgent concern and make a remarkable contribution to the study of migration at the beginning of the twenty-first century. … Globalization and Borders is essential reading for all those who are concerned with the politics of migration. Challenging the hegemonic discourse of border control, it sheds new light on the multifaceted phenomenon of border crossing … .” (Paolo Cossarini, The European Legacy, Vol. 21 (4), February, 2016)"Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the problem of policing migration beyond traditional approaches to migration, border controls and sovereignty." -Punishment and Society "This is an ambitious book that brings attention to an understudied phenomenon, and attempts to develop a criminological explanation for deaths at the border. It pushes the emerging fields of the criminology of mobility and border criminologies (Aas and Bosworth, 2013) forward since it develops theoretical and empirical links between migration and crime. But, rather than focus exclusively on the criminalization of migration, the books highlights the crimes of the powerful that produce great social harm, a topic of renewed interest to criminology. As such, the book will appeal to readers in critical criminology, socio-legal studies, migration, human rights, international law and globalization among other related fields." -Theoretical Criminology "Weber and Pickering's book unravels a striking and largely under-researched facet of immigration as a growing global phenomenon [...] It is a well-documented research about the most pernicious consequences of border controls. By meticulously linking these tragedies to border measures, Pickering and Weber have presented a powerful insight that runs contrary to the dominant public discourse on 'border protection' in Western countries. It is a necessary read for both academics and policy makers." - British Journal of Criminology "Globalization and Borders is a comprehensive and insightful study of the deadly nature of border policing activities carried out in Europe and the US. As such, it provides a crucial resource for understanding the fate that awaits asylum seekers deterred from attempting to reach Australia." - Current Issues in Criminal Justice 'Migration and borders are deeply contested and political issues. Pickering and Weber are two of the most passionate and well informed academic voices in the debate. Drawing from a remarkable range of sources and brilliantly written, their 'border autopsy' is a must-read for any policy maker, student and academic with interest in migration. In fact, it should be read by anyone. The extraordinary human tragedies unfolding at the Western borders, which are masterfully documented and analysed in this book, should not be left to the especially interested.' - Katja Franko Aas, University of Oslo, Norway 'The authors are two of the foremost researchers in the criminology of migration control - a specialist area that they have done much to create and set the agenda for. This book promises to become a standard work on this topic which will provide new and important insights.' - Ben Bowling, King's College, London, UK 'So much of our work here at the Institute is about collecting information on deaths - racist murders, deaths in police custody, in prisons, deaths at the border, deaths in detention centres, asylum seekers who give up hope, hang themselves, jump off balconies. So this book makes me think why do we do it? It's as though, those of us who have been in the business of counting and accounting have without our knowing it provided a counter-balance to the processes of neutralisation, dehumanisation and distanciation that this book describes.' - Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations London, UK 'Deaths at the migratory fault lines where rich and poor nations intersect are an almost taken-for-granted reality of our increasingly unequal times. Powerful nations 'illegalize' desperate migrants and subject them to ever more arduous journeys to prevent entry, but they prefer to keep the consequences of these actions out of public view. This thoughtful book, written in the style of an inquest, lays bare the violence that underlies contemporary border control and provides groundwork for a much-needed reconceptualization of national responsibilities.' - Doris Marie Provine, Professor of Justice Studies, Arizona State University, USA "Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering have produced an influential and inspiring book and have done so with a mix of passion, research rigour and high-level analysis [...] What is particularly disturbing is that the deaths are predictable and hence preventable with appropriate political will. For a book that deals with such a hefty topic, it is written in an accessible manner that will ensure its value not only to academics but to practitioners and activists. My hope is that the ministers of states and government authorities that are tasked with border protection will examine what the authors reveal, and find the heart to stand back from politics to produce humane and life-enhancing approaches." - Linda Briskman, ANZ Journal of Criminology, 45(3) 2012 "The book is an extremely thorough forensic investigation into the nexus between border policies and deaths [...] It is exceptionally rich in concepts and offers some fascinating methodological and theoretical approaches, not least because of its criminology perspective." - Frank Düvell, Migration Studies, 2(3) 2014Table of ContentsList of Tables, Figures and Images Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Introduction: Globalization and Borders PART I: Border Autopsy: Examining Contemporary Borders Charting the Global Frontier Counting and Discounting Border Deaths Accounting for Deaths at the Border PART II: Border Inquest: Misadventure or Death by Policy? Structural Violence Suspicious Deaths Suicide and Self-harm PART III: From Finding Truth to Preventing Border Harm The Ambiguous Architecture of Risk Conclusion: Preventing Death by Sovereignty Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sea Log
Book SynopsisThe ocean has always been the harbinger of strangers to new shores. Migrations by sea have transformed modern conceptions of mobility and belonging, disrupting notions of how to write about movement, memory and displaced histories. Sea Log is a memory theater of repressive hauntings based on urban artifacts across a maritime archive of Dutch and Portuguese colonial pillage.Colonial incursions from the sea, and the postcolonial aftershocks of these violent sea histories, lie largely forgotten for most formerly colonized coastal communities around the world. Offering a feminist log of sea journeys from the Malabar Coast of South India, through the Atlantic to the North Sea, May Joseph writes a navigational history of postcolonial coastal displacements. Excavating Dutch, Portuguese, Arab, Asian and African influences along the Malabar Coast, Joseph unearths the undertow of colonialism's ruins. In Sea Log, the Bosphorus, the Tagus and the Amstel find coherence Trade Review"May Joseph’s itinerary is singular but worldly, tending toward an otherworldliness where plenty bursts through colonial scarcities, where plenum pierces the One in everyone, where pleriplus is the genre of shared refuge in mobility. Her lyric, sharply analytic Sea Log is unprecedented and unanticipated in how it immediately establishes its absolute necessity. How else would we know how to sound the sound of the Indian Ocean as it washes New York shores?"- Fred Moten, Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts"Historically revealing, and politically attuned to the ongoing moment of decolonization, May Joseph’s Sea Log brings us to the Indian Ocean and its archive of colonial affects, brilliantly meeting the necessity for understanding the geopolitical crises of climate and environment. Taking us across coastal regions between Asia and Africa, Sea Log is an intimate and lyrical encounter with the other-than-human that also critically engages the inhuman. Powerful and poetic, this book is a moving rendition of what is lost and mourned, and what remains and inspires."- Patricia Clough, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction: Writing AnthropocenePreface: Decolonial PeriplusPart I1. Indian Ocean Affect2. Sea of Shock3. Ocean Ontologies 4. Contested VisualityPart II: Periplus5. Cochin, Dhow City6. Dar-Es-Salaam, Socialist Utopia7. Hanoi Palimpsest8. Bamiyan Pillage9. New York: Archipelagoes of the Unseen10. Deciphering the Indian Ocean
