Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisEssays exploring the effect of time on translation studies.This volume brings together 12 essays on the relation between temporality and translation, engaging in both theoretical reflection and consideration of concrete case studies. The essays can be read independently, but three major themes run through them and facilitate a discussion about the many ways in which the theoretical and practical consideration of temporality may provide new insights and research directions for translation studies.The first main theme is temporal metaphors for translation. Why do so few metaphors that describe translation relate to time? How have the few metaphors relating to time that have been used impacted the development of the field? What new metaphors might be useful?The second theme is the relation between translation and modernity as a new experience of temporality. In China, as in many countries outside Europe, the passage to modernity has been inextricably bound up in the act of translation, either of European texts into Chinese as a way of "importing" modernity or the translation of Chinese texts into European languages as a gauge of quality and a sign that China has become modern.Third is the translation of temporality and the competing temporalities of source and target texts. How are the nuances of temporality translated, and how do any shifts that occur affect the meaning of the translation? Different cultures have different concepts of time; Nida famously gave the example of a South American language where the past is seen as existing in front of a person while the future is behind them, because they know ("see") the past but cannot know the future. Several essays engage with these and related issues.

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Book SynopsisKhabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.Table of Contents Chapter 1: Peyaara se Pyaar or the Love for Guava Chapter 2: Maachher Bazaar, Fish for Life Chapter 3: Feeding the Future Ex-in-Laws or Mr. and Mrs. Mohgan’s Able Assistant Chapter 4: In Search of Goat Curry Chapter 5: When Indira Died Chapter 6: Dessert in Kolkata Summers: Search for Naru Chapter 7: Orange, Green, and White: An Indian Marriage Chapter 8: Of Papers, Pekoe, Poetry, and Protests in 2019 India Chapter 9: Memory and What Makes a Family Chapter 10: The Rituals of the Great Pause

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic account of second-generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the United States and a theoretical attempt to broaden and complicate current discussions about race and racial identity in the twenty-first century. P. Khalil Saucier grapples with the performance, embodiment, and nuances of racialized identities (blackened bodies) in empirical contexts. He looks into the durability and (in)flexibility of race and racial discourse through an imbricated and multidimensional understanding of racial identity and racial positioning.In doing so, Saucier examines how Cape Verdean youth negotiate their identity within the popular fabrication of “multiracial America.” He also explores the ways in which racial blackness has come to be lived by Cape Verdean youth in everyday life and how racialization feeds back into the experience of these youth classified as black through a matrix of social and material settings.Saucier examines how ascriptions of blackness and forms of black popular culture inform subjectivities. The author also examines hip-hop culture to see how it is used as a site where new (and old) identities of being, becoming, and belonging are fashioned and reworked. Necessarily Black explores race and how Cape Verdean youth think and feel their identities into existence, while keeping in mind the dynamics and politics of racialization, mixed-race identities, and anti-blackness.

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Book SynopsisFor most migrants, developing communication strategies in host countries is vital for finding social connections, navigating the pressures of assimilation, and maintaining links to their original cultures. Migrant World Making explores this process of constructing a homeplace by creating a network of communication tools and strategies to connect with multiple communities. Since what it means to be a migrant differs from person to person, the contributors to this edited collection showcase numerous practices migrants adopt to communicate and connect with others as they forge their own identities in globalized yet highly nationalistic societies. With varying aspirations and motives for seeking new homes, migrants build communities by telling stories, engaging in social media activism, protesting, writing scholarly criticism, and using many other modes of communication. To match this variety, the transnational scholars represented here use a wide array of rhetorical, cultural, and communication methodologies and epistemologies to describe what the experience of migration means to those who have lived it.

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Book SynopsisThe roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms Settlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding, the influenza epidemic of 1918, economic depressions, and two World Wars. Many of these houses still exist in the original neighborhoods where they confront the problems of today and advocate for their communities. Christodora House, founded in 1897 as “The Young Women’s Settlement,” played an important role in the life of immigrants and other residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For over 50 years, residents and volunteers at Christodora House provided classes, clubs, recreational activities, and medical and dental clinics for thousands of New Yorkers, and then continued to operate programs out of public housing and other locations for more than two decades. The building at 143 Avenue B, now housing condominiums, has had a tumultuous history since 1948 but still stands, towering over its tenement neighborhood in the East Village. Christodora Inc. is now a nonprofit foundation with offices in Midtown Manhattan, whose staff works with underserved New Yorkers, including youth in the public school system, carrying on a long, distinguished history of service to the city and country.Trade Review"“More than just the history of one building or organization, Skyscraper Settlement provides an engaging examination of a profoundly important movement – largely shaped by women – that offers a hopeful message for today. Christodora's evolution from its founding in 1897 shows how flexibility and practical idealism can produce powerful change for the common good. Milambiling's enthusiasm is palpable as she sets the scene with tales of her archival sleuthing and insights gained from the words of the women who created this remarkable organization . . . This book is an inspiring read for those who seek a caring society founded on nonprofit innovation partnered with effective service delivery by the government.”" -- Sarah Peskin * Board Chair, the Frances Perkins Center *"“A creative and illuminating synthesis of local and large-scale history. It masterfully fuses a fascinating account of a settlement house in New York’s Lower East Side, from its founding by two young middle-class women in 1897 to the present, into a wider inquiry on urbanization, migration, progressivist ideology, religion-based philanthropy, and inter-class and ethnic encounters. In the process, the author fittingly pays tribute to forgotten individuals who, regardless of the prejudices of their times, devoted much of their lives to helping others.”" -- José C. Moya * Professor of History, Barnard College; Director, the Forum on Migration *

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Book SynopsisThe roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms Settlement house workers helped transform the lives of thousands of people despite lack of funding, the influenza epidemic of 1918, economic depressions, and two World Wars. Many of these houses still exist in the original neighborhoods where they confront the problems of today and advocate for their communities. Christodora House, founded in 1897 as “The Young Women’s Settlement,” played an important role in the life of immigrants and other residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For over 50 years, residents and volunteers at Christodora House provided classes, clubs, recreational activities, and medical and dental clinics for thousands of New Yorkers, and then continued to operate programs out of public housing and other locations for more than two decades. The building at 143 Avenue B, now housing condominiums, has had a tumultuous history since 1948 but still stands, towering over its tenement neighborhood in the East Village. Christodora Inc. is now a nonprofit foundation with offices in Midtown Manhattan, whose staff works with underserved New Yorkers, including youth in the public school system, carrying on a long, distinguished history of service to the city and country.Trade Review"“More than just the history of one building or organization, Skyscraper Settlement provides an engaging examination of a profoundly important movement – largely shaped by women – that offers a hopeful message for today. Christodora's evolution from its founding in 1897 shows how flexibility and practical idealism can produce powerful change for the common good. Milambiling's enthusiasm is palpable as she sets the scene with tales of her archival sleuthing and insights gained from the words of the women who created this remarkable organization . . . This book is an inspiring read for those who seek a caring society founded on nonprofit innovation partnered with effective service delivery by the government.”" -- Sarah Peskin * Board Chair, the Frances Perkins Center *"“A creative and illuminating synthesis of local and large-scale history. It masterfully fuses a fascinating account of a settlement house in New York’s Lower East Side, from its founding by two young middle-class women in 1897 to the present, into a wider inquiry on urbanization, migration, progressivist ideology, religion-based philanthropy, and inter-class and ethnic encounters. In the process, the author fittingly pays tribute to forgotten individuals who, regardless of the prejudices of their times, devoted much of their lives to helping others.”" -- José C. Moya * Professor of History, Barnard College; Director, the Forum on Migration *

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking investigation into the hidden mental health effects of border walls, revealing the harm they bring to all who live near them. Today, there are at least seventy border walls: from the US–Mexico border to the seventeen thousand miles of barbed wire that wall off Bangladesh from India, as well as the five-layer fence between Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Border walls protect us, the argument goes, because they keep danger out. But what if the walls themselves endanger everyone who lives near them - on both sides? In this thoroughly reported, eye opening work, science journalist Jessica Wapner reveals the unforeseen mental health effects of security walls - including depression and anxiety, despondence, excitability, suicidal ideation, paranoia, and more. Doctors first noticed these conditions proliferating among people who lived along the Berlin Wall, and they gave the overarching affliction a name: wall disease. Wapner builds on this research, following the trail of psychological harm around the world today. Weaving together interviews with those living up against walls and expert testimonies from psychologists, economists, geographers, and other specialists, Wapner explores the growing epidemic of wall disease - and illuminates how neither those “outside” nor “inside” are immune.

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Book SynopsisThe legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements. In Democratic Renewal and the Mutual Aid Legacy of US Mexicans, Julie Leininger Pycior traces the early origins of organizing in the decades following the US-Mexican War, when Mexicans in the Southwest established mutualista associations for their protection. Further, she traces the ways in which these efforts have been invoked by contemporary Latino civil rights leaders. Pycior notes that the Mexican immigrant associations instrumental in the landmark 2006 immigration reform marches echo mutualista societies at their peak in the 1920s. Then Mexican immigrants from San Diego to New York engaged in economic, medical, cultural, educational, and legal aid. This path-breaking study culminates with an examination of Southwest community organizing networks as crucial counterweights to the outsize role of large financial contributions in the democratic political process. It also finds ways in which this community organizing echoes the activity of mutualista groups in the very same neighbourhoods a century ago.

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Book SynopsisThe volume represents the continuing of the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.This year's YIS project received many positive feedbacks and signals of interest, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world. This fifth volume directs attention to relevant and actual psycho-social phenomena as the development of identity in terms of self identity, social identity and local identity.The volume is directed to students, researchers and clinicians, interested in deepening theoretical and methodological issues and improve clinical practices and research cultures.

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Book SynopsisThe volume represents the continuing of the Yearbook of Idiographic Science project, born in 2009 and developed through an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychology and more in general social science.This year's YIS project received many positive feedbacks and signals of interest, as well as several submissions, from many parts of the world. This fifth volume directs attention to relevant and actual psycho-social phenomena as the development of identity in terms of self identity, social identity and local identity.The volume is directed to students, researchers and clinicians, interested in deepening theoretical and methodological issues and improve clinical practices and research cultures.

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Book SynopsisThis is a ground-breaking research study on Black immigrant identities in South African schools. It is the first major book on racial integration and immigrant children in South African schools. The overall aim of this study is to investigate how immigrant students negotiate and mediate their identity within the South African schooling context.This study set out to explain this complex phenomenon, guided by the following research objectives: One, to describe how immigrant student identities are framed, challenged, asserted and negotiated within the institutional cultures of schools. Two, to evaluate the extent to which the ethos of these schools has been transformed towards integration in the truest sense and to determine how immigrant students perceive this in practice? Three, to explore the `transnational social fields’ in terms of social networks and cross-border linkages of immigrant students and how this impacts on their identity formation. Four, to determine if there are any new forms of immigrant student self-identities that are beginning to emerge? Five, to determine the extent to which racial desegregation has been accompanied by social integration between immigrant and local students. Six, to determine the impact of the South African social/schooling context on immigrant student identity formation. And seven, to identify critical lessons and `good practice’ that could be learnt and used to accelerate the racial desegregation and social integration of immigrant students in South African schools.

