Migration, immigration and emigration Books
Anthropos Research & Publications Sociologa econmica de las migraciones
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Formacio N Alcala Inmigracin
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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Los otros: raza, normas y corrupción en la
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Are We Living in Another Migration Period?:
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Brepols Publishers Conceptualising Early Colonisation
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Valiz Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the
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MIT Press Global Migration and the World Economy Two
Book SynopsisWorld mass migration began in the early nineteenth century, when advances in transportation technology and industrial revolutions at home enabled increasing numbers of people to set off for other parts of the globe in search of a better life. Two centuries later, there is no distant African, Asian, or Latin American village that is not within reach of some high-wage OECD labor market. This book is the first comprehensive economic assessment of world mass migration taking a long-run historical perspective, including north-north, south-south, and south-north migrations. Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson, both economists and economic historians, consider two centuries of global mobility, assessing its impact on the migrants themselves as well as on the sending and receiving countries.Global Migration and the World Economy covers two great migration waves: the first, from the 1820s to the beginning of World War I, when immigration was largely unrestricted; the second, beginni
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Chinas Second Continent
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future.One of the Best Books of the Year at • The Economist • The Guardian • Foreign Affairs
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Little America
Book SynopsisA soon-to-be half-hour anthology series from Apple, airing starting January 2020, a gorgeous, intimate collective portrait of America's immigrants and thereby a portrait of the nation itself
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Penguin Publishing Group Immigrant Voices TwentyFour Voices on Becoming an
Book SynopsisWith narratives from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this anthology provides a historical and uniquely personal perspective on the immigrant experience and illuminates the often difficult dream of becoming an American citizen.From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s defining statement of Americanism to Harlem Renaissance figure Claude McKay’s observations on race, here are both rousing and heartbreaking impressions of those who departed from their homlands in the hopes of making a new life. Reconciling their old traditions with their new land, these immigrants faced such adversity as assimilation, prejudice, poverty, homesickness, and identity. Filled with inspiring stories of immigrants who traveled from Mexico, India, China, Korea, Syria, and beyond, Immigrant Voices reveals—in their own words—how these newcomers were able to persevere and make their mark on the “New World.”
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LUP - University of Michigan Press How the Workers Became Muslims Immigration
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] remarkable study on the ways racism has taken in Western Europe, in particular in relations between Muslim immigrants and Western European states. Yilmaz has made a first-rate intervention on the discussion concerning national, popular, and ethnic identities in the contemporary world. His contribution to contemporary scholarship is outstanding.”—Ernesto Laclau, author of On Populist Reason“Yilmaz’s important book charts the rise of culture as the dominant framework through which we now understand the politics of migration in Europe. He gives a theoretically sophisticated account of the production of the ‘Muslim immigrant,’ the rise of right-wing populism, and the way ‘progressive’ values—including those of feminism and gay rights—have come to serve racist and exclusionary ends.”—Ben Pitcher, University of Westminster“Guided by an original reformulation of hegemony theory that highlights the transformative effects of media-driven moral panics, this book offers a deep dive into contemporary anti-immigration discourse in Europe. With great insight, Yilmaz unveils the relations of power undergirding the seemingly benign ‘common sense’ definitions of the immigration ‘problem.’”—Rodney Benson, author of Shaping Immigration News“In this beautifully written and brilliantly argued book, Ferruh Yilmaz shows how moral panics and political mobilizations against Muslim ‘difference’ function in western nations to obscure pervasive oppressions of race and class. Drawing deftly on advanced currents in studies of communication and cultural studies, How the Workers Became Muslims demonstrates the dynamism of discourse as a social force. Yilmaz reveals how the prevailing categories and classifications that are deployed in political discourse deliberately direct attention toward conflicts over cultural norms and values in order to deflect attention away from material and political conflicts over resources and rights. This book shows how anti-Muslim mobilizations are not merely manifestations of cultural racism and Islamophobia, but rather key tools for the perpetuation of class dominance and the occlusion of class conflicts.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Dr. Yilmaz’s book is a highly original and sophisticated study of public discourse on immigration in Denmark. The argument he puts forward here is significant for its understanding of the social and political changes in Europe in the last two decades. Yilmaz’s work sheds important new light on the politics of immigration and is particularly effective in showing how immigration politics has restructured the basic ways in which social and political interests are conceived in Europe. Beyond the issue of immigration, Yilmaz makes important interventions in theoretical and methodological discussions about political discourse and ‘ideological hegemony.’ This important book will make a real impact and will be widely read, both as a statement about contemporary European politics and as a statement about how to study discourse and political power.”—Daniel C. Hallin, University of California–San Diego
