Migration, immigration and emigration Books
University of Texas Press The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
Book SynopsisThis book explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural Oaxacans to migrate, the historical and contemporary patterns of their migration, the effects of migration on families and communities, and the economic, cultural, and social reasonsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Studying Migration in Oaxaca's Central Valleys Chapter 1: The Household and Migration Chapter 2: History, Trajectory, and Process in Oaxacan Migration Chapter 3: Contemporary Migration Chapter 4: Migration, Socioeconomic Change, and Development Chapter 5: Nonmigrant Households Conclusion: Migration in Oaxaca's Central Valleys and Anthropology Appendix A: Characteristics of the Population by Community Appendix B: Household Survey Appendix C: Cultural Consensus Notes References Cited Index
£16.14
University of Texas Press ExodusExodo
Book SynopsisJust in time for the 2008 election and the national immigration debate, this searing documentary of the largest single transnational migration in history forces us to face the tremendous human cost of a failed Mexican state and a relentlessly globalizingTable of Contents acknowledgments a short note photo section one part one. dreams and nightmares photo section two part two. what's your name? who's your daddy? is he rich like me? photo section three part three. a dream in the hole in our hearts photo section four afterword. baghdad notes bibliography extended captions
£35.10
University of Texas Press The Other Side of the Fence American Migrants in
Book SynopsisA remarkable examination of U.S. citizens, particularly retirees, who migrate to Mexican towns such as San Miguel de Allende and reverse the conventional wisdom about immigration and identity.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Reversing the Lens Chapter One: Southern Pulls and Northern Pushes Chapter Two: High-Tech Migrants: Technology and Transterritoriality Chapter Three: Waving the Red, White, and Azul: The Transnational Politics of Americans in Mexico Chapter Four: "They Love Us Here!": Privileged Belonging in a Global World Chapter Five: Rethinking the Fence Notes Bibliography Index
£18.99
University of Washington Press Quiet Odyssey
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£24.46
University of Washington Press Quiet Odyssey
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£110.48
University of Washington Press Rural Origins City Lives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read." * China Quarterly *"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book." -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China 1. Who Is a “Peasant Worker”? 2. Speaking of Oneself 3. A Place of Encounters 4. Earning, Spending, Consuming 5. Negotiating Success Conclusion: Making Place, Making Class
£33.98
University of Washington Press The Found Generation
Book SynopsisExplores the origins, development, and significance of the European Branches of the Chinese Communist Organizations (ECCO), highlights the differences between it and the Communist home organization, and describes its impact on the Chinese Communist Party. This title provides information and analysis about the political leadership of modern China.Trade Review"Levine’s book at once touches on three fascinating aspects of modern Chinese history; the ‘generational conflict’ that shaped the vision and mentality of the May Fourth youth, the intercultural experience of the first group of Chinese students in modern Europe, and, in a sense, the ‘foreign origins’ of the Chinese Revolution. . . . [An] enormous contribution to the study of modern Chinese education, society, and politics.”—Journal of Developing Societies“Stimulating and thought-provoking, and an important contribution to our understanding of the origins of the Chinese Communist movement." * China Information *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue The Rise of the Work-Study Movement Four Voyagers to Europe A New World A Fork in the Road The Chosen Path Shifting Currents Conclusion: The Found Generation Appendix 1: Biographies Appendix 2: Organizations Bibliography Index
£52.14
University of Washington Press Living Together Living Apart
Book SynopsisImmigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status familiesfamilies that include both citizens and noncitizensthis is more than a political issue: it's a deeply personal one. Undocumented family members and legal residents lack the rights and benefits of their family members who are US citizens, while family members and legal residents sometimes have their rights compromised by punitive immigration policies based on a strict citizen/noncitizen dichotomy. This collection of personal narratives and academic essays is the first to focus on the daily lives and experiences, as well as the broader social contexts, for mixed status families in the contemporary United States. Threats of raids, deportation, incarceration, and detention loom large over these families. At the same time, their lives are characterized by the resilience, perseverance, and resourcefulness necessary to maintain strong family bonds, both within the United States aTable of Contents Epigraph: The Freedom to Move / Lisa Speicher Muñoz Foreword / Mary Romero Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy / April M. Schueths and Jodie M. Lawston Part One | Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana / Giselle Stern Hernández 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States / April M. Schueths 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time / Rachel M. Hershberg and M. Brinton Lykes 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego–Tijuana Border / Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez 5. “We Thought We Had a Future”: Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families / Martha I. Zapata Roblyer and Joseph G. Grzywacz 6. Being Mixed-Status / Sheryl Tuliao Silva and Eric O. Silva Part Two | Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being 7. Voice of an American-Mexican / Neida Soto Arrington 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border / Heide Castañeda 9. “Someday I’m Going to Have Papers!” (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South / Scott Beck and Alma Stevenson 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership / Sarah Morando Lakhani 11. “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) / Eva Betancourt Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media 12. MIXED-UP / Carlos-Manuel 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse / Eric O. Silva 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? / Connie Oxford 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under “Secure Communities” / Diana M. Guelespe 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States / Shobha Hamal Gurung 17. Bringing Pedro Home / Emily Guzman 18. My Path to Happiness / Luis A. HernÁndez Contributors Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Rural Origins City Lives Class and Place in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Paints a compelling, sensitive and nuanced picture of who China’s migrant workers are. . . . An enjoyable and rewarding read." * China Quarterly *"Succeeds in showing that the category ‘peasant worker’ is much more heterogeneous than official and popular discourses suggest." * Anthropology of Work Review *"Rural Origins, City Lives does what good ethnography should do: it brings us into the grounded, life worlds of others in a way that forces us to question our broader assumptions and the categories that those assumptions are based on. That alone makes it a worthwhile and rewarding book." -- Tim Oakes * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Paradigm of Rural to Urban Migration in Contemporary China 1. Who Is a “Peasant Worker”? 2. Speaking of Oneself 3. A Place of Encounters 4. Earning, Spending, Consuming 5. Negotiating Success Conclusion: Making Place, Making Class
£39.00
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook Folk Music and
Book SynopsisBased on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area.Trade ReviewThe story of Ole Hendricks provides a valuable and grounded glimpse of music and social life in rural America in the nineteenth century, bringing into focus the long-overlooked importance of commonplace books-that is, handwritten music notebooks-in the performance and preservation of traditional music." - Paul Tyler, Old Town School of Folk Music"A thorough personal history that brings to light a previously little-known musician, Norwegian American fiddler Ole Hendricks. This excellent, well-rounded introduction makes both this history, as well as his tunebook, available for readers and musicians." - Laura Ellestad, University of South-Eastern Norway
£23.16
University of Wisconsin Press Irelands Farthest Shores Mobility Migration and
Book SynopsisExamines the rich history of Irish experiences on land and at sea, offering new perspectives on migration and mobility in the Pacific world and of the Irish role in the establishment and maintenance of the British Empire.