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Book SynopsisThis is a ground-breaking research study on Black immigrant identities in South African schools. It is the first major book on racial integration and immigrant children in South African schools. The overall aim of this study is to investigate how immigrant students negotiate and mediate their identity within the South African schooling context.This study set out to explain this complex phenomenon, guided by the following research objectives: One, to describe how immigrant student identities are framed, challenged, asserted and negotiated within the institutional cultures of schools. Two, to evaluate the extent to which the ethos of these schools has been transformed towards integration in the truest sense and to determine how immigrant students perceive this in practice? Three, to explore the `transnational social fields’ in terms of social networks and cross-border linkages of immigrant students and how this impacts on their identity formation. Four, to determine if there are any new forms of immigrant student self-identities that are beginning to emerge? Five, to determine the extent to which racial desegregation has been accompanied by social integration between immigrant and local students. Six, to determine the impact of the South African social/schooling context on immigrant student identity formation. And seven, to identify critical lessons and `good practice’ that could be learnt and used to accelerate the racial desegregation and social integration of immigrant students in South African schools.

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Book SynopsisAt the time of Obama’s draconian anti-immigrant policies leading to massive deportation of undocumented, poor immigrants of colour, there could not be a more timely and important book than this edited volume, which critically examines ways in which immigration, race, class, language, and gender issues intersect and impact the life of many immigrants, including immigrant students. This book documents the journey, many success-stories, as well as stories that expose social inequity in schools and U.S. society. Further, this book examines issues of social inequity and resource gaps shaping the relations between affluent and poor-working class students, including students of colour.Authors in this volume also critically unpack anti-immigrant policies leading to the separation of families and children. Equally important, contributors to this book unveil ways and degree to which xenophobia and linguicism have affected immigrants, including immigrant students and faculty of colour, in both subtle and overt ways, and the manner in which many have resisted these forms of oppression and affirmed their humanity. Lastly, chapters in this much-needed and well-timed volume have pointed out the way racism has limited life chances of people of colour, including students of colour, preventing many of them from fulfilling their potential succeeding in schools and society at large.

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Book SynopsisAt the time of Obama’s draconian anti-immigrant policies leading to massive deportation of undocumented, poor immigrants of colour, there could not be a more timely and important book than this edited volume, which critically examines ways in which immigration, race, class, language, and gender issues intersect and impact the life of many immigrants, including immigrant students. This book documents the journey, many success-stories, as well as stories that expose social inequity in schools and U.S. society. Further, this book examines issues of social inequity and resource gaps shaping the relations between affluent and poor-working class students, including students of colour.Authors in this volume also critically unpack anti-immigrant policies leading to the separation of families and children. Equally important, contributors to this book unveil ways and degree to which xenophobia and linguicism have affected immigrants, including immigrant students and faculty of colour, in both subtle and overt ways, and the manner in which many have resisted these forms of oppression and affirmed their humanity. Lastly, chapters in this much-needed and well-timed volume have pointed out the way racism has limited life chances of people of colour, including students of colour, preventing many of them from fulfilling their potential succeeding in schools and society at large.

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Book SynopsisMolyvos, a small seaside village once home to fishermen and shepherds but now a popular summer vacation destination, sits on the northern shore of the Greek island of Lesvos along a four-mile-wide stretch of the Aegean Sea, which separates Greece from Turkey. In the summer of 2015 Molyvos became an epicenter of the mass migration of some 450,000 refugees, mainly Syrians, Afghans, and Iraqis, who crossed from Turkey, fleeing war and brutal dictatorships in their home countries in search of safety in the European Union. In Molyvos John Webb chronicles the dramatic and fearless efforts of a small band of people who carried out a homemade yet full-fledged, around-the-clock rescue operation until international NGOs began to arrive. Between November 2014 and September 2015, Melinda McRostie, owner of a restaurant in Molyvos’s harbor, her family, and a small group of their friends, as well as Eric and Philippa Kempson, a skeleton coast guard crew, some local fishermen, and eventually summer tourists provided relief. During those months, they had no help from the outside—not from Greece, which was already mired in a serious fiscal crisis, not from the EU, which was struggling with its own economic and political issues, and not from any international aid organizations. Webb provides detailed accounts of refugees crossing the Mytilene Strait in both quiet and rough, frigid waters in boats on the verge of sinking. The Kempsons learned to guide the boats ashore and handled tragic landings in dangerous surf. Ordinary residents of Molyvos rescued thousands of refugees and offered them clothes, food, shelter, and counseling about where they could travel next in their search for safety and asylum. As the tourism industry suffered, a backlash began against the migrants and locals who were helping them, leading to discord in the community. Still, as the ranks of refugees swelled, the volunteer corps in Molyvos expanded its capacity to help.Trade Review“A rigorous and sensitive account of what happened in a Greek village during the migration crisis of 2014 to 2016, when desperate refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq risked their lives to reach the nations of the European Union. This book prompts us to ask what it means to lead an ethical life and to help strangers in need. In a century in which conflict and climate will prompt ever-larger numbers of people to seek refuge, Molyvos is a profound meditation on compassion and resilience.”—Sewell Chan, editor in chief of the Texas Tribune and former editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times“John Webb captures the sense of trauma, shock, and disbelief as thousands of desperate people began appearing on the shores of Molyvos. His focus on the motivations and stories of rescuers on the frontlines is both a celebration of heroism and a dire wakeup call about the depth of an ongoing global crisis.”—Daniel Gashler, associate professor of history at State University of New York at Delhi“This beautifully written book takes you into one of the biggest refugee crises Greece has witnessed in modern times. Mostly without outside help, many big-hearted Greeks neglected their jobs and saved untold numbers of refugees from drowning. As they got to know refugees, the Greeks were again energized by their determination to live a better life. A truly inspiring story!”—Deborah Kaple, author of Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China“We often think of refugees and migrants as the domain of the UN, national governments, and big nonprofits such as the Red Cross. But as John Webb shows in his compassionate, well-researched book Molyvos, it’s really individuals and community groups who are the first responders to migrants arriving on their shores. These local residents act from the heart, often with few resources and sometimes are shunted aside when bigger players get involved. The question remains why some folks act with empathy and others do not. We surely need more compassion and coordination for new migration waves to come.”—Doreen Hemlock, freelance journalist and former business reporter for the South Florida Sun SentinelTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue: Introduction to the Story of Molyvos 1. Inescapable Memories and an Uncertain Future: April 2018 2. The Tide of Refugees Began as a Trickle: November 2014 3. In the Harbor and on the Beach: Midwinter 2015 4. The Refugees: Their Origins and Their Perilous Journeys to Molyvos 5. The Kempsons Are Still Alone on the Beach: Spring and Summer 2015 6. Enduring the Screams of Desperation: The Coast Guard at Sea and Melinda in the Harbor 7. The Situation in the Harbor Worsens: May 2015 8. Locals and Tourists: How They Felt about the Refugees and What They Did . . . at First 9. The Situation in Molyvos Goes Out of Control: Summer 2015 10. A Long, Hot Summer: The Death March and the Caravan 11. Skala Sykaminias: The Crisis Spreads 12. The Parking Lot by the School: August and September 2015 13. The Starfish Foundation: September and October 2015 14. Oxy Refugee Transit Camp: October through December 2015 15. The Calamitous Shipwreck: October 28, 2015 16. Blessings and Burdens: Volunteers and the NGOs in Molyvos 17. Cleaning the Beaches and Weathering the Community’s Bitterness: Fall and Winter 2015 18. Oxy Closes: December 2015 Epilogue: Reflections on the Story of Molyvos Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when calamity, violence, and ruthless exploitation were commonplace. With extraordinary detail and analysis, John J. Navin reveals the hardships that were experienced by people of all ethnicities and all stations in life during the first half-century of South Carolina's existence--years of misery caused by nature, pathogens, greed, and recklessness. From South Carolina's founding in 1670 through 1720, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber Products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The Settlers' relentless pursuit of wealth Set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labor. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony's first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by Settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority. Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, Setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the Price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.

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Book SynopsisAn odyssey from pre–Civil War Charleston to post–World War II Minneapolis through immigrants' eyesThe histories of US immigrants do not always begin and end in Ellis Island and northeastern cities. Many arrived earlier and some migrated south and west, fanning out into their vast new country. They sought a renewed life, fresh prospects, and a safe harbor, despite a nation that was not always welcoming and not always tolerant. How to Become an American begins with a widow's abandoned diary—and from there author Daniel Wolff examines the sweeping history of immigration into the United States through the experiences of one unnamed, seemingly unremarkable Jewish family, and, in the process, makes their lives remarkable. It is a deeply human odyssey that journeys from pre–Civil War Charleston, South Carolina, to post–World War II Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some ways, the family's journey parallels that of the nation, as it struggled to define itself through the Industrial Age. A persistent strain of loneliness permeates this story, and Wolff holds up this theme for contemplation. In a country that prides itself on being "a nation of immigrants," where "all men are created equal," why do we end up feeling alone in the land we love?

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Book SynopsisThe Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 is a graphic account of South Carolina's tumultuous beginnings, when calamity, violence, and ruthless exploitation were commonplace. With extraordinary detail and analysis, John J. Navin reveals the hardships that were experienced by people of all ethnicities and all stations in life during the first half-century of South Carolina's existence—years of misery caused by nature, pathogens, greed, and recklessness. From South Carolina's founding in 1670 through 1720, a cadre of men rose to political and economic prominence, while ordinary colonists, enslaved Africans, and indigenous groups became trapped in a web of violence and oppression. Navin explains how eight English aristocrats, the Lords Proprietors, came to possess the vast Carolina grant and then enacted elaborate plans to recruit and control colonists as part of a grand moneymaking scheme. But those plans went awry, and the mainstays of the economy became hog and cattle ranching, lumber products, naval stores, deerskin exports, and the calamitous Indian slave trade. The settlers' relentless pursuit of wealth set the colony on a path toward prosperity but also toward a fatal dependency on slave labour. Rice would produce immense fortunes in South Carolina, but not during the colony's first fifty years. Religious and political turmoil instigated by settlers from Barbados eventually led to a total rejection of proprietary authority. Using a variety of primary sources, Navin describes challenges that colonists faced, setbacks they experienced, and the effects of policies and practices initiated by elites and proprietors. Storms, fires, epidemics, and armed conflicts destroyed property, lives, and dreams. Threatened by the Native Americans they exploited, by the Africans they enslaved, and by their French and Spanish rivals, South Carolinians lived in continual fear. For some it was the price they paid for financial success. But for most there were no riches, and the possibility of a sudden, violent death was overshadowed by the misery of their day-to-day existence.