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to aspects of space that have thus far been largely unexplored. How space is perceived and cognised has been discussed from different stances, but there are few analyses of nomadic approaches to spatiality. Nor is there a sufficient number of studies on indigenous interpretations of space, despite the importance of territory and place in definitions of indigeneity. At the intersection of geography and anthropology, the authors of this volume combine general reflections on spatiality with case studies from the Circumpolar North and other nomadic settings. Spatial perceptions and practices have been profoundly transformed by new technologies as well as by new modes of social and political interaction. How do these changes play out in the everyday lives, identifications and political projects of nomadic and indigenous people? This question has been broached from two seemingly divergent stances: spatial cognition, on the one hand, and production of space, on the othTrade Review'Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces is an important collection which draws on the experience of both anthropologists and geographers to explore current ideas on land occupation and ownership in the traditional communities of the circumpolar North. ... this research is clearly vital in order to comprehend and assist in the rapid social transformation that is taking place in many Northern indigenous societies.' Traditional Dwellings and Settlements ReviewTable of Contents1: Nomadic and Indigenous Spaces; 2: A Place Off the Map; 3: From Nomadic to Mobile Space; 4: Where is Indigenous?; 5: The Nellim Forest Conflict in Finnish Lapland; 6: Sámi–State Relations and its Impact on Reindeer Herding across the Norwegian-Swedish Border; 7: Identity Categories and the Relationship between Cognition and the Production of Subjectivities; 8: Learning to Be Seated; 9: Shamanist Topography and Administrative Territories in Cisbaikalia, Southern Siberia; 10: From Invisible Float to the Eye for a Snowstorm; 11: Narratives of Adaptation and Innovation; 12: From Inuit Wayfinding to the Google World; 13: Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Postcolonial Encounters in International
Book SynopsisPostcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North African migrants in postcolonial France, with a particular focus on their access to political entitlements such as citizenship and rights. This reality is complicated even further by complex practices of memory undertaken by Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who negotiate, in their writings, between the violent memory of the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the contemporary conundrums of postcolonial migration. The book pursues thus the politics of (post)colonial memory by tracing its representations in literary, political, and visual narratives belonging to various Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who see themselves as living and writing betweeTrade ReviewWith a beautifully written argument flowing seamlessly from social theory to literature to visual arts, this book opens a critical dialogue between poststructural and postcolonial approaches to International Relations.Robbie Shilliam, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.Alina Sajed reveals the colonial roots of post-structuralism, offers fresh conceptualizations of the "translocal," and demonstrates how to decolonize international relations. Focusing on Franco-Maghreb encounters, she locates lost and forgotten themes that both resist and constitute the West. With precision, creativity, and poetic compassion, she retrieves the nuances of the actual world. I am sure this inspiring book will become required reading. Naeem Inayatullah, Professor of Politics, Ithaca College, USA.Alina Sajed’s brilliant work represents a stunning advance in our understandings of International Relations, Postcolonial Studies, immigration, exile, diaspora, violence and memory. Weaving a richly contrapuntal tapestry of the Franco-Maghrebian encounter, Sajed deftly demonstrates the inextricability of poststructuralist thought from its origins in the French colonial project – and its postcolonial legacy that so enduringly divides the ever-subaltern immigré of the banlieues from the neo-cosmopolitan exilé of the academy. This is one of those rare works that goes beyond recognizing an extant world of international relations – it radically alters our ways of seeing and understanding the world we live in. Sankaran Krishna, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, USA.Alina Sajed's innovative and compelling engagement with France's colonial legacy challenges both conventional and poststructural scholars for their inability to overcome a Eurocentric vision of the world.Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland, Australia.Table of Contents1.‘IR and the world: the politics of encounters’ 2.‘The Post Always Rings Twice? The Algerian War, Post-Structuralism and the Postcolonial in IR theory’3. ‘Exilé and immigré: the politics of exile and diaspora in the Franco-Maghrebian borderland ‘4. ‘Where have all the natives gone? Spectral Presences and Authenticity in Photographic and Literary Narratives’5. ‘The Franco-Maghrebian Borderland as Cinematic Space: Memory, Trauma, and Authenticity’6. ‘Fanon, Camus and colonial difference: possibilities and limits for decolonial thought and action’ 7. ‘Postcolonial strangers in a cosmopolitan world: postcolonial hybridity and beyond’8. ‘Diasporic identifications, translocal webs, and international relations’ Conclusion. Transgressing International Relations.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora
Book SynopsisSouth Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There are 3 million South Asians in the UK and approximately the same number resides in North America. South Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. Now available in paperback, this inter-disciplinary handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings together contributions by leading scholars and rising stars on different aspects of its history, anthropology and geography, as well as its contemporary political and socio-cultural implications. The Handbook is split into five main sections, with chapters looking at mobile South Asians in the early modern world before moving on to discuss diaspora in relation to empirTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Mobile South Asians in the early modern world 1. The world of the Indian Ocean 2. The market for military labour in early modern north India 3. Scribal migrations in early modern India 4. Mobile artisans 5. Hawala and Hundi: vehicles for the long-distance transmission of value Part 2: Diaspora and empire 6. South Asian business in Empire and beyond 7. Indenture: Experiment and Experience 8. Wrecking homes, making families: Women’s recruitment and indentured labour migration from India 9. The age of the lascar. South Asian seafarers in the times of imperial steam shipping 10. South Asians in Britain up to the mid-nineteenth century 11. Warriors, workers, traders, and peasants: The Nepali/Gorkhali diaspora since the nineteenth century Part 3: Diaspora and nation 12. Seeking empire, finding nation: Gandhi and Indianness in South Africa 13. South Asian migration to the United States: Diasporic and national formation Part 4: Diaspora, nation states and the neighbourhood 14. From imperial Subjects to national citizens: South Asians and the international migration regime since 1947 15. The production of illegality in migration and diaspora: State policies and human trafficking from Pakistan 16. Out of India: Deobandi Islam, radicalism and the globalization of ‘South Asian Islam’ 17. Nationalising a diaspora: The Tibetan government-in-exile in India 18. Sri Lanka’s diasporas Part 5: Diaspora, globalisation and culture 19. Brain Drain, exchange and gain: ‘Hi-skill’ migrants and the developed economies 20. Transnationalism and the tranformation of ‘home’ by ‘abroad’ in Sylhet, Bagladesh 21. Indians abroad: Mixing it up 22. Bengalis in Britain: Migration, state controls and settlement 23. The Pakistani Diaspora: US and UK 24. Hinduism in the diaspora 25. Ritual, religion and aesthetics in the Pakistani and South Asian Diaspora 26. Europe’s Muslim passions 27. Diasporic cities in Britian: Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, London 28. Dis/Locating diaspora: South Asian youth cultures in Britain 29. Dress and the South Asian diaspora 30. Marriages of convenience and capitulation: South Asian marriage, family and intimacy in the Diaspora 31. Literatures of the South Asian Diaspora 32. Indian food in the USA: Adapting to culinary eclecticism 33. Bollywood’s Empire: Indian Cinema and Diaspora
