Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisWhen the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin. Journalists, scholars, and Vietnamese border crossers themselves consider these groups that left their homes under vastly different conditions to be one people, linked by an unquestionable ethnic nationhood. Phi Hong Su's rigorous ethnography unpacks this intuition. In absorbing prose, Su reveals how these Cold War compatriots enact palpable social boundaries in everyday life. This book uncovers how 20th-century state formation and international migration—together, border crossings—generate enduring migrant classifications. In doing so, border crossings fracture shared ethnic, national, and religious identities in enduring ways.Trade Review"Phi Hong Su's The Border Within is a game-changing book. Using rich ethnographic data with Vietnamese refugees and former contract workers in a reunified Berlin, Su paints a vivid portrait of how national and ethnic categories play out in everyday life. Avoiding simplistic conceptions of these categories, Su takes us into the lives of her subjects as they adopt and transform national and ethnic categories to draw lines of unity and division. This book is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand how migration, war, and changing political boundaries influence belonging."—Tomás R. Jiménez, co-author of States of Belonging"A vivid account of Vietnamese border crossings – social, national, and political – that reconceptualizes the diaspora and notions of ethnonationalism. Su's remarkable study of the diverse pathways of Vietnamese migration to the once-divided city of Berlin serves as a poignant reminder of the ways in which Cold War divisions continue to shape daily lives and raise complex questions of belonging."—Christina Schwenkel, author of Building Socialism"In this remarkable book, Phi Hong Su poignantly analyzes what it means to be Vietnamese in the context of migration between two countries that were profoundly affected by war, national division, and reunification. Having originated decades ago, the Vietnamese community in Germany today continues to confront the impact of violence, division, and reunification on community, ethnic, national, and individual identities. Su deftly unpacks how discrepant histories of borders and border crossings within a coethnic migrant group shape ethnic nationalisms through social relationships and religious practices. The book makes a groundbreaking contribution to transnational studies of Asia and the Asian diaspora."—Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross"The field of postcolonial studies has long been concerned with issues of cultural hybridity, national belonging, and political sovereignty. Phi Hong Su's The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin tackles all these weighty matters with a remarkable deftness that bridges divergent interests in decolonization, global migration, [and] the Cold War.... The Border Within is a major text for anyone who wishes to grasp the social forces that delimit postcolonial and diasporic identities. This important study reveals how nations are made, unmade, and remade with an understanding that the path to independence and freedom is riddled with endless controversy."—Long T. Bui, Postcolonial Interventions"Phi Hong Su asks a question of enduring interest to migration scholars and students of nationalism: How do ordinary people, thousands of miles from their homeland, make sense of their membership in a distant nation? Su adds two absorbing, creative wrinkles to this question by using a research design that sets The Border Within apart from prior scholarship...Su is both courageous and empathetic in the way she deals with the internal politics of the Vietnamese, their notions of ethnic nationalism, and their lives in Germany...These questions point to how fascinating and generative it is to read The Border Within."—Irene Bloemraad, Social Forces"...unusually theoretically sophisticated and analytically coherent.... The resulting book is as ambitious as it is humble: it shows a tremendous understanding of multiple national contexts and never makes grand claims that do not emerge from the data itself.... These arguments complement multiple fields of scholarship, including on the inadequacy of legal labels in capturing the true range of migration pathways and experiences; on taking categories, such as ethnicity, as to be explainedrather than explanatory; on immigrants as emigrants who continue to be impacted by their homelands; on the potential encumbrance of diasporic networks; on the lingering effects of the Cold War; and on how illuminating migrants' views onto receiving societies' histories can be.... Su's writing is unfailingly elegant, clear, and accessible."—Ulrike Bialas, International Migration Review"This short yet discerning monograph gives a vivid account of the persistence of divisions—including their subtle impact on social identity and social differentiation among Vietnamese in the diaspora decades after the Vietnam War and the Cold War ended. Su achieves this by engaging in wide-ranging fieldwork, including interviews with dozens of southerners as well as northerners. It is one of the most important monographs on this subject published in the last decade, and it should be read widely."—Tuan Hoang, Journal of Vietnamese Studies"This innovative book provides a sophisticated picture of the relationship between borders and boundaries and between nationhood and nationalism, which is of interest not only to scholars in transnational migration studies and in Vietnamese studies but to all readers interested in state formation, immigration, and postconflict division and reconciliation, as well.... The Border Within is an inspiring and well-written book. I believe the book is essential for anyone who wants to understand how partition, reunification, and migration shape the nationhood and nationalism, the unity and the division, among diasporic Vietnamese people."—Nghi Truong, Journal of Asian StudiesTable of Contents1. Border Crossings 2. Making Northerners and Southerners 3. Making Refugees and Contract Workers 4. Ranking the Ethnic Nation 5. Choosing Friends and Picking Sides 6. Buddhist Meditations in Northern and Southern Accents 7. After Border Crossings

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Book SynopsisMore than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties involved—the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their emigration, and the corporations that hire them—Andrea Wright examines labor migration as a social process as it reshapes global capitalism. With this book, Wright demonstrates how migration is deeply informed both by workers' dreams for the future and the ghosts of history, including the enduring legacies of colonial capitalism. As workers navigate bureaucratic hurdles to migration and working conditions in the Gulf, they in turn influence and inform state policies and corporate practices. Placing migrants at the center of global capital rather than its periphery, Wright shows how migrants are not passive bodies at the mercy of abstract forces—and reveals through their experiences a new understanding of contemporary resource extraction, governance, and global labor.Trade Review"Drawing upon extraordinarily rich fieldwork and a deep knowledge of the region, Andrea Wright brilliantly weaves the transnational connections between India and the Gulf. Between Dreams and Ghosts is a landmark contribution that pushes our understanding of oil, labor, and migrant lives in new and unexpected directions." —Adam Hanieh, author of Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East"Andrea Wright's elegantly crafted ethnography of the lived experiences of Indian migrants to the Gulf oil industry is a telling narrative of the poetics and politics of labor migration. Rich with multiple perspectives and based on extensive fieldwork, Between Dreams and Ghosts stands out as a sensitive and stunning account." —Anand Yang, author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia"Andrea Wright's compelling work shows that the oil and money on which so many studies focus is inextricably entangled with the bodies and aspirations of labor migrants. Between Dreams and Ghosts takes readers deep into the transnational swirl of moving people and objects that link the Gulf to India." —Douglas Rogers, author of The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism"Wright presents a fascinating, creatively researched study of Indian migrant workers in the oil industry of the Gulf states... Getting access to the exploiters as well as those exploited—and their ghost stories—is a tribute to the author's daring strategies of research. ... Highly recommended."—C. M. Henry, CHOICE"Even in a book that is in many ways fuelled by oil, the perspective of Wright's story is a very fresh take on the life-worlds that exist inside this massive industry. InBetween Dreams and Ghosts, we get to think about the materiality of the oil industry, and how the materiality itself takes on a transnational and even metaphysical life. The substantive contribution ofBeyond Ghosts and Dreamsto the study of migration in the Gulf is powerfully supported by the ways in which Wright 'passes the mic' and allows migrants to speak throughout, even allowing them to make their mark on the text. One gets the sense that Wright has been exceptionally faithful to her interlocutors and tells a story that would be recognisable to them."—Lindsey Stephenson, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"In dealing with migrants' lives and the biopolitics of the Indian state at a granular level, Between Dreams and Ghosts does an excellent job at uncovering the agency embedded in labor migration networks, often concealed by a mounting neoliberal corporate logic that naturalizes both labor inequalities and state intervention."—Nelida Fuccaro, Mashriq & Mahjar"Between Dreams and Ghosts is an essential text for both undergraduate and graduate students of South Asian studies, Gulf and Middle East Studies, political economy, labor, and migration; it also provides an important intervention for a range of non- academic audiences, including policy makers, journalists, labor organizers, and human rights groups."—Neha Vora, Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Surplus and Scarcity Part I: Of Mangoes and Men One: Protecting Vulnerable Citizens Two: Cultivating Entrepreneurs Three: Building Influential Networks Part II: Connective Substances Four: Making Kin with Gold Five: The Rig and the Temple Part III: The Weight of Tradition Six: Blowing Sand Seven: The Demon of Unsafe Acts Conclusion: Enduring Debts

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Book SynopsisAndrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela were impoverished youth when the Sandinista revolution took hold in Nicaragua in 1979. Against the backdrop of a war and economic crisis, the revolution gave them hope of a better future — if not for themselves, then for their children. But, when it became clear that their hopes were in vain, they chose to emigrate. Children of the Revolution tells these four women's stories up to their adulthood in Italy. Laura J. Enríquez's compassionate account highlights the particularities of each woman's narrative, and shows how their lives were shaped by social factors such as their class, gender, race, ethnicity, and immigration status. These factors limited the options available to them, even as the women challenged the structures and violence surrounding them. By extending the story to include the children, and now grandchildren, of the four women, Enríquez demonstrates how their work abroad provided opportunities for their families that they themselves never had. Hence, these stories reveal that even when a revolution fails to fundamentally transform a society in a lasting way, seeds of change may yet take hold. Trade Review"Children of the Revolution weaves women's biography with Nicaraguan history in capturing the essence of sociological imagination to illustrate structural violence and agency embedded in surviving revolution and the aftermath of structural adjustment policies. Narrating compelling transnational migration stories of four mothers and their children, Enriquez reveals the personal cost of violence and inequality and mothers' heroic efforts to build a better life for the next generation."—Mary Romero, author of The Maid's Daughter"Enríquez's meticulously analyzed oral history makes the case that even when revolutions falter, newly ignited consciousness remains and fuels agentic migration trajectories, yielding both generational sacrifices and gains."—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of DomésticaTable of Contents1. Situating the Stories of Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela 2. Childhood and Coming of Age in Nicaragua 3. Violent Expressions of Gender Inequalities 4. Emigrating for Their Children to Get Ahead 5. The Children of Andrea, Ana, and Pamela Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of this classic work provides a systematic, comparative assessment of the efforts of major immigrant-receiving countries and the European Union to manage migration, paying particular attention to the dilemmas of immigration control and immigrant integration. Retaining its comprehensive coverage of nations built by immigrants—the so-called settler societies of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand— the new edition explores how former imperial powers—France, Britain and the Netherlands—struggle to cope with the legacies of colonialism, how social democracies like Germany and the Scandinavian countries balance the costs and benefits of migration while maintaining strong welfare states, and how more recent countries of immigration in Southern Europe—Italy, Spain, and Greece—cope with new found diversity and the pressures of border control in a highly integrated European Union. The fourth edition offers up-to-date analysis of the comparative politics of immigration and citizenship, the rise of reactive populism and a new nativism, and the challenge of managing migration and mobility in an age of pandemic, exploring how countries cope with a surge in asylum seeking and the struggle to integrate large and culturally diverse foreign populations. Trade Review"Comprehensively revised, this classic work is still a must read for anyone involved in migration issues. Addressing the dilemmas of migration control, especially the "liberal paradox," a term first coined by James Hollifield, each chapter skillfully discusses how migration states wrestle with these dilemmas and how societies are transformed by immigration."—Pieter Bevelander, Professor at Malmö University and Director of the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare"Migration is one of the defining issues of the 21st century. The fourth edition of Controlling Immigration surpasses prior ones in scope and content. The book provides a valuable comparative perspective on immigration policies in both emerging and traditional countries of immigration. A must read for academics and policymakers alike."—Susan Martin, Professor Emerita of International Migration at Georgetown University"Updated in light of a rise of populist nationalisms, a global pandemic, and a surge in forced migrations, the fourth edition of Controlling Immigration is more indispensable than ever. Its distinguished contributors provide comprehensive overviews and vital analyses of immigration issues. As the severe gap between immigration policy goals and achievements continues to deepen, scholars, policymakers, and citizens need the knowledge this volume provides."—Rogers M. Smith, Professor of Political Science at the University of PennsylvaniaTable of Contents1. The Dilemmas of Immigration Control in Liberal Democracies —James F. Hollifield, Philip L. Martin, Pia Orrenius, and François Héran, with commentaries by Leo Lucassen and Christian Joppke 2. The United States: Whither the Nation of Immigrants? —Philip L. Martin and Pia Orrenius, with commentaries by Desmond King and Daniel J. Tichenor 3. Canada: Continuity and Change in Immigration for Nation-Building —Jeffrey G. Reitz with commentary by Antje Ellermann 4. Australia and New Zealand: Classical Migration States? —Alan Gamlen and Henry Sherrell, with commentary by Matthew Gibney 5. Immigration and the Republican Tradition in France —James F. Hollifield and François Héran, with commentaries by Catherine Wihtol de Wenden and Jean Beaman 6. UK Immigration and Nationality Policy: Radical and Radically Uninformed Change —Randall Hansen, with commentary by Desmond King 7. Germany: Managing Migration in the Twenty-first Century —Philip L. Martin and Dietrich Thränhardt, with commentaries by Friedrich Heckmann and Ingrid Tucci 8. The Netherlands: From Consensus to Contention in a Migration State —Willem Maas, with commentaries by Leo Lucassen and Michael Sharpe 9. Governing Immigration in the Scandinavian Welfare States —Grete Brochmann, with commentaries by Kristof Tamas and Lars Trägårdh 10. Immigration and Integration in Switzerland: Shifting Evolutions in a Multicultural Republic —Gianni d'Amato, with commentary by Christian Joppke 11. Italy: Immigration Policy —Ted Perlmutter with commentaries by Giuseppe Sciortino and Camille Schmoll 12. Spain: The Uneasy Transition from Labor Exporter to Labor Importer and the New Challenges Ahead —Miryam Hazàn and Rut Bermejo Casado, with commentary by Blanca Garcés-Macareñas 13. Greece and Turkey: From State-Building and Developmentalism to Immigration and Crisis Management —Fiona Adamson and Gerasimos Tsourapas, with commentaries by Hélène Thiollet and Riva Kastoryano 14. Japan and South Korea —Erin Chung, with commentaries by Midori Okabe and Michael Sharpe 15. The European Union: From Politics to Politicization —Andrew Geddes and Leila Hadj-Abdou, with commentary by Virginie Guiraudon

