Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisExplores how the headscarf has become a political symbol used to reaffirm or transform national stories of belonging. Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul juxtapose current cultural and political debates and interviews with social activists in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey to chart how the headscarf can reaffirm old or produce new national identities.Trade Review"Korteweg and Yurdakul's The Headscarf Debates is a truly exciting and valuable addition to the scholarly production on Muslim women's veiling in Turkey and contemporary Europe (specifically France, the Netherlands, and Germany) . . . [T]his is a very fine contribution to the headscarf debate in Europe, adding much to the current scholarship at the level of approach, methodology, and coverage."—Sahar Amer, Sociology of Religion"The authors provide a well-structured, in-depth comparative analysis based on detailed case study material, painstakingly well informed by a vast array of data, which makes a compelling read . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the controversies around Islam and national identity and is a very valuable research resource."—June Edmunds, Ethnic and Racial Studies"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, is a detailed and thoughtful work of comparative cultural sociology."—Andrew J. Perrin, Scatterplot"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging is an excellent comparative addition to the literature on Muslim immigrants and their children's inclusion and exclusion in debates about national identity in Europe. Korteweg and Yurdakul's strength lies in analyzing the specific history and socio-politics of each country—France, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany—in framing the headscarf . . . Overall, the book is an impressive and highly useful work for understanding how four nations have reached their current, contested rules about Muslim women's dress and what this says about their uneasy and unfinished attempts to re-imagine the national self."—Caitlin Killian, Reviews and Critical Commentary"Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul turn the debates over Islamic headscarves to new use. At a time when the presence of new visible minorities forces citizens to articulate what unites 'us,' their analysis provides new understandings of the issues at stake."—John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, author of A New Anthropology of Islam"Anna Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul transcend the usual discourse on Muslim women's headscarves and develop instead a debate best understood from the situated gazes of various participants—a debate in which Muslim women or women of Muslim origins need to be seen as equal participant subjects and not just objects of the discussions."—Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London"The Headscarf Debates: Conflicts of National Belonging, by Anna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul, is a detailed and thoughtful work of comparative cultural sociology. It focuses on four debates in Europe about the wearing of headscarves (in all four cases, actually niqabs, misrepresented as burkas, as the book nicely explains). Using extensive analysis of media and legal discourse, it shows similarities but, more interestingly, differences among the debates in France, Turkey, the Netherlands, and Germany. These differences highlight persistent cultural differences in the relationship between state, citizens, and religion: differences the book describes as 'conflicts of national belonging.'"—Andrew Perrin, Scatterplot

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.Trade Review"In this brilliant landmark study, Hung Thai takes us into the world of Vietnamese immigrants, their lives in the United States and their visits back home where some are greeted as heroic patrons, others as ostentatious spenders, and still others as envious observers of their poor kin who now enjoy luxuries they themselves can ill afford. Through its many, rich close-up portraits, and big-picture lens, this book shifts the way we see migration, family and social class. A must read." -- Arlie Hochschild * University of California, Berkeley, co-editor (with Barbara Ehrenreich) of Global Woman, author of The Outsourced Self *"This book by sociologist Thai is a rare combination of 98 personal interviews with low-wage Vietnamese-Americans and their poor relatives in Vietnam. The writing is elegant and blends fascinating block quotations with pithy sentences that summarize main points . . . Social scientists, especially economists, will value the book's insights on monetary circulation and low-wage labor . . . Highly recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *"Written by a sociologist doing long-term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Insufficient Funds is a fascinating account of the ways in which money is given, received, and spent in transnational Vietnamese families . . . The book compellingly analyses the ways in which transnational family relationships are shaped by the flow of money from the United States to Vietnam." -- Minh T.N. Nguyen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Thai convincingly shows that migrant money may be less about maintaining family relations than about performing the American Dream . . . Insufficient Funds will appeal to scholars in sociology, anthropology, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. It can be used in teaching as the frank testimonies are accompanied by a comprehensive discussion of scholarship on money, migration, and consumption." -- Allison Truitt * Journal of Anthropological Research *"In Insufficient Funds Hung Cam Thai presents a mesmerizing narrative of money and migration among low-wage Vietnamese transnational families in the United States and their non-migrant relatives in Vietnam . . . Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in both Vietnam and the United States, Thai is able to dig into the fabric of cultural expectations, self-worth, and emotional economies embedding these monetary exchanges . . . I find this an extraordinary book advancing a well-grounded theoretical argument with ample empirical evidence presented in an easy-to-follow manner that will attract not only academics, but also those interested in knowing migrants' life stories." -- Hasan Mahmud * European Journal of Development Research *"Insufficient Funds is a major contribution to our understanding of the culture of remittances and transnational families in the world today. With rich narratives and deft analyses, it sheds light on the complex meanings and dynamics of money, obligations, status, and worth in transnational families." -- Nazli Kibria * Boston University *Table of Contents1. Six Tales of Migrant Money 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade 3. Money as a Currency of Care 4. The Migrant Provider Role 5. The American Dream in Vietnam 6. Compensatory Consumption 7. Emulative Consumption 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption 10. Tall Promises Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their non-migrant family members in Vietnam give, receive, and spend money.Trade Review"In this brilliant landmark study, Hung Thai takes us into the world of Vietnamese immigrants, their lives in the United States and their visits back home where some are greeted as heroic patrons, others as ostentatious spenders, and still others as envious observers of their poor kin who now enjoy luxuries they themselves can ill afford. Through its many, rich close-up portraits, and big-picture lens, this book shifts the way we see migration, family and social class. A must read." -- Arlie Hochschild * University of California, Berkeley, co-editor (with Barbara Ehrenreich) of Global Woman, author of The Outsourced Self *"This book by sociologist Thai is a rare combination of 98 personal interviews with low-wage Vietnamese-Americans and their poor relatives in Vietnam. The writing is elegant and blends fascinating block quotations with pithy sentences that summarize main points . . . Social scientists, especially economists, will value the book's insights on monetary circulation and low-wage labor . . . Highly recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *"Written by a sociologist doing long-term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Insufficient Funds is a fascinating account of the ways in which money is given, received, and spent in transnational Vietnamese families . . . The book compellingly analyses the ways in which transnational family relationships are shaped by the flow of money from the United States to Vietnam." -- Minh T.N. Nguyen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Thai convincingly shows that migrant money may be less about maintaining family relations than about performing the American Dream . . . Insufficient Funds will appeal to scholars in sociology, anthropology, Asian studies, and Asian American studies. It can be used in teaching as the frank testimonies are accompanied by a comprehensive discussion of scholarship on money, migration, and consumption." -- Allison Truitt * Journal of Anthropological Research *"In Insufficient Funds Hung Cam Thai presents a mesmerizing narrative of money and migration among low-wage Vietnamese transnational families in the United States and their non-migrant relatives in Vietnam . . . Through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in both Vietnam and the United States, Thai is able to dig into the fabric of cultural expectations, self-worth, and emotional economies embedding these monetary exchanges . . . I find this an extraordinary book advancing a well-grounded theoretical argument with ample empirical evidence presented in an easy-to-follow manner that will attract not only academics, but also those interested in knowing migrants' life stories." -- Hasan Mahmud * European Journal of Development Research *"Insufficient Funds is a major contribution to our understanding of the culture of remittances and transnational families in the world today. With rich narratives and deft analyses, it sheds light on the complex meanings and dynamics of money, obligations, status, and worth in transnational families." -- Nazli Kibria * Boston University *Table of Contents1. Six Tales of Migrant Money 2. The Making of a Transnational Expenditure Cascade 3. Money as a Currency of Care 4. The Migrant Provider Role 5. The American Dream in Vietnam 6. Compensatory Consumption 7. Emulative Consumption 8. The Cyclical Entrenchment of Monetary Habits 9. The High Price of Esteem Consumption 10. Tall Promises Conclusion: Special Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how Indian American motel owners have created a successful immigrant business niche, yet still suffer significant social and cultural inequalities.Trade Review"For many motel owners, Dhingra says, it's more than a job. 'They talk about it in the same way as if they'd built their own car—in a really sincere and emotional way,' he said, adding that when he'd walk through a motel with the owners, they would often brag about how they'd done remodeling, new wiring or put in new carpeting. 'It's not just a business to them; it's a way of life. They may not make a lot of money, but most are able to send their kids to college, provide a living and it's also seen as a property investment.'" -- Matthew Hilburn * Voice of America *"Life Behind the Lobby assesses a central debate about U.S. migration: should the achievements of self-employed migrants be regarded as evidence of the openness, tolerance, and meritocracy of an increasingly neoliberal American society, or should their sacrifices, confrontations with racism, and feelings of social marginalization be taken as proof of the enduring place of discrimination, inequality, and white privilege? Pawan Dhingra's sophisticated and highly original analysis does much to advance our understanding of international migration, ethnic entrepreneurship, and migrants' ability to work collectively to cope with, if not fully overcome, the circumstances they face." -- Steven J. Gold * Michigan State University, author of The Store in the Hood: A Century of Business and Conflict (2010) *"This book is necessary reading for any race, ethnicity, or immigration scholar as it provides a critical and necessary contribution to the literature—one that further reveals the subethnic, socioeconomic, and gender diversity within the ethnic category of Asian Indian Americans, and more broadly, within the racial category of Asian America." -- Monica M. Trieu * American Journal of Sociology *"A strength of this book is its focus on the Indian state of Gujarat, the home of the Patels, because most research on immigrants ignores regional differences. . . Recommended." -- J. Hein * CHOICE *Read interviews with the author at: NPR's All Things Considered Wall Street Journal's India Real Time blog Voice of America Colorlines Chronicle of Higher Education Hyphen Magazine The Times of India"Pawan Dhingra has written a pioneering book on the world of American motels and hotels. Close attention to the stories told by the people who work in the trade allows Dhingra to go behind the stereotypes, and give us a tale of human beings struggling to make livings and lives. This is a people's sociology of hotel work." -- Vijay Prashad * Trinity College *"Dhingra conducted more than 100 interviews with motel owners, observing their families at work, over a period of several years to research in detail the grand story of entrepreneurship, the American dream and exceptionalism. The question he poses: Are the achievements of motel owners' proof of acceptance and openness of an American society or are their battles with race or culture evidence that discrimination and inequity continue to exist?" -- Nitish Rele * Khaas Baat *"In Life Behind the Lobby, Dhingra, who was born in India but grew up in the US, tells how Indian Americans came to dominate the motel business. . . Dhingra's empathy for the motel owners he has interviewed is obvious in the easy way he begins to speak in their words, whether quoting directly or simply imagining himself in their shoes. . . Dhingra's expertise in connection with Indian American motel owners will serve him well as he curates a traveling exhibit on Indian American heritage for the Smithsonian Institution." -- Greg Varner * Colorlines.com *"Nearly half of the motels in the U.S. are owned by Indian Americans . . . Pawan Dhingra set out to examine why such an ubiquitous and distinctly American roadside fixture became so popular among this community, focusing on a surge of Gujarati motel keepers who contributed to the 'Patel motel' phenomenon . . . From participating in community volleyball games to attending local Diwali festivals, Mr. Dhingra dove headfirst into a world he described as being 'uniformly generous.' In tracing the daily lives of Indian American moteliers, Mr. Dhingra discovered a world brimming with long hours, low wages and an intense dependence on the family network." -- Aarti Virani * The Wall Street Journal *

