Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisThe past few decades have witnessed a proliferation of economic sanctions, yet there seem to be few examples of sanctions meeting sender states' goals. Under what conditions do sanctions fail to change the behavior of so-called international pariah states, countries who violate various international norms? This book examines the impact of economic sanctions on target states' trading relationships through social network analysis, a method that has rarely been applied to the study of sanctions. Drawing on UN Comtrade data, Trading with Pariahs: Trade Networks and the Failure of Economic Sanctions shows that the imposition of sanctions can drastically change some states' trading networks, as states either find new trading partners (in the case of North Korea) or feel the sting of the sanctions from key trading partners (like Iran). Trading networks (such as Myanmar's) remain relatively stable over time as key trading partners refuse to impose sanctions. Through the theory of weaponized interdependence, Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis argue that the success or failure of sanctions to change target states' behavior depends on who imposes the sanctions. Sanctions imposed by the right sender states can be successful but also cannot rely solely on policies of isolation to achieve the goals of the sanctions.

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Book SynopsisFew places are more revealing than the Alps to grasp the uneven EU core-periphery dynamics intrinsic to the EU border regime. In 2015, the reintroduction of controls at northern Italian borders, as a response to asylum seekers' mobility, gave rise to a series of conflicts, contradictions and solidarities which this book explores. By contextualizing the governance of borders and migration in a broader framework, which includes the governance of EU states' debt, the book focuses on the effects of border regimes not only on migrants but also on EU societies. The ethnographic analysis of the everyday life of the French/Italian and Austrian/Italian borders makes visible the impacts of governance strategies which promote social polarization to contain potentially subversive moments of disruptions and transgressions. In particular, the book aims to challenge the idea of a supposed lack of morality of all non-white migration facilitators (derogatorily called passeurs), in contrast to white facilitators' ethical and political commitments; and the supposed incompatibility between white workers supporting reactionary populism and the New Left's Welcome Culture.

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Book SynopsisAngela Dew is discipline lead for the disability and inclusion team at Deakin University.

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Book SynopsisGeorgina Chami is lecturer in the Institute of International Relation at University of the West Indies.Christopher M. Brown is assistant professor of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Southern University.Nalanda Roy is professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Georgia Southern University.

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Book SynopsisKyeyoung Park is professor and the Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair in Korean American Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

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Book SynopsisFranz Boas in Translation is the ultimate study of the legendary anthropologist Franz Boas and his work on the American Northwest. This groundbreaking study analyses what Boas did with local Native American legends passed down by the region's tribal groups. Three translations, originally published in 1888 and 1895, are presented here and constitute Boas's early attempts to define the cultural history of Pacific Northwest tribes. Using definitive plots, details, and incidents from a large collection of myths, comparative myths from other indigenous cultures, and a statistical method of multivariant analysis, Boas not only defined the historical relations of the regional tribes but also the role of diffusion in those relations.

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Book SynopsisItalian Culture in America: The Immigrants describes the nationwide anti-Italian discrimination, and often violent retribution, experienced by millions of immigrants during the formative years of an industrializing United States, from 1880 to 1930. This carefully presented work reveals the presence of Italian culture provided by hardworking, family-oriented Italians who bravely left their homeland in search of opportunity in America. Looking to his own Italian heritage, Giordano identifies so many of the "taken for granted" aspects of American life that have distinct Italian roots. Many creative innovations include banking, radio, the telephone, aeronautics, entertainment, and even the Statue of Liberty, among dozens of others. The study establishes that negative media stereotypes created by Hollywood are misunderstood and very often purely fictitious. In contrast, Giordano unfolds a factual story documenting the growing assimilation by Italians ingrained within all aspects of American culture. Italian Culture in America: The Immigrants will certainly fascinate those interested in Italian-American history. It will also help tell the story of all immigrants who entered and settled in the United States.