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Becoming a Citizen
Book SynopsisThis book explores the process of acquiring UK citizenship and investigates how the naturalisation process is experienced, with an explicit focus on language practices. This ethnographically-informed study focuses on W, a Yemeni immigrant in the UK, during the final phase of the citizenship process. In this time, he encounters linguistic trials and tests involving the Life in the UK citizenship test, community life, ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), adult education and the citizenship ceremony. The richness of linguistic data featured in this book allows for a nuanced portrayal of the complexities of becoming a citizen. This is especially so in the context of the UK's assimilationist form of citizenship which is reflected in the introduction of a citizenship test within a broader socio-political climate.Becoming a Citizen offers a detailed analysis of the linguistic process of naturalisation in the the UK and is relevant to scholars working in sociolinguistics, lTrade ReviewThis is a book that inspires reflection. It is thoughtful, accessibly written and scholarly, with rich theoretical insights emerging out of careful ethnography ... The book has much to offer a wide readership, from sociolinguistic ethnographers to those involved in policy and delivery. * Journal of Sociolinguistics *The book provides a timely contribution to understanding how language testing policy related to citizenship is taken up, resisted and discursively reconstructed by recent migrants and refugees. * Language Problems and Language Planning *A fine example of scholarship that is informed by contemporary developments in politics and policy ... It combines skilful storytelling with academic rigour. * MoneyControl.com *What makes this book unique and a must-read for scholars in the fields of migration studies, language testing and related areas is the ethnographic approach that allows to foreground a subject perspective and to trace in detail how a journey to citizenship is experienced by an applicant, how he deals with the challenges and requirements of the procedure and how subject positions and aspirations are negotiated and reevaluated during this process. * Brigitta Busch, University of Vienna, Austria *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Trials of a citizen 2. Four forms of becoming 3. Testing for citizenship 4. Ideological becoming 5. Education as a space of becoming 6. The ceremony 7. Conclusion References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cultures of London
Book SynopsisFrom its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters.It is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many huTrade ReviewThis pathbreaking and extensive volume brings together a wide range of authors from academia and beyond to investigate the role and lives of migrants throughout the history and geographical extent of London. * Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, De Montfort University, UK *Table of ContentsFrontmatter Author Biographies Introduction, Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson CENTRAL 1. St. Erkenwald and the Hidden Histories of St Paul’s Cathedral, Alastair Bennett 2. Ignatius Sancho: Musician, Man of Letters, Grocer, Markman Ellis 3. The ‘Black-birds’ of St. Giles: Community and Place in Eighteenth-century London, Nicole N. Aljoe and Savita Maharaj 4. Styling the Other: Hazlitt’s ‘The Indian Jugglers’, Uttara Natarajan 5. Begging Places: Poverty, Race, and Visibility on Ludgate Hill, c. 1815, David Hitchcock 6. 13 Red-Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, 1818–76, Oskar Cox Jensen 7. The Chinese Aesthetics of the Admonitions Scroll at the British Museum, Kent Su 8. ‘A terrain on its own’: Elizabeth Bowen and Regent’s Park, Heather Ingman INFRASTRUCTURE: WATER 9. London’s Water: City Comedy, Migration and Middletons, Susan J. Wiseman EAST 10. Shakespeare in Shoreditch, Daniel Swift 11. Hostile Environments: Disinterring a Lascar Barracks in Nineteenth-Century Shadwell, Eliza Cubitt 12. 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields: A Case Study in the Architecture of Migration and Diversity, Dan Cruikshank 13. The Slot-Meter and the East End Avant-Garde, Alex Grafen INFRASTRUCTURE: WASTE 14. Blockage and Recuperation: Sewer-Hunters in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor, Naomi Hinds SOUTH 15. Culture and Horticulture in Lambeth from ‘Tradescant’s Ark’ to Vauxhall Gardens, Charlotte Grant 16. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg, Catherine Brown 17. 87 Hackford Road: The London of Vincent Van Gogh, Livia Wang 18. Writing London: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Ruvani Ranasinha INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT I 19. Existing Triply: Race, Space and the London Transport Network, 1950s–70s, Rob Waters WEST 20. Scotch Hornpipes and African Elephants: The May Fair in 1700, Alistair Robinson 21. Feathered People in Enlightenment London: Queen of the Bluestockings meets Cherokee King, Elizabeth Eger 22. Prince Eugen in Kensington: Anglo-Scandinavian Artistic, Networks and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, Eva-Charlotta Mebius 23. ‘What a relief to be back in London’: The Silences of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Edmund de Waal 24. Tricksters of the Water: Sam Selvon's West London and the Migrant Experience, Peter Maber and Karishma Patel 25. Arabian Nights on the Edgware Road: Hanan al-Shaykh’s Only in London, Susie Thomas 26. The Grand Prince of Kyiv in Holland Park: The Statue of Saint Volodymyr, Sasha Dovzhyk 27. ‘Is real mas outside’: Community, Resistance and Notting Hill Carnival, Leighan Renaud 28. ‘Where the City Dissolves’: Suburban Diasporas, Psychosis and Reparative Writing, Martin Dines INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT II 29. A Bus for Everyone: The Role of the London Omnibus in Enabling Access to the City, Joe Kerr NORTH 30. Moorgate, Enfield, Edmonton and Hampstead: The Cross-City Migrations of John Keats, Flora Lisica 31. The Battle for an African Space in London: WASU Hostel and Aggrey House, William Whitworth 32. Northview: A Snapshot of Multiracial London during the Second World War, Oliver Ayers 33. Exiles of NW3: The ‘Free German League of Culture’ in Upper Park Road, David Anderson Select Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press Arabic Exile Literature in Europe
Book SynopsisAnalyses the aesthetics and politics of contemporary Arabic literature of forced migration in the 21st century
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Edinburgh University Press Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation
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Edinburgh University Press Syrias Transnational Rebellion
Book SynopsisThe first transnational study of the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927.