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Book SynopsisTwenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer.Table of ContentsPreface to the Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments to the Anniversary Edition Introduction 1 Mutual Interests 2 The Ties That Bind 3 A Distinctive Faith 4 The Bean a Ti (Woman of the House) 5 Habitations 6 All the Goods and Chattels 7 Porches, Yards, Gardens, Fences 8 Linen Tablecloths and Lace Curtains Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Western Journeys, Teow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences while building on the longer history of immigrants from Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, bringing various, and often new insights to places, the historical record, and memory. These vital essays consider how we access truth in the face of erasure. In exploring history, nature, politics, and art, Goh asks, “What does it mean for an immigrant to be at home?” Looking beyond the captivating landscapes of the American West, Goh uncovers stories of the Chinese people who came to America during the exclusion era, the Indigenous peoples who have been written out of popular narratives, and the mountaineers’ merciless ambitions, among many others. She examines the links between the transcontinental railroad, the cowboy myth, and the anti-Chinese prejudice that persists today. These essays explore such subjects as the early efforts to climb Colorado’s highest peaks, the massacre of Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and the increasingly destructive fire seasons in the West. Goh’s essays create a complex, varied, and sometimes contradictory story of people and landscape that asks more questions than it answers.Trade ReviewWestern Journeys is compelling, powerful, and important. The erasure that Goh wants to combat can only be addressed one word at a time. That is the power and the pain of recovery—it is slow—but once the hidden gets pulled into the light it cannot be lost again. Each of these essays is an act of hauling the past into the present, of naming what many might prefer to ignore or deny."—Jennifer Sinor, author of Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World and Ordinary Trauma"The writing in Western Journeys is gorgeous, alternatingly spare and lush, in explicating how Teow Lim Goh found her writerly voice as an immigrant enthralled by an American West built upon the legislated and violent erasure of non-whites."—Michelle Liu, University of WashingtonTable of Contents I: Beyond the Myths Hollywood Pilgrims Coastlines Dreams of Golden Mountain Firecracker At the Ruins II: Ordinary Legacies Western Journeys Ascent The Ideology of Paradise A Memory of Hills At the Ponds III: Visions of Land The Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Over the River Flowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Split Footsteps on the Sea Letter to the Arctic IV: Apocalypses Borders and Citizens Refuge: Rocky Flats, Colorado The Ghosts of Bitter Creek Home Lands Fire SeasonV: Off the Page The Stories that Bind Us The Subjective Passions Lost and Found: On Kate Zambreno’s Heroines On Tenacity The Dehumanizing Politics of Likability Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn this carefully researched and engaging book, Kenneth Scambray surveys the lives and contributions of Italian immigrants in thirteen western states. He covers a variety of topics, including the role of the Roman Catholic Church in attracting and facilitating Italian settlement; the economic, political, and cultural contributions made by Italians; and the efforts to preserve Italian culture and to restore connections to their ancestral identity.The lives of immigrants in the West differed greatly from those of their counterparts on the East Coast in many ways. The development of the West—with its cheap land and mining, forestry, and agriculture industries\--created a demand for labor that enabled newcomers to achieve stability and success. Moreover, female immigrants had many more opportunities to contribute materially to their family’s well-being, either by overseeing new revenue streams for their farms and small businesses, or as paid workers outside the home.Despite this success, Italian immigrants in the West could not escape the era’s xenophobia. Scambray also discusses the ways that Italians, perceived by many as non-White, interacted with other Euro-Americans, other immigrant groups, and Native Americans and African Americans.By placing the Italian immigrant experience within the context of other immigrant narratives, Italian Immigration in the American West provides rich insights into the lives and contributions of individuals and families who sought to build new lives in the West. This unique study reveals the impact of Italian immigration and the immense diversity of the immigrant experience outside the East’s urban centers.Trade Review“With its breadth of coverage and exhaustive reference to the most current literature, Italian Immigration in the American West is likely to become the standard work on Italian immigration to the West. It promises to become the reference work that no one who is interested in how Italians populated the West- or in Italian immigration in general- can afford to be without.”- Lawrence DiStasi, author of Branded: How Italian Immigrants Became ‘Enemies’ During World War II;""Kenneth Scambray’s Italian Immigration in the American West is a fine work of scholarship. . . . Anyone who enjoys history will find this book to be a major contribution to chipping away the block of ignorance about the Italians who chose to make America their homes. I predict that this book will be a standard sourcebook on Italians in the American West for years to come.”- Valentine J. Belfiglio, Cornaro Professor Emeritus, Texas Woman’s University.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Southwest Chapter 1. Texas Chapter 2. New Mexico Chapter 3. Arizona Part II. The Midsection of the West Chapter 4. Colorado Chapter 5. Utah Chapter 6. Wyoming Chapter 7. Idaho Part III. The North of the West Chapter 8. Montana Chapter 9. Alaska Chapter 10. Washington Part IV. The Far West Chapter 11. Oregon Chapter 12. Nevada Chapter 13. California Chapter 14. Social and Cultural Capital Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisExplores the dimensions of the coming-of-age novel in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, focusing on works by eight major Afro-Latin American writers The centuries-old European genre of the coming-of-age story has been transformed by contemporary Afro-Latin American novelists to address key aspects of the diaspora in various nations of the Caribbean and Latin America. While attention to Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature has increased in recent decades, few critics have focused specifically on the Afro-Latin American Bildungsroman, and fewer still have addressed novels from both Spanish- and Brazilian-speaking regions, as author Bonnie Wasserman does in this study. The memory and continuing impact of slavery especially shape these coming-of-age stories. Often interwoven with race is a focus on religion, particularly the importance of African folk religions and traditions in the lives of young people. Immigration-and the return journey-is another important theme in the novels. Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel discusses works&emdash;all published around the turn of the 21st century&emdash;by such important writers as Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and Mayra Santos-Febres (from Puerto Rico), Conceição Evaristo and Paulo Lins (from Brazil); Teresa Cardenas and Pedro Pérez Sarduy (from Cuba); and Junot Diaz and Rita Indiana (from the Dominican Republic). Wasserman's far-reaching analysis is both rigorous and compassionate, shedding a clear light on ways in which descendants of Africans have experienced life in the New World.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Intergenerational Bildungsroman in Daughters of the Stone and Ponciá Vicencio 2. The Epistolary Afro-Cuban Bildungsroman 3. Boys to Men: Masculinity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and City of God 4. Reinventing the Afro-Latin American Bildungsroman Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEssays by a founder of the Borderland Foundation in East-Central Europe explore the meanings of community in a fractured world. How do we build civil society? How does a society repair itself after violence? How do we live in a world with others different from ourselves? These questions lie at the heart of Krzysztof Czyzewski's writing and his work with Fundacja Pogranicze, the Borderland Foundation, at the border of Lithuania, Poland, and Belarus. Writing from the heartland of Europe's violence and creativity, Czyzewski seeks to explain how we can relate better to each other and to our diverse communities. Building on examples of places and people in East-Central Europe, Czyzewski's essays offer readers concepts such as the invisible bridge, the nejmar (the bridge-builder), and the xenopolis (the city of others), which create community throughout the world. The three sections of the book—concepts, places, and practices—show how this cultural work bridges the divide between concepts and practices and offers a new map of Europe. Ultimately, Czyzewski hopes we can all move toward xenopolis, toward the understanding that others are, in fact, ourselves. This book offers an introduction to Czyzewski's work, with framing essays by specialists in Central and East European history.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Timothy Snyder Preface: Mayhill C. Fowler Acknowledgements: Krzysztof Czyzewski Editorial Note: Mayhill C. Fowler Map CONCEPTS Xenopolis Milosz: A Connective Tissue Towards Deep Culture Drama of the Polish Outsider PLACES Reinventing Central Europe Czernowitz: A Forgotten Metropolis The Spirituality of Vilnius Between Timisoara and Târgu Mure? Our Bosnia PEOPLE Sacrum, Fascism, Eliade Jerzy Ficowski: A Reading of Ashes Stanislaw Baranczak: A Widening Horizon Tony Judt: An Elder Brother in Thinking Tomas Venclova: A Man from the Other Side The Spirit of Truth: On Essays by Irena Grudzinska-Gross Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together an unprecedented number of extensive personal stories, this book shares the triumphs and heartbreaking moments experienced by some of the first Cubans to come to the United States after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away is a moving look inside fifteen years of migration that changed the two countries and transformed the lives of the people who found themselves separated from their homeland.David Powell presents interviews with refugees who left Cuba between 1959 and the 1962 Missile Crisis, as well as those who embarked on the Freedom Flights of the late 1960s and early 1970s. During these years more than 600,000 Cubans migrated to the US, some by way of other countries and many arriving in Miami with only a few clothes and pocket money. In their own words, exiles describe why they left the island, how they prepared for departure, what situations they faced when they arrived in the US, and how they integrated into American life.Offering historical background that illuminates this pivotal period in the context of the Cold War, Powell shows how the US government’s Cuban refugee assistance program had far-reaching effects on refugee policy, bilingual education, and child welfare programs. The testimonies in this book include new information about low-cost “Cuban Loans” that enabled young exiles to attend US colleges, preparing many to be builders and leaders in their adopted country today.A powerful portrayal of the initial effects of a revolution that began a new era in Cuba’s relationship with the world, this book preserves rare accounts of the motivations and struggles of early Cuban exiles in the words of the emigres themselves, adding gripping detail to the history of the modern Cuban diaspora.Trade Review“These vivid accounts remind us that history is lived by ordinary people, whose memories are invaluable.” - Latino Magazine“An intensely personal collection of memories from people who lived through a tragic epoch of Cuban history that became a transformative period for Florida.” - Tallahassee DemocratTable of Contents Contents Preface xi A Note on Names xvii Narrators xix Introduction 1 1. Home 4 2. After the Coup 29 3. Leaving Cuba 53 4. First Wave 76 5. Children without Parents 112 6. No Return 135 7. La Revolución157 8. Second Wave 178 9. Settled in America 200 10. Home 226 Epilogue 253 Abbreviations 259 Acknowledgments 261 Notes 265 Bibliography 285 Index

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Book SynopsisPoignant stories from one of the world's largest political exoduses of children On August 11, 1961, at the age of ten, Yvonne Conde left Cuba in one of the world's largest political exoduses of children in history—Operation Pedro Pan. Between 1960 and 1962 over 14,000 children were sent out of Cuba alone by desperate parents who feared for their children's future under Castro. Unlike Peter Pan, however, these children continued to grow up even while separated from their families. As the children arrived in temporary camps in Miami, volunteers such as Father Bryan O. Walsh helped them find new homes across the country. Conde tracked down hundreds of these children to tell their diverse stories—their uplifting, poignant, and sometimes tragic experiences in American foster homes and orphanages. Because Conde herself was a Pedro Pan child, others have opened up to her like never before to share their feelings about this painful time in their lives. Today, these children and their families struggle to heal the emotional scars of their long separation. In this edition, with a new prologue, Conde looks back on Operation Pedro Pan from the vantage point of six decades and brings readers up to date on events and discoveries since the groundbreaking first publication of this book in 1999. Writing with compassion and rare insight, Conde uncovers the true tales of a little-known episode of the Cold War.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "Compelling reading." - New Republic"A collection of tearful testimonies woven with a tale of the event that unfolded in Cuba and led desperate parents to make the heart-wrenching decision to send their children along to a foreign country." - Miami Herald"[Conde] does an impressive job of reporting dozens of personal stories and fascinating vignettes. . . . A compilation of tales, some moving, many astonishing." - Chicago Tribune"A well-researched history of Operation Pedro Pan, a portrait of early revolutionary Cuba and a compendium of testimony from the now-grown children." - Publishers Weekly"The book's primary value lies in the individual stories, from tearful departure and arrival in Miami to temporary shelters and placement in homes or, in some cases, in orphanages; to learning a new language and adjusting and, in many cases, assimilating; to reunions with parents, adolescence in the '60s and '70s, and adulthood." - Booklist "Conde does an excellent job of narrating the essential outline of the history of Operation Pedro Pan, and an equally superb job of analyzing the circumstances that created this exodus, from the viewpoint of those who felt compelled to create it and keep it going. . . . Operation Pedro Pan is . . . as much a primary source as it is a work of history, as much a window onto a mentality as it is a guide to events, names, and institutions." - Carlos M. N. Eire, Hispanic American Historical Review"Fascinating is the least one can say about this book. It's the story of thousands of Cuban children who wouldn't grow up under communism and were sent by their parents to the never-never land of America. Some of them lived happily ever after because this version of Peter Pan is a tragedy with a happy ending sometimes. Fidel Castro, by the way, plays a very credible Captain Hook." - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cervantes Prize‒winning novelist

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Book SynopsisThe Beginning, the first of three volumes in the awardwinningseries The Europeans in Australia, available together for the first time, gives an account of earlysettlement by Britain that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment.In this period, the penal colony at Port Jackson wasestablished. As it grew, this community of convicts andex-convicts posed profound questions about the commonrights of the subject, the responsibility of power, andthe possibility of imaginative attachment to a land ofexile. Europeans were not just conquerors motivated bybrutal colonising imperatives. Their culture was ancientand infinitely complex, thickly woven with ideas aboutspirituality, authority, self, and land, all of which hadimplications for the way Australians live now. Conflictand possession of Aboriginal land were at issue, as werethe ancient habits of Europeans themselves.