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the experiences of São Paulo's working class during Brazil's Old Republic (1891–1930), showing how individuals and families adapted to forces and events such as urbanization, discrimination, migration, and World War I. In this unique study, Ball combines social and economic methods to present a robust historical analysis of everyday life along racial, ethnic, national, and gender lines.Drawing from both statistical data and primary sources such as letters, newspapers, and interview transcripts, Ball demonstrates how the nation's coffee boom drew immigrants from Italy, Portugal, Germany, Lebanon, and northeastern Brazil. She examines the ways these workers responded to inflation; fluctuating immigration patterns; and labor market discrimination, which especially affected Afro-Brazilians, Portuguese, and women. This analysis emphasizes the family-centered nature of immigration to São Paulo in comparison with other immigrant destinations such as Buenos Aires and New York City.Ball's rich scholarship considers how the first World War exacerbated tensions and divisions within São Paulo's working class, which resulted in a deeply segmented labor market by the time Getúlio Vargas came to power in 1930. Shedding light on many reasons why Brazil experienced slower industrial innovation than other countries during this era, Ball provides invaluable context for the region's continued high inequality and sociocultural imbalances.

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Book SynopsisEngendering Transnational Voices examines the transnational practices and identities of immigrant women, youth, and children in an era of global migration and neoliberalism, addressing such topics as family relations, gender and work, schooling, remittances, cultural identities, caring for children and the elderly, inter- and multi-generational relationships, activism, and refugee determination.Expressions of power, resistance, agency, and accommodation in relation to the changing concepts of home, family, and citizenship are explored in both theoretical and empirical essays that critically analyze transnational experiences, discourses, cultural identities, and social spaces of women, youth, and children who come from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; are either first- or second-generation transmigrants; are considered legal or undocumented; and who enter their adopted country as trafficked workers, domestic workers, skilled professionals, or students. The volume gives voice to individual experiences, and focuses on human agency as well as the social, economic, political, and cultural processes inherent in society that enable or disable immigrants to mobilize linkages across national boundaries.Table of Contents Engendering Transnational Voices: Studies in Family, Work, and Identity, edited by Guida Man and Rina Cohen Introduction: Engendering Transnational Voice Rina Cohen and Guida Man Part I: Experiencing Transnational Family Lives 1. Gulf Husbands and Canadian Wives: Transnationalism from Below among South Asiansâ€""A Classed, Gendered, and Racialized Phenomenon Tania Das Gupta 2. Maintaining Families Through Transnational Strategies: The Experience of Mainland Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada Guida Man 3. Intergenerational and Transnational Familyhood in Canada's Technology Triangle Amrita Hari 4. Transnational Family Exchanges in Senior Canadian Immigrant Families Nancy Mandell, Katharine King, Valerie Preston, Natalie Weiser, Ann Kim, and Meg Luxton Part II: Negotiating Transnational Care Work 5. Multidirectional Care in Filipino Families Valerie Francisco 6. Transnationalism and Remittances: The Double-edged Position of Transmigrant Women Engaged in the Domestic Service Sector Patience Elabor-Idemudia 