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Book SynopsisThis book examines middle-class Mexican Americans' patterns of mobility and incorporation.Trade Review"This book should be required reading for students and advanced sociologists alike. With a focus on shifting the conceptualization of a monolithic Mexican American experience, Barrio to Burbs also serves as a significant resource for students and scholars interested in Latino/a sociology, racial and ethnic studies, and social stratification. Though it isn't the only book addressing the experiences of a Mexican American middle class, it certainly is now a seminal read for all those who would like to complicate their understandings of Mexican Americans in the United States." -- Daniel J. Delgado * Social Forces *"Vallejo tackles an extremely important topic which others have not been willing or able to see—the rise of a Mexican American middle class. Challenging prevailing views, this book focuses not on predictions of downward assimilation, but on the real means by which children of Mexican immigrants are joining the middle class." -- Rubén Hernández-León, University of California * Los Angeles *"A sensitive, compelling, and engaging account based on in-depth research of an overlooked and understudied population: the Mexican American middle class. Full of insights about patterns of family obligation and ethnic identification among them—as well as different pathways to middle-class status—this richly drawn study is an important contribution to our understanding of immigration and diversity in 21st century America." -- Nancy Foner * Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, author of In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration *"Barrios to Burbs is the important and largely untold story of the Mexican American middle class. By taking us inside the lives of middle-class Mexican Americans, Vallejo demonstrates how the socioeconomic diversity among people of Mexican descent offers both promise and potential peril for the people she studies. This is a landmark book and a must read for anyone who hopes to understand America's largest ethnic group in all of its complexity." -- Tomás R. Jiménez * Stanford University, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity *"Jody Vallejo's novel study fills a void in research that for too long has focused too narrowly on Mexican immigrants trapped at lower rungs of the mobility ladder to the neglect of their prospects of success. She makes a significant contribution to the understanding of segmented assimilation and offers a compelling story of the Mexican American middle class." -- Min Zhou * University of California, Los Angeles, author of Contemporary Chinese America *"Utilizing interviews, non-participant observation, participant observation, and ethnography, [Vallejo] provides a rich contextual description of middle-class immigrant life." -- Cynthia E. Orozco * Journal of American Studies *"This clearly organized, succinct book adds to a growing body of scholarship on the identities and experiences of Mexican Americans. . . Recommended." -- G. L. Ochoa * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisExamines how countries can compete with each other to make citizens, and how citizens in turn have found ways to use this competition to their own benefit.Trade Review"Rather than a world of the one-percenters moving freely about nation-states, Cook-Martin tells the story of the increasing mobile Argentine middle class and those on the margins of society-immobile and left behind with a devalued citizenship. Drawing from both comparative historical and ethnographic methods, Cook-Martin advances a political field approach to understand existing citizenship and immigration policy. He shows that Italy, Spain, and Argentina made immigration policy in relation to changes in the global economy and in anticipation of each other's immigration policies."—Randolph Hohle, Social Forces"This is a well written and thoroughly researched book. While it is empirically grounded, it adopts innovative theoretical and conceptual approaches in a burgeoning field. The Scramble for Citizens would appeal to students and scholars in sociology, politics, anthropology, geography, migration, and diaspora studies."—Brij Maharaj, Journal of Intercultural Studies"In The Scramble for Citizens, Cook-Martín artfully explores how and why certain states compete for immigrants. This multimethod study examines historical and current struggles around citizenship and nationalism within and between Argentina, Spain, and Italy. It employs comparative-historical techniques to explore 19th-century competitions for citizens and contemporary ethnographic accounts of Argentines struggling to reconnect with Europe . . . I still highly recommend it as an insightful and well-researched study of historic and modern migration. It is well written, creative, and thought provoking. It will be of great use to advanced students and scholars of migration, political sociology, and Ibero-American studies—with a splash of Italy thrown in."—Julie Stewart, American Journal of Sociology"David Cook-Martin crosses the bounds of sociology, history, and anthropology to explain the practice and context of dual citizenship in the global twenty-first century. The Scramble for Citizens far-sighted analytical framework, based upon a detailed qualitative study of Spain, Italy, and Argentina, will become even more salient in coming years."—Mark I. Choate, Brigham Young University, author of Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad"David Cook-Martíns The Scramble for Citizens has three remarkable qualities: it's an innovative look at citizenship laws as shaped by interstate competition, the best available account of southern European citizenship, and a stimulating diagnosis of certain 're-ethnicizing' and 'lightening' trends of contemporary citizenship. Excellent!"—Christian Joppke, University of Bern

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Book SynopsisDirectly opposing ideas constructed and perpetuated by pundits and the media at large, The Latino Threat challenges the suggestion that Latino immigrants are unwilling to integrate and reveals that citizenship is not just about legal definitions, but about participation in society.Trade Review"Leo Chavez [...] has written a revised, updated and extended second edition of his insightful book The Latino Threat . . . [H]e leaves us with the bleak reality that [the Latino Threat Narrative] remains pervasively in full force today. This makes the second edition of The Latino Threat a timely and excellent book. It is a 'must-read' for politicians, academics, and anyone interested in immigration, Latina/o studies, race/class/gender inequalities and the politics of immigration."—San Juanita Garcia, Bulletin of Latin American Research"[The Latino Threat's] very breadth also opens new terrain for more detailed study and theorization. Chavez identifies pervasive, historically rooted myths and fears of immigrants, and specifically Latinos, in Anglo-American culture and its mainstream media . . . [I]t productively exposes the problematic discursive roots of much North American common sense in a way that a more narrowly focused study could never do. This is its real contribution and likely the reason the first edition proved so popular at the upper undergraduate level . . . Chavez deploys substantial, convincing data illustrating contemporary Latino cultural changes that belie the threat discourse; one can only hope that his message can shine a light on the pervasive presumptions of these Latino threat narratives."—Paul Ryer, Latin American Research Review"The time is certainly ripe for a second edition to Leo Chavez's Latino Threat, which is replete with updated information on draconian immigration laws, as well as coverage of the presidential debates of 2012, which showcased the vituperative and vitriolic discourse of the Latino Narrative Threat . . . The Latino Threat is accessible and essential reading for students and professionals alike, and fosters advocacy for policy change, as well as the need to understand the psychologically and emotionally damaging repercussions of structural racism and nativist discourse practices, and their effects on provision of language access, health disparities, and social services for Latino immigrants."—Catherine Carballeira, Journal of Sociology and Social WelfarePraise for the First Edition: "Leo R. Chavez makes a forceful case for the proposition that Latino immigration to the United States is everything its supporters and opponents say it is—and much more. There is no secret reconquest conspiracy among Mexican immigrants—but Chavez also highlights the more subtle effect: Latino immigrants are changing the culture of the United States in much the same way as did every previous surge of new residents. This is a book with rich rewards for the serious student of the entire phenomenon of Latino immigration into the United States."—Bill Richardson, Former Governor of New MexicoPraise for the First Edition: "Leo Chavez has produced a superb, well-argued, and thought provoking book. Tackling subjects such as the Minutemen in Arizona, immigrant marches, Latino reproduction, and organ transplants, the book not only sheds a critical light on how, through the mass media, Latinos have been constructed as illegitimate members of society, it also provides powerful evidence to undermine the taken-for-granted truths marshaled to marginalize this population."—American EthnologistPraise for the First Edition: "In this tour de force volume, Leo Chavez offers a penetrating analysis of how Latinos have been socially constructed as a threat to the American nation by bigoted political actors for their own cynical purposes and draws expertly on logic, facts, and reason to expose the mythical threat for the intellectual fraud and moral travesty that it truly is."—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University"Chavez offers us a thoughtful analysis of conflicts over the meaning of citizenship in an increasingly globalized world. In an era of debate over immigration reform, this book is essential reading for scholars, policy makers, and a thoughtful public alike." —Caroline B. Brettell, Southern Methodist University

