Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisSince 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with green cards, have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsela life-time banishment from what is, in many cases, the only country they have ever known. U.S.-based families and communities face the loss of a worker, neighbor, spouse, parent, or child. Many of the deported are sentenced home to a country which they only knew as an infant, whose language they do not speak, or where a family lives in extreme poverty or indebtedness for not yet being able to pay the costs of their previous migration. But what does this actually look like and what are the systems and processes and who are the people who are enforcing deportation policies and practices? The New Deportations Delirium responds to these questions. Taken as a whole, the volume raises consciousness about Trade ReviewThe New Deportation Deliriumis a timely and informative book, and American citizens and policymakers would be well served to acquaint themselves with its message. * Anthropology Review Database *By analyzing the critical ambiguities in current deportation law, the plight of & mixed-status families, the pressures facing immigration judges, and many other problems, this book makes a substantial contribution. * Choice *Ideal for undergraduate and graduate students new to the study of migration and enforcement,The New Deportation Deliriumtraces the historical development of deportation since 1996 and details the intended and unintended consequences of these policies across time, space, and generations. It offers a rich and nuanced survey of some of the principle arguments across disciplines, while offering new ways to view and understand research and practice for those more seasoned in the debates on detention and deportation. * PsycCRITIQUES *A truly interdisciplinary work which provides the reader with a unique perspective on deportation and its impact on communities both in the United States and receiving countries. I would recommend this book to undergraduate, graduate students and policy makers with a serious interest in studying this subject. -- Richard A. Boswell,Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Global Programs, U.C. Hastings College of the LawIn The New Deportations Delirium, practitioners from an array of disciplines peel away at the varieties of invidious ways in which the policy is enacted and lived in real people's lives. Kanstroom and Lykes have assembled a tour-de-force cast of authors to provide unique and important insights into the U.S. 'deportation delirium.' -- Carola Suárez-Orozco,University of California, Los AngelesThis remarkable volume brings together an unprecedented set of scholars from many disciplines to provide voice to the many millions in the U.S. who face the threat of detention and deportation in their everyday routines. The mix of careful legal analysis, social science research, and examination of the profound effects on families, children and youth in this book provides extraordinarily important guidance for those working with, representing, or studying the unauthorized and their family members in the U.S. -- Hirokazu Yoshikawa,Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education and University Professor, NYUA critical and timely treatment of what has become, both intentionally and inadvertently, a central tenet of contemporary U.S. immigration policy: mass deportation. The co-editors provide effective rationale for the need to question the efficacy as well as ethics of deportation, an especially harsh approach that undermines health, education, and basic human rights for millions of people. -- James Loucky,Western Washington University

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Book SynopsisThe first book to comprehensivelydescribe the history, theory, and application of prosecutorial discretion inimmigration law When Beatles star John Lennon faced deportation from the U.S. in the 1970s, his lawyer Leon Wildes made a groundbreaking argument. He argued that Lennon should be granted nonpriority status pursuant to INS's (now DHS's) policy of prosecutorial discretion. In U.S. immigration law, the agency exercises prosecutorial discretion favorably when it refrains from enforcing the full scope of immigration law. A prosecutorial discretion grant is important to an agency seeking to focus its priorities on the truly dangerous in order to conserve resources and to bring compassion into immigration enforcement. The Lennon case marked the first moment that the immigration agency's prosecutorial discretion policy became public knowledge. Today, the concept of prosecutorial discretion is more widely known in light of the Obama Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood ArrivalsTrade ReviewThis timely review of immigration prosecutorial discretion will be very valuable to those interested in immigration law. Wadhia gives a detailed description of the different forms such discretion can take, with a particular emphasis on deferred action, including President Obamas Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).The book is an essential resource for researchers wishing to study deferred action prior to and immediately after the introduction of DACA. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *The book examines how prosecutorial discretion interacts with the resource constraints of government agencies alongside immigrants humanitarian circumstances. It expands understandings of how 'deferred action,' a significant form of prosecutorial discretions, is employed by non-citizens as a protective tool from deportation. * International Migration Review *Beyond Deportation is a compelling and thoughtful account of the history of the use of prosecutorial discretion in US immigration law and policy, and how that history continues to shape todays immigration programs. -- Margaret D. Stock,author of Immigration Law and the MilitaryIn Beyond Deportation, Wadhia has managed to combine meticulous research, scholarly rigor, easy readability, and an intense human compassion in highlighting one of the most volatile issues of our time. With amazing ease, she takes on immigration, the rule of law, and the role of executive branch discretion in tempering our harsh deportation laws with humanitarian restraint and a common sense stewardship of our limited enforcement resources. For immigrants and their families, and for all who care about law and justice, this is a powerful and compelling story, eloquently told. -- Stephen Legomsky,John S. Lehmann University Professor, Washington University in St. LouisWhen there are more than 11 million people eligible for deportation, something is seriously wrong with our immigration system and our enforcement system, but Congress has so far refused to legislate and advance immigration reform. This inaction forces enforcement agencies to prioritize and make choices about who they will deport first and whose deportation they will defer so that we can focus on removing those who pose a risk to our public safety. This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of this basic truth in American law and immigration policy. The fact that this issue is at the center of the debate over immigration reform right now because the House of Representatives refuses to reform the current system, makes this work timely and incredibly helpful for scholars, students, policymakers, and leaders. -- Luis V. Gutiérrez,U.S. House of RepresentativesWithBeyond Deportation, Wadhia has simultaneously created a short, accessible, and comprehensive primer on prosecutorial discretion in immigration while raising profound questions on the usage and evolution of this tool into one that is more transparent, humanitarian, and just. * Border Criminologies *"The definitive word on the all-important tool of prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement. Wadhia traces the fascinating history of the exercise of such discretion under U.S. immigration law, which includes careful study of the famous case of John Lennon and Yoko Ono through to the use of such discretion in President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Rather than simply describing the history, Beyond Deportationoffers concrete recommendations about prosecutorial discretion in immigration enforcement, including greater transparency in decisionmaking and rules that limit government attorneys in the exercise of discretion. Wadhia has written an important analysis of the most significant positive immigration development of the Obama administration. -- Kevin R. Johnson,University of California, DavisTable of ContentsContents Foreword ix Leon Wildes Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Primer: Understanding How Prosecutorial Discretion Functions in the Immigration System 7 2. The Early Years: The Deportation Case of John Lennon and Evolution of Immigration Prosecutorial Discretion 14 3. Lessons from Criminal Law: How Immigration Prosecutorial Discretion Compares to the Criminal System 33 4. Deferred Action: Examining the Jewel (or a Precious Form) of Prosecutorial Discretion 54 5. Presidential Portrait: Prosecutorial Discretion during the Obama Administration 88 6. Going to Court: The Role of the Judiciary in Prosecutorial Discretion Decisions 109 7. Open Government: Transparency in Prosecutorial Discretion and Why It Matters 134 8. Reform: Improving Prosecutorial Discretion in the Immigration System 146 Abbreviations 157 Authorities 161 Notes 169 Index 223 About the Author 233