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Book SynopsisDemocracy, the second of three volumes in the awardwinningseries The Europeans in Australia, shows whatthe Europeans did with Australia and why during thefirst four or five generations of invasion and settlement,so as to secure great wealth and the beginnings ofdemocracy.During the period from around 1815 to the early 1870sAustralia began to find its place. The pace of colonialexpansion accelerated while a kind of democracyemerged. More than a story of geography and politics,Democracy describes the way people thought and felt –what drove them, what troubled them. By analysing thelives of both powerful and ordinary men and women,Atkinson sets out the ideas that moved and marked them,in a history of ‘common imagination’.

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Book SynopsisAuthor Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than thirty years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. Boon's family history spans five continents: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, South America, and North America. Despite her complex and multi-layered background, she has often omitted her full heritage, replying ""I'm Dutch-Canadian"" to anyone who asks about her identity. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity. It was an opportunity to answer the two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to?Boon's archival research - in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada - brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present.Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.Trade Review"What the Oceans Remember is breathtaking in scope. Reaching across continents, oceans and histories, it shows us what it means to live in the shadow of freedom while unfree; how the colour of a person's skin can determine if they are seen or invisible; how the word home can exclude; how the beauty of music can be a balm; how the invaluable quiet of an archive can quake with unearthed voices. Unrelentingly honest, sometimes harrowing, steeped in rich and startling insight, and conveyed in transparent prose - elegant as silk, tough as steel." - Lisa Moore, author of the story collection Something for Everyone"What the Oceans Remember addresses the complex and complicit question 'Where are you from?' by taking readers on an extraordinary trip through continents and countries, and to cities and their archives, to help us understand how the stories of our ancestors tell us something about ourselves. Boon's exploration of the seductive spaces of the archives and the crossing of various kinds of borders brings to mind the work of Saidiya Hartman (Lose Your Mother), Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts), and complements the work of writers like Sara Ahmed as well." - Minelle Mahtani, University of British Columbia, author of Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality, host and creator of Acknowledgements and Sense of Place"Timely, compelling and illuminating in equal measure, What the Oceans Remember, which scrutinizes the lives and legacies of several generations of slaves and indentured labourers in Suriname, also confronts the rights and responsibilities we bear in relation to our ancestors. In this ever-questioning memoir, Sonja Boon maps emotional registers and bureaucratic statistics as honestly as she navigates theoretical currents and ethical anxiety. Weaving desire, dreams, and personal memory into the historical record, Boon succeeds admirably in making silences speak and fragments cohere in a fine example of creative non-fiction." -- Lydia Syson, author of Mr Peacock's Possessions

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Book SynopsisSonja Boon’s heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories that have shaped her identity, as she sought to answer two questions that have dogged her over the years: Where does she belong? And who does she belong to? Boon’s archival research—in Suriname, the Netherlands, the UK, and Canada—brings her opportunities to reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the archives themselves, the tangliness of oceanic migration, histories, the meaning of legacy, music, love, freedom, memory, ruin, and imagination. Ultimately, she reflected on the relevance of our past to understanding our present. Deeply informed by archival research and current scholarship, but written as a reflective and intimate memoir, What the Oceans Remember addresses current issues in migration, identity, belonging, and history through an interrogation of race, ethnicity, gender, archives and memory. More importantly, it addresses the relevance of our past to understanding our present. It shows the multiplicity of identities and origins that can shape the way we understand our histories and our own selves.Trade Review“What the Oceans Remember is breathtaking in scope. Reaching across continents, oceans and histories, it shows us what it means to live in the shadow of freedom while unfree; how the colour of a person’s skin can determine if they are seen or invisible; how the word home can exclude; how the beauty of music can be a balm; how the invaluable quiet of an archive can quake with unearthed voices. Unrelentingly honest, sometimes harrowing, steeped in rich and startling insight, and conveyed in transparent prose – elegant as silk, tough as steel.” – Lisa Moore, author of the story collection Something for Everyone “What the Oceans Remember addresses the complex and complicit question ‘Where are you from?’ by taking readers on an extraordinary trip through continents and countries, and to cities and their archives, to help us understand how the stories of our ancestors tell us something about ourselves. Boon’s exploration of the seductive spaces of the archives and the crossing of various kinds of borders brings to mind the work of Saidiya Hartman (Lose Your Mother), Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts), and complements the work of writers like Sara Ahmed as well.” – Minelle Mahtani, University of British Columbia, author of Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality, host and creator of Acknowledgements and Sense of Place “Timely, compelling and illuminating in equal measure, What the Oceans Remember, which scrutinizes the lives and legacies of several generations of slaves and indentured labourers in Suriname, also confronts the rights and responsibilities we bear in relation to our ancestors. In this ever-questioning memoir, Sonja Boon maps emotional registers and bureaucratic statistics as honestly as she navigates theoretical currents and ethical anxiety. Weaving desire, dreams, and personal memory into the historical record, Boon succeeds admirably in making silences speak and fragments cohere in a fine example of creative non-fiction.” – Lydia Syson, author of Mr Peacock’s Possessions

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Book SynopsisMowafa’s family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. His childhood was spent in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, Mowafa visited his family’s homeland of Palestine. It was the beginning of the Second Intifada and Mowafa witnessed first-hand the effects of prolonged conflict and occupation. It was those observations and that experience that inspired him not only to tell his story but to realize many of the intergenerational and colonial traumas that he shares with the Indigenous people of Turtle Island. His moving memoir compares and contrasts the lives of immigrants with the lives of those who live on occupied land and the struggles that define them both.

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Book SynopsisRefugees face distinct challenges and are often subject to dehumanization by politicians, media, and the public. In this context, Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees provides urgent insights and policy-relevant perspectives to improve refugees' social well-being and integration. Taking a transdisciplinary approach, scholars from the social sciences, arts, and humanities, alongside practitioners and refugees, explore what it means to experience dehumanization. They consider how refugees' experiences of dehumanization inform both epistemological and practical approaches to humanizing (or re-humanizing) refugees before, during, and after resettlement. By addressing these important issues, contributors marshall rich and multidimensional responses that draw upon our shared humanity and reveal new possibilities for change.

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Book SynopsisHoping for a better life, many migrants have made the journey to South Africa and set up as informal spaza shop traders in small towns and township areas, supplying the local residents with essentials. But thriving in environments afflicted by unemployment and crime is almost impossible when armed robberies are a daily reality, protection from law enforcement is not a given, and access to justice is effectively out of reach. Engaging first-hand with small traders and the Somali communities in Khayelitsha, Kraaifontein and Philippi, Vanya Gastrow investigates the predicament of these modern-day pariahs – social and political outcasts who belong neither to the elite nor the common people, and who are frequently the focus of xenophobic anger. Tracing national-level regulatory developments in post-apartheid democratic South Africa Gastrow shines a light on how retailers have been politicised and how they have faced growing informal and formal regulatory efforts to curtail their business activities. She demonstrates how democratic and constitutional frameworks can erode in contexts of heightened nationalism, populism and economic inequality. By investigating Somali informal shopkeepers’ experiences of crime, justice and regulation in the country, the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa is uncomfortably exposed.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Arrival and Reception Chapter 1 Introduction: law, justice and the pariah Chapter 2 Getting started: a tale of three cities Chapter 3 The unwelcome guest: flight and arrival in South Africa Chapter 4 Crime and the fluid migrant Chapter 5 A window on statistics opens up Chapter 6 Fortress South Africa: informal justice and control Chapter 7 Elusive justice and xenophobic crime Chapter 8 An ordinary crime: the politics of denial Part II: Regulation and Containment Chapter 9 The Masiphumelele shop threat, 2006 Chapter 10 In the shadow of Masiphumelele Chapter 11 The shifting problem and changing narratives Chapter 12 Infestation and backlash: the Soweto cleansing of 2018 Chapter 13 When reasoning rings hollow Chapter 14 The problem as legitimacy Chapter 15 Regulating trade: informality and segregation by agreement Chapter 16 When agreements fall apart Chapter 17 Legal imaginaries: trading without a licence Chapter 18 Turning to formality, 2012 Chapter 19 Formalising exclusion as the African way Part III: The Politics of Pariahdom Chapter 20 Pariahdom and bare life Chapter 21 Pariah justice Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to capture the poignant stories of transnational African families and their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in mediating their experiences of migration and caring across distance. Transnational Families in Africa analyses the highs and lows of family separation as a result of migration in three contexts: migration within South Africa from rural to urban areas; migration from other African countries into South Africa; and middle-class South Africans emigrating to non-African countries.The book foregrounds the importance of kinship and support from extended family as well as both the responsibilities migatory family members feel and the experience of loss by those left behind. Across the diverse circumstances explored in the book are similarities in migrants’ strategies for keeping in touch, but also large differences in relation to access to ICTs and ease-of-use that highlight the digital divide and generational gaps. As elsewhere in the world, and in spite of the varied experiences in these kinship circles, the phenomenon that is the transnational family is showing no signs of receding. This book provides a groundbreaking contribution to global debates on migration from the Global South.Table of Contents Foreword – Gonzalo Bacigalupe Acknowledgments Part 1 Theoretical Context Chapter 1 Setting the Scene – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar Chapter 2 Methodological Challenges and Opportunities: Our Work, Our Selves – Daniella Rafaely, Loretta Baldassar, Leslie Swartz and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Part 2 Participants’ Stories of African Migration, Family Relations and ICTs Chapter 3 ‘Ah! Do I Know What Data Is, My Child?’ Rural–Urban Migration and the Struggle to Stay in Touch – Lactricia Maja, Risuna Mathebula, Sonto Madonsela and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Chapter 4 ‘They Will Be Yearning’: Zimbabwean Migration to South Africa and Keeping the Family Connected – Siko Moyo, Sonto Madonsela and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Chapter 5 ‘You Do Not Finish All Stories’: Malawian Families and the Struggle to Stay Connected – Esther Price and Glory Kabaghe Chapter 6 (Dis)connections: The Paradox of Intergenerational WhatsApp Communication in Transnational Kenyan Families – Ajwang’ Warria Chapter 7 Making a World of Care: DRC Refugees’ Barber Shop Stories – Thembelihle Coka and Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer Chapter 8 The Luxury of Longing: Experiences of ICTs by South African Emigrants to Non-African Countries and Their Families – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer and Leslie Swartz Part 3 Final Considerations Chapter 9 Analysis of Important Data Emerging from the Study – Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar Chapter 10 Looking Ahead: Paradox, Criticality and a Way Forward – Daniella Rafaely, Maria C. Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book investigates the challenges that emerge for local economies when faced with the new globalization trends that characterize today's world economy. In this instance, globalization is interpreted as a process of internationalization of production and markets which can take various forms - such as increasing international trade or increasing foreign direct investments - all of which give rise to the growing integration and interdependency of European economies with regard to the other main world economies. The expert contributors use a fresh perspective in their analysis of globalization trends, emphasizing recent changes and providing an up-to-date picture of current developments in both foreign investments and the consequent migration of human capital. Qualitative rather than quantitative trends in human capital and financial capital flows are taken into account, with a particular focus on their impacts on regional growth perspectives. Highlighting the European economy's strengths and weaknesses in facing the challenges of the new globalization trends, this book will provide a stimulating read for a wide-ranging audience encompassing scholars of regional science, regional economics, economic and regional geography, international economics and international business. Contributors: T. Baycan, C. Behrens, R. Camagni, R. Capello, F. Carballo-Cruz, L. Casi, J.C. das Neves, T.P. Dentinho, K.P. Donaghy, N.O. Martins, A. Mendes, B. Neuts, P. Nijkamp, J.P. Pontes, L. Resmini, M. Sahin, J.R. Silva, A. TodirasTrade ReviewGlobal trends and local effects have been almost ubiquitous since the 1980s. However, few, like this book, have successfully examined the local effects of global trends and processes. Each of this book's 10 chapters provides an empirically based analysis that illuminates the local effects driven by global forces. --- Roger Stough, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Globalization Trends and their Challenges for Regional Development Roberta Capello and Tomaz Ponce Dentinho PART I: NEW GLOBALIZATION TRENDS 1. Globalization and Geographical Growth Patterns João César das Neves 2. Globalization and Economic Crisis: How Will the Future of European Regions Look? Roberto Camagni and Roberta Capello 3. The Co-evolution of Logistics, Globalization and Spatial Price Competition: Implications for a Unified Theory of Trade and Location Kieran P. Donaghy PART II: NEW TRENDS IN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS 4. Globalization, Foreign Direct Investments and Growth in European Regions: An Empirical Assessment Laura Casi and Laura Resmini 5. New Patterns in Global Localization: Delocalization and Relocalization of Economic Activities Francisco Carballo-Cruz 6. New Dynamics of FDI José Pedro Pontes 7. Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Policy Joaquim Ramos Silva PART III: NEW TRENDS IN MIGRATION FLOWS 8. The Migration–Development Nexus: New Perspectives and Challenges Tüzin Baycan and Peter Nijkamp 9. A Structural Equations Model for Assessing the Economic Performance of High-tech Ethnic Entrepreneurs Mediha Sahin, Alina Todiras, Peter Nijkamp, Bart Neuts and Christiaan Behrens 10. Social Exclusion of Immigrants from a Capability Perspective: The Case of Portugal Nuno Ornelas Martins and Américo Mendes Index