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University of California Press They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields Injury
Book SynopsisTakes the reader on a tour of the melon and corn harvesting fields of California's Central Valley to understand why farmworkers suffer heatstroke and chronic illness at rates higher than workers in any other industry. The author documents in detail how a tightly interwoven web of public policies and private interests create needless suffering.Trade Review"Horton keenly advocates for measures to remedy farmworkers' health, such as ending policies of agricultural exceptionalism, reforming the health care and immigration systems, and promoting labor policies to improve farmworkers' health." * CHOICE *"Captivating... Horton’s book comes at a critical moment to enter into discussions about undocumented migration in the US. It represents a substantial contribution to exposing the hidden reality of migrant farmworkers’ stressful lives, and also highlights potential areas of policy and law reform. Her in-depth analysis of the legal, historical, and cultural causes of migrant exploitation makes her work a relevant and eye-opening read for anyone who consumes produce in the US." * Border Criminologies *"They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields will become an essential text in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. Horton has made a clear theoretical contribution to the academic fields of anthropology, the social sciences, public health, and immigration studies, and her captivating narrative will appeal to the larger general public interested in migrant health...Horton’s analysis of the structural violence experienced by undocumented farmworkers will draw a wide readership and bring much-deserved attention to this marginalized and exploited population." * American Ethnologist *"Sarah Horton’s book is a strong reminder of why and how we should be doing ethnography in solidarity with the communities we research and write about." * Anthropology of Work Review *"An excellent example of how to successfully produce engaged ethnographic writing that grapples with concerns of positionality, enhances empathy for vulnerable populations, and makes anthropological theory accessible to a broader readership, all of which is no easy feat." * American Anthropologist *"Horton’s work provides a platform from which people not only lend their voice but also employ their power to promote strategies for change." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Burning Up: Heat Illness in California’s Fields 2. Entering Farm Work: Migration and Men’s Work Identities 3. Ghost Workers: The Labor Consequences of Identity Loan 4. Presión Alta: The Physiological Toll of Farm Work 5. Álvaro’s Casket: Heat Illness and Chronic Disease at Work 6. Desabilitado: Kidney Disease and the Disability- Assistance Hole Conclusion: Strategies for Change Appendix A. On Engaged Anthropology and Ethnographic Writing Appendix B. Methods Appendix C. Core Research Participants Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press Immigration Economics
Book SynopsisNearly 3% of the world’s population no longer live in the country where they were born. George Borjas synthesizes the theories, models, and econometric methods used to identify the causes and consequences of international labor flows, and lays out with clarity a full spectrum of topics with crucial implications for framing debates over immigration.Trade ReviewThis excellent book is crisply and clearly written and makes a significant contribution to the fields of labor and immigration economics. It will be a go-to resource on immigration for many years to come. -- Gordon H. Hanson, University of California, San DiegoThis book is an excellent synthesis of a diverse set of theory and empirical work on immigration. It is well organized, with early chapters doing a good job of setting up the later ones. I have never seen a better job of bringing together such diverse topics as assimilation, selection, and labor market impacts. The author has done an effective job of simplifying the theories down to their essences; and developing equations that make the theories’ implications plain to see with simple algebra, often accompanied by a clear figure. It will be accessible and interest-provoking to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. -- Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College
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Princeton University Press Foreign Relations American Immigration in Global
Book SynopsisHistories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign Relations takes a comprehensive look at the linksTrade ReviewWinner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society "Gabaccia's book is a rare treat for immigration scholars. She takes the hackneyed idea that U.S. immigration policy reflects U.S. domestic policy exclusively and turns it on its head, demanding that readers reframe immigration debates as U.S. foreign relations and, more specifically, trade relations... The book would be an excellent teaching tool to explain how to challenge what scholars assume that they know."--Choice "By deftly weaving the stories of individuals and families into her discussion--not so much as illustrations of a generalized story as the basic elements of this story--Gabaccia has opened new windows onto the history of American immigration."--Orm Overland, Journal of American History "[T]he book's expansive connections and extensive research signal its author as an impressive senior scholar in the field."--Deborah Cohen, Diplomatic History "[T]he book is an excellent summary of U.S. migration history (for which Gabaccia's strength is well known) and a courageous, insightful exploration of America's international history. In laying out the analysis concisely she not only expands migration history but provides a model for linking historical fields together. In so doing, she also expands the methodology of world history."--Patrick Manning, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Isolated or Independent? American Immigration before 1850 24 Chapter 2: Empire and the Discovery of Immigrant Foreign Relations, 1850-1924 70 Chapter 3: Immigration and Restriction: Protection in a Dangerous World, 1850-1965 122 Chapter 4: Immigration and Globalization, 1965 to the Present 176 Conclusion: "The Inalienable Right of Man to Change His Home and Allegiance" 222 Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading 235 Notes 247 Index 263
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John Wiley & Sons Liberating Temporariness