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press An Exodus from Turkey
Book SynopsisExamines the current wave of migration from Turkey with a specific focus on the experiences of 21 public figures and intellectuals from varying backgrounds.
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State University of New York Press The Students We Share
Book SynopsisExamines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.Millions of students in the US and Mexico begin their educations in one country and find themselves trying to integrate into the school system of the other. As global migration increases, their numbers are expected to grow and more and more teachers will find these transnational students in their classrooms. The goal of The Students We Share is to prepare educators for this present and future reality. While the US has been developing English as a Second Language programs for decades, Mexican schools do not offer such programs in Spanish and neither the US nor Mexico has prepared its teachers to address the educational, social-psychological, or other personal needs of transnational students. Teachers know little about the circumstances of transnational students'' lives or histories and have little to no knowledge of the school systems of the country from which they or their family come. As such, they are fundamentally unprepared to equitably educate the "students we share," who often fall through the cracks and end their educations prematurely. Written by both Mexican and US pioneers in the field, chapters in this volume aim to prepare educators on both sides of the US-Mexico border to better understand the circumstances, strengths, and needs of the transnational students we teach. With recommendations for policymakers, administrators, teacher educators, teachers, and researchers in both countries, The Students We Share shows how preparing teachers is our shared responsibility and opportunity. It describes policies, classroom practices, and norms of both systems, as well as examples of ongoing partnerships across borders to prepare the teachers we need for our shared students to thrive.
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations
Book SynopsisMigration to new destinations in Europe and the United States has expanded dramatically over the past few decades. Within these destinations, there is a corresponding greater variety of ethnic, cultural, and/or religious diversity. This timely volume, The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations, considers the challenges posed by this proliferation of diversity for governments, majority populations, and immigrants.The contributors assess the effectiveness of the policy and political responses that have been spawned by increasing diversity in four types of new immigrant destinations: intermediate destination countriesIreland and Italy; culturally distinct regions experiencing new migration such as Catalonia in Spain or the American South; new destinations within traditional destination countries like the state of Utah and rural towns in England; and early migration cycle countries including Latvia and Poland. The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations examines how these new destinations f
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Rowman & Littlefield From Immigrants to Americans
Book SynopsisImmigration has always caused immense public concern, especially when the perception is that immigrants are not assimilating into society they way they should, or perhaps the way they once did. Americans are frustrated as they try to order food, hire laborers, or simply talk to someone they see on the street and cannot communicate with them because the person is an immigrant who has not fully adopted American culture or language. But is this truly a modern phenomenon? In From Immigrants to Americans, Jacob Vigdor offers a direct comparison of the experiences of immigrants in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present day. His conclusions are both unexpected and fascinating. Vigdor shows how the varying economic situations immigrants come from has always played an important role in their assimilation. The English language skills of contemporary immigrants are actually quite good compared to the historical average, but those who arrive without knowing English are learningTrade ReviewJacob Vigdor's From Immigrants to Americans is a lucid analysis of a central and enduring issue in our society. No other recent study of this subject matches it in economic sophistication and historical depth. It is enriched by an abundant supply of graphs and tables, allowing readers to assess for themselves the evidence upon which the author's interpretations rest. -- Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop Research Professor of History, Harvard UniversityThis is a fascinating look at immigration as Americans continue to ponder the relative merits of the melting pot versus the salad bowl. * Booklist, February 2010 *Vigdor's balanced analysis is important reading for anyone interested in immigration adaptation in the US.... Highly recommended. * CHOICE, August 2010 *Jacob Vigdor has written a must-read book on immigrant assimilation. The book examines a wide range of issues relating to the assimilation experience. It is sure to become a standard reference in this increasingly important social policy issue. -- Geroge Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy SchoolVigdor presents some fascinating empirical findings. * Claremont Review of Books *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: An Immigrant's Decision Chapter 3 Chapter 2: A Historical View of Immigration to the United States Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Fitting in Economically Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Fitting in Linguistically Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Fitting in Officially Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Fitting into the Neighborhood Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Joining the Family
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Bristol University Press The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice
Book SynopsisLooking at examples across anti-racist movements and developments in nationhood/nationalism, institutional racism, migration, white supremacy and the disparities of COVID-19, Nasar Meer argues for the need to move on from perpetual crisis in racial justice to a turning point that might change deep-seated systems of racism.Table of Contents1. The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice 2. Reimagining Nationhood? 3. Equality, Inequalities and Institutional Racism 4. The Racial Realities of COVID-19 5. (De-)racialising Refuge 6. Whiteness and the Wreckage of Racialisation 7. Rethinking the Future: Affect, Orders and Systems
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Edinburgh University Press Armenians Beyond Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Armenians around the world in the face of the Genocide, and despite the absence of an independent nation-state after World War I developed dynamic socio-political, cultural, ideological and ecclesiastical centres.