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Book SynopsisThe main focus of the papers appearing in the first part of the book is on inequality and its effects on growth, labour market integration and government policies. The book continues by dealing with migration, its determinants and its possible effect on the host country's output, employment and standard of living. Finally, the authors discuss economic growth and its relationship with trade, capital accumulation and internal and external debts.Economists and researchers studying development economics and migration studies will find this original book, with its innovative state-of-the-art studies, of great interest.Trade Review'Mathias Czaika and Carlos Vargas-Silva have assembled an excellent collection of previously published articles on all aspects of the connections between migration and economic growth. As well, they provide an introduction that sets out the cross-connections between migration and economic growth, and provides and lead-in to the articles that follow in their compilation. An excellent place to start if one wanted to cover most of the important topics and researched areas in the overlap between migration and economic growth during the last fifty years.'Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Mathias Czaika and Carlos Vargas-Silva PART I ECONOMIC DRIVERS OF MIGRATION: THE ROLE OF GROWTH AND RELATED ECONOMIC FACTORS [274 pp] A Classical Theories 1. Larry A. Sjaastad (1962), ‘The Costs and Returns of Human Migration’ 2. John R. Harris and Michael P. Todaro (1970), ‘Migration, Unemployment and Development: A Two-Sector Analysis’ 3. Jacob Mincer (1978), ‘Family Migration Decisions’ 4. Oded Stark and David Levhari (1982), ‘On Migration and Risk in LDCs’ 5. Oded Stark and J. Edward Taylor (1989), ‘Relative Deprivation and International Migration’ 6. Barry R. Chiswick (1999), ‘Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected?’ B Empirical Evidence 7. George J. Borjas (1987), ‘Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants’ 8. Michael J. Greenwood and Gary L. Hunt (1989), ‘Jobs versus Amenities in the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration’ 9. Michael Vogler and Ralph Rotte (2000), ‘The Effects of Development on Migration: Theoretical Issues and New Empirical Evidence’ 10. Peder J. Pedersen, Mariola Pytlikova and Nina Smith (2008), ‘Selection and Network Effects – Migration Flows into OECD Countries 1990–2000’ 11. Anna Maria Mayda (2009), ‘International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of the Determinants of Bilateral Flows’ 12. Mathias Czaika and Krisztina Kis-Katos (2009), ‘Civil Conflict and Displacement: Village-Level Determinants of Forced Migration in Aceh’ C Return Migration 13. Yaohui Zhao (2002), ‘Causes and Consequences of Return Migration: Recent Evidence from China’ 14. Christian Dustmann (2003), ‘Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration’ 15. Dean Yang (2006), ‘Why do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence from Philippine Migrants’ Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks’ PART II THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF IMMIGRATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: MULTIPLE CHANNELS A Labour Markets 16. David Card (1990), ‘The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market’ 17. Jennifer Hunt (1992), ‘The Impact of the 1962 Repatriates from Algeria on the French Labor Market’ 18. George J. Borjas (1995), ‘The Economic Benefits from Immigration’ 19. Rachel M. Friedberg (2001), ‘The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market’ 20. David Card (2001), ‘Immigrant Inflows, Native Outflows, and the Local Labor Market Impacts of Higher Immigration’ B Fiscal Impact 21. Alan J. Auerbach and Philip Oreopoulos (1999), ‘Analyzing the Fiscal Impact of U.S. Immigration’ 22. Kjetil Storesletten (2000), ‘Sustaining Fiscal Policy through Immigration’ 23. Ronald Lee and Timothy Miller (2000), ‘Immigration, Social Security, and Broader Fiscal Impacts’ 24. Assaf Razin, Efraim Sadka and Phillip Swagel (2002), ‘Tax Burden and Migration: A Political Economy Theory and Evidence’ C Technology and Innovation 25. William R. Kerr (2008), ‘Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion’ 26. Jennifer Hunt and Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle (2010), ‘How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?’ 27. William R. Kerr (2010), ‘Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation’ 28. Jennifer Hunt (2011), ‘Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa’ PART III THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF EMIGRATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: MULTIPLE CHANNELS A Brain Drain and Brain Gain 29. Robert E.B. Lucas (1987), ‘Emigration to South Africa's Mines’ 30. Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport (2001), ‘Brain Drain and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence’ 31. Oded Stark (2004), ‘Rethinking the Brain Drain’ 32. Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Cecily Oden-Defoort (2011), ‘A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain’ B Remittances 33. Richard H. Adams Jr. and John Page (2005), ‘Do International Migration and Remittances Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries?’ 34. Carlos Vargas-Silva (2008), ‘Are Remittances Manna from Heaven? A Look at the Business Cycle Properties of Remittances’ 35. Natalia Catrinescu, Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Matloob Piracha and Bryce Quillin (2009), ‘Remittances, Institutions, and Economic Growth’ 36. Paola Giuliano and Marta Ruiz-Arranz (2009), ‘Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth’ PART IV MIGRATION, LONG-TERM GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE 37. Richard A. Easterlin (1966), ‘Economic-Demographic Interactions and Long Swings in Economic Growth’ 38. Robert J. Barro and Xavier Sala-I-Martin (1991), ‘Convergence Across States and Regions’ 39. John F. Helliwell (1996), ‘Convergence and Migration among Provinces’ 40. Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (1997), ‘Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration’