Book SynopsisAn in-depth and wide-ranging critique and analysis of the rising tide of temporariness in political and social life.Trade Review"Liberating Temporariness? is a high valuable and original intervention in the field of migration studies, with important resonances for a number of other research fields." Sandro Mezzadra, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna
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John Wiley & Sons So Rugged and Mountainous
Book SynopsisThis sweeping series describes how the “Road across the Plains” transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that overland emigration would not have been possible without the cooperation of Native peoples and tribes, it places American Indians at the centre of trail history, not on its margins.Trade ReviewUsing a wealth of primary sources, Will Bagley's carefully researched and well-written history is, in a word, magisterial. . . . He notes that the year 1846 was a watershed, and his chapter devoted to it represents some of the finest western geopolitical history ever written."" - Richard Francaviglia, Pacific Historical Review""This large-scale work is a detailed description of the great overland migrations in response to the California gold discoveries. It is a vast canvas, commensurate with the numbers of people and the landscape across which they moved. The panorama of moving stories, superbly told in the words of the participants, develops as a corrective to the history of the overland trails as a heroic epic of progress. Bagley's account, in contrast, gives full attention to the dark side of these experiences, summed up as ""untold suffering, sacrifice, and sorrow."" With Golden Visions Bright Before Them will become the new standard for historians of the great overland trails at mid-century."" - Malcolm Rohrbough, author of Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Lincoln and the Immigrant
Book SynopsisIn this succinct study, Jason Silverman investigates Abraham Lincoln's evolving personal, professional, and political relationship with the wide variety of immigrant groups he encountered throughout his life, revealing that Lincoln related to the immigrant in a manner few of his contemporaries would or could emulate.Trade ReviewWhile the national debate over immigration may seem like a strictly 21st century conversation, Lincoln and the Immigrant reveals that it has always been part of our cultural identity. Lincoln took a stand for immigrants at a time when they were particularly misunderstood and undervalued, and by welcoming them into our nation, the United States gained from their skills, work ethic, and ingenuity for generations." - Murthy Law Firm "Two subjects of enduring interest to all who study the American past are the history of immigration and the political ideology of Abraham Lincoln. Until now, no book-length study has examined these subjects together. Silverman's inspired idea was to consider them as related parts of the same story. He shows us not only how Lincoln interacted with individual immigrants from many backgrounds but also what he thought about the larger significance of immigration as a theme in American life and its relationship to freedom, economic growth, and social opportunity. The result is a compelling interpretation of nineteenth-century American history with important implications for our understanding of diversity today and for the prospects of American democracy in the century to come." - Kevin Kenny, professor of history, Boston College "In this excellent untold story, Silverman narrates Abraham Lincoln's politics on and interactions with the foreign-born in his time. Lincoln never denied the right of immigrants - most of them poor, as he was in his youth - to rise as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and which he did himself. They would become Lincoln's supporters and fight for the Union. This is a tale worth telling, and Silverman does so exceedingly well." - Frank J. Williams, founding chair of the Lincoln Forum"Despite the enormous number of books that have been written about Abraham Lincoln, there has never been a full-length study about Lincoln's views on immigration. Silverman admirably fills this gap in the literature with his well-written and thoughtful study, demonstrating once again that an imaginative scholar can still provide new information about our sixteenth president. Highly recommended, not only for what it reveals about Lincoln's ideas on immigration but also for the insights provided to twenty-first-century Americans who wrestle with similar immigration issues." - Thomas R. Turner, editor of the Lincoln Herald "A learned, prodigiously researched, and engagingly written contribution to our understanding of this important subject." - Bruce Levine, J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Jason Silverman has written a short, scholarly, and eminently readable book . . . that examines Lincoln's personal relationships with immigrants, his integration of the immigrant into his understanding of the Declaration of Independence, and his practical political handling of immigrant communities. . . . It can easily be read in a few nights, yet it will leave you thinking for weeks." - Patrick Young, Long Island Wins"Jason Silverman has provided a succinct overview of Abraham Lincoln's views and relationships with immigrants from his years as a young adult in Springfield to his term as president...No other book focuses exclusively on Lincoln and immigration." - Bruce Bieglow, The Annals of Iowa"Lincoln and the Immigrant is a timely book. Its slim size, engaging prose, and poignant anecdotes make it an ideal selection for teachers, scholars, and general readers seeking to historicize current debates over religious tolerance, citizenship, and immigrants' role in the United States economy. Those who choose to do so by assigning or reading for themselves, Silverman's book will be richly rewarded." - Ian Delahanty, Springfield College (MA)"Jason H. Silverman focuses on a topic that Lincoln considered vitally important and one that remains timely for Americans today. He is the first historian to connect Lincoln's attitudes toward foreigners and his evolving political ideology. . . . Lincoln believed that all Americans-including white immigrants and black slaves-deserved the fruit of their labor and the chance to rise in life. . . . Silverman credits Lincoln with recognizing 'the folly of racism and nativism in the face of the promise of equality." - John David Smith, Charlotte Observer "Silverman argues . . . that Lincoln believed that no person should be denied inalienable rights as stated in the Declaration of Independence and that the country should welcome people so long as they were willing to work. . . . Silverman has written an insightful book about how Lincoln, whom many consider America's greatest president, addressed an issue that was every bit as perplexing in his day as it is in ours." - Terry Plumb, The Herald "Silverman covers Lincoln's interactions with foreign-born Americans and his positions on policies that affected their lives. The writing is sharp and engaging, the details revealing, and Silverman's insights interesting." - Alison Clark Efford, Civil War Monitor "a worthy addition to any Lincoln library collection." - Charles H. Bogart, Civil War News Book Review Table of Contents Contents Introduction 1. Uncertainty: A Clash of Images 2. Awakening: Coming of Age in Springfield 3. Enlightenment: Keeping Afloat in the Era of Know Nothings 4. Wisdom: Whig in the White House 5. Certainty: The Great Emancipator or the Great Egalitarian? Acknowledgments Notes Index