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Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Immigration in Scotland
Book SynopsisExamines immigration as a central strategy of Scottish nation building
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University of Texas Press Accountability Across Borders
Book SynopsisA timely, transnational examination of the institutions in Mexico, Canada, and the United States that engage migrant populations in becoming agents of change for immigrant rights while holding government authorities accountable.Trade ReviewAccountability Across Borders offers a rich set of contributions that are needed to conceptualize American 'ethnic' history beyond the borders of the United States, toward one that is transnational, multiply defined, and takes seriously the question of migration, rights, and social movements. This anthology offers up a nuanced regional perspective on immigration that is a must-read for transnational advocates, non-governmental organizations, governmental organizations, immigration scholars, and any person who is interested in taking up immigration theory, policy, and practice. * Journal of American Ethnic History *This multidisciplinary essay collection adopts a transnational lens to examine the effects of migrant civil society, migration law, and enforcement agencies on migrants’ rights on both sides of the border in areas like employment, health, and education. The essays demonstrate that civic spaces are important not only to advocate for migrant rights in destination countries, but also to hold the governments of origin countries accountable to their nationals living abroad...With their wide-ranging approach to the study of migrant advocacy, these essays highlight the importance of examining both sides of the border. * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Introduction: Enforcing Rights across Borders (Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada ) Chapter 1. Mexican Migrant Civil Society: Propositions for Discussion (Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado ) Part I: North America Chapter 2. Global Governance and the Protection of Migrant Workers’ Rights in North America: In Search of a Theoretical Framework (José Ma. Serna de la Garza ) Chapter 3. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation and the Challenges to Protecting Low-Wage Migrant Workers (Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson ) Part II. Mexico Chapter 4. Mexican Migrant Federalism and Transnational Rights Advocacy (Adriana Sletza Ortega Ramírez ) Chapter 5. Rebuilding Justice We Can All Trust: The Plight of Migrant Victims (Ana Lorena Delgadillo, Alma García, and Rodolfo Córdova Alcaraz ) Chapter 6. With Dual Citizenship Comes Double Exclusion: US-Mexican Children and Their Struggle to Access Rights in Mexico (Mónica Jacobo-Suárez ) Part III. Canada Chapter 7. Transnational Labor Solidarity versus State-Managed Coercion: UFCW Canada, Mexico, and the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (Andrea Galvez, Pablo Godoy, and Paul Meinema ) Chapter 8. Assembling Noncitizen Access to Education in a Sanctuary City: The Place of Public School Administrator Bordering Practices (Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring ) Part IV. United States Chapter 9. Indigenous Maya Families from Yucatán in San Francisco: Hemispheric Mobility and Pedagogies of Diaspora (Patricia Baquedano-López ) Chapter 10. Binational Health Week: A Social Mobilization Program to Improve Latino Migrant Health (Liliana Osorio, Hilda Dávila, and Xóchitl Castañeda ) Chapter 11. “American in Every Way, Except for Their Papers”: How Mexico Supports Migrants’ Access to Membership in the United States (Alexandra Délano Alonso ) Epilogue: Theorizing State-Society Relations in a Multiscalar Context (Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada ) Editors and Contributors Index
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New York University Press The Racial Railroad
Book SynopsisReveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United StatesDespite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent symbol of American exceptionalism, ingenuity, and vastness. For almost two centuries, the train has served as the literal and symbolic vehicle for American national identity, manifest destiny, and imperial ambitions. It's no surprise, then, that the train continues to endure in depictions across literature, film, ad music. The Racial Railroad highlights the surprisingly central role that the railroad has playedand continues to playin the formation and perception of racial identity and difference in the United States. Julia H. Lee argues that the train is frequently used as the setting for stories of race because it operates across multiple registers and scales of experience and meaning, both as an invocation of and a depository for all manner of social, historicTrade Review"Julia Lee’s brilliant scholarly intervention is in rendering the railroad as THE technology for understanding American exceptionalism, racial exclusion, and racist state harm, as well as, contradictorily, the symbol of liberation and legitimation for so many non-white Americans who have struggled to lay claim to the U.S. The depth and breadth of Lee’s archive, from canonical American novels to contemporary films and music videos further reinforces the ubiquity of trains and the railroad in the racial hierarchies of the last two centuries and is a testament to Lee’s capacious intellect and scholarly rigor." * Jennifer Ho, author of Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture *"A fascinating interdisciplinary book offering a sustained consideration of the railroad’s cultural iconicity from the suppressed perspective of racialized authors. Lee’s distinctive expertise in literary analysis and comparative race studies covers a broad and diverse archive that conveys the railroad’s racial implications and contestations across visual, acoustic, and literary forms." * Hsuan Hsu, author of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics *"Lee examines affinities between narratives and images of American exceptionalism and railroads, both of which narrowly orient perspective through the perception of movement. … Lee examines visual narratives of trains in railroad advertisements, in film history, and in reenactments. She examines narratives of Chinese degeneracy and Chinese American memory, of the survival and critique of Jim Crow, and of border crossings and the exploitation of migrant labor, all taking place on trains … offers valuable insights on how racism and exclusionary borders take shape through physical infrastructure." -- Manu Karuka * Public Books *
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Stanford University Press Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era
Book SynopsisPursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides readers with the everyday perspectives of immigrants on what it is like to try to integrate into American society during a time when immigration policy is focused on enforcement and exclusion. The law says that everyone who is not a citizen is an alien. But the social reality is more complicated. Ming Hsu Chen argues that the citizen/alien binary should instead be reframed as a spectrum of citizenship, a concept that emphasizes continuities between the otherwise distinct experiences of membership and belonging for immigrants seeking to become citizens. To understand citizenship from the perspective of noncitizens, this book utilizes interviews with more than one-hundred immigrants of varying legal statuses about their attempts to integrate economically, socially, politically, and legally during a modern era of intense immigration enforcement. Studying the experiences of green card holders, refugees, military service members, temporary workers, international students, and undocumented immigrants uncovers the common plight that underlies their distinctions: limited legal status breeds a sense of citizenship insecurity for all immigrants that inhibits their full integration into society. Bringing together theories of citizenship with empirical data on integration and analysis of contemporary policy, Chen builds a case that formal citizenship status matters more than ever during times of enforcement and argues for constructing pathways to citizenship that enhance both formal and substantive equality of immigrants.Trade Review"Ming Hsu Chen writes with great intelligence and compassion about the frightening reality of attempting to pursue citizenship in a moment when every interaction with the federal government also involves tremendous risk. She brings to life the struggle of recently arrived immigrants who want to integrate more fully into American society, even as federal policy seeks to exclude as many as possible. The complexities of constantly changing and sometimes even contradictory immigration laws are explained and the true predicaments of well-intentioned immigrants who seek only to follow the law to the best of their understanding are illuminated. Chen does a masterful job."