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Book SynopsisHow Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in AmericaThe US invasion of Iraq in 2003 caused the largest forced migration in the Middle East since 1948, with millions of people fleeing to Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, European Union, Australia and the United States. In Iraqi Refugees in the United States, Ken R. Crane explores the uphill climb faced by Iraqi refugees who have sought belonging in a country engaged in an ongoing War on Terror. Drawing on numerous interviews and fieldwork, Crane explores the diverse experiences of a community of Iraqi refugees, showing how they have struggled to negotiate their place in the wake of mass displacement. He highlights the promise of belonging, as well as their many painful encounters with exclusion. Ultimately, Crane provides a window into the complexities of what becoming American means for Iraqi refugees, even as they are perceived by other Americans as security threats.As debates about immigration and refugee status continue Trade ReviewWith the ‘War on Terror’ and ongoing panic about migration and Islam, the few Iraqi refugees the US has admitted have faced particular challenges. Ken R. Crane shows how some of them have met these challenges with an account of how struggles to belong—that began with sanction-induced stresses and the US invasion—continued as refugees settled in the US. His up-close analysis of Iraqis living in the far-flung suburbs and exurbs at the edge of Los Angeles, known as the Inland Empire, shows how they “obliquely” resist assumptions about success and the good life implicit in state efforts to mold ideal immigrants, make concerted efforts to maintain connections among themselves, and find common ground with their Latinx neighbors. Based on nearly a decade of research that altered Crane’s own previous assumptions as a humanitarian worker, the book critically connects US foreign and domestic policies by letting the reader follow the evolution of families of different backgrounds and faith communities as they face Islamophobia, racialization, and find their way into new American lives at bake sales, soccer practices and neighborhood tiendas. -- Susan Ossman, author of Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork: A Memoir of Anthropology and ArtCompassionately and carefully tells the story of Iraqis displaced from their home country and forced to resettle in the U.S. owing to George W. Bush’s unbecoming ‘war on terror.’ Crane poignantly and meticulously builds an understanding of what belongingness meant for the displaced and resettled Iraqis in a country whose political decisions and actions had upended their lives. The book amplifies the voices of a diverse group of Iraqis as they combatted the worst economic recession, the rising Islamophobia and the constant reminder of the violence they fled. A compelling portrait of resilience, belonging, and an intense desire for a peaceful future for their families and community. -- Pallavi Banerjee, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of CalgaryThis book can be a useful addition to classes on refugee integration, migration, and acculturation…the book provides a good, introductory analysis of Middle Eastern homemaking in the United States. * Mashriq & Mahjar *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn five well-written, well-researched chapters, Oliveira focuses on the tensions and expectations immigrant mothers face, on the participation of these mothers in the education of their children in both Mexico and in the US, and on the ways children maintain bonds with mothers and siblings across two nations and cultures. She also notes the distinctive gender differences and educational achievements among these children. This book will be useful to anyone interested in the contours of transnational parenting in the 21st century. -- CHOICEMotherhood across Borders is a vivid and engaging ethnography about how mothers, grandmothers, caregivers, and children fare when they are divided by, but also connected despite, the U.S.-Mexico border. Focusing on the voices of those directly impactedpeople of all ages, across generations, and in both Mexico and the United StatesOliveira provides an intimate portrayal of the ways that motherhood, and caregiving more generally, is shifting in transnational context. -- Deborah A. Boehm,author of Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation"In this astute and sensitive ethnography, Oliveira does a remarkable job of capturing the poignant, mundane, tragic, and frustrating aspects of mothering from afar. The Mexican migrant women in her book spend their lives caring-- for children and other family members back home, family members in New York City, and often other peoples children, too--but all of their caring is not capable of fully bridging the distance or healing family ties broken by cruel immigration policies. If early studies of transnationalism made us optimistic that technology could link diasporic communities, this book reminds us that even in an era of Facetime and Facebook, migration involves separation. The difficult negotiations between mothers, other caregivers, and children, as well as between children (often siblings who have never met), are portrayed with compassion and sensitivity. -- Alyshia Gálvez,Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College/CUNYRedolent with themes and experiences that are shared by millions of families around the globe. ... Blazes a pathway toward a richer understanding of how senses of belonging shift across the multiple affiliations maintained by these mobile populations: to their family networks, to their communities, and to more than one nation-state. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisSuitable for all levels/libraries, this book explores the human side of immigration.Trade Review"Boehm crafts an enthralling piece of feminist, anthropological writing that weaves the human side of immigration into her scholarship." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Boehm's monograph is a poignant ethnographic account of displacement and resilience among Mexican transnationals who feel that they are 'neither from here nor from there.' It's also a critical review of current US border enforcement policies which exacerbate illegality and precariousness among migrants." * Border Criminologies *"[A] wonderful book that demonstrates that combining interviews with participant observationand doing it wellcan produce multiple benefits....There is a lot to learn from this timely book, and it should be read widely. I particularly recommend it to anyone interested in immigrant families, immigration law, citizenship, and families in general, but its appeal should go beyond academia. This book would be ideal for helping politicians and pundits to understand that political decisions regarding immigration law have broad and deep consequences, often beyond the territory in which laws are enacted." -- Cecilia Menjivar * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Fortuitously published just as the U.S enters new discussions about what to do with the legal status (and, thus, lives) of the very undocumented Mexicans she studied. Hopefully policymakers will read it and hear voices not likely to be at the negotiating tables. It is precisely this type of serious yet humane and deeply human scholarship that might change a few minds." -- Sarah J. Mahler * International Migration Review *"Intimate Migrationsexplores the human side of immigration, vividly portraying everyday lives on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border. Drawing on interviews and field work in Albuquerque and the small rancho of San Marcos in San Luis Potosi, Boehm outlines the sharp differences between male and female migration. Young men follow in the footsteps of their fathers, brothers, and uncles and migrate to become adults and providers, while women and children remain in the rancho or migrate much later, often to care for households of male kin rather than to enter the work force. These gender differences are in turn shaped by the potency and reach of U.S. policy that constructs 'illegal' and 'legal' persons, constrains movement, conveys citizenship, and allows for family reunification- policies that fall unevenly on kin networks. A moving panorama of how these contradictions play out in personal lives." -- Louise Lamphere,University of New Mexico"With an ethnographers eye for detail, Boehm shows us the hopes, dreams, frustrations, tensions, divisions, and enduring qualities of lives among families connected and split by the U.S.-Mexico border.Intimate Migrations puts a human face on the reasons why people migrate, changing gender relations, and how children experience these dynamic and fluid processes, all of which are subject to increasingly restrictionist U.S. immigration laws. . . . A must read for anyone interested in understanding our complex, transnational world." -- Leo Chavez,University of California, Irvine"Recommended for all levels/libraries." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: De Ambos Lados / From Both Sides 1 Placing Intimate Migrations Part I. Transborder Families 2 Mitad Alla, Mitad Aqui/Half There, Half Here 3 Family "Reunification" Part II. Gendered Migrations 4 !Ya Soy Hombre y Mujer!/Now I Am a Man and a Woman! 5 Gendered Borderlands Part III. Children on the Move 6 Por Mis Hijos/For My Children 7 Here-Not Here Conclusion: Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla/ From Neither Here Nor There Postscript: Caught Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisHow Iraqi refugees navigate life, belonging, and exclusion in AmericaThe US invasion of Iraq in 2003 caused the largest forced migration in the Middle East since 1948, with millions of people fleeing to Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, European Union, Australia and the United States. In Iraqi Refugees in the United States, Ken R. Crane explores the uphill climb faced by Iraqi refugees who have sought belonging in a country engaged in an ongoing War on Terror. Drawing on numerous interviews and fieldwork, Crane explores the diverse experiences of a community of Iraqi refugees, showing how they have struggled to negotiate their place in the wake of mass displacement. He highlights the promise of belonging, as well as their many painful encounters with exclusion. Ultimately, Crane provides a window into the complexities of what becoming American means for Iraqi refugees, even as they are perceived by other Americans as security threats.As debates about immigration and refugee status continue Trade Review"With the ‘War on Terror’ and ongoing panic about migration and Islam, the few Iraqi refugees the US has admitted have faced particular challenges. Ken R. Crane shows how some of them have met these challenges with an account of how struggles to belong—that began with sanction-induced stresses and the US invasion—continued as refugees settled in the US. His up-close analysis of Iraqis living in the far-flung suburbs and exurbs at the edge of Los Angeles, known as the Inland Empire, shows how they “obliquely” resist assumptions about success and the good life implicit in state efforts to mold ideal immigrants, make concerted efforts to maintain connections among themselves, and find common ground with their Latinx neighbors. Based on nearly a decade of research that altered Crane’s own previous assumptions as a humanitarian worker, the book critically connects US foreign and domestic policies by letting the reader follow the evolution of families of different backgrounds and faith communities as they face Islamophobia, racialization, and find their way into new American lives at bake sales, soccer practices and neighborhood tiendas." -- Susan Ossman, author of Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork: A Memoir of Anthropology and Art"Compassionately and carefully tells the story of Iraqis displaced from their home country and forced to resettle in the U.S. owing to George W. Bush’s unbecoming ‘war on terror.’ Crane poignantly and meticulously builds an understanding of what belongingness meant for the displaced and resettled Iraqis in a country whose political decisions and actions had upended their lives. The book amplifies the voices of a diverse group of Iraqis as they combatted the worst economic recession, the rising Islamophobia and the constant reminder of the violence they fled. A compelling portrait of resilience, belonging, and an intense desire for a peaceful future for their families and community." -- Pallavi Banerjee, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary"This book can be a useful addition to classes on refugee integration, migration, and acculturation…the book provides a good, introductory analysis of Middle Eastern homemaking in the United States." * Mashriq & Mahjar *

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Book SynopsisThe impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youth In the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young peoplethose who migrate as well as those who are affected by the migration of others. A primary focus of the volume is to understand how children and youth encounter, move through, or are outside of a range of legal processes, including border enforcement, immigration detention, federal custody, courts, and state processes of categorization. Even if young people do not directly interact with state immigration systemsbecause they are U.S. citizens or have avoided detentionthey are nonetheless deeply affected by the reach of the government in its many forms. Contributors privilege the voicesTrade ReviewIllegal Encounters examines the experiences of young migrants, bringing critical social, cultural, and legal perspectives to issues as current as todays headlines. The collection of scholars is superb, and includes authors who themselves migrated to the U.S. as children. Rarely does an edited volume result in such integrated and coherent chapters to produce an instant classic that challenges what we think we know about the migration experience. Illegal Encounters is a must read for anyone interested in how young people manage the perilous journey across borders and the U.S. legal system. -- Leo R. Chavez,author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the NationDeborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio have assembled a powerful and heart-wrenching collection of essays that elucidate the myriad ways young peoples lives are shaped, and often devastated, by the immigration laws and enforcement practices of the United States. This volume brings together the voices of leading immigration scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by our punitive immigration laws. This assemblage of gripping narratives will be a valuable read for anyone wishing to know more about how immigration laws affect youth, and consequently, the future of this nation. Those who teach courses on immigration, race, ethnicity, children and youth, as well as justice will find this volume to be a compelling addition to their course. -- Tanya Golash-Boza,University of California, MercedShines much needed light on the effects of US immigration policy on young migrants in the United States… Illegal Encounters establishes critical terrain for further scholarship and advocacy. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *

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Book SynopsisHow do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? This book explores these questions through eleven selected case studies situated in geographic contexts around the globe.Trade ReviewBorder Politics is a groundbreaking book on how borders and boundariesboth territorial and symbolicshape the mobilization of social movements at the same time that they are instrumental in the very often conflicting identity construction processes of social movements participants. Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez have arranged a significant, comprehensive, and timely collection of essays. -- Pablo Vila,author of Border Identifications and Ethnography at the BorderThe edited collection offers an important contribution to the sociology of bordering. Rather than focusing on struggles over the militarization of geographical borderlands as outlined by scholars like Reece Jones, the contribution of the book lies in its original approach to the analysis of social movements for which borders and boundaries are sites of struggle. More precisely, the chapters depict how these social movements maintain, contest, produce, and dissolve borders and boundaries. * Border Criminologies *This edited volume highlights many contemporary geopolitical issues in the social sciences. The contributors take a global perspective, examining problems from Asia, North America, Australia, Europe, and Africa. * Choice *Table of Contents1. Border Politics: Contests over Territory, Nation, Identity, 1 and Belonging Jennifer Bickham Mendez and Nancy A. Naples Part I: Gendered, Ethno-Nationalist Struggles and Militarization 2. "Border Granny Wants You!": Grandmothers Policing Nation 35 at the US-Mexico Border Jennifer L. Johnson 3. Defending the Nation: Militarism, Women's Empowerment, 60 and the Hindu Right Meera Sehgal 4. Borders, Territory, and Ethnicity: Women and the Naga 95 Peace Process Duncan McDuie-Ra 5. Imperial Gazes and Queer Politics: Re/Reading Female 120 Political Subjectivity in Pakistan Moon M. Charania Part II: Politicized Identities and Belonging 6. Indigenous Peoples and Colonial Borders: Sovereignty, 153 Nationhood, Identity, and Activism Sarah Maddison 7. Constricting Boundaries: Collective Identity in the Tea 177 Party Movement Deana A. Rohlinger, Jesse Klein, Tara M. Stamm, and Kyle Rogers 8. Occupy Slovenia: How Migrant Movements Contributed 206 to New Forms of Direct Democracy Maple Razsa and Andrej Kurnik 9. Challenging Borders, Imagining Europe: Transnational 230 LGBT Activism in a New Europe Phillip M. Ayoub and David Paternotte Part III: Contested Solidarities and Emerging Sites of Struggle 10. Frames, Boomerangs, and Global Assemblages: Border 261 Distortions in the Global Resistance to Dam Building in Lesotho Yvonne A. Braun and Michael C. Dreiling 11. Networks, Place, and Barriers to Cross-Border Organizing

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Book SynopsisUsing a multi-method ethnographic approach, Why Control Immigration? argues that the scarcity of legal labour and the ensuing growth of illegal immigration can act as a patronage resource for bureaucratic and regional elites in Russia.Trade Review"As one of the first English-language books on Russian migration policy, Why Control Immigration will make a significant and timely contribution to both migration studies in general, and to the Eurasian migration literature in particular…the combination of rich ethnographic data with a thorough document analysis [makes the book] a must-read for all those interested in understanding the key features of the Russian migration regime and its implications for the broader debates in migration studies" -- Rustamjon Urinboyev, Lund University * Slavic Review, vol 78 no 2 *Table of Contents1. Why Control Immigration? 2. The Multi-level Balancing Act of Migration Management 3. Scarcity Mechanism #1: Quotas as a Legacy of State Planning 4. Scarcity Mechanism # 2: Patents as State Capitalism 5. Local Politics of Immigration in Moscow 6. Regional Politics of Immigration in Sverdlovsk 7. Regional Politics of Immigration in Krasnodar