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni The Irish in Illinois
Book SynopsisToday over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. This concise narrative history brings together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State.Trade ReviewA concise and comprehensive history of the Irish in a state where they have had an enormous impact. The richly illustrated engaging narrative is accompanied by a range of vignettes that help the story come alive. This is an absorbing book for the lay reader, as well as a useful text for students of Illinois history." —James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City"Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell have done a magnificent job of combining primary research with a wealth of secondary material to produce an erudite and absorbing portrait of the Irish in Illinois from the mid-eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. The Irish in Illinois is a comprehensive and engaging book that should be read by everyone with an interest in Irish America, Illinois, or Chicago." —Gillian O'Brien, author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago"This is an engaging account of the Irish and Illinois history. While Chicago predominates, Billings and Farrell have crafted a compelling story of the Irish role in shaping the region since European exploration and settlement of the state." —Eileen M. McMahon, author of What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Parish Community and Race Relations, 1916–1970"This is a concise but very smart and rich history of the Irish in Illinois. It is particularly insightful in its treatment of the Illinois Irish in the early nineteenth century as well as their experiences downstate throughout the two or more centuries of their settlement in the state. It makes a fresh and critically important contribution not just to the history of Illinois or to the story of the Irish there but to our understanding of the broader history of the Irish in America." —Timothy Meagher, author of Inventing Irish America"This well-researched and well-written book highlights the richness and the diversity of Irish immigrants and Irish American life in Illinois from the colonial era to the present. Billings and Farrell have provided a comprehensive analysis of the large Irish American community in Chicago but also have shown us the significance of the Irish outside the Windy City. It will be a role model for other state studies of the Irish in America." —David T. Gleeson, author of The Irish in the South, 1815–1877Table of Contents List Of Maps And Illustrations List Of Biographical And Issue Entries Introduction 1. From Imperial Soldiers To Prairie Patriots: The Irish In The Illinois Country, 1750-1818 2. From Irish Exiles To Paddy Politicians, 1818-1865 3. At The Forefront Of The Multi-Ethnic City: The Irish In Chicago, 1865-1933 4. Beyond The South Side: The Irish Of Downstate Illinois, 1865-1960 5. A South Side Empire? Irish Chicago, 1933-1983 Conclusion: Irish Identities In Contemporary Illinois For Further Reading Bibliography
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Becoming American
Book SynopsisA unique study in American immigration and assimilation history that also provides a special view of one of the smaller ethnic groups in American society. Naff focuses on the pre-World War I pioneering generation of Arabic-speaking immigrants, the generation that set the patterns for settlement and assimilation.Trade Review""I found Becoming American spellbinding and could not put it down until I finished it.""Farah Gilanshah, MESA Bulletin|""With scholarly devotion, Alixa Naff reconstructs this sparsely documented history [of Arab immigrants from the Syrian and Lebanese segments of the Ottoman Empire] mainly from interviews with second-generation Arabs who provide vivid if somewhat nostalgic recollections of their parents’ heroic application of the Levantine work ethic to the not-dissimilar American way of life.""John D. Yohannan, New York Times|""The best single volume about perhaps 150,000 immigrants largely from what is now Lebanon who came before World War II. Although many Americans . . . write as if the words Arab and Muslim were synonymous, some 85 percent of these people were Christians.""Roger Daniels, Journal of the West""With special emphasis on the period 1880 to 1920, and on the role of pack peddling on the economic mobility and acculturation of the pioneer Arab Americans, Alixa Naff’s work is among the most comprehensive and interesting studies available on the history of Arab ethnicity in the U.S.""Helen Hatab Samhan, Middle East Journal""The importance of women’s economic roles as peddlers and later as shopkeepers is emphasized. . . [Becoming American] is a significant contribution to the literature on ethnic enterprise and on immigrant women.""Maxine S. Sellers, American Historical ReviewA masterly piece of writing, which is structured firmly on research findings and original personal interviews, and which glows with intuitive understanding and scholarly interpretation and conclusions. It constitutes a highly significant contribution to the history of the Syrian-Lebanese community in the United States.”Dr. Afif Tannous
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MW - Rutgers University Press Constituting Central AmericanAmericans