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Book SynopsisThis book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectories—geographic, temporal, storied—of several extended Salvadoran families. Traveling back and forth in time and across borders, Silber narrates the everyday unfolding of diasporic lives rich with acts of labor, love, and renewed calls for memory, truth, and accountability in El Salvador's long postwar. Through a retrospective and intimate ethnographic method that examines archives of memories and troubles the categories that have come to stand for "El Salvador" such as alarming violent numbers, Silber considers the lives of young Salvadorans who were brought up in an everyday radical politics and then migrated to the United States after more than a decade of peace and democracy. She reflects on this generation of migrants—the 1.5 insurgent generation born to forgotten former rank-and-file militants—as well as their intergenerational, transnational families to unpack the assumptions and typical ways of knowing in postwar ethnography. As the 1.5 generation sustains their radical political project across borders, circulates the products of their migrant labor through remittances, and engages in collective social care for the debilitated bodies of their loved ones, they transform and depart from expectations of the wounded postwar that offer us hope for the making of more just global futures.Trade Review"How often do anthropologists rethink field materials from a long-completed project? It's rare. And it's even more rare for them to do so with the depth of commitment and breadth of knowledge Silber brings to this remarkable book. Writing with clarity, humility, and a deep sense of engagement, she has produced an ethnography unlike any I've ever read."—Danilyn Rutherford, The Wenner-Gren Foundation"After Storiesis a beautiful example of how profoundly powerful reflexive, long-term ethnographic research can be! Silber urges us to question the relationships between the 'befores' and 'afters' of transformative change, reframes our understandings of truth and justice, and reorients the project of anthropology as a whole. A real tour de force!"—Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania"Ethnographic studies like Silber's tend to defy singular theses, meaning the whole is often greater than the sum of its parts....Recommended."—E. Ching, CHOICE"After Stories is accessible to a wide audience and written in the voice of an ethnographer who has spent time listening to, and learning to tell, stories about rural El Salvador.... The book contains several creative interventions, including a critical, disquieting reflexivity and addressing the reader directly with the use of the second person singular. It is a valuable addition to the social sciences and opens multiple possibilities for interdisciplinary theorizing and collaboration."—Mike Anastario, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsOne: Before Two: Numbers Three: Bodies Four: Objects Five: After

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Book SynopsisUpon arrival to the United States, Mexican immigrants are racialized as simultaneously non-White and "illegal." This racialization process complicates notions of race that they bring with them, as the "pigmentocracy" of Mexican society, in which their skin color may have afforded them more privileges within their home country, collides with the American racial system. Racial Baggage examines how immigration reconfigures U.S. race relations, illuminating how the immigration experience can transform understandings of race in home and host countries. Drawing on interviews with Mexicans in Los Angeles and Guadalajara, sociologist Sylvia Zamora illustrates how racialization is a transnational process that not only changes immigrants themselves, but also everyday understandings of race and racism within the United States and Mexico. Within their communities and networks that span an international border, Zamora argues, immigrants come to define "race" in a way distinct from both the color-conscious hierarchy of Mexican society and the Black-White binary prevalent within the United States. In the process, their stories demonstrate how race is not static, but rather an evolving social phenomenon forever altered by immigration.Trade Review"During the Mexican Revolution, nationalizing elites forged ideas about the Mexican character, which included the mistaken notions that racism or Black people did not exist in their country. Mexican immigration has since become the largest, longest, and arguably the most marginalized in U.S. history. Through rich interviews, Sylvia Zamora uncovers how immigration and changes in both societies transform immigrant ideas about race and racism."—Edward Telles, author of Pigmentocracies"Racial Baggage demonstrates how racial ideologies travel across the U.S.-Mexico border. This excellent and highly original book challenges many assumptions about how migrants develop racial awareness and offers a compelling transnational framework that represents a critical intervention in the field."—Julie A. Dowling, author of Mexican Americans and the Question of Race"Zamora has produced an important new contribution to the fields of sociology, history, immigration studies, ethnic/minority studies, and political science. Those interested in better understanding the historical and ideological forces shaping immigration and race will want to readRacial Baggage. Highly recommended."—M. G. Urbina, CHOICE"Drawing on a rich set of interview data with 75 non-migrants, return migrants, and immigrants in the United States, Zamora forcefully advances race relations, identity formation and meaning making, and transnational migration social science literature while also shedding new light on how the US–Mexico border operates as a race-making site."—Stephanie L. Canizales, Social Forces"Ideas about race and the attitudes and practices they elicit vary greatly between the United States and Mexico. But what happens with the large-scale migration and fluid mobility of people between both countries? With Racial Baggage, Sylvia Zamora makes a valuable contribution to understand the dynamic ideas and practices regarding race across the border. It is not only that migrants discover themselves as racialized in the eyes of those already living in the United States of America, but also that their experiences North of the border inform anew their relations back in Mexico."—Raúl Acosta, Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Immigration and Racial Transformation in America 1. Race in Mexico: Mestizo Privilege 2. Racial Border Crossings 3. First Encounters with Race in El Norte 4. Settling In: Illegality and the U.S. Color Line Conclusion: From Mestizo to Minority

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Book SynopsisCommercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes—younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western Men. Her study of China's email-order bride industry offers stories of Chinese women who are primarily middle-aged, divorced, and proactively seeking spouses to fulfill their material and sexual needs. What they seek in their Western partners is tied to what they believe they've lost in the shifting global economy around them. Ranging from multimillionaire entrepreneurs or ex-wives and mistresses of wealthy Chinese businessmen, to contingent sector workers and struggling single mothers, these women, along with their translators and potential husbands from the US, Canada, and Australia, make up the actors in this multifaceted story. Set against the backdrop of China's global economic ascendance and a relative decline of the West, this book asks: How does this reshape Chinese women's perception of Western masculinity? Through the unique window of global internet dating, this book reveals the shifting relationships of race, class, gender, sex, and intimacy across borders.Trade Review"Seeking Western Men shows how vicissitudes of global economy can be registered in the relative value of men and women seeking relationships. Liu's masterful analysis shows readers how to rethink gender, race, and class within a rapidly changing world order."—Eileen Otis, author of Markets and Bodies"This engaging ethnography dismantles common assumptions about the motives of female marriage migrants and the transnational appeal of both Western masculinity and Western feminism. Rather, we learn about evolving Chinese feminisms that deviate from Western models, as Chinese women pursue transnational marriages exercising their own sexual agency."—James Farrar, author of Opening Up"[Seeking Western Men] is an interdisciplinary study that spans sociology, anthropology, and gender studies. I highly recommend it to students, researchers, and general readers interested in the areas of transnational migration, marriage and family, masculinity, and Chinese and Western cultures. Through a geopolitical and feminist lens, this book provides valuable insights into the power dynamics between Asian women and Western men. It enriches the existing body of research on marriage migration in Asia by offering a wealth of rich ethnographic data."—Hsunhui Tseng, H-Asia"Liu's investigation is more than a case study of Chinese international dating. It is an earnest effort to understand the sociological processes and psychological realities that have provoked a reawakening in Chinese women as sexual and romantic beings who want and expect a more fulfilling life, which includes having a satisfying marriage with either a Chinese man of sufficient social standing or, if not, with a Western provider. Monica Liu's study offers an insightful peek into the sociological processes responsible for this psychological awakening. It is ethnography as it should be."—William Jakowiak, Nan Nü"This book provides the most detailed empirical examination of the international dating industry in China and how ideas of race, class, and gender are shifting within the globalizing economy, providing an important contribution to sociological literature about the international dating industry and ideas of intimacy within post-reform China."—Julia Meszaros, Social Forces"Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China's Global Rise offers important insights into the complex world of email-order brides. Using feminist lenses from both the West and China, Liu's engaging and accessible writing provides a glimpse of international marriages and the challenges facing women in contemporary China. The book makes significant contributions to the field of gender and migration studies. I highly recommend the book to anyone who is interested in learning more about this phenomenon."—Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? 2. Provider Love 3. Transnational Business Masculinity 4. Embracing Domesticity 5. Body of a Woman, Fate of a Man 6. Surrogate Dating: Translators behind the Screens Epilogue

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Book SynopsisFor more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts, often obscured by national and international political developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land. Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives.Trade Review"Ramnath offers a rich rethinking of the seismic shifts in governance and citizenship that accompanied war and decolonization in South and Southeast Asia. She shifts our gaze from official narratives, written from the perspective of politicians and diplomats, to the experience of the everyday subjects who had for generations made the interconnected shores of the Bay of Bengal their homes. A marvel of archival research and storytelling, Ramnath breathes life into dusty, crumbling records of legal disputes to reconstruct deeply moving tales of human separation and suffering, but also resilience and bravery."—Julia Stephens, Rutgers University"Boats in a Storm provides a moving and ethnographic panorama of people caught in the midst of changing contortions of nation, citizenship and borders in the era of decolonization. It tracks personal displacements and disputes, through tax, inheritance and remittance, and shows the everyday dilemmas that shot through people's lives. In place of diplomacy or high politics, we are left with the granular in comprehending jurisdictional demarcations that have potent afterlives to the present, for violent structures of statelessness, nationalism or for conflicts and authoritarianism that followed in later-twentieth century Sri Lanka, Burma, India or Malaysia."—Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge"Boats in a Storm is a magnificent contribution to the history of law and displacement in the Indian Ocean. Using a rich legal archive, Kalyani Ramnath shows us the history of decolonization in a new light through this astonishingly detailed picture of the loss suffered by migrants who found their itineraries interrupted by new borders and new jurisdictions. This is a spectacularly accomplished and insightful book!"—Sunil Amrith, Yale University"In her beautifully written book Boats in a Storm, Kalyani Ramnath scrutinises a plethora of archived legal accounts, memoirs, and administrative records to reconstruct the multiple migratory destinies of Indian migrants in Burma and Malaya after the Japanese occupation in 1942."—Antje Missbach, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs"Ramnath's book deserves a wide readership because the issues that she discusses around the disruptive histories of decolonization and state formation, border-making and citizenship, as well as the experiences and narration of displacement, have a wide resonance. I recommend this model study unreservedly."—Peter Gatrell, European Review of HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Boats in a Storm 1. 1942 2. Banana Money 3. Partnership Deeds 4. Application Forms 5. Women Who Wait 6. Red Flags 7. 1962 Conclusion: An Uneasy Calm

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Book SynopsisUnruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and shows how naming practices and witness accounts become potent ways of resistance in everyday interactions and in global activism. Featuring the voices of Uyghurs from three continents, Unruly Speech analyzes the discursive and material force of place names, social media, surveillance, and the link between witnessing and the discourse on human rights. The book provides a granular view of disruptive communication: its global political moorings and socio-technical control. The rich ethnographic study will appeal to audiences interested in migration and displacement, language and social interaction, advocacy, digital surveillance, and a transnational China.Trade Review"Based on a rigorous, multi-sited ethnography conducted in Xinjiang and within diasporas in Germany and the United States, Unruly Speech is a thorough inquiry into transgressive spaces of testimony and advocacy under digital surveillance in totalitarian regimes. It provides an important contribution to the anthropology of resistance."—Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study and the Collège de France"Unruly Speech is a compelling multi-sited ethnography of Uyghur communication practices as they are shaped by both oppressive state measures and migratory routes. Addressing the special affordances and hazards of digital media, this book makes a significant and timely contribution to communication research and to the study of globalization through its emphasis on transnational movement and process."—Tamar Katriel, author of Defiant Discourse"In Unruly Speech, Saskia Witteborn provides a clever ethnography of communication practices and processes in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China and in the Uyghur diasporas in Germany and the United States.... This way, Witteborn builds a conceptual bridge between the material process of displacement and the symbolic dislocation of meaning."—Andrew Fallone, International Affairs"Unruly Speech is itself a testimonio to the strength and resilience of Uyghur communities who have been enduring severe political, social, and cultural dispossessions over the past two decades. The book bridges anthropology and communication studies through its ethnographic methodology of communication and critical self-reflexivity. It contributes to migration literature, language and social interaction literature, and the study of contemporary China and Uyghur lifeworlds from a global perspective. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in delving into a hopeful world of transgressive possibilities."—Jing Wang, American EthnologistTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Unruly Speech: Transgression and the Limit 3. Xinjiang: Unity in Inequality 4. East Turkistan: Belonging and Human Rights 5. Testimonio 6. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisUnruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and shows how naming practices and witness accounts become potent ways of resistance in everyday interactions and in global activism. Featuring the voices of Uyghurs from three continents, Unruly Speech analyzes the discursive and material force of place names, social media, surveillance, and the link between witnessing and the discourse on human rights. The book provides a granular view of disruptive communication: its global political moorings and socio-technical control. The rich ethnographic study will appeal to audiences interested in migration and displacement, language and social interaction, advocacy, digital surveillance, and a transnational China.Trade Review"Based on a rigorous, multi-sited ethnography conducted in Xinjiang and within diasporas in Germany and the United States, Unruly Speech is a thorough inquiry into transgressive spaces of testimony and advocacy under digital surveillance in totalitarian regimes. It provides an important contribution to the anthropology of resistance."—Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study and the Collège de France"Unruly Speech is a compelling multi-sited ethnography of Uyghur communication practices as they are shaped by both oppressive state measures and migratory routes. Addressing the special affordances and hazards of digital media, this book makes a significant and timely contribution to communication research and to the study of globalization through its emphasis on transnational movement and process."—Tamar Katriel, author of Defiant Discourse"In Unruly Speech, Saskia Witteborn provides a clever ethnography of communication practices and processes in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China and in the Uyghur diasporas in Germany and the United States.... This way, Witteborn builds a conceptual bridge between the material process of displacement and the symbolic dislocation of meaning."—Andrew Fallone, International Affairs"Unruly Speech is itself a testimonio to the strength and resilience of Uyghur communities who have been enduring severe political, social, and cultural dispossessions over the past two decades. The book bridges anthropology and communication studies through its ethnographic methodology of communication and critical self-reflexivity. It contributes to migration literature, language and social interaction literature, and the study of contemporary China and Uyghur lifeworlds from a global perspective. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in delving into a hopeful world of transgressive possibilities."—Jing Wang, American EthnologistTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Unruly Speech: Transgression and the Limit 3. Xinjiang: Unity in Inequality 4. East Turkistan: Belonging and Human Rights 5. Testimonio 6. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisHiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the development paradigm and its praxis. Aid and the Help addresses this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the intersection of development work and domestic work. Examining the reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the ostensibly "giving" industry of development can be an extractive industry as well.Trade Review"A significant contribution to our understanding of the global politics of care, this book describes the moral dilemmas, social boundaries, and hierarchies that aid workers create to resolve the contradictions in their management of domestic help. This is a must read for those interested in gender, globalization, development and the work of women in the Global South."—Rhacel Parreñas, University of Southern California"This timely and important book is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on the global contours of reproductive and domestic labor. Aid and the Help frames women as both employers and employees, having to sort out the global tensions situating their interactions in the intimate, invisible zone of the home."—Carla Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder"Dinah Hannaford, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Houston, is not the first academic to provide a pointed critique of the humanitarian aid industry. She is, however, unique in focusing on the hypocrisy of those working in that industry—and it is an industry.... Hannaford is getting to the heart of the matter, namely that the aid industry is as much a jobs program for privileged college graduates as it is an industry having a transformative effect on the lives of those it is supposed to help."—Sam Sweeney, The American Conservative"Fundamentally, Aid and the Help is a discussion of colonialism and its connection to present-day development.... This work asks researchers, scholars, and critical thinkers to consider a future that engages in the project of decolonization without terms and conditions, one that divests from systems of violence and oppression that does not sacrifice the liberation of lower-class marginalized people. The book is a refreshing and interesting perspective to understanding colonialism structures; specifically, it best describes how we are still actively working through the structure and, in some ways, cannot escape it."—Nina Wilson, H-Diplo"[Aid and the Help] provides a valuable critical perspective on post-colonial global inequalities through a rich and nuanced yet grounded ethnographic account of paid domestic work in the homes of development workers. The lucid writing style combined with a lack of excessive jargon makes this book a solid choice to be used in advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses on migration, labor, development, intimacies, and economy as well as global studies."—Kritika Pandey, Medical Anthropology Quarterly"Aid and the Help insightfully explores the contradictions of international development's ideals with the realities of child care, domestic labor, and affluent expatriates living in poor countries.... Although many scholars have probed the dilemmas of development workers trying to downplay the significance of class differences in their intimate lives, Hannaford powerfully and succinctly analyzes these everyday negotiations.... Highly recommended."—J. M. Rich, CHOICE"Dinah Hannaford's timely ethnography is a reminder that care economies are increasingly important to global-local economies, but continue to be underrepresented in policy and research."—Anindita Majumdar, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsIntroduction: Aid Work and the Extraction of Care 1. Finding Help in the Informal Economy 2. Security and Everyday Bordering 3. Stratigraphies of Mobility 4. Inequalities of the World Personified Conclusion: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAt the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its Nazi past, a status shared to a lesser degree by Germans from the formerly socialist East Germany. It is for this reason that the German government, German NGOs, and Muslim minority groups have begun to design Holocaust education and anti-Semitism prevention programs specifically tailored for Muslim immigrants and refugees, so that they, too, can learn the lessons of the Holocaust and embrace Germany's most important postwar democratic political values. Based on ethnographic research conducted over a decade, Subcontractors of Guilt explores when, how, and why Muslim Germans have moved to the center of Holocaust memory discussions. Esra Özyürek argues that German society "subcontracts" guilt of the Holocaust to new minority immigrant arrivals, with the false promise of this process leading to inclusion into the German social contract and equality with other members of postwar German society. By focusing on the recently formed but already sizable sector of Muslim-only anti-Semitism and Holocaust education programs, this book explores the paradoxes of postwar German national identity.Trade Review"Esra Özyürek has written a path-breaking and much needed book on the multifaceted, constitutive ways by which Turkish- and Arab-background migrants shaped German Holocaust memory and how it shaped their identity in return. Based on ethnographic research, this is a fundamental contribution that rewrites our understanding of the development of Holocaust memory in Germany"—Alon Confino, author of A World Without Jews"German Holocaust memory culture is often held up as a model for other nations to imitate. But, as Esra Özyürek shows in this provocative and ethnographically rich book, the story is much more complicated. Subcontractors of Guilt is a fascinating study of belonging and exclusion in post-Holocaust Germany and a must-read for all who are interested in contemporary Europe."—Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization"Subcontractors of Guilt is an essential intervention into contemporary German debates around migration, Muslim minorities, anti-Semitism, and Holocaust memory. By centering the perspectives of young German Muslims, Özyürek's insightful study offers an important corrective to narratives that too often fail to do so."—Fatima El-Tayeb, Yale University"This powerful, well-informed book would make a fine addition to any academic library. Recommended."—S. Anderson, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: German Holocaust Memory and the Redemptive Path toward Democracy 1. Rebelling against the Father, Democratizing the Family 2. Export-Import Theory of Muslim Antisemitism in Germany 3. Wrong Emotions / Wrong Empathy for the Holocaust 4. Subcontracting Guilt, Policing Victimhood 5. Visiting Auschwitz as Pilgrimage and as Shock Therapy Conclusion: Can Muslims Flip the Script of the German Memory Theater?