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Book SynopsisAt a time when more people than ever are being constrained to move for political, economic, and environmental reasons, this book provides a new political theory of migration, one based on the social primacy of movement.Trade Review"Nail provides an innovative conceptual framework that disaggregates and contextualises social motions and movements throughout Western history. Beyond the originality of the kinopolitic theory, the real contribution is the focus on migrant's conditions that are too often neglected in the field of migration studies." -- Betty Rouland * Geopolitics *"Nail focuses on numerous ways that social and political developments can be viewed as a history of migrants . . . Nail concludes that migration is not derivative within a static framework but is primary to a history of society. Nail's book is a novel approach to history and political theory." * E.R. Gill CHOICE *"In this powerful book, Thomas Nail forces us to think migration from the perspective of movement and so builds both a theoretical argument and a political intervention. A bold and provocative engagement with one of the world's most pressing contemporary issues." -- Stuart Elden * University or Warwick *"Hardly a day goes by without some reference in the media to the "problem" of migration. In offering a theoretical account of the figure of the migrant throughout history, Thomas Nail's book thus performs an important service for the interdisciplinary study of one of the most important subjects of our century. Carefully argued, well informed, hugely ambitious, and analytically precise, it will become a standard reference for years to come." -- Tim Cresswell * Northeastern University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe Introduction lays out the objectives of the book as a whole. Given the contemporary importance of migration, this book develops a political theory of the migrant. In particular, the aim is to overcome two problems: the migrant has been predominantly understood from the perspective of stasis and the state. If we want to develop a political theory of the migrant itself and not of the migrant as a failed citizen, we need to reinterpret the migrant first and foremost according to its own defining feature: its movement. This allows us to conceptualize the emergence of the historical conditions that give rise to the different types of social expulsion that define the migrant and to diagnose the capacity of the migrant to create an alternative to its social expulsion. 1The Figure of the Migrant chapter abstractThis chapter defines "the figure of the migrant" as a political concept that identifies the common points where mobile figures are socially expelled or dispossessed as a result, or as the cause, of their mobility. The movement of the migrant is thus not simply from A to B but the constitutive condition for the qualitative transformation of society as a whole. This chapter defines the migrant as a figure, which is not a fixed identity or specific person but a mobile social position. One becomes a figure when one occupies this position and may do so to different degrees, at different times, and in different circumstances. The figure of the migrant, for example, is like a social persona that bears many masks (the nomad, barbarian, vagabond, proletariat) depending on the relative social conditions of expulsion. 2Kinopolitics chapter abstractThe history of the migrant is the history of social motion. This chapter defines and lays out the logical structure of social motion or "kinopolitics," the politics of movement. Instead of analyzing societies as primarily static, spatial, or temporal types of entities, kinopolitics or social kinetics understands them primarily as "regimes of motion." Societies are always in motion: directing people and objects, reproducing their social conditions (periodicity), and striving to expand their territorial, political, juridical, and economic power through diverse forms of expulsion. This chapter introduces three key concepts to understanding social motion: flow, junction, and circulation. In this way, it is possible to identify something like a political theory of movement. In particular, this chapter argues that the migrant is defined by two intertwined social motions: expansion and expulsion. 3Centripetal Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the first type of social expansion by expulsion: centripetal force. The first historically dominant type of expansion by expulsion can be described as a centripetal social force because its dominant motion is inward—toward the creation of the first stable social centers on the earth's center-less surface. Since centripetal social force is primarily concerned with accumulation, territorial expulsion remains an indirect phenomenon. Nomads were not first expelled because they were foreigners or social inferiors. Rather, the type of expulsion proper to territorial kinopower creates a centripetal remainder: leftovers—that which is not territorially accumulated. The figure of the nomad is simply expelled because there are not enough territorial flows left over for them, and they are in the way. 4Centrifugal Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the second type of social expansion by expulsion: centrifugal force. This force emerges historically alongside the ancient empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Political or centrifugal kinopower expands the curved movements of territorial control into a completely enclosed circle, brings all its stock into a shared resonance around a central axis, and radiates outward. It adds to the system of curved, centripetal expansion a system of concentric, centrifugal expansion and produces a new figure of the migrant: the barbarian. Territorial kinopower expands by creating a stock and expels only certain plants, animals, and people (nomads) as an indirect consequence: as an unaccumulated, aterritorial remainder. 5Tensional Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the third type of social expansion by expulsion: tensional force. This force emerges historically alongside the feudal societies of medieval Europe. This type of kinopower is "juridical" in the kinetic sense in which law binds the movement of social beings to one another and to a certain social condition or territory. Tensional migratory expulsion occurs when these juridical linkages are severed and release a social flow: vagabondage. However, just as easily as this network of juridical linkages can be dissolved, so the links can be reassembled into new circuits. Internally, juridical kinopower expels peasants and debtors from their legal right to the land and expands legal power by criminalizing them as vagabonds. Externally, juridical kinopower expels foreign peoples through war, colonialism, and kidnapping and expands its legal power by colonial legislation: the encomienda. 6Elastic Force I chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the fourth type of social expansion by expulsion: elastic force. This type of kinopower comes to dominance during the sociohistorical period between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and can be kinopolitically defined by the emergence of a newly dominant force of social motion: elasticity. This elastic force is a specifically "economic" type of kinopower in the sense that economics strives for the free arrangement and movement of things to and fro with a minimum of territorial, political, or juridical restrictions and with a maximum of equilibrium. The migrant proletariat is the spectrum of the proletariat that is economically expelled as a mobile social surplus. This chapter and the next analyze the specific social technologies of expulsion and mobilization that give rise to a variety of such migrant proletarian subjects and expand economic kinopower, including enclosures, capitalism, and eighteenth-century workhouses. 7Elastic Force II chapter abstractThis chapter continues to analyzes the fourth type of social expansion by expulsion: elastic force. Not only is a migrant proletariat created through an intensive expulsion—enclosures, capitalist valorization, and workhouses—in order to increase competition and production, but it is also produced through an extensive expulsion via penal transportation, emigration, and denationalization. The chapter describes the forms of external expansion by expulsion in their intensive forms (the Atlantic slave trade) and their extensive forms (British colonialism in Ireland and North America). 8Pedetic Force chapter abstractThe migrant has many different figures. The nomad, the barbarian, the vagabond, and the proletariat are only four major ones. Not only does each figure of the migrant emerge under different historical and social conditions of expansion and expulsion, but each figure also invents a form of kinetic power of its own that poses an alternative to social expulsion. Although each of the figures of the migrant deploys this force in its unique way, each is also the social expression of a more general "pedetic" social force. This chapter briefly outlines the concept of pedetic social force that is deployed by the four figures of the migrant analyzed in the following chapters of Part 3. 9The Nomad chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the first figure of pedetic social force: the nomad. The nomad is not simply the result of a primary territorial, centripetal expulsion. Early hunter-gathers were not simply left out from territorial society; they also actively left it and invented an entirely different form of social motion. Hunter-gathers moved to the mountains and cultivated the newly discovered art of animal raising. In cultivating this art so exclusively, they had to invent a form of social motion most conducive to it. Nomadism oscillates continually by following the earth's flows wherever they may go, without centripetal capture or accumulation. Nomadism also deploys a transportation of social kinetic disturbances: waves. The nomads' kinetic wave is a mass or common phenomenon that links them by force without producing a division in their motion. Finally, nomadism creates a social pressure against territorial barriers. 10The Barbarian chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the second figure of pedetic social force: the barbarian. The barbarian, like the nomad, is not merely the result of a kinetic expulsion. Barbarians also invent their own form of social motion that functions in a pedetic way. Just as "barbarian" in the ancient world was often etymologically or literally the word for the "slave by nature," it is not surprising that the ancient art of pedesis appears most predominantly in the oscillations, waves, and social pressures of refugees and slave revolts. 11The Vagabond chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the third figure of pedetic social force: the vagabond. The vagabond is not only the criminalized migrant expelled by the tensional force of law as the tramp, the debtor, the beggar, the pauper, the vagrant, the heretic, the witch, the Jew, the minstrel, the foreigner, the homeless. The vagabond, from the Latin vagus, meaning "to wander," from the Latin proprius, meaning "one's own way," is also the migrant whose free wandering has its own techniques of pedetic force found in the kinetic counterpower of rebellion: the direct battle with the forces of expulsion. 12The Proletariat chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the fourth figure of pedetic social force: the proletariat. The proletariat is not only a migratory surplus expelled by the elastic force of the economy; the proletariat also breaks free from the driving forces of oscillation (profit, equilibrium, competition, etc.). In other words, the proletariat responds to elastic force with a pedetic force of its own. This pedetic force is defined by the free oscillation of social movements, the wave of protests, communes, and the pressure of the strike in its various forms: the barricade, the labor strike, the hunger strike, the boycott, and others. 13Centripetal Force and Land Grabbing chapter abstractThe aim of the final part of this book is to deploy a hybrid theory of kinopolitical analysis to the increasingly complex phenomenon of contemporary migration. The history of the migrant this book has traced so far is not simply a history of the past; it is also a history of the present in which all of the historical conditions and figures of the migrant return and mix. This chapter describes the reemergence of centripetal social force seen in contemporary Mexico-US migration. While unquestionably mixed with several other types of social motion, centripetal force in its most basic form remains a crucial condition for the expulsion of the Mexican people and the expansion of US and private power. Today, we call this "land grabbing." This chapter describes two major periods of centripetal accumulation in Mexico: the Porfiriato and neoliberalism. 14Centrifugal Force and Federal Enforcement chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of centrifugal social force in Mexico-US migration. There are several ways centrifugal power operates through federal power in Mexico and the United States to expand its reach and expel migrants. The centrifugal force of the Mexican state expands its centralized force by the direct expulsion of indigenous farmers from public lands and the reappropriation of their labor by other means. It also uses direct police and military violence to expel migrants. When peasants will not migrate or sell their land "voluntarily" to these state-sponsored mega-projects, a centrally directed police and military force is sent out from the city to directly expel people from the territory. Finally, Mexico and the United States treat migrants as naturally inferior and depoliticized barbarians. 15Tensional Force and Illegal People chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of tensional social force in Mexico-US migration. Contemporary tensional force is created by the rise of multiple legal powers: international, supranational, humanitarian, and corporate law that now poses entirely new limitations on the executive power of sovereign governments. Today's tensional forces that bind social motions, although no longer feudal, still take the form of a vast network of legal contracts binding at every level of society, that is, between individuals, local law, states, nations, and other non-state international organizations. This is accomplished in several ways: the reform of the countryside in Mexico, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Zones and maquiladoras, the criminalization of labor in the United States, and the detention and expulsion of migrants in the United States. 16Elastic Force and Neoliberalism chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of elastic social force in Mexico-US migration. Elastic force expands and expels not by creating and breaking juridical tensions between social motions but by creating and redistributing a surplus of motion elsewhere. As long as a society is capable of producing and mobilizing its surplus and deficits, it will be able to pursue equilibrium and hopefully expand. Thus, elasticity expands and expels, not from the outside to the center (centripetally), nor from the center to the outside (centrifugally), nor by rigid links between centers (tension), but rather by the redistribution of a surplus wherever it is needed. This accomplished in several ways: the redistribution of surplus in Mexico, privatization, guest-worker programs, and undocumented migrant workers. 17Pedetic Force and Migrant Power chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes four types of contemporary migrant counterpower in the case of Mexico-US migration. Just as contemporary migration is produced by the forces of social expansion and expulsion, so it is also defined by the pedetic counterforces of oscillation, waves, and pressure. Social pedesis is the irregular movement of a collective body: a social turbulence. It is the force of motion of the social figure who moves outside the dominant forms of social motion: the migrant. This is expressed in four contemporary figures of Mexico-US migration: the nomadic seasonal worker, the barbarian invader, the vagabond rebel, and the proletarian occupier. Conclusion chapter abstractThe Conclusion recapitulates the main problems and consequences of the movement-oriented theory of the migrant presented throughout the book. Additionally, it highlights three major areas where further work is necessary. First, future work is necessary to analyze the kinopolitical technologies presented in this book (and others) according to their full historical and kinetic mixture or hybridization—which this book has presented only in their relative isolation. Second, many other major and interesting areas of contemporary migration remain to be analyzed with this framework, such as the landless peasant movement in Brazil, the recent home foreclosure process happening around the world, the recent land grabs and expulsions in Cambodia, and the sans-papiers (without papers) struggle in France. Third, future work is needed to examine additional figures of the migrant, such as tourists, commuters, diplomats, and business travelers, with respect to their degrees of expulsion and movement.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about how U.S. immigration policies and immigrants' gendered experiences stratify the well-being of Salvadoran mothers and fathers in the United States and their children who remain in El Salvador.Trade Review"Leisy Abrego renders in heart-wrenching detail what it means to live as a family separated by thousands of miles. Sacrificing Families is a must read on why families choose to become transnational, how they struggle to overcome distance and time, and the United States immigration policies that force this cultural and emotional divide." -- Leo R. Chavez * University of California, Irvine, author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *"Sacrificing Families is an important new book analyzing what can be described as the psychosocial interior of transnational Salvadoran families and how that familial social life is structured and traumatized by America's current immigration regime . . . The book is an important step in what is developing into a very promising scholarly career." -- Robert C. Smith * American Journal of Sociology *"Sacrificing Families approaches the issue of transnational migration from El Salvador to the United States from a unique perspective. Instead of the public debate in the United States, it's the debate in El Salvador that frames Leisy Abrego's argument. And while the experiences of migrants play a role, her focus is more on the children left behind when parents leave to work in the United States . . . In a debate dominated by rhetoric and statistics, the voices of these children raise extremely important issues . . . [T]his is a book that will stay with me and that I intend to assign to both undergraduate and graduate students." -- Aviva Chomsky * Hispanic American Historical Review *"In this insightful and compassionate book, Leisy Abrego sheds light on the devastating and far-reaching effects of the contemporary immigration regime on immigrant families and their relatives back home. The voices of these immigrant families vividly combine with Abrego's sophisticated analysis to make us rethink what it means to live in transnational spaces today. A must read for anyone interested in families and immigration policy." -- Cecilia Menjívar * Arizona State University *"Leisy Abrego provides an eloquent, empathic view of the agonizing choices made by transnational parents and the consequences for their children. The poignant quotes—from parents and children alike—along Abrego's thoughtful analysis make this an essential read." -- Carola Suárez-Orozco, University of California * Los Angeles *"Abrego examines the causes and consequences of migration of parents from El Salvador to the U.S. She focuses on the structure of trauma of long-term family separation, different experiences based on gender, and the impact on the socioeconomic and emotional lives of children . . . Using in-depth interviews of parents in the U.S. and children in El Salvador, the author reveals the tragedies and triumphs of these families' living arrangements; patterns of inequalities; migrant parents' sacrifices, including monetary remittances to their children; the profound emotional suffering; and children's school performances and aspirations. Furthermore, this research demonstrates how U.S. immigration policy determines the life chances and well-being of children and how gender ideologies influence women's and men's opportunities and behavior. Abrego presents a detailed, careful analysis of the micro-social realities of family separation across nations. She outlines the policy implications of this research and emphasizes the need for comprehensive U.S. immigration reform as a human rights issue. An outstanding contribution to immigration, family, Chicana/o, and policy studies . . . Highly recommended." -- D. A. Chekki * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisThis book examines middle-class Mexican Americans' patterns of mobility and incorporation.Trade Review"This book should be required reading for students and advanced sociologists alike. With a focus on shifting the conceptualization of a monolithic Mexican American experience, Barrio to Burbs also serves as a significant resource for students and scholars interested in Latino/a sociology, racial and ethnic studies, and social stratification. Though it isn't the only book addressing the experiences of a Mexican American middle class, it certainly is now a seminal read for all those who would like to complicate their understandings of Mexican Americans in the United States." -- Daniel J. Delgado * Social Forces *"Vallejo tackles an extremely important topic which others have not been willing or able to see—the rise of a Mexican American middle class. Challenging prevailing views, this book focuses not on predictions of downward assimilation, but on the real means by which children of Mexican immigrants are joining the middle class." -- Rubén Hernández-León, University of California * Los Angeles *"A sensitive, compelling, and engaging account based on in-depth research of an overlooked and understudied population: the Mexican American middle class. Full of insights about patterns of family obligation and ethnic identification among them—as well as different pathways to middle-class status—this richly drawn study is an important contribution to our understanding of immigration and diversity in 21st century America." -- Nancy Foner * Hunter College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, author of In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration *"Barrios to Burbs is the important and largely untold story of the Mexican American middle class. By taking us inside the lives of middle-class Mexican Americans, Vallejo demonstrates how the socioeconomic diversity among people of Mexican descent offers both promise and potential peril for the people she studies. This is a landmark book and a must read for anyone who hopes to understand America's largest ethnic group in all of its complexity." -- Tomás R. Jiménez * Stanford University, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity *"Jody Vallejo's novel study fills a void in research that for too long has focused too narrowly on Mexican immigrants trapped at lower rungs of the mobility ladder to the neglect of their prospects of success. She makes a significant contribution to the understanding of segmented assimilation and offers a compelling story of the Mexican American middle class." -- Min Zhou * University of California, Los Angeles, author of Contemporary Chinese America *"Utilizing interviews, non-participant observation, participant observation, and ethnography, [Vallejo] provides a rich contextual description of middle-class immigrant life." -- Cynthia E. Orozco * Journal of American Studies *"This clearly organized, succinct book adds to a growing body of scholarship on the identities and experiences of Mexican Americans. . . Recommended." -- G. L. Ochoa * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisPromised Land questions the prevailing assumption that Eastern European Jews were motivated by Zionism to immigrate to Palestine in the early twentieth century.Trade Review"Through an overview of diaries, letters, and media, [Alroey] uncovers the background of mundane people who struggled over a new culture and language and suffered boredom, loneliness, and exploitation . . . This book provides a fine [...] insight into Jewish migration to Palestine. Essential for Israel-Middle East collections." -- Hallie Cantor * Association of Jewish Libraries *"Gur Alroey has refocused the great Jewish migration of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, putting the migration to Palestine into its proper perspective. By doing so he expands our understanding of not only that small stream but its larger global scope. By making the immigrants to Palestine just like, but still different than, those to the United States he both demystifies the former and sheds light on the latter. By eliminating ideology from the one migration, he helps us understand who went where, why, and how." -- Hasia Diner * New York University *

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Book SynopsisFully revised and expanded, Servants of Globalization remains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.Trade Review"With rich analysis, absorbing material, and updated research, this new edition of Servants of Globalization offers readers new insight on the experiences of children reunifying with their mothers abroad, men working in a female segregated occupation, and the plight of aging care workers. Rhacel Parrenas's contributions continue to resonate with scholars and activists and inform our 'care crisis' and immigration debates." -- Mary Romero * Arizona State University, and author of The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream *"Rhacel Parreñas extracts powerful theorizations from her ground-breaking research, and with this new edition, she adds significant new conceptual elements. A must read." -- Saskia Sassen * Columbia University, author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy *"A stunning merger of ethnography with political economy, this new edition of Servants of Globalization is no mere update. Through additional fieldwork and chapters on men and aging workers, Rhacel Parreñas remains the leading voice on migrant domestic labor, the international division of reproductive labor, and the growth of unfreedom amid capitalist globalization." -- Eileen Boris, University of California * Santa Barbara *"Servants of Globalization is a foundational text that has shaped our understanding of the role of domestic work in the globalized world economy. Deeply grounded in the real experiences of some of the most invisible workers, it provides critical, unique perspectives on the changing nature of work and gender in our economy. In this new edition, Rhacel Parreñas strengthens and updates her analysis of the international division of caregiving work, and completes the story with an important new chapter on the question of retirement and the caring of domestic workers themselves as they age." -- Ai-jen Poo, Director * National Domestic Workers Alliance *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Global Migration of Filipino Domestic Workers chapter abstractThe chapter provides an overview of the migration of domestic workers from the Philippines. It describes the paths of migration for Filipino domestic workers—direct, serial and step-wise. It examines the state-construction of Filipino domestic workers, introducing the concept of partial citizenship, which refers to the absence of full citizenship rights allotted to migrant domestic workers at both ends of the migration spectrum. 2The International Division of Reproductive Labor chapter abstractThe chapter revisits the concept of the "international division of reproductive labor," which is also known in the literature as the "care chain." This concept refers to the transfer of caretaking responsibilities among women who outsource care to other women in order to participate in the labor market. Participants in this transfer of care work usually include the professional woman who hires a migrant domestic worker to care for her family, while that domestic worker in turn relies on or hires a woman left behind in the Philippines to care for her family. 3The Transnational Family chapter abstractThis chapter describes how the transnational family is the most common household arrangement among migrant domestic workers. By this is meant that they are part of a family whose members are located in at least two countries. Although not occupying the same residence, family members in transnational households share resources, maintain a sense of collective responsibility for each other's well-being, and uphold the duties expected of them as kin. Three kinds of transnational families are described: one-parent, two-parent, and adult children transnational families. The chapter describes how the transnational family lends itself to the experience of the pain of family separation. 4Gender and Intergenerational Relations chapter abstractThis chapter describes the pain of family separation. It argues that the gender ideology of the feminization of domesticity aggravates the emotional difficulties faced by the children of migrant mothers in transnational families. It establishes the difficulty that children face in accepting the reconstitution of the gender division of labor instigated by women's migration, as they still expect that their mothers should nurture them in proximity and not from a distance. 5Contradictory Class Mobility chapter abstractThis chapter examines the experience of doing domestic work. It shows that migrant domestic workers face contradictory class mobility, as doing domestic work involves their downward mobility in status but upward mobility in earnings. Domestic workers ease the emotional toll of contradictory class mobility by establishing intimate relations of being "like a family" with employers. 6The Crisis of Masculinity chapter abstractThis chapter addresses the question of what happens to men if they find themselves racially segregated into domestic work. It shows that men experience the precariousness of labor and suffer from chronic unemployment. This leaves them in a position of dependency vis-à-vis the women in the community, challenging the traditional division of labor in the family. Men respond to this threat to their masculinity via their engagement in community groups such as the Guardians Brotherhood. 7The Aging of Migrant Domestic Workers chapter abstractThis chapter uses a survey and interviews to examine what happens to domestic workers when they age. It establishes the precariousness of retirement to be due not only to their low wages but also to the informal nature of the job. It shows that migrant domestic workers who are unable to retire transition to elder care work in old age, resulting in the phenomenon of the elderly caring for the elderly. This new form of inequality shows that the ability of one group to retire is dependent on the inability of another group to retire. 8Conclusion chapter abstractThis chapter summarizes the arguments of the book and offers new directions for the study of migrant domestic work. It specifically calls for more studies that link the microexamination of domestic work to macrostructures in society.