7. Mothering Has No Borders: The Transnational Kinship Networks of Undocumented Jamaican Domestic Workers in Canada Susan M. Brigham 8. Transnational Motherhood: Constructing Intergenerational Relations Between Filipina Migrant Workers and Their Children Rina Cohen Part III: Constructing Transnational Cultural Identities 9. Living Up to Expectations: 2nd and 1.5-Generation Immigrant Students' Pursuit of University Education Leanne Taylor and Carl E. James 10. Family, Religion, and the Re-territorialization of Culture within the South Asian Diaspora Lina Samuel 11. Transnational Activism: An Asian Canadian Case Xiaoping Li Part IV: Contesting Hegemonic Discourses and Reshaping Transnational Social Spaces 12. Structuring Transnationalism: The Mothering Discourse and the Educational Project Ann Kim 13. Producing Refugees and Trafficked Persons: Women, Unaccompanied Minors and Discourses of Criminalized Victimhood Hijin Park 14. Field Correspondence: Exploring the Roots of the Transnational Habitus Christine Hughes 15. Migrant Networks: Peruvian Women (Re)Shaping Social Spaces in Madrid Felipe Rubio Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores how women from a variety of religious and cultural communities have contributed to the richly textured, pluralistic society of Canada. Focusing on women's religiosity, it examines the ways in which they have carried and conserved, and brought forward and transformed their cultures - old and new - in modern Canada. Each essay explores the ways in which the religiosities of women serve as locations for both the assertion and the refashioning of individual and communal identity in transcultural contexts. Three shared assumptions guide these essays: religion plays a dynamic role in the shaping and reshaping of social cultures; women are active participants in their transmission and their transformation; and a focus on women's activities within their religious traditions - often informal and unofficial - provides new perspectives on the intersection of religion, gender, and transnationalism. Since the first European migrations, Canada has been shaped by immigrant communities as they negotiated the tension between preserving their religious and cultural traditions and embracing the new opportunities in their adopted homeland. Viewing those interactions through the lens of women's religiosity, the essays in this collection model an innovative approach and provide new perspectives for students and researchers of Canadian Studies, Religious Studies, and Women's Studies.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Canadian Women Shaping Diasporic Religious Identities, edited by Becky R. Lee and Terry Tak-ling WooSection I: Christianity and Judaism in Newfoundland, Ontario, and Alberta1. ""He's My Best Friend"": Relationality, Materiality, and the Manipulation of Motherhood in Devotion to St Gerard Majella in Newfoundland Marion Bowman2. ""She Couldn't Come to the Table 'til She Was Churched"": Anglican Women, Childbirth, and Embodied Christian Practice in Conception Bay, Newfoundland Bonnie Morgan3. On the Margins of Church and Society: Roman Catholic Feminisms in English-Speaking Canada Becky R. Lee4. Unveiling Leah: Examining Women's Voices in Two Canadian Jewish Worship Services Aviva GoldbergSection II: New Religions in Canada5. Charity Chicks: A Discourse-Analysis of Religious Self-Identification by Rural Canadian Mormon Women Katherine Power6. ""The Whole World Opened Up"": Women in Canadian Theosophy Gillian McCann7. Belief, Identity, and Social Action in the Lives of Bahá'í Women Lynn EchevarriaSection III: South Asian Religions in Southwest Ontario8. Being Hindu in Canada: Experiences of Women Anne Pearson and Preeti Nayak9. Women in Hinduism: Ritual Leadership in the Adhi Parasakthi Temple Society of Canada Nanette Spina

