Migration, immigration and emigration Books

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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Book SynopsisConnects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and streetIn this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation of street livelihoods in the urban margins. Hall locates The Migrant’s Paradox on streets in the far-flung parts of de-industrialized peripheries, where jobs are hard to come by and the impacts of historic state underinvestment are deeply felt. Drawing on hundreds of in-person interviews on streets in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, London, and Manchester, Hall brings together histories of colonization with current forms of coloniality. Her six-year project spans the combined impacts of the 2008 financial crisis, austerity governance, punitive immigration laws and the Brexit Referendum, and processes of state-sanctioned regeneration. She incorporates the spaces of shops, conference halls, and planning offices to capture how official border talk overlaps with everyday formations of work and belonging on the street.Original and ambitious, Hall’s work complicates understandings of migrants, demonstrating how migrant journeys and claims to space illuminate the relations between global displacement and urban emplacement. In articulating “a citizenship of the edge” as an adaptive and audacious mode of belonging, she shows how sovereignty and inequality are maintained and refuted. Trade Review "The Migrant’s Paradox is an exploration of the interweaving of citizenship, neoliberal capitalism and the day-to-day lives and livelihoods of migration. It examines how the street itself may become a site of subversion and resistance to wider systems of power... Definitions of who a migrant is, particularly the “migrant entrepreneur” are challenged and complicated by this book. It works well at layering the day-to-day with UK policy, and global levels of social change. Importantly, the stories of the streets and those who work there themselves are the heart of this book. This book would be very useful for those interested in areas such as the politics, geography and sociologies of global migration within cities as well as the possibilities of grassroots everyday resistance, migrant solidarities and social change. From a methodological perspective, it is a useful example of creative ethnographies within streets, and presenting multi-layered research."—Ethnic and Racial Studies "The author effectively unpacks how the city excludes, pushing edges further outward, creating an insecure life for migrants and producing their own ‘contested urban economy’. This perspective allows us to understand the UK’s colonial history as it intersects with global displacement and creates urban marginalization... Throughout The Migrant’s Paradox, the author ‘writes the street as world’ through walking, looking, listening and talking in the streets of Birmingham, Manchester, London, Bristol and Leicester. Hall invites the reader to enter into the world of migrants and residents of edge territories."—LSE Review of Books "Hall develops a compelling and original methodological framework for exploring life and space available to migrants by writing the street as world. She does this through extensive ethnographic research accompanied by beautiful architectural drawings of five different streets in deindustrialized cities in England (Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, London and Manchester)... Hall’s is an eloquently written book that powerfully channels anger at Britain’s hostile environment and its degradation of humanity. Given a tumultuous period over the past six years, it offers a useful, if dismaying, reminder of the political context in Britain – three general elections, the 2008 financial crash and austerity, Brexit, COVID-19... A particular skill in the book is the clear-sighted way in which Hall draws the postcolonial urban politics of the treatment of migrants, such as where the state systematically destroyed documentation that confirmed arrival status of those from former colonies. As Hall argues convincingly, and extending the field in Sociology and Geography, these are racialised politics that mean for some citizenship is always marginal and called into question."—Sociology "Hall asks us to look ‘both from the outside in and the inside out’, to look again and pay attention to the often ordinary and banal spaces that make up cities. In reading and writing these streets—and the spaces connected to them—Hall draws out the complex layers of dispossession and wide geographies of entanglement that mark and define these edge territories."—The Architectural Review "Each page of this book resounds with incisive and clearly formulated insights, exemplifying movements across concepts, scales, histories, and geographies that exceed conventional boundaries... In so thoroughly accounting for the ways in which streets as worlds are composed, Hall is able to offer concrete possibilities of incipience, the ways in which these streets offer the basis, the glimmer of new urbanities."—Contemporary Sociology "Hall’s excellent book rewires the current and divisive logic around the UK and European migration systems. In a Glissantian sense, Hall proposes us to think of borders not as demarcations of cit-/denizens based on racial discrimination, but as a space of multiplicities marked by shared responsibilities and permissions for different ways of living and working across borders."—Anthropology of Work Review "A joy to read... Hall combines geography, ethnography, and architectural observations to bring these streets to life and uses powerful illustrations to capture their complexity from the global scale of the journeys that led the shopkeepers to a particular street, to the micro-scale of shop subdivisions that enable the emergence of flexible, low-threshold businesses."—Sociological Forum "Suzanne M. Hall is our Alvin Ailey of urbanism, and this book is an intricate and fiery choreography of the street as an intersection of edge economies, paradoxical injunctions, moving borders, collective ingenuity, and apparatuses of racial control. Street becomes world becomes street, and these inversions bear down hard on those that embody them but who nonetheless materialize fundamental openings in narrowing nationalisms, making their way toward more judicious and generative forms of belonging."—AbdouMaliq Simone, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield "Suzanne M. Hall's much-anticipated book adopts a wholly original and refreshing perspective on otherwise well-worn topics such as migrant entrepreneurship and ‘ethnic enclave’ economies, repurposing these areas of study into fascinating sites through which to understand momentous global/postcolonial concerns around migration, borders, citizenship, racial capitalism, and the reconfiguration of labor under conditions of postindustrial neoliberal austerity. The Migrant's Paradox radically unsettles the assimilationist complacencies and parochializing conventions that ordinarily surround the customary ways in which migrant entrepreneurs have been studied or conceptualized, and Hall delivers a sensitive ethnographic portrayal in a remarkably eloquent and intelligent voice that makes it a delight to read."—Nicholas De Genova, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering "Combining thick ethnographic description and striking visual images, Suzanne M. Hall animates differential public infrastructural investments in local thoroughfares and the rich multicultures and transnational associations that spill out of them."—Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths University, and Hannah Jones, University of Warwick "Through a multi-scalar ethnography, The Migrant’s Paradox explores streets as relational edge territories defined by their creativity and ongoing “durable precarity.” Hall reminds us that entrepreneurs working in these urban margins must absorb ongoing and sustained economic and political violence."—Huda Tayob, University of Cape Town "As opposed to the endless extolling of the business ethos of (certain) migrant diasporas—an extolling that helps stage newer iterations of the always tired, but always effective, good/bad migrant dichotomy—Hall captures the more solemn reality that scores the migrant, race and small-business interface."—Sivamohan Valluvan, University of Warwick Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Migrant’s Paradox1. The Scale of the Migrant2. Edge Territories3. Edge Economies4. Unheroic Resistance5. A Citizenship of the EdgeAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA searing critique of the “freedom” that America offers to the victims of its imperialist machinations of war and occupation Meaningless Citizenship traces the costs of America’s long-term military involvement around the world by following the forced displacement of Iraqi families, unveiling how Iraqis are doubly displaced: first by the machinery of American imperialism in their native countries and then through a more pernicious war occurring on U.S. soil—the dismantling of the welfare state.Revealing the everyday struggles and barriers that texture the lives of Iraqi families recently resettled to the United States, Sally Wesley Bonet draws from four years of deep involvement in the refugee community of Philadelphia. An education scholar, Bonet’s analysis moves beyond the prevalent tendency to collapse schooling into education. Focusing beyond the public school to other critical institutions, such as public assistance, resettlement programs, and healthcare, she shows how encounters with institutions of the state are an inherently educative process for both refugee youths and adults, teaching about the types of citizenship they are expected to enact and embody while simultaneously shaping them into laboring subjects in service of capitalism. An intimate, in-depth ethnography, Meaningless Citizenship exposes how the veneer of American values—freedom, democracy, human rights—exported to countries like Iraq, disintegrates to uncover what is really beneath: a nation-state that prioritizes the needs of capitalism above the survival and wellbeing of its citizens.Trade Review"Sally Wesley Bonet’s book is a beautiful exploration of the meanings of refuge and citizenship through institutions, relationships, and the everyday experiences of children and families in the United States. It exposes essential understandings that are needed for stronger futures, particularly the consequences of misaligned expectations and reality as well as the responsibility the United States has to refugees, especially those to whom it has caused suffering."—Sarah Dryden-Peterson, author of Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education"Drawing on three years of tender and tenacious ethnographic research with Iraqi refugee families resettled into poverty in the U.S., Meaningless Citizenship explains how American imperialism and its brutal late-stage, low-road, neoliberal capitalism deny refugees the economic and social rights of full citizenship. Sally Wesley Bonet critiques how refugee resettlement, public assistance, and educational and health care institutions stymie justice, even as she shows how they might be reformed to foster more humane and equitable outcomes."—Lesley Bartlett, coauthor of Humanizing Education for Immigrant and Refugee Youth: 20 Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond