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Book SynopsisSouthwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed an influx of wealthy, white migrants over the last few decades. But another, largely invisible and unstudied type of migration is also present. Though Mexican migrants have worked on Montana's ranches and farms since the 1920s, increasing numbers of migrant families-both documented and undocumented-are moving to the area to support its growing construction and service sectors. The Last Best Place? asks us to consider the multiple racial and class-related barriers that Mexican migrants must negotiate in the unique context of Montana's rural gentrification. These daily life struggles and inter-group power dynamics are deftly examined through extensive interviews and ethnography, as are theTrade Review"Ethnographically rich and theoretically provocative, The Last Best Place? offers a first look at the lives of migrants in the rural Mountain West, the newest and least studied of migrant destinations in the United States. Leah Schmalzbauer uses her considerable scholarly talent to argue for the use of 'place' as a conceptual lens from which to explore the linked migration of the rich and poor in this part of the United States. Lyrically written and originally argued, this book is a must read for anyone interested in stories of how migrants live with hope and agency despite the treacherous and undignified conditions in which they work to raise their families. This book marks a major advance in immigration research and brilliantly shines light not only on an understudied migration frontier, but on the nation as a whole." -- Hung Thai * Pomona College *"The Last Best Place? lays bare the fascinating consequences of place on immigrant integration. Schmalzbauer's discussion of the ways in which this untraditional destination shapes gender and family dynamics is brilliant. Empathetic, theoretically rich, and beautifully written, this book breaks new ground in immigration research." -- Mary C. Waters * Harvard University *"The geographies of migration are shifting. Leah Schmalzbauer offers a beautifully written, thoughtful analysis of how these changes unfold in the rural Mountain West. What happens when lifestyle migration meets labor migration in these new territories? The answers in this book are provocative and perceptive, skillfully revealing how race, class, or gender alone cannot provide complete answers." -- Peggy Levitt * Wellesley College and Harvard University *"This ethnography on Mexican migrants to southwest Montana fills a gap in the immigration literature by examining the role of gender and geography in a previously unexplored relocation zone for migrant families. In addition, this ethnography also provides a rigorous understanding of the ethnographer's own position in relationship to space, place, and privilege as a part of the ethnographic research process, and as such provides a robust model of deconstructing one's own position of epistemic privilege in the opportunity to conduct this research in the first place." -- Claudette L. Grinnell-Davis * Contemporary Rural Social Work *"Among the significant contributions made in this work to the discussion of the ongoing process of rural gentrification in the American West is Schmalzbauer's portrayal of the ways in which people of a variety of races/ethnicities, citizen statuses, and genders experience the social and physical landscape of south central Montana....Schmalzbauer provides a much-needed addition to the literature of a book-length treatment of the circumstances of in-migrating non-white, non-middle-class members of a gentrifying Rocky Mountain community." -- J. Dwight Hines * International Migration Review *"In The Last Best Place?, Leah Schmalzbauer considers the importance of gender and geography in studies of migration. With a focus on the New West—specifically Bozeman, Montana—the book joins a burgeoning literature about new destination sites and the dis/continuities between such locales and more traditional immigrant-receiving communities in the United States." -- Deborah A. Boehm * American Journal of Sociology *"With perception and nuance, this carefully analyzed and engagingly written book opens a window into the everyday lives of immigrants in the 'New West' to offer a fresh approach to the challenges that configure life in this uncharted terrain. Humane and insightful, The Last Best Place? is highly recommended to anyone interested in the wellbeing of immigrants today." -- Cecilia Menjívar * Arizona State University *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Immigrant environmental justice movements are at the leading edge of social change in global cities, and yet they are frequently overlooked. Nadia Kim delivers a major intervention for reassessing the impacts of these movements, extending our vision with a keen ethnographic eye, a compelling narrative, and robust theoretical analyses."—David Naguib Pello, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice?"An urgent, much-needed account of the activism of Filipin@ and Latin@ immigrant activists in Los Angeles. Spotlighting gendered resistance and community citizenmaking, Kim effectively recasts environmental justice to mean commitment to care for both physical and emotional lives."—Yen Lê Espiritu, University of California, San Diego"An innovative and close-up look at the ways in which Latin@ and Filipin@ activists mobilize bodies, emotions, and gendered caregiving in their struggle for environmental justice."—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California"The author poignantly conveys how aware these women are that pollution in their community is assaulting their bodies and emotions and leading to death. One of the book's major strengths is the respectful and culturally sensitive manner in which Kim employs mixed methods and intersectional approaches to detail how the women-led act of embodied citizenship—emotional support of one's neighbors against the assault of 'bioneglect'—constitutes a key resistance strategy....Highly recommended."—I. Coronado, CHOICE"I found the focus on embodiment and the expansion of Foucauldian thought to bioneglect to be the most compelling parts of this book. In addition, I was struck by Kim's honesty when she reported contradictions in the field."—Sanchita Dasgupta, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Kim's book is an essential read and eminently teachable. It will be a new classic in environmental justice, grounded in the original home discipline of the field and drawing from key works of sociologists like Robert Bullard, Beverly Wright, and David Pellow."—Julie Sze, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Fighting for Breath in the Other LA 1. Neoliberal Embodied Assault 2. Emotions as Power 3. Every Body Matters 4. "Our Community Has Boundaries": Race and Class Matter 5. Citizenship as Gendered Caring 6. politics Without the Politics 7. The Kids Will Save Us Afterword: Toward Bioneglect

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Contested Embrace sets a new standard in the study of migration and the state. Kim's theoretically agile and ethnographically vivid account shows how ordinary people and governments across Northeast Asia have wrestled over the question of who is Korean, and what that means in practice." -- David Scott Fitzgerald * University of California, San Diego *"Contested Embrace is a brilliant and bracing analysis of transborder membership politics. Exhaustively researched and meticulously argued, Jaeeun Kim's book is required reading for anyone interested in modern Northeast Asia, comparative ethnicity and nationalism, and transnational and global studies. It is a great book to think with." -- John Lie * University of California, Berkeley *"This impressive work shows that neither instrumentalist nor culturalist views do justice to how states deal with their diaspora communities abroad and brings rare nuance to the vexed "transnationalism" problematic. Allergic to false binaries of many sorts, not least the one of micro v. macro, Contested Embrace is simply good sociology." -- Christian Joppke * University of Bern *"Kim'sContested Embrace presents a commanding account of the long-term macrohistorical and regional interstate dynamics of the Korean transborder membership, mapping twentieth- and twenty-first-century Korean migration and repatriation across East Asia." -- Journal of Asian Studies"An impressive study, with in-depth historical narratives, engaging theoretical discussions, rich archival and ethnographic data, and nuanced analysis. Contested Embraceis the first extensive study that examines all the Korean transborder populations in Northeast Asia." -- American Journal of Sociology"The contributions of Contested Embrace to the literature on nationalism, transnationality, citizenship, and migration are manifold and impressive. In terms of research ambition, scope, and quality of research, this book is a tour de force." -- Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review"A groundbreaking work that reshapes the field of international migration with rich, unusual ethnography, a convincing historical account, and a broader theoretical appeal to the study of nationalism, citizenship, and globalization." -- Contemporary Sociology"Invoking such concepts as 'the presentation of self' (Goffman) and 'weapons of the weak'(Scott), Kim provides a vivid analysis of migrants' involvement in document forgeries, sham marriages, and other forms of identity fraud, contributing an especially agentic portrayal of the politics of 'who is what.'" -- Han'guk Munhwa (Korean Culture)"Contested Embrace uniquely and thoroughly connects the structural changes in the nation-building process, changes in geopolitical orders, and political and economic shifts in East Asia to the micro-analysis of individuals' experiences and negotiations with top-down policies." -- Sociological Forum"Kim has meticulously utilized both historiographic and ethnographic approaches to dissect and analyze the discourse of belonging on the part of ethnic Koreans caught up in the violent and divisive historical developments in twentieth-century East Asia. Contested Embrace is a seminal work that integrates the historical, political, social, and economic experiences of diasporic Koreans in Japan and China vis-à-vis North and South Korea." -- Arnel E. Joven * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Transborder Ties chapter abstractThis chapter begins with three ethnographic vignettes that reveal the common experiences of colonial-era ethnic Korean migrants and their descendants in Japan and northeast China: forcible separation from and neglect by their state of origin; shifting sense of loyalty and belonging to multiple states involved; efforts to maintain, rebuild, or take advantage of cross-border family ties; and complex dealings with various documentation practices in attempts to reclaim membership in their putative "homeland." The chapter situates the book in the literature on transborder membership politics and discusses its distinctive contributions. Building on a wide range of literature on official classification practices, modern identification techniques, the symbolic power of the state, and the control of cross-border migration, this chapter proposes a set of theoretical arguments about how states' registration and documentation practices contribute to the making, unmaking, and remaking of the "homeland state" and the "transborder nation." Chapter 1: Engaging Colonial Subjects on the Move: Colonial State, Migration, and Diasporic Nationhood chapter abstractChapter 1 analyzes the construction of the legal, bureaucratic, and semantic infrastructures of Korean nation-building, which emerged amidst the dramatic transformation of the regional interstate system and the massive intraregional migration in the beginning of the twentieth century. By comparatively examining the colonial state's engagement with Korean migrants in Japan and Manchuria, Chapter 1 shows how these infrastructures helped the colonial state claim migrants of peninsular origin uniformly as "its own"—if with varying degrees of success—despite differences among these migrants, their resistance to this compulsory incorporation, and the competing claims made by other states. The colonial state's transborder engagement contributed to the formation of the Korean nation as a legally codified, pervasively institutionalized, and enduringly documented community both inside and outside the colony, providing a critical institutional scaffolding for the diasporic imagination of Korean nationalism and laying the ground for transborder membership politics for decades to come. Chapter 2: "Who Owns the Nation?" Cold War Competition over Zainichi Koreans in Japan chapter abstractChapter 2 examines the prolonged and vehement competition between North and South Korea over the allegiance of colonial-era Korean migrants who remained in Japan in the context of decolonization and the Cold War. The divergent transborder nation-building strategies that the two postcolonial states employed to make their own docile citizens out of this opaque and recalcitrant population are identified. North Korea launched a successful repatriation campaign and heavily invested in Korean enclaves, presenting itself as a safe haven in which marginalized Koreans could find an escape. South Korea instead fashioned itself as a broker that could facilitate their integration into the Japanese mainstream, and a gatekeeper that could control their engagement with families and home communities in South Korea. The control of the bureaucratic persona of Koreans in Japan, buttressed by the consensual practices of other states, was critical for South Korea's eventual ascendancy in this competition. Chapter 3: Beyond "Bamboo Curtain" and "Hermit Kingdom": Korean Chinese between Two Socialist Fatherlands chapter abstractThe successful incorporation of Koreans who remained in Manchuria into communist China led to their disownment by South Korea, yet this incorporation was not necessarily seen as incompatible with their special tie to North Korea. Chapter 3 examines how China, North Korea, and the Korean Chinese embraced or challenged varying interpretations of this transborder tie, and how they reconfigured the boundary and the meaning of the Korean nation. Beyond the realm of ethnic minority policies, it examines the changing management of several cross-border migration flows (both authorized and unauthorized) as a lens with which to explore the unfolding of this relationship. It shows how various forms of cross-border transactions profoundly shaped the war-making, state-making, and nation-making (or unmaking) processes in both countries, as well as the life trajectories of Korean Chinese who straddled their two fatherlands to navigate the turbulent socialist transition in both countries. Chapter 4: Reluctant Embrace and Struggles for Inclusion: Korean Chinese "Return" Migration to Post-Cold War South Korea chapter abstractPost Cold-War transborder membership politics gained momentum from the influx of Korean Chinese into South Korea. Chapter 4 highlight the protracted confusion, uncertainty, and indeterminacy that both state and non-state actors in South Korea experienced in trying to "properly" classify the long forgotten ethnonational kin, substantiate their belated claim to membership, and regulate their access to the affluent "homeland." It also reveals the porosity of the walls within which South Korea enclosed itself to exclude the Korean Chinese from transborder membership. On the one hand, Korean Chinese migrants struggled to redefine their collective identity in the legal, political, and public spheres by presenting themselves as an integral part of the Korean nation. But equally importantly, Korean Chinese migrants challenged the state's monopolistic truth claim about their individual identities by engaging in micropolitical struggles in bureaucratic settings, mobilizing alternative genres of identification and creating false paper identities for themselves. Conclusion: Ethnic Nationalism, Globalization, and the Future of Transborder Membership Politics chapter abstractThe conclusion recapitulates the book's five main theoretical arguments. It shows how each chapter highlights the fundamentally political, performative, and constitutive nature of transborder nation-building; examines the bureaucratic underpinning of transborder membership politics; reveals its historical nature; demonstrates the importance of the broader interstate system in determining the efficacy of the state's transborder claims-making; and offers a deeply agentic portrayal of transborder membership politics by attending not only to the macropolitics but also to the micropolitics of identity. It also demonstrates the values and the limitations of ethnic nationalism as an analytic category by identifying the historical genesis of the bureaucratic and semantic infrastructures of ethnic nationalism, its variable manifestations (or lack thereof) in different policy domains and repertoires of contention, and its persistence as well as metamorphosis over time. A discussion on the future of transborder membership politics in the contemporary phase of globalization follows.