£999.99
Yale University Press When Home Wont Let You Stay
Book SynopsisInsightful and interdisciplinary, this book considers the movement of people around the world and how contemporary artists contribute to our understanding of it
£40.38
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods
Book SynopsisLanguage and Muslim Immigrant Childhoods Documenting the everyday lives of Moroccan immigrant children in Spain, this in-depth study considers how its subjects navigate the social and political landscapes of family, neighborhood peer groups, and the institutions of their adopted country. García-Sánchez compels us to rethink theories of language and racialization by offering a linguistic anthropological approach that illuminates the politics of childhood in Spain's growing communities of migrants. The author demonstrates that these Moroccan children walk a tightrope between sameness and difference, simultaneously participating in the cultural life of their immigrant community and that of a host society that is deeply ambivalent about contemporary migratory trends. The author evaluates the contemporary state of research on immigrant children and explores the dialectical relations between young Moroccan immigrants' everyday social interactions, and the broader cultural logiTrade Review“Overall, Garcia-Sanchez presents linguistic analysis and data in a way that balances sophistication of argument with clarity and accessibility to those without extensive linguistic training. As a result, this monograph should be appealing both to seasoned scholars and undergraduate students in linguistics and linguistic anthropology, as well as to cultural anthropologists and social scientists interested in Europe, migration, and childhood.” (Anthropos, 1 October 2015) “...García-Sánchez’s book adds to the current literature on socialization, identity construction, and immigration by showing how these larger issues can have direct impact on how the children of immigrants perceive themselves as accepted members of their societies.” (Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 May 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii 1 Introduction 1 2 Moros en la Costa: The Moroccan Immigrant Diaspora in Spain 28 3 Learning About Children’s Lives: A Note On Methodology 61 4 Moroccan Immigrant Childhoods in Vallenuevo 88 5 The Public School: Ground Zero for the Politics of Inclusion 125 6 Learning How to Be Moroccans in Vallenuevo: Arabic and the Politics of Identity 183 7 Becoming Translators of Culture: Moroccan Immigrant Children’s Experiences as Language Brokers 221 8 Heteroglossic Games: Imagining Selves and Voicing Possible Futures 257 9 Conclusion 289 Appendix 1: Working with Video-Recorded Discourse Data 307 Appendix 2: Arabic Transliteration Symbols 310 References 311 Index 349
£79.16
John Wiley & Sons Inc Geography and Refugees
Book SynopsisProvides a much-needed perspective on the geopolitical, economic and social consequences of refugees, drawing out key global themes and illustrating them with empirical and comparative material. The first section (of three) deals with the background of the refugee crisis; its effects in the countries of first asylum, predominantly in the poorer countries of the ``south''''; and the new challenges facing governments and migrants in the richer countries of the ``north''''. Prospects for future research on refugees by geographers and social scientists as well as its rising significance for economic development and social welfare in both poor and rich nations are discussed in the final section.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: Geography and Refugees: Current Issues (R. Black). RECEPTION, SETTLEMENT, AND REPATRIATION OF REFUGEES IN THE THIRDWORLD. `Internal Refugees': The Case of the Displaced in Khartoum (J.Bascom). Mass Flight in the Middle East: Involuntary Migration and the GulfConflict, 1990-91 (N. Van Hear). REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. The `Sweden-wide Strategy' of Refugee Dispersal (T. Hammar). North and South: Resettling Vietnamese Refugees in Australia andthe UK (V. Robinson). NEW DIRECTIONS, NEW DEVELOPMENTS. Repatriation and Information: A Theoretical Model (K. Koser). Forced Migration and Ethnic Processes in the Former Soviet Union(Z. Zayonchkovskaya, et al.). CONCLUSION. Retrospect and Prospect: Where Next for Geography and RefugeeStudies? (V. Robinson). Index.
£311.36
The University of Michigan Press Swallows and Settlers
Book SynopsisBetween the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of Manchuria. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration.
£12.95
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
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Imperial Fictions German Literature Before and
Book SynopsisExplores ways in which writers from late antiquity to the present have imagined communities before and beyond the nation-state. It takes as its point of departure challenges to the discrete nation-state posed by globalization, migration, and European integration today, but then circles back to the beginnings of European history after the fall of the Roman Empire.
£69.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Investing in the Homeland Migration Social Ties
Book SynopsisEmigrants are increasingly viewed as a resource for promoting economic development back in their home countries. Benjamin Graham finds that diasporans - migrants and their descendants - play a critical role in linking foreign firms to social networks in developing countries, allowing firms to flourish even in challenging political environments.Trade ReviewIn this important new book, Ben Graham adds to our understanding of global capital flows by focusing on immigration. Arguing that migrants have information about their homelands—about opportunities and potential constraints—Graham demonstrates how diaspora networks act as a conduit for financial capital in ways that traditional mechanisms fail."" - David Leblang, University of Virginia""This volume makes an important contribution to the study of foreign direct investment."" - Quan Li, Texas A&M UniversityPolitical Science / Political Economy
£64.95
University of California Press Gender and U.S. Immigration
Book SynopsisResurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories shaping immigration patterns. This collection of essays brings together work on this subject.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 2. Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States Patricia R. Pessar 3. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy Saskia Sassen PART TWO: GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT 4. The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration From the Philippines to the United States James A. Tyner 5. Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families Yen Le Espiritu 6. The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California Cecilia Menjivar 7. Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration Steven J. Gold PART THREE: ENGENDERING RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES 8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States Prema Kurien 9. Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City Nancy Lopez 10. Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second- and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans' Sense of Home Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea PART FOUR: GENDER, GENERATION, AND IMMIGRATION 11. De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity Across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez 12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, Across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration Barrie Thorne, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Wan Shun Eva Lam, and Anna Chee 13. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives. Yen Le Espiritu PART FIVE: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL 14. Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans Sarah J. Mahler 15. "I'm Here, but I'm There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila 16. Gender Status and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations Luin Goldring 17. "The Blue Passport": Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization Among Dominican Immigrants in New York City Audrey Singer and Greta Gilbertson Contributors Index
