Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book Synopsis“Capital is moved to where low-wage labour is available, and migrants move – often in large numbers – to where investments and/or wealth accumulated due to specific historic factors create a demand for labour”. This volume explores this idea and contributes to the fields of global labour, working-class, and migration history by illuminating the lives of working people over the 19th and 20th centuries. The book's twenty authors discuss a wide range of topics, from capital investments in terms of the availability of low-wage labour and forced mobilization to gender discrimination. Contributors are: Selda Altan, Beate Althammer, Nina Trige Andersen, Cecilia Bruzelius, Geoffrey Ewen, Katharine Frederick, Veronika Helfert, Dirk Hoerder, Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal, Dácil Juif, Radhika Kanchana, Leslie Page Moch, Lukas Neissl, Christof Parnreiter, Lucas Poy, Richard Saich, Mahua Sarkar, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Yukari Takai, and Aliki Vaxevanoglou.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Migrant Actors Worldwide: Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left-Wing Strategies   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl Part 1 Perspectives, Approaches, Frames 2 Pluralist States, Multiple Migrations, International Approaches   Dirk Hoerder 3 World-Systems, Uneven Development, and Migration   Christof Parnreiter and Dirk Hoerder Part 2 Class/Classes: Formations, Outsourcing, Informalizing, Global Hierarchies 4 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 5 Outsourcing the Working Class Guestwork in Turbulent Times   Mahua Sarkar 6 Is There Informal Labour? The Concept, the ilo’s Ideology, and Greece as an Example   Aliki Vaxevanoglou 7 Utilizing Population Movements How States Use Emigration to Regulate National Economies   Cecilia Bruzelius 8 The Quest for Chinese Labour Colonial Competition for Coolies and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese Worker   Selda Altan 9 African Agency versus State and Capital Control Migration to the British Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt in Comparative Perspective, 1920s to 1960s   Dácil Juif Part 3 Empires and Labour Regimes – and “the Left” 10 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 11 Organizable and Unorganizable Migrants Racism and Internationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century Social Democracy   Lucas Poy 12 Labour Migration Regimes in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation   Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch 13 Producing (Im-)mobile Capital and Labour in the Arab-Gulf Region From the British Empire to Independent States   Radhika Kanchana 14 The Making of a Neoliberal Labour Regime in California Immigration, American Empire, and Union Organizing in the 1980s and 1990s   Richard Saich Part 4 Regional Migration Patterns, Work Regimes, and Worker Agency 15 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 16 Foreign Polish Labour Migrants in the German Empire A Reassessment   Beate Althammer 17 Colonial Boom Towns Migration and Insecure Urban Tenure in Industrializing Southern Rhodesia   Katharine Frederick 18 “Ceylon for Sinhalese!” “Depression Politics” and Indian Migrants in Ceylon   Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal Part 5 Workingmen’s and -women’s Agency in Globally Interconnected Spaces 19 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 20 Between Migrants and States Japanese Entrepreneurs and Professionals in Two Port Cities in the Pacific World, 1880s to 1920s   Yukari Takai 21 Deterring Free and Deploying Interned Migrant Ukrainian Workers The Catholic Church, the Canadian State, and the Quebec Asbestos Strikes of 1915 and 1916   Geoffrey Ewen 22 A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally Migrant Women Workers, Trade Union Activists, and the Textile Industry, 1960s to 1980s   Veronika Helfert 23 Filipina Chambermaids in Denmark Organizing within and Outside the Copenhagen Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, 1960s to 1990s   Nina Trige Andersen Selective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImagining Latinidad examines how Latin American migrants use technology for public engagement, social activism, and to build digital, diasporic communities. Thanks to platforms like Facebook and YouTube, immigrants from Latin America