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education "Maritza Cardenas’s deeply engaging book provides an authoritative account of the reimagination of Central America by those displaced subjects presently ensnared in US immigration politics, and still seeking validation in their new home. Her examination of the diasporic nostalgia of US Central American cultural practices traces a complex history dating back to the nineteenth century. Cardenas has written the best explanation I have ever read of these thorny issues now at the center of present-day national politics. This book is certainly an academic tour de force."— Arturo Arias, author of After the Bombs and Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America "Constituting Central American-Americans breaks new ground and brings new insights to the fields of Latinx studies and ethnic studies."— American Literary History "Maritza E. Cárdenas’ Constituting Central American-Americans offers an exploration of the complexities of Central American imaginaries, both within the isthmus and within the U.S. diaspora, that is both instructional and revitalizing."— Latino Studies "Constituting Central American-Americans represents an important, well-theorized intervention in Latina/o Studies by challenging the erasure of Central Americans by their Latino counterparts and the broader mainstream culture in the United States."— Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries “This book is a must read for Latinx Studies scholars. Lucidly written, it offers us multiple cultural and discursive approaches from which to understand the collective centrality of Central Americans in the diaspora, their transnationalities, the politics of recognition and de-recognition, and the relationalities to hegemonic Mexicanidades. Maritza Cárdenas argues for a more complicated understanding of Central American Americans as new diasporic ethnic sociocultural subjects in the United States. I most welcomed the author’s relational analysis of Central Americans passing for Mexican in Los Angeles, one that sets a high bar for future studies of interlatino/a power differentials and horizontal hierarchies.”— Frances Aparicio, coauthor Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume ITable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Isthmus Imaginary: La Patria Grande Centroaméricana 1. Remembering La Patria Grande: Locating the Nation in Central American History 2. Constructing the Central American National Imaginary Part II: The US Diaspora: Little Central America 3. Performing Centralamericanismo: Heterotopias and Transnational Identities at the COFECA Parade 4. Subjects in Passing: Central American-Americans, Latinidad, and the Politics of Dislocation Epilogue: La Bestia and Beyond: Migration and the Politics of Mourning Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Bound for Work Labor Mobility and Colonial Rule
Book SynopsisDiverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that individuals - under more or less coercive circumstances - engaged in over the course of their lives.
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John Wiley & Sons Ottoman Passports Security and Geographic
Book SynopsisReconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through the lens of mobility restrictions during the late Ottoman Empire. The book investigates how Ottoman security perceptions and travel regulations were directly linked to transnational security regimes battling against anarchism.Trade ReviewA very important book that fills a significant lacuna in our field. It is the product of meticulous labor in the archives and contains a great deal of previously unknown information." - Taner Akçam, Director of Armenian Genocide Research Program, UCLA
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Politics Culture and the Irish American Press
Book SynopsisOffering a fresh perspective, this volume traces the rich history of the Irish American diaspora press, uncovering the ways in which a lively print culture forged significant cultural, political, and even economic bonds between the Irish living in America and the Irish living in Ireland.Trade ReviewThe wide range and scope of subjects covered provides readers with a diverse and nuanced view of the role of the press in shaping the Irish American experience. This book demonstrates the significance of the global Irish by arguing for their contribution in universalizing the experience of a people seeking freedom and justice against a colonial oppressor world-wide. The book highlights both notable individuals and significant publications, and it illuminates the role of Irish-American journalists in some of the key tests of press freedom in the early years of the United States.
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ME - Fordham University Press Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return
Book SynopsisThrough the rendering of Catholic Church migration’s debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labor and sexuality at the heart of Catholicism in Europe.Trade Review"In Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return, Valentina Napolitano offers her readers a complex portrait of the diasporic world of trans-Atlantic Catholicism, told through the stories of particular Latin American immigrant communities in Rome. Napolitano is singularly positioned to perform the ethnographic work that underlies this study, and she has written a moving account that contributes to the growing field of the anthropology of Christianity and that will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists, religionists, students of migration and globalization, and women's and gender studies scholars." -- -Elizabeth Castelli Barnard College "Napolitano's book is a rich ethnography of the historically fraught relationship between the Vatican and its Latin American flock. In this moment of heightened anxiety about immigration and shrinking church following in Europe, Napolitano deftly tracks the fissure between communitas and otherness that haunts European Catholicism today. Told through the lives of Latin American immigrants to Italy, this wonderful book shows us what it means to live a faith that is losing hold of its civilizational mission." -- -Saba Mahmood University of California, Berkeley "...the project of injecting Catholic realities into the burgeoning field of the anthropology of Christianity is vital, and Migrant Hearts demonstrates the kind of sophisticated studies it can produce." -MarginaliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Catholic Humanitas 1. Migrant Terrains in Italy and Rome 2. The "Culture of Life" and Migrant Pedagogies 3. The Legionaries of Christ and the Passionate Machine 4. Migrant Hearts 5. The Virgin of Guadalupe: A Nexus of Affects 6. Enwalled: Translocality, Intimacies, and Gendered Subjectivity Epilogue Notes References Index
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Flight from Chile An Oral History of Exile