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Little Moth and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.Trade ReviewA deeply felt, compassionate, necessary book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * W.W. Dixon, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter One: The Dorothy Complex Chapter Two: The Red Balloon and Squirt’s Journey: story-telling with child migrants Chapter Three: Once My Mother, Welcome and Le Havre: breath and the child cosmopolitan Chapter Four: Little Moth and The Road: precarity, immobility and inertia Chapter Five: Landscape in the Mist Chapter Six: The Leaving of Liverpool: Empire and religion, poetry and the archive Chapter Seven: Diamonds of the Night Afterword: Where have all the children gone? Endnotes

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Book SynopsisEffective treatment for HIV and AIDS came in 1996. For sufferers in the developed world, this marked a true watershed moment: the end of the death sentence. But for many in the developing world, including in Southeast Asia, these new treatments remained far out of reach. In his early thirties, following the loss of his partner to an AIDS-related illness, Chris Beyrer wrote the first edition of War in the Blood. Three decades later, having served as president of the International AIDS Society, he believes we have arrived at an extraordinary milestone. For the first time, a patient has been demonstrably cured of HIV, new vaccine trials in Thailand have shown great promise, and the PrEP programme genuinely works. So why are over half of the estimated 38.8 million people living with HIV still not on treatment? War in the Blood is a labour of love, both a celebratory account of Southeast Asia and the story of our failure to protect those most vulnerable the world over – gay men, adolescent girls, sex workers, drug users, and transgender women. Beyrer offers an impassioned plea for our communities and governments – and our own hearts and minds – to stop denying the realities of sex, sexuality, and gender, and to take affirmative action.Trade ReviewPart travelogue, part ethnography, with an eye for the details of daily life, Beyrer takes the reader on a journey through the cultural and political contours of contemporary Southeast Asia... skilfully weaves diverse voices into a broad tapestry which includes the political economy of HIV... This informal, engaging book will appeal to a wide audience. * Praise for the First Edition, China Information *Excellent... hard-hitting and clear-sighted... A first-rate book, both scientifically based and written in terms the lay reader can understand. * Praise for the First Edition, South China Morning Post *Beyrer has an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the global HIV epidemic that this book so richly describes. More than any other Western researcher, he understands the cultural and political factors that impact local epidemics. * Adeeba Kamarulzaman, Dean of the University of Malaya Faculty of Medicine *A Powerful testimony to the capacity to unite care with practical action... there is no other equally comprehensive account to match it of the travels of HIV infection through the peoples and landscapes of Asia. * Praise for the First Edition, Jeremy Seabrook *As timely and relevant today as it was when it was first published, telling a deeply personal account of the AIDS epidemic and the people still being left behind. * Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS *Offers honest insights on sex between men, drug use, sex work, and transgender people in Southeast Asia. Chris Beyrer offers pragmatic solutions to inspire a new generation of leaders. * Midnight Poonkasetwattana, Asia-Pacific Community of MSM Organizations (APCOM) *Beyrer writes with the rigour of an outstanding scientist, and the compassion and energy of a tireless advocate. * Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Introduction Part I: Countries 1. Coming into the Region 2. Thailand: The Descending Buddha 3. Burma: Going to Myanmar, Being in Burma 4. Cambodia: AIDs and the Torn Society 5. Laos: Travels in the Cold War 6. Malaysia: Ethnicity, Activism and AIDS 7. Vietnam: Harm Reduction in the Balance 8. Yunnan: China's Southeast Asia Part II: People, Risks 9. Women: Wives, Mothers, Daughters 10. The Flesh Trade: Prostitution and Trafficking in ASEAN 11. Military Studies 12. Chasing the Dragon: Heroin and AIDS 13. Tribes: The Virus that Kills the Gods 14. The Displaced: Migrants, Refugees, IDPs and HIV 15. Other Genders: Katoeys, Waria, Hinjras, Toms and Dees 16. Chaai Chuay Chaai: Men Helping Men 17. Prisons and Prisoners 18. Activists Part III: Relativity and Culture 19. Drugs Wars and the War on Drugs 20. Brethren: HIV, Gay Men, and Prevention Equity 21. Medical Ethics, Human Rights, Asian Values 22. The Proper Study of Mankind 23. Conclusion: Condoms or Landmines

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Book SynopsisThis special issue is the second of a two-part edited collection on the privatisation of migration. The central thrust of the special issue is a critical analysis of modern day manifestations of private participation in immigration control such as through companies which run detention and deportation programmes and individual landlords, medical professionals and employers who become part of immigration enforcement. In the chapters the authors examine the role of private stakeholders and the political economy in migration control.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Devyani Prabhat SECTION 1: PRIVATE STAKEHOLDERS IN MIGRATION CONTROL Chapter 1. How are Migrants, Especially Male Asylum Seekers, Deterred from Safe Journeys and Lawful Entry into the UK through Carrier Sanctions?; Aleksandra Wegera Chapter 2. By What Means are Medical Professionals Able to Reject Hostile Environment Policy Within the NHS?; Isabella Bertolini Chapter 3. Twenty-two years of Employer Sanctions: To What Extent has Deputising Employers Woven Ethnocentrism into the United Kingdom’s Approach to Controlling Irregular Migration?; Emily Rigler Gillingham Chapter 4. In the Context of the Agricultural Industry, To What Extent does the UK Government’s ‘Hostile Environment’ Agenda Outweigh the Impact of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 on Irregular Workers?; Harriet Parfitt SECTION 2 : THE POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMMODIFICATION OF MIGRATION Chapter 5. To What Extent did the Private Hybridity of The East India Company Result in Lack of Accountability?; Akosua-Rose Oppon Chapter 6. Migration as a Commodity: Do You Possess the ‘Golden Ticket...?’ An Assessment of the Tier 1 (Investor) Visa’s Social and Economic Effect on the UK’s Migration System; Isobel Kamber