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Book SynopsisUnexpected Routes chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II: Cuban-born Spanish writer Silvia Mistral, German-born Spanish writer Max Aub, German writer Anna Seghers, German author Ruth Rewald, Swiss-born political activist, photographer, and ethnographer Gertrude Duby, and Czech writer and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch. While these six writers came from different backgrounds, wrote in different languages, and enjoyed very different levels of recognition in their lifetimes and posthumously, they all made sense of their forced displacement in works that reveal their conflicted relationships with the people and places they encountered in transit as well as in Mexico, the country in which they all eventually found asylum. The literary output of these six brilliant, prolific, but also flawed individuals reflects the most salient contradictions of what it meant to escape from fascist occupied Europe. In a study that bridges history, literary studies, and refugee studies, Tabea Alexa Linhard draws connections between colonialism, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II and the Holocaust to shed light on the histories and literatures of exile and migration, drawing connections to today's refugee crisis and asking larger questions around the notions of belonging, longing, and the lived experience of exile.Trade Review"Tabea Alexa Linhard movingly tells the stories of six mid-century antifascist writers and artists who were lucky enough to escape death through circuitous routes of exile. Unexpected Routes helps us understand the challenges these exiles faced, and how their views of their new surroundings were often marked by a colonial violence they weren't always able to acknowledge."—Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College"With a profound command of Spanish, German, and Mexican histories and letters, Tabea Alexa Linhard reconfigures the global tragic moment by researching and examining the lives and works of apparently unrelated authors, here revealed as occupants of a common orphanhood—beyond narrow national and linguistic frames."—Mauricio Tenorio, The University of Chicago"This striking book reveals entangled histories of displaced Europeans seeking refuge in Latin America, highlighting intersections of colonialism, totalitarianism and forced migration. Unexpected Routes profoundly realigns the research and writing on exile literature."—Doerte Bischoff, University of HamburgTable of Contents1. Beautiful Friendships 2. The Emotional Geographies of Old and New Homes 3. Ships of Fools: Silvia Mistral 4. Transit and Chance Encounters 5. No Solid Ground: Max Aub 6. A Mexican Sector in Berlin: Anna Seghers 7. Yearning for Mexico: Ruth Rewald 8. Magical Zapatistas: Gertrude Duby 9. Landscapes of Grief: Egon Erwin Kisch 10. Afterlives

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Book SynopsisHiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the development paradigm and its praxis. Aid and the Help addresses this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the intersection of development work and domestic work. Examining the reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the ostensibly "giving" industry of development can be an extractive industry as well.Trade Review"A significant contribution to our understanding of the global politics of care, this book describes the moral dilemmas, social boundaries, and hierarchies that aid workers create to resolve the contradictions in their management of domestic help. This is a must read for those interested in gender, globalization, development and the work of women in the Global South."—Rhacel Parreñas, University of Southern California"This timely and important book is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on the global contours of reproductive and domestic labor. Aid and the Help frames women as both employers and employees, having to sort out the global tensions situating their interactions in the intimate, invisible zone of the home."—Carla Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder"Dinah Hannaford, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Houston, is not the first academic to provide a pointed critique of the humanitarian aid industry. She is, however, unique in focusing on the hypocrisy of those working in that industry—and it is an industry.... Hannaford is getting to the heart of the matter, namely that the aid industry is as much a jobs program for privileged college graduates as it is an industry having a transformative effect on the lives of those it is supposed to help."—Sam Sweeney, The American Conservative"Fundamentally, Aid and the Help is a discussion of colonialism and its connection to present-day development.... This work asks researchers, scholars, and critical thinkers to consider a future that engages in the project of decolonization without terms and conditions, one that divests from systems of violence and oppression that does not sacrifice the liberation of lower-class marginalized people. The book is a refreshing and interesting perspective to understanding colonialism structures; specifically, it best describes how we are still actively working through the structure and, in some ways, cannot escape it."—Nina Wilson, H-Diplo"[Aid and the Help] provides a valuable critical perspective on post-colonial global inequalities through a rich and nuanced yet grounded ethnographic account of paid domestic work in the homes of development workers. The lucid writing style combined with a lack of excessive jargon makes this book a solid choice to be used in advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses on migration, labor, development, intimacies, and economy as well as global studies."—Kritika Pandey, Medical Anthropology Quarterly"Aid and the Help insightfully explores the contradictions of international development's ideals with the realities of child care, domestic labor, and affluent expatriates living in poor countries.... Although many scholars have probed the dilemmas of development workers trying to downplay the significance of class differences in their intimate lives, Hannaford powerfully and succinctly analyzes these everyday negotiations.... Highly recommended."—J. M. Rich, CHOICE"Dinah Hannaford's timely ethnography is a reminder that care economies are increasingly important to global-local economies, but continue to be underrepresented in policy and research."—Anindita Majumdar, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsIntroduction: Aid Work and the Extraction of Care 1. Finding Help in the Informal Economy 2. Security and Everyday Bordering 3. Stratigraphies of Mobility 4. Inequalities of the World Personified Conclusion: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFor more than century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the postwar period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts, often obscured by national and international political developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath narrates how former migrants battled legal requirements to revive prewar circulations of credit, capital, and labor, in a postwar context of rising ethno-nationalisms that accused migrants of stealing jobs and hoarding land. Ultimately, Ramnath shows how decolonization was marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives.Trade Review"Ramnath offers a rich rethinking of the seismic shifts in governance and citizenship that accompanied war and decolonization in South and Southeast Asia. She shifts our gaze from official narratives, written from the perspective of politicians and diplomats, to the experience of the everyday subjects who had for generations made the interconnected shores of the Bay of Bengal their homes. A marvel of archival research and storytelling, Ramnath breathes life into dusty, crumbling records of legal disputes to reconstruct deeply moving tales of human separation and suffering, but also resilience and bravery."—Julia Stephens, Rutgers University"Boats in a Storm provides a moving and ethnographic panorama of people caught in the midst of changing contortions of nation, citizenship and borders in the era of decolonization. It tracks personal displacements and disputes, through tax, inheritance and remittance, and shows the everyday dilemmas that shot through people's lives. In place of diplomacy or high politics, we are left with the granular in comprehending jurisdictional demarcations that have potent afterlives to the present, for violent structures of statelessness, nationalism or for conflicts and authoritarianism that followed in later-twentieth century Sri Lanka, Burma, India or Malaysia."—Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge"Boats in a Storm is a magnificent contribution to the history of law and displacement in the Indian Ocean. Using a rich legal archive, Kalyani Ramnath shows us the history of decolonization in a new light through this astonishingly detailed picture of the loss suffered by migrants who found their itineraries interrupted by new borders and new jurisdictions. This is a spectacularly accomplished and insightful book!"—Sunil Amrith, Yale University"In her beautifully written book Boats in a Storm, Kalyani Ramnath scrutinises a plethora of archived legal accounts, memoirs, and administrative records to reconstruct the multiple migratory destinies of Indian migrants in Burma and Malaya after the Japanese occupation in 1942."—Antje Missbach, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs"Ramnath's book deserves a wide readership because the issues that she discusses around the disruptive histories of decolonization and state formation, border-making and citizenship, as well as the experiences and narration of displacement, have a wide resonance. I recommend this model study unreservedly."—Peter Gatrell, European Review of HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Boats in a Storm 1. 1942 2. Banana Money 3. Partnership Deeds 4. Application Forms 5. Women Who Wait 6. Red Flags 7. 1962 Conclusion: An Uneasy Calm

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Book SynopsisThe 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA+) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance.

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Book SynopsisUndocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile media coverage and generates fierce debate. However, as this much-needed book makes clear, unauthorized movement should not be confused or crudely assimilated with the social reality of growing numbers of large, settled populations lacking full citizenship and experiencing precarious lives. From the journeys migrants take to the lives they seek on arrival and beyond, Undocumented Migration provides a comparative view of how this phenomenon plays out, looking in particular at the United States and Europe. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors breathe life into the various issues and debates surrounding migration, including the experiences and voices of migrants themselves, to offer a critical analysis of a hidden and too often misrepresented population.Trade Review"Undoubtedly, this volume will be immensely valuable to students and scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as to interested policy makers and immigrant rights advocates. The crisis we are living around the world today underscores the importance of understanding how immigrants become undocumented and their resultant vulnerabilities across different contexts, as the authors of this volume propose." Cecilia Menjívar, American Journal of Sociology"[A] concise and excellent book on the forces that render millions of people 'illegal'. The book's strength stems from its ability to cross national boundaries. […] This is precisely the book we need right now because it delivers its powerful and sophisticated message with clear and urgent prose."Walter Nicholls, Sociology“Undocumented Migration is a readable and carefully researched work providing a comparative examination of diverse ways that nation states and sub-national localities enact and enforce policies restricting or supporting the human rights, freedoms, and agency of the people subject to such disempowerment and vulnerability.”Ethnic and Racial Studies"[P]rovides insightful and timely discussions to reflect on how 'becoming' an undocumented migrant is a process woven at multiple scales of the social realm […] portraying a broader understanding of the multiple complexities that nowadays shape undocumented migration."Canadian Journal of Sociology"This lucid and cogent book is a most welcome addition to the growing literature on migration. It applies a sharp and sophisticated lens to the multiple processes by which migrants are made 'illegal,' challenging prevailing simplifications that depict illegal or undocumented migrants as culpable violators of legitimate border controls. With deft writing and a wonderfully broad span that stretches from national and international migration governance structures to the experiences of people affected by different forms of migration, the authors introduce the reader to some of the most challenging and urgent political and social problems of our time." Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University, and author of Can We Solve the Migration Crisis? "Drawing on examples from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, Undocumented Migration offers a rare comparative examination of undocumented migration and illegality. It is recommended reading for anyone interested in learning about one of the most important global population movements of our time." Leo R. Chavez, University of California, Irvine, and author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the NationTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Who Are Undocumented Immigrants? Chapter 2: Theorizing the Lived Experience of Migrant Illegality Chapter 3: Geographies of Undocumented Migration Chapter 4: Immigration Enforcement, Detention, and Deportation Chapter 5: Undocumented Status and Social Mobility Chapter 6: Families and Children Chapter 7: Challenging Exclusion