Book SynopsisDuring the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed Pinochet’s coup, people began fleeing Chile. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives.Trade ReviewA compelling and moving account."—Marjorie Agosín, author of Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994Table of Contents Introduction Translator's Introduction Acknowledgments Chapter One. The Diaspora in Context: Chilean Politics, 1970-1994 Chapter Two. Prelude to Exile: The Military Coup Chapter Three. Paths to Exile Chapter Four. Resistance and Exile Chapter Five. The Diaspora: Exile on Four Continents Chapter Six. The Diaspora: Exile in Western Europe Chapter Seven. Political Life in Exile: Fighting the Dictatorship from Afar Chapter Eight. Exilesʼ Return, 1978-1988: Struggle on Many Fronts Chapter Nine. Return to a New Exile, 1988-1994 Selected Bibliography List of Interviews Index
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Gifts from Amin Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada
Book SynopsisThe first major oral history project dedicated to the stories of Ugandan Asian refugees in Canada, Gifts from Amin explores the historical context of their expulsion from Uganda, the multiple motivations behind Canada’s decision to admit them, and their resilience over the past fifty years.Table of Contents Introduction Ch 1: Exploring the Historical Roots of the Expulsion Decree Ch 2: Dreams and Reality: Amin’s Expulsion Decree and the International Community’s Response Ch 3: “Thank you, Pierre”: Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1970s and the Decision to Admit Ugandan Asian Expellees Ch 4: “His Dream Became My Nightmare”: Canadian Operations and Life in Uganda during the 90-day Expulsion Period Ch 5: “An Honourable Place”: Establishing New Roots in Canada and Evaluating Resettlement Initiative Ch 6: From Refugees to Citizens: Integration, Commemoration, and Identities in Canada Conclusion: Gifts that Keep on Giving: Ugandan Asian Canadians in the 21st Century
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Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook on Border Criminology
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Migrants Markets and Mayors
Book SynopsisIn a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labour markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on national household surveys and four secondary city case studies in Africa, this report finds that migrants can strengthen the urban labor force.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Shadow of El Centro A History of Migrant
Book SynopsisIn 1945, El Centro, California became home to the El Centro Immigration Detention Camp. The Shadow of El Centro tells the story of how that camp evolved into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center of the 2000s and became a national model for detaining migrants.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Closing the Golden Door Asian Migration and the
Book SynopsisIn popular memory, Ellis Island is typically seen as a gateway for Europeans seeking to join the ‘great American melting pot’. But as this fresh examination of Ellis Island's history reveals, it was also a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travellers and maritime labourers.
£70.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Suffer the Little Children Child Migration and
Book SynopsisIn this affecting and innovative global history - starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the US southern border - Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children.
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The University of North Carolina Press Landscapes of Care
Book SynopsisAn insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States.
£18.00
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Detention Empire Reagans War on Immigrants and
Book SynopsisUsing newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of US war-making and domestic carceral trends. Drawing on refugee studies, community archives, protest artifacts, and oral histories, this book also shows how migrants resisted state repression.
£26.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Nursing and Empire Gendered Labor and Migration
Book SynopsisIn this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British and US imperialism.
£31.96
The University of North Carolina Press Landscapes of Care
Book SynopsisAn insightful work on rural health in the United States that examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States.
£73.80
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conscripts of Migration Neoliberal Globalization
Book SynopsisProvides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Memories of Africa
Book SynopsisMemories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the experiences of African migrants over time through political, social, and cultural spheres. In reading African diaspora memoirs from the transatlantic slave trade period to the present, a reader can understand the complexity of the African migrant legacy and evolution.Author Toyin Falola argues that memoirs are significant not only in their interpretation of events conveyed by the memoirists but also in demonstrating how interpersonal and human the stories told can be. Memoirs are powerful because they are emotionally captivating and because important themes and events circulate aroun
£23.70
University Press of Mississippi Visions of Invasion
Book SynopsisVisions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael Lechuga focuses on three arenas where a citizenship control assemblage manufactures alienhood: Hollywood extraterrestrial invasion film, federal antimigration and border security legislation, and various immigration enforcement protocols implemented along the Mexico-United States border. Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, Visions of Invasion offers a glimpse at how the processes of alien-making contribute to an ongoing settler colonial project in the US. Lechuga demonstrates that popular films--The War of the Worlds, Predator, Men in Black, and more--participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vi
£72.89
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Emanuel Celler Immigration and Civil Rights
Book SynopsisCongressman Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) was a New York City congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1973. In Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion, author Wayne Dawkins introduces new readers to a figure integral to America’s contemporary political system.