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Book Synopsis'This landmark book sets new standards in the analysis of internal migration in the UK. With a focus on the ''drivers of migration'', knowledge of economic, social, demographic, political, and environmental factors is advanced. Identifying the impacts of environmental change and future trends of migration, the book delivers impressive, original, up-to-date findings of UK internal migration. The book is an essential resource for students, scholars and practitioners grappling with the complexities of emergent and entrenched patterns and processes of migration.' - Darren P. Smith, Loughborough University, UK 'Fielding's book on contemporary internal migration in Britain comprises a magisterial review of a complex topic. It moves very logically from the description of the migration patterns through discussion of the key drivers onto policy-oriented speculation about future developments in the light of alternative scenarios of economic, social and environmental change. The author has a refreshingly direct and authoritative style that puts his own personal stamp on the book, making for a compelling but also thought-provoking read.'- Tony Champion, Newcastle University, UK 'Fielding provides us with a fascinating, authoritative and up-to-date picture of internal migration in the UK, together with a masterful synthesis of the explanations that underpin the spatial patterns of migration at regional and sub-regional scales. He exposes some of the paradoxes apparent in historical migration behaviour and he also speculates creatively on what might be the impacts of environmental vis a vis socio-economic drivers on internal migration in the future under different scenarios.' - John Stillwell, University of Leeds, UK Those who need to migrate the most - perhaps due to low paid or insecure jobs - tend to actually migrate the least, while those who need to migrate the least - for example those who have secure, well-paid jobs - tend to actually migrate the most. This is one of the many paradoxes about internal migration in Britain that are explored in this topical and timely book by Tony Fielding. Migration in Britain takes a fresh look at the patterns of migration at both the regional and local levels and develops new theoretical frameworks and novel methods to explain these patterns. It anticipates British society and its internal migration flows fifty years hence in the absence of climate change, and comes to judgments about how and in what ways these migration flows might be affected by climate change. Developing new approaches to explain migration patterns, this book will appeal to academics, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students of population migration, as well as businesses concerned with housing and utilities. Anyone with a general interest in migration issues including the impacts of, and adaptation to, climate change, will find much to interest them in this insightful book.Trade Review‘This landmark book sets new standards in the analysis of internal migration in the UK. With a focus on the “drivers of migration”, knowledge of economic, social, demographic, political, and environmental factors is advanced. Identifying the impacts of environmental change and future trends of migration, the book delivers impressive, original, up-to-date findings of UK internal migration. The book is an essential resource for students, scholars and practitioners grappling with the complexities of emergent and entrenched patterns and processes of migration.’ -- Darren P. Smith, Loughborough University, UK‘Fielding’s book on contemporary internal migration in Britain comprises a magisterial review of a complex topic. It moves very logically from the description of the migration patterns through discussion of the key drivers onto policy-oriented speculation about future developments in the light of alternative scenarios of economic, social and environmental change. The author has a refreshingly direct and authoritative style that puts his own personal stamp on the book, making for a compelling but also thought-provoking read.’ -- Tony Champion, Newcastle University, UK‘Fielding provides us with a fascinating, authoritative and up-to-date picture of internal migration in the UK, together with a masterful synthesis of the explanations that underpin the spatial patterns of migration at regional and sub-regional scales. He exposes some of the paradoxes apparent in historical migration behaviour and he also speculates creatively on what might be the impacts of environmental vis à vis socio-economic drivers on internal migration in the future under different scenarios.’ -- John Stillwell, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: UK Internal Migration Patterns 1. Migration: Concepts, Methods and Values 2. Inter-regional Migration 3. A More Detailed Regional, Sub-regional (Country-level) and Occasionally City-level Analysis Part II: UK Internal Migration: Processes and Trends 4. Economic Drivers of Internal Migration 5. Social, Demographic and Political Drivers of Migration 6. Environmental Drivers of Migration 7. The Decision to Migrate 8. Future Migration Trends in the Absence of Environmental Change Part III: UK Internal Migration: Impacts of Environmental Change 9. Impacts of Environmental Change on UK Internal Migration 10. Implications for Policy Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisCovering both qualitative and quantitative topics, the expert contributors in this Handbook explore fundamental issues of scientific logic, methodology and methods, through to practical applications of different techniques and approaches in migration research. The chapters of this interdisciplinary Handbook maintain an introductory level of discussion on migration research methods, while providing readers with references necessary for those wishing to go deeper into the topic. Using a combination of concepts and techniques with research experiences from the field, this Handbook will prove to be an invaluable guide. Master-level students and academics in migration-related programs will find this compendium a useful and stimulating resource. It also discusses issues relating to the collection of data on migrants, including topics such as survey designs, interviewing techniques and ethical issues that policy makers and government employees will find informative. Advisory Board:Professor Stephen CastlesProfessor Robin CohenProfessor Josh DeWindProfessor Raúl Delgado WiseContributors: C. Amuedo-Dorantes, B. Anderson, R. Banerjee, D. Bartram, V. Bilger, I. Bloemraad, P. Boccagni, P.S. Bose, M. Caesar, C. Carletto, J. Carling, S. Castles, A. Chikanda, M.M. Chin, J. Crush, A. de Brauw, R. Delgado Wise, C. Eberhardt, E. Funkhouser, A. Gamlen, A. Hill, D. Hoerder, T. Iosifides, A.O. Law, F.A. Lozano, H. Marquez Covarrubias, D. McKenzie, C. Oxford, J. Parker Talwar, W. Pendleton, S. Pozo, B. Rogaly, M. Ruhs, L. Sanchez-Ayala, J. Shih, M. Siegel, R. Skeldon, M.D. Steinberger, I. van Liempt, C. Vargas-Silva, K. Warner, D. YangTrade Review‘. . . the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration is a timely and important contribution to the still-limited literature on methods in migration research. . . it is likely to have great impact among students and lecturers within migration studies, both at undergraduate and at postgraduate levels.’ -- Marta B. Erdal, International Migration ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Carlos Vargas-Silva PART I: FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF SCIENTIFIC LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND METHODS IN MIGRATION STUDIES 1. Understanding the Relationship between Methodology and Methods Stephen Castles 2. Migration Research between Positivistic Scientism and Relativism: A Critical Realist Way Out Theodoros Iosifides 3. Migration, Methods and Innovation: A Reconsideration of Variation and Conceptualization in Research on Foreign Workers David Bartram 4. Transnational – Transregional – Translocal: Transcultural Dirk Hoerder 5. Contemporary Migration Seen from the Perspective of Political Economy: Theoretical and Methodological Elements Raúl Delgado Wise and Humberto Márquez Covarrubias PART II: INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES 6. Interviewing Techniques for Migrant Minority Groups Luis Sánchez-Ayala 7. Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Migration Histories Jørgen Carling 8. Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration Fernando A. Lozano and Michael D. Steinberger 9. Using Longitudinal Data to Study Migration and Remittances Edward Funkhouser 10. Measuring Migration in Multi-topic Household Surveys Calogero Carletto, Alan de Brauw and Raka Banerjee 11. Migration and its Measurement: Towards a More Robust Map of Bilateral Flows Ronald Skeldon 12. Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies David McKenzie and Dean Yang PART III: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AND MIXED METHODS 13. Mapping Movements: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration Research Pablo S. Bose 14. Even a Transnational Social Field Must Have its Boundaries: Methodological Options, Potentials and Dilemmas for Researching Transnationalism Paolo Boccagni 15. Mixing Methods in Research on Diaspora Policies Alan Gamlen PART IV: EXPLORING SPECIFIC MIGRATION TOPICS 16. Diasporas on the Web: New Networks, New Methodologies Jonathan Crush, Cassandra Eberhardt, Mary Caesar, Abel Chikanda, Wade Pendleton and Ashley Hill 17. Approaches to Researching Environmental Change and Migration: Methodological Considerations and Field Experiences from a Global Comparative Survey Project Koko Warner 18. Chasing Ghosts: Researching Illegality in Migrant Labour Markets Bridget Anderson, Ben Rogaly and Martin Ruhs 19. Using Qualitative Research Methods in Migration Studies: A Case Study of Asylum Seekers Fleeing Gender-based Persecution Connie Oxford 20. The Importance of Accounting for Variability in Remittance Income Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo PART V: PRACTICAL ISSUES IN MIGRATION RESEARCH 21. Ethical Challenges in Research with Vulnerable Migrants Ilse van Liempt and Veronika Bilger 22. A Guide to Managing Large-scale Migration Research Projects Melissa Siegel PART VI: MOVING FROM RESEARCH TO PUBLISHED WORK 23. From Dissertation to Published Research: So Close, Yet So Far Anna O. Law 24. What the Textbooks Don’t Tell You: Moving from a Research Puzzle to Publishing Findings Irene Bloemraad PART VII: EXPERIENCES FROM THE FIELD 25. Immigrants and ‘American’ Franchises: Experiences from the Field Jennifer Parker Talwar 26. In the Factories and on the Streets: Studying Asian and Latino Garment Workers in New York City Margaret M. Chin 27. Three Mistakes and Corrections: On Reflective Adaptation in Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis Johanna Shih Index

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Book SynopsisRefugee law is both conceived as a response to the absence of human rights, and is one of the most powerful means by which human rights are restored. This comprehensive collection of leading scholarship examines the strengths of, and challenges faced by, international refugee law over its nearly century-long existence. Following an original introduction by Professor Hathaway, Volume I addresses the questions of the political and ethical reasons that states have agreed to implement refugee protection in international law; the conceptual boundaries of refugee status; and the systems and structures by which refugee rights are implemented. Volume II takes up the nature of contemporary challenges to the refugee law regime, and examines leading proposals to revitalize and reform international refugee law in order to sustain its vitality in modern circumstances. This topical volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in both law and related fields, as well as to lawyers and other practitioners working on asylum and related human rights issues.Trade Review‘Professor James Hathaway’s inspiring intellectual leadership of refugee law continues with this outstanding collection of the finest scholarship available. The resources collected in these volumes will be invaluable to anyone seriously engaging with the subject. Professor Hathaway is to be commended for once again delivering an exceptional contribution to refugee law.’ -- Colin Harvey, Queens University Belfast, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction James C. Hathaway PART I THE IMPERATIVE 1. Michael Ignatieff (1993), Extract from ‘The Last Refuge’ 2. Hannah Arendt (1966), Extract from ‘The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man’ 3. Matthew J. Gibney (1999), ‘Liberal Democratic States and Responsibilities to Refugees’ PART II CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES 4. Matthew E. Price (2009), ‘Recovering Asylum’s Political Roots’ 5. David A. Martin (1991), ‘The Refugee Concept: On Definitions, Politics, and the Careful Use of a Scarce Resource’ 6. Penelope Mathew (2010) ‘Limiting Good Faith: “Bootstrapping” Asylum Seekers and Exclusion from Refugee Protection’ 7. Audrey Macklin (1995), ‘Refugee Women and the Imperative of Categories’ 8. Deborah E. Anker (2002), ‘Refugee Law, Gender, and the Human Rights Paradigm’ 9. Catherine Dauvergne and Jenni Millbank (2010), ‘Forced Marriage as a Harm in Domestic and International Law’ 10. Kristen Walker (2003), ‘New Uses of the Refugees Convention: Sexuality and Refugee Status’ 11. Karen Musalo (2004), ‘Claims for Protection Based on Religion or Belief’ 12. Jennifer Moore (2001), ‘Whither the Accountability Theory: Second-Class Status for Third-Party Refugees as a Threat to International Refugee Protection’ 13. Hugo Storey and Rebecca Wallace (2001), ‘War and Peace in Refugee Law Jurisprudence’ 14. Susan Akram (2001), ‘Reinterpreting Palestinian Refugee Rights Under International Law’ 15. Jane McAdam (2006), ‘Seeking Asylum Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Case for Complementary Protection’ 16. Micah Bond Rankin (2005), ‘Extending the Limits or Narrowing the Scope? Deconstructing the OAU Refugee Definition Thirty Years On’ 17. T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1994), ‘From “Refugee Law” to the “Law of Coerced Migration”’ PART III SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES 18. Louise W. Holborn (1938), ‘The Legal Status of Political Refugees, 1920–1938’ 19. Gil Loescher and James Milner (2011), ‘UNHCR and the Global Governance of Refugees’ 20. Marjoleine Zieck (1998), ‘UNHCR’s “Special Agreements”’ 21. Michael Kagan (2006), ‘The Beleaguered Gatekeeper: Protection Challenges Posed by UNHCR Refugee Status Determination’ 22. Jacqueline Bhabha (2002), ‘Internationalist Gatekeepers?: The Tension Between Asylum Advocacy and Human Rights’ 23. Sir Stephen Sedley (2002), ‘Asylum: Can the Judiciary Maintain its Independence?’ 24. Peter Showler (2006), ‘And Nothing but the Truth’ 25. Walter Kälin (1986), ‘Troubled Communication: Cross-Cultural Misunderstandings in the Asylum-Hearing’ 26. Hilary Evans Cameron (2010), ‘Refugee Status Determination and the Limits of Memory’ 27. Hélène Lambert (2009), ‘Transnational Judicial Dialogue, Harmonization and the Common European Asylum System’ Volume II Acknowledgements An Introduction by the editor appears in volume I PART I PROTECTION IN FLUX 1. Atle Grahl-Madsen (1966), ‘The European Tradition of Asylum and the Development of Refugee Law’ 2. Deborah Perluss and Joan F. Hartman (1985-1986), ‘Temporary Refugee: Emergence of a Customary Norm’ 3. Kay Hailbronner (1985-1986), ‘Non-Refoulement and “Humanitarian” Refugees: Customary International Law or Wishful Legal Thinking?’ 4. Guy S. Goodwin-Gill (1986), ‘Non-Refoulement and the New Asylum Seekers’ 5. Gervase Coles (1989), ‘Approaching the Refugee Problem Today’ 6. B.S. Chimni (2004), ‘From Resettlement to Involuntary Repatriation: Towards a Critical History of Durable Solutions to Refugee Problems’ 7. Andrew Shacknove (1993), ‘From Asylum to Containment’ 8. Bill Frelick (1995), ‘Safe Haven: Safe for Whom?’ 9. Mikhael Barutciski (1996), ‘The Reinforcement of Non-Admission Policies and the Subversion of UNHCR: Displacement and Internal Assistance in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–94)’ 10. Merrill Smith (2004), ‘Warehousing Refugees: A Denial of Rights, a Waste of Humanity’ 11. Barbara Harrell-Bond (1999), ‘The Experience of Refugees as Recipients of Aid’ 12. Ben Saul (2008), ‘Protecting Refugees in the Global “War on Terror”’ 13. Jens Vedsted-Hansen (1999), ‘Non-Admission Policies and the Right to Protection: Refugees’ Choice versus States’ Exclusion’ 14. Rosemary Byrne (2003), ‘Harmonization and Burden Redistribution in the Two Europes’ 15. Michelle Foster (2007), ‘Protection Elsewhere: The Legal Implications of Requiring Refugees to Seek Protection in Another State’ 16. Gregor Noll (2003), ‘Visions of the Exceptional: Legal and Theoretical Issues Raised by Transit Processing Centres and Protection Zones’ 17. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (2010), ‘Growing Barriers: International Refugee Law’ PART II REVITALIZING AND REFORMING 18. Jack I. Garvey (1985), ‘Toward a Reformulation of International Refugee Law’ 19. James C. Hathaway and R. Alexander Neve (1997), ‘Making International Refugee Law Relevant Again: A Proposal for Collectivized and Solution-Oriented Protection’ 20. Jason Pobjoy (2010), ‘Treating Like Alike: The Principle of Non-Discrimination as a Tool to Mandate the Equal Treatment of Refugees and Beneficiaries of Complementary Protection’ 21. Alexander Betts (2010), ‘Survival Migration: A New Protection Framework’