£27.00
University of California Press Domestica
Book SynopsisHighlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.Table of ContentsPreface to the 2007 Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments PART ONE THE JOB TODAY 1. New World Domestic Order 2. Maid in L.A. PART TWO FINDING HARD WORK ISN'T EASY 3· It's Not What You Know ... 4· Formalizing the Informal: Domestic Employment Agencies 5· Blowups and Other Unhappy Endings PART THREE INSIDE THE JOB 6. Tell Me What to Do, But Don't Tell Me How 7· Go Away ... But Stay Close Enough 8. Cleaning Up a Dirty Business Notes References Index
£27.00
University of California Press Between Arab and White
Book SynopsisPresents a study of Syrian immigration to the United States that places Syrians - and Arabs more generally - at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. This work focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II.Trade Review"Thought-provoking book." -- Anouar Majid Journal Of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Transliterations Introduction 1. From Internal to International Migration 2. Claiming Whiteness: Syrians and Naturalization Law 3. Nation and Migration: Emergent Arabism and Diasporic Nationalism 4. The Lynching of Nola Romey: Syrian Racial Inbetweenness in the Jim Crow South 5. Marriage and Respectability in the Era of Immigration Restriction Conclusion Epilogue: Becoming Arab American Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Gods Heart Has No Borders
Book SynopsisFeatures an account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America. This work provides an understanding of the role of religion in social movements and demonstrates the nonviolent power of religious groups to address social injustices.Trade Review"Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a compelling account underlining the importance of the religious perspective in recent immigration activism." Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare
£22.50
University of California Press Migra A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Book SynopsisReveals the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. This book focuses on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands and brings to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics.Trade Review"If you had to choose one book as a starting place for an intelligent discussion about immigration issues, you would do well to begin with Migra! by UCLA assistant professor of history Kelly Lytle Hernandez. [It] is surprisingly complex and nuanced." Tucson Weekly "A Useful resource for any scholar seeking to understand the complex dynamics of race, migration, and law in the twentieth century." Law & History Review "Hernandez offers well-documented accounts and analysis that bring considerable value to obtaining a resolution to the problem." -- Geri Spieler New York Journal Of Books "Migra! stands as a major contribution, successfully revising our understanding of border policing." -- Eric Vaughn Meeks Journal Of American History "A thorough and substantive study of the United States Border Patrol, or la migra in colloquial Spanish." Hispanic Amer Historical Review "A meticulously researched. interesting, and enjoyable book." The Historian "Migra! is undoubtedly a valuable book, especially as a storehouse of information and as an introduction to a new, international perspective on American immigration. Sections of it will undoubtedly become the foundations of research that will continue to broader our understanding many years into the future." American Book Review "An interesting and valuable book." Historian "The most thorough history of the Border Patrol to date." -- George T. Diaz Southwestern Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region Introduction Part One: Formation 1. The Early Years of the U.S. Border Patrol 2. A Sanctuary of Violence: The U.S. Border Patrol in the Greater Texas-Mexico Borderlands 3. The California-Arizona Borderlands 4. Mexico's Labor Emigrants, America's Illegal Immigrants: The Rise of Mexican Emigration Control Part Two: Transformation 5. A New Beginning: World War II and the U.S. Border Patrol 6. The Corridors of Migration Control 7. Uprising: A Farmers' Rebellion Part Three: Operation Wetback and Beyond 8. The Triumphs of {apos}54 9. "The Day of the Wetback Is Over": Migration Control and Crime Control in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Divided by Borders
Book SynopsisProbing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, this title offers an account of the lives of families divided by borders. It shows that the difficulties endured by transnational families make it nearly impossible for parents' sacrifices to result in the benefits they expect.Trade Review"Dreby analyzes these themes through a transnational lens. In doing so, she offers new and important insights into the lives of immigrant families." Journal Of Sociology "Offers insightful analysis." Choice "An excellent introduction to immigration, globalization, gender, childhood, immigration policy, and transnational family issues." Journal Of Marriage & Family "An important contribution to immigration scholarship." Social Forces "Provides a compassionate lens for analysing migration, a lens that is frequently missing from conventional discussions of Mexican-American migration." -- Alexandra Shaheen Journal Of Ethnic & Migration Stds "Illuminating... An important addition to both family and migration scholarship." -- Jessica M. Vasquez Du Bois Review & TransitionTable of ContentsPreface: Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Families Acknowledgments/Agradecimientos 1. Sacrifice 2. Ofelia and German Cruz: Migrant Time versus Child Time 3. Gender and Parenting from Afar 4. Armando Lopez on Fatherhood 5. Children and Power during Separation 6. Middlewomen 7. Cindy Rodriguez between Two Worlds 8. Divided by Borders Appendix A: Research Design Appendix B: Family Descriptions Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Migra
Book SynopsisReveals the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. This book focuses on the daily challenges of policing the borderlands and brings to light unexpected partners and forgotten dynamics.Trade Review"If you had to choose one book as a starting place for an intelligent discussion about immigration issues, you would do well to begin with Migra! by UCLA assistant professor of history Kelly Lytle Hernandez. [It] is surprisingly complex and nuanced." Tucson Weekly "A Useful resource for any scholar seeking to understand the complex dynamics of race, migration, and law in the twentieth century." Law & History Review "Hernandez offers well-documented accounts and analysis that bring considerable value to obtaining a resolution to the problem." -- Geri Spieler New York Journal Of Books "Migra! stands as a major contribution, successfully revising our understanding of border policing." -- Eric Vaughn Meeks Journal Of American History "An interesting and valuable book." Historian "A thorough and substantive study of the United States Border Patrol, or la migra in colloquial Spanish." Hispanic Amer Historical Review "Migra! is undoubtedly a valuable book, especially as a storehouse of information and as an introduction to a new, international perspective on American immigration. Sections of it will undoubtedly become the foundations of research that will continue to broader our understanding many years into the future." American Book Review "A meticulously researched. interesting, and enjoyable book." The HistorianTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region Introduction Part One: Formation 1. The Early Years of the U.S. Border Patrol 2. A Sanctuary of Violence: The U.S. Border Patrol in the Greater Texas-Mexico Borderlands 3. The California-Arizona Borderlands 4. Mexico's Labor Emigrants, America's Illegal Immigrants: The Rise of Mexican Emigration Control Part Two: Transformation 5. A New Beginning: World War II and the U.S. Border Patrol 6. The Corridors of Migration Control 7. Uprising: A Farmers' Rebellion Part Three: Operation Wetback and Beyond 8. The Triumphs of {apos}54 9. "The Day of the Wetback Is Over": Migration Control and Crime Control in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Beyond the Borderlands