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Book SynopsisRefugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.Trade Review"Strangers at Our Door puts forward an alternative narrative, one that is humanitarian, about refugees and migrants. It succeeds in combating the racist propaganda churned out by the media and our politicians." Socialist ReviewTable of Contents1. Migration Panic and its (Mis)uses 2. Floating Insecurity in Search of an Anchor 3. On Strongmen's (and Strongwomen's) Trail 4. Together and Crowded 5. Troublesome, Annoying, Unwanted: Inadmissible... 6. Anthropological vs. Time-bound Roots of Hatred

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Book SynopsisEvery minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority. But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane 'win-win' strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.Trade Review“Jacqueline Bhabha has long been one of the most astute observers of forced migration. Here, she brings her insight to bear on this great issue of our time, offering original and compelling ways of rethinking the challenges ahead.” Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford “This readable yet impressively researched book provides a comprehensive account of how we should think about one of the most complex and urgent problems of our time.” Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, former UN Commissioner for Human Rights and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice"This book is an insightful and passionate argument for finding a humane resolution to the problems that cause and attend distress migration."Publishers WeeklyTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - A Crisis Like No Other? Chapter 2 - A Duty of Care Chapter 3 - The System at Breaking Point Chapter 4 - Finding Workable and Humane Solutions References Further Reading

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Book SynopsisEvery minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tackling the refugee and migration crisis has become a global political priority. But can this crisis be resolved and if so, how? In this compelling essay, renowned human rights lawyer and scholar Jacqueline Bhabha explains why forced migration demands compassion, generosity and a more vigorous acknowledgement of our shared dependence on human mobility as a key element of global collaboration. Unless we develop humane 'win-win' strategies for tackling the inequalities and conflicts driving migration and for addressing the fears fuelling xenophobia, she argues, both innocent lives and cardinal human rights principles will be squandered in the service of futile nationalism and oppressive border control.Trade Review“Jacqueline Bhabha has long been one of the most astute observers of forced migration. Here, she brings her insight to bear on this great issue of our time, offering original and compelling ways of rethinking the challenges ahead.” Matthew J. Gibney, University of Oxford “This readable yet impressively researched book provides a comprehensive account of how we should think about one of the most complex and urgent problems of our time.” Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, former UN Commissioner for Human Rights and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate JusticeTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 - A Crisis Like No Other? Chapter 2 - A Duty of Care Chapter 3 - The System at Breaking Point Chapter 4 - Finding Workable and Humane Solutions References Further Reading

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Book SynopsisAmid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside – the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism – have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe. Given a paradigm leap of this sort, philosophical reflection is in a position to exert its creative power more than other types of knowledge. But this can only happen if it is able to go beyond its own lexical boundaries, by turning its gaze outside itself. Here the leading Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito looks at how various strands of German, French, and Italian thought have achieved this outward turn and successfully captured international attention by breaking with the language of early nineteenth-century crisis philosophies. When analyzed from this novel perspective, the great texts of Adorno, Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze, as well as works by the latest Italian thinkers, are cast in a new light. From the relationship and tension between them, reconstructed here with extraordinary theoretical sensitivity, a form of thought can arise that is equal to the challenges faced by Europe today. This erudite and wide-ranging analysis of European thought in the light of the crises facing the continent today will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy, critical theory, and beyond.Trade Review“Esposito’s A Philosophy for Europe is a clarion call for the coming into political existence of a European people based neither on a metaphysics of identity nor on one of difference, but rather on one that emerges out of a real political dialectic built on what he calls, with Machiavelli and Vico, civilian power. Across some of his most thoughtful and unsettling readings of German philosophy, French theory, and Italian thought, Esposito urges the reader to find a point of union among interests and values able to give birth to a new European political space. This is Esposito’s most provocative work yet.” Timothy Campbell, Cornell UniversityTable of Contents Introduction I. The Crisis Dispositif 1. The Metaphysics of Crisis 2. From the Night 3. Sea and Land Articulation I II. German Philosophy 1. From the Other Shore 2. The Resurgence of the Archaic 3. Outside in the Concept Articulation II III. French Theory 1. Difference and History 2. The Undecidable 3. The Thought of the Outside Articulation III IV. Italian Thought 1. Power and the Immediate 2. An Affirmative Thought 3. Beyond Political Theology Articulation IV V. A Philosophy for Europe 1. A Europe with No People 2. On the Borders of Europe 3. The Two Peoples of Europe Index Notes

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Book SynopsisAmid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside – the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism – have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe. Given a paradigm leap of this sort, philosophical reflection is in a position to exert its creative power more than other types of knowledge. But this can only happen if it is able to go beyond its own lexical boundaries, by turning its gaze outside itself. Here the leading Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito looks at how various strands of German, French, and Italian thought have achieved this outward turn and successfully captured international attention by breaking with the language of early nineteenth-century crisis philosophies. When analyzed from this novel perspective, the great texts of Adorno, Derrida, Foucault, and Deleuze, as well as works by the latest Italian thinkers, are cast in a new light. From the relationship and tension between them, reconstructed here with extraordinary theoretical sensitivity, a form of thought can arise that is equal to the challenges faced by Europe today. This erudite and wide-ranging analysis of European thought in the light of the crises facing the continent today will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy, critical theory, and beyond.Trade Review“Esposito’s A Philosophy for Europe is a clarion call for the coming into political existence of a European people based neither on a metaphysics of identity nor on one of difference, but rather on one that emerges out of a real political dialectic built on what he calls, with Machiavelli and Vico, civilian power. Across some of his most thoughtful and unsettling readings of German philosophy, French theory, and Italian thought, Esposito urges the reader to find a point of union among interests and values able to give birth to a new European political space. This is Esposito’s most provocative work yet.” Timothy Campbell, Cornell UniversityTable of Contents Introduction I. The Crisis Dispositif 1. The Metaphysics of Crisis 2. From the Night 3. Sea and Land Articulation I II. German Philosophy 1. From the Other Shore 2. The Resurgence of the Archaic 3. Outside in the Concept Articulation II III. French Theory 1. Difference and History 2. The Undecidable 3. The Thought of the Outside Articulation III IV. Italian Thought 1. Power and the Immediate 2. An Affirmative Thought 3. Beyond Political Theology Articulation IV V. A Philosophy for Europe 1. A Europe with No People 2. On the Borders of Europe 3. The Two Peoples of Europe Index Notes

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Book SynopsisStates claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are labelled ‘illegal’ and find themselves vulnerable and unrepresented. The international state system advantages the lucky few born in rich countries and locks others into poor and often repressive ones. In this book, Christopher Bertram skilfully weaves a lucid exposition of the debates in political philosophy with original insights to argue that migration controls must be justifiable to everyone, including would-be and actual immigrants. Until justice prevails, states have no credible right to exclude and no-one is obliged to obey their immigration rules. Bertram’s analysis powerfully cuts through the fog of political rhetoric that obscures this controversial topic. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics and ethics of migration.Trade Review‘Bertram’s excellent book provides a lucid overview of contemporary philosophical debates about immigration. Its brevity, accessible style, real-world examples, and distinctive perspective will appeal to scholars and students alike. A “must read”.’Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto‘This is a distinctive and immensely accessible contribution to the philosophical debate about immigration. Bertram demonstrates the moral and political costs of the current global migration regime and articulates an attractive ideal of justice in migration.’David Owen, University of Southampton "A bolder, more intellectually rigorous approach can be found in Christopher Bertram’s Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?, which challenges unilateral state discretion over immigration policy and advocates for a global migration regime."New Statesman"Christopher Bertram's Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants? is a sharp and insightful short book . . . a reasoned and informed contribution to the heated and divisive debates on immigration policies . . ."Migration Studies Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Migration Today and in History Chapter 2: Justifying a Migration Regime from an Impartial Perspective Chapter 3: Obligations of Individuals and States in an Unjust World Concluding Thoughts References Notes

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Book SynopsisStates claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are labelled ‘illegal’ and find themselves vulnerable and unrepresented. The international state system advantages the lucky few born in rich countries and locks others into poor and often repressive ones. In this book, Christopher Bertram skilfully weaves a lucid exposition of the debates in political philosophy with original insights to argue that migration controls must be justifiable to everyone, including would-be and actual immigrants. Until justice prevails, states have no credible right to exclude and no-one is obliged to obey their immigration rules. Bertram’s analysis powerfully cuts through the fog of political rhetoric that obscures this controversial topic. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics and ethics of migration.Trade Review"Bertram’s excellent book provides a lucid overview of contemporary philosophical debates about immigration. Its brevity, accessible style, real-world examples, and distinctive perspective will appeal to scholars and students alike. A 'must read'."—Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto "This is a distinctive and immensely accessible contribution to the philosophical debate about immigration. Bertram demonstrates the moral and political costs of the current global migration regime and articulates an attractive ideal of justice in migration."—David Owen, University of Southampton "A bolder, more intellectually rigorous approach can be found in Christopher Bertram’s Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants?, which challenges unilateral state discretion over immigration policy and advocates for a global migration regime."New Statesman "Christopher Bertram's Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants? is a sharp and insightful short book . . . a reasoned and informed contribution to the heated and divisive debates on immigration policies . . ."Migration Studies Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Migration Today and in History Chapter 2: Justifying a Migration Regime from an Impartial Perspective Chapter 3: Obligations of Individuals and States in an Unjust World Concluding Thoughts References Notes

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Book SynopsisIn a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural “problems,” this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Taking an innovative approach, Mirna Safi offers a fresh perspective on how migration is embedded in the elementary mechanisms that shape the landscape of inequality. She sketches out three distinct channels which lead to unequal outcomes for different migrating and non-migrating groups: the global division of labor; the production of legal and administrative categories; and the reconfiguration of symbolic ethnoracial groups. Respectively, these channels categorize migrants as “type of workers,” “type of citizens,” and “type of humans.” Examining this intersection across the U.S. and Europe, she shows how studying international migration together with inequality can challenge nationally established paradigms of social justice. This timely book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in the sociology and politics of migration, ethnic and racial studies, and social inequality and stratification.Trade Review"This short and brilliant synthetic work successfully reconfigures the study of international migration as a facet of global inequality. […] It is one of the most essential books to have been published in the field in a number of years." Adrian Favell, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Migration and inequality are the twin challenges facing the developed world, with leaders and people deeply divided and uncertain how to respond. For readers in search of insight, Safi’s book is an essential source. Drawing on a vast multidisciplinary literature, Safi provides the crucial tools needed to understand today’s bewilderingly unequal and diverse world."Roger Waldinger, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration"Migration and Inequality is a book of impressive originality. Safi opens new paths in the sociology of ethno-racial formation by connecting distributional, legal and symbolic processes of inequality, and also skillfully captures national, transnational and global pathways at work. Her book should be widely read and discussed by social scientists across the disciplines."Michèle Lamont, Coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel"Mirna Safi brilliantly marries the theoretical movement toward relational approaches to stratification and the fate of migrant populations. We learn that the elementary process of social stratification --cultural and cognitive categorization married to the distributional mechanisms of exclusion and exploitation – create migrants as social categories and steer their destination cultural, political and economic reception. This book will be read widely and referred to often."Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "[Moving] between concepts and empirical research at the macro, meso, and micro levels, [and] literature across disciplines and national contexts [… Safi] touches upon many of the most pressing concerns around migration today, including narratives of a migrant 'crisis', citizenship rights, and ever-present racial and ethnic inequalities. […] Safi provides a thoughtful approach to bridging migration and social stratification research, and the reader is sure to gain a richer understanding of connections between migration and forms of inequality."Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 From National to Migration Societies Chapter 2 - Migration and Elementary Mechanisms of Social Inequality: a conceptual framework Chapter 3 The Economic Channel: Migrant Workers in the Global Division of Labor Chapter 4 The Legal Channel: Immigration Law, Administrative Management of Migrants and Civic stratification Chapter 5 The Ethnoracial Channel: Migration, Group Boundary-Making and Ethnoracial Classification Struggles Conclusion: Migration, an Issue of Social Justice

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Book SynopsisIn a world of increasingly heated political debates on migration, relentlessly caught up in questions of security, humanitarian crisis, and cultural “problems,” this book radically shifts the focus to address migration through the lens of inequality. Taking an innovative approach, Mirna Safi offers a fresh perspective on how migration is embedded in the elementary mechanisms that shape the landscape of inequality. She sketches out three distinct channels which lead to unequal outcomes for different migrating and non-migrating groups: the global division of labor; the production of legal and administrative categories; and the reconfiguration of symbolic ethnoracial groups. Respectively, these channels categorize migrants as “type of workers,” “type of citizens,” and “type of humans.” Examining this intersection across the U.S. and Europe, she shows how studying international migration together with inequality can challenge nationally established paradigms of social justice. This timely book will be essential reading for all students and researchers interested in the sociology and politics of migration, ethnic and racial studies, and social inequality and stratification.Trade Review"This short and brilliant synthetic work successfully reconfigures the study of international migration as a facet of global inequality. […] It is one of the most essential books to have been published in the field in a number of years."Adrian Favell, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Migration and inequality are the twin challenges facing the developed world, with leaders and people deeply divided and uncertain how to respond. For readers in search of insight, Safi’s book is an essential source. Drawing on a vast multidisciplinary literature, Safi provides the crucial tools needed to understand today’s bewilderingly unequal and diverse world."Roger Waldinger, UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration"Migration and Inequality is a book of impressive originality. Safi opens new paths in the sociology of ethno-racial formation by connecting distributional, legal and symbolic processes of inequality, and also skillfully captures national, transnational and global pathways at work. Her book should be widely read and discussed by social scientists across the disciplines."Michèle Lamont, Coauthor of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel"Mirna Safi brilliantly marries the theoretical movement toward relational approaches to stratification and the fate of migrant populations. We learn that the elementary process of social stratification --cultural and cognitive categorization married to the distributional mechanisms of exclusion and exploitation – create migrants as social categories and steer their destination cultural, political and economic reception. This book will be read widely and referred to often."Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst "[Moving] between concepts and empirical research at the macro, meso, and micro levels, [and] literature across disciplines and national contexts [… Safi] touches upon many of the most pressing concerns around migration today, including narratives of a migrant 'crisis', citizenship rights, and ever-present racial and ethnic inequalities. […] Safi provides a thoughtful approach to bridging migration and social stratification research, and the reader is sure to gain a richer understanding of connections between migration and forms of inequality."Social ForcesTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 From National to Migration SocietiesChapter 2 - Migration and Elementary Mechanisms of Social Inequality: a conceptual frameworkChapter 3 The Economic Channel: Migrant Workers in the Global Division of LaborChapter 4 The Legal Channel: Immigration Law, Administrative Management of Migrants and Civic stratificationChapter 5 The Ethnoracial Channel: Migration, Group Boundary-Making and Ethnoracial ClassificationStrugglesConclusion: Migration, an Issue of Social Justice