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Book SynopsisThe highly unique International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a state-of-the-art review of the critical importance of the links between gender and migration in a globalizing world. It draws on original, largely field-based contributions by authors across a range of disciplinary provenances worldwide.This unprecedented and ambitious Handbook addresses core debates on issues of gender, migration, transnationalism and development from a migration-development nexus. The volume explores the influence of global changes - and more specifically transnational migration flows - from the perspective of the articulation of production and reproduction chains. Particular attention is paid to so-called 'global care chains' with new analytical models developed around the emerging trends played out by women in contemporary mobility dynamics.This pathbreaking Handbook will provide a thought-provoking resource for a multidisciplinary audience of academics, researchers and students of social science disciplines encompassing: economics, sociology, geography, demography, political science and political sociology, migration studies, family and gender studies, and labour markets. The Handbook will also be of major interest and importance to local and national governments, international agencies and their policymakers and administrators.Contributors: E. Acosta, J.D. Bachmeier, L. Benería, C.H. Bledsoe, P. Campoy-Muñoz, I. Casado i Aijón, C. Catarino, S. Chant, A. Christou, A. Cieslik, A. Cortés, H. de Haas, C.D. Deere, F. Degavre, T. Fokkema, C.R. García-Alonso, P. Hondagneu-Sotelo, N. Kabeer, L. Lessard-Phillips, D. Mata-Codesal, P. Miret-Gamundi, M. Morokvasic, L. Oso, S. Parella, N. Ribas-Mateos, A. Safuta, A. Sáiz López, M. Salazar-Ordóñez, M.L. Setién, P. Sow, V. Stolcke, C. Verschuur, E. Vidal-CosoTrade Review‘The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism offers a new framework that examines the connections among gender, migrration, transnationalism and development in a globalizing world.’ -- Sendy Alcidonis, International Migration Review‘The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a modern and one of the latest important connections between gender and migration in a globalizing world. It is built upon authentic contributions by authors across multiple disciplinary worldwide, based on critical researches on gender and migration concepts.’ -- Carmen Ghinea, Journal of Research in Gender StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. An Introduction to a Global and Development Perspective: A Focus on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism Laura Oso and Natalia Ribas-Mateos PART I: FRAMEWORK OF CHANGES IN GENDER, MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM FROM THE VANTAGE POINTS OF GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT 2. Gender and International Migration: Globalization, Development and Governance Lourdes Benería, Carmen Diana Deere and Naila Kabeer 3. Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe Verena Stolcke 4. The Long Shadow of ‘Smart Economics’: The Making, Methodologies and Messages of the World Development Report 2012 Sylvia Chant PART II: NEW THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF FEMALE MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT 5. Gender, Andean Migration and Development: Analytical Challenges and Political Debates Almudena Cortés 6. Theoretical Debates on Social Reproduction and Care: The Articulation between the Domestic and the Global Economy Christine Verschuur PART III: GENDER, MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DIFFERENT CASE STUDIES 7. Gender, Development and Asian Migration in Spain: The Chinese Case Amelia Sáiz López 8. Back to Africa: Second Chances for the Children of West African Immigrants Caroline H. Bledsoe and Papa Sow 9. Transnational Return and Pendulum Migration Strategies of Moroccan Migrants: Intra-household Power Inequalities, Tensions and Conflicts of Interest Hein de Haas and Tineke Fokkema PART IV: A PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM 10. New Directions in Gender and Immigration Research Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 11. Women, Gender, Transnational Migrations and Mobility: Focus on Research in France Christine Catarino and Mirjana Morokvasic 12. The Gendered Dynamics of Integration and Transnational Engagement Among Second-generation Adults in Europe James D. Bachmeier, Laurence Lessard-Phillips and Tineke Fokkema 13. Gendered and Emotional Spaces: Nordic–Hellenic Negotiations of Ethno-cultural Belongingness in Narrating Segmented Selves and Diasporic Lives of the Second Generation Anastasia Christou 14. Bolivian Migrants in Spain: Transnational Families from a Gender Perspective Sònia Parella PART V: GLOBAL PRODUCTION 15. The Internationalization of Domestic Work and Female Immigration in Spain during a Decade of Economic Expansion, 1999–2008 Elena Vidal-Coso and Pau Miret-Gamundi 16. Towards a Gender-sensitive Approach to Remittances in Ecuador Diana Mata-Codesal 17. Remittances in the Spain–Ecuador Corridor: A Gendered Estimation through Bayesian Networks Pilar Campoy-Muñoz, Melania Salazar-Ordóñez and Carlos R. García-Alonso PART VI: GLOBAL CARE CHAINS 18. Care and Feminized North–South and South–South Migration Flows: Denial of Rights and Limited Citizenship María Luisa Setién and Elaine Acosta 19. What has Polanyi got to do with it? Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers and the Usages of Reciprocity Anna Safuta and Florence Degavre 20. Temporary Female Migrations through Transnational Family Networks: The Ethnographic Case of the Caregiver in Riffian Imazighen Women Irina Casado i Aijón 21. Transnational Mobility and Family-building Decisions: A Case Study of Skilled Polish Migrant Women in the UK Anna Cieslik Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.'- Satvinder Juss, King s College London, UK'An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.'- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceMigration and Freedom is a thorough and revealing exploration of the complex relationship between mobility and citizenship in Europe. Brad Blitz draws upon European and international law, political theory, economics, history and contemporary studies of migration to provide an original account of the opportunities and challenges associated with the right to free movement in Europe and beyond.Integrating over 160 interviews with individuals in Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, the UK and Russia, this book provides a unique focus on both internal and inter-state mobility and a re-evaluation of the concept of freedom of movement. The author documents successful and unsuccessful settlement and establishment cases and records how both official and informal restrictions on individuals' mobility have effectively created new categories of citizenship and exclusion within Europe.This book is an original study aimed at academics, students and government officials interested in migration, international studies, public and social policy, and politics.Contents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion BibliographyTrade Review‘. . . throughout Migration and Freedom: Mobility, Citizenship and Exclusion, Blitz takes great care in detailing the influence of national laws, the European Charter, international customs and principles, and social factors on the freedom of migration movement. . . . The book is suitable for students and academics of several fields including political science, international studies, and law as it discusses the efficcies of - as well as deterrants to - freedom of movement in an evolving global society.’ -- Patricia M. Muhammad, International Social Science Review‘In this timely and important book, Professor Brad K. Blitz, a leading expert on post-conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights, reminds us how the concept of freedom of movement, and its relationship to migration, has received little comprehensive treatment among academics, even though it underpins what we expect as individuals living in liberal states. Yet, there are 214 million international migrants and 740 million internal migrants in the world today. It is all the more paradoxical therefore that there is no guarantee of the right of freedom of movement where most migration takes place against the backdrop of both official and unofficial controls. With strong theoretical underpinnings, and drawing from a range of philosophers, both ancient and modern, Professor Blitz, examines the legal foundations for the free movement of people, before undertaking a practical critique of recent free movement experiences in Spain, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. This is a tour de force. A work of remarkable scholarship, prescience, and practical relevance, which deserves to be read by all on this much-neglected subject of freedom of movement.’ -- Satvinder Juss, King’s College London, UK‘An advance, both analytically and empirically, for migration studies. With a base in international law and political theory, Blitz admirably opens up the ambiguous question of freedom of movement in relation to the restrictions still imposed by national borders and sovereignty, and the difficulties migrants face turning movement into successful settlement. Focusing on Europe, and migration experiences internal and external to the EU, as well as within and across national boundaries, the book significantly challenges current immigration paradigms with a series of atypical and provocative case studies.’ -- Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Migration and Freedom 2. Investigating Freedom of Movement 3. Freedom of Movement in Europe 4. Spanish Doctors in the United Kingdom 5. European Language Teachers in Italy 6. Displaced Serbs in Croatia 7. Internal Migrants in Russia 8. Discrimination and Immobility in Slovenia 9. Analysis 10. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProcesses of social change brought about by international migration usually entail multiple kinds of diversification affecting ethnicities and identities, languages, gender balances, social statuses, skills and more. Compiled and introduced by a leading figure in the field, Migration and Diversity draws together key social scientific studies addressing varieties of migration-driven diversification. Contributions also examine state responses to, and the wider effects of, the new social, economic and political configurations that arise from migration. Combining empirical and theoretical works, this volume will be useful for undergraduate and graduate students through to professional scholars engaging in some of the most topical issues of today.Trade Review‘In sum, Migration and Diversity is an impressive collection of journal articles that raises critical issues on key dimensions of international migration and social integration from a comparative, historical lens. . . this book is a must read for scholars interested in the nexus between migration and diversity.’ -- Asian and Pacific Migration JournalTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Steven Vertovec PART I MIGRATION AND DIVERSITY IN HISTORY 1. Dirk Hoerder (2002), ‘Worlds in Motion, Cultures in Contact’ 2. Peter Heather (2009), ‘The End of Migration and the Birth of Europe’ 3. Adam McKeown (2004), ‘Global Migration, 1846–1940’ 4. Nora Lafi (2011), ‘The Ottoman Urban Governance of Migrations and the Stakes of Modernity’ 5. Peter T. Alter (1996), ‘The Creation of Multi-Ethnic Peoplehood: The Wilkeson, Washington Experience’ PART II CONCEIVING DIVERSITY TODAY 6. Sara Ahmed (2007), ‘The Language of Diversity’ 7. Thomas Faist (2009), ‘Diversity – A New Mode of Incorporation?’ 8. Natalka Patsiurko, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall (2012), ‘Measuring Cultural Diversity: Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization in the OECD’ 9. Steven Vertovec (2012), ‘”Diversity” and the Social Imaginary’ 10. Peter J. Aspinall (2009), ‘The Future of Ethnicity Classifications’ PART III IMPACTS OF MIGRATION AND DIVERSITY 11. Graeme Hugo (2005), Migrants in Society: Diversity and Cohesion, Geneva, Switzerland: Global Commission on International Migration 12. Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara (2005), ‘Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance’ 13. Dana Schüler and Julian Weisbrod (2010), ‘Ethnic Fractionalisation, Migration and Growth’ 14. Steffen Mau and Christoph Burkhardt (2009), ‘Migration and Welfare State Solidarity in Western Europe’ 15. Gary P. Freeman (2009), ‘Immigration, Diversity, and Welfare Chauvinism’ PART IV POLICIES AND PRACTICES 16. Stephen Castles (1995), ‘How Nation-States Respond to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity’ 17. Wolfgang Bosswick, Friedrich Heckmann and Doris Lüken-Klaßen (2007), Diversity Policy in the City: Background Paper for the 2nd Meeting of the CLIP Network in Brussels, Bamberg, Germany: European Forum for Migration Studies 18. John Wrench (2004), ‘Managing Diversity, Fighting Racism or Combating Discrimination? A Critical Exploration’ 19. Gabriel N. Toggenburg (2005), ‘Who is Managing Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in the European Condominium? The Moments of Entry, Integration and Preservation’ 20. Nick Johns (2004), ‘Ethnic Diversity Policy: Perceptions within the NHS’ PART V THE DIVERSITY AND COHESION DEBATE 21. Robert D. Putnam (2007), ‘E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century – The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture,’ 22. James Laurence (2011), ‘The Effect of Ethnic Diversity and Community Disadvantage on Social Cohesion: A Multi-Level Analysis of Social Capital and Interethnic Relations in UK Communities’ 23. Dietlind Stolle, Stuart Soroka and Richard Johnston (2008), ‘When Does Diversity Erode Trust? Neighborhood Diversity, Interpersonal Trust and the Mediating Effect of Social Interactions’ 24. Alejandro Portes and Erik Vickstrom (2011), ‘Diversity, Social Capital, and Cohesion’ 25. Christel Kessler and Irene Bloemraad (2010), ‘Does Immigration Erode Social Capital? The Conditional Effects of Immigration-Generated Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 19 Countries, 1981–2000’ PART VI EVERYDAY DIVERSITY 26. Kirsten Simonsen (2008), ‘Practice, Narrative and the “Multicultural City”: A Copenhagen Case’ 27. Suzanne M. Hall (2010) ‘Picturing Difference: Juxtaposition, Collage and Layering of a Multi-ethnic Street’ 28. Maria Hudson, Joan Phillips and Kathryn Ray (2009) ‘”Rubbing Along with the Neighbours” – Everyday Interactions in a Diverse Neighbourhood in the North of England’ 29. Ralph Grillo (2002), ‘Immigration and the Politics of Recognizing Difference in Italy’ 30. Joyce M. Bell and Douglas Hartmann (2007), ‘Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of “Happy Talk”’ PART VII SUPER-DIVERSITY 31. Steven Vertovec (2007), ‘Super-diversity and its Implications,’ 32. Peter A. Kraus (2012), ‘The Politics of Complex Diversity: A European Perspective’ 33. Jan Blommaert and Ben Rampton (2011), ‘Language and Superdiversity’ 34. Jenny Phillimore (2010), ‘Approaches to Health Provision in the Age of Super-Diversity: Accessing the NHS in Britain’s Most Diverse City,’ 35. Susanne Wessendorf (2010), ‘Commonplace Diversity: Social Interactions in a Super-diverse Context’ Index