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Book SynopsisA pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness Just as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in the form of twentieth-century diaspora and statelessness. Statelessness sets forth a new genealogy, suggesting that Europe first encountered mass statelessness neither inside its own borders nor during the twentieth century, as Hannah Arendt so influentially claimed, but outside of itself—in the New World, several hundred years earlier.Through close readings of political philosophers from Hobbes to Rousseau to Kant, Tony C. Brown argues that statelessness became a central problem for political thought early on, with far-reaching implications for thinking both on the state and on being human. What Europeans thought they saw among the “savages” of the Americas was life without political order, life less than human. Lacking almost everything those deemed clearly human had achieved, the stateless existed in a radically precarious, almost inhuman privation.And yet this existence also raised the unsettling possibility that state-based existence may not be inevitable, necessary, or even ideal. This possibility, as Brown shows, prompts the response—as defensive as it was aggressive—that we call Enlightenment political philosophy, which arguably still orders much thinking on being stateless today, including our discourses concerning migrants and Indigenous peoples.Trade Review"Magnificently learned, deeply rigorous, and exceptionally clear, this decisive, original work fundamentally and importantly reframes our understanding of statelessness as an operative political category."—Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge"Statelessness addresses a truly vital issue, and Tony C. Brown's analysis works to 'denaturalize' the state as the only and inevitable form of human social organization."—James C. Scott, author of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

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Book SynopsisA pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness Just as the modern state and the citizenship associated with it are commonly thought of as a European invention, so too is citizenship’s negation in the form of twentieth-century diaspora and statelessness. Statelessness sets forth a new genealogy, suggesting that Europe first encountered mass statelessness neither inside its own borders nor during the twentieth century, as Hannah Arendt so influentially claimed, but outside of itself—in the New World, several hundred years earlier.Through close readings of political philosophers from Hobbes to Rousseau to Kant, Tony C. Brown argues that statelessness became a central problem for political thought early on, with far-reaching implications for thinking both on the state and on being human. What Europeans thought they saw among the “savages” of the Americas was life without political order, life less than human. Lacking almost everything those deemed clearly human had achieved, the stateless existed in a radically precarious, almost inhuman privation.And yet this existence also raised the unsettling possibility that state-based existence may not be inevitable, necessary, or even ideal. This possibility, as Brown shows, prompts the response—as defensive as it was aggressive—that we call Enlightenment political philosophy, which arguably still orders much thinking on being stateless today, including our discourses concerning migrants and Indigenous peoples.Trade Review"Magnificently learned, deeply rigorous, and exceptionally clear, this decisive, original work fundamentally and importantly reframes our understanding of statelessness as an operative political category."—Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge"Statelessness addresses a truly vital issue, and Tony C. Brown's analysis works to 'denaturalize' the state as the only and inevitable form of human social organization."—James C. Scott, author of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

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Book SynopsisThrough case studies from Australia, Europe and the US, this book explores how emotion is central to understanding the formation of immigration policy. The author looks beyond the ‘negative’ emotions of fear and hostility to examine the politics of compassion in immigration and asylum policy discourse.Trade Review"Surely a must-read for scholars interested in the recent ‘refugee crisis’, and those who more broadly want to comprehend how compassion is used both to uphold and counter asylum and immigration policies… the first extensive study of how ‘benevolence’ is articulated in immigration and asylum debates in the ‘minority world’, making the book very topical and useful to understand ongoing events." Migration Studies, June 2019“This lucid, useful book throws new light on how we think about migration. It deftly links theory and evidence to explain the ‘compassionate refusal’ used to justify exclusionary migration policies.” Hannah Jones, University of WarwickTable of ContentsA crisis of compassion The emotional politics of immigration and asylum Emotion, colonialism and immigration policy The intolerable death of Alan Kurdi Victims, villains and saviours Withholding compassion Outrage, responsibility and accountability Self-care and solidarity: the undocumented immigrant youth movement Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAssessing migration in the context of climate change, Nash draws on empirical research to offer a unique analysis of policy-making in the field. This detailed account is a vital step in understanding the links between global discourses on human mobilities, climate change and specific policy responses. An important contribution to several ongoing debates in academia and beyond.Trade Review''An engaging, empirically rich and theoretically informed exploration of how a new international policy field linking climate change and human migration has emerged. Detailed, acute, insightful.'' Giovanni Bettini, Lancaster UniversityTable of ContentsForeword ~ Andrew Baldwin Migration and Climate Change: The Construction of a Nexus Part I: Episodes of Policy Making on Migration and Climate Change 2010-18 From Cancun to Paris: The Coming of Age of a Policy Field A Spotlight on Negotiating Mobility in Paris: Ushering in Another New Era for the Migration and Climate Change Nexus From Paris to Katowice: Moving from Agenda-Setting to Recommendations Part II: Deconstructing Policy Making on Migration and Climate Change The Process of Naming: Deconstructing Terminology Used to Conceptualise the Migration and Climate Change Nexus Struggles to Locate Mobile People at the Centre of the Migration and Climate Change Nexus Interogating a Notable Silence: Human Rights and the Migration and Climate Change Nexus Conclusion: Closing the Policy Circle

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Book SynopsisThis book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises commonplace distinctions between ‘migrants’ and ‘workers’. Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories have been constructed and mobilised within representations of a ‘migrant crisis’ and a ‘welfare crisis’ to facilitate capitalist exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism to propose alternative understandings of the relationship between borders, migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.Trade Review''Those wishing to shake free from the dominant hostile narrative towards immigration into the UK and elsewhere would do very well to read this – at times brilliantly unique and challenging – account. Vickers champions a bottom-up approach shaped by the perspectives of migrants themselves.'' Gary Craig, Newcastle University''Tom Vickers’ book brings class and class formation back in critical migration and border studies. Exploring points of division, connection, and commonality among the working class from the angle of migration, this book is a timely and important theoretical and political intervention.'' Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna''By revealing the differently situated perspectives of workers and showing capitalism’s relationship to mobility, this book provides activists with a shared foundation, bringing hope for a broad-based collective action that bridges nationalist divides.'' Jessica Potter, Docs Not CopsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Imperialism, migration and class in the 21st Century; Deconstructing migrant crises in Europe; Deconstructing welfare crises; Mobility power and labour power in the crisis of imperialism; Deconstructing migrant/worker categories Britain; Conclusion; Appendix: Research background and methodology.