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Book SynopsisFor nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all those living there were transferred to a single camp that became known as ‘the Jungle’. Until its dismantling in October 2016, this precarious site, intended to make its inhabitants as invisible as possible, was instead the focal point of international concern about the plight of migrants and refugees. This new book is the first full account of life inside the Jungle and its relation to the global migration crisis. Anthropologist Michel Agier and his colleagues use the particular circumstances of the Jungle, localized in space and time, to analyse broader changes under way in our societies, both locally and globally. They examine the architecture of the camp, reconstruct how everyday life and routine operated and analyse the mixed reactions to the Jungle, from hostile government policies to movements of solidarity. This comprehensive account of the life and death of Europe’s most infamous camp for migrants and refugees demonstrates that, far from being an isolated case, the Jungle of Calais brings into sharp relief the issues that confront us all today, in a world where the large-scale movement of people has become, and is likely to remain, a central feature of social and political life.Trade Review‘In this detailed depiction of life in “the Jungle”, Michel Agier and colleagues offer a powerful, poetic argument about the power and value of place. Taking seriously the lives of those in the camp, this work is a much-needed recognition of their experience and an acknowledgement of their humanity.’Michael Collyer, University of Sussex ‘In this work, Michel Agier brings his formidable intellect to bear on how we should understand the Calais “Jungle”. The result is a notable contribution to contemporary discussions of mobility, solidarity, precarity and, most importantly, how we think about Europe itself.’Matthew J. Gibney, University of OxfordTable of Contents List of illustrations Introduction: For a better understanding A longer history of the Jungle Europe and the migration question Calais as metonym for European crisisÉ and solidarity Chapter 1. Movement To and Fro: The Calais Region from 1986 to 2016 1986 – 1997: the indifference of the French authorities 1997 – 999: a growing attention 1999–2000: the Sangatte moment 2002: British control at the port of Calais The long years of eviction 2009 – ‘the closing of the Calais jungle’ : a new media sequence The network of voluntary organizations A brief ray of light The rise of the far right September 2014 onward: concentrate, disperse, control Chapter 2. From Sangatte to Calais: inhabiting the ‘Jungles’ Sangatte, 1999-2002 March 2015: Jungles, camps, squats April 2015 to October 2016: The Jungle or ‘The Art of Building Towns’ Chapter 3. A Sociology of the Jungle: Everyday Life in a Precarious Space Society under precarious conditions Settling in the shantytown Economic and social life Making a community Chapter 4. A Jungle of Solidarities Calais as a cosmopolitan crossroads of solidarities The situation in other encampments Mobilization networks: from local to national Chapter 5. Destruction, Dispersal, Returns ‘The biggest shantytown in Europe’ The sheltering operation as spectacle Dispersal After the demolition: returns and rejections Conclusion: The Calais Event The camp as hypertrophy of the border Cosmopolitics of the Jungle Postscript: How this Book was Written The Authors Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFor nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, all those living there were transferred to a single camp that became known as ‘the Jungle’. Until its dismantling in October 2016, this precarious site, intended to make its inhabitants as invisible as possible, was instead the focal point of international concern about the plight of migrants and refugees. This new book is the first full account of life inside the Jungle and its relation to the global migration crisis. Anthropologist Michel Agier and his colleagues use the particular circumstances of the Jungle, localized in space and time, to analyse broader changes under way in our societies, both locally and globally. They examine the architecture of the camp, reconstruct how everyday life and routine operated and analyse the mixed reactions to the Jungle, from hostile government policies to movements of solidarity. This comprehensive account of the life and death of Europe’s most infamous camp for migrants and refugees demonstrates that, far from being an isolated case, the Jungle of Calais brings into sharp relief the issues that confront us all today, in a world where the large-scale movement of people has become, and is likely to remain, a central feature of social and political life.Trade Review‘In this detailed depiction of life in “the Jungle”, Michel Agier and colleagues offer a powerful, poetic argument about the power and value of place. Taking seriously the lives of those in the camp, this work is a much-needed recognition of their experience and an acknowledgement of their humanity.’Michael Collyer, University of Sussex ‘In this work, Michel Agier brings his formidable intellect to bear on how we should understand the Calais “Jungle”. The result is a notable contribution to contemporary discussions of mobility, solidarity, precarity and, most importantly, how we think about Europe itself.’Matthew J. Gibney, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIllustrations vii Introduction for a better understanding 1 A longer history of the Jungle 2 Europe and the migration question 4 Calais as metonym for European crisis … and solidarity 7 1 Movement to and fro the Calais region from 1986 to 2016 14 1986–1997 the indifference of the French authorities 15 1997–1999 a growing attention 16 1999–2000 the Sangatte moment 18 2002 British control at the port of Calais 20 The long years of eviction 21 2009 ‘The closing of the Calais Jungle’ a new media sequence 24 The network of voluntary organizations 27 A brief ray of light 30 The rise of the far right 33 September 2014 onward concentrate, disperse, control 37 2 From Sangatte to Calais inhabiting the ‘Jungles’ 46 Sangatte, 1999–2002 46 March 2015 Jungles, camps, squats 49 April 2015 to October 2016 the Jungle or ‘the art of building towns’ 60 3 A sociology of the Jungle everyday life in a precarious space 76 Society under precarious conditions 76 Settling in the shantytown 81 Economic and social life 84 Making a community 91 4 A Jungle of solidarities 94 Calais as a cosmopolitan crossroads of solidarities 94 The situation in other encampments 103 Mobilization networks from local to national 109 5 Destruction, dispersal, returns 116 ‘The biggest shantytown in Europe’ 116 The sheltering operation as spectacle 122 Dispersal 126 After the demolition returns and rejections 130 Conclusion the Calais event 134 The camp as hypertrophy of the border 135 Cosmopolitics of the Jungle 138 Postscript how this book was written 144 The authors 145 Notes 149 Index 158

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Book SynopsisUndocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile media coverage and generates fierce debate. However, as this much-needed book makes clear, unauthorized movement should not be confused or crudely assimilated with the social reality of growing numbers of large, settled populations lacking full citizenship and experiencing precarious lives. From the journeys migrants take to the lives they seek on arrival and beyond, Undocumented Migration provides a comparative view of how this phenomenon plays out, looking in particular at the United States and Europe. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors breathe life into the various issues and debates surrounding migration, including the experiences and voices of migrants themselves, to offer a critical analysis of a hidden and too often misrepresented population.Trade Review"Undoubtedly, this volume will be immensely valuable to students and scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as to interested policy makers and immigrant rights advocates. The crisis we are living around the world today underscores the importance of understanding how immigrants become undocumented and their resultant vulnerabilities across different contexts, as the authors of this volume propose."Cecilia Menjívar, American Journal of Sociology"[A] concise and excellent book on the forces that render millions of people 'illegal'. The book's strength stems from its ability to cross national boundaries. […] This is precisely the book we need right now because it delivers its powerful and sophisticated message with clear and urgent prose."Walter Nicholls, Sociology“Undocumented Migration is a readable and carefully researched work providing a comparative examination of diverse ways that nation states and sub-national localities enact and enforce policies restricting or supporting the human rights, freedoms, and agency of the people subject to such disempowerment and vulnerability.”Ethnic and Racial Studies"[P]rovides insightful and timely discussions to reflect on how 'becoming' an undocumented migrant is a process woven at multiple scales of the social realm […] portraying a broader understanding of the multiple complexities that nowadays shape undocumented migration."Canadian Journal of Sociology"This lucid and cogent book is a most welcome addition to the growing literature on migration. It applies a sharp and sophisticated lens to the multiple processes by which migrants are made 'illegal,' challenging prevailing simplifications that depict illegal or undocumented migrants as culpable violators of legitimate border controls. With deft writing and a wonderfully broad span that stretches from national and international migration governance structures to the experiences of people affected by different forms of migration, the authors introduce the reader to some of the most challenging and urgent political and social problems of our time."Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University, and author of Can We Solve the Migration Crisis?"Drawing on examples from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, Undocumented Migration offers a rare comparative examination of undocumented migration and illegality. It is recommended reading for anyone interested in learning about one of the most important global population movements of our time."Leo R. Chavez, University of California, Irvine, and author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the NationTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Who Are Undocumented Immigrants? Chapter 2: Theorizing the Lived Experience of Migrant Illegality Chapter 3: Geographies of Undocumented Migration Chapter 4: Immigration Enforcement, Detention, and Deportation Chapter 5: Undocumented Status and Social Mobility Chapter 6: Families and Children Chapter 7: Challenging Exclusion

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Book SynopsisFrom the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mass migration is one of the most urgent issues facing our societies today. At the same time, viable solutions seem ever more remote, with the increasing polarization of public attitudes and political positions. In this book, Stephen Smith focuses on ‘young Africa’ – 40 per cent of its population are under fifteen – anda dramatic demographic shift. Today, 510 million people live inside EU borders, and 1.25 billion people in Africa. In 2050, 450 million Europeans will face 2.5 billion Africans – five times their number. The demographics are implacable. The scramble for Europe will become as inexorable as the ‘scramble for Africa’ was at the end of the nineteenth century, when 275 million people lived north and only 100 million lived south of the Mediterranean. Then it was all about raw materials and national pride, now it is about young Africans seeking a better life on the Old Continent, the island of prosperity within their reach. If Africa’s migratory patterns follow the historic precedents set by other less developed parts of the world, in thirty years a quarter of Europe’s population will beAfro-Europeans. Addressingthe question of how Europe cancope with an influx of this magnitude, Smith argues for a path between the two extremes of today’s debate. He advocatesmigratory policies of ‘good neighbourhood’ equidistant from guilt-ridden self-denial and nativist egoism. This sobering analysis of the migration challenges we now face will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the great social and political questions of our time.Trade Review"The Scramble for Europe is a calm, measured book that aims to take the emotion out of the debate about immigration from Africa, while at the same time not avoiding the difficult issues by pretending that the situation is under control. It is an approach that runs against the grain of politics. Hence the enormous importance of this book at a time when Old Europe is trying to make allies on the young continent in the hope that these inescapable movements of people will remain an African affair."Le Monde "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand today's perilous migration flows."Midi Libre "An indispensable book for understanding the key challenges of the coming decades."Le Point "Stephen Smith has written a remarkably dispassionate, factual and insightful analysis of the Europe-Africa predicament. He succeeds in stepping back from fearful, moralized narratives and short-term perspectives in order to grasp the bigger social, cultural and political implications of Africa's demographic abundance and the vast migrations it undoubtedly entails. He poses questions that Europeans and Africans can no longer afford to ignore."—Alex De Waal, Tufts University "Provocative and well-researched...."Digital Insider "Stephen Smith is at his best."Financial Times "... absorbing."Middle East QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A View from the Top of the Population Pyramid Africa: The Mexico of Europe A 'stress test' between generations Africa Has Not Yet Taken Off The Kingdom of Lies Chapter One: The Law of Large Numbers Africa: The World's Youth Nigeria: Take it or Leave It Lagos: Half Paradise, Half Slum The Chinese Model Demographic Governance Chapter Two: The Island-Continent of Peter Pan Empty Granaries, Coveted Land The 'Birth' of Youth Suicides in a blue frock coat Brothers and Sisters in Faith Democracy, a Barmecide feast Chapter Three - Emerging Africa Trade secrets The 'gatekeeper state' 'A Billion Good Reasons' Identity as a repertoire Musa Wo, the legendary 'enfant terrible' Chapter Four: A Cascade of Departures The dilemma of development aid The Draining of Lake Chad To Live the 'White Man's Life' The repertoire of rejection Zooming in on the Mare nostrum Chapter Five: Europe as Destination and Destiny Don't reckon without your host Plugging a Leaky Dike with Sandbags of Euros 'Bowling Alone' Smashing the actuarial tables Beware of 'transfers' 'A Rancour Sharpened by the Winter' By Way of Conclusion: Some Plausible Scenarios for the Future The Obsession with 'Scenes and Types' Go See the Other Side! Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border, mass migration is one of the most urgent issues facing our societies today. At the same time, viable solutions seem ever more remote, with the increasing polarization of public attitudes and political positions. In this book, Stephen Smith focuses on ‘young Africa’ – 40 per cent of its population are under fifteen – anda dramatic demographic shift. Today, 510 million people live inside EU borders, and 1.25 billion people in Africa. In 2050, 450 million Europeans will face 2.5 billion Africans – five times their number. The demographics are implacable. The scramble for Europe will become as inexorable as the ‘scramble for Africa’ was at the end of the nineteenth century, when 275 million people lived north and only 100 million lived south of the Mediterranean. Then it was all about raw materials and national pride, now it is about young Africans seeking a better life on the Old Continent, the island of prosperity within their reach. If Africa’s migratory patterns follow the historic precedents set by other less developed parts of the world, in thirty years a quarter of Europe’s population will beAfro-Europeans. Addressingthe question of how Europe cancope with an influx of this magnitude, Smith argues for a path between the two extremes of today’s debate. He advocatesmigratory policies of ‘good neighbourhood’ equidistant from guilt-ridden self-denial and nativist egoism. This sobering analysis of the migration challenges we now face will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the great social and political questions of our time.Trade Review"The Scramble for Europe is a calm, measured book that aims to take the emotion out of the debate about immigration from Africa, while at the same time not avoiding the difficult issues by pretending that the situation is under control. It is an approach that runs against the grain of politics. Hence the enormous importance of this book at a time when Old Europe is trying to make allies on the young continent in the hope that these inescapable movements of people will remain an African affair."Le Monde "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand today's perilous migration flows."Midi Libre "An indispensable book for understanding the key challenges of the coming decades."Le Point "Stephen Smith has written a remarkably dispassionate, factual and insightful analysis of the Europe-Africa predicament. He succeeds in stepping back from fearful, moralized narratives and short-term perspectives in order to grasp the bigger social, cultural and political implications of Africa's demographic abundance and the vast migrations it undoubtedly entails. He poses questions that Europeans and Africans can no longer afford to ignore."—Alex De Waal, Tufts University "Provocative and well-researched...."Digital Insider "Stephen Smith is at his best."Financial Times "... absorbing."Middle East QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A View from the Top of the Population Pyramid Africa: The Mexico of Europe A 'stress test' between generations Africa Has Not Yet Taken Off The Kingdom of Lies Chapter One: The Law of Large Numbers Africa: The World's Youth Nigeria: Take it or Leave It Lagos: Half Paradise, Half Slum The Chinese Model Demographic Governance Chapter Two: The Island-Continent of Peter Pan Empty Granaries, Coveted Land The 'Birth' of Youth Suicides in a blue frock coat Brothers and Sisters in Faith Democracy, a Barmecide feast Chapter Three - Emerging Africa Trade secrets The 'gatekeeper state' 'A Billion Good Reasons' Identity as a repertoire Musa Wo, the legendary 'enfant terrible' Chapter Four: A Cascade of Departures The dilemma of development aid The Draining of Lake Chad To Live the 'White Man's Life' The repertoire of rejection Zooming in on the Mare nostrum Chapter Five: Europe as Destination and Destiny Don't reckon without your host Plugging a Leaky Dike with Sandbags of Euros 'Bowling Alone' Smashing the actuarial tables Beware of 'transfers' 'A Rancour Sharpened by the Winter' By Way of Conclusion: Some Plausible Scenarios for the Future The Obsession with 'Scenes and Types' Go See the Other Side! Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a complex visa waiver scheme, and its organizers did not necessarily act with altruism. The British government required a guarantee to indemnify itself against any expenses, and refused to admit the child refugees’ parents. The selection criteria prioritized those who were likely to make the best contribution to society, rather than the most urgent cases. And some children and young people were placed in unsuitable homes, where many arrangements irrevocably broke down. Written with striking empathy and insight, Andrea Hammel’s expert analysis casts new light on what really happened during the Kindertransport. Revelatory and impassioned, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of migration and refugees, and offers thought-provoking lessons for how we might make life easier for children fleeing conflict today.Trade Review‘Andrea Hammel’s overview of the Kindertransport is a remarkable achievement. With compassion and sensitivity, the author has managed to convey the full complexities of the scheme and has put at the forefront the experiences of these Jewish refugee children which ranged from love and understanding to economic and sexual abuse.’Tony Kushner, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton‘An impressively well researched account that is at once fascinating and deeply moving. Hammel skilfully balances compassion and insight to lay bare the detail of the Kindertransport in a remarkably detailed and nuanced way. It is sure to become a definitive text on the subject.’James Bulgin, Head of Public History, Imperial War Museums‘The Kindertransport…has always been regarded as a symbol of British generosity towards those in peril and seeking asylum. But it was all rather more complicated, as Andrea Hammel sets out to show.’The Spectator‘Andrea Hammel aims to dig deeper and remind the world that the story does not quite sparkle as brightly as some, particularly successive British governments, have wished to portray.’The Irish Times‘a model for good history writing... Hammel takes nothing for granted but examines all aspects with relentless precision. She gives us a welcome guide to critical thinking along with a compelling story.’New York Journal of BooksTable of Contents1. Myth 2. Persecution 3. Escape 4. Organisation 5. Placements 6. War 7. Death 8. Together/Apart 9. Life 10. Memory