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on an extensive archive of over one hundred oral narratives collected and recorded with Iraqi women in three sites: Amman, Detroit, and Toronto. Nadia Jones-Gailani demonstrates how the relationships between ethno-religious migrants, nation, and citizenship are shaped by the traumatic experiences of forced displacement and integration into new communities and national imaginaries. This book also examines the broader historical trends that have precipitated migration from Iraq. While informed by research into the archival documentary record on Iraqis in North America, this book is first and foremost a study of gender and memory that focuses on women’s oral histories. By historicizing the process through which ethno-religious and ethno-national communities become fractured and remade, Jones-Gailani explores the expectations and realities of women as the supposed biological and cultural reproducers of the nation. The Iraqi women featured in this book asseTrade Review"The book is undoubtedly to become a core point of reference for researchers or anyone interested in the histories of Iraq beyond its national (both spatially and ideologically) borders." -- Enaya Hammad Othman * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Narrative, Memory, and Identity 1. Gendered Narratives of State: The “Project for the Rewriting of History” 2. Resisting the State: Shi’i, Chaldean, and Kurdish Women’s Counter-Narratives 3. Towards an Affective Methodology 4. Qahwa and Kleiche: Metaphor, Memory, and Meaning 5. Embodied and Political Subjectivities Conclusion

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Book SynopsisInternational students move out to move up. And while, as migrants, they are defined by their relationship to the state, students interact with multiple institutions in the process of achieving personal goals. This collection examines the connection between students and these institutions.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Education Migration, Social Mobility, and Structuring Institutions Ann H. Kim and Min-Jung Kwak Part I: International Students in the Canadian Context 2. “International students are… golden”: Canada’s Changing Policy Contexts, Approaches, and National Peculiarities in Attracting International Students as Future Immigrants Roopa Desai Trilokekar and Amira El Masri 3. Explaining International Student Mobility to Canada: A Review Ann H. Kim and Gunjan Sondhi 4. Barriers to Knowledge on International Students and a Potential Opportunity Ann H. Kim, Reem Attieh, and Timothy Owen Part II: Integration and Adjustment in Educational Institutions 5. The International Undergraduate Experience: A Developmental Psychological Study Maxine Gallander Wintre, Stella Dentakos, Saeid Chavoshi, Abirami R. Kandasamy, and Lorna Wright 6. Legal Status and School Experiences for Families with Young Students Ann H. Kim, Min-Jung Kwak, Wansoo Park, Eunjung Lee, and Sung Hyun Yun Part III: Local Considerations: Ethnic Communities and Families 7. Adapting to China’s Students at the Gateway: Stories of Chinese Community Associations and Their New Student Members Jean Michel Montsion 8. ‘Settlers’ Meeting the ‘Settled’: International Students Encountering the South Asian ‘Diaspora’ in Ontario, Canada Gunjan Sondhi 9. Global Restructuring, Gender, and Education Migration: Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada Guida C. Man and Elena Chou 10. ‘A Typical Girogi Family Experience?’ The Transnational Migration and Heterogeneous Identity Formation of Girogi Families in Toronto, Canada Min-Jung Kwak, Wansoo Park, Eunjung Lee, Sangyoo Lee, and Jeong-Eui Lee Part IV: The Post-Student Experience 11. Student Transitions: Earnings of Former International Students in Canada’s Labour Market Yuqian Lu and Feng Hou 12. Bumpy Roads: Tracing Pathways into Practice for International Students in Nursing Margaret Walton-Roberts and Jenna Hennebry Afterword: A Multi-Level Perspective on Education Migration Min-Jung Kwak and Ann H. Kim

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Book SynopsisThis book examines Yugoslavia's efforts to build and maintain a relationship with its migrant workers in Western Europe through cultural and educational programs.Trade Review"A vivid and nuanced picture of the difficult choices faced by a state seeking to govern its citizens abroad and of the mixed feelings about the homeland that its citizens abroad developed … It will be of great interest and inspiration well beyond Yugoslav studies, in a world in which labor migration continues to be an important phenomenon." -- Sara Bernard, University of Glasgow * Slavic Review *"A fascinating account of a complex social phenomenon … Citizens without Borders can be considered as the first systematic attempt to write about work migrations from Yugoslavia in general." -- Ondřej Daniel, Charles University * American Historical Review *“An insightful, fresh, and fascinating perspective on the implications of transnational policies for socialist Yugoslavia and beyond.” -- Francesca Rolandi, Masaryk Institute * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Seeing Migrants 2. Seeing Migration Like a State 3. Picturing Migrants: The Gastabajter in Yugoslav Film Part II: Building Ties 4. A Listening Ear: Cultivating Citizens through Radio Broadcasting 5. A Nation Talking to Itself: Yugoslav Newspapers for Migrants 6. Weaving a Web of Transnational Governance: Yugoslav Workers’ Associations 7. Migrants Talk Back: Responses to Surveys 8. Building a Transnational Education System for the Second Generation 9. They Felt the Breath of the Homeland 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRefugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Critical Refugee Studies in Canada: An Introduction Part One: Historicization 1. Shifting Grounds of Asylum in Canadian Public Discourse and Policy Johanna Reynolds and Jennifer Hyndman 2. Untangling the Strands of Memory: Historicizing the 1914 Komagata Maru Incident and the Concept of Refugeeness Alia Somani 3. Erasing Exclusion: Adrienne Clarkson and the Promise of the Refugee Experience Laura Madokoro 4. Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship Peter Nyers Part Two: Conjunctions 5. Where Are We From?: Decolonizing Indigenous and Refugee Relations Jennifer Adese and Malissa Phung 6. Queer and Trans Migrants, Colonial Logics, and the Politics of Refusal Edward Ou Jin Lee 7. Producing the Figure of the “Super Refugee” through Discourses of Success, Exceptionalism, Ableism, and Inspiration Gada Mahrouse 8. Cross-Racial Refugee Fiction: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For Donald Goellnicht Epilogue: The Exceptional and the Ordinary Contributors

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Book SynopsisAmong Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe’s liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who left to work in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policy-makers and social scientists and how they were portrayed in popular culture, including radio, newspapers, and cinema. Created to nurture ties with migrants and their children, state cultural, educational, and informational programs were a way of continuing to govern across international borders. These programs relied heavily on the promotion of the idea of homeland. Le Normand examines the many ways in which migrants responded to these efforts and how they perceived their own relationship to the homeland, based on their migration experiences. Citizens without Borders shows how, in their efforts to win Trade Review"A vivid and nuanced picture of the difficult choices faced by a state seeking to govern its citizens abroad and of the mixed feelings about the homeland that its citizens abroad developed … It will be of great interest and inspiration well beyond Yugoslav studies, in a world in which labor migration continues to be an important phenomenon." -- Sara Bernard, University of Glasgow * Slavic Review *"A fascinating account of a complex social phenomenon … Citizens without Borders can be considered as the first systematic attempt to write about work migrations from Yugoslavia in general." -- Ondřej Daniel, Charles University * American Historical Review *“An insightful, fresh, and fascinating perspective on the implications of transnational policies for socialist Yugoslavia and beyond.” -- Francesca Rolandi, Masaryk Institute * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Seeing Migrants 2. Seeing Migration Like a State 3. Picturing Migrants: The Gastabajter in Yugoslav Film Part II: Building Ties 4. A Listening Ear: Cultivating Citizens through Radio Broadcasting 5. A Nation Talking to Itself: Yugoslav Newspapers for Migrants 6. Weaving a Web of Transnational Governance: Yugoslav Workers’ Associations 7. Migrants Talk Back: Responses to Surveys 8. Building a Transnational Education System for the Second Generation 9. They Felt the Breath of the Homeland 10. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaking Middle-Class Multiculturalism re-interprets the historiography of the emergence of Canada's universal immigration policy for skilled workers and family immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bureaucratic Discretion in the Historical Canadian Context 3. Race/State/Nation: From Racist Exclusion to Intersectional Inclusion 4. Individual Merit and the Making of Multicultural Skilled Workers 5. Putting the “Class” in “Family Class” 6. Conclusion: The Legacy of Middle-Class Multiculturalism Methodological Appendix Endnotes Bibliography Tables

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Book SynopsisIn the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada’s immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year. Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bureaucrats’ perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals in socioeconomic, racial, and moral terms influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals that bureaucrats’ interpretations of immigration files generated selection criterTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bureaucratic Discretion in the Historical Canadian Context 3. Race/State/Nation: From Racist Exclusion to Intersectional Inclusion 4. Individual Merit and the Making of Multicultural Skilled Workers 5. Putting the “Class” in “Family Class” 6. Conclusion: The Legacy of Middle-Class Multiculturalism Methodological Appendix Endnotes Bibliography Tables