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Book SynopsisProvocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender and migration. In tackling this problem, this collection offers students and researchers of migration a more nuanced understanding of the topic.Trade Review'This original collection brings a feminist, intersectional and interdisciplinary lens to question the seemingly innocuous ‘and’ in discussions of gender and migration. Highly recommended.' Rosalind Gill, King’s College 'Reading this book, which is highly recommended, you are swept into postcolonial countries as well as into the old heart of Europe and you will necessarily loose the sense of innocence and neutrality in relation to your own thinking and conceptualizing.' Frigga Haug, The Berlin Institute of Critical Theory 'This book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the gendered character of migrations as well as that of states and societies' responses to them.' Nira Yuval-Davis 'This is a theoretically rich exploration of gender and migration. Each chapter covers crucial issues, but the collection as a whole makes key interventions in understandings of policy and humanitarian issues. It is provocative and imaginative in its careful, scholarly and accessible treatment of issues frequently taken for granted by governments, international agencies and human rights activists. It deserves to become essential reading, not only in a variety of academic disciplines, but by those working in, and legislating about, migration as well as the wider public.' Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education 'This is a must-read for anyone in the ever-widening fields of international relations and migration studies.' M. Brinton Lykes, Boston College 'This book is a critical resource for 21st century feminist scholars, practitioners, activists, students and policymakers.' Jude Clark, University of KwaZulu-NatalTable of Contents Gender and migration: feminist interventions Part I: Visibility and Vulnerability 2. Gender, migration and anti-racist politics in the continued project of the nation - Alexandra Zavos 3. The Problem of Trafficking - Chandré Gould 4. Sex, choice and exploitation: reflections on anti-trafficking discourse - Ingrid Palmary Part II: Asylum 5. Barriers to Protection: Gender-Related Persecution and Asylum in South Africa - Julie Middleton 6. Safe to Return? A Case Study of Domestic Violence, Pakistani Women, and the UK Asylum System - Sajida Ismail 7. Women Seeking Asylum in the UK: Contesting Conventions - Khatidja Chantler 8. Explicating the tactics of banal exclusion: a British example - Erica Burman Part III: Depoliticizing migration 9. Now you see me now you don't: methodologies and methods of the interstices - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato 10. For Love or Survival: Migrant Women's Narratives of Survival and Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg - Monica Kiwanuka 11. Re-housing trouble: Post-disaster reconstruction and exclusionary strategies in Venezuela - Isabel Rodríguez Mora 12. An arm hanging in mid-air: a discussion on immigrant men and impossible relationships in Greece - Stavros Psaroudakis

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Book SynopsisThe tragic tale of the sinking of the famine ship, the St. John in Massachusetts Bay in 1849. The Great Irish Famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands. In 1847, some 200,000 people sailed for Boston alone. Of this massive group, 2,000 never made it to their destination, killed by disease and hunger during the voyages, their remains consigned to a watery grave. The sinking of the brig St. John off the coast of Massachusetts in October 1849, was only one of many tragic events to occur during this mass exodus. The ship had sailed from Galway, loaded with passengers so desperate to escape the effects of famine that some had walked from as far afield as Clare to reach the ship. The passengers on the St. John made it to within sight of the New World before their ship went down and they were abandoned by their captain, who denied that there had been any survivors when he and some of his crew made it ashore. For those who died in the seas off Massachusetts, there was nothing to mark their last resting place; no name, no memory of them ever having existed, just another statistic in a terrible tragedy.

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