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Book SynopsisFor several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies, the remittances that migrants send home have been touted as the most promising means of national development for poor and undeveloped countries. As Immanuel Ness argues in this sharp corrective to conventional wisdom, temporary labour migration represents the most recent form of economic imperialism and global domination. A closer look at the economic and social evidence demonstrates that remittances deepen economic exploitation, unravel societal stability and significantly expand economic inequality between poor and rich societies. The book exposes the damaging political, economic and social effects of migration on origin countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and how border and security mechanisms control and marginalize low-wage migrant workers, especially women and youth. Ness asserts that remittances do not bring growth to poor countries but extend national dependence on the export of migrant workers, leading to warped and unequal development on the global periphery. This expert take will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of migration and development across the social sciences.Trade Review‘Whether named colonialism, neocolonialism or globalization, imperialism still organizes much of the world economy. This book systematically locates labour migration within the capitalist imperialism that overdetermines it . . . thereby adding an overdue critical perspective to the study of labour migration.’Richard D. Wolff, The New School, New York‘In this insightful critique of the migration‒development nexus, Ness argues for rethinking migration as a benefit to sending countries. Through a global economic imperialism lens, he proposes that labor migration is one more peg in the extractive history of wealthy countries, further disempowering poorer sending countries. This meaningful intervention in debates about labour migration will be of great interest and will be read widely.’Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles‘Manny Ness is a tireless labor historian whose many works occupy significant space on any well-stocked bookshelf. His latest release […] shows that there is an urgent need to tie [migration and imperialism] together.’LeftTwoThree‘In this well researched and informative book, Ness digs into multiple facets of the global economy of migration. […] The essential role of migrant labor in global capitalism tends to be underappreciated, and Ness performs a valuable service in exposing the widespread and destabilizing dynamics of that process.’CounterpunchTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 Neoliberal Capitalism, Imperialism, and Labour MigrationChapter 2 Underdevelopment and Labour Migration as Economic ImperialismChapter 3 Labour Migration and Origin CountriesChapter 4 Labour Migration and Destination StatesChapter 5 The Damage of BordersConclusion: Dismantling the Migration–Development Nexus

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Book SynopsisThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Book SynopsisSituated between the 1970s Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan and the post–2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a necessary glimpse of what ordinary life looks like for a long-term refugee population, beyond the headlines of war, terror, or helpless suffering. It also increases our understanding of how cities—rather than the nation—are important sites of identity-making for people of migrant origins. In Refugee Cities, Sanaa Alimia reconstructs local microhistories to chronicle the lives of ordinary people living in low-income neighborhoods in Peshawar and Karachi and the ways in which they have transformed the cities of which they are a part. In Pakistan, formal citizenship is almost impossible for Afghans to access; despite this, Afghans have made new neighborhoods, expanded city boundaries, built cities through their labor in construction projects, and created new urban identities—and often they have done so alongside Pakistanis. Their struggles are a crucial, neglected dimension of Pakistan’s urban history. Yet given that the Afghan experience in Pakistan is profoundly shaped by geopolitics, the book also documents how, in the War-on-Terror era, many Afghans have been forced to leave Pakistan. This book, then, is also a documentation of the multiple displacements migrants are subject to and the increased normalization of deportation as a part of “refugee management.”Trade Review"Refugee Cities is a micro-history and narrative of lived experiences of Afghan refugees and Pakistani citizens alike. The book covers the struggles of these people in place-making in urban Pakistan and will be of great interest to anyone who wishes to know more about informal settlements and the urban and national politics of the Pakistani state in dealing with the poor and the non-citizens." * Dawn *"Alimia has provided a book that is long overdue, on a topic that has been chronically understudied. Refugee Cities provides detailed ethnographic accounts of Afghans living in the coastal mega city of Karachi and the border city of Peshawar to construct how their lives have been shaped – and more importantly are shaping – urban Pakistan today...The monograph is sublime in how it works from the ground up to create a picture of the functioning of the Pakistani state, and any stakeholder who works in or around the status of Afghans in Pakistan would greatly benefit from it." * Anthropology Book Forum *

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Book SynopsisSituated between the 1970s Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan and the post–2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a necessary glimpse of what ordinary life looks like for a long-term refugee population, beyond the headlines of war, terror, or helpless suffering. It also increases our understanding of how cities—rather than the nation—are important sites of identity-making for people of migrant origins. In Refugee Cities, Sanaa Alimia reconstructs local microhistories to chronicle the lives of ordinary people living in low-income neighborhoods in Peshawar and Karachi and the ways in which they have transformed the cities of which they are a part. In Pakistan, formal citizenship is almost impossible for Afghans to access; despite this, Afghans have made new neighborhoods, expanded city boundaries, built cities through their labor in construction projects, and created new urban identities—and often they have done so alongside Pakistanis. Their struggles are a crucial, neglected dimension of Pakistan’s urban history. Yet given that the Afghan experience in Pakistan is profoundly shaped by geopolitics, the book also documents how, in the War-on-Terror era, many Afghans have been forced to leave Pakistan. This book, then, is also a documentation of the multiple displacements migrants are subject to and the increased normalization of deportation as a part of “refugee management.”Trade Review"Refugee Cities is a micro-history and narrative of lived experiences of Afghan refugees and Pakistani citizens alike. The book covers the struggles of these people in place-making in urban Pakistan and will be of great interest to anyone who wishes to know more about informal settlements and the urban and national politics of the Pakistani state in dealing with the poor and the non-citizens." * Dawn *"Alimia has provided a book that is long overdue, on a topic that has been chronically understudied. Refugee Cities provides detailed ethnographic accounts of Afghans living in the coastal mega city of Karachi and the border city of Peshawar to construct how their lives have been shaped – and more importantly are shaping – urban Pakistan today...The monograph is sublime in how it works from the ground up to create a picture of the functioning of the Pakistani state, and any stakeholder who works in or around the status of Afghans in Pakistan would greatly benefit from it." * Anthropology Book Forum *"This book is an engaging read for those interested in how multiple structural conditions intersect and how they are positioned vis-à-vis historical periods of colonialism, postcolonial nation building, and global warfare. Whilst being ethnographically situated with Afghans who fled to Pakistan, this book invites the reader to draw acute parallels with the dismantling of hospitality towards refugees in the post-2015 crisis in European refugee reception, the hostile governing of uprooted people who experience oppressions at the intersections of ethnicity and class, and the effects of the nationalist territorialization of spaces across the globe." * Politics, Religion & Ideology *"[A] valuable contribution to the scholarship on urban citizenship, migration, and the politics of belonging. In it, Alimia provides a nuanced and sympathetic account of Afghan lives in urban Pakistan...Refugee Cities is a valuable political intervention in a time when the global policy environment relating to migration is increasingly hostile" * Bloomsbury Pakistan *Table of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Refugee Cities Part I. Background Chapter 1. Ghosts of Empire: The Afghan Question in Pakistan Part II. Claiming Rights Chapter 2. The Right to Water in an Informal Refugee Camp Chapter 3. Bulldozers and Violence in a Pakistani Settlement Chapter 4. Peshawar's Afghan Transformation Part III. Pushing Out Afghans Chapter 5. Surveillance, Documents, and Repatriation Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisExamining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a variety of advocacy groups, social service organizations, filmmakers, and artists have provided undocumented migrants with the tools and training to document their experiences.In The Undocumented Everyday, Rebecca M. Schreiber examines the significance of self-representation by undocumented Mexican and Central American migrants, arguing that by centering their own subjectivity and presence through their use of documentary media, these migrants are effectively challenging intensified regimes of state surveillance and liberal strategies that emphasize visibility as a form of empowerment and inclusion. Schreiber explores documentation as both an aesthetic practice based on the visual conventions of social realism and a state-administered means of identification and control. As Schreiber shows, by visualizing new ways of belonging not necessarily defined by citizenship, these migrants are remaking documentary media, combining formal visual strategies with those of amateur photography and performative elements to create a mixed-genre aesthetic. In doing so, they make political claims and create new forms of protection for migrant communities experiencing increased surveillance, detention, and deportation.Trade Review"The Undocumented Everyday is a powerful and compelling account of the creative and critical documentary media strategies deployed to intervene in the representational politics of Mexican and Central American migration to the United States. This book is a nuanced aesthetic and cultural analysis of an important understudied media archive and an urgent political debate."—Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University"In a perilous political moment when nativists depict migrants as a problem, Rebecca M. Schreiber foregrounds migrant self-representations. Focusing on post-9/11 photo, film, and video projects by and about Mexican and Central American migrants, The Undocumented Everyday brilliantly examines the dialectic between visibility and invisibility. Schreiber analyzes an ‘aesthetics of disappearance’ in which the absence of visual representations of the migrants themselves shifts the focus to the tactics of state police power. At the same time migrants revise and combine documentary conventions with an aesthetics associated with ‘amateur’ media in order to center their views and criticize the state. After reading The Undocumented Everyday, scholars and students alike will see migration through critically different eyes."—Curtis Marez, author of Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance"A significant scholarly achievement amid growing anti-immigrant practices and populist, xenophobic politics . . . Schreiber provides the reader with ample material to consider the contingent, localized, and strategic ways in which the undocumented—as well as their allies—use visibility and invisibility in their struggles for self-representation and belonging in a climate of increased criminalization, detainment, and deportation. Arguably, this is the central contribution of this deeply researched and well-executed book."—Surveillance & Society"Schreiber makes an important contribution in arguing that undocumented Central American and Mexican migrants rely on and revise traditional documentary aesthetics of self-representation to establish alternative forms of belonging."—Latino StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Migrant Lives and the Promise of DocumentationPart I. Ordinary Identifications and Unseen America1. “We See What We Know”: Migrant Labor and the Place of Pictures2. The Border’s Frame: Between Poughkeepsie and La Ciénega Part II. Documentary, Self-Representation, and “Collaborations” in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands3. Visible Frictions: The Border Film Project and the “Spectacle of Surveillance”4. Refusing Disposability: Representational Strategies in Maquilápolis: City of FactoriesPart III. Counter-Optics: Disruptions in the Field of the Visible5. Disappearance and Counter-Spectacle in Sanctuary City / Ciudad Santuario, 1989–20096. Reconfiguring Documentation: Mobility, Counter-Visibility, and (Un)Documented ActivismConclusion: Counter-Representational ActsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a variety of advocacy groups, social service organizations, filmmakers, and artists have provided undocumented migrants with the tools and training to document their experiences.In The Undocumented Everyday, Rebecca M. Schreiber examines the significance of self-representation by undocumented Mexican and Central American migrants, arguing that by centering their own subjectivity and presence through their use of documentary media, these migrants are effectively challenging intensified regimes of state surveillance and liberal strategies that emphasize visibility as a form of empowerment and inclusion. Schreiber explores documentation as both an aesthetic practice based on the visual conventions of social realism and a state-administered means of identification and control. As Schreiber shows, by visualizing new ways of belonging not necessarily defined by citizenship, these migrants are remaking documentary media, combining formal visual strategies with those of amateur photography and performative elements to create a mixed-genre aesthetic. In doing so, they make political claims and create new forms of protection for migrant communities experiencing increased surveillance, detention, and deportation.Trade Review"The Undocumented Everyday is a powerful and compelling account of the creative and critical documentary media strategies deployed to intervene in the representational politics of Mexican and Central American migration to the United States. This book is a nuanced aesthetic and cultural analysis of an important understudied media archive and an urgent political debate."—Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University"In a perilous political moment when nativists depict migrants as a problem, Rebecca M. Schreiber foregrounds migrant self-representations. Focusing on post-9/11 photo, film, and video projects by and about Mexican and Central American migrants, The Undocumented Everyday brilliantly examines the dialectic between visibility and invisibility. Schreiber analyzes an ‘aesthetics of disappearance’ in which the absence of visual representations of the migrants themselves shifts the focus to the tactics of state police power. At the same time migrants revise and combine documentary conventions with an aesthetics associated with ‘amateur’ media in order to center their views and criticize the state. After reading The Undocumented Everyday, scholars and students alike will see migration through critically different eyes."—Curtis Marez, author of Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance"A significant scholarly achievement amid growing anti-immigrant practices and populist, xenophobic politics . . . Schreiber provides the reader with ample material to consider the contingent, localized, and strategic ways in which the undocumented—as well as their allies—use visibility and invisibility in their struggles for self-representation and belonging in a climate of increased criminalization, detainment, and deportation. Arguably, this is the central contribution of this deeply researched and well-executed book."—Surveillance & Society"Schreiber makes an important contribution in arguing that undocumented Central American and Mexican migrants rely on and revise traditional documentary aesthetics of self-representation to establish alternative forms of belonging."—Latino StudiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Migrant Lives and the Promise of DocumentationPart I. Ordinary Identifications and Unseen America1. “We See What We Know”: Migrant Labor and the Place of Pictures2. The Border’s Frame: Between Poughkeepsie and La Ciénega Part II. Documentary, Self-Representation, and “Collaborations” in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands3. Visible Frictions: The Border Film Project and the “Spectacle of Surveillance”4. Refusing Disposability: Representational Strategies in Maquilápolis: City of FactoriesPart III. Counter-Optics: Disruptions in the Field of the Visible5. Disappearance and Counter-Spectacle in Sanctuary City / Ciudad Santuario, 1989–20096. Reconfiguring Documentation: Mobility, Counter-Visibility, and (Un)Documented ActivismConclusion: Counter-Representational ActsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHaunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience Between 1836 and 1915, in what has been called history’s largest population migration, more than 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to North America. Writing home, the newcomers sent thousands of pictures—America–photographs, as they are called in Norway. In these photographs, the emigrant experience unfolds as framed by thousands of Norwegian transplants in towns, cities, and rural communities across America. Pictures of Longing brings more than 250 America–photographs into focus as a moving account of Norwegian migration in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, conceived of and crafted by its photographer-authors to shape and reshape their story. To clarify the historic nature and the cultural function of the America-photographs, art historian and photography scholar Sigrid Lien located thousands of the photographs in public and private archives and museums in Norway and the United States. Reading these photographs alongside letters sent home by Norwegian immigrants, Lien provides the first comprehensive account of this collective photographic practice involving “the voice of the many.” Pictures of Longing shows, in fascinating detail, how the photographs, like the accompanying letters, contribute to the cultural grassroots expression of Norwegian migration. They steer us toward multiple, fragmented, and dispersed histories and also complement the existing fabric of established historical narratives, demonstrating photography’s potential to engage with history.Trade Review"This exhaustively researched book, written in a highly readable style, presents a gold-mine of material for anyone interested in Scandinavian-American history, immigrant history, history of the Midwest, Norwegian history, and the history of American photography. Developments in photographic technology and distribution at the turn of the last century made it possible for the great wave of Norwegians arriving in the United States at that time to keep up contact with their homeland and present detailed records of their encounter with a new country. This excellent study brings these people and the experience of immigration to life."—Linda Haverty Rugg, University of California, Berkeley"Pictures of Longing provides an intriguing new perspective on the immigration story, told both through Sigrid Lien’s careful selection of photographs and through her accompanying text which brilliantly interprets these visual images. Instead of using photographs to illustrate the text (as in most immigration histories), the text is used here to show the reader how to interpret them. After reading this book you will never look at photographs the same way again."—Solveig Zempel, author of In Their Own Words: Letters from Norwegian Immigrants "This meticulously researched book resituates photography and its development into the American narrative, specifically the historicity of these pictures within immigration history."—Michigan Historical Review "Sigrid Lien’s scholarship is keen and illuminating, as is her reverence and joy in the subject. Put this book on an easily reached shelf."—Star Tribune "Throughout the book, Lien guides readers in this continuing work (or perhaps pleasure) of making meaning with photographs. Pictures of Longing will reward both the casual viewer and the serious student of photography and Norwegian immigration."—The Annals of Iowa "Pictures of Longing investigates “this particular photographic genre that clearly has meant so much to so many,” and how these photos are not simple depic­ tions of “what happened” but are constructed, grassroots expressions, individual and collective, of the Norwegian migration."—Minnesota History "The reader gets a glimpse into nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century lives and communities that are expertly elucidated through historical insight and with a strong methodological framework."—North Dakota History "In the current political climates of both countries, a photogenic study viewed through the lens of migration is both timely and welcome. "—Norwegian American Studies "Unquestionably, this foundational study will serve generations of historians, scholars, and students of history."—South Dakota History "Lien's important volume traces the role photography played both in ancestral and adopted lands."—Norwegian American Studies Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. “Send Us Your Portraits”: Letters and Pictures in the History of Emigration1. The Glass Plates in the Tobacco Barn: Andrew Dahl’s Photographic Production2. Views from Main Street: Small Town Photographers in Minnesota3. Last Seen Alone on the Prairie: Emigration and the Unseen Female Photographers4. Place and the Rhythm of Life: Peter J. Rosendahl’s Photographs from Spring Grove, Minnesota5. Out of Cupboards and Drawers: America-Photography in Norwegian Rural Communities6. Saved from Oblivion: Photography in the Chronicles of Norwegian-American FamiliesConclusion. “God, How I Have Longed”: America-Photographs as InterventionsNorwegian–American Photographers, 1860–1960NotesBibliographyIllustration CreditsIndex