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Book SynopsisAnalysing over twenty countries from 1990 to 2015, this book systematically investigates the extent to which immigrants are excluded from social programs.Table of ContentsSection 1: Setting the Stage 1. Introduction Edward Anthony Koning Existing Literature and Theoretical Framework Organization of the Volume 2. The IESPI and Descriptive Findings Edward Anthony Koning Conceptualization and Purpose Methods of Data Collection Components of the IESPI Descriptive Findings Section 2: Quantitative Analyses 3. The Drivers of Exclusion Friederike Römer and Liv Bjerre Explanations of Variation in Immigrant Welfare Access Data Method and Results Conclusion and Discussion 4. Appeasement via Exclusion? Differential Access to Social Programs and Their Effects on Xenophobia, Racism, and Perceived Welfare Abuse Markus M.L. Crepaz Overview: Social Programs and Their Effect on Crafting National Identities Trading off Universal Protection in a Closed Immigration System with Selective Protection in an Open Immigration System? The Relevance of Political Discourse on Welfare Access Research Design and Variables Hypotheses Results Conclusions and Implications 5. Closing the Gaps: The Positive Effects of Welfare Inclusion on Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration Anil Duman, Martin Kahanec, and Lucia Mýtna Kureková Literature Review Hypotheses Data and Methodology Results Conclusions 6. It Ain’t about the Money: A Cross-Country Study on Fiscal Implications of Immigrant Exclusion Tsewang Rigzin and Neeraj Kaushal Literature Review Data Descriptive Results Multivariate Analysis Conclusions and Discussions Section 3: Case Studies 7. Between Equality and Exclusion: Migrant Integration into Austria’s Bismarckian Welfare System Oliver Gruber The Evolution of the Austrian Welfare State and the Role of Immigration Welfare System Reform and Migrant Integration in Austria since the 1990s Public Opinion and Outcomes Conclusion: Differential Integration and Persistent Reluctance in a Constrained Scope of Action 8. Inclusion under Pressure, The Case of Norway Grete Brochmann The Historical Legacy Why Choosing the Inclusive Avenue? The Norwegian Integration Approach Successful Inclusion? The Problem and the Solution Attitudes in the Majority Population Inclusiveness under Strain: Concluding Remarks 9. From Exclusion to More Exclusion: Immigration and Social Welfare Access in the United States Jason E. Kehrberg, Adam M. Butz, and Mikhala L. West The American Context Immigration and Development of the US Welfare State Increasing American Exclusion with IEWRs: The Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 Impact of PRWORA on Non-citizen Caseloads across Four US Social Programs Congressional Gridlock, Sub-national Actors, and Executive Action: 2000 to 2020 A Patchwork of Immigration Policies: American Federalism Diverging Immigration Attitudes Immigration Levels in a Period of Congressional Gridlock and Sub-federal Activity Two Sides of the Same Coin: Obama and Trump Executive Action Conclusion: The Future of Immigration and Welfare Exclusion in the US 10. Why Choose the Inclusionary Path? Social Policy in a Recent Welfare and Immigration Country: The Case of Portugal Catarina Reis Oliveira and João Peixoto Creating the Inclusionary Portuguese Welfare State Portugal’s Migratory Experience and Immigrants’ Characteristics The Developments and Achievements of Immigrant Integration Policies over Time Immigrants’ Inclusion Outcomes: Achievements and Challenges Immigration Endorsement in Portugal Conclusions Section 4: Concluding Reflections 11. Welfare and Immigration: Factoring-in the Neoliberal Order Christian Joppke 12. Philosophies of Inclusion and Exclusion Will Kymlicka 13. Conclusions: Is an Inclusive Multicultural Welfare State a Feasible Project? Keith G. Banting Inclusion and Exclusion: The Trajectory The Drivers of Inclusion/Exclusion Consequences of Inclusion/Exclusion The Overall Patterns Concluding Reflections: The Feasibility of an Inclusive Multicultural Welfare State Appendix: Detailed Country Descriptions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOn Stony Ground traces a generation of Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union to Manitoba, detailing their adaptation to a new land.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Russia and Canada: The Consequences of the First World War 2. Russländer Mennonites Find Homes 3. The Bases of Community 4. Re-establishing Institutions 5. Schools and Education 6. Debts, Depression, and a New Grunthal 7. Old and New World Politics 8. Conflicted Identities 9. The War Years 10. Post-War Prosperity 11. A United and Divided Community 12. Generational Succession and Transition 13. Becoming Canadian Conclusion Appendixes 1. Elim Congregation Statistics (Baptised Members / Families / Totals 1927–c.1980) 2. Agreement with the International Company over Land on East Reserve Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOn Stony Ground presents a historical ethnographic account of a generation of Mennonites from the Soviet Union who, following Russia’s revolution and civil war, immigrated to Manitoba during the 1920s. James Urry examines how they came to terms with a new land and with their new neighbours, including other Mennonites, Ukrainians, French Canadians, and Indigenous Peoples. The book discusses the impact of the Great Depression and how the immigrants struggled with their identity in Canada as Hitler and Stalin rose to power in Germany and the USSR. It reveals the immigrants’ desire to maintain their faith, language, and culture while encouraging their children to take advantage of an education conducted mainly in English. On Stony Ground explores how prosperity following the Second World War helped the immigrants to build a community in conjunction with others, including Mennonites and non-Mennonites, and to accept their new home in Canada.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Russia and Canada: The Consequences of the First World War 2. Russländer Mennonites Find Homes 3. The Bases of Community 4. Re-establishing Institutions 5. Schools and Education 6. Debts, Depression, and a New Grunthal 7. Old and New World Politics 8. Conflicted Identities 9. The War Years 10. Post-War Prosperity 11. A United and Divided Community 12. Generational Succession and Transition 13. Becoming Canadian Conclusion Appendixes 1. Elim Congregation Statistics (Baptised Members / Families / Totals 1927–c.1980) 2. Agreement with the International Company over Land on East Reserve Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo’s poems combineelements of history and mythology. Guéboconsiders the Mediterranean not only as a literal space but also as a space of expectation, anxiety, hope, and anguish for migrants. Hemeditates onthe long history of narratives and bodies trafficked across the Mediterranean Sea. What did it—and what does it—connect and separate? Whose sea is it? Ultimately he is searchingfor what motivates a person to become part of what he calls a “seasonal suicide epidemic.” This translation of Guébo’s <Trade Review“Defiantly elegant. It is elegy and evocation, a summoning of the dead as a chorus speaking to those who do not see, or do not care, to remind them of the consciousness of Earth and of history’s will to life, and the ordering of change. . . . The poet’s hand is essential to our redemption.”—Afaa M. Weaver, author of The Plum Flower Dance and Multitudes “I can’t help but be moved by this large ambition of Josué Guébo, by his impossible task of bringing together poetics as different as those of Whitman and Mallarmé, by his huge desire to give a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves and also to find the secret of lyric utterance.”—Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa and Musica HumanaTable of ContentsIntroduction by John Keene Translator’s Note Think of Lampedusa Notes

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Book SynopsisConveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig, a Spanish instructor, and Martha Florinda González, a Mayan community leader living in Nebraska, have gathered the oral histories of contemporary Mayan women living in the state.Trade Review"[The Mayans Among Us] is an essential read to understand modern Mayan women and issues they face. All students and experts of Latin America and Mayan civilization must read it."—Washington Book Review“This book makes for a fascinating read. Sittig and González help us understand the points of view of an almost invisible population. The stories of the Mayans, huge and heartbreaking stories, increase our moral imaginations. I wish this were required reading for all our politicians and policy makers. I recommend it to all who yearn to understand the America we live in today.”—Mary Pipher, author of The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community “Ann L. Sittig and Martha Florinda González offer an instructive and significant depiction of the changes of work, religion, place, and life in small-town Nebraska.”—Elaine Carey, associate professor of history at St. John’s University and author of Women Drug Traffickers: Mules, Bosses, and Organized Crime Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Guatemala: Life before Emigration2. Guatemalan Civil War and Postwar Rebuilding3. The Journey to El Norte4. Religious Practice and Community Life in Nebraska5. Mayans and Meatpacking in NebraskaConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies Book Within a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces across gendered and racialized contexts, all crucial elements of the trans-movements taking place in the United States. This collection forms a nuanced conversation between scholarship and social activism that speaks in concrete ways about diasporic and migratory LGBTQ communities who suffer from immoral immigration policies and political discourses that produce untenable lTrade Review“A critical and timely set of subjects, especially given the rampant and castigating racism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia against the Latinx LGBTQI communities in the United States and throughout other countries at this time. The coeditors have brought together important, established, and emerging voices in an exciting manner.”—Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, author of Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular CultureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Trans vida in Extraordinary Times Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda García, and Ellie D. HernándezTwenty-First-Century Student Movements 1. Triunfando con o sin papeles: Muxerista y jotx-historias of DACA-mentation and Activism in Las Vegas Joanna Núñez, Jasmine Rubalcava-Cuara, and Anita Tijerina Revilla 2. Somos jotería: UCLA Chicanx Latinx Student Activists Fighting for Social Justice José Manuel SantillanaReading Performance and Performativity from Cuba to Los Angeles 3. Working Trans in Jaime Cortez’s Sexile/Sexilio Carlos Ulises Decena 4. Wonder Woman, Pancho Villa, and the Shifting Rio Grande: Transnational jotx Identity, Desire, Pleasure, and Death on the El Paso / Juárez Border Omar González 5. Vaqueeros: Muy machos, Wearing the Pants, and Living la vida loca Carlos-Manuel 6. Home(bodies): Transitory Belonging at LA’s Oldest Latinx Drag Bar Katherine SteelmanMemory and Memoir: Between sueños y pesadillas 7. Pesadilla convertida en sueño: El sueño nunca soñado / A Nightmare Turned Into a Dream: A Dream Never Dreamed Bamby Salcedo 8. “¿Qué harás si algo me pasa?”: An ofrenda Nicholas DuronFrom the Urban Landscape to Sites of Incarceration 9. Queering el barrio: Latina Immigrant Street Vendors in Los Angeles Lorena Muñoz 10. The Privatized Deportation Center Complex y la trans mujer Verónica Mandujano In Our Own Words: An Afterword Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCongressman Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) was a New York City congressman who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1973. In Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion, author Wayne Dawkins introduces new readers to a figure integral to America’s contemporary political system.

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Book SynopsisProvides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s.

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Book SynopsisMemories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the United States. The book shows how African diaspora memoirs beautifully and grippingly depict the experiences of African migrants over time through political, social, and cultural spheres. In reading African diaspora memoirs from the transatlantic slave trade period to the present, a reader can understand the complexity of the African migrant legacy and evolution.Author Toyin Falola argues that memoirs are significant not only in their interpretation of events conveyed by the memoirists but also in demonstrating how interpersonal and human the stories told can be. Memoirs are powerful because they are emotionally captivating and because important themes and events circulate aroun

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Book SynopsisVisions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael Lechuga focuses on three arenas where a citizenship control assemblage manufactures alienhood: Hollywood extraterrestrial invasion film, federal antimigration and border security legislation, and various immigration enforcement protocols implemented along the Mexico-United States border. Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, Visions of Invasion offers a glimpse at how the processes of alien-making contribute to an ongoing settler colonial project in the US. Lechuga demonstrates that popular films--The War of the Worlds, Predator, Men in Black, and more--participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vi

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Book SynopsisOffers a deep dive into how the rhetorical figure of the alien has been manufactured through media and surveillance technologies as a political subjectivity, one that plays out the anxieties, guilts, and fears of colonialism in today's science fiction landscape.