can stay in contact with the culture they left behind. Members of these groups share information related to their homeland through discussions of food, music, celebrations, and other cultural elements. Despite their physical distance, these diasporic virtual communities are not far removed from the struggles in their homelands, and migrant activists play a central role in shaping politics both in their home country and in their host country. Contributors are: Amanda Arrais, Karla Castillo Villapudua, David S. Dalton, Jason H. Dormady, Carmen Gabriela Febles, Álvaro González Alba, Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar, Anna Marta Marini, Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, Covadonga Lamar Prieto, María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli, David Ramírez Plascencia, Jessica Retis, Nancy Rios-Contreras, and Patria Román-Velázquez. Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Book SynopsisWhile the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 Free Soil and Spaces of Freedom in the Age of the Second Slavery  2 Historiographies and Insights  3 Sources and Outline Part 1: Fleeing Slavery 1 Experiencing Slavery, Imagining Freedom  1 Introduction  2 “A Spirit of Great Insubordination”: Mexico as Imagined Land of Freedom for African Americans  3 Relatives and Loved Ones  4 “Por maltrato”: The Second Slavery’s Violence and Serial Runaways  5 “Más mal que lo corriente”: Paternalism, (Broken) Compromises and Conflicts  6 The Intersection of Gender, Age and Qualifications  7 Conclusion 2 Geography, Mobility and Networks: Escaping through the US-Mexico Borderlands  1 Introduction  2 Easing Mobility: Spatial and Material Strategies  3 Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats  4 Cracking Down on Mobility: Legal and Extra-Legal Violence in the Borderlands  5 Conclusion Part 2: Crafting Freedom 3 Self-Liberated Slaves and Asylum in Northeastern Mexico, 1803–1836  1 Introduction  2 Slave Refugees in Late Colonial New Spain (1803–1821)  3 Self-Liberated Slaves in Early Independent Mexico (1821–1836)  4 Conclusion 4 “Mexico Was Free! No Slave Clanked His Chains under Its Government”: Contests over Mexico’s Free Soil, 1836–1861  1 Introduction: The Texas Revolution and the Political Landscape of Slavery and Freedom  2 The Disputed Making of Mexico’s Free Soil after 1836  3 US Refugees from Slavery and Their Contested Settlement in Mexico  4 Free Soil and Escaped Slaves in-between Conflicting States and Allegiances  5 Conclusion Conclusion: “Mexico Will Assuredly Be Overrun by the Slaves from the Southern States”: The Making of Free Soil, The Unmaking of the Second Slavery  1 The Making of Free Soil  2 The Unmaking of the Second Slavery Appendix 1: The Process of Abolition of Slavery in Early Independent Mexico following the Federalist Constitution of 1824 Appendix 2: José Joaquín Ugarte to Señor Brigadier Marqués de Casa Calvo [Sebastián Calvo de la Puerta y O’Farrill], Nacogdoches, 11 September 1804 Glossary of Spanish Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGerman-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 is a pioneering study of the impact the German-speaking exiles of the Hitler years had on Ireland as the first large group of immigrants in the country in the twentieth century. It therefore adds an important yet hitherto virtually unknown Irish dimension to international exile studies. After providing an overview of the topic and an analysis of current developments in exile studies the volume devotes two chapters to Jewish refugees and another to the considerable number of Austrian exiles, investigates the relationship between Irish government policy and public opinion, and explores the problems of identity faced by so many in exile. It then focuses on some eminent refugees - Erwin Schrödinger, Ludwig Bieler, Robert Weil, Ernst Scheyer, and Hans Sachs - before concluding with personal accounts by Ruth Braunizer (the daughter of Erwin Schrödinger, excerpts from whose diaries are published here for the first time), Monica Schefold (the daughter of John Hennig), and Eva Gross. The fourteen contributors to the volume are Wolfgang Benz, Ruth Braunizer, John Cooke, Horst Dickel, Eva Gross, Gisela Holfter, Dermot Keogh, Wolfgang Muchitsch, Siobhán O'Connor, Hermann Rasche, Monica Schefold, Birte Schulz, Raphael V. Siev, and Colin Walker.Trade Review"…this is an excellent volume. […] This may be a first step for Irish Exile