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Book SynopsisThis book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises commonplace distinctions between ‘migrants’ and ‘workers’. Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories have been constructed and mobilised within representations of a ‘migrant crisis’ and a ‘welfare crisis’ to facilitate capitalist exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism to propose alternative understandings of the relationship between borders, migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Imperialism, migration and class in the 21st Century; Deconstructing migrant crises in Europe; Deconstructing welfare crises; Mobility power and labour power in the crisis of imperialism; Deconstructing migrant/worker categories Britain; Conclusion; Appendix: Research background and methodology.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to investigate how migrants and migrant rights activists work together to generate new forms of citizenship identities through the use of language. Shindo's book is an original take on citizenship and community from the perspective of translation, and an alluring amalgamation of theory and detailed empirical analysis based on ethnographic case studies of Japan.Trade Review''Shindo turns assumptions about misinterpretation, inaudibility and untranslatability on their head as she explores the possibilities of communication and its failure. An important and pioneering contribution to Citizenship and Migration Studies, which – until now – has lacked a robust theorisation of linguistic diversity.'' Anne McNevin, The New School''As solidarity between citizens and noncitizens increasingly shapes international politics, translation becomes a site of struggles for the rights of both citizens and noncitizens. Shindo shows how translation works between multilingual migrant communities and community unions in Japan. This engaging book is an ethnographically informed theoretical study of challenges to solidarity in action.'' Engin Isin, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.Language as a Contested Site of Belonging 2.Solidarity Activism? Rethinking Citizenship Through Inaudibility 3.Silence and the Image of Helplessness: The Challenge of Tozen Union 4.Rewriting the Meaning of Silence: Latin American Migrant Workers from Kanagawa City Union 5.The Hidden Space of Mediation: Migrant Volunteers, Immigration Lawyers, and Interpreters 6.Untranslatable Community: Toward a Gothic Way of Speaking Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn contemporary society, passport checks at nation-state borders are accepted. But what if these checks were happening in our own home? This book is the first intimate ethnography of these governing encounters in the home space between Romanian Roma migrants and local frontline workers. Focusing on how the nation-state is reproduced within the home, the book considers what it is like to have your legal status, your right to ‘belong’, judged from your everyday domestic life. In essence this book is about the divide between state and family, home-land and home and what it means for the new rules of citizenship.Trade Review''This must-read exploration of ‘intimate state encounters’ exposes the complex relation between protection and exclusion, offering important insights into daily practices of care and the crafting of border regimes.'' Bridget Anderson, Bristol University''Powerfully written with care and insight, this sensitive ethnography reminds us that even at ‘home’, in shared domestic spaces, Roma families are subjected to Kafkaesque methods of state monitoring and surveillance. This is a wonderful account of life on the margins, placed on the outside but very much looking in.'' Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland''Home-Land is an important and incisive ethnography of the state that reveals just how deeply the border has invaded the ostensibly ''private'' lives and ''domestic'' space of the poorest and most racially subjugated of migrants.'' Nicholas De Genova, University of HoustonTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: Romanian Roma, motherhood and the home; Chapter 1: Home truths: fieldwork, writing and anthropology’s ‘home encounter’; Interlude: Facebook with Cristina; Chapter 2: Shifting faces of the state: austerity, post-welfare and frontline work; Interlude: Disappearing Dinni; Chapter 3: Romanian Roma mothers: labelling and negotiating stigma; Interlude: Remembering Brussels with Georgeta; Chapter 4: Intimate bureaucracy and home encounters; Interlude: Clara’s Belgian torte; Chapter 5: Gender and intimate state encounters; Interlude: Losing Sophia and Angela; Chapter 6: Borders and intimate state encounters; Conclusion: Homemade state: intimate state encounters at the margins;

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Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with the effects of migration policy making in Europe on migrants in the Global South and links insights on immobility to social theories of time to examine the human consequences of current migration dynamics from the perspectives of migrants themselves. Based on in-depth ethnographic research, this is an invaluable learning resource that aims to challenge current international migration politics and policy-making.Trade Review''A vibrant, in-depth and accurate account of the lived experiences of European migration control and its lasting effects on neighbouring countries.'' Federica Infantino, FNRS/Université Libre de Bruxelles''Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over ten years this beautifully written, must-read book enables us to rethink the fundamental tools of the study of migration, migration policy and politics.'' Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol‘’This important and insightful book unites analysis of EU externalization policies in Africa with ethnographic depth on sub-Saharan migrants’ lives in Morocco, offering fresh perspectives on ‘transit’ migration and involuntary immobility.’’ Nauja Kleist, Danish Institute for International Studies“Stock’s haunting and critical analysis of the negative consequences for migrants of hostile migration politics in Morocco is a must-read for scholars, students, and practitioners wishing to go beyond dominant and simplistic narratives about migration which routinely dehumanize those forcibly (im)mobilized.” Ethnic and Racial Studies JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; EU Externalization Policies and their Impact on Migrants in Morocco; Travelling Adventures: Migration as an Existential Quest; Arriving in Morocco: Becoming Trapped in a Context of Uncertainty; Facing Time and the Absurd; Migrant Communities in Morocco; Waiting in Desperate Hope; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. Migration flows have led to new governance challenges and, at times, populist political backlashes. A key driver of migration is environmental conflict and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. Bringing together world-leading researchers from across political science, environmental studies, economics and sociology, this urgent book uses a multifaceted theoretical and methodological approach to delve into core questions and concerns surrounding migration, climate change and conflict, providing invaluable insights into one of the most pressing global issues of our time.Trade Review“A timely investigation…at a moment when such debates as the classification of climate refugees or effective, rights‐based governance in a changing global environment are centerstage.” World Medical and Health PolicyTable of ContentsEnvironmental and resource-related conflicts, migration and governance; Tim Krieger, Diana Panke and Michael Pregernig Renewable resource scarcity, conflicts, and migration; Tobias Ide Extractive resources, conflicts, and migration; Indra de Soysa Climate change, conflicts, and migration; Lisa Thalheimer and Christian Webersik The individual level: Selection effects; Diane C. Bates The individual level: Sorting effects; Tim Krieger, Laura Renner and Lena Schmid Migration governance on the state level: Policy developments and effects; Marc Helbling Environmental migration governance on the regional level; Federica Cristani, Elisa Fornalé and Sandra Lavenex Migration governance at the global level: Intergovernmental organizations and environmental change-induced migration; Martin Geiger The link between forced migration and conflict; Seraina Rüegger and Heidrun Bohnet Conflict-prone minerals, forced migration and norm dynamics in the Kimberley Process and ICGLR; J. Andrew Grant On the nexus between environmental conflict, migration and governance ─ concluding remarks. - Günther G. Schulze

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Book SynopsisIn an increasingly globalized world, mobility is a new defining feature of our lives, livelihoods and work experiences. This book is a first in utilising transnational migration studies as a new theoretical framework in management and organization studies. Ozkazanc-Pan presents a much-needed new concept for understanding people, work and organizations in a world on the move while attending to growing inequality associated with work in changing societies.Table of ContentsIntroduction Transnational migration studies Transmigrants Hybrid selves Cosmopolitans Diversity Research After Mobility: Multiculturalism Inequalities on the Move Mobile methodologies Imagining a Transnational Future for Research on Differences