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Book SynopsisBased on rare, in-depth fieldwork among an undercover police investigative team working in a southern EU maritime state, Gregory Feldman examines how taking action against human smuggling rings requires the team to enter the gray zone, a space where legal and policy prescriptions do not hold. Feldman asks how this seven-member team makes ethical judgments when they secretly investigate smugglers, traffickers, migrants, lawyers, shopkeepers, and many others. He asks readers to consider that gray zones create opportunities both to degrade subjects of investigations and to take unnecessary risks for them. Moving in either direction largely depends upon bureaucratic conditions and team members' willingness to see situations from a variety of perspectives. Feldman explores their personal experiences and daily work in order to crack open wider issues about sovereignty, action, ethics, and, ultimately, being human. Situated at the intersection of the EU migration apparatus and the global, claTrade Review"The Gray Zone is an ethnography of policing unlike any other. Feldman's exhilarating, fast-paced study of an undercover police team is stitched through with a highly original reflection on sovereignty, violence, and distance between ethos and ethics. The Gray Zone is essential reading for anyone interested in the world of policing." -- Mark Maguire * Maynooth University *"The Gray Zone constitutes both a fascinating field-based investigation into how the borders of Europe are policed in invisible and secret ways and a philosophical reflection on the ways in which border spaces interrogate and problematize notions of state power, social order, systemic violence, and the relationship between morality and law in globalization....An invaluable empirical study with significant theoretical underpinnings, this book constitutes a unique account of the ways in which sovereignty is practiced in spaces at the edges of Europe." -- Hélène B. Ducros * Europe Now *"By avoiding trite depictions and predictable analyses of police activity, Feldman has contributed something truly valuable and unique to our understanding of policing in the contemporary world." -- William Garriot * Theoretical Criminology *"The Gray Zone is an outstanding work that will interest any anthropologist dealing with police, security, or migration. Its theoretical scope will allow it to be used extensively in the future, contributing profitably to the debate on contemporary sovereignty." -- Davide Casciano * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"It is difficult to overstate how thought-provoking The Gray Zone is....[The] fact that the book elicits so many questions indicates the novelty and power of Feldman's approach." -- Dafna Rachok * Allegra Lab *"Gregory Feldman's accomplished new ethnography offers an original consideration of action, ethics, and sovereignty....an overall rewarding and inspiring read." -- Karolina Follis * American Ethnologist *

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Southern Italians and Sicilians emigrated to the American Gulf South. Jessica Barbata Jackson shows that these newcomers used their undefined status to become racially transient, moving among and between racial groups as both “white southerners” and “people of color”.Trade ReviewBooks such as Dixie's Italians reinforce my love and respect for my paternal and maternal grandparents, who emigrated migrated from my ancestral home of Cefalu, Sicily. They left Sicily hoping to give their families a better way of life in a strange land, whose people then committed vile acts against them and others from Sicily. Jessica Jackson remembers five of them, lynched in 1899 Tallulah, Louisiana, and two who were lynched in 1901 in Mississippi.

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Book SynopsisTaking a wide focus, Southern Journey narrates the evolution of southern history from the founding of America to the present day by focusing on the settling, unsettling, and resettling of the South.

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Book SynopsisRestores immigrant labourers to their place in the history of the New South, considering especially how various immigrant groups and individuals experienced their time in New South Alabama.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875.

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Book SynopsisBased on research in a newcomer school located in New York City, this book explores the everyday lives of nine immigrant students outside of school, showing that youth are not simply waiting for school reforms.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue: Scenes of EducationIntroduction This Book's Questions, Themes, and Terms Guiding Theories: Unconditional, Uncategorizable, and Imaginative Educations Participants in This Book Notes on Entangled Methodologies and Positionality Organization of the Book Conclusion CHAPTER 1: Questioning Marginalization and Schooling A Very Brief Overview of Margins and Schooling Immigrant-Origin Youth Marginalization and An Ethnographic Present CHAPTER 2: A History of Immigrant-Origin Students in the U.S. Education System Early History of "Americanization" for Immigrant Youth Systems in the GapThe Rise of Bilingual Education and the History of Newcomer Schools Looking Towards Other Educational Worlds CHAPTER 3: The Birth Of the Newcomer as an Educable Subject Schools Reckon with and Respond to "New" Immigration Discourses of Newcomer EducabilityEducating Desirable NewcomersConclusion CHAPTER 4: Surviving, Succeeding, and Making Do at Wish Academy for Newcomer Youth Tracing the History of WISH in New York City's 21st Century Neoliberal Context Making WISH Survive and Advance: The Evolutions of WISH WISH vs. Everybody The Cost of Public School Conclusion: A Public, Home CHAPTER 5: Educations in Place and on the Move Newcomer Youth Participants Education and Space/Place Entangled and Moving Educational Practices Borderless Constellations of LearningCHAPTER 6: Undocumented Educations A Reflection on Authoring and Documenting Legitimate Education is Something to Access The Supplement of Out-of-School Time Education, Equality, and Opportunity Subjugated vs. Undocumented Education CHAPTER 7: New Possibilities and Conceptions of Education Wildness and Education The Wild Potential of Everyday Educational Practices Daydreams of Newcomer Students Daydreams as Educational Acts for Newcomer YouthDaydreaming Impractical Educations Conclusion: Of Educations and Wild Daydreams Epilogue Introducing a School of Otherwise The School of Otherwise: A School Made for Being and Thinking Otherwise Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisA unique study in American immigration and assimilation history that also provides a special view of one of the smaller ethnic groups in American society. Naff focuses on the pre-World War I pioneering generation of Arabic-speaking immigrants, the generation that set the patterns for settlement and assimilation.Trade Review""I found Becoming American spellbinding and could not put it down until I finished it.""—Farah Gilanshah, MESA Bulletin|""With scholarly devotion, Alixa Naff reconstructs this sparsely documented history [of Arab immigrants from the Syrian and Lebanese segments of the Ottoman Empire] mainly from interviews with second-generation Arabs who provide vivid if somewhat nostalgic recollections of their parents’ heroic application of the Levantine work ethic to the not-dissimilar American way of life.""—John D. Yohannan, New York Times|""The best single volume about… perhaps 150,000 immigrants largely from what is now Lebanon who came before World War II. Although many Americans . . . write as if the words Arab and Muslim were synonymous, some 85 percent of these people were Christians.""—Roger Daniels, Journal of the West""With special emphasis on the period 1880 to 1920, and on the role of pack peddling on the economic mobility and acculturation of the pioneer Arab Americans, Alixa Naff’s work is among the most comprehensive and interesting studies available on the history of Arab ethnicity in the U.S.""—Helen Hatab Samhan, Middle East Journal""The importance of women’s economic roles as peddlers and later as shopkeepers is emphasized. . . [Becoming American] is a significant contribution to the literature on ethnic enterprise and on immigrant women.""—Maxine S. Sellers, American Historical Review“A masterly piece of writing, which is structured firmly on research findings and original personal interviews, and which glows with intuitive understand­ing and scholarly interpretation and con­clusions. It constitutes a highly signifi­cant contribution to the history of the Syrian-Lebanese community in the United States.”—Dr. Afif Tannous

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Book SynopsisToday over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. This concise narrative history brings together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State.Trade ReviewA concise and comprehensive history of the Irish in a state where they have had an enormous impact. The richly illustrated engaging narrative is accompanied by a range of vignettes that help the story come alive. This is an absorbing book for the lay reader, as well as a useful text for students of Illinois history." —James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City"Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell have done a magnificent job of combining primary research with a wealth of secondary material to produce an erudite and absorbing portrait of the Irish in Illinois from the mid-eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. The Irish in Illinois is a comprehensive and engaging book that should be read by everyone with an interest in Irish America, Illinois, or Chicago." —Gillian O'Brien, author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago"This is an engaging account of the Irish and Illinois history. While Chicago predominates, Billings and Farrell have crafted a compelling story of the Irish role in shaping the region since European exploration and settlement of the state." —Eileen M. McMahon, author of What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Parish Community and Race Relations, 1916–1970"This is a concise but very smart and rich history of the Irish in Illinois. It is particularly insightful in its treatment of the Illinois Irish in the early nineteenth century as well as their experiences downstate throughout the two or more centuries of their settlement in the state. It makes a fresh and critically important contribution not just to the history of Illinois or to the story of the Irish there but to our understanding of the broader history of the Irish in America." —Timothy Meagher, author of Inventing Irish America"This well-researched and well-written book highlights the richness and the diversity of Irish immigrants and Irish American life in Illinois from the colonial era to the present. Billings and Farrell have provided a comprehensive analysis of the large Irish American community in Chicago but also have shown us the significance of the Irish outside the Windy City. It will be a role model for other state studies of the Irish in America." —David T. Gleeson, author of The Irish in the South, 1815–1877Table of Contents List Of Maps And Illustrations List Of Biographical And Issue Entries Introduction 1. From Imperial Soldiers To Prairie Patriots: The Irish In The Illinois Country, 1750-1818 2. From Irish Exiles To Paddy Politicians, 1818-1865 3. At The Forefront Of The Multi-Ethnic City: The Irish In Chicago, 1865-1933 4. Beyond The South Side: The Irish Of Downstate Illinois, 1865-1960 5. A South Side Empire? Irish Chicago, 1933-1983 Conclusion: Irish Identities In Contemporary Illinois For Further Reading Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this succinct study, Jason Silverman investigates Abraham Lincoln's evolving personal, professional, and political relationship with the wide variety of immigrant groups he encountered throughout his life, revealing that Lincoln related to the immigrant in a manner few of his contemporaries would or could emulate.Trade ReviewWhile the national debate over immigration may seem like a strictly 21st century conversation, Lincoln and the Immigrant reveals that it has always been part of our cultural identity. Lincoln took a stand for immigrants at a time when they were particularly misunderstood and undervalued, and by welcoming them into our nation, the United States gained from their skills, work ethic, and ingenuity for generations." - Murthy Law Firm "Two subjects of enduring interest to all who study the American past are the history of immigration and the political ideology of Abraham Lincoln. Until now, no book-length study has examined these subjects together. Silverman's inspired idea was to consider them as related parts of the same story. He shows us not only how Lincoln interacted with individual immigrants from many backgrounds but also what he thought about the larger significance of immigration as a theme in American life and its relationship to freedom, economic growth, and social opportunity. The result is a compelling interpretation of nineteenth-century American history with important implications for our understanding of diversity today and for the prospects of American democracy in the century to come." - Kevin Kenny, professor of history, Boston College "In this excellent untold story, Silverman narrates Abraham Lincoln's politics on and interactions with the foreign-born in his time. Lincoln never denied the right of immigrants - most of them poor, as he was in his youth - to rise as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and which he did himself. They would become Lincoln's supporters and fight for the Union. This is a tale worth telling, and Silverman does so exceedingly well." - Frank J. Williams, founding chair of the Lincoln Forum"Despite the enormous number of books that have been written about Abraham Lincoln, there has never been a full-length study about Lincoln's views on immigration. Silverman admirably fills this gap in the literature with his well-written and thoughtful study, demonstrating once again that an imaginative scholar can still provide new information about our sixteenth president. Highly recommended, not only for what it reveals about Lincoln's ideas on immigration but also for the insights provided to twenty-first-century Americans who wrestle with similar immigration issues." - Thomas R. Turner, editor of the Lincoln Herald "A learned, prodigiously researched, and engagingly written contribution to our understanding of this important subject." - Bruce Levine, J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Jason Silverman has written a short, scholarly, and eminently readable book . . . that examines Lincoln's personal relationships with immigrants, his integration of the immigrant into his understanding of the Declaration of Independence, and his practical political handling of immigrant communities. . . . It can easily be read in a few nights, yet it will leave you thinking for weeks." - Patrick Young, Long Island Wins"Jason Silverman has provided a succinct overview of Abraham Lincoln's views and relationships with immigrants from his years as a young adult in Springfield to his term as president...No other book focuses exclusively on Lincoln and immigration." - Bruce Bieglow, The Annals of Iowa"Lincoln and the Immigrant is a timely book. Its slim size, engaging prose, and poignant anecdotes make it an ideal selection for teachers, scholars, and general readers seeking to historicize current debates over religious tolerance, citizenship, and immigrants' role in the United States economy. Those who choose to do so by assigning or reading for themselves, Silverman's book will be richly rewarded." - Ian Delahanty, Springfield College (MA)"Jason H. Silverman focuses on a topic that Lincoln considered vitally important and one that remains timely for Americans today. He is the first historian to connect Lincoln's attitudes toward foreigners and his evolving political ideology. . . . Lincoln believed that all Americans-including white immigrants and black slaves-deserved the fruit of their labor and the chance to rise in life. . . . Silverman credits Lincoln with recognizing 'the folly of racism and nativism in the face of the promise of equality." - John David Smith, Charlotte Observer "Silverman argues . . . that Lincoln believed that no person should be denied inalienable rights as stated in the Declaration of Independence and that the country should welcome people so long as they were willing to work. . . . Silverman has written an insightful book about how Lincoln, whom many consider America's greatest president, addressed an issue that was every bit as perplexing in his day as it is in ours." - Terry Plumb, The Herald "Silverman covers Lincoln's interactions with foreign-born Americans and his positions on policies that affected their lives. The writing is sharp and engaging, the details revealing, and Silverman's insights interesting." - Alison Clark Efford, Civil War Monitor "a worthy addition to any Lincoln library collection." - Charles H. Bogart, Civil War News Book Review Table of Contents Contents Introduction 1. Uncertainty: A Clash of Images 2. Awakening: Coming of Age in Springfield 3. Enlightenment: Keeping Afloat in the Era of Know Nothings 4. Wisdom: Whig in the White House 5. Certainty: The Great Emancipator or the Great Egalitarian? Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThough debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation''s identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a nation of immigrants, built by people who came from many lands to make an even better nation. But this belief was relatively new in the twentieth century, a period that saw the establishment of immigrant quotas that endured until the Immigrant and Nationality Act of 1965. What changed over the course of the century, according to historian Robert L. Fleegler, is the rise of contributionism, the belief that the newcomers from eastern and southern Europe contributed important cultural and economic benefits to American society.Early twentieth-century immigrants from southern and eastern Europe often found themselves criticized for language and customs at odds with their new culture, but initially found greater acceptance throTrade Review"A persuasive narrative, drawing on a wide range of sources to trace the emergence, fall, and revival of the contributionist idea. Ellis Island Nation is a valuable addition to the literature on immigration debates, ethnic diversity, and national identity in twentieth-century America." * American Historical Review *"In clear, accessible language, [Fleegler] offers well-researched accounts of such topics as World War II rhetoric promoting cross-ethnic tolerance and Cold War era efforts to promote the commonalities of Judaism, Catholicism, and Protestantism." * Journal of American Culture *"Mining a vast array of cultural and political sources, Robert Fleegler has given us a sophisticated and well-researched look at how Americans in the mid-twentieth century came to recognize the contributions of Ellis Island immigrants. In doing so, they expanded the ideal of American democracy and paved the way for a modern, multicultural America. With this book, Fleegler has made his own important contribution to the academic literature of ethnic and immigration studies." * Vincent J. Cannato, author of American Passage: The History of Ellis Island *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Beginning of the Era of Restriction Chapter 2. Contributionism in the Prewar Period Chapter 3. The Quest for Tolerance and Unity Chapter 4. How Much Did the War Change America? Chapter 5. The Reemergence of Contributionism Chapter 6. The Cold War and Religious Unity Chapter 7. The Triumph of Contributionism Epilogue: "How great to be an American and something else as well" Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisEach year, more than half a million migrant children journey from countries around the globe and enter the United States with no lawful immigration status; many of them have no parent or legal guardian to provide care and custody. Yet little is known about their experiences in a nation that may simultaneously shelter children while initiating proceedings to deport them, nor about their safety or well-being if repatriated. Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State examines the draconian immigration policies that detain unaccompanied migrant children and draws on U.S. historical, political, legal, and institutional practices to contextualize the lives of children and youth as they move through federal detention facilities, immigration and family courts, federal foster care programs, and their communities across the United States and Central America.Through interviews with children and their families, attorneys, social workers, policy-makers, law enforcement, aTrade Review"This timely study shows the contradictions and complexities of the way children are treated under both immigration and family law, giving serious attention to their agency, and bringing their voices to life." * Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California, Los Angeles *