Book SynopsisOver the years, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This title explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the US.Trade Review"Rich and thought provoking." -- Heather A. Smith Population, Space And PlaceTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: New Borders and Destinations 2. “I give thanks to God, after that, the United States”:Everyday Life in Textitlán 3. La Casa Vacía: Meanings and Memories in Abandoned Immigrant Houses 4. In the Shadows and Out: Mexican Kennett Square 5. Bridging the Community: Nativism, Activism, and the Politics of Belonging 6. There and Back Again: The Pilgrimage of Return Migration 7. The Ambivalent Welcome: Cinco de Mayo and the Performance of Local Identity and Ethnic Relations Epilogue Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Darkness before Daybreak
Book SynopsisChronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat underground economy. Illuminating the nature of high-risk migration around the world, this title reveals the challenges and experiences of these international migrants.Trade Review"A compelling text, containing both pwerful narrative and thoughtful theoretical analyses." -- Alice Elliot * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Part I. Losses and Gains in Naples 1. Clandestino 2. Migrant Work Situations 3. Suffering in a Globalized World Part II. The Journey to Europe 4. The Mediterranean Passage 5. The Maghreb Connection: Libya and a Desert to Cross Part III. In the Village of the Lost Captains 6. The Guan of Senya Beraku 7. The Body Stays, but the Soul Returns Conclusion Epilogue: Living on the Moon References
£22.50
University of California Press Migrants in Translation
Book SynopsisPresents an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition and cultural translation that emerge in response to these social uncertainties.Trade Review"Pleasant reading and a useful piece of research." -- Marco Santello H-Net "Stimulating and insightful ... a rich ethnography; [and] an important scholarly contribution." -- Staff Allegra Lab "A fundamental contribution to uncovering the moral logics of conditional inclusion that use "recognition" as a tool to define, and prescribe, the right place for immigrants in society." -- Francesco Vacchiano Transcultural Psychiatry This book is an original and important contribution to our understanding of the politics of humanitarianism, citizenship, and cultural difference in contemporary Italy... a must read. Migration StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE WALLS 1. On the Tightrope of Culture 2. Decolonizing Treatment in Psychiatry TWO. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE 3. Ambivalent Inclusion: Psychiatrists, Nuns, and Bureaucrats in Conversation THREE. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE POLICE OFFICE 4. Denuncia: The Subject Verbalized FOUR. ENTERING THE SCENE: THE SHELTER 5. Paradoxes of Redemption: Translating Selves and Experimenting with Conversion FIVE. REENTERING THE SCENE: THE CLINIC 6. Tragic Translations: "I am afraid of falling. Speak well of me, speak well for me" EPILOGUE: OTHER SCENES Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Global Latin America
Book SynopsisLatin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. This book examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples' lives far outside the region.Table of ContentsList of Figures INTRODUCING THE GLOBAL SQUARE BOOK SERIES Matthew Gutmann and Jeffrey Lesser Acknowledgments Chasing Che: Introduction to Global Latin America Jeffrey Lesser and Matthew Gutmann PART ONE: THE LATIN AMERICAN PAST IN THE GLOBAL PRESENT Introduction 1 • Looking at the Past and the Future without Fear: An Interview with Ricardo Lagos Matthew Gutmann 2 • The Conversion of Francis: The First Latin American Pope and the Women He Needs Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Jennifer Scheper Hughes 3 • Fidel Castro: The First Superdelegate Greg Grandin Poem: “Cruces de fronteras / Border Crossings” Renato Rosaldo 4 • From Illustrating Problems to Offering Solutions: Latin America as a Global Source of Social Innovation Gabriel Hetland and Peter Evans Manga: “Che Guevara” Kiyoshi Konno and Chie Shimano PART TWO: TONGUES AND FEET Introduction 5 • Borges’s Library: Latin America, Language, and the World Paja Faudree and Daniel Suslak 6 • Love, Protest, Dance, Remix Michelle Bigenho Poem: “Lo prohibido” Renato Rosaldo 7 • Breaking the Machine: South American Fútbol Brenda Elsey 8 • Roy Choi, Ricardo Zárate, and Pacific Fusion Cuisine in Los Angeles Sarah Portnoy and Jeffrey M. Pilcher PART THREE: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH Introduction 9 • The Rise of Brazil’s Globally Connected Amazon Soybean Agriculture Christopher Neill and Marcia N. Macedo 10 • Constructing Parallels: Brazilian Experts in Mozambique Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring Poem: “Perfecto Flores” Renato Rosaldo 11 • A Long Strange Trip: Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture Paul Gootenberg PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES Introduction Introduction to Rigoberta Menchú Tum 12 • Nobel Lecture Rigoberta Menchú Tum 13 • Sex Worker Activism and Labor Denise Brennan Poem: “Ajustes familiares / Family Adjustments” Renato Rosaldo 14 • Latin American Travel: The Other Side of Tourism Encounters Florence E. Babb 15 • Brazil Circles the Globe Ruben George Oliven PART FIVE: ART MOVES THE WORLD Introduction 16 • The Latin American Novel as International Merchandise Ilan Stavans 17 • Traveling Melodrama: Telenovelas and Exporting Southern Moralities; or, How Can Something So Bad Still Be So Good? O. Hugo Benavides Poem: “Los invisibles / Invisibility” Renato Rosaldo 18 • The Girl from Shinjuku: How a Japanese Brazilian Diva Keeps Bossa Nova Alive in China Fabiano Maisonnave 19 • “More than a Nationality”: An Interview with Gael García Bernal about Latin American Cinema and the World Alma Guillermoprieto About the Editors and Contributors Index
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University of California Press Paradise Transplanted
Book SynopsisReveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community.Trade Review"The book is a tour de force, essential reading for all who want to know more about the Californian landscape." British Journal of Sociology "...illuminates social organization of the region far beyond gardens, with obvious significance outside Southern California." Gender & Society "Illuminating and provocative ... pushes urbanists and gardeners alike to see their work from new and unexpected angles." -- Priscilla P. Ferguson Social Forces "Paradise Transplanted provides an absorbing narrative about how gardens are spaces where the past and the future merge, and where the local and global meet to form new practices and possibilities." City and Community "A worthwhile read." -- Peter Catron International Migration Review "Hondagneu-Sotelo renders a powerful narrative that provides readers with an easy visualization of the natural spaces...One can imagine teaching Paradise Transplanted to undergraduates as both methodological example and illustration of C. Wright Mills's clarion call for the sociological imagination." American Journal of Sociology "...offers a timely, creative, and highly readable study of plants and people in the California landscape...an ingenious and unusual research design, one that crosscuts social classes, ethnic groups, immigrant generations, and organizational contexts." Contemporary Sociology "...a brilliant contribution to migration studies, history, urban planning, geography and landscape studies." Home Cultures: The Journal of Architecture, Design and Domestic Space "How can we bring our cityscapes closer to the paradise that we yearn for? Paradise Transplanted pushes urbanists and gardeners alike to see their work from new and unexpected angles. Our cities will be the better for it." -- Priscilla P. Ferguson Social ForcesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Gardens of Migration 2. Ellis Island on the Land 3. The Gardeners of Eden 4. "It's a Little Piece of My Country" 5. Cultivating Elite Inclusion 6. Paradise, Future Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Jornalero