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people as they transition to adulthood under the shadow of migration control. Drawing on unique longitudinal data, it illuminates how they conceptualize wellbeing for themselves and others in contexts of prolonged and politically induced uncertainty. The authors offer an in-depth analysis of the experiences of over one hundred unaccompanied young migrants, primarily from Afghanistan, Albania and Eritrea. They show the lengths these young people will go to in pursuit of safety, security and the futures they aspire to. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book champions a new political economy analysis of wellbeing in the context of migration and demonstrates the urgent need for policy reform.Table of ContentsIntroduction Conceptualizing Wellbeing in the Context of Migration and Youth Transitions Capturing Wellbeing in Transition: An Alternative Approach ‘Iron Rod’ or ‘Colander’? Welfare Regimes in England and Italy The Pursuit of Safety and Freedom Legal Integrity and Recognition Identity and Belonging Constructing Viable Futures as ‘Adults’ Emotional and Mental Wellbeing Friendships, Connections and Relationships Transnational Family and Connections Conclusion

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Book SynopsisShanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of ‘chronomobilities,’ which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisShanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this innovative study of young Asian migrants’ lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and realities of transnational mobility, the book shows how migration has reshaped lived experiences of time for middle-class young people moving between Asia and the West for work, study and lifestyle opportunities. Through a new conceptual framework of ‘chronomobilities,’ which looks at 'time-regimes' and 'time-logics', Robertson demonstrates how migratory pathways have become far more complex than leaving one country for another, and can profoundly affect the temporalities of everyday life, from career pathways to intimate relationships. Drawing on extensive ethnographic material, Robertson deepens our understanding of the multifaceted relationship between migration and time.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronomobilities: 21st-Century Migration and Lived Time Asian Migrants of the Middle in Local and Global Context Times of Work: Transified Workers and Contingent Careers Times in Place: Moving, Dwelling, Belonging Times of the Heart: Reconfiguring Intimacy Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis powerful book explicates the many ways in which colonial encounters continue to shape forced migration, ever evolving with times and various geographical contexts. Bringing historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and criminologists together, the book presents examples of forced migration events and politics ranging from the 18th century to the practices and geopolitics of the present day. These case studies, covering Europe, Africa, North America, Asia and South America, are then put in dialogue with each other to propose new theoretical and real-world agendas for the field. As the pervasive legacies of colonialism continue to shape global politics, this unprecedented book moves beyond critique, ahistoricity and Eurocentrism in refugee and forced migration studies and establishes postcoloniality and forced migration as an important field of migration research.Table of Contents1 Introduction - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, Eva Magdalena Stambøl 2 Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of `Liberated Africans´ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808-1860 - Laura Rosanne Adderley and Sharla M. Fett 3 Colonization, Territorialization, and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856-1918 - Ella Fratantuono 4 Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta & Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania - Clayton Boeyink, Nina Sahraoui and Elsa Tyszler 5 Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa - Eva Magdalena Stambøl and Leonie Jegen 6 Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection - Lina Ewert 7 Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission - Lucy Mayblin 8 The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya - Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn and Martin Lemberg-Pedersen 9 Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands - Peter Teunissen and Penny Koutrolikou 10 The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India - Nasreen Chowdhory and Shamna Thacham Poyil 11 Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity - Phillip Cole 12 Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia - Aurora Vergara-Figueroa and Jerónimo Botero Marino 13 The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement - Felicity Atieno Okoth 14 Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration - Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla M. Fett, Lucy Mayblin, Nina Sahraoui, and Eva Magdalena Stambøl

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Book SynopsisThis book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. Drawing on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum-seeking from the Global North, the book sheds light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of positive collective change. In the face of increasing precariousness and the wake of intersecting global crises, Khorana calls for uncovering the potential of these affects in order to build new forms of care and solidarities across differences.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feelings and Migrants Come and Go, and Some Stay/Stick Part 1: Empathy 1. Witnessing as an Expression of Critical Empathy: An Examination of Audience Responses to a Refugee-Themed Documentary 2. Jacinda Ardern and the Politics of Leadership Empathy: Towards Emotional Communities of Transformation Part 2: Aspiration 3. Asian Americans and Asian Australians on Screen: Aspiring to Centre the Community through Comedy 4. Aspiration for Collective Progress: Diversity and Digital Intimacy as Practised by Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (US), Sadiq Khan (UK), and Jagmeet Singh (Canada) Part 3: Belonging 5. Refugee Storytellers Claim Belonging: Agency, Community and Change Through the Arts 6. Belonging as Affect: Towards Paradigms for Reciprocal Care in Community-Based Research Conclusion: Care and Resilience in The Face of Increasing Precarity: COVID-19 and Beyond

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Book SynopsisHow many questions could you answer in a pub quiz about British values? Designed to ensure new migrants have accepted British values and integrated, the UK's citizenship test is often portrayed as a bad pub quiz with answers few citizens know. With the launch of a new post-Brexit immigration system, this is a critical time to change the test. Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience of taking the test, and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries, to expose the test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a ‘bridge to citizenship’ which fosters greater inclusion and integration.Table of Contents1. A Bad Pub Quiz 2. Why Test for Citizenship? 3. A New Beginning 4. Not Learning from Mistakes 5. From Trivia to Trivial 6. Building Bridges and a Better Test 7. Conclusion and Recommendations

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. Amid the heavy politicisation and problematisation of male migrants in Europe, this ethnographic study casts new light on their experiences, struggles and everyday resistance. The author follows the journeys of those who seek, but have little hope of achieving, permanent residence status in European countries, tracking their successive migrations, detentions and deportations within and beyond the continent. She explores migrants’ tactics, the impact of precarity on their lives and the dual feelings of enduring hope and powerless vulnerability they experience. This is a sensitive and insightful analysis of how the European migration regime shapes, and is shaped by, migrants’ practices.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Intricate Migration Policies in a Heterogeneous Europe 3. Navigating Discourses: Masculinities, Racialisation and Vulnerabilities 4. Navigating Migration Control: Deromanticising Mobility 5. Navigating Uncertainty: Illegibility, Rumours and Hope 6. Navigating the Law: Tactics of Avoidance and Appropriation 7. Conclusion: Endurance and Exhaustion

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Book SynopsisThe word ‘refugee’ is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people. For lawyers, the main legal reference point is the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee law. Including an introduction to the historical and legal context, Colin Yeo draws on his experience as an immigration barrister to explain the present-day legal framework for global refugee protection. Chapters consider: • well-founded fear; • persecution; • the loss of refugee status and exclusion; • the rights of refugees; • and state responses to refugee claims. The book includes studies of key legal cases, reviews the successes and failures of the Convention and looks ahead to the future, including the impact of climate change and the Global Compact on Refugees. Communicating important legal concepts in an approachable way, this is an essential guide for students, lawyers and non-specialists.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Legal Framework 2. Well-founded Fear 3. Being Persecuted 4. Protection and Relocation 5. Reasons for Persecution 6. Cessation and Exclusion 7. Rights of Refugees 8. Refugee Status Determination Conclusion