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Book SynopsisExplains how and why Judeoconversos built and rebuilt their religious and social identities, and what it meant to them to be both Jewish and Christian given the constraints they faced in their time and place in history.Trade Review"Graizbord has profitably charted new territory, namely, an in-depth examination of 'renegades,' or those conversos who departed from Christianity and Iberia only to return to both later... Compelling and useful."-Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Conversos: The Iberian Context Chapter 3. Exile and Return Chapter 4. Interrogation, Confession, and Reversion to Christianity Chapter 5. The Conversion and Reconversion of Antonio Rodríguez de Amézquita Chapter 6. Conclusion: On The Historical Significance of Renegades' Self-Subjugation Appendix Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn Mobility Makes States, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists examine the role of mobility in shaping how states are formed and how they behave. Focusing on links between power and migration across sub-Saharan Africa, the book explores how and why states have sought to harness movements towards their own ends.Trade Review"With its theoretically compelling frame, this well-integrated, empirically rich set of essays helps us understand that human mobility is (and has been) not just something states must manage and contain but a key force that shapes (and has shaped) states' most central features. Countering the persistent but misleading image of the state as exercising power over a static and stationary population, this book shows how human mobility shapes, among other things, a state's spatial features, its strategies for accumulating power and managing resources, and the kinds of national and international political, social and economic actors with which it allies. In our era of mind-boggling population displacements, this innovative book offers crucial new tools for thinking about the complex phenomenon of human mobility." * Lidwien Kapteijns, Wellesley College *"'Mobility makes states, and states make mobility': that is the bold claim made by the editors of this fine volume. Eschewing the tendency to view states solely as agents that prevent mobility, the book focuses on the ways in which states promote and channel human movement for their own purposes. The book reminds us that states may do very different things in different contexts, and that they should not necessarily be judged by a putatively normative European experience. This volume is a major contribution to thinking both about human mobility and about African society and politics that should be read by anyone interested in either." * John Torpey, Graduate Center, City University of New York *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Mobility Makes States —Joel Quirk and Darshan Vigneswaran PART I: CHANNELING HUMAN MOBILITY Chapter 2. Portuguese Empire Building and Human Mobility in São Tomé and Angola, 1400s-1700s —Filipa Ribeiro da Silva Chapter 3. "Captive to Civilization": Law, Labor, and Violence in Colonial Mozambique —Eric Allina Chapter 4. Victims, Saviors, and Suspects: Channeling Mobility in Postgenocide Rwanda —Simon Turner Chapter 5. Channeling Mobility Across a Segregated Johannesburg —Darshan Vigneswaran Chapter 6. Policy Spectacles: Promoting Migration-Development Scenarios in Ghana —Nauja Kleist PART II. MOVING CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER Power Chapter 7. Kinetocracy: The Government of Mobility at the Desert's Edge —Benedetta Rossi Chapter 8. Decolonization and (Dis)Possession in Lusophone Africa —Pamila Gupta Chapter 9. Moving from War to Peace in the Zambia-Angola Borderlands —Oliver Bakewell Chapter 10. Recognition, Solidarity, and the Power of Mobility in Africa's Urban Estuaries —Loren B. Landau Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA history of immigration policy in the United States and the world, Deportation chronicles the unsystematic emergence of what has become an internationally recognized legal doctrine, the far-reaching impact of which forever altered what it means to be an immigrant and a citizen.Trade Review"[A] meticulous and timely monograph [that] traces the roots of the contemporary deportation regime back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . . . . Hester's insights into the inner workings and geopolitics of deportation make an important contribution to our understanding of the history of immigration policy." * Journal of American History *"Deportation takes seriously the diplomatic requirements of a modern deportation system, and in fact, contextualizes the rise of the American deportation regime within a broader international transition from expulsion to deportation under the modern nation-state systems of documentation and international law. . . . Hester's work could hardly be more timely or important." * Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era *"In this engaging and timely book, Hester examines the historical evolution of deportation policy in the US. Through archival research and historical policy analysis, the author considers the power of deportation, the national and international policies created to administer this power, and the changing meaning of deportability...As nations around the world confront the current global migration crisis, readers will surely appreciate the author’s explanations of the long-term causes and consequences of deportation policies. Deportation makes a fine contribution to our understanding of these issues." * Choice *"Through impressive research and detailed analysis, Torrie Hester shows how the early history of deportation law and policy contributed to the world in which we now live. The author successfully shows how the incremental creation of acceptable grounds for deportation reflected an agenda of racialized nation building-an issue that is often raised in critique of the mass deportations of our own times." * Donna Gabaccia, University of Toronto *"Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy is a tour-de-force of U.S. policy history, detailing how deportation was born as a lawful practice in the late nineteenth century and tracking its steady expansion into the twentieth century. Moreover, it follows the story beyond U.S. borders to examine the world in which U.S. immigration was made. It is a timely and urgent work." * Kelly Lytle Hernandez, University of California, Los Angeles *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Creating U.S. Deportation Policy Chapter 2. The International Regime Chapter 3. Deportation and Citizenship Status Chapter 4. From Protection to Punishment Chapter 5. The Limits of Deportation Power Chapter 6. From Racial to Economic Grounds Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finally giving the topic of noncitizens' voting rights the empirical attention it deserves, Citizenship Beyond Nationality provides an immense service to everyone who studies democratic theory, migration, voting, and legislative party politics. Luicy Pedroza's findings are carefully drawn and surprising. They will require that we revise many of our assumptions about how different regimes approach noncitizen enfranchisement." * Elizabeth F. Cohen, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ENFRANCHISEMENT OF MIGRANT RESIDENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE Chapter 1. Citizenship, Nationality, and Voting Rights Chapter 2. Broad Comparisons: Denizen Enfranchisement Across Countries PART II. PROCESSES OF DENIZEN ENFRANCHISEMENT Chapter 3. The Differentiated Enfranchisement of Denizens in Portugal Chapter 4. The "Failed" Denizen Enfranchisement in Germany PART III. COMPARING AND THEORIZING Chapter 5. The Steps of Denizen Enfranchisement Processes Chapter 6. A Process Approach to Denizen Enfranchisement in Further Cases Chapter 7. Beyond Denizen Enfranchisement: Citizenship Change and Migration Policy Notes Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Fighting for Dignity, Sarah S. Willen explores what happened when the Israeli government launched an aggressive deportation campaign targeting newly arrived migrants from countries as varied as Ghana and the Philippines, Nigeria, Colombia, and Ukraine. Although the campaign was billed as a solution to high unemployment, it had another goal as well: to promote an exclusionary vision of Israel as a Jewish state in which non-Jews have no place. The deportation campaign quickly devastated Tel Aviv''s migrant communities and set the stage for even more aggressive antimigrant and antirefugee policies in the years to come.Fighting for Dignity traces the roots of this deportation campaign in Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shows how policies that illegalize and criminalize migrants wreak havoc in their lives, endanger their health, and curtail the human capacity to flourish. Children born to migrant parents are especially vulnerable to developTrade Review"This detailed and fascinating analysis of the day-to-day experiences of migrant workers at the margins of Israeli society is important not only for exposing how the migrant population is largely invisible and voiceless, experiencing structural non-representation, and denied voting rights and any political power due to their temporary status. In addition, it is important for anyone seeking to understand the underlying logic of the Israeli state and its society." * Israel Studies Review *"Fighting for Dignity certainly serves as a model for scholarship on migration and it provides a necessary framework for future work in this domain in other contexts. I also found the book to be a tremendous analytical frame to help manage my own response to global suffering." * Sa'ed Atshan, in City & Society *"Fighting for Dignity is an excellent, in-depth ethnography exploring the ways in which global migration to Israel-including non-Jewish asylum seekers and labor migrants-challenges the ethnocentric nature of the state . . . [T]he significance of Fighting for Dignity lies in its contribution to the understanding of global-urban migration. It documents urban life and the struggle for dignity in a world based both on global migration and refuge and on exclusionary practices and policies." * International Migration Review *"Sarah Willen's absorbing ethnography of Israeli criminalization and expulsion of migrants is disquieting and haunting by turns. Her essential and provocative treatment of how existential abjection leads to social mobilization bears lessons for observers of similar phenomena elsewhere in the world." * Samuel Moyn, author of Christian Human Rights *"Fighting for Dignity breaks new ground in anthropological studies of global migration by combining a sociopolitical approach with careful attention to the embodied experience of migrants in Israel; most importantly, even in the most dire or abject conditions, it is a story about dignity and flourishing, not one about suffering. This long awaited ethnography, based on nearly twenty years of research, is essential reading for anyone interested in how Otherness (both migrant and Palestinian) is created, lived, and challenged in Israel." * Miriam Ticktin, author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Sarah Willen's compassionate ethnography of those excluded and expelled under the nationalist agenda of the Israeli state echoes Hannah Arendt's argument that the humanity of a persecuted people seldom survives the hour of their liberation, and may even entail visiting on others the injustices they themselves suffered in the past. Willen's moving and sobering documentation of the everyday lives of those on the margins of the state, and of Israelis actively working to preserve humanity in dark times, is not only a brilliant essay in existential anthropology; it is a wakeup call to the world." * Michael Jackson, author of Critique of Identity Thinking *