£81.75
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Child Migration Family and Immigration Laws
Book SynopsisKathryn Cronin is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers, a former academic and law commissioner, highly ranked in respect of her extensive experience in case and advisory practice in immigration and international family law.Jemma Dally is a partner and co-owner of Goodman Ray and is the firm's Head of International Family Law. She is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Adoption and Private Law and ranked by Chambers and Partners for her practice in adoption and surrogacy.Claudia Neale is the legal researcher at Garden Court Chambers and previously practised as a barrister, specialising in immigration and asylum law. She has co-authored several legal texts on immigration law, and has worked extensively with Albanian asylum-seeking children and young people.
£123.50
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Migrant Workers and the City: Generation Now
Book SynopsisAwarded the Excellent Copyright Output Award by the Chinese Publishers Association.Fascinating…a must-read for academics, students and a general public interested in the situation of rural migrants in China. - Raúl Delgado WiseToday China has the second largest economy in the world. The largest human migration in history has fueled this rapid growth as people move from the countryside to work in China's fast growing industrial cities. But China is changing. Today’s migrants from the countryside are a world apart from their fathers and grandfathers who made the same journeys to the metropolis in search of work decades before them. The older generation made the journey with every expectation of returning to the countryside once they had made some money. Todays generation, better educated and connected by technology, expects higher wages from working in cities than is the reality. These workers do not want to return home to work on the farm, so they frequently take employment that is precarious and poorly paid.In this refreshingly open and enlightening book we hear the stories and hopes for the future from the people who live in the basements of cities across China.
£24.26
Temple University Press,U.S. Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim
Book SynopsisAs wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding the currents of a neoliberal wave, these immigrants became the center of vigorous public controversies around planning, home building, multiculturalism, and the future of Vancouver. Because of their class status and their financial capacity to remake space in their own ways, they became the key to a reshaping of Vancouver through struggles that are necessarily both global and local in context, involving global-real estate enterprises, the Canadian state, city residents, and others. In her examination of the story of the integration of transnational migrants from Hong Kong, Katharyne Mitchell draws out the myriad ways in which liberalism is profoundly spatial, varying greatly depending on the geographical context. In doing so, Mitchell shows why understanding the historically and geographically contingent nature of liberal thought and practice is crucial, particularly as we strive to understand the ongoing societies' transition to neoliberalism. Author note: Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography and the Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities at the University of Washington.Trade Review"[A] fascinating account .What is particularly interesting about Mitchell's work is her nuanced analysis of the crosscutting of class and 'racial' alliances that emerged.[T]his is an excellent read that historians, sociologists and geographers will find very useful." The Canadian Historical Review "The chapters of the book build skillfully on each other to create a coherently structured and generally well-argued thesis..[Crossing the Neoliberal Line is] outstanding in its attempt to inform, through grounded empirical research, some of the key social and political issues facing Western liberal democracies over the past two decades. It is essential reading for all with a broad interest in contemporary immigration in the West as well as those with a more particular interest in the urban consequences of transnational, transpacific forms of mobility." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers "A notable achievement of Katharyne Mitchell's book is to employ a sophisticated political economy while simultaneously avoiding many of the dangers of abstraction, for her grounded study of immigrant and capital flows between Hong Kong and Vancouver is attentive to the multi-layering of place and to multiple causes...Mitchell provides a compelling story...the empirical account is interwoven with illuminating theoretical materials, placing local events into broader conceptual territory. The interpretation that emerges is bold and frequently insightful...This is an impressive book that invites debate...It will generate stimulating seminar discussion and amply deserves a broad reading." Ethnic and Racial Studies "In this elegantly written study. .Mitchell does a wonderful job of challenging the reader to question what he or she really believes in terms of social liberalism, neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and many of the other 'isms' prevalent in contemporary social science literature. One walks away from this book with a new appreciation for how there are no easy assessments of the costs and benefits of, and implications of globalization for, the urban milieu." Environment and Planning A "analytically rich, empirically detailed and ethnographically grounded - Crossing the Neo-Liberal Line is a major accomplishment: the text is accessible, theoretically sophisticated, well documented, and grounded in an in-depth and complex understanding of social change and urban politics in Vancouver. Katharyne Mitchell is to be commended for writing an insightful book that deserves to be widely read." The Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "Crossing the Neoliberal Line is a beautifully written and analytically rich book. Katharyne Mitchell's innovative spatial ethnography sheds important light on the politics of racial formation, neighborhood transformation, and multiculturalism in Vancouver. She shows how the networks and practices of middle-class and wealthy Chinese transnational migrants to this Pacific Rim metropolis have interrupted and complicated constructions of 'home,' 'citizenship,' and 'cultural difference.' Her book is a pleasure to read and makes an important contribution to urban and transnational studies." --Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis, and author of Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization "A vivid account of the rise of a Pacific Rim city, Katharyne Mitchell's ethnography of transnational migration and urban change in Vancouver demonstrates how both social liberalism and neoliberalism are constituted in 'actually existing' spaces by real people. Theoretically rigorous and empirically rich, scholars of neoliberalism, globalization, transnationalism, and multiculturalism should all read this fascinating book." --Wendy Larner, Sociology, University