Book SynopsisThe United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. This book offers a perspective on how the informal economy of undocumented labor truly functions in American society.Trade Review"Very detailed, frequently intriguing." -- Robert Lee Maril Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments A Brief Note on Language Introduction WORKING ON THE STREET 1. La Parada de Berkeley 2. Friendship and the Inner Workings of Day Labor 3. Abuse and the Absurd Bureaucracy of Small Things BETWIXT AND BETWEEN 4. The "Other" among Others 5. Bittersweet Nostalgia, Sexuality, and the Body at Risk CITIZENSHIP AND OTHER SUCH VAGARIES 6. Belonging 7. Terror and the May Migra Panic Conclusions References Index
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University of California Press Migration and Health
Book SynopsisPresents the study of migrant populations that poses challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members.Table of ContentsForeword Michael V. Drake, MD SECTION ONE. Introductory Materials Section Editor: Marc B. Schenker 1. Introduction Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 2. Studying Migrant Populations: General Considerations and Approaches Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz (CDC, US) Xochitl Castaneda (UC Berkeley, US) 3. Life Course Epidemiology: A Conceptual Model for the Study of Migration and Health Jacob Spallek (Bielefeld University, Germany) Hajo Zeeb (University of Bremen, Germany) Oliver Razum (Bielefeld University, Germany) SECTION TWO. Quantitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz 4. Use of Existing Health Information Systems in Europe to Study Migrant Health Katia Levecque (University of Ghent, Belgium) Elena Ronda-Perez (University of Alicante, Spain) Emily Felt (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) Fernando G. Benavides (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) 5. Use of National Data Systems to Study Immigrant Health in the United States Gopal K. Singh (DHHS, US) 6. The Community-Based Migrant Household Probability Sample Survey Enrico A. Marcelli (San Diego State University, US) 7. Respondent-Driven Sampling for Migrant Populations Lisa Johnston (UC San Francisco, US) Mohsen Malekinejad (UC San Francisco, US) 8. Time-Space Sampling of Migrant Populations Salaam Semaan (CDC, US) Elizabeth DiNenno (CDC, US) 9. Prior Enumeration: A Method for Enhanced Sampling with Migrant Surveys Richard Mines (Agricultural Economics Consultant, US) Coburn C. Ward (University of the Pacific, US) Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 10. Telephone-Based Surveys David Grant (UCLA, US) Royce J. Park (UCLA, US) Lin Yu-chieh (University of Michigan, US) 11. Case-Control Studies Clelia Pezzi (CDC, US) Philip H. Kass (UC Davis, US) 12. Longitudinal Studies Guillermina Jasso (New York University, US) SECTION THREE. Qualitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Xochitl Castaneda 13. Ethnographic Research in Migration and Health Seth M. Holmes (UC Berkeley, US) Heide Castaneda (University of South Florida, US) 14. Participant Observation and Key Informant Interviews Rosa Maria Aguilera (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico) Ana Amuchastegui (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana--Xochimilco, Mexico) 15. Focus Groups/Group Qualitative Interviews Patricia Zavella (UC Santa Cruz, US) 16. Full Circle: The Method of Collaborative Anthropology for Regional and Transnational Research Bonnie Bade (California State University, San Marcos, US) Konane Martinez (California State University, San Marcos, US) 17. Photovoice as Methodology Regina Day Langhout (UC Santa Cruz, US) SECTION FOUR. Crosscutting Issues Section Editors: Marc B. Schenker, Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, and Xochitl Castaneda 18. Ethical Issues across the Spectrum of Migration and Health Research Kevin Pottie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Patricia Gabriel (University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach for Studying and Addressing Immigrant Health Meredith Minkler (UC Berkeley, US) Charlotte Chang (UC Berkeley, US) 20. Occupational Health Research with Immigrant Workers Michael A. Flynn (CDC, US) Donald E. Eggerth (CDC, US) 21. Methodological Recommendations for Broadening the Investigation of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Andrew Rasmussen (Fordham University, US) 22. Working Internationally Carol Camlin (UC San Francisco, US) David Kyle (UC Davis, US) 23. Binational Collaborative Research Sylvia Guendelman (UC Berkeley, US) 24. Ensuring Access to Research for Nondominant Language Speakers Francesca Gany (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Lisa Diamond (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Rachel Meislin (New York University, US) Javier Gonzalez (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) 25. Extended Case Study: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Internal Migrant Access to Health Care and the Health System's Response in India Bontha V. Babu (Indian Council of Medical Research, India) Anjali B. Borhade (Indian Institute of Public Health, India) Yadlapalli S. Kusuma (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Contributors Index
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University of California Press Migration and Health
Book SynopsisPresents the study of migrant populations that poses challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members.Table of ContentsForeword Michael V. Drake, MD SECTION ONE. Introductory Materials Section Editor: Marc B. Schenker 1. Introduction Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 2. Studying Migrant Populations: General Considerations and Approaches Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz (CDC, US) Xochitl Castaneda (UC Berkeley, US) 3. Life Course Epidemiology: A Conceptual Model for the Study of Migration and Health Jacob Spallek (Bielefeld University, Germany) Hajo Zeeb (University of Bremen, Germany) Oliver Razum (Bielefeld University, Germany) SECTION TWO. Quantitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz 4. Use of Existing Health Information Systems in Europe to Study Migrant Health Katia Levecque (University of Ghent, Belgium) Elena Ronda-Perez (University of Alicante, Spain) Emily Felt (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) Fernando G. Benavides (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) 5. Use of National Data Systems to Study Immigrant Health in the United States Gopal K. Singh (DHHS, US) 6. The Community-Based Migrant Household Probability Sample Survey Enrico A. Marcelli (San Diego State University, US) 7. Respondent-Driven Sampling for Migrant Populations Lisa Johnston (UC San Francisco, US) Mohsen Malekinejad (UC San Francisco, US) 8. Time-Space Sampling of Migrant Populations Salaam Semaan (CDC, US) Elizabeth DiNenno (CDC, US) 9. Prior Enumeration: A Method for Enhanced Sampling with Migrant Surveys Richard Mines (Agricultural Economics Consultant, US) Coburn C. Ward (University of the Pacific, US) Marc B. Schenker (UC Davis, US) 10. Telephone-Based Surveys David Grant (UCLA, US) Royce J. Park (UCLA, US) Lin Yu-chieh (University of Michigan, US) 11. Case-Control Studies Clelia Pezzi (CDC, US) Philip H. Kass (UC Davis, US) 12. Longitudinal Studies Guillermina Jasso (New York University, US) SECTION THREE. Qualitative Methodological Approaches Section Editor: Xochitl Castaneda 13. Ethnographic Research in Migration and Health Seth M. Holmes (UC Berkeley, US) Heide Castaneda (University of South Florida, US) 14. Participant Observation and Key Informant Interviews Rosa Maria Aguilera (Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente Muniz, Mexico) Ana Amuchastegui (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana--Xochimilco, Mexico) 15. Focus Groups/Group Qualitative Interviews Patricia Zavella (UC Santa Cruz, US) 16. Full Circle: The Method of Collaborative Anthropology for Regional and Transnational Research Bonnie Bade (California State University, San Marcos, US) Konane Martinez (California State University, San Marcos, US) 17. Photovoice as Methodology Regina Day Langhout (UC Santa Cruz, US) SECTION FOUR. Crosscutting Issues Section Editors: Marc B. Schenker, Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, and Xochitl Castaneda 18. Ethical Issues across the Spectrum of Migration and Health Research Kevin Pottie (University of Ottawa, Canada) Patricia Gabriel (University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Community-Based