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Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, new migratory patterns have been emerging in the southern Mediterranean. Here, a large number of West Africans and young Moroccans, including minors, make daily attempts to cross to Europe. The Moroccan city of Tangier, because of its proximity to Spain, is one of the main gateways for this migratory movement. It has also become a magnet for middle- and working-class Europeans seeking a more comfortable life.Based on extensive fieldwork, Living Tangier examines the dynamics of transnational migration in a major city of the Global South and studies African illegal migration to Europe and European legal migration to Morocco, looking at the itineraries of Europeans, West Africans, and Moroccan children and youth, their strategies for crossing, their motivations, their dreams, their hopes, and their everyday experiences. In the process, Abdelmajid Hannoum examines how Moroccan society has been affected by the flows of migrants from both West Africa anTrade Review"Living Tangier is an ambitious account of mobility and personhood in a city shaped by transnational migration and commerce...[I]t is a testament to the author’s tremendous ethnographic skill that the study holds together. Rather than history, political economic processes, or even the postcolonial geographies of empire, Hannoum’s personal, often poignant observations about the promise and hardship of migration serve as the through line to this wide-ranging and impressive ethnography. " * American Antthropologist *"Hannoum is to be congratulated for serving as an assiduous and compassionate guide to the experiences of Tangier’s young migrants. He obliges his readers to pay attention to this painful contemporary face of global social inequality. He asks us to ponder a provocative question: Under what circumstances will an equal relation between Africa and Europe be possible, so that an African can movewithoutavisatoEurope,thewaya European can now easily settle in Tangier?" * H-Africa *"In the Western imaginary Tangier appears as exotic and romantic. The reality is far more complex. In this heartfelt and beautifully written account, Abdelmajid Hannoum brings us face to face with protests against the indignities of daily life and the crisscrossed paths of African and Arab migrants seeking a new life in Europe and Europeans seeking a new life in North Africa. From the local response to the Arab Spring to the realities of children's street life, Hannoum's deeply researched and personally involved account adds immeasurably to our understanding of the pain and promise of migration." * Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University *""By combining perspectives from three different sets of migrants-young rural Moroccans seeking to cross into Europe, West Africans in transit from their home countries to Europe, and Europeans who have migrated to Morocco--Living Tangier examines migration on multiple registers at once, allowing the author to draw attention to the universal elements intertwined with all migratory movement as well as to provide an insightful look into the multiple ways in which migration shapes the dynamics of one specific city."" * Dinah Hannaford, Texas A&M University *"Beautifully written and moving, Living Tangier is a truly solid ethnography." * Rachel Newcomb, Rollins College *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Revolution Chapter 2. Migration, Space, and Children Chapter 3. Burning Matters Chapter 4. Transit "Illegality" Chapter 5. Europeans in the City Epilogue: Notes on the Migrant Condition Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Martínez-Matsuda provides a detailed glimpse into a moment of historical possibility that has many lessons for present-day advocates of civil rights for immigrant communities. Migrant Citizenship is powerfully written, exceptionally researched, and an outstanding contribution to the literature on immigration, labor, and citizenship studies." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Migrant Citizenship tells a powerful story about how agricultural workers, Popular Front activists, and New Deal liberals reimagined the power of the state. Spanning multiple regions and communities, Martínez-Matsuda beautifully animates individuals, families, and communities." * Labor *"Verónica Martínez-Matsuda's research takes us far beyond John Steinbeck's Weedpatch Camp, the Joad family's gleaming refuge in The Grapes of Wrath (1939), to the multiracial, nationwide network of migrant labor camps as sites of contest over full national belonging and citizenship. . . . With archival research and oral histories from camps across the nation, including Texas and Florida as well as California, Martínez-Matsuda reveals the physical layout of FSA camps (110 total in 1942) as spaces that not only contained and disciplined residents but also formed the literal grounds for new connections, communities, and improved health and welfare." * Journal of American History *"In Migrant Citizenship, Martínez-Matsuda tells the hopeful story of a short-lived experiment by New Deal progressives to extend the era’s promise of robust citizenship and a dignified standard of living to farmworkers, including Mexican Americans and African Americans. While historians to date have dismissed the Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp program for its failures, Martínez-Matsuda foregrounds migrants’ own perspectives to hold it up as a useful example of historical possibility. The result challenges both the characterizations of the New Deal as having effectively ignored the rural poor and the overdetermined declensionist narratives of farmworkers’ rights in the face of twentieth-century agricultural capitalism." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Migrant Citizenship is a magisterial study of the Farm Security Administration and the people it served. In an evocative work that speaks across several fields, Verónica Martínez-Matsuda reveals how FSA officials on the ground and in Washington challenged the political mind-set during World War II by expanding the range of services offered and the hopes for reform encoded within them, highlighting the agency's visionary experiments in democracy." * Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine *"Verónica Martínez-Matsuda foregrounds the perseverance of the workers-especially Japanese and Mexican-who occupied agricultural labor camps in the 1930s and 1940s and drew upon the promises made during the New Deal to argue for 'civil rights' well before the concept applied to Latinx or Asian Americans. Her most important intervention may be her argument that the Farm Security Administration tried (and failed) to extend rights to noncitizens, anticipating the current vogue of rights regardless of citizenship. Migrant Citizenship will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the origins of farm worker activism in this country and the continued struggle to hold the state accountable for injustice in our food system." * Matt Garcia, author of From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement *

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Book SynopsisAddresses innovative approaches to migration research that emerge from the collective effort of scholars from different intellectual backgrounds. Contributors present a comprehensive anthropological exploration of the many topics related to human migration throughout the world, ranging from theoretical treatments to specific case studies.Trade ReviewCabana and Clark have chosen to base their research into migration on careful study of how real people actually behave over time and space. We are well served by this rugged empiricism and by the multidisciplinary breadth of their approach." - Dean R. Snow, Pennsylvania State University"A thorough survey of the ways in which anthropologists across the four subfields have defined and analyzed human migration." - John H. Relethford, author of Reflections of Our Past: How Human History Is Revealed in Our GenesTable of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Preface Part I. Setting the StageIntroduction. Migration in Anthropology: Where We Stand — Graciela S. Cabana and Jeffery J. Clark 1. The Problematic Relationship between Migration and Culture Change — Graciela S. Cabana Part II. Archaeological Approaches 2. Migration in Fluid Social Landscapes — Wesley R. Bernardini 3. Movement and the Unsettling of the Pueblos — Severin M. Fowles 4. S-cuk Kavick: Thoughts on Migratory Process and the Archaeology of O'odham Migration — J. Andrew Darling 5. Disappearance and Diaspora: Contrasting Two Migrations in the Southern U.S. Southwest — Jeffery J. Clark Part III. Archaeolinguistic Approaches6. Using Cognitive Semantics to Relate Mesa Verde Archaeology to Modern Pueblo Languages — Scott G. Ortman 7. Power, Agency, and Identity: Migration and Aftermath in the Mezquital Area of North-Central Mexico — Christopher S. Beekman and Alec F. Christensen Part IV. Ethnolinguistic Approaches 8. Linguistic Paleontology and Migration: The Case of Uto-Aztecan — Jane H. Hill 9. A Numic Migration? Ethnographic Evidence Revisited — Catherine S. Fowler 10. Loanword Histories and the Demography of Migration — Christopher Ehret Part V. Bioanthropological Approaches 11. Identifying Archaeological Human Migration using Biogeochemistry: Case Studies from the South Central Andes — Kelly J. Knudson 12. Migration in Anthropological Genetics — Alan G. Fix 13. Continuity and Change in Anthropological Perspectives on Migration: Insights from Molecular Anthropology — Deborah A. Bolnick 14. Migration Muddles in Prehistory: The Model-Bound Versus Model-Free Distinction — Susan R. Frankenberg and Lyle W. Konigsberg 15. Evolutionary Models of Migration in Human Prehistory and their Anthropological Significance — Keith L. Hunley Part VI. Lessons from Contemporary Migration 16. Modern Perspectives on Ancient Migrations — Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the experiences of immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.Trade ReviewA must read for any person interested in understanding and researching the complexities of Latino/a/x migration to the U.S."—Centro Journal"Expands our understanding of the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in Greater Orlando, as well as the effects of migration on both incoming and outgoing communities." —Space and CultureTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction: New Destinations Buenaventura Lakes Latinization, Landscapes, and Soundscapes The Fractured American Dream Social Class Distinctions and the Latino Elite The Encargado System Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHaiming Liu presents a transnational history of a Chinese family from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It makes it clear that, for many Chinese American families, migration does not mean a break from the past but the beginning of a life that incorporates and transcends dual national boundaries.Trade ReviewThis brilliantly nuanced story... challenges us to rethink immigration and immigrant adaptation in the broader cross-cultural and transnational milieu. -- Min Zhou * inaugural chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Ang *An important history of Chinese American transnationalism, the book provides valuable insights into lesser known aspects of these immigrant lives, and allows us to understand Asian American history through the well-documented experiences of a family. -- Yong Chen * author of Chinese San Francisco, 1850 - 1943: A Transpacific Community *Table of ContentsOrigins of the Chang family Yitang as a merchant immigrant Herbal medicine as a transplanted culture Between troubled home and racist America Asparagus farming as family business Education as a family agenda China as a cultural home