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Book SynopsisA telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city Even as the “migration crisis” from the Global South to the Global North rages on, another, lower-key and yet important migration has been gathering pace in recent years—that of mostly white, middle-class people moving in the opposite direction. Gringolandia is that rare book to consider this phenomenon in all its complexity.Matthew Hayes focuses on North Americans relocating to Cuenca, Ecuador, the country’s third-largest city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Many began relocating there after the 2008 economic crisis. Most are self-professed “economic refugees” who sought offshore retirement, affordable medical care, and/or a lower–cost location. Others, however, sought adventure marked by relocation to an unfamiliar cultural environment and to experience personal growth through travel, illustrative of contemporary cultures of aging. These life projects are often motivated by a desire to escape economic and political conditions in North America. Regardless of their individual motivations, Hayes argues, such North–South migrants remain embedded in unequal and unfair global social relations. He explores the repercussions on the host country—from rising prices for land and rent to the reproduction of colonial patterns of domination and subordination. In Ecuador, heritage preservation and tourism development reflect the interests and culture of European-descendent landowning elites, who have most to benefit from the new North–South migration. In the process, they participate in transnational gentrification that marginalizes popular traditions and nonwhite mestizo and indigenous informal workers. The contrast between the migration experiences of North Americans in Ecuador and those of Ecuadorians or others from such regions of the Global South in North America and Europe demonstrates that, in fact, what we face is not so much a global “migration crisis” but a crisis of global social justice.Trade Review"Matthew Hayes provides a vivid sociological portrayal of North Americans living in Ecuador alongside a theoretically sophisticated analysis of the global inequalities that shape growing north-south migration. Gringolandia is a must-read for students and scholars interested in a complex understanding of transnational migration in the context of 21st century globalization."—Sheila Croucher, author of The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico"Gringolandia offers a refreshing and powerful new perspective on lifestyle migration that demonstrates how it is caught up in the production of global inequalities informed by colonial legacies, the structures and practice of planetary gentrification, and the local class struggles this portends. Through his up-close ethnographic observations of the lives and motivations of North Americans living in Ecuador, Matthew Hayes presents a timely and sorely needed intervention that straddles the sociology of migration and urban studies, woven together through a deep concern with decoloniality."—Michaela Benson, Goldsmiths, University of London"The author should be commended for undertaking research on a type of migration different from the mainstream and for the excellent combination of ethnographic, historical, policy and political economy perspectives to show that all migrations are instances of social inequality. "—City & Society"Gringolandia is definitely the first book to consider the phenomenon of mostly white, middle-class people moving from the global North to the global South, but also one of the few that analyses this subject under this postmodern approach."—Journal of Latin American Studies"Gringolandia provides astute descriptive detail on migrants, the web of organizations marketing Ecuador as a destination, displaced Ecuadorian workers, and the effects of heritage-oriented economic development, which brings with it increased property values, higher rents, and large-scale projects requiring loans that shackle Ecuador to the global economy."—CHOICE"The book is not only about expats but also about political economy and whiteness. It is a captivating read and a solid contribution to the migration, global inequality, and race literatures."—Contemporary Sociology"This book is valuable for numerous reasons. It shows many of the complexities of North-South migration, including the multiple causes of migration, how transnational communication technologies are vital to contemporary international migration, and most importantly how unacknowledged but persistent inequalities can shape the trajectory of migration and its outcomes."—Journal of Cultural Geography"Gringolandia is a compelling ethnography of the mixed social life of a migrant enclave in Cuenca, but it is also a valuable critical reflection upon the strained social life of aging North Americans under late capitalism."—AnthropologicaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Geoarbitrage and the Offshoring of Retirement2. Migrant Imaginaries3. Gringo Identities4. Transforming the City5. The Hacienda6. Lifestyle Migration, Transnational Gentrification and Social JusticeAcknowledgmentsAppendix: MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city Even as the “migration crisis” from the Global South to the Global North rages on, another, lower-key and yet important migration has been gathering pace in recent years—that of mostly white, middle-class people moving in the opposite direction. Gringolandia is that rare book to consider this phenomenon in all its complexity.Matthew Hayes focuses on North Americans relocating to Cuenca, Ecuador, the country’s third-largest city and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Many began relocating there after the 2008 economic crisis. Most are self-professed “economic refugees” who sought offshore retirement, affordable medical care, and/or a lower–cost location. Others, however, sought adventure marked by relocation to an unfamiliar cultural environment and to experience personal growth through travel, illustrative of contemporary cultures of aging. These life projects are often motivated by a desire to escape economic and political conditions in North America. Regardless of their individual motivations, Hayes argues, such North–South migrants remain embedded in unequal and unfair global social relations. He explores the repercussions on the host country—from rising prices for land and rent to the reproduction of colonial patterns of domination and subordination. In Ecuador, heritage preservation and tourism development reflect the interests and culture of European-descendent landowning elites, who have most to benefit from the new North–South migration. In the process, they participate in transnational gentrification that marginalizes popular traditions and nonwhite mestizo and indigenous informal workers. The contrast between the migration experiences of North Americans in Ecuador and those of Ecuadorians or others from such regions of the Global South in North America and Europe demonstrates that, in fact, what we face is not so much a global “migration crisis” but a crisis of global social justice.Trade Review"Matthew Hayes provides a vivid sociological portrayal of North Americans living in Ecuador alongside a theoretically sophisticated analysis of the global inequalities that shape growing north-south migration. Gringolandia is a must-read for students and scholars interested in a complex understanding of transnational migration in the context of 21st century globalization."—Sheila Croucher, author of The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico"Gringolandia offers a refreshing and powerful new perspective on lifestyle migration that demonstrates how it is caught up in the production of global inequalities informed by colonial legacies, the structures and practice of planetary gentrification, and the local class struggles this portends. Through his up-close ethnographic observations of the lives and motivations of North Americans living in Ecuador, Matthew Hayes presents a timely and sorely needed intervention that straddles the sociology of migration and urban studies, woven together through a deep concern with decoloniality."—Michaela Benson, Goldsmiths, University of London"The author should be commended for undertaking research on a type of migration different from the mainstream and for the excellent combination of ethnographic, historical, policy and political economy perspectives to show that all migrations are instances of social inequality. "—City & Society"Gringolandia is definitely the first book to consider the phenomenon of mostly white, middle-class people moving from the global North to the global South, but also one of the few that analyses this subject under this postmodern approach."—Journal of Latin American Studies"Gringolandia provides astute descriptive detail on migrants, the web of organizations marketing Ecuador as a destination, displaced Ecuadorian workers, and the effects of heritage-oriented economic development, which brings with it increased property values, higher rents, and large-scale projects requiring loans that shackle Ecuador to the global economy."—CHOICE"The book is not only about expats but also about political economy and whiteness. It is a captivating read and a solid contribution to the migration, global inequality, and race literatures."—Contemporary Sociology"This book is valuable for numerous reasons. It shows many of the complexities of North-South migration, including the multiple causes of migration, how transnational communication technologies are vital to contemporary international migration, and most importantly how unacknowledged but persistent inequalities can shape the trajectory of migration and its outcomes."—Journal of Cultural Geography"Gringolandia is a compelling ethnography of the mixed social life of a migrant enclave in Cuenca, but it is also a valuable critical reflection upon the strained social life of aging North Americans under late capitalism."—AnthropologicaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Geoarbitrage and the Offshoring of Retirement2. Migrant Imaginaries3. Gringo Identities4. Transforming the City5. The Hacienda6. Lifestyle Migration, Transnational Gentrification and Social JusticeAcknowledgmentsAppendix: MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make sense of racism, and long for change. Every year thousands of youth leave Latin America for the United States and Europe, and often the young migrants are portrayed as invaders and, if able to stay, told to integrate into their new society. Border Thinking asks not how to help the diaspora youth assimilate but what the United States and Europe can learn about citizenship from these diasporic youth. Working in the United States, Spain, and El Salvador, Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III use participatory action research to collaborate with these young people to analyze how they make sense of their experiences in the borderlands. Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage them in reflecting on their feelings of belonging in multiple places—including some places that treat them as outsiders and criminals. Because of their transnational existence and connections to both home and host countries, diaspora youth have a critical perspective on national citizenship and yearn for new forms of belonging not restricted to national borders. The authors demonstrate how acompañamiento—spaces for solidarity and community-building among migrants—allow youth to critically reflect on their experiences and create support among one another.Even as national borders grow more restricted and the subject of immigration becomes ever more politically fraught, young people’s identities are increasingly diasporic. As the so-called migrant crisis continues, change in how citizenship and belonging are constructed is necessary, and urgent, to create inclusive and sustainable futures. In Border Thinking, Dyrness and Sepúlveda decouple citizenship from the nation-state, calling for new understandings of civic engagement and belonging. Trade Review"Border Thinking offers critical insights into how Latinx youth speak back to racializing, colonial discourses that frame them as outsiders. It is theoretically sophisticated, engaging, and methodologically innovative, offering new insights into participatory methodologies—but its true contribution lies in how it reveals young people’s creative imaginings of transnational forms of citizenship and belonging that are too often silenced by integration initiatives focused on national assimilation."—Reva Jaffe-Walter, author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth"A notable title in an age when border restrictions have become near-absolute."—The Know, Denver Post"Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage in critical methodologies, such as participatory action research and the use of testimonio, to uncover an array of unique but often overlooked perspectives."—Anthropology & Education Quarterly "Scholars interested in action research, transborder, migration, and citizenship studies will find these contributions very helpful."—Gender, Place & Culture "On its face, the book appears to be an excellently written contribution to a specific literature focused on immigration and Latinx youth. But the book is also a contribution to the broader discussion of how societies and communities incorporate—or do not—people from places different than the home context and the crater-sized impacts these seemingly everyday minute choices can have."—Great Plains ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Youth Citizenship in the Diaspora1. Acompañamiento in the Borderlands: Toward a Communal, Relational, and Humanizing Pedagogy Enrique Sepúlveda2. In the Shadow of U.S. Empire: Diasporic Citizenship in El Salvador3. Negotiating Race and the Politics of Integration: Latinx and Caribbean Youth in Madrid4. Transnational Belongings: The Cultural Knowledge of Lives in Between5. Feminists in Transition: Transnational Latina Activists in Madrid Andrea DyrnessConclusion: Reflections on Acompañamiento in the BorderlandsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make sense of racism, and long for change. Every year thousands of youth leave Latin America for the United States and Europe, and often the young migrants are portrayed as invaders and, if able to stay, told to integrate into their new society. Border Thinking asks not how to help the diaspora youth assimilate but what the United States and Europe can learn about citizenship from these diasporic youth. Working in the United States, Spain, and El Salvador, Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III use participatory action research to collaborate with these young people to analyze how they make sense of their experiences in the borderlands. Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage them in reflecting on their feelings of belonging in multiple places—including some places that treat them as outsiders and criminals. Because of their transnational existence and connections to both home and host countries, diaspora youth have a critical perspective on national citizenship and yearn for new forms of belonging not restricted to national borders. The authors demonstrate how acompañamiento—spaces for solidarity and community-building among migrants—allow youth to critically reflect on their experiences and create support among one another.Even as national borders grow more restricted and the subject of immigration becomes ever more politically fraught, young people’s identities are increasingly diasporic. As the so-called migrant crisis continues, change in how citizenship and belonging are constructed is necessary, and urgent, to create inclusive and sustainable futures. In Border Thinking, Dyrness and Sepúlveda decouple citizenship from the nation-state, calling for new understandings of civic engagement and belonging. Trade Review"Border Thinking offers critical insights into how Latinx youth speak back to racializing, colonial discourses that frame them as outsiders. It is theoretically sophisticated, engaging, and methodologically innovative, offering new insights into participatory methodologies—but its true contribution lies in how it reveals young people’s creative imaginings of transnational forms of citizenship and belonging that are too often silenced by integration initiatives focused on national assimilation."—Reva Jaffe-Walter, author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth"A notable title in an age when border restrictions have become near-absolute."—The Know, Denver Post"Dyrness and Sepúlveda engage in critical methodologies, such as participatory action research and the use of testimonio, to uncover an array of unique but often overlooked perspectives."—Anthropology & Education Quarterly "Scholars interested in action research, transborder, migration, and citizenship studies will find these contributions very helpful."—Gender, Place & Culture "On its face, the book appears to be an excellently written contribution to a specific literature focused on immigration and Latinx youth. But the book is also a contribution to the broader discussion of how societies and communities incorporate—or do not—people from places different than the home context and the crater-sized impacts these seemingly everyday minute choices can have."—Great Plains ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Youth Citizenship in the Diaspora1. Acompañamiento in the Borderlands: Toward a Communal, Relational, and Humanizing Pedagogy Enrique Sepúlveda2. In the Shadow of U.S. Empire: Diasporic Citizenship in El Salvador3. Negotiating Race and the Politics of Integration: Latinx and Caribbean Youth in Madrid4. Transnational Belongings: The Cultural Knowledge of Lives in Between5. Feminists in Transition: Transnational Latina Activists in Madrid Andrea DyrnessConclusion: Reflections on Acompañamiento in the BorderlandsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisReframing Swedish–American relations by focusing on contacts, crossings, and convergences beyond migration Studies of Swedish American history and identity have largely been confined to separate disciplines, such as history, literature, or politics. In Swedish–American Borderlands, this collection edited by Dag Blanck and Adam Hjorthén seeks to reconceptualize and redefine the field of Swedish–American relations by reviewing more complex cultural, social, and economic exchanges and interactions that take a broader approach to the international relationship—ultimately offering an alternative way of studying the history of transatlantic relations. Swedish–American Borderlands studies connections and contacts between Sweden and the United States from the seventeenth century to today, exploring how movements of people have informed the circulation of knowledge and ideas between the two countries. The volume brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences to investigate multiple transcultural exchanges between Sweden and the United States. Rather than concentrating on one-way processes or specific national contexts, Swedish–American Borderlands adopts the concept of borderlands to examine contacts, crossings, and convergences between the nations, featuring specific case studies of topics like jazz, architecture, design, genealogy, and more.By placing interactions, entanglements, and cross-border relations at the center of the analysis, Swedish–American Borderlands seeks to bridge disciplinary divides, joining a diverse set of scholars and scholarship in writing an innovative history of Swedish–American relations to produce new understandings of what we perceive as Swedish, American, and Swedish American. Contributors: Philip J. Anderson, North Park U; Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Idaho State U; Marie Bennedahl, Linnaeus U; Ulf Jonas Björk, Indiana U–Indianapolis; Thomas J. Brown, U of South Carolina; Margaret E. Farrar, John Carroll U; Charlotta Forss, Stockholm U; Gunlög Fur, Linnaeus U; Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis U; Angela Hoffman, Uppsala U; Adam Kaul, Augustana College; Maaret Koskinen, Stockholm U; Merja Kytö, Uppsala U; Svea Larson, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Franco Minganti, U of Bologna; Frida Rosenberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Magnus Ullén, Stockholm U.Trade Review"Readable and informative, exploring topics from various angles but always through the lens of borderlands. The essays address issues often neglected in the literature to date, providing welcome new perspectives and discussions."—CHOICE"The volume is not only a worthwhile read and a valuable resource for researchers in American studies; it is also an invitation for new research on European-North American borderlands."—European Journal of American Culture"The anthology offers a timely collection of succinct, multidisciplinary essays written by established researchers and some newcomers to the field. Altogether, Swedish-American Borderlands provides a groundbreaking next step in the study of borders, both geographic and metaphoric."—Scandinavian StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Conceptualizing Swedish-American RelationsDag Blanck and Adam HjorthénPart I. Across Waters and Lands1. Reservation Borderlands: Gender and Scandinavian Land Taking on Native American LandKaren V. Hansen2. Borderlands and Lived Encounters: The Swedish Immigrant, Interiority, and HomePhilip J. Anderson3. Imagining Borders and Heartland through LegendJennifer Eastman Attebery4. A Musical Borderland: How Jazz in Sweden Became Domesticated, 1920–1960Ulf Jonas Björk5. Ancestral Relations: The Twentieth-Century Making of Swedish-American GenealogyAdam Hjorthén6. Academics on the Move: The Nature and Significance of a Swedish-American Academic BorderlandDag Blanck7. The Role of Design in a Swedish-American LandscapeFrida RosenbergPart II. Exchanges and Entanglements8. Borderlands in Another World: How Sweden Envisioned New Sweden, circa 1638–1702Charlotta Forss9. Captain Jack’s Whip and Borderlands of Swedish-Indigenous EncountersGunlög Fur10. Double Life: American and Swedish Biographies of John EricssonThomas J. Brown and Svea Larson11. Swedish-American Cookbooks: Linguistic Borderlands in RecipesAngela Hoffman and Merja Kytö12. A Postwar Italian Kitchen Shining in the Swedish-American BorderlandsFranco Minganti13. Imaginary Borderlands: Ingmar Bergman’s and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Cultural Contact ZonesMaaret Koskinen14. Political Correctness in Sweden: A Borderland Conceptual HistoryMagnus Ullén15. History and Heritage in Bishop Hill, Illinois: Preservation, Representation, and Tourism in a Swedish-American BorderlandAdam Kaul and Margaret Farrar16. Negotiating the American Civil War: Memories and Gender in Swedish American Civil War ReenactmentMarie BennedahlContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations Forty years of continuous war and conflict have made Afghans the largest refugee group in the world. In this first full-scale ethnography of Afghan migrants in England, Nichola Khan examines the imprint of violence, displacement, kinship obligations, and mobility on the lives and work of Pashtun journeyman taxi drivers in Britain. Khan’s analysis is centered in the county of Sussex, site of Brighton’s orientalist Royal Pavilion and the former home of colonial propagandist Rudyard Kipling. Her nearly two decades of relationships and fieldwork have given Khan a deep understanding of the everyday lives of Afghan migrants, who face unrelenting pressures to remit money to their struggling relatives in Pakistan and Afghanistan, adhere to traditional values, and resettle the wives and children they have left behind. This kaleidoscopic narrative is enriched by the migrants’ own stories and dreams, which take on extra significance among sleep-deprived taxi drivers. Khan chronicles the way these men rely on Pashto poems and aphorisms to make sense of what is strange or difficult to bear. She also attests to the pleasures of local family and friends who are less demanding than kin back home—sharing connection and moments of joy in dance, excursions, picnics, and humorous banter. Khan views these men’s lives through the lenses of movement—the arrival of friends and family, return visits to Pakistan, driving customers, even the journey to remit money overseas—and immobility, describing the migrants who experience “stuckness” caused by unresponsive bureaucracies, chronic insecurity, or struggles with depression and other mental health conditions. Arc of the Journeyman is a deeply humane portrayal that expands and complicates current perceptions of Afghan migrants, offering a finely analyzed description of their lives and communities as a moving, contingent, and fully contemporary force.Trade Review"A monumental achievement—of impressive, wide-ranging scholarship and original thinking, finely analyzed and sensitively portrayed. We have here the first full-length anthropological study of Afghan refugees, making this a vital and much-needed contribution. Through her richly historicized analysis of migrant life histories, fantasies, and even dreams, Nichola Khan collapses the past and the present and explodes received cartographies of Anglo–Afghan relations."—Kaveri Qureshi, University of Edinburgh"This is a moving book. It moves between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and England. It moves with Pashtun taxi drivers connecting everyday mobilities to the larger scales of migration. It moves the reader through a skillful poesis of fragments. Based on years of fieldwork and attentive to the power of stories, Arc of the Journeyman realizes the dreams of a routed anthropology and a storied account of mobilities. A must-read for anyone interested in the lives of Afghan refugees, the uses of mobility theory, or the power of storytelling in an academic context."—Tim Cresswell, author of Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place