Participatory Research: A Promising Approach for Studying and Addressing Immigrant Health Meredith Minkler (UC Berkeley, US) Charlotte Chang (UC Berkeley, US) 20. Occupational Health Research with Immigrant Workers Michael A. Flynn (CDC, US) Donald E. Eggerth (CDC, US) 21. Methodological Recommendations for Broadening the Investigation of Refugees and Other Forced Migrants Andrew Rasmussen (Fordham University, US) 22. Working Internationally Carol Camlin (UC San Francisco, US) David Kyle (UC Davis, US) 23. Binational Collaborative Research Sylvia Guendelman (UC Berkeley, US) 24. Ensuring Access to Research for Nondominant Language Speakers Francesca Gany (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Lisa Diamond (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) Rachel Meislin (New York University, US) Javier Gonzalez (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, US) 25. Extended Case Study: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding Internal Migrant Access to Health Care and the Health System's Response in India Bontha V. Babu (Indian Council of Medical Research, India) Anjali B. Borhade (Indian Institute of Public Health, India) Yadlapalli S. Kusuma (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Contributors Index
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University of California Press Abrazando el Espiritu
Book SynopsisStructured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. This book uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life.Trade Review"This is not just another book on the bracero "guest worker" program ... Rosas fills a huge gap in the scholarship by focusing on the women and children of the families left behind ... [and] humanizes Mexican migrant male workers." -- E. Hu-DeHart CHOICE "In an age when political rhetoric regularly characterizes temporary migrant laborers as direly threatening to the American economy and way of life, Rosas's insistence upon their humanity provides a vital counterweight that is as well a salutary contribution to the fields of Mexican American, migration, gender and family, and social history studies." Canada and the United StatesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Emergencies 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942--1947 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949--1959 Part Two: Love and Longing 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942--1964 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957--1964 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love Part Three: Decisive Measures 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias(Intermediary Women), 1958--1964 8. Ejemplar y sin Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942--1964 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947--1964 Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Dreams and Nightmares
Book SynopsisTakes a look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. This book shows how these policies and practices offer a means of prioritizing immigration enforcement in ways that alleviate harm to children, and why they remain controversial and vulnerable to political challenges.Trade Review"Highly valuable... this book is a combination of informative resources, rigorous social science research, and is well written to boot!" Sociology and Social Welfare "Invaluable... Dreams and Nightmares presents a compelling analysis of U.S. policies regarding child migrants, and should be read now, as these policies are coming under renewed scrutiny in the Trump administration." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction and Historical Context 2. Prosecutorial Discretion: A Mechanism for Balancing Competing Goals 3. Legislative Inaction and Executive Action: Mixed Status Families, the Dreamer Movement, and DACA 4. Families Torn Apart: Parental Detention and Deportation 5. No Good Options: Unaccompanied Minors in the US Immigration System 6. Conclusions and Recommendations Notes References Index
£28.90
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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University of California Press Skills of the Unskilled
Book SynopsisMost labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as unskilled. This book uncovers these migrants' lifelong human capital and identifies mobility pathways associated with the acquisition and transfer of skills across the migratory circuit, including reskilling, job jumping, and entrepreneurship.Trade Review"Through facts and figures, the book encourages readers to look beyond the classification of workers as "skilled" or "unskilled." ... Recommended." -- B. P. Corrie, CHOICE connectTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Who Are the "Unskilled," Really? 2. Learning Skills in Communities of Origin 3. Mobilizing Skills and Migrating 4. Transferring Skills, Reskilling, and Laboring in the United States 5. Returning Home and Reintegrating into the Local Labor Market 6. Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press Spanish Legacies
Book SynopsisMuch like the US, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration over the years. Spain, in particular, has been receiving thousands of new immigrants. This study is based on a sample of almost 7,000 second-generation students who were interviewed in Madrid and Barcelona in 2008 and then re-interviewed four years later.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables 1 Twelve Lives 2 Theories of Second-Generation Adaptation 3 The Recent History of Spain-Bound Immigration 4 The Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation 5 Immigrant Parents: Spain and the United States 6 The Psychosocial Adaptation of the Second Generation: Self-Identities, Self-Esteem, and Related Variables 7 The Educational Goals and Achievements of the Second Generation 8 The Entry into the Real World: Labor Market Participation and Downward Assimilation 9 Conclusion: Integration Policies and Their Results Notes References Index Plate gallery located between pages 84 and 85
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University of California Press Returned
Book SynopsisFollows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that US immigration policies and state removals affect families. This book includes accounts of displacement, struggle, suffering, and profound loss but also of resilience, flexibility, and imaginings of what may come.Table of ContentsPrologue: Chaos 1. Destinations 2. Alienation 3. Violation 4. Fragmentation 5. Disorientation 6. Reinventions Epilogue: Lost Acknowledgments 153 Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Scratching Out a Living
Book SynopsisHow has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? This is a portrait of neoliberal globalization and calls for organizing strategies that bring diverse working communities together in mutual construction of a more just future.Trade Review"Scratching Out a Living is a model of engaged scholarship. In this timely, beautifully-written, and deeply researched activism-based ethnography about the poultry industry in the American South, Stuesse demonstrates how workers are exploited and divided on the basis of racial and ethnic identities within the context of neoliberal globalization. Without underestimating the difficulties, her research reveals that the basis for inter-racial working class solidarity among African Americans and Latinos does indeed exist in the newest 'new' South." -Judges' Comments, 2017 C.L.R. James Award for Published Books for Academic or General Audiences Working-Class Studies AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Southern Fried: Globalization and Immigrant Transformations 2. Dixie Chicken: Racial Segregation, Poultry Integration, and the Making of the "New" South in Central Mississippi 3. The Caged Bird Sings for Freedom: Black Struggles for Civil and Labor Rights, 1950-1980 4. To Get to the Other Side: The Hispanic Project and the Rise of the Nuevo South 5. Pecking Order: Latino Newcomers, Receptions, and Racial Hierarchies 6. A Bone to Pick: Labor Control and the Painful Work of Chicken Processing 7. Sticking Our Necks Out: Challenges to Union and Workers' Center Organizing 8. Walking on Eggshells: Illegality, Employer Sanctions, and Disposable Workers 9. Plucked: Labor Contractors and Immigrant Exclusion 10. Flying Upwind: Toward a New Southern Solidarity Postscript Home to Roost: Reflections on Activist Research Notes References Index