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Road to Citizenship is an important addition to the recent scholarly efforts to examine and understand the naturalization process primarily in the United States, but with cohesive and well-integrated comparative material from Canada, Australia, and Europe as well." -- Luis F. B. Plascencia * author of Disenchanting Citizenship: Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging *"Citizenship matters. But as Aptekar reveals in this superb book, its egalitarian promise is in question. Drawing on government statistics, immigrants’ own words and highly original analyses of naturalization speeches, Aptekar shows that immigrants’ citizenship is fraught by inequality." -- Irene Bloemraad * professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley *"Citizenship matters because, among other things, naturalized immigrants are able to vote, compete for jobs unavailable to noncitizens, receive priority for family members who also wish to immigrate to the US, and enjoy protection against deportation. Aptekar should know, because she experienced the naturalization process as an immigrant from Russia ... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"An excellent book for policymakers, politicians, and academia in undergraduate immigration and inequality classes in sociology and other policy-related disciplines." * Social Forces *"Presents a clear picture of the naturalization experience in contemporary America … Aptekar's creative data collection and theoretical discussion distinguish The Road to Citizenship from much of the research in immigration studies." * International Migration Review *"The Road to Citizenship is an important addition to the recent scholarly efforts to examine and understand the naturalization process primarily in the United States, but with cohesive and well-integrated comparative material from Canada, Australia, and Europe as well." -- Luis F. B. Plascencia * author of Disenchanting Citizenship: Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging *"Citizenship matters. But as Aptekar reveals in this superb book, its egalitarian promise is in question. Drawing on government statistics, immigrants’ own words and highly original analyses of naturalization speeches, Aptekar shows that immigrants’ citizenship is fraught by inequality." -- Irene Bloemraad * professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley *"Citizenship matters because, among other things, naturalized immigrants are able to vote, compete for jobs unavailable to noncitizens, receive priority for family members who also wish to immigrate to the US, and enjoy protection against deportation. Aptekar should know, because she experienced the naturalization process as an immigrant from Russia ... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"An excellent book for policymakers, politicians, and academia in undergraduate immigration and inequality classes in sociology and other policy-related disciplines." * Social Forces *"Presents a clear picture of the naturalization experience in contemporary America … Aptekar's creative data collection and theoretical discussion distinguish The Road to Citizenship from much of the research in immigration studies." * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Roads to CitizenshipChapter 2 Citizenship and InequalityChapter 3 Voices of ImmigrantsChapter 4 Citizenship CeremoniesChapter 5 Welcoming and DefiningChapter 6 Naturalization in Theory and PracticeAppendix Results of Multivariate Analysis Predicting Citizenship Status among ImmigrantsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisRobyn Magalit Rodriguez explores the impact of anti-immigrant municipal ordinances on a range of immigrant groups living in different types of suburban communities. Although it is a case study of New Jersey, In Lady Liberty's Shadow offers crucial insights that can shed fresh light on the national immigration debate.Trade Review"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez makes an original intellectual contribution to the study of migration control that places the politics of race, anti-blackness, and suburban governance at the center of the analysis!" -- Alfonso Gonzales * author of Reform Without Justice *"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez has written an important book for anyone who embraces, chafes at, or aspires to being an American. In Lady Liberty's Shadow reminds us that the specificity of the U.S. suburb reflects and fuels the generality of whiteness in which we all live and breathe. Rightly marking 9/11 as a political launchpad for the latest era of xenophobia and racism, Rodriguez vividly brings together the too-often separate narratives of race and empire, of Trayvon Martin and San Bernadino. This is a deeply personal, refreshingly vulnerable, and urgent piece of scholarship." -- Soya Jung * Senior Partner, ChangeLab *"Rodriguez brilliantly sheds light on border enforcement in New Jersey suburbs, linking alarming local and national policies, Jim Crow segregation and 'Juan Crow' xenophobia, to expose threats to American social justice." -- Allan Punzalan Isaac * author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America *"In Lady Liberty’s Shadow is a heartfelt, enjoyable, and edifying text that tries 'to make sense of anti-immigrant local ordinances in a place where they don’t make sense.'" * American Journal of Sociology *"Implore[s] readers to recognize the hidden work immigrants have continually performed in both cities and suburbs. They also reveal the racialization that immigrants and their descendants experienced and continue to experience in these spaces. This scholarship showcases how urban spaces outside of the Northeast shape immigrant identities and racial politics." * Journal of Urban History *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 The Politics of Immigration and Race in the “Garden State”2 My Hometown: Immigration and Suburban Imaginaries3 The New “Main Street”?: Ethnoburbs and the Complex Politics of Race4 Being the Problem: Perspectives from Immigrant New Jerseyans5 Fighting on the Homefront6 Conclusion NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan? Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and “foreigner”. Jane H. Yamashiro tracks the multiple ways these migrants strategically negotiate and interpret their daily interactions.Trade Review"Based on excellent and extensive research, Redefining Japanesenessis a comprehensive look at a previously understudied area. Yamashiro has produced a work of the highest academic quality." -- Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu * author of When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities *"Not only does Yamashiro give us engaging portraits of how Japanese Americans navigate the social and cultural terrain of contemporary Japan, but she also provides a fundamental rethinking of the analytic frameworks by which migrant identities have been contextualized and understood." -- Michael Omi * University of California, Berkeley *"Yamashiro’s insightful and ethnographically rich account of the migration of Japanese Americans to their ancestral homeland and its impact on their identities is an important intellectual contribution to numerous fields of study." -- Takeyuki Tsuda * Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University *“Jane H. Yamashiro’s Redefining Japaneseness is an innovative and provocative addition to Asian American studies….Yamashiro’s Redefining Japaneseness gives readers a solid understanding of Japanese American identity construction in Japan while also reflecting upon her subjects’ identities after their return to the United States.” * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology Introduction 2Japanese as a Global Ancestral Group: Japaneseness on the US Continent, Hawaii, and Japan 3Differentiated Japanese American Identities: The Continent Versus Hawaii 4From Hapa to Hafu: Mixed Japanese American Identities in Japan 5Language and Names in Shifting Assertions of Japaneseness 6Back in the United States: Japanese American Interpretations of Their Experiences in Japan Conclusion Appendix A: Methodology: Studying Japanese American Experiences in TokyoAppendix B: List of Japanese American Interviewees Who Have Lived in Japan NotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTransnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Trade Review"These thought-provoking, poetic, critical, nuanced, heartbreaking, and diverse accounts of older people's complex roles in transnational 'kin-work' provide an important and understudied contribution to the wider field of Aging Studies." -- Annette Leibing * professor of medical anthropology at the Université de Montréal *“This book is bursting with engaging ethnographic and theoretical contributions from across the world and life course. It’s indisputable: aging and kin-work are critical frames for understanding transnational connections, disruptions, and meaning-making in today’s precarious global economy.” -- Caitrin Lynch * author of Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory *"An indispensable contribution to research on transnationalism, family relations and aging and a must read for anyone working on these topics. Apart from providing various ethnographic writings from different authors that describe their findings nuanced and rich in detail, the book enables the reader to gain new perspectives into the lives of aging migrants." * Anthropology News *"Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work reminds us of the importance of kinship studies in anthropology, making visible the notion of 'kin work,' that hitherto remained underexplored in transnational and aging studies....An essential and accessible book for academics in the social, human, and public policy sciences, as well as for any researcher or student who seeks to deepen their insights into the everyday processes of aging and care in transnational contexts." * Anthropology & Aging *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin WorkParin Dossa and Cati Coe Part One: The Kin-scription of Older People into Care1. Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European UnionNeda Deneva2. The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in CanadaYanqiu Rachel Zhou3. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers’ Narratives of Migration as Kin WorkKristin Elizabeth Yarris Part Two: Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts4. Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers’ Intergenerational Influence in Contemporary ChinaErin L. Raffety5. Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu WomenMushira Mohsin Khan and Karen Kobayashi6. Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in AustraliaLoretta Baldassar Part Three: Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories7. Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care WorkersCati Coe8. Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The Case of Older Caribbean Canadian WomenDelores V. Mullings9. The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care: Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili MuslimsParin Dossa ReferencesAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, New Jersey, which today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast. Trade Review"In this fine-grained and engaging study of a multi-ethnic community just outside of New York City, Matsumoto uncovers the changing dynamics of American suburban life. This book will appeal to those studying urban sociology, race and ethnicity, and immigration." -- Andrew Deener * author of Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles *"This book provides a detailed backstory to Fort Lee's post-World War II reinvention as an Asian American space. The experiences of its Japanese, Korean, and Chinese residents raise hefty questions about identity and community in the 21st-century metropolis." -- Karín Aguilar-San Juan * author of Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America *"Beyond the City and the Bridge is a timely, well-researched, and necessary study on Asian American experiences east of California. This is recommended for scholars and students interested in sociology, immigration, Asian American studies, urban/suburban studies, and New Jersey history." * New Jersey Studies *"Given the current contentious political climate surrounding migrants and immigration policy in the United States, a nuanced understanding of the new suburban landscapes of immigrant settlement is particularly relevant and valuable to urban sociologists as well as urban planners and policy makers. This book will be of interest to scholars of race and ethnicity, immigration, and North American suburbs." * American Journal of Sociology *"Matsumoto fills a critical gap in suburban research on the East Coast." * Contemporary Sociology *"The fine-grained ethnographic evidence that Matsumoto marshals in the book is certainly impressive. [An] engaging study." * H-Net *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Introduction: Globalizing Suburbia 1 A Town of Immigrants 2 Community and Communities 3 Strategies of Assimilation and Distinction 4 Accommodating “Others” 5 Remaking Asian Ethnicity in Suburbia Conclusion: Reconsidering Assimilation and Ethnicity in the American Suburb Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education "Maritza Cardenas’s deeply engaging book provides an authoritative account of the reimagination of Central America by those displaced subjects presently ensnared in US immigration politics, and still seeking validation in their new home. Her examination of the diasporic nostalgia of US Central American cultural practices traces a complex history dating back to the nineteenth century. Cardenas has written the best explanation I have ever read of these thorny issues now at the center of present-day national politics. This book is certainly an academic tour de force."— Arturo Arias, author of After the Bombs and Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America "Constituting Central American-Americans breaks new ground and brings new insights to the fields of Latinx studies and ethnic studies."— American Literary History "Maritza E. Cárdenas’ Constituting Central American-Americans offers an exploration of the complexities of Central American imaginaries, both within the isthmus and within the U.S. diaspora, that is both instructional and revitalizing."— Latino Studies "Constituting Central American-Americans represents an important, well-theorized intervention in Latina/o Studies by challenging the erasure of Central Americans by their Latino counterparts and the broader mainstream culture in the United States."— Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries “This book is a must read for Latinx Studies scholars. Lucidly written, it offers us multiple cultural and discursive approaches from which to understand the collective centrality of Central Americans in the diaspora, their transnationalities, the politics of recognition and de-recognition, and the relationalities to hegemonic Mexicanidades. Maritza Cárdenas argues for a more complicated understanding of Central American Americans as new diasporic ethnic sociocultural subjects in the United States. I most welcomed the author’s relational analysis of Central Americans passing for Mexican in Los Angeles, one that sets a high bar for future studies of interlatino/a power differentials and horizontal hierarchies.”— Frances Aparicio, coauthor Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume ITable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Isthmus Imaginary: La Patria Grande Centroaméricana 1. Remembering La Patria Grande: Locating the Nation in Central American History 2. Constructing the Central American National Imaginary Part II: The US Diaspora: Little Central America 3. Performing Centralamericanismo: Heterotopias and Transnational Identities at the COFECA Parade 4. Subjects in Passing: Central American-Americans, Latinidad, and the Politics of Dislocation Epilogue: La Bestia and Beyond: Migration and the Politics of Mourning Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCentral Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this group. Constituting Central American-Americans is an exploration of the historical and disciplinary conditions that have structured U.S. Central American identity. Trade Review"Constituting Central American-Americans represents an important, well-theorized intervention in Latina/o Studies by challenging the erasure of Central Americans by their Latino counterparts and the broader mainstream culture in the United States." -- Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández * author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries *"Maritza Cardenas’s deeply engaging book provides an authoritative account of the reimagination of Central America by those displaced subjects presently ensnared in US immigration politics, and still seeking validation in their new home. Her examination of the diasporic nostalgia of US Central American cultural practices traces a complex history dating back to the nineteenth century. Cardenas has written the best explanation I have ever read of these thorny issues now at the center of present-day national politics. This book is certainly an academic tour de force." -- Arturo Arias * author of After the Bombs and Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America *“This book is a must read for Latinx Studies scholars. Lucidly written, it offers us multiple cultural and discursive approaches from which to understand the collective centrality of Central Americans in the diaspora, their transnationalities, the politics of recognition and de-recognition, and the relationalities to hegemonic Mexicanidades. Maritza Cárdenas argues for a more complicated understanding of Central American Americans as new diasporic ethnic sociocultural subjects in the United States. I most welcomed the author’s relational analysis of Central Americans passing for Mexican in Los Angeles, one that sets a high bar for future studies of interlatino/a power differentials and horizontal hierarchies.” -- Frances Aparicio * coauthor Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I *"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Constituting Central American-Americans breaks new ground and brings new insights to the fields of Latinx studies and ethnic studies." * American Literary History *"Maritza E. Cárdenas’ Constituting Central American-Americans offers an exploration of the complexities of Central American imaginaries, both within the isthmus and within the U.S. diaspora, that is both instructional and revitalizing." * Latino Studies *"Constituting Central American-Americans represents an important, well-theorized intervention in Latina/o Studies by challenging the erasure of Central Americans by their Latino counterparts and the broader mainstream culture in the United States." -- Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández * author of Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries *"Maritza Cardenas’s deeply engaging book provides an authoritative account of the reimagination of Central America by those displaced subjects presently ensnared in US immigration politics, and still seeking validation in their new home. Her examination of the diasporic nostalgia of US Central American cultural practices traces a complex history dating back to the nineteenth century. Cardenas has written the best explanation I have ever read of these thorny issues now at the center of present-day national politics. This book is certainly an academic tour de force." -- Arturo Arias * author of After the Bombs and Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America *“This book is a must read for Latinx Studies scholars. Lucidly written, it offers us multiple cultural and discursive approaches from which to understand the collective centrality of Central Americans in the diaspora, their transnationalities, the politics of recognition and de-recognition, and the relationalities to hegemonic Mexicanidades. Maritza Cárdenas argues for a more complicated understanding of Central American Americans as new diasporic ethnic sociocultural subjects in the United States. I most welcomed the author’s relational analysis of Central Americans passing for Mexican in Los Angeles, one that sets a high bar for future studies of interlatino/a power differentials and horizontal hierarchies.” -- Frances Aparicio * coauthor Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America, Volume I *"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Constituting Central American-Americans breaks new ground and brings new insights to the fields of Latinx studies and ethnic studies." * American Literary History *"Maritza E. Cárdenas’ Constituting Central American-Americans offers an exploration of the complexities of Central American imaginaries, both within the isthmus and within the U.S. diaspora, that is both instructional and revitalizing." * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Isthmus Imaginary: La Patria Grande Centroaméricana 1. Remembering La Patria Grande: Locating the Nation in Central American History 2. Constructing the Central American National Imaginary Part II: The US Diaspora: Little Central America 3. Performing Centralamericanismo: Heterotopias and Transnational Identities at the COFECA Parade 4. Subjects in Passing: Central American-Americans, Latinidad, and the Politics of Dislocation Epilogue: La Bestia and Beyond: Migration and the Politics of Mourning Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGreenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend - immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America has been revitalized by the arrival of these immigrants in Greenport, where she lives.Trade Review"In taking on one town's immigration success story, Gordon has created a compelling framework for exploring a complex topic." * Publishers Weekly *"Following an in-depth examination of immigration history in Greenport, from early whaling communities to the impact of Italian immigrant brick workers and beyond, Gordon investigates large-concept issues such as challenges facing immigrant children in the educational system, restrictions and inequalities in immigrant housing, labor rights for immigrant workers, and more ... Concise and accessible, this work is recommended for readers interested in immigrant concerns and their impact on American history, economy, and culture." * Library Journal *"[A] lively and valuable contribution … thorough but not pedantic, granual at times, sweeping at others, and, at its core, a personal story." * The East Hampton Star *"A worthwhile addition to any East End bookshelf." * East End Beacon *"Diana Gordon does a good job bringing these immigrants to life, giving them a voice. By showing that they struggle to learn the language, get by in school, and find meaningful employment; they are trying to make the American dream happen. But as with all stories of immigrants there are those that do not want them around, and Mrs. Gordon does a good job showing that they exist as well." 5 star review * San Diego Book Review *"Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America documents a U.S. trend of immigrants spreading beyond coastal cities into the rest of the country, and narrows the example to Greenport, New York, a village on Long Island which has seen many changes from an influx of Latinos. The author lives in this small town and so is in the perfect position to observe its evolution: chapters discuss taxes, schools, jobs, and local business evolution, showing how the influx has revitalized the town's entire structure and led to growth and positive results. Highly recommended." * California Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review *"This beautifully written book tells what happens when small town America meets contemporary Latino immigration, an inspiring, yet also heartbreaking encounter between the American dream and the American dilemma. A compelling account and a deeply satisfying read." -- Roger Waldinger * author of The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and their Homelands *Table of ContentsPreface Part I A Village Transformed 1 Hola, Greenport Profile Lost and Found Part II Absorbing Immigrants since 1840 2 The European Legacy 3 Boom, Bust, and Back Again 4 Migration from Within 5 Is Demographics Destiny? Part III Classroom Challenges 6 Schooling New Citizens Profile Edgar and the Blue Mosque Part IV Settling In 7 Housing or Houses? Profile Sofia’s Quest Part V Toward Community Health 8 Cobbled Care Profile An Accidental Nurse Part VI Dilemmas of Control 9 Legal Limbo Profile Deferred and Delivered Part VII Working Lives 10 Where There’s a Will There’s a Job (or Two) Profile Sacrifice and Success Part VIII. Now What? Profile The New American 11 A Small-Town Model? Notes Index

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