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration corridor. Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the ‘migration governance complex.’ They offer insights not only into the actors involved in the different components of migration governance, but also into the varying ways of interpreting and explaining the meaning and value of these interactions. Together, they enable readers to better understand migration in this important region, while also providing a model for analyzing global migration governance in practice in different parts of the world.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Mapping and Theorizing Migration Governance: Insights From the South-to-West Asian Migration Corridor Nicolas Blarel and Crystal A. Ennis Part II: Levels and Forms of Migration Governance 2. Gendered Mobility and Multi-Scalar Governance Models: Exploring the Case of Nurse Migration From India to the Gulf Margaret Walton-Roberts, S Irudaya Rajan, and Jolin Joseph 3. Understanding Irregularity in Legal Frameworks of National, Bilateral, Regional, and Global Migration Governance: The Nepal to Gulf Migration Corridor Anurag Devkota 4. State and Non-State Actors in Subnational Migration Governance from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala to the Gulf: A Comparative Study C.S. Akhil and Aarathi Ganga Part III: Private Authorities and Transnational Actors 5. Two Bad Places at Once: Pakistani Labour Migrants and the Transnational Recruitment Industry to the Gulf Zahra Babar 6. “We Sent Our Sons across the Seven Rivers”: Tracing the Migratory Network and the Risky Migration of Bangladeshi Fishermen to Oman Marie Percot Part IV: Contestation and Absences in Migration Governance 7. Contested Governance and Sovereignty in the Kerala-Dubai Migration Corridor Crystal A. Ennis, and Nicolas Blarel 8. Kafala and Social Reproduction: Migration Governance Regimes and Labour Relations in the Gulf Faisal Hamadah 9. Invisiblized Migration, Unaccounted Work: The Governance of Women’s Migration for Paid Domestic Work From Nepal and Sri Lanka to the Gulf Neha Wadhawan Part V: Conclusion 10. Bottom-up Politics of Labour Migration: Perspectives From the South-to-West Asia Corridor for a More Inclusive Governance M. Stella Morgana

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Book SynopsisIn times of increasing migration flows, Greece is often viewed as the gateway to Europe for significantly high numbers of asylum-seeking individuals, including unaccompanied minors. Between 2016 and 2020, under Greek law unaccompanied children were to be temporarily placed in a protective environment upon irregular entry, pending referral to suitable accommodation. However, in reality they were being subjected to detention procedures instead. Giving voice to migrant children and professionals throughout, the author combines legal analysis with criminology and unveils the discrepancy between the law and practice. The findings demonstrate that unaccompanied children in Greece are criminalised through detention processes, while being deprived of the right to be heard. This book promotes child-friendly practices in the international migration setting, with a view to safeguarding the fundamental rights of unaccompanied minors experiencing detention upon arrival in host countries.Table of ContentsDisclaimer List of Diagrams and Tables List of Abbreviations (in Alphabetical Order) List of International Legislation (in Chronological Order) List of National Legislation (in Chronological Order) Abstract Notes on Author Recent Publications Preface Chapter 1: Introducing the Problem Statement I. From Current Aims… II. …to Chapter Analysis Chapter 2: Children’s Rights and Methodologies I. Focusing on the Right To Be Heard II. Achieving a Phenomenological Result III. Conducting Ipa in the Context of Migration Chapter 3: Criminals in Waiting I. Entering the Country Irregularly II. Addressing Detention Issues Chapter 4: Under the Research Lens I. Exploring Crimmigration II. Voicing Children Chapter 5: Recruitment and Data Collection I. Listening to the Minors’ Insights II. Witnessing the Practitioners’ Experience III. Combining Ipa With Focus Groups IV. Holding a Focus Group Session Chapter 6: Emergent Discussion Themes I. Concerns on Hygiene Matters II. Problematic Detention Setting III. Absence of Proper Services IV. Incidents of Abusive Behaviour Chapter 7: Ultimate Reflections I. Understanding Detention II. Implementing Changes Chapter 8: Reaching a Conclusion I. From Final Remarks… II. …to Future Research Paths References

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Book SynopsisDrawing on an extensive study with young individuals who migrated to Singapore and Tokyo in the 2010s, this book sheds light on the friendships, emotions, hopes and fears involved in establishing life as Europeans in Asia. It demonstrates how migration to Asian business centres has become a way of distinction and an alternative route of middle-class reproduction for young Europeans during that period. The perceived insecurities of life in the crisis-ridden EU result in these migrants’ onward migration or prolonged stays in Asia. Capturing the changing roles of Singapore and Japan as migration destinations, this pioneering work makes the case for EU citizens’ aspired lifestyles and professional employment that is no longer only attainable in Europe or the West.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: Spatial Mobility to Asia: Moving Ahead by Moving Out 1. The EU Generation and Their Migration Motivations 2. Destination Singapore: The Dream of a Cosmopolis 3. Global City Tokyo: Japan’s Diversification from Within PART II: Organisational and Career Mobility: Seizing Security, Success and Self-Realisation 4. Singapore: Professionalising the Self 5. Tokyo: (Dis)Embedding in the Japanese Labour Market 6. Career Trajectories through an Intersectional Lens PART III: (Im)Mobility through Differentiated Embedding: The Ties That Bind 7. Immobility and Emplacement: Making the City Home 8. Belonging through Romantic Relationships Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMichelle Peterie’s revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia’s onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee. As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia’s onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Studying Immigration Detention Immigration Detention in Australia Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons Bureaucratic Violence Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment Care and Resistance Forced Relocations Reverberating Harms Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair

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Book SynopsisMichelle Peterie’s revealing research offers a fresh angle on the human costs of immigration detention. Drawing on over 70 interviews with regular visitors to Australia’s onshore immigration detention facilities, Peterie paints a unique and vivid picture of these carceral spaces. The book contrasts the care and friendship exchanged between detainees and visitors with the isolation and despair that is generated and weaponised through institutional life. It shows how visitors become targets of institutional control, and theorises the harm detention imposes beyond the detainee. As the first research in this area, this book bears important witness to Australia’s onshore immigration detention system, and offers internationally relevant insights on immigration, deterrence and the politics of solidarity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Studying Immigration Detention Immigration Detention in Australia Theorizing Detention Centres as Prisons Bureaucratic Violence Witnessing the Pains of Imprisonment Care and Resistance Forced Relocations Reverberating Harms Conclusion: Tacit Intentionality and the Weaponization of Despair

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Book SynopsisThe turnover of labour and its significance for workers and employers has usually been considered at the organizational level as individual exit behaviour, and seldom in relation to the cross-border mobility practices of migrant workers within and without the workplace. Drawing from labour process theory, the autonomy of migration, social reproduction, and industrial relations, this book explores the relationship between labour mobility and international migration under a global and historical perspective. Uncovering both the individual and collective actions by migrants inside and outside worker organizations, the authors develop a new understanding of migrants’ everyday mobilities as creative and life-sustaining strategies of social reproduction and labour conflict.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Migration and Labour Turnover 1. Theorizing Labour Mobility Power 2. The Logistics of Living Labour 3. Enclaves of Differentiated Labour 4. The Field of Social Reproduction 5. Migrant Organizing Conclusion: Rethinking Worker Power Through Mobility

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Book SynopsisSyrian refugees who gained asylum in Germany following the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 quickly entered into an ‘integration regime’ which produced a binary notion of ‘well integrated’ migrants versus refugees falling short of the narrow social and political definitions of a ‘good’ refugee. Etzel’s rich ethnographic study shows how refugees navigated this conditional inclusion. While some asylum seekers gained international protection, others were left with limited agency to demand government accountability for the ever-moving target of integration. Putting a spotlight on the inconsistencies and failings of a universal approach to integration, this is an important contribution to the wider field of migration and anthropology of the state.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Arrival, Processing, Status 1. The Path to Asylum 2. Asylum Decisions and What Followed Thereafter Part 2: Integration 3. Young Refugee Men: Saarbrücken 4. Families: Osnabrück and Hameln Part 3: Stagnation, Independence, Dependence 5. Institutionalized Integration: Munich and Kassel 6. Pathways Forward and Pathways Uncertain Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth investigation into the digitizsation processes of Europe's border regime. With a focus on the European Union agency eu-LISA, one of the most significant actors in the digital border regime, it shows how sociotechnical imaginations drives the future of borders and European governance of mobility.