Studies: from it lessons can be learnt." – in: Modern Language Review 102/3 (2007) "Der vorl. Band sieht sich als “ersten Schritt” in eine Terra incognita, ist aber in Wirklichkeit ein Riesenschritt in eine wichtige Forschungsrichtung." – in: Germanistik 47/3-4 (2006) "Das Buch […] verbindet in vortrefflicher Form klassisch-akademische Forschung und Memoirs. Darüber hinaus ist es ein (auch für Nicht-Experten!) äußerst lesenswertes Beispiel von Grundlagenforschung und hoffentlich erst der Anfang weiterer Untersuchungen auf diesem Gebiet." – in: Feuchtwanger Newsletter Rundbrief 4 (2006) "Holfter’s organisation strikes a good balance between the material and the result is a sensitive and well contextualised account of exile at a dark moment in European history." – in: Irish Economic and Social History XXXIV (2007), pp. 124-126Table of ContentsForeword Part I Overview and Background Gisela HOLFTER: German-speaking Exiles 1933-1945 in Ireland – an Introduction and Overview Wolfgang BENZ: Exile Studies: Development and Trends Dermot KEOGH: Irish Refugee Policy, Anti-Semitism and Nazism at the Approach of World War Two Wolfgang MUCHITSCH: Austrian Refugees in Ireland 1938-1945 Siobhán O’CONNOR: ‘The Obliviousness of the Fortunate’ – Policy and Public Opinion towards Refugees 1933-1945 Raphael V. SIEV: The Admission of Refugees into Ireland between 1933 and 1945 Birte SCHULZ: Overcoming Boundaries? The Problem of Identity in the Experience of German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 Part II Individual Portraits of Exiles Colin WALKER: Robert Weil Gisela Holfter: Ernst Scheyer Hermann RASCHE: Ludwig Bieler Horst DICKEL: Hans Sachs Part III Personal Accounts John COOKE: Hans and Charlotte Sachs Monica SCHEFOLD: Childhood Memories in Ireland from 1939-1956 Ruth BRAUNIZER: Memories of Dublin - Excerpts from Erwin Schrödinger's Diaries Eva GROSS: Personal Reflections on a New Life in Northern Ireland Index of Names Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisExile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three continents who explore questions of exilic identity along multiple geopolitical and cultural axes—Cuba, the USA and Australia; Colombia and the USA; Algeria and France; Italy, France and Mexico; non-Han minorities and Han majorities in China; China, Tibet and India; Japan and China; New Caledonia, Vietnam and France; Hungary, the USSR, and Australia; and Germany, before and after unification. The international and crosscultural span of this collection represents an important addition to the fields of exile criticism and cultural identity studies. Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities will be of interest to readers, scholars and students of exile, diasporic and transmigration studies, international studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, language studies, and comparative literary studies.Trade Review"A highly recommended collection that aims to “alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world.”" – in: U 7 (10 August 2008) "This collection of diverse accounts on how exile is experienced and expressed across the globe promotes interdisciplinary discussion, which should be of interest to scholars in history, sociology, cultural and literary studies, as well as artists, writers and activists outside the academic sphere." – in: Transnational Literature 2 (1 November 2009)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Paul ALLATSON and Jo MCCORMACK: Introduction Susette COOKE: Becoming and Unbecoming Tu: Nation, Nationality and Exilic Agency in the People’s Republic of China David S.G. GOODMAN: Exile as Nationality: The Salar of Northwest China Obododimma OHA: Language, Exile, and the Burden of Undecidable Citizenship: Tenzin Tsundue and the Tibetan Experience Rowena WARD: Returning from Exile: The Japanese Citizens from the Former Manchuria Jo MCCORMACK: Memory and Exile: Contemporary France and the Algerian War (1954-1962) Ana DE MEDEIROS: The Language of Exile: Haunting Desires in Djebar’s La Disparition de la langue française Tess DO: Exile: Rupture and Continuity in Jean Vanmai’s Chân Dang and Fils de Chân Dang Yixu LÜ: Exiled in the Homeland: Heiner Müller’s Medea Sue HAJDÚ: Acceptance: on 1956: Desire and the Unknowable Maja MIKULA: Displacement and Shifting Geographies in the Noir Fiction of Cesare Battisti Jeff BROWITT: “En híbrida mezcolanza” : Exile and Anxiety in Alirio Díaz Guerra’s Lucas Guevara Olga LORENZO: Shame, Nostalgia