of Auckland "In this lucid and compelling 'spatial ethnography,' Katharyne Mitchell wrestles the ideology of neoliberal globalism to earth. In the process, this innovative and theoretically rich book takes the debate on neoliberalism to a new place, exposing the subtle intersections between social liberalism and market fundamentalism in the real, lived spaces of the city." --Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This is a book you will want to read cover to cover--and indeed we did. While we were already familiar with some of the empirical cases from previous articles, it held our attention with its theoretical sophistication and engaging and lucid writing style...Mitchell is an exceptionally gifted scholar who, as this book shows, brings considerable theoretical insights to questions of how space is implicated in contemporary processes of neoliberalization, globalization, and transformations of narratives of nation and citizenship. She shows an excellent understanding of the coimplication of these processes, a deep empirical knowledge of shifts in these processes, and a talent for writing a compelling and engaging narrative that is rare among geographers." Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Neo/Liberal Disjunctures 2. Vancouver Goes Global 3. The Spatial Logic and Limits of Multiculturalism 4. Disturbing the Liberal Territory of Land Governance 5. Domesticity, Race, and Uncanny Homes 6. Conclusion: The Urban Spatial Politics of Liberal Formations Notes Bibliography Index
£21.97
Kent State University Press Translation and Time: Migration, Culture, and
Book SynopsisEssays exploring the effect of time on translation studies.This volume brings together 12 essays on the relation between temporality and translation, engaging in both theoretical reflection and consideration of concrete case studies. The essays can be read independently, but three major themes run through them and facilitate a discussion about the many ways in which the theoretical and practical consideration of temporality may provide new insights and research directions for translation studies.The first main theme is temporal metaphors for translation. Why do so few metaphors that describe translation relate to time? How have the few metaphors relating to time that have been used impacted the development of the field? What new metaphors might be useful?The second theme is the relation between translation and modernity as a new experience of temporality. In China, as in many countries outside Europe, the passage to modernity has been inextricably bound up in the act of translation, either of European texts into Chinese as a way of "importing" modernity or the translation of Chinese texts into European languages as a gauge of quality and a sign that China has become modern.Third is the translation of temporality and the competing temporalities of source and target texts. How are the nuances of temporality translated, and how do any shifts that occur affect the meaning of the translation? Different cultures have different concepts of time; Nida famously gave the example of a South American language where the past is seen as existing in front of a person while the future is behind them, because they know ("see") the past but cannot know the future. Several essays engage with these and related issues.
£999.99
University of South Carolina Press The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina,
Book SynopsisThe Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when calamity, violence, and ruthless exploitation were commonplace. With extraordinary detail and analysis, John J. Navin reveals the hardships that were experienced by people of all ethnicities and all stations in life during the first half-century of South Carolina's existence--years of misery caused by nature, pathogens, greed, and recklessness. From South Carolina's founding in 1670 through 1720, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber Products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The Settlers' relentless pursuit of wealth Set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labor. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony's first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by Settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority. Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, Setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the Price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.
£39.91
University of South Carolina Press How to Become an American: A History of
Book SynopsisAn odyssey from pre–Civil War Charleston to post–World War II Minneapolis through immigrants' eyesThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities. Many arrived earlier and some migrated south and west, fanning out into their vast new country. They sought a renewed life, fresh prospects, and a safe harbor, despite a nation that was not always welcoming and not always tolerant. How to Become an American begins with a widow's abandoned diary—and from there author Daniel Wolff examines the sweeping history of immigration into the United States through the experiences of one unnamed, seemingly unremarkable Jewish family, and, in the process, makes their lives remarkable. It is a deeply human odyssey that journeys from pre–Civil War Charleston, South Carolina, to post–World War II Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some ways, the family's journey parallels that of the nation, as it struggled to define itself through the Industrial Age. A persistent strain of loneliness permeates this story, and Wolff holds up this theme for contemplation. In a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants," where "all men are created equal," why do we end up feeling alone in the land we love?
£19.76
University of Delaware Press Black Powder, White Lace: The du Pont Irish and
Book SynopsisTwenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer.Table of ContentsPreface to the Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments to the Anniversary Edition Introduction 1 Mutual Interests 2 The Ties That Bind 3 A Distinctive Faith 4 The Bean a Ti (Woman of the House) 5 Habitations 6 All the Goods and Chattels 7 Porches, Yards, Gardens, Fences 8 Linen Tablecloths and Lace Curtains Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
University of South Carolina Press The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina,
Book SynopsisThe Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when calamity, violence, and ruthless exploitation were commonplace. With extraordinary detail and analysis, John J. Navin reveals the hardships that were experienced by people of all ethnicities and all stations in life during the first half-century of South Carolina's existence—years of misery caused by nature, pathogens, greed, and recklessness. From South Carolina's founding in 1670 through 1720, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The settlers' relentless pursuit of wealth set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labour. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony's first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority. Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.
£22.46