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Book SynopsisRelocating Identities in Latin American Cultures explores the perpetually changing notion of Latin American identity, particularly as illustrated in literature and other forms of cultural expression. Editor Elizabeth Montes Garces has gathered contributions from specialists who examine the effects of such major phenomena as migration, globalization, and gender on the construct of Latin American identities, and, as such, are reshaping the traditional understanding of Latin America's cultural history.The contributors to this volume are experts in Latin American literature and culture. Covering a diverse range of genres from poetry to film, their essays explore themes such as feminism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory as they are reflected in the Latin American cultural milieu.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Cities & Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Exile & Identity. Re-readings of Gender Representation. Literature & Globalisation. Index.

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Book SynopsisDiverse perspectives and groundbreaking research on gender and family issues affecting Muslim communities throughout North AmericaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction Barbara C. Aswad and Barbara Bilge Part I: Values, Structure, and Variation in the Muslim Family 1. Islamic Values among American Muslims Yvonne Y. Haddad and Jane I. Smith 2. Immigrant Palestinian Women Evaluate Their Lives Louise Cainkar 3. Turkish-American Patterns of Intermarriage Barbara Bilge 4. Iranian Immigrant Women as Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles Arlene Dallalfar 5. Parents and Youth: Perceiving and Practicing Islam in North America Nimat Hafez Barazangi 6. Sex and the Single Shi'ite: Attitudes toward Mut'a Marriage in an American Lebanese Shiite Community Linda Walbridge 7. South Asian Families in the United States: Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian Muslims Nilufer Ahmed, Gladis Kaufman, and Shamim Naim 8. The International Family: A Case Study from South Asia Gladis Kaufman and Shamim Naim Part II: Practical Issues for Families 9. Health Issues among Muslim Families in the Dearborn Michigan Area Anahid Kulwicki 10. Knowledge and Perceptions of AIDS among Arab Muslims Anahid Kuwicki and Penny S. Cass 11. Challenges to the Arab-American Family and ACCESS, a Local Community Center Barbara C. Aswad and Nancy Adadow Gray 12. Ethnicity, Marriage, and Role Conflict: The Dilemma of a Second Generation Arab-American Jon Swanson 13. Adolescent Arab Girls in an American High School Charlene Eisenlohr 14. Care of the Elderly among Muslim Families Mary Cay Sengstock Part III: Immigrants' Life Stories 15. Life Experiences of Five Immigrants Linda Walbridge Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at trends in North American internal migration. This volume gathers established and new scholars working on North American immigration, transmigration, internal migration, and citizenship whose work analyzes the development of migrant and state-level institutions as well as migrant networks. With contemporary migration research most often focused on the development of transnational communities and the ways international migrants maintain relationships with their sending region that sustain the circularflow of people, ideas, and traditions across national boundaries it is useful to compare these to similar patterns evident within the terrain of internal migration. To date, however, international and internal migration studies have unfolded in relative isolation from one another with each operating within these distinct fields of expertise rather than across them. Although there has been some important linking, there has not been a recent major consideration of human migration that works across and within the various borders of the North American continent. Thus, the volume presents a variety of chapters that seek to consider human migration in comparative perspective across the internal/international divide. Marc S. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University; Donna R. Gabbaccia is the Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh; James R. Grossman is theVice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library, Chicago. Contributors: Josef Barton, Wallace Best, Donna Gabbaccia, James Gregory, Tobias Higbie, Mae Ngai, Walter Nugent, Annelise Orleck, Kunal Parker, Kimberly Phillips, Bruno Ramirez, Marc Rodriguez Repositioning North American Migration History is a volume in Studies in Comparative History, sponsored by Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center forHistorical Studies.Trade ReviewThis collection, partly in homage to Dirk Hoerder, explores a variety of migratory experiences in and to North America in ways that provide a distinctive take on events that scholars might otherwise segregate, thus missing some rich comparisons. . . . Community membership is far more complex and contested than . . . most political theorists imagine. The essays in this volume consistently reveal that lesson, and those wishing to explore its implications will find this book especially provocative. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, March 2006 Repositioning North American Migration History is an excellent collection of scholarship that paves the way for future studies. . . . Similar to recent scholarly efforts to . . . move beyond fixed notions of the nation-state to imagine a wider geographic and conceptual frame of community, this volume enriches and expands our study of the history of North American migrants. -- Mark Overmyer-Velazquez * LABOR HISTORY, August 2007 *Table of ContentsCrossing Borders, Countering Exceptionalism - Walter Nugent Borderland Studies and Migration: The Canada/U.S. Case - Bruno Ramirez Constructing North America: Railroad Building and the Rise of Continental Migrations, 1850-1914 - Donna Gabaccia The Southern Diaspora: Twentieth-Century America's Great Migrations - James Gregory "Like the Flock of Swallows That Come in the Springtime": The Uneasy Place of Hobo Workers in Midwestern Economy and CultureCulture - Tobias Higbie Borderland Discontents: Mexican Migration in Regional Contexts, 1880-1930 - Josef Barton Braceros, "Wetbacks," and the National Boundaries of Class - Mae Ngai "War" What Is It Good For?": Conscription and Migration in Black America - Kimberly Phillips Thinking Space, Thinking Community: Lessons from Early American Immigration History - Kunal Parker The South and the City: Black Southern Migrants, Storefront Churches, and the Rise of a Religious Diaspora - Wallace Best Migrants and Citizens: Mexican American Migrant Workers and the War on Poverty in an American City - Marc S. Rodriguez I Decided I'd Marry the First Man Who Asked: Gendering Black Migration From Cotton Country to the Desert Southwest - Annelise Orleck

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Book SynopsisExamines the gendered dimension of Progressive-Era debates about literacy and immigration in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the logic that shaped immigration restriction policies throughout the twentieth century. Jeanne Petit argues that the literacy test debate was about much more than reading ability or the virtues of education. It also tapped into broader concerns about the relationship between gender, sexuality, race, and American national identity. The congressmen, reformers, journalists, and pundits whosupported the literacy test hoped to stem the tide of southern and eastern European immigration. To make their case, these restrictionists portrayed illiterate immigrant men as dissipated, dependent paupers, immigrant women as brood mares who bore too many children, and both as a eugenic threat to the nation's racial stock. Opponents of the literacy test argued that the new immigrants were muscular, virile workers and nurturing, virtuous mothers who wouldstrengthen the race and nation. Moreover, the debaters did not simply battle about what social reformer Grace Abbott called "the sort of men and women we want." They also defined as normative the men and women they were -- unquestionably white, unquestionably American, and unquestionably fit to shape the nation's future. Jeanne D. Petit is Associate Professor of History at Hope College.Trade ReviewJeanne D. Petit's new monograph on Progressive Era debates over immigration restriction through the lens of the literary test is a well-researched, thoughtful, and provocative addition to the historiography. Petit is one of the first historians of this subject to focus on the intersection of gender and race as central, intertwined elements in the arguments for and against immigrant restriction. * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY *The xenophobia exacerbated after the 9/11 attacks in America brings to sharp focus current immigration policies. . . [The Men and Women We Want] represents a timely contribution to the study of such policies by focusing on the debates about immigration restriction in America in the late nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. . . thus [the book] can become a point of reference in contemporary debates over immigration. * EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES *In her insightful new book. . . Jeanne Petit offers a thorough and detailed history of the immigration literacy test, from its genesis in the 1890s to its passage in 1917. [This book] is an essential contribution to the scholarship on the vital policy issue of the literacy test. . . . [It] sheds new light on the rise of restrictionist immigration policies in the United States. * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES *Petit has added notably to the understanding of this historical controversy by elucidating the influences of sex and gender as well as the activities of female participants. . . . [The book offers] innovative interpretations of early-20th-century US reaction to its increasingly diverse population. Recommended. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisIn the previous century, a large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents. George R. Nielsen, in this revised edition of his classic study of Wendish migration, carefully describes the details of immigration and weighs the possible explanations for the exodus, the settlement, and acculturation patterns that resulted. The earliest emigrants traveled to Australia, but despite efforts to encourage unity, they were unsuccessful, and no single, large Wendish settlement was formed. The largest number migrated to Texas, where at Serbin, under the leadership of pastor Jan Kilian, they formed a Wendish community, retaining their own language in church, school, and home. Local agricultural conditions, however, proved too poor to sustain many people, so the Wends of Texas also scattered and eventually lost most of their ethnic distinctiveness. Smaller numbers of Wends migrated to Canada, Nebraska, and South Africa. These Wends generally settled among Germans and were absorbed by the local German communities. This work promises to continue as the standard reference on the overseas resettlement of these distinctive people.Trade Review"One of the many contributions that Nielsen makes in the book is to demonstrate the complexity of the motives impelling a group of people to immigrate to another land.... Nielsen has carefully researched a complex topic, and his book will aid in filling in the mosaic of American and Australian immigration." - Southwestern Historical Quarterly "... perhaps the best [book] that has been published on this tiny, little-known group." - Western Historical Quarterly"