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Book SynopsisA monumental account of one migrant community’s everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations Forty years of continuous war and conflict have made Afghans the largest refugee group in the world. In this first full-scale ethnography of Afghan migrants in England, Nichola Khan examines the imprint of violence, displacement, kinship obligations, and mobility on the lives and work of Pashtun journeyman taxi drivers in Britain. Khan’s analysis is centered in the county of Sussex, site of Brighton’s orientalist Royal Pavilion and the former home of colonial propagandist Rudyard Kipling. Her nearly two decades of relationships and fieldwork have given Khan a deep understanding of the everyday lives of Afghan migrants, who face unrelenting pressures to remit money to their struggling relatives in Pakistan and Afghanistan, adhere to traditional values, and resettle the wives and children they have left behind. This kaleidoscopic narrative is enriched by the migrants’ own stories and dreams, which take on extra significance among sleep-deprived taxi drivers. Khan chronicles the way these men rely on Pashto poems and aphorisms to make sense of what is strange or difficult to bear. She also attests to the pleasures of local family and friends who are less demanding than kin back home—sharing connection and moments of joy in dance, excursions, picnics, and humorous banter. Khan views these men’s lives through the lenses of movement—the arrival of friends and family, return visits to Pakistan, driving customers, even the journey to remit money overseas—and immobility, describing the migrants who experience “stuckness” caused by unresponsive bureaucracies, chronic insecurity, or struggles with depression and other mental health conditions. Arc of the Journeyman is a deeply humane portrayal that expands and complicates current perceptions of Afghan migrants, offering a finely analyzed description of their lives and communities as a moving, contingent, and fully contemporary force.Trade Review"A monumental achievement—of impressive, wide-ranging scholarship and original thinking, finely analyzed and sensitively portrayed. We have here the first full-length anthropological study of Afghan refugees, making this a vital and much-needed contribution. Through her richly historicized analysis of migrant life histories, fantasies, and even dreams, Nichola Khan collapses the past and the present and explodes received cartographies of Anglo–Afghan relations."—Kaveri Qureshi, University of Edinburgh"This is a moving book. It moves between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and England. It moves with Pashtun taxi drivers connecting everyday mobilities to the larger scales of migration. It moves the reader through a skillful poesis of fragments. Based on years of fieldwork and attentive to the power of stories, Arc of the Journeyman realizes the dreams of a routed anthropology and a storied account of mobilities. A must-read for anyone interested in the lives of Afghan refugees, the uses of mobility theory, or the power of storytelling in an academic context."—Tim Cresswell, author of Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place

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Book SynopsisA fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that Toronto’s urban policies are influenced by a territorialized and racialized security agenda—one that parallels the “War on Terror.” Focusing on the figure of the immigrant and so-called immigrant neighborhoods as the targets of urban policy, Saberi offers an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to the politics of racialization and the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities.A comprehensive study of urban policymaking in Canada’s largest city from the 1990s to the late 2010s, Fearing the Immigrant uses Toronto as a jumping-off point to understand how the nexus of development, racialization, and security works at the urban and international levels. Saberi situates urban policymaking in Toronto in relation to the dominant policies of international development and public health, counterinsurgency, and humanitarian intervention. Engaging with the genealogies and contemporary developments of major policy techniques involving mapping and policy concepts such as poverty, security, policing, development, empowerment, as well as social determinants of health, equity, and prevention, she scrutinizes the parallel ways these techniques and concepts operate in urban policy and international relations. Fearing the Immigrant ultimately asserts that the geopolitical fear of the immigrant is central to the formation of urban policy in Toronto. Rather than addressing the root causes of poverty, urban policy as it has been practiced aims to pacify the specter of urban unrest and to secure the production of a neocolonial urban order. As such, this book is an urgent call to reimagine urban policy in the name of equality and social justice.Trade Review"Fearing the Immigrant is a searing analysis of the colonial management of contemporary global suburban spaces. This dazzling work eschews disciplinary and geopolitical borders to offer a cutting critique of the securitization of the city as domestic warfare and leaves us with bold new ways to think race, struggle, and the future of urban life."—Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade"Innovative and detailed, Fearing the Immigrant opens up Toronto’s urban policy, both conceptually and geographically. Connecting urban policy to debates around space, state, racialization, and geopolitics, Parastou Saberi makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities."—Mustafa Dikeç, author of Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded

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