—Helen Thorpe, author of The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America"As much critique as corrective vision, Ming Chen's powerful book brings us revelatory conversations with immigrants seeking to become citizens. Their experiences, frustrations, and dreams shine sharp spotlights on the official barriers they face—and on our shared humanity."—Ian F. Haney López, University of California, Berkeley"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era offers a nuanced analysis of the complex relationship between the legal status of citizenship and real belonging to U.S. society. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews, Ming Chen shows how overemphasizing immigration enforcement undermines the integration of immigrants and their potential to make society more cohesive. This is trail-blazing scholarship on how immigrants become citizens."—Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA School of Law"Chen makes a compelling case that federal government can and should do more—much more—to integrate its residents by supporting access to citizenship. With a clear-eyed picture of the functional benefits of formal citizenship, this book offers a thoughtful policy roadmap for achieving that goal."—Jennifer Chacón, UCLA School of Law"Chen here demands that we migration scholars stake a deeper claim in the changes that are needed to ensure all of our well-being.Pursuing Citizenshipis an essential read for all of us committed to accepting that challenge."—Shannon Gleeson, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era provides a powerful account of the struggles that many noncitizens and their families faced during the increased immigration enforcement of the Trump era... Chen offers a strong defense of formal citizenship, particularly in contexts where immigration enforcement is prioritized, because of its impact on one's sense of equality and community membership."—Rose Cuison-Villazor, Michigan Law ReviewTable of Contents1. Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era 2. Unequal Citizenship: Gaps in Formal and Substantive Citizenship 3. Winding Pathways to Citizenship 4. Barriers to Formal Citizenship 5. Blocked Pathways to Full Citizenship 6. Constructing Pathways to Full Citizenship
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Stanford University Press Immigrant California: Understanding the Past,
Book SynopsisIf California were its own country, it would have the world's fifth largest immigrant population. The way these newcomers are integrated into the state will shape California's schools, workforce, businesses, public health, politics, and culture. In Immigrant California, leading experts in U.S. migration provide cutting-edge research on the incorporation of immigrants and their descendants in this bellwether state. California, unique for its diverse population, powerful economy, and progressive politics, provides important lessons for what to expect as demographic change comes to most states across the country. Contributors to this volume cover topics ranging from education systems to healthcare initiatives and unravel the sometimes-contradictory details of California's immigration history. By examining the past and present of immigration policy in California, the volume shows how a state that was once the national leader in anti-immigrant policies quickly became a standard-bearer of greater accommodation. California's successes, and its failures, provide an essential road map for the future prosperity of immigrants and natives alike.Trade Review"Throughout U.S. history, California has offered some of the most welcoming–and most xenophobic–responses to newcomers. This volume closely looks at the immigration lessons from this state, home to one of the largest immigrant populations in the world."—Kevin Johnson, Dean, University of California, Davis School of Law"How should public policies respond to immigration? This impressive, data-driven collection of research answers this pressing question with systematic analysis over time and across groups. The experts featured in this volume provide evidence-based insights and recommendations that will help lead California and the nation to a more inclusive, healthy, and prosperous shared future."—Janelle Wong, Professor of Government and Politics & American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
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Stanford University Press The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants
Book SynopsisWhen the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin. Journalists, scholars, and Vietnamese border crossers themselves consider these groups that left their homes under vastly different conditions to be one people, linked by an unquestionable ethnic nationhood. Phi Hong Su's rigorous ethnography unpacks this intuition. In absorbing prose, Su reveals how these Cold War compatriots enact palpable social boundaries in everyday life. This book uncovers how 20th-century state formation and international migration—together, border crossings—generate enduring migrant classifications. In doing so, border crossings fracture shared ethnic, national, and religious identities in enduring ways.Trade Review"Phi Hong Su's The Border Within is a game-changing book. Using rich ethnographic data with Vietnamese refugees and former contract workers in a reunified Berlin, Su paints a vivid portrait of how national and ethnic categories play out in everyday life. Avoiding simplistic conceptions of these categories, Su takes us into the lives of her subjects as they adopt and transform national and ethnic categories to draw lines of unity and division. This book is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand how migration, war, and changing political boundaries influence belonging."—Tomás R. Jiménez, co-author of States of Belonging"A vivid account of Vietnamese border crossings – social, national, and political – that reconceptualizes the diaspora and notions of ethnonationalism. Su's remarkable study of the diverse pathways of Vietnamese migration to the once-divided city of Berlin serves as a poignant reminder of the ways in which Cold War divisions continue to shape daily lives and raise complex questions of belonging."—Christina Schwenkel, author of Building Socialism"In this remarkable book, Phi Hong Su poignantly analyzes what it means to be Vietnamese in the context of migration between two countries that were profoundly affected by war, national division, and reunification. Having originated decades ago, the Vietnamese community in Germany today continues to confront the impact of violence, division, and reunification on community, ethnic, national, and individual identities. Su deftly unpacks how discrepant histories of borders and border crossings within a coethnic migrant group shape ethnic nationalisms through social relationships and religious practices. The book makes a groundbreaking contribution to transnational studies of Asia and the Asian diaspora."—Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross"The field of postcolonial studies has long been concerned with issues of cultural hybridity, national belonging, and political sovereignty. Phi Hong Su's The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin tackles all these weighty matters with a remarkable deftness that bridges divergent interests in decolonization, global migration, [and] the Cold War.... The Border Within is a major text for anyone who wishes to grasp the social forces that delimit postcolonial and diasporic identities. This important study reveals how nations are made, unmade, and remade with an understanding that the path to independence and freedom is riddled with endless controversy."—Long T. Bui, Postcolonial Interventions"Phi Hong Su asks a question of enduring interest to migration scholars and students of nationalism: How do ordinary people, thousands of miles from their homeland, make sense of their membership in a distant nation? Su adds two absorbing, creative wrinkles to this question by using a research design that sets The Border Within apart from prior scholarship...Su is both courageous and empathetic in the way she deals with the internal politics of the Vietnamese, their notions of ethnic nationalism, and their lives in Germany...These questions point to how fascinating and generative it is to read The Border Within."