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Book SynopsisIn Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend to register and vote at low rates, thereby limiting the political power of many of their communities. In an attempt to boost electoral participation through mobilization, some nonprofits adopt multifaceted political strategies including registering new voters, holding candidate forums, and phone banking to increase immigrant voter turnout. Other nonprofits opt to barely participate at all in electoral politics, preferring to advance the immigrant community by providing exclusively social services.Brown interviewed dozens of nonprofit leaders and surveyed hundreds of organizations. To capture the breadth of the immigrant experience, Brown selected organizations operating in traditiTrade ReviewIn this timely, well-written book, Brown (John Jay) demonstrates the important role that nonprofit organizations play in shaping political behavior and immigrant integration.... In an era of contentious politics about immigration policy, readers will appreciate the author's treatment of the prospects for nonprofit organizations. Immigrants and Electoral Politics contributes to the theoretical and applied understanding of the ways organizations in civil society shape how and why people vote. -- T. J. Vicino, Northeastern University * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIn Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend to register and vote at low rates, thereby limiting the political power of many of their communities. In an attempt to boost electoral participation through mobilization, some nonprofits adopt multifaceted political strategies including registering new voters, holding candidate forums, and phone banking to increase immigrant voter turnout. Other nonprofits opt to barely participate at all in electoral politics, preferring to advance the immigrant community by providing exclusively social services.Brown interviewed dozens of nonprofit leaders and surveyed hundreds of organizations. To capture the breadth of the immigrant experience, Brown selected organizations operating in traditiTrade ReviewIn this timely, well-written book, Brown (John Jay) demonstrates the important role that nonprofit organizations play in shaping political behavior and immigrant integration.... In an era of contentious politics about immigration policy, readers will appreciate the author's treatment of the prospects for nonprofit organizations. Immigrants and Electoral Politics contributes to the theoretical and applied understanding of the ways organizations in civil society shape how and why people vote. -- T. J. Vicino, Northeastern University * Choice *

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Book SynopsisBorder Capitalism, Disrupted presents an insightful ethnography of migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to bear on his fieldwork, Stephen Campbell highlights the ways in which workers' struggles have catalyzed transformations in labor regulation at the frontiers of capital in the global south.Looking outwards from Mae Sot, Campbell engages extant scholarship on flexibilization and precarious labor, which, typically, is based on the development experiences of the global north. Campbell emphasizes the everyday practices of migrants, the police, employers, NGOs, and private passport brokers to understand the politics of precarity and the new forms of worker organization and resistance that are emerging in Asian industrial zones.Focusing, in particular, on the uses and effects of borders as technologies of rule, Campbell arguesTrade ReviewStephen Campbell's Border Capitalism, Disrupted insightfully describes Mae Sot as a space where a novel regulative 'bordering' process has produced a site uniquely ordered for global capitalism. His carefully-reasoned argument is introduced in the title of the book: that the production of two borders has enabled now 'legal' appropriation and exploitation of a fixed migrant population. * Tea Circle *An excellent addition to the expanding literature that analyses the situation of migrant workers in Mae Sot....and should be of great interest to people working on labour relations, labour migration, Southeast Asian studies, anthropology and political science. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *Border Capitalism, Disrupted is an outstanding book packed with well-executed ethnographic analysis of the experiential (migrants' lives) and the political (migration governance).... This is a must-read book for any student, scholar or policy official interested in Myanmar, Thailand, migration governance or the ethnography of policy. * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *Border Capitalism, Disrupted is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read about precarious migrant workers. The book does not just fill a gap in the literature regarding labor studies and political economy, it represents an important contribution to Southeast Asian Studies and Human Geography as well.Border Capitalism, Disrupted is well-researched and detailed, and is a valuable resource for scholars working on borders, precarity, Special Economic Zones, and resistance. * PoLAR *Border Capitalism, Disrupted is striking in its dynamism. It maintains a dynamic relationship between political economy analysis and the 'finer empirical grains' (p. 6) that Campbell encounters through intensive fieldwork; further, it provides a keen sense of the dynamic character of border capitalism itself... No doubt this book will be read for its contributions to the anthropology of labour. * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *Campbell provides theoretical rigour in deepening our understanding of the politics of precarity and flexibilization of labour in Southeast Asia with his geographical and historical specificity, which make this book a must read by scholars seeking to locate working-class struggles in Asia's dramatic industrial transformation. * Pacific Affairs *His argument is supported by rich ethnographic evidence from twenty months of fieldwork, including firsthand accounts of his experiences with local bureaucracy and the detention of his visiting in-laws by the Thai police. Overall, this book will be of interest to those studying migration, governance, and labor from the vantage points of anthropology, sociology, political economy, or development. * Society for the Antrhopology of Work *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Map Introduction 1. Producing the Border 2. Capitalist Recuperation 3. Mobility Struggles 4. Coercive Policing 5. Class Recomposition 6. Organizing under Flexibilization Conclusion Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and...Trade ReviewFrom Migrant to Worker is a compelling account of how local unions in Asian countries... came to embrace temporary labour migrants... This book shows impeccable research and erudite discourse, addressing the issues of temporary labour migration and labour unions in Asia. Ford has effortlessly tied discussions from a multitude of angles into a coherent narrative. With almost encyclopaedic detail, the book is an authoritative reference on this issue and transcends both national and continental borders. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *From Migrant to Worker is an excellent source for academic, union, and civil society audiencesvinterested not only in the developments of the labor movement and temporary migrant workers' situation in Asia but also in understanding the dynamics between global and local actors, in particular in terms of external funding and local responses. * ILR Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Asia's Labor Migration and Employment Relations Regimes 2. Asia's Migrant Labor NGOs 3. Enter the GUFs 4. The GUFs and Migrant Workers in Asia 5. Measures of Success Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japanthrough diplomatic negotiations, border regulations, legal categorization of subjects and aliens, and cultural policiescompeted to control Korean migrants as they suddenly moved abroad by the thousands in the late nineteenth century. Alyssa M. Park argues that Korean migrants were essential to the process of establishing sovereignty across four states because they tested the limits of state power over territory and people in a borderland where authority had been long asserted but not necessarily enforced. Traveling from place to place, Koreans compelled statesmen to take notice of their movement and to experiment with various policies to govern it. Ultimately, states'' efforts culminated in drastic measures, including the complete removal of Koreans on the Soviet side. As Park demonstrates, what resulted was the stark border regime that still stands between North Korea, Russia, and ChTrade ReviewSovereignty Experiments largely succeeds in what it sets out to do—demonstrate the crucialrole that Korean migrants played in determining Northeast Asian borders and sovereignties. * The Russian Review *A fascinating narrative about modern state making in a transnational and multiethnic frontier... One of the pioneer studies of the subject and a must read for students who are interested in the historical connection between East Asia and Russia. Scholars in the fields of the borderlands, empires, nation-states, migration, and diaspora studies would also find it a highly engaging reference. * H-Diplo *The book contributes to historical geography by showing that modern notions of territory and sovereignty in Asia were not simply adopted from some European ideal type or juridical construct, but were negotiated over time and through places such as borders, villages, farms, and cities... Overall, the book is a fascinating analysis of a complicated borderland. * Journal of Historical Geography *

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Book SynopsisIn an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada''s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. Her case study reveals how modalities of deportabilitysuch as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attritiondestabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this model temporary migrant work programTrade ReviewVosko's book is highly informative and innovative. It provides new directions for the analysis and actions to defend migrant workers' rights in Canada. * Labour/La Travail *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Deportability among Temporary Migrant Workers: An Essential Condition of Possibility for Migration Management 2. Getting Organized: Countering Termination without Just Cause through Certification 3. Maintaining a Bargaining Unit of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) Employees: The Challenge of Blacklisting 4. Sustaining Bargaining Unit Strength: The Specter of Attrition Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada''s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. Her case study reveals how modalities of deportabilitysuch as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attritiondestabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this model temporary migrant work programTrade ReviewVosko's book is highly informative and innovative. It provides new directions for the analysis and actions to defend migrant workers' rights in Canada. * Labour/La Travail *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Deportability among Temporary Migrant Workers: An Essential Condition of Possibility for Migration Management 2. Getting Organized: Countering Termination without Just Cause through Certification 3. Maintaining a Bargaining Unit of Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) Employees: The Challenge of Blacklisting 4. Sustaining Bargaining Unit Strength: The Specter of Attrition Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn this unique history from below, Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked with caring for them after the Second World War. The struggle to define who was a displaced person and who was not was a subject of intense debate and deliberation among humanitarians, international law experts, immigration planners, and governments. What has not adequately been recognized is that displaced persons also actively participated in this emerging refugee conversation. Displaced persons endured war, displacement, and resettlement, but these experiences were not defined by passivity and speechlessness. Instead, they spoke back, creating a dialogue that in turn helped shape the modern idea of the refugee. As Ruth Balint shows, what made a good or convincing story at the time tells us much about the circulation of ideas about the war, the Holocaust, and the Jews. Those stories depict the Trade ReviewRuth Balint's immensely readable and highly original book Destination Elsewhere adds to [the] scholarship. What makes her contribution particularly valuable is her concern not so much with the IRO or the reception of DPs in Australia and elsewhere, but with the DP experience. * Inside Story *This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of postwar humanitarianism, twentieth-century state building, migration, and refugees. It also provides a superb roadmap for future studies on refugee relocations to different countries, as well as the role of other organizations in these humanitarian practices. * H-net *Destination Elsewhere is clearly a major work, based on exceptional research that humanises and gives agency to post-war refugees. * History Australia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Leaving Europe 1. Telling the Truth in Postwar Europe 2. "There Has Been a Lot of Dirt Here": Denunciations and Accusations 3. Housewives and Opportunists: Categorizing DP Women and Wives 4. Unaccompanied Children and Unfit Mothers 5. The Children Left Behind 6. "The Top-Heavy Slow-Turning Wheel": From Europe to Australia 7. Address Unknown: Tracing the Disappeared Conclusion: History off the Leash

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Book SynopsisTrying to Make It is R. V. Gundur''s journey from the US-Mexico border to America''s heartland, from America''s prisons to its streets, in search of the true story of the drug trade and the people who participate in it. The book begins in the Paso del Norte area, encompassing the sister cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, which has been in the public eye as calls for securing the border persist. From there, it moves on to Phoenix, which was infamously associated with the drug trade through a series of kidnappings. Finally, the book goes on to Chicago, which has been a lightning rod of criticism for its gangs and violence. Gundur highlights the similarities and differences that exist in the American drug trade within the three sites and how they relate to current drug trade narratives in the US. At each stop, the reader is transported to the city''s historical and contemporary contexts of the drug trade and introduced to the individuals who have lived the