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Book SynopsisAs wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding the currents of a neoliberal wave, these immigrants became the center of vigorous public controversies around planning, home building, multiculturalism, and the future of Vancouver. Because of their class status and their financial capacity to remake space in their own ways, they became the key to a reshaping of Vancouver through struggles that are necessarily both global and local in context, involving global-real estate enterprises, the Canadian state, city residents, and others. In her examination of the story of the integration of transnational migrants from Hong Kong, Katharyne Mitchell draws out the myriad ways in which liberalism is profoundly spatial, varying greatly depending on the geographical context. In doing so, Mitchell shows why understanding the historically and geographically contingent nature of liberal thought and practice is crucial, particularly as we strive to understand the ongoing societies' transition to neoliberalism. Author note: Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography and the Simpson Professor of the Public Humanities at the University of Washington.Trade Review"[A] fascinating account .What is particularly interesting about Mitchell's work is her nuanced analysis of the crosscutting of class and 'racial' alliances that emerged.[T]his is an excellent read that historians, sociologists and geographers will find very useful." The Canadian Historical Review "The chapters of the book build skillfully on each other to create a coherently structured and generally well-argued thesis..[Crossing the Neoliberal Line is] outstanding in its attempt to inform, through grounded empirical research, some of the key social and political issues facing Western liberal democracies over the past two decades. It is essential reading for all with a broad interest in contemporary immigration in the West as well as those with a more particular interest in the urban consequences of transnational, transpacific forms of mobility." The Annals of the Association of American Geographers "A notable achievement of Katharyne Mitchell's book is to employ a sophisticated political economy while simultaneously avoiding many of the dangers of abstraction, for her grounded study of immigrant and capital flows between Hong Kong and Vancouver is attentive to the multi-layering of place and to multiple causes...Mitchell provides a compelling story...the empirical account is interwoven with illuminating theoretical materials, placing local events into broader conceptual territory. The interpretation that emerges is bold and frequently insightful...This is an impressive book that invites debate...It will generate stimulating seminar discussion and amply deserves a broad reading." Ethnic and Racial Studies "In this elegantly written study. .Mitchell does a wonderful job of challenging the reader to question what he or she really believes in terms of social liberalism, neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and many of the other 'isms' prevalent in contemporary social science literature. One walks away from this book with a new appreciation for how there are no easy assessments of the costs and benefits of, and implications of globalization for, the urban milieu." Environment and Planning A "analytically rich, empirically detailed and ethnographically grounded - Crossing the Neo-Liberal Line is a major accomplishment: the text is accessible, theoretically sophisticated, well documented, and grounded in an in-depth and complex understanding of social change and urban politics in Vancouver. Katharyne Mitchell is to be commended for writing an insightful book that deserves to be widely read." The Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "Crossing the Neoliberal Line is a beautifully written and analytically rich book. Katharyne Mitchell's innovative spatial ethnography sheds important light on the politics of racial formation, neighborhood transformation, and multiculturalism in Vancouver. She shows how the networks and practices of middle-class and wealthy Chinese transnational migrants to this Pacific Rim metropolis have interrupted and complicated constructions of 'home,' 'citizenship,' and 'cultural difference.' Her book is a pleasure to read and makes an important contribution to urban and transnational studies." --Michael Peter Smith, University of California, Davis, and author of Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization "A vivid account of the rise of a Pacific Rim city, Katharyne Mitchell's ethnography of transnational migration and urban change in Vancouver demonstrates how both social liberalism and neoliberalism are constituted in 'actually existing' spaces by real people. Theoretically rigorous and empirically rich, scholars of neoliberalism, globalization, transnationalism, and multiculturalism should all read this fascinating book." --Wendy Larner, Sociology, University of Auckland "In this lucid and compelling 'spatial ethnography,' Katharyne Mitchell wrestles the ideology of neoliberal globalism to earth. In the process, this innovative and theoretically rich book takes the debate on neoliberalism to a new place, exposing the subtle intersections between social liberalism and market fundamentalism in the real, lived spaces of the city." --Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison "This is a book you will want to read cover to cover--and indeed we did. While we were already familiar with some of the empirical cases from previous articles, it held our attention with its theoretical sophistication and engaging and lucid writing style...Mitchell is an exceptionally gifted scholar who, as this book shows, brings considerable theoretical insights to questions of how space is implicated in contemporary processes of neoliberalization, globalization, and transformations of narratives of nation and citizenship. She shows an excellent understanding of the coimplication of these processes, a deep empirical knowledge of shifts in these processes, and a talent for writing a compelling and engaging narrative that is rare among geographers." Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Neo/Liberal Disjunctures 2. Vancouver Goes Global 3. The Spatial Logic and Limits of Multiculturalism 4. Disturbing the Liberal Territory of Land Governance 5. Domesticity, Race, and Uncanny Homes 6. Conclusion: The Urban Spatial Politics of Liberal Formations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow the crowded neighbourhoods of New YorkTrade Review"Yee's study of the ethnoracial dynamics of lower Manhattan in this [pre-1930] period is well conceived, and well written. She convincingly dispels the myth of isolated ethnic enclaves populating the neighborhoods of what are commonly referred to as Chinatown and the Lower East Side by presenting a wealth of evidence to demonstrate the interweaving of the lives of people from differing cultural backgrounds. An Immigrant Neighborhood provides a lovely balance of interpretive material and the reconstruction of individual life stories." -Marilyn Halter, Boston University, author of Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity and Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Forming Households, Families, and Communities 2. Building Commercial Relations 3. Sustaining Life and Caring for the Dead 4. Mixing with the Sinners: The Anti-vice Movement 5. On (Un)Common Ground: Religious Politics in Settlements and Missions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 122

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Book SynopsisHow the crowded neighbourhoods of New YorkTrade Review"Yee's study of the ethnoracial dynamics of lower Manhattan in this [pre-1930] period is well conceived, and well written. She convincingly dispels the myth of isolated ethnic enclaves populating the neighborhoods of what are commonly referred to as Chinatown and the Lower East Side by presenting a wealth of evidence to demonstrate the interweaving of the lives of people from differing cultural backgrounds. An Immigrant Neighborhood provides a lovely balance of interpretive material and the reconstruction of individual life stories." -Marilyn Halter, Boston University, author of Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity and Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Forming Households, Families, and Communities 2. Building Commercial Relations 3. Sustaining Life and Caring for the Dead 4. Mixing with the Sinners: The Anti-vice Movement 5. On (Un)Common Ground: Religious Politics in Settlements and Missions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 122