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University of California Press Living at the Edges of Capitalism
Book SynopsisSince the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled. This book gives voice to three communities living at the edges of capitalism: Cossacks on the Don River in Russia; Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico; and prisoners in long-term isolation since the 1970s.Trade Review"Masterfully written... provides a superb analysis of exile and exilic societies." Anarchist Studies
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University of California Press Life on the Other Border
Book SynopsisIn her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont's dairy industry, Mares powerfully illuminates the complex and resilient ways workers sustain themselves and their families while also serving as the backbone of the state's agricultural economy. In doing so, Life on the Other Borderexposes how broader movements for food justice and labor rights play out in the agricultural sector, and powerfully points to the misaligned agriculture and immigration policies impacting our food system today. Trade Review"Mares’s book contributes enormously to the fields of critical ethnography, borderland studies, and immigration studies, and would be an excellent addition to any classroom or public discussion of labor rights and food justice." * Gastronomica *"[Mares] successfully conveys the importance and value that agricultural laborers bring to our food system, and how their identities are often erased from the consumer experience further down the value chain." * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *"The most significant contribution of the book is its artful balance of structural vulnerability and agency. . . . This is not just another tale of im/migrant worker woe—rather, we see how farmworker-led activism, and university-community partner- ships, can make progress toward food justice, even in the oppressive context of the 'other' borderlands." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionBordering Visible Bodies A Distinctive Rural Place? Farmworker Injustice Grows in Every Field Harvesting a Different Product: What Makes Dairy Work Unique It’s Not Just about the Numbers Migrating through the Chapters to Come 1 • Vulnerability and Visibility in the Northern BorderlandsBorder Violence and Vulnerability “There’s No Mexicans in Vermont!” There Are Indeed Mexicans in Vermont EncerradoThe Trump Effect 2 • More than Money: Extending the Meanings and Methodologies of Farmworker Food SecurityLiving with Food Insecurity on Both Sides of the Border Feeding the Nation but Not Being Fed Measuring the Immeasurable? Assessing Dairy Worker Food Insecurity with the (Quantitative) Tools at Hand Telling the Stories of Food Insecurity When Numbers Fall Short Food Insecurity Crosses All Borders 3 • Cultivating Food Sovereignty Where There Are Few ChoicesGrowing a Project from Seed Immigrant Gardens as Fertile Ground for Food Sovereignty They Tried to Bury Us—They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds Challenging Cultural Borders through Experiential Learning 4 • They Are Out, They Are Looking: Providing Goods and Services under SurveillanceWIC: From Door-to-Door Delivery to EBT Doing a Lot with Very Little in the Field of Public Health Trunks Full of Banana Leaves and Phone Cards: The Individuals Serving the Farmworker Community 5 • Resilience and Resistance in the Movement for Just Food and WorkNavigating the Roles of Researcher and Activist A Timeline of Accomplishments—and Setbacks Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights! (Something Other than) Reform or Revolution? ConclusionThe Promise and Complications of Doing Ethnography at Home The Politics of Visibility in the Borderlands The Everyday Meanings of Food Sovereignty The Transformative Potential of Worker-Led Food Movements Some Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Farmworkers Appendix 2: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Service Providers Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Life on the Other Border
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mares’s book contributes enormously to the fields of critical ethnography, borderland studies, and immigration studies, and would be an excellent addition to any classroom or public discussion of labor rights and food justice." * Gastronomica *"[Mares] successfully conveys the importance and value that agricultural laborers bring to our food system, and how their identities are often erased from the consumer experience further down the value chain." * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *"The most significant contribution of the book is its artful balance of structural vulnerability and agency. . . . This is not just another tale of im/migrant worker woe—rather, we see how farmworker-led activism, and university-community partner- ships, can make progress toward food justice, even in the oppressive context of the 'other' borderlands." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionBordering Visible Bodies A Distinctive Rural Place? Farmworker Injustice Grows in Every Field Harvesting a Different Product: What Makes Dairy Work Unique It’s Not Just about the Numbers Migrating through the Chapters to Come 1 • Vulnerability and Visibility in the Northern BorderlandsBorder Violence and Vulnerability “There’s No Mexicans in Vermont!” There Are Indeed Mexicans in Vermont EncerradoThe Trump Effect 2 • More than Money: Extending the Meanings and Methodologies of Farmworker Food SecurityLiving with Food Insecurity on Both Sides of the Border Feeding the Nation but Not Being Fed Measuring the Immeasurable? Assessing Dairy Worker Food Insecurity with the (Quantitative) Tools at Hand Telling the Stories of Food Insecurity When Numbers Fall Short Food Insecurity Crosses All Borders 3 • Cultivating Food Sovereignty Where There Are Few ChoicesGrowing a Project from Seed Immigrant Gardens as Fertile Ground for Food Sovereignty They Tried to Bury Us—They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds Challenging Cultural Borders through Experiential Learning 4 • They Are Out, They Are Looking: Providing Goods and Services under SurveillanceWIC: From Door-to-Door Delivery to EBT Doing a Lot with Very Little in the Field of Public Health Trunks Full of Banana Leaves and Phone Cards: The Individuals Serving the Farmworker Community 5 • Resilience and Resistance in the Movement for Just Food and WorkNavigating the Roles of Researcher and Activist A Timeline of Accomplishments—and Setbacks Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights! (Something Other than) Reform or Revolution? ConclusionThe Promise and Complications of Doing Ethnography at Home The Politics of Visibility in the Borderlands The Everyday Meanings of Food Sovereignty The Transformative Potential of Worker-Led Food Movements Some Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Farmworkers Appendix 2: Semi-Structured Interview Guide for Service Providers Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press In the Fields of the North En los Campos del
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exploitative wages and living conditions are the norm for migrant farmworkers, but the book does search for solutions...[Bacon's] book aims not merely to show but to tell." -- Agatha French * Los Angeles Times *“Avoiding both sensationalism and sentimentality, the photos reveal not only the workers’ desperate poverty, but also the dignity of their toil and their consuming effort to provide a better life for their children.” * San Francisco Chronicle *"Filled with poignant photographs, accessible stories, and first-person immigrant narratives. Every middle and high school library should have this fine book." * Rethinking Schools *"In his new book, In the Fields of the North/En los Campos del Norte, David Bacon captures the experiences of migrant workers in California through heart-wrenching photographs." * East Bay Express *“Remarkable.” * Labor Notes *"In this timely and essential book, photojournalist David Bacon, through images and text, brings to life our intimate connection with the immigrant workers responsible for what we eat." * Rethinking Schools *"Through his clear, concise writing, his informed captions, and his powerful photographs, David Bacon witnesses lives, not working human machines." * Afterimage *"Belongs on the shelf with the classics about farm workers." * Journal of American Ethnic History *