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Book SynopsisTracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping their communities tied together. Martin Saxer describes global Himalayan ventures as a form of expansion of community rather than out-migration. Moving out does not sever the bonds of community. Instead, it is the pull that tightens the knot.Coffee-table books and trekking agencies continue to advertise the Himalayas as remote hidden valleys, and NGOs see them as fragile mountain ecosystems to be protected from global forces of destruction. Places in Knots shows how these tropes of remoteness inform development and conservation policies and thus shape the contexts in which Himalayan connections with the wider world are forged and maintained. Following Himalayan journeys between valleys in Nepal and beyond, Saxer draws a picture of globalizatiTable of ContentsPrologue: Juggling Worlds Introduction Part 1: Locality and Community 1. Tying Places into Knots 2. Moving In, Moving Up, Moving Out Interlude: A Son's Uncertain Ambitions 3. Binding Rules Part 2: Pathways 4. The Business of Wayfaring 5. A Quest for Roads Interlude: A Mound of Rice 6. The Labor of Distribution Part 3: Interventions Interlude: Kailash - Truly Sacred 7. Curation at Large 8. Landscapes, Dreamscapes 9. Mapping Mountains 10. Translating Ambitions Epilogue: Navidad Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDiaspora Space-Time explores the transformations of Pine Mansiona Shenzhen former emigrant communityand its members'' changing relationship with their diaspora around the world. For more than a century, inhabitants of Shenzhen''s villages have migrated to Southeast Asia, the Pacific, North and South America, and Europe. With China''s economic global ascendancy, these villages no longer consist of peasants dependent on their rich overseas relatives. As the villages have become part of the special economic zone of Shenzhen, the megacity that embodies China''s rise, emigration has waned.Lineage ties have long been central in choosing migration destinations and channeling donations to village projects. After China''s reopening, Shenzhen''s villagers used diaspora as a resource to participate in the city''s booming economy and to reestablish and protect their ritual sites against government plans. As overseas financial contributions diminish and diasporic relaTrade ReviewOverall, this book presents a compelling case study of Overseas Chinese and contributes to the field of diaspora studies in two signi!cant ways. * China Perspectives *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Shenzhen and the Diasporic Relationship 1. A Globalized Lineage 2. The Shifting Landscape of Donations 3. Collective Funds and the Moral Economy of Surplus 4. Saving the Ancestral Sites, Mobilizing for the Public Good 5. Reversed Feng Shui and Sociodicies of (Im)mobility 6. Ritual Renewal and Spatiotemporal Fusion 7. Returning to One's Roots through Journeys and Quests 8. Global Brotherhood without Close Kin Conclusion: Chinese Globalization and the Changing Value of Scales

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Book SynopsisSurvival and Witness at Europe''s Border focuses on one of the most mediatized migrant disasters in Europe. On October 3, 2013, an overcrowded fishing boat carrying Eritrean refugees caught fire near Lampedusa, Italy, where 368 people died. Karina Horsti shows with empathy and passion how this disaster produced a kaleidoscope of afterlives that continue to assume different forms depending on the position of the witness or survivors. Pasts and futures intersect in the present when people who were touched by the disaster engage with its memory and politics. Horsti underscores how the perspective of survival can envision a way forward from a horrific unsustainable present. Survival and Witness at Europe''s Border develops the concept of survival to rethink border deaths beyond the structures and processes that produce the murderous border and constitute the focus of critical migration studies. It demonstrates how the process of survival transfoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Words 2. Images 3. Enumeration, Naming, Photos 4. Adopting the Dead 5. Memorial Interventions 6. Memory Politics 7. Survivor Citizenship 8. Survival 9. Surviving the Death of Another Epilogue: Kebrat's Story

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Book SynopsisIt's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in helping orphans in China—but why have Chinese authorities allowed this exchange, and what does it reveal about processes of globalization? Countries that allow their vulnerable children to be cared for by outsiders are typically viewed as weaker global players. However, Leslie K. Wang argues that China has turned this notion on its head by outsourcing the care of its unwanted children to attract foreign resources and secure closer ties with Western nations. She demonstrates the two main ways that this "outsourced intimacy" operates as an ongoing transnational exchange: first, through the exportation of mostly healthy girls into Western homes via adoption, and second, through the subsequent importation of first-world actors, resources, and practices into orphanages to care for the mostly special needs youth left behind. Outsourced Children reveals the different care standards offered in Chinese state-run orphanages that were aided by Western humanitarian organizations. Wang explains how such transnational partnerships place marginalized children squarely at the intersection of public and private spheres, state and civil society, and local and global agendas. While Western societies view childhood as an innocent time, unaffected by politics, this book explores how children both symbolize and influence national futures.Trade Review"Outsourced Children takes us into the world of 'relinquished children' in China. It offers insights into the role of state policy, global competition and transnational circuits in shaping the meanings and value of children within neoliberalism. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in childhood in the global era."—Nazli Kibria, Boston University"Outsourced Children is a provocative analysis of the global assemblages of care around children in Chinese orphanages. Drawing on a deep well of original fieldwork, Wang bring to life the ideologies, economic inequalities, and gendered and raced imaginaries that swirl around children at the intersections of 'soft power' and 'outsourced intimacy.'"—Sara Dorow, University of Alberta"Wang's compelling ethnography shows how state agendas, market imperatives, and conflicting visions of childcare held by Western do-gooders and Chinese caregivers create a transnational market in special needs children that serves different agendas. A caringly crafted, unsettling, yet humane account of how the one-child policy continues to remake our world."—Susan Greenhalgh, Harvard University"Wang's vivid and accessible writing, and her ability to raise difficult issues about the best interests of children in local, national, and transnational contexts makes Outsourced Children a compelling read for undergraduate and graduate students, policymakers, and general readers. "—Catherine Ceniza Choy, H-Diplo"A reflexive approach Wang employs in the presentation of her ethnographic study definitely plays a significant role in this book. Readers are able to understand how the author's analyses have come about through the discussion of her own identities and subjectivity, which is a methodological strength of the book. Compelling parts of Outsourced Children include Wang's analysis of a particular type of globalization process in which children are the integral part of the PRC's movement toward modernization as well as how the children serve an important role in Westerners' desire to participate prominently in international humanitarianism."—Kazuyo Kubo, American Journal of Sociology"Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China offers rich insight into global power dynamics at political and personal levels and serves as a catalyst for further inquiries into international relations, experiences of marginalized populations, and the shifting salience of transnational, racial, and ethnic identities."––Michelle Samura, Cala Gin, Dorcas Hot, and Florencia Park, Journal of Asian American StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: Children and the Politics of Outsourced Intimacy in China 2. Survival of the Fittest: Relinquished Children in an Era of "High Quality" 3. From "Missing Girls" to America's Sweethearts: Adoption and the Reversal of Fortune for Healthy Chinese Daughters 4. The West to the Rescue? Outsourced Intimacy in the Tomorrow's Children Unit 5. The Limits of Outsourced Intimacy: Contested Logics of Care at the Yongping Orphanage 6. Waiting Children Finally Belong: The Rise of Special Needs Adoption 7. Conclusion: Retying the Red Thread

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Book SynopsisPublic discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising Global Families, Pei-Chia Lan examines how ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States negotiate cultural differences and class inequality to raise children in the contexts of globalization and immigration. She draws on a uniquely comparative, multisited research model with four groups of parents: middle-class and working-class parents in Taiwan, and middle-class and working-class Chinese immigrants in the Boston area. Despite sharing a similar ethnic cultural background, these parents develop class-specific, context-sensitive strategies for arranging their children's education, care, and discipline, and for coping with uncertainties provoked by their changing surroundings. Lan's cross-Pacific comparison demonstrates that class inequality permeates the fabric of family life, even as it takes shape in different ways across national contexts.Trade Review"Pei-Chia Lan makes an extraordinary contribution to contemporary scholarship on parenting strategies by demonstrating how ethnic culture and social class interact within four different social groups spanning two geographic regions. As she does, she illuminates complex processes such as globalization and transnationalism, making this a superb book for classroom use."—Margaret K. Nelson, author of Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times"Raising Global Families dispels the myth of the tiger mom, telling a compelling story of parenting that is less about unique cultures than about the forces of globalization. Through thoughtful and meticulous analysis of ethnographic data in transnational contexts, Pei-Chia Lan demonstrates how Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States cope with their intensified feelings of ambivalence and insecurity and how this surfaces in childrearing. This study advances the understanding of parenting beyond the family and local milieus."—Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles"Lan's insightful and skillfully-written book offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Taiwanese families in Taiwan and the United States who endeavor to raise upwardly-mobile children. This is a must-read for all who seek to understand family, class, and mobility in the age of global capitalism."—Carolyn Chen, University of California, Berkeley"This book is a worthy study not only for "global families" but also for all families.Highly recommended."—CHOICE"Lan's methodological design is ambitious and analytically innovative; it is cross-national, cross-class, and multi-method...Global Families offers an invaluable take on parenting practices...Lan makes a convincing case that future studies of immigrant parenting strategies in the United States must consider these cross-national, cross-class ties in their analyses."––Tiffany J. Huang and Jennifer Lee, Social Forces"Raising Global Families is engaging, and Lan's analysis is detailed and nuanced. The readability and rigorousness of this book make it attractive not only to students and scholars with interests in Migration, Globalization, Pedagogy, Class and Culture, as well as Chinese studies, but also to nonacademic readership, such as policy makers and others who are interested in fostering their children's global competitiveness."––Yu-chin Tseng, China Review International"Raising Global Families dismantles the belief in a blanket Asian parenting culture, showing instead how the practice of parenting varies across social classes and national contexts and transforms over time."—Yn Lê Espiritu, American Journal of Sociology"This is a must-read book for scholars of education, immigration, globalisation and class stratification, as well as any parents, students or educational practitioners who are interested in learning more about unequal childhood and parents' struggles to raise a global child in a transnational context."—Siqi Tu, The Sociological ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Anxious Parents in Global Times 1. Transpacific Flows of Ideas and People 2. Taiwanese Middle Class: Raising Global Children 3. Taiwanese Working Class: Affirming Parental Legitimacy 4. Immigrant Middle Class: Raising Confident Children 5. Immigrant Working Class: Reframing Family Dynamics Conclusion: In Search of Security

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Book SynopsisAs immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to differing social norms, to legal boundaries separating them from established residents, they are constantly navigating shifting and contradictory expectations both to assimilate to their new culture and to honor their native one. In A Place to Call Home, Ernesto Castañeda offers a uniquely comparative portrait of immigrant expectations and experiences. Drawing on fourteen years of ethnographic observation and hundreds of interviews with documented and undocumented immigrants and their children, Castañeda sets out to determine how different locations can aid or disrupt the process of immigrant integration. Focusing on New York City, Paris, and Barcelona—immigration hubs in their respective countries—he compares the experiences of both Latino and North African migrants, and finds that subjective understandings, local contexts, national and regional history, and religious institutions are all factors that profoundly impact the personal journey to belonging.Trade Review"Based on extensive fieldwork in three immigrant-receiving cities, this book provides a rich first-hand look at how immigrants adapt and react to different contexts of reception and how these contexts affect long-term outcomes for their foreign-origin populations. A valuable and original contribution to the study of immigration and ethnicity." -- Alejandro Portes * Princeton University *"This brilliant transnational ethnography illuminates how immigrants constantly negotiate their host communities and their native ones. An astounding fourteen years of painstaking fieldwork provide a one-of-a-kind look at the lives of undocumented and documented immigrants within international, national, and community contexts. This social science masterpiece provides a definitive analysis on what must be done to improve the integration process for vulnerable immigrant populations." -- Victor M. Rios * University of California, Santa Barbara *"A Place to Call Home deepens our knowledge of how place matters in shaping immigrant integration. This book is an important contribution to the study of immigration and cities and leads to more interesting questions...The insights uncovered by this work have important implications for designing better policy for welcoming immigrants into cities."––Jackelyn Hwang, American Journal of Sociology"[Castañeda] develops a rich dialogue between prior research, survey respondents, and ethnographic insights for each city. A Place to Call Home will make an appealing addition to undergraduate or graduate courses in sociology, politics, immigration, citizenship, religion, and ethnic studies."–– Stephen P. Ruszczyk, Sociological Forum