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Book SynopsisFrom one of the country's "most distinguished and most historically minded social scientists," a collection of essays on the importance of comparative cultural analysisTrade Review"Ever since the late 1960s…Aristide Zolberg has crafted wonderfully engaging essays that have profoundly altered our understanding of politics and society in Africa, Europe and the United States. His writing has been deeply…global, especially with its focus on the large-scale movement of populations and their reception in new locations….Zolberg has been one of our most creative and informed scholars in the social sciences, at work on issues that really matter." —Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University"Each of the chapters in How Many Exceptionalisms? is a major academic contribution on its own terms. They show us how Zolberg has extricated key conceptual tools from the complicated architectures of social and political life—the management of diversity, the interactions of culture and history, the role of state formation in creating refugees, the limits of ‘crisis’ perspectives, and more. Together this selection of articles is one of those rare cases where the whole is indeed more than the sum of its parts. As the foremost contributor to macrohistorical analysis of international migration, Zolberg knows how to choose his essays: their sequence is a narrative that shows us how he got there, and does so with a grand geopolitical sweep."—Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages"[A] thoughtful reflection on macroanalysis.... Zolberg has presented us with a deeply global book. Its geographic sweep, historical depth, and theoretical eclecticism will surely nourish our curiosities about the past and present."—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Explorations in Political Macroanalysis 1. Patterns of National Integration 2. Moments of Madness 3. The Making of Flemings and Walloons: Belgium, 1830-1914 4. International Migration Policies in a Changing World System 5. Origins of the Modern World System: A Missing Link 6. The Formation of New States as a Refugee-Generating Process 7. How Many Exceptionalisms? 8. The Great Wall Against China: Responses to the First Immigration Crisis, 1885-1925 9. Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy 10. Why Islam Is Like Spanish: Cultural Incorporation in Eurpoe and the United States (co-authored by Long Litt Woon) 11. International Engagement and American Democracy: A Comparative Perspective Index

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Book SynopsisHow the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each sideTrade Review"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States–Mexico relations. The moving stories—of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating—are very compelling and have broad appeal."—Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon Table of ContentsContentsForeword, by Arthur Schmidt Acknowledgments Introduction: Lived Borders 1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier 2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home 3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse 4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker 5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor 6. A Caregiver Commuter 7. A Border Acrobat 8. The Mexicali Panther 9. A Young Mexican American 10. Guarding the American Dream Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each sideTrade Review"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States-Mexico relations. The moving stories-of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating-are very compelling and have broad appeal." -Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and OregonTable of ContentsContents Foreword, by Arthur Schmidt Acknowledgments Introduction: Lived Borders 1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier 2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home 3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse 4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker 5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor 6. A Caregiver Commuter 7. A Border Acrobat 8. The Mexicali Panther 9. A Young Mexican American 10. Guarding the American Dream Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA fresh, responsible approach to addressing undocumented Mexican migration through substantial investment in Mexico's infrastructure and economyTrade Review"In this broad, comprehensive overview, Hing packages and re-packages ongoing debates about the forces that impel Mexican migrants to move northward... What makes the book special is the way Hing builds Canada (a NAFTA beneficiary) and Ireland into the puzzle of optimal and ethical policy strategies... Summing Up: Recommended." - ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Time to Think Broadly 1. The NAFTA Effect 2. Revolutionary Mexico: A Brief Economic and Political History 3. Canadian Stability and Responsibility 4. The European Union Strategy 5. Celtic Tiger: The Irish Example 6. The Failed Enforcement Approach: "There Ain't No Reason to Treat Them Like Animals" 7. Contemplating North American Integration and Other Alternatives Epilogue: The Ethical Border: Thinking Outside the (Big) Box Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA novel and interdisciplinary volume on the dynamics of migration with comparative case studies of the Caribbean experienceTrade Review"It is rare for an edited collection to cohere from cover to cover. Readers will find a great diversity of voices challenging canonical discourses on assimilation, immigrant incorporation, and identity formation, all in one volume. The research reported in Caribbean Migration would have required an in-depth, multi-sited, multi-lingual, mixed-method comparative study. Scholars of migration will be grateful the three editors decided instead to compile these essays into a well-organized, interdisciplinary volume." —Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Caribbean Migrations to Western Europe and the United States 1. Theorizing anout and beyond Transnational ProcessesPart I: State Policies and Migrants' Strategies 2. Colonial Racism, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: The Lessons of the Migration Experiences of French-Speaking Caribbean Populations 3. From the Periphery to the Core: A case Study on the Migration and Incorporation of Recent Caribbean Immigrants in the Netherlands 4. Puerto Ricans in the United States and French West Indian Immigrants in FrancePart II: Identities, Countercultures, and Ethnic Resilience 5. Puerto Rican Migration and Settlement in South Florida: Ethnic Identities and Transnational Spaces 6. Racialized Culture and Translocal Counter-Publics: Rumba and Social Disorder in New York and Havana 7. The Making of Suriland: The Binational Development of a Balck Community between Tropics and the Noth SeaPart III: Incorporation, Entrepreneurship, and Household Strategies 8. Cubans and Dominicans: Is There a Latino Experience in the United States? 9. Dominican Women, Heads of Households in Spain 10. Identity and Kinship: Caribbean Transnational NarrativesAbout the Contributors index

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Book SynopsisGetting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico.

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Book SynopsisGetting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico.

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Book SynopsisAlthough they are among the most important sources of the history of the American Southwest, the lives of ordinary immigrants from Mexico have rarely been recorded. Educated and hardworking, Luis G. Gómez came to Texas from Mexico as a young man in the mid-1880s. He made his way around much of South Texas, finding work on the railroad and in other businesses, observing the people and ways of the region and committing them to memory for later transcription. Few of the 150,000 immigrants in the last half of the nineteenth century left written records of their experiences, but Gómez wrote his memoir and had it privately published in Spanish in 1935. Crossing the Rio Grande presents an English edition of that memoir, translated by the author’s grandson, Guadalupe Valdez Jr., with assistance from Javier Villarreal, a professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. An introduction by Thomas H. Kreneck explains the book’s value to scholarship and describes what has been learned of the publication history of the original Spanish-language volume. “Gómez says explicitly in the prologue to his memoirs that the purpose of recording the events of his life is to entertain; however, his memoirs accomplish much more than this as they fill a void in the history of the American Southwest of the late nineteenth century.”—Journal of the American Studies Association for TexasTrade Review“Luis G. Gómez says explicitly in the prologue to his memoirs that the purpose of recording the events of his life is to entertain; however, his memoirs accomplish much more than this as they fill a void in the history of the American Southwest of the late nineteenth century. Mexican immigrants formed an important part of the Southwest at that time, although few recorded accounts of the lives of immigrants from this era remain.”--Journal of the American Studies Association for Texas |“In 1884 a young man crossed from Matamoros to Brownsville fleeing conflict in Mexico and seeking his fortune in Texas. As a scenario this has no particularly unusual traits. In fact, it’s almost commonplace. What makes the tale engaging in this case is the voice telling it. A distinct personality resonates throughout this delightful book and pulls the read back in time to contemplate many of the same elements that make up the contemporary immigration debate.”--Southwestern Historical Quarterly |" . . . a vital contribution to the growing literature on Mexicans and Mexican Americans. . . . unique because few documents by Mexicans of this period have been found or published."--Journal of Southern History

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