—Irene Bloemraad, Social Forces"...unusually theoretically sophisticated and analytically coherent.... The resulting book is as ambitious as it is humble: it shows a tremendous understanding of multiple national contexts and never makes grand claims that do not emerge from the data itself.... These arguments complement multiple fields of scholarship, including on the inadequacy of legal labels in capturing the true range of migration pathways and experiences; on taking categories, such as ethnicity, as to be explainedrather than explanatory; on immigrants as emigrants who continue to be impacted by their homelands; on the potential encumbrance of diasporic networks; on the lingering effects of the Cold War; and on how illuminating migrants' views onto receiving societies' histories can be.... Su's writing is unfailingly elegant, clear, and accessible."—Ulrike Bialas, International Migration Review"This short yet discerning monograph gives a vivid account of the persistence of divisions—including their subtle impact on social identity and social differentiation among Vietnamese in the diaspora decades after the Vietnam War and the Cold War ended. Su achieves this by engaging in wide-ranging fieldwork, including interviews with dozens of southerners as well as northerners. It is one of the most important monographs on this subject published in the last decade, and it should be read widely."—Tuan Hoang, Journal of Vietnamese Studies"This innovative book provides a sophisticated picture of the relationship between borders and boundaries and between nationhood and nationalism, which is of interest not only to scholars in transnational migration studies and in Vietnamese studies but to all readers interested in state formation, immigration, and postconflict division and reconciliation, as well.... The Border Within is an inspiring and well-written book. I believe the book is essential for anyone who wants to understand how partition, reunification, and migration shape the nationhood and nationalism, the unity and the division, among diasporic Vietnamese people."—Nghi Truong, Journal of Asian Studies"Significant interventions of [The Border Within] include moving beyond the binary of refugee and migrant and showing the complexity of people's motivations for crossing borders beyond economic or political explanations. The work also challenges the trinity of citizen-state-territory, revealing the complex ways 'international migration allows people to carry their ideas of the nation and, at times, their national memberships with them abroad'. "The book is clearly written and compelling with its ethnographic voice and thick description. It would appeal to a lay audience and undergraduate courses focused on global and transnational sociology, international migration, and political sociology. The book is one of the few written in English in the field of sociology that focuses on stories of the Vietnamese diaspora outside the United States, France, Canada, and Australia."—Jennifer Huynh, Contemporary SociologyTable of Contents1. Border Crossings 2. Making Northerners and Southerners 3. Making Refugees and Contract Workers 4. Ranking the Ethnic Nation 5. Choosing Friends and Picking Sides 6. Buddhist Meditations in Northern and Southern Accents 7. After Border Crossings
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Stanford University Press Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under
Book SynopsisCommercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western Men. Her study of China's email-order bride industry offers stories of Chinese women who are primarily middle-aged, divorced, and proactively seeking spouses to fulfill their material and sexual needs. What they seek in their Western partners is tied to what they believe they've lost in the shifting global economy around them. Ranging from multimillionaire entrepreneurs or ex-wives and mistresses of wealthy Chinese businessmen, to contingent sector workers and struggling single mothers, these women, along with their translators and potential husbands from the US, Canada, and Australia, make up the actors in this multifaceted story. Set against the backdrop of China's global economic ascendance and a relative decline of the West, this book asks: How does this reshape Chinese women's perception of Western masculinity? Through the unique window of global internet dating, this book reveals the shifting relationships of race, class, gender, sex, and intimacy across borders.Trade Review"Seeking Western Men shows how vicissitudes of global economy can be registered in the relative value of men and women seeking relationships. Liu's masterful analysis shows readers how to rethink gender, race, and class within a rapidly changing world order."—Eileen Otis, author of Markets and Bodies"This engaging ethnography dismantles common assumptions about the motives of female marriage migrants and the transnational appeal of both Western masculinity and Western feminism. Rather, we learn about evolving Chinese feminisms that deviate from Western models, as Chinese women pursue transnational marriages exercising their own sexual agency."—James Farrar, author of Opening Up"[Seeking Western Men] is an interdisciplinary study that spans sociology, anthropology, and gender studies. I highly recommend it to students, researchers, and general readers interested in the areas of transnational migration, marriage and family, masculinity, and Chinese and Western cultures. Through a geopolitical and feminist lens, this book provides valuable insights into the power dynamics between Asian women and Western men. It enriches the existing body of research on marriage migration in Asia by offering a wealth of rich ethnographic data."—Hsunhui Tseng, H-Asia"Liu's investigation is more than a case study of Chinese international dating. It is an earnest effort to understand the sociological processes and psychological realities that have provoked a reawakening in Chinese women as sexual and romantic beings who want and expect a more fulfilling life, which includes having a satisfying marriage with either a Chinese man of sufficient social standing or, if not, with a Western provider. Monica Liu's study offers an insightful peek into the sociological processes responsible for this psychological awakening. It is ethnography as it should be."—William Jakowiak, Nan Nü"This book provides the most detailed empirical examination of the international dating industry in China and how ideas of race, class, and gender are shifting within the globalizing economy, providing an important contribution to sociological literature about the international dating industry and ideas of intimacy within post-reform China."—Julia Meszaros, Social Forces"Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China's Global Rise offers important insights into the complex world of email-order brides. Using feminist lenses from both the West and China, Liu's engaging and accessible writing provides a glimpse of international marriages and the challenges facing women in contemporary China. The book makes significant contributions to the field of gender and migration studies. I highly recommend the book to anyone who is interested in learning more about this phenomenon."—Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? 2. Provider Love 3. Transnational Business Masculinity 4. Embracing Domesticity 5. Body of a Woman, Fate of a Man 6. Surrogate Dating: Translators behind the Screens Epilogue
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Manchester University Press The Wolves are Coming Back: The Politics of Fear
Book SynopsisAcross Eastern Germany, where political allegiances are shifting to the right, the wolf is increasingly seen as a trespasser and threat to the local way of life. Styled by populist right-wing actors as an ‘invasive species’, the wolf evokes and resonates with anti-immigration sentiments and widespread fears of demographic catastrophe. To many people in Eastern Germany, the immigrant and the wolf are an indistinguishable problem that nobody in power is doing anything about. In this account of Eastern German agitation of wolves and migrants, Eastern German hunters, farmers, rioters and self-appointed 'saviours of the nation', Pates and Leser move beyond stereotypic representations of ‘the East’ and shine a light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses.As nationalist parties are on the rise across Europe, The wolves are coming back offers an insight into the rise of the far right in Germany. The nationalist Alternative for Germany represents the third-largest party in the German federal parliament, with representation in the vast majority of German states. They draw much of their support from the ‘post-traumatic places’ in Eastern Germany, regions structured by realities of disownment, disenfranchisement and a lack of democratic infrastructure. Pates and Leser provide an account of the societal roots of a new group of radical right parties, whose existence and success we always assumed to be impossible.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Wolf politics1 The ‘East’: Depopulation, deindustrialisation, colonialism2 Wolf packs: Pogroms, pillories and riots3 Renaturing and the politics of Heimat4 Herding wayward citizens5 Affective politics6 Sheep in wolves’ clothing? Index