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Book SynopsisAs politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely to crumble around them as to come within reach. In Shifting Boundaries, Alexis M. Silver sheds light on the currents of exclusion and incorporation that characterize their lives. Silver examines the experiences of immigrant youth growing up in a small town in North Carolina—a state that experienced unprecedented growth in its Latino population in the 1990s and 2000s, and where aggressive anti-immigration policies have been enforced. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interview data, she finds that contradictory policies at the national, state, and local levels interact to create a complex environment through which the youth must navigate. From heritage-based school programs to state-wide bans on attending community college; from the failure of the DREAM Act to the rescinding of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); each layer represents profound implications for undocumented Latino youth. Silver exposes the constantly changing pathways that shape their journeys into early adulthood—and the profound resilience that they develop along the way.Trade Review"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, Shifting Boundaries tells the poignant story of undocumented Latino immigrants coming of age in small-town America. Alexis Silver's narrative, both timeless and timely, is a must-read for anyone interested in America's tortuous immigration debates and the challenges they present for immigrant youth." -- Jacqueline Hagan * The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *"Alexis Silver has written a terrific book. This extraordinary study provides a fresh perspective on immigrant incorporation and the importance of place during political instability. Rich in detail, persuasively argued, and novel in its approach, this timely and relevant book shines an important light on the resilience of young immigrants in the face of unsettling and changing times." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *"Shifting Boundaries provides a compelling argument for understanding the plight of undocumented youths as they inch their way toward—and take alternative routes to—integration when the path seems impassable...Most of all, this book offers a profound analysis that shows the humanity of undocumented immigrants within an increasingly hostile national context."––Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, American Journal of Sociology

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Book SynopsisThe global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital. This foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on immigration policy, and the world around the United States is rapidly catching up, especially China and India. The future is quite uncertain, and the global talent puzzle deserves close examination. To do this, William R. Kerr uniquely combines insights and lessons from business practice, government policy, and individual decision making. Examining popular ideas that have taken hold and synthesizing rigorous research across fields such as entrepreneurship and innovation, regional advantage, and economic policy, Kerr gives voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice. The Gift of Global Talent deftly transports readers from joyous celebrations at the Nobel Prize ceremony to angry airport protests against the Trump administration's travel ban. It explores why talented migration drives the knowledge economy, describes how universities and firms govern skilled admissions, explains the controversies of the H-1B visa used by firms like Google and Apple, and discusses the economic inequalities and superstar firms that global talent flows produce. The United States has been the steward of a global gift, and this book explains the huge leadership decision it now faces and how it can become even more competitive for attracting tomorrow's talent. Please visit www.hbs.edu/managing-the-future-of-work/research/Pages/default.aspx to learn more about the book.Trade Review"This is a clear-eyed exposition of how talent moves around the world and why so much lands in the United States. Chock-full of compelling data, this book shows that the economic stakes in today's over-heated immigration debate couldn't be higher. This is a must-read for policy makers."—Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California, former Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Arizona"This book is brilliant, lucid, and timely. William Kerr understands the value of talent, and demonstrates a wealth of it himself in his exploration of why and how smart people migrate and cluster. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand this crucial topic."—Robert Guest, Foreign Editor of The Economist, and author of Borderless Economics"America's small businesses are under pressure when it comes to accessing the skilled workers they need to compete. William Kerr brilliantly illuminates a framework for the critical conversation that we need to have if we want small businesses to continue to drive our nation's economic success."—Karen G. Mills, Former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and Cabinet Member under President Obama"If immigration is to provide sizable economic gains to a receiving country, the place to look is high-skill. William Kerr gives a comprehensive and objective summary of what we know about its economic impact. The book is an invaluable resource."—George J. Borjas, Harvard Kennedy School, and author of We Wanted Workers"The Gift of Global Talent offers key insights on how immigrant entrepreneurs spur U.S. economic growth, create American jobs, and help to further technological and scientific advancement in the U.S. It is an important addition to our national dialogue on immigration and should be required reading for policymakers."—Bobby Franklin, President and CEO, National Venture Capital Association"Its explanation of the role of high-skilled immigration and the reforms that are needed to maintain US competitiveness make this one of the most important books on policy of our time. As Kerr explains, knowledge and talent are now the world's most important resources."—Vivek Wadhwa, Carnegie Mellon University, author, The Driver in the Driverless Car"By showing how talent shapes economies and impacts organizations, Kerr has created a compelling, essential book for the C-suite, especially CHROs. In the competitive search for diversity and talent, companies will need to understand talent clusters and flow. This book provides valuable context as they develop their strategies."—Scott Rutherford, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company"The Gift of Global Talent crystalizes how much the American economy benefits from skilled foreign workers. For American innovation to thrive in the 21st century, we must attract the best minds out there, and Kerr's excellent book teaches us how to do just that."—Edward Glaeser, Harvard University and author, Triumph of the City"If you want to understand why Boston and Silicon Valley have created such vibrant ecosystems, read this book! All of the best and brightest don't work in the U.S., and we should do everything we can to attract and keep that talent. This is the fuel for future generations of startups."—Dharmesh Shah, Co-Founder and CTO, HubSpot"As advanced technologies and artificial intelligence reshape business and the future of work, access to great and digitally expert talent is critical. Kerr's powerful book describes how leading companies and countries can attract and leverage this highly mobile and connected professional population for the broader benefit of their organizations and societies."—Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone Group"Kerr's pioneering research on talent coalesces in this essential new book. Talent clusters and an openness to them determine the wealth of cities, nations, and the global economy. A must-read for CEOs, policy makers, and mayors, this is the antidote to the populism threatening the world."—Richard Florida, University of Toronto, Editor-at-Large, CityLab, The Atlantic and author of The Rise of the Creative Class"Kerr's work, based on solid empirical evidence and free of political bias, is easily understandable as he navigates economic theory and public policy. Readers interested in business, economics, sociology, or political science will enjoy this balanced perspective on what Kerr calls the 'defining issue for our time.' Highly recommended."––R. Dupont, CHOICE"You've probably heard the idea that data, not oil, is the most valuable resource of the 21st century. If you read The Gift of Global Talent, and I think you should, you might conclude that skills are our most precious resource.As [the book] amply documents, the U.S. continues to put up barriers that prevent the most skilled and educated individuals from working (and studying) in the U.S."—Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed"An especially valuable aspect of [Kerr's] research is the fact that he does indeed effectively connect the academic, analytical approach to the book's subject matter with business- and practice-oriented conclusions, including some very interesting predictions and policy recommendations. In addition, Kerr relies on his family experience (p. 174). He thus has a deep personal knowledge of the subject matter and offers an important human perspective in regard to the issue of brain drain as well as migration in general."—Andrei V. Korobkov, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why Global Talent Matters to You 1. Talent on the Move 2. The Economics of Talent Clusters 3. Innovation in the United States 4. Points Versus Firms 5. The Education Pathway 6. Talent Clusters to Rule Them All 7. The New HR Challenge 8. Global Diffusion Remade 9. Revenge of the Nerds Conclusions: Fragile U.S. Leadership

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Book SynopsisBirthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants." Even as the question of citizenship for children of immigrants was seemingly settled by the Fourteenth Amendment, vitriolic debate has continued for well over a century, especially in relation to U.S. race relations. Most recently, a provocative and decidedly more offensive term than birthright citizenship has emerged: "anchor babies." With this book, Leo R. Chavez explores the question of birthright citizenship, and of citizenship in the United States writ broadly, as he counters the often hyperbolic claims surrounding these so-called anchor babies. Chavez considers how the term is used as a political dog whistle, how changes in the legal definition of citizenship have affected the children of immigrants over time, and, ultimately, how U.S.-born citizens still experience trauma if they live in families with undocumented immigrants. By examining this pejorative term in its political, historical, and social contexts, Chavez calls upon us to exorcise it from public discourse and work toward building a more inclusive nation.Trade Review"Leo Chavez establishes two important truths with Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship: he reinforces the historical and continuing importance of 'citizenship' in defining our nation's character, and he documents the very real and significant impacts on children and families in how we talk about citizenship and how we seek to limit its availability. These are critical lessons for all who participate in policy debates today in America." -- Thomas A. Saenz, President and General Counsel * MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) *"This very readable book makes an enormously important contribution to the immigration debate. Leo Chavez carefully examines the history, rhetoric, and law of why those born in the United States are rightly accorded citizenship. Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship is a must-read for all future discussions about U.S. citizenship." -- Erwin Chemerinsky * author of The Conservative Assault on the Constitution *"Leo Chavez has written a timely and compelling book that poses some of the most critical questions about citizenship and deservingness facing our nation today. Anchor Babies and the Challenge of Birthright Citizenship illuminates the human costs of drawing bright lines that exclude those born on U.S. soil—forced family separation, economic hardship, broken spirits, and a fractured nation. Analytically sharp, powerfully written, and cogently argued, this important book is essential reading for every American." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue chapter abstractThe Prologue introduces the reader to the concept of anchor babies and birthright citizenship. It provides examples of issues and political rhetoric related to anchor babies and the problem of defining the concept. It also lays out the structure and organization of the book as well as the general argument that the anchor baby rhetoric undermines the sense of belonging of U.S.-citizen children by questioning their citizenship on the basis of their parents' immigration status. 1Undeserving Citizens? chapter abstractThis chapter examines media stories about anchor babies and birthright citizenship that appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times between 1965 and 2015. Media coverage began with stories about birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. Early in the 2000s, the term "anchor baby" became part of public discourse and was used to question whether the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants deserved citizenship. This chapter traces the politics surrounding the anchor baby rhetoric as well as attempts to legislate changing the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to deny anchor babies citizenship. 2A History of Birthright Citizenship chapter abstractThis chapter attempts to put the often hyperbolic rhetoric surrounding anchor babies into a historical framework. The children of immigrants have always had a tenuous position in American society. The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution made birth in the nation, with some exceptions, a definition of citizenship. The Supreme Court, in the Wong Kim Ark case in 1898, made it clear that birthright citizenship applied to the children of immigrants, even when their parents may not have been eligible for citizenship themselves. However, the children of stigmatized ethnic and racial groups still found their citizenship questioned throughout the 20th century. 3Diminished Citizenship chapter abstractCitizens living with families that include undocumented immigrants may be subject to policies that diminish their rights as citizens, or they may face verbally and physically aggressive behavior by individuals who challenge their right to belong in America. They also face the daily threat of deportation that would tear apart their families, often leaving them destitute. State policies that deny birth certificates to U.S.-born children not only affect the individuals so denied; they also underscore that the state can disregard the rights of these so-called anchor babies. Such policies also provide evidence of the power of the anchor baby rhetoric to justify policies on the basis of the belief that anchor babies are undeserving citizens. Epilogue chapter abstractThe Epilogue returns to the book's argument that the anchor baby rhetoric undermines the sense of belonging and citizenship for the U.S.-born children of immigrants. It also shows that the targets of such rhetoric can feel as if they are being singled out as undeserving Americans. It examines the case of Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whose ability to perform his judicial duties were questioned because of his Mexican heritage. The book ends with the hope that the children of immigrants will not let the anchor baby rhetoric diminish them as people and as citizens.