and Cuban American Cultural Identity in Fiction: “la cubana arrepentida” Marivic WYNDHAM: Dying in the New Country Devleena GHOSH: Coda: Eleven Stars Over the Last Moments of Andalusia About the Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe papers within this volume articulate the challenges perceived by an individual or a country when its sense of self is confronted by the foreign, the threatening. Migration, exile, and invasion all challenge the individual or the nation to redefine itself and thereby write and rewrite the concept of personal and national identity. This interdisciplinary collection of papers, published for the first time, provide a stimulating and varied set of insights into the ongoing conversation that maps identity.Table of ContentsHelen Vella Bonavita: Preface Irén Annus: Tourism, Self-Representation and National Identity in Post-Socialist Hungary Audrey Verma: Black Magic Women: On the Purported Use of Sorcery by Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore Helen Vella Bonavita: Staying True to England: Representing Patriotism in Sixteenth-Century Drama Lelia Green and Anne Aly: How Australian Muslims Construct Western Fear of the Muslim Other Ron Geaves: Fatwa and Foreign Policy: New Models of Citizenship in an Emerging Age of Globalisation Oana Elena Strugaru: Choosing to Be a Stranger: Romanian Intellectuals in Exile Joshua Getz: Infinite Responsibility for the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces Winter Werner: The Breaking Asunder of Fanny Kemble: Trauma and the Discourse of Hygiene in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839 Kevin M. DeLapp: Ancient Egypt as Europe’s ‘Intimate Stranger’ Elsa Peralta: Fictions of a Creole Nation: (Re)Presenting Portugal’s Imperial Past

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Book SynopsisLiterature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature. Focusing on the development of migration literature in Sweden, Denmark, Flanders, and the Netherlands, the volume argues that the political and institutional preconditions for the development of ‘multicultural’ literatures are still given within the frame of the nation-state. As a consequence, both the field of ‘migration literature’ and the (multi-)lingual quality of literary texts are shaped differently in each state and in each language area. The volume delineates the development of multicultural literature in Scandinavia and the Low Countries as a function of the specific language situations in these countries as well as the various political, institutional, and discursive contexts. This book not only offers a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of multilingualism and multicultural literature, but also provides overviews sketching the discourse on multiculturalism, language and the development of the literary field in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders. Besides it presents a broad range of in-depth analyses of selected literary texts from each of these countries.Table of ContentsWolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, Liesbeth Minnaard: Preface Theoretical and Methodological Reflections Wolfgang Behschnitt and Magnus Nilsson: “Multicultural Literatures” in a Comparative Perspective Elien Declercq and Michael Boyden: Multilingualism and Diglossia in Migration Literature: The Case of Flemish Songs in Northern France Discourses on Multiculturalism, Language and Literature in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Flanders Magnus Nilsson: Literature in Multicultural and Multilingual Sweden: The Birth and Death of the Immigrant Writer Dörthe Gaettens: New Voices Wanted: The Search for a Danish Multicultural Literature Liesbeth Minnaard: Every Carpet a Flying Vehicle? Multiculturality in the Dutch Literary Field Sarah De Mul: “The Netherlands is doing well. Allochtoon writing talent is blossoming there”: Defining Flemish Literature, Desiring “Allochtoon” Writing (Multi)lingual Interventions: Exemplary Analyses of Literary and Linguistic Strategies of Literary Texts Peter Leonard: Bi- and Multilingual Aspects in the Literary Writing of Translingual Authors in Sweden Wolfgang Behschnitt: The Rhythm of Hip Hop: Multi-ethnic Slang in Swedish Literature After 2000 Søren Frank: Is There or Is There Not a Literature of Migration in Denmark? Marjan Nijborg and Fouad Laroui: The Emergence of a Dutch-Moroccan Literature: An Institutional and Linguistic Explanation Henriëtte Louwerse: “We are not bodies only, but winged spirits”: Metamorphosis in the Work of Hafid Bouazza Yves T’Sjoen: About the (Non-)Existence of “Migrant Literature” in the Netherlands: or, Why Mustafa Stitou Is a Dutch Author Sarah De Mul and Thomas Ernst: Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Contemporary Prose in Flanders: Chika Unigwe, Koen Peeters, and Benno Barnard A Comparative View Wolfgang Behschnitt, Sarah De Mul, and Liesbeth Minnaard: Conclusion: A Comparative View Index