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University of California Press Protect Serve and Deport The Rise of Policing as
Book SynopsisAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, the UC Press open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals, but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.Trade Review"This stellar volume cements Armenta’s status as an expert ethnographer working at the intersection of the sociology of critical criminology, law and society, and immigration. Academics and non-academics, graduate and under-graduate students alike will find in this text a readable and eminently troubling portrait of immigrant life in the deportation nation, a story deftly told through the clear-eyed and empathetic vision of one of the field’s rising stars." * Theoretical Criminology *"Should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding what happens when local police facilitate mass deportation." * Law & Society Review *"Amada Armenta’s Protect, Serve, and Deport makes a notable contribution to this burgeoning scholarship by tracing the adoption, rollout, and consequences of the 287(g) program in Davidson County, Tennessee . . . [it] is particularly timely and highly relevant to scholars researching immigrant criminalization, policing, or color-blind racism." * American Journal of Sociology *"Armenta provides us with a rich ethnography of immigration policing in Nashville that is so insightful that it will also be of interest to scholars working on immigration enforcement, bordering practices, racial profiling, discretion, and policing in many other settings. It is truly a stellar book that should become mandatory reading on any syllabus or comprehensive exam list in border criminology and critical police studies in the United States and beyond." * Border Criminologies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Who Polices Immigration? 2. Setting Up the Local Deportation Regime 3. Being Proactive: On the Streets in Southeast Nashville 4. Seeing and Not Seeing Immigration: Immigrant Outreach in an Era of Proactive Policing 5. Inside the Jail: Processing Immigrants for Removal 6. Punishing Illegality Conclusion Appendix: Fieldwork FAQs Notes References Index
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University of California Press Legal Passing Navigating Undocumented Life and
Book SynopsisLegal Passing offers a nuanced look at how the lives of undocumented Mexicans in the US are constantly shaped by federal, state, and local immigration laws. Angela S. García compares restrictive and accommodating immigration measures in various cities and states to show that place-based inclusion and exclusion unfold in seemingly contradictory ways. Instead of fleeing restrictive localities, undocumented Mexicans react by presenting themselves as legal, masking the stigma of illegality to avoid local police and federal immigration enforcement. Restrictive laws coerce assimilation, because as legal passing becomes habitual and embodied, immigrants distance themselves from their ethnic and cultural identities. In accommodating destinations, undocumented Mexicans experience a localized sense of stability and membership that is simultaneously undercut by the threat of federal immigration enforcement and complex street-level tensions with local police. Combining social theory on immigration and race as well as place and law,Legal Passinguncovers the everyday failures and long-term human consequences of contemporary immigration laws in the US.Trade Review"Legal Passing helps make sense of not only a fragmented U.S. immigration system but also this system’s diverse effects on the undocumented immigrants subject to its varied laws and policies. Through rigorous data collection, a sharp sociological imagination, and lucid prose, Angela S. García breaks new ground by revealing the insidious ways immigration measures simultaneously integrate and marginalize millions of undocumented immigrants and their U.S.-citizen family members from the country they call home." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"...a real achievement and an outstanding contribution to law and society scholarship. As a study of legal consciousness, the book reveals how migrants perform legality through quotidian and embodied practices. It elucidates the uneven costs that “illegality” imposes across different geographies, demonstrating how space and place shape the effects of immigration laws, and how immigration laws also shape space and place. Eminently readable, Legal Passing will engage undergraduate and graduate students, as well as an inter-disciplinary community of socio-legal scholars." * Law & Society *"[Legal Passing] maintains an explicit and thoughtful focus throughout on the complex, messy, and often unanticipated consequences of law." * Social Forces *"Angela García’s excellent first book addresses [their experiences and]. . . . makes clear that undocumented immigrants are hardly living in the shadows." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Place of Law: Subnational Immigration Laws in an Age of Mass Deportation 2. Undocumented and Unwelcome? California’s Shifting Immigration Laws 3. Stay or Go? The Settlement Effects of Restrictive Subnational Laws 4. Everyday Anxiety: Devolution, Deportability, and the Police 5. Legal Passing: Changing Bodies, Behaviors, and Minds 6. Passing Down Legal Passing: The Diffusion of Exclusionary Logics 7. Lessons of the Law: Subnational Immigration Laws in the Trump EraNotes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Deported to Death How Drug Violence Is Changing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For those seeking a better understanding of the more searing aspects of US border and immigration policies, Deported to Death is essential reading." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"Deported to Death provides an important look at what happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"A striking exploration of the intense marginalisation and vulnerability faced by deportees. . . . Slack is unwavering in his pursuit of the cross-border nature of the forces at work in shaping this environment." * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Violence of Mobility 2. I Want to Cross with a Backpack 3. Te Van a Levantar—They Will Kidnap You: Deportation and Mobility on the Border 4. They Torture You to Make You Lose Feeling 5. Guarding the River: Migrant Recruitment into Organized Crime 6. The Disappeared, the Dead, and the Forgotten 7. Resistance, Resilience, and Love: The Limits of Violence and Fear 8. “Who Can I Deport?”: Asylum and the Limits of Protection against Persecution Conclusions: Requiem for the Removed Appendix: A Note on Researching in Violent Environments Notes References Index
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University of California Press Lives in Transit
Book SynopsisLivesinTransitchronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid shelters and other key sites,Wendy A. Vogt examines the multiple forms of violence that migrants experience as their bodies, labor, andlivesbecome implicated in global and local economies that profit from their mobility as racialized and gendered others. She also reveals new forms of intimacy, solidarity, and activism that have emerged alongtransitroutes over the past decade. Through the stories of migrants, shelter workers, and local residents,Vogt encourages us to reimaginetransitas a site of both violence and precarity as well as social struggle and resistance.Trade Review"Vogt is a storyteller at core, and Lives in Transit is an indelible piece of groundbreaking work that bears testament to the embodied violence, intimacy, and resistance of Central American migrants in Mexico." * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Circulations of Violence 2. The Arterial Border 3. The Migrant Industry 4. Embodied Mobilities 5. Intimate Crossings 6. (In)Security and Safety 7. Constellations of Care Conclusion: The Unforgotten Notes References Index
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