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Book SynopsisWhether motivated by humanitarianism or concern over "porous" borders, dominant commentary on migration in Europe has consistently focused on clandestine border crossings. Much less, however, is known about the everyday workings of immigration law inside borders. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Italy, one of Europe's biggest receiving countries, Rules, Paper, Status moves away from polarized depictions to reveal how migration processes actually play out on the ground. Anna Tuckett highlights the complex processes of inclusion and exclusion produced through encounters with immigration law. The statuses of "legal" or "illegal," which media and political accounts use as synonyms for "good" and "bad," "worthy" and "unworthy," are not created by practices of border-crossing, but rather through legal and bureaucratic processes within borders devised by governing states. Taking migrants' interactions with immigration regimes as its starting point, this book sheds light on the productive nature of legal and bureaucratic encounters and the unintended consequences they produce. Rules, Paper, Status argues that successfully navigating Italian immigration bureaucracy, which is situated in an immigration regime that is both exclusionary and flexible, requires and induces culturally specific modes of behavior. Exclusionary laws, however, can transform this social and cultural learning into the very thing that endangers migrants' right to live in the country. Trade Review"This compelling book transports the reader into the maze of immigration law enforcement in Italy. A must-read for immigration scholars and anyone interested in the day-to-day workings of street-level bureaucrats and the myriad ways they make law and in the process, transform immigrants into 'cultural citizens.'" -- Kitty Calavita * University of California, Irvine *"Anna Tuckett's lively and engaging book sheds new light on the confused relationship between migrants and Italian state bureaucracy, and the gaps between formal law and 'practical stuff.' Rules, Paper, Status makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the bureaucratic and legal anomalies produced by the current 'moral panic' in Europe concerning immigration." -- Anthony Good * University of Edinburgh *"[Tuckett's] findings show that, paradoxically, even while migrants develop cultural skills in navigating bureaucratic norms, these abilities do not challenge the larger exclusionary views and practices of the Italian state and society....Tuckett's clear, concise writing makes this book an excellent gateway to a critical topic treated with analytical rigor....Highly recommended." -- A.H. Fabos * CHOICE *"By focusing on the sinewy and unstable ties between migrants and their legal status, [Tuckett] offers a rich analysis of legal and bureaucratic practices that shape migrants' economic and political opportunities as well as their social and cultural life in Italy.[Rules, Paper Status] provides a crucial contribution to theorizing about citizenship in European countries and the hegemonic discourse of integration."––Veronica Ferrari, Allegra"Rules, Paper, Status is a timely and relevant contribution to understanding the workings of the state beyond discourses of border enforcement....[it] speaks to a broader readership, including academics and state officials, and contributes to contemporary discussions on studying the 'state' at street level." -- Lisa Marie Borelli * Anthropology in Action *"Rules, Papers, Status is a vivid journey into the workaday functioning of the Italian 'documentation regime'[It] poignantly depicts a country that seems unable to come to terms with its migrants." -- Tiziana Caponio * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis chapter examines the historical trajectory of Italian immigration law and the political and economic context from which it emerges. In general migrants have not been welcomed into Italian society, but low birth rates and a high aging population make their presence crucial. Italian immigration law, which is a curious mixture between harsh and exclusionary policies and frequent large-scale legalizations, embodies this ambiguous attitude towards migrants. This chapter argues that equal attention must be given to processes relating to "legalization" as to those relating to "illegalization" when considering migrants' experiences of "legal" and "illegal" statuses. While other studies on experiences of immigration law tend to focus on migrants' experiences of uncertainty, this focus on the bureaucratic and documentary practices of immigration provides insights on alternative affective dimensions of immigration law and its material artefacts. 1The Center chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the book's central fieldsite: a trade union affiliated migrant advice center which provides support and assistance to migrants in their completion of application forms, as well as navigation of the immigration bureaucracy more generally. Trade unions have a central function in the Italian welfare state, and the center's role in completing migrants' application forms is closely connected to this. Although affiliated to the trade union, in the eyes of its visitors, and in practice, the center's role is often blurred with that of the Questura (Immigration Office) and the state in general. Because the center acts as a mediator between migrants and the Questura, the assistance which clients received could determine application outcomes. Not all staff members were equally able or interested in migration matters, however, and the quality of assistance they provided was highly variable. 2Working the Gap: Migrants' Navigation of Immigration Bureaucracy chapter abstractThrough gripping case studies, this chapter illustrates how everyday experiences with Italian immigration bureaucracy are characterized by uncertainty, arbitrariness, and frustration. By closely examining migrants' bureaucratic encounters, however, the chapter reveals that the bureaucracy's arbitrary and uncertain nature also makes it flexible and relatively easy to manipulate. By engaging in effective strategies of navigation, migrants are able to manipulate the law's loopholes and aid the acceptance of applications. Tracing migrants' strategies, this chapter argues that "formal" and "informal" spheres are interdependent and symbiotic: migrants, brokers, advisers, and officials all must engage in "informal" and extra-legal practices in order to successfully navigate the immigration bureaucracy. 3The Rules of Rule-Bending chapter abstractThis chapter argues that rule bending is revealing of broader attitudes to the state and bureaucracy in Italy which, through their bureaucratic encounters, migrants also come to hold. Bureaucratic engagements are thus forms of citizen-making. Socially acceptable rule-breaking, however, is accompanied by strict compliance with proceduralism in relation to paperwork. Successfully navigating the immigration bureaucracy requires expertise in the management of documents: paper trails must seem authentic even if false. Yet, given the documented nature of migrants' lives, rule-bending in one application can potentially create problems in others, meaning that even skillful rule-bending can result in high risks for migrants, such as the loss of legal status or foreclosing the attainment of citizenship. There thus exists a mismatch between a migrant's social knowledge – which is required to navigate the bureaucracy – and exclusionary citizenship laws that make this embeddedness precarious. 4Becoming an Immigration Adviser: Self-Fashioning through Bureaucratic Practice chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on the role of community brokers – informal immigration advisers with migrant backgrounds – and shows how they style themselves as bureaucratic experts. Doing so enables these brokers to develop new subjectivities and fashion themselves in affective terms. Becoming advisers enables them a degree of professionalism, helps them gain standing in their community, satisfies charitable impulses, and places them center stage in the fight for social justice. Crucially, the role of a community broker offers possibilities for gaining social status that are generally not otherwise available to migrants in Italy. 5Disjuncture in the Documentation Regime: The Second Generation's Challenge to Citizenship Law chapter abstractReflecting on the second generation's experiences of immigration bureaucracy, this chapter considers the contradictory and divergent affects of immigration law encounters. If dealings with the immigration bureaucracy produce opportunities for first-generation migrants and their advisers, for the second-generation they create upset and disjuncture. This generation is the most vulnerable group in terms of immigration policies as its members may suddenly find themselves as "undocumented immigrants" after turning 18, due to Italy's jus sanguinis nationality policy. Their sense of ease and integration in Italian society make them strangers to the immigration bureaucracy which – due to restrictive immigration and citizenship laws – they are nonetheless subject. The disjuncture made apparent through the second generation's subjection to immigration law highlights the profound injustices and inequalities that such laws create for all migrants. 6Stepping-Stone Destinations: Migration and Disappointment chapter abstractThis chapter explores migrants' feelings of disappointment about their migration trajectory in Italy and their desire to leave the country. The disappointment of those who aspire to migrate but ultimately never leave their homelands has been extensively discussed in migration studies literature. The chapter places the focus on those who have migrated but who still feel as though they have failed due to their lack of onward mobility from Italy. Focusing on the feelings of disappointment and personal failure experienced by those who have already migrated, it highlights the differentiated inclusion of migrants into the global marketplace. The desire to leave Italy, whether imagined or acted upon, shows how the mobility enabled by neoliberal globalization reproduces hierarchies within the EU. By viewing Italy as a mere stepping stone in a longer trajectory, migrants – both those who leave and those who remain – conceptualize the country as an inferior destination. Conclusion: chapter abstractDrawing the preceding chapters together, this conclusion argues that the "border spectacle" (De Genova 2002) produces a lopsided view of migration by obscuring how immigration policies relate to broader political and economic processes of contemporary migration and globalization. Situating migrants' navigation of the documentation regime in relation to these process, the chapter argues that migrants' maneuvering provides them with only meagre benefits, while employers, lawyers, policy makers, and other stakeholders within the immigration nexus reap the rewards. The final section of the conclusion reflects on what policies could improve the current situation in light of the problems identified.

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Book SynopsisAs politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely to crumble around them as to come within reach. In Shifting Boundaries, Alexis M. Silver sheds light on the currents of exclusion and incorporation that characterize their lives. Silver examines the experiences of immigrant youth growing up in a small town in North Carolina—a state that experienced unprecedented growth in its Latino population in the 1990s and 2000s, and where aggressive anti-immigration policies have been enforced. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interview data, she finds that contradictory policies at the national, state, and local levels interact to create a complex environment through which the youth must navigate. From heritage-based school programs to state-wide bans on attending community college; from the failure of the DREAM Act to the rescinding of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); each layer represents profound implications for undocumented Latino youth. Silver exposes the constantly changing pathways that shape their journeys into early adulthood—and the profound resilience that they develop along the way.Trade Review"Thoroughly researched and elegantly written, Shifting Boundaries tells the poignant story of undocumented Latino immigrants coming of age in small-town America. Alexis Silver's narrative, both timeless and timely, is a must-read for anyone interested in America's tortuous immigration debates and the challenges they present for immigrant youth." -- Jacqueline Hagan * The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *"Alexis Silver has written a terrific book. This extraordinary study provides a fresh perspective on immigrant incorporation and the importance of place during political instability. Rich in detail, persuasively argued, and novel in its approach, this timely and relevant book shines an important light on the resilience of young immigrants in the face of unsettling and changing times." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *"Shifting Boundaries provides a compelling argument for understanding the plight of undocumented youths as they inch their way toward—and take alternative routes to—integration when the path seems impassable...Most of all, this book offers a profound analysis that shows the humanity of undocumented immigrants within an increasingly hostile national context."––Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, American Journal of Sociology

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