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Book SynopsisThe growing importance of the Indian diaspora is felt today across the globe due to its emergence as the second-largest dias¬poric community. By examining historical, socio-cultural, economic, political, and lite¬rary aspects of the Indian diaspora, this volume sets out to trace the latest devel¬opments in the field of Indian diaspora studies. It brings together essays by Indian and foreign scholars, thus providing an authoritative platform for discussions in which identities and affiliations are con¬tested and constituted through the hier¬archies of cross-cultural migration in this increasingly globalized world. This volume traces the transnational network of the Indian diaspora, and will prove of interest to scholars working in the fields of the Indian diaspora, diaspora theory, and cultural studies. Countries covered include Mauritius, Fiji, Singapore, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Malaya, South Africa, and New Zealand. Creative writers dis¬cussed include Ramabai Espinet, Vikram Chandra, Rohinton Mistry, Chitra Banerjee Diva¬karuni, Nisha Ganatra, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kavery Nambisan, and Sarita Mandanna, along with the work of filmmakers (Mira Nair, Yash Chopra, Kabir Khan, Shuchi Kothari, Mandrika Rupa, Karan Johar, Sugu Pillay, Mallika Krishnamurthy, and Nisha Ganatra).Trade Review"Wideranging and scholarly. Dwivedi’s edited collection on routes and representations of the Indian diaspora is a vital contribution to the growing critical discourse on this subject." – Professor Janet Wilson, Northampton University "Tracing the New Indian Diaspora is a significant contribution to the understanding of the positions and representations of the Indian diaspora, forcing us to re-examine our notions of location and dislocation, of home and the world, of belonging and alienation: in short, of the politics of the diaspora today." – Professor G.J.V. Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements “Introducing the New Indian Diaspora”, Om Prakash Dwivedi Tracing the Indian Diaspora “The Political PIO: Thoughts on the Political Impact of the Indian Diaspora”, Pierre Gottschlich “Hambakhaya! Hambauyee Bombay! [Go Home! Go to Bombay!] – Challenges Facing South African Indians in the Post-Apartheid Era”, Brij Maharaj “Indians in Malaysia, 1900–2010: Different Migration Streams, One Diaspora”, Amarji T Kaur “The New Irish? Indian Diasporas in Ireland”, Louise Harrington “Giving Back to India: Investment Opportunities and Challenges”, Anjali Sahay “Certain Allegiances, Uncertain Identities: The Fraught Struggles of Dalits in Britain”, Meena Dhanda “The Indian Diaspora in New Zealand: Identities and Cultural Representations”, Wardlow Friesen “Finding Refuge in Culture: Race, Place, and Immigrant Identity in the Indian Diaspora”, Sunil Bhatia “In Search of the ‘Children of the Wind’: A Journey to Chattisgarh”, Brij V. Lal Literary Representations of the Indian Diaspora “The Ecology of Disaster: A Reading of Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing”, Chitra Sankaran “Representations Juxtaposed: A Home Author and a Diasporic Author Depict Coorg”, Lisa Lau “Love and Longing for Mumbai: Vikram Chandra’s Fiction and Bollywood Cinema”, Mari A Ridda “Rifts and Riffs, Roots and Routes: Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge”, Judith Misrahi–Barak “Boundary-Marking in the Diaspora: An Analysis of Women Characters in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters”, Uma Jayaraman “A Home of One’s Own: Gender, Family, and Nation in Indian-American Literature and Film”, Pranav Jani Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisMaria del Mar Fariña is associate professor at Westfield State University, adjunct professor at Smith College, and author of White Nativism, Ethnic Identity and US Immigration Policy Reforms.

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