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Manchester University Press Global London on Screen: Visitors, Cosmopolitans
Book SynopsisGlobal London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious, or extraordinary in terms of circumstances as captured cinematically in this superdiverse city. This book portrays a segment of such superdiversity by historicising and theorising various cinematic reproductions of London by filmmakers coming to this megacity from abroad. As visitors, cosmopolitans, or even migrant filmmakers, their treatment of London’s zonal locations as both foreign and familiar is fascinating; their narratives and visualisations of London’s spatial and architectural uniqueness is given a sojourners’ touch; while other foreign filmmakers showcase and sometimes problematise London’s socio-cultural globality and locality as both British and a city open (and sometimes closed off) to the world.Trade Review'This collection opens up vistas to what is often forgotten or not seen in a global city like London. The contributors reveal deep histories of the different Londons on screen, and their profound knowledge about the subject make this a great read.'Saskia Sassen, The Robert S. Lind Professor of Sociology, Columbia University -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Global London on screen: visitors, cosmopolitans and migratory cinematic visions of a superdiverse city – Keith B. Wagner1 ‘God is everywhere!’: engineering the immigrant landscape of Emeric Pressburger’s Miracle in Soho – Jingan MacPherson Young2 Dropping out: interiority, claustrophobia and decadence in cosmopolitan London cinema of the 1960s and 1970s – Kevin M. Flanagan3 On location in 1970s London: an interview with Gavrik Losey – Paul Newland4 Outside in: Twilight City and the birth of global London – Malini Guha5 ‘Where I come from, we eat places like this for breakfast’: Aki Kaurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer as transnational representation of local London – Claire MonkBollywood’s London: the moral-political undertow of London’s Hindi cinema presence – Shakuntala Banaji and Rahoul Masrani7 Brazucas on screen: the Brazilian diaspora in London as depicted in Henrique Goldman’s Jean Charles – Stephanie Dennison8 A critical analysis of the Nollywood film Osuofia in London – Uchenna Onuzulike9 Poetics of double erasure: British East/South-East Asian cinema and Lilting – Victor Fan10 Global Hollywood and the London set piece – Lawrence Webb11 Performative liveness in Lost in London: cinematic streaming and the digital happening in globalising London – Michael A. Unger and Keith B. Wagner12 Borders and cosmopolitanism in the global city: London River – Ana Virginia López Fuentes13 Utopia as a cosmopolitan method in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men – Mónica MartínEpilogue: The rise of sourdough bread: The Street, gentrification and Brexit – Charlotte BrunsdonIndex
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Manchester University Press Border Abolitionism: Migrants’ Containment and
Book SynopsisBuilding on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical migration literature. It explores the multiplication of modes of migration confinement and detention in Europe, examining how these are justified in the name of migrants’ protection. It argues that the collective memory of past struggles has partly informed current solidarity movements in support of migrants. A grounded critique of migration policies involves challenging the idea that migrants’ rights go to the detriment of citizens. An abolitionist approach to borders entails situating the right to mobility as part of struggle for the commons. Trade Review'Martina Tazzioli’s book challenges us to connect struggles for the freedom of movement to commoning practices and abolitionist worlding projects, to decompartmentalise migration, border and refugee studies. To build these transversal alliances, Tazzioli grounds border abolitionism in migrants’ escapes, autonomous mobilities and spaces, and “free spots,” beginning not from state enclosure projects, but from actually existing abolitionist practices. Border abolitionism calls on us to do more than document the needless drownings, wasted times and choked lives or the injustices of contemporary migration control regimes. To practices border abolition, we must learn from migrants how to live and build institutions otherwise.'Lauren Martin, Associate Professor of Political Geography, Durham UniversityBorder abolitionism is an intellectually ambitious, creative, and original book, linking critical border, migration, and refugee studies to the contemporary insights of carceral abolitionism. Tazzioli starts not from normative abstractions but instead from the material and practical facts of migration and the confinement continuum that chokes migrants’ and refugees’ projects both to move across borders and then to stay and re-make their lives. This book’s refreshingly innovative intervention thus advances an idea of abolition that extends far beyond the border, in order to understand the struggles of migrants and citizens together. It will have a lasting impact on scholarship and activism.Nicholas De Genova, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The zero-sum rights game: border abolitionism as an analytical gaze2 ‘Confine to protect’: hybrid spaces of migration containment3 Participatory confinement: extractive humanitarianism and asylum seekers’ unpaid labour4 Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and border violence5 A history of mountain runaways and rescue: migrants at the Alpine borderConclusion
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Manchester University Press Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present:
Book SynopsisThis pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthetic and social activity of making, one practised by migrants on the move and also by those who represent their lives in an act of support. Adopting a multilingual approach, the book interprets the aesthetics and political practices developed by and with migrants in Spain, Italy and France. It juxtaposes early modern and modern work with contemporary, reconceiving migrants as crucial agents of change. Scholars and artists track people on the move within the continent and without, drawing a significant map for the cultural history of migration around Europe.An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesteropenhive.com/view/9781526166180/9781526166180.xmlTrade Review'Highly imaginative in conception and design, this book oscillates between medieval and modern to consider the migrant, the border-breaker, the refugee (lacking the romantic, time-honoured status of “the exile”). Decentring anglocentric approaches, its contributors consider how written and visual arts might variously offer, for those lacking homelands, some place to live.' David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: A premodern cultural history1 Astrolabe: from ‘mathematical jewel’ to cultural connector – Pedro M. P. RaposoPart II: Migrating in Spanish 2 The expulsion of the moriscos: still more questions than answers – James S. Amelang3 Translating migrant precarity in Rachid Nini’s Diario de un ilegal – Anna TybinkoPart III: Migrating in Italian4 “The world is my homeland”: exile and migration from Ibn Hamdis to Dante – Akash Kumar5 Superman in Italy: the power of the refugee artist – Saskia Ziolkowski6 Porta d’Europa: monumentality, entropy and migration on Lampedusa – Tenley BickPart IV: Migrating in French 7 Calais enclave: fictions for locking in and opening up – Helen Solterer8 Calais campscape: a short history of immigration deterrence at the French-British border – Vincent Joos and Eric LeleuPart V: Arts of migration9 In Transit: arts of migration around Europe – The Nasher Museum Collective10 Cornered – Raquel Salvatella de PradaIndex
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Manchester University Press Diaspora as Translation and Decolonisation
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new way of conceptualising diaspora by examining how diasporas do translation and decolonisation. It provides conceptual tools for investigating diasporas and their interventions and considers diaspora as the global south in the global north', as well as providing a case study of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe. -- .
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Manchester University Press Bartered Bridegrooms
Book SynopsisThis book explores the experiences of Muslim men born and raised in Pakistan and Kashmir who migrate after marrying British Pakistani nationals. The book particular focuses on the impact of migration and marriage on their masculinity. -- .
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