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Book SynopsisThe highly unique International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a state-of-the-art review of the critical importance of the links between gender and migration in a globalizing world. It draws on original, largely field-based contributions by authors across a range of disciplinary provenances worldwide.This unprecedented and ambitious Handbook addresses core debates on issues of gender, migration, transnationalism and development from a migration-development nexus. The volume explores the influence of global changes - and more specifically transnational migration flows - from the perspective of the articulation of production and reproduction chains. Particular attention is paid to so-called 'global care chains' with new analytical models developed around the emerging trends played out by women in contemporary mobility dynamics.This pathbreaking Handbook will provide a thought-provoking resource for a multidisciplinary audience of academics, researchers and students of social science disciplines encompassing: economics, sociology, geography, demography, political science and political sociology, migration studies, family and gender studies, and labour markets. The Handbook will also be of major interest and importance to local and national governments, international agencies and their policymakers and administrators.Contributors: E. Acosta, J.D. Bachmeier, L. Benería, C.H. Bledsoe, P. Campoy-Muñoz, I. Casado i Aijón, C. Catarino, S. Chant, A. Christou, A. Cieslik, A. Cortés, H. de Haas, C.D. Deere, F. Degavre, T. Fokkema, C.R. García-Alonso, P. Hondagneu-Sotelo, N. Kabeer, L. Lessard-Phillips, D. Mata-Codesal, P. Miret-Gamundi, M. Morokvasic, L. Oso, S. Parella, N. Ribas-Mateos, A. Safuta, A. Sáiz López, M. Salazar-Ordóñez, M.L. Setién, P. Sow, V. Stolcke, C. Verschuur, E. Vidal-CosoTrade Review‘The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism offers a new framework that examines the connections among gender, migrration, transnationalism and development in a globalizing world.’ -- Sendy Alcidonis, International Migration Review‘The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a modern and one of the latest important connections between gender and migration in a globalizing world. It is built upon authentic contributions by authors across multiple disciplinary worldwide, based on critical researches on gender and migration concepts.’ -- Carmen Ghinea, Journal of Research in Gender StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. An Introduction to a Global and Development Perspective: A Focus on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism Laura Oso and Natalia Ribas-Mateos PART I: FRAMEWORK OF CHANGES IN GENDER, MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM FROM THE VANTAGE POINTS OF GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT 2. Gender and International Migration: Globalization, Development and Governance Lourdes Benería, Carmen Diana Deere and Naila Kabeer 3. Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe Verena Stolcke 4. The Long Shadow of ‘Smart Economics’: The Making, Methodologies and Messages of the World Development Report 2012 Sylvia Chant PART II: NEW THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF FEMALE MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT 5. Gender, Andean Migration and Development: Analytical Challenges and Political Debates Almudena Cortés 6. Theoretical Debates on Social Reproduction and Care: The Articulation between the Domestic and the Global Economy Christine Verschuur PART III: GENDER, MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH DIFFERENT CASE STUDIES 7. Gender, Development and Asian Migration in Spain: The Chinese Case Amelia Sáiz López 8. Back to Africa: Second Chances for the Children of West African Immigrants Caroline H. Bledsoe and Papa Sow 9. Transnational Return and Pendulum Migration Strategies of Moroccan Migrants: Intra-household Power Inequalities, Tensions and Conflicts of Interest Hein de Haas and Tineke Fokkema PART IV: A PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM 10. New Directions in Gender and Immigration Research Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 11. Women, Gender, Transnational Migrations and Mobility: Focus on Research in France Christine Catarino and Mirjana Morokvasic 12. The Gendered Dynamics of Integration and Transnational Engagement Among Second-generation Adults in Europe James D. Bachmeier, Laurence Lessard-Phillips and Tineke Fokkema 13. Gendered and Emotional Spaces: Nordic–Hellenic Negotiations of Ethno-cultural Belongingness in Narrating Segmented Selves and Diasporic Lives of the Second Generation Anastasia Christou 14. Bolivian Migrants in Spain: Transnational Families from a Gender Perspective Sònia Parella PART V: GLOBAL PRODUCTION 15. The Internationalization of Domestic Work and Female Immigration in Spain during a Decade of Economic Expansion, 1999–2008 Elena Vidal-Coso and Pau Miret-Gamundi 16. Towards a Gender-sensitive Approach to Remittances in Ecuador Diana Mata-Codesal 17. Remittances in the Spain–Ecuador Corridor: A Gendered Estimation through Bayesian Networks Pilar Campoy-Muñoz, Melania Salazar-Ordóñez and Carlos R. García-Alonso PART VI: GLOBAL CARE CHAINS 18. Care and Feminized North–South and South–South Migration Flows: Denial of Rights and Limited Citizenship María Luisa Setién and Elaine Acosta 19. What has Polanyi got to do with it? Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers and the Usages of Reciprocity Anna Safuta and Florence Degavre 20. Temporary Female Migrations through Transnational Family Networks: The Ethnographic Case of the Caregiver in Riffian Imazighen Women Irina Casado i Aijón 21. Transnational Mobility and Family-building Decisions: A Case Study of Skilled Polish Migrant Women in the UK Anna Cieslik Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses a largely unresolved mirror question. Does migration cause development or the other way around? As the contributors show, the compromise idea that they are mutually constitutive depends on a careful examination of the forms of migration (temporary, circular, permanent or return), the role of the destination and origin states and the ways in which remittance income has been deployed. Robert Lucas has assembled an excellent team of established and up-and-coming economists who address these issues in this instructive Handbook.'- Robin Cohen, University of OxfordMigration and economic development are mutually linked. Development is a catalyst for migration and vice versa. However, the signs of causal links in both directions remain widely disputed, prompting questions about the reciprocity between the two.This Handbook summarizes the state of thinking and presents new evidence on various links between international migration and economic development, with particular reference to lower-income countries. The connections between trade, aid and migration are critically examined through global case studies. Some of the topics covered include:- a review of European states' co-development strategies to limit immigration and redirect remittances- an exploration of the role of the diaspora in transferring technology and stimulating trade- an examination of the economic roots of international terrorism.The various chapters extend our frontiers of understanding with fresh evidence, providing a useful reference point for researchers, students and policymakers interested in development and migration.Contributors include: C. Carletto, M.A. Clemens, J. Crush, P. Derin-Güre, J. Gibson, F. Gubert, A.M. Ibáñez, O. Ivus, F. Kondylis, J. Larrison, R.E.B. Lucas, R. A. Margo, D. McKenzie, P. Mishra, V. Mueller, A. Naghavi, Ç. Özden, C.R. Parsons, J. Wahba, L.A. Winters, CB.Trade Review‘This book addresses a largely unresolved mirror question. Does migration cause development or the other way around? As the contributors show, the compromise idea that they are mutually constitutive depends on a careful examination of the forms of migration (temporary, circular, permanent or return), the role of the destination and origin states and the ways in which remittance income has been deployed. Robert Lucas has assembled an excellent team of established and up-and-coming economists who address these issues in this instructive Handbook.’ -- Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Migration and Economic Development: An Introduction and Synopsis Robert E.B. Lucas 2. Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison and Çaglar Özden 3. The Economic History of Migration: The Pre-World War One United States as Lens Robert A. Margo 4. International Migration, Trade and Aid: A Survey Christopher R. Parsons and L. Alan Winters 5. The Discourse and Practice of Co-development in Europe Flore Gubert 6. Does Development Reduce Migration? Michael A. Clemens 7. Development through Seasonal Worker Programs: The Case of New Zealand's RSE Program. John Gibson and David McKenzie 8. Southern Hub: The Globalization of Migration to South Africa Jonathan Crush 9. Emigration and Wages in Source Countries: A Survey of the Empirical Literature Prachi Mishra 10. Migration, Technology Diffusion and Institutional Development at the Origin Olena Ivus and Alireza Naghavi 11. The Migration-Trade Link in Developing Economies: A Summary and Extension of Evidence Robert E.B. Lucas 12. Return Migration and Economic Development Jackline Wahba 13. Growth in Forced Displacement: Cross-Country, Sub-National and Household Evidence on Potential Determinants Ana María Ibáñez 14. Economic Consequences of Conflict and Environmental Displacement Florence Kondylis and Valerie Mueller 15. Development, Immigration and Terrorism Pinar Derin-Güre Index

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Book SynopsisMigration is a complex and multifaceted issue, and the current legal framework suffers from considerable ambiguity and lack of cohesive focus. This Handbook offers a comprehensive take on the intersection of law and migration studies and provides strategies for better understanding the potential of international legal norms in regulating migration. Authoritative analyses by the most renowned and knowledgeable experts in the field focus on important migration issues and challenge the current normative framework with new ways of thinking about the topic.The book examines the many facets of migration from an international law perspective. Topics discussed include the relationship between migration and state sovereignty, the human rights of migrants, human trafficking, migrant workers, refugees and internal displacement. The expert contributors hail from a number of diverse international law backgrounds (including refugee law, human rights law, humanitarian law, labor law, WTO law and others), allowing them to synthesize many different perspectives and present a comprehensive, cohesive and timely study of a complicated and fractured topic.The Research Handbook on International Law and Migration provides a critical examination of migration and international law, identifying the issues still to be tackled and suggesting further developments to be made. It will appeal to advanced and postgraduate students, academics and policymakers.Contributors: T.A. Aleinikoff, I. Atak, H. Battjes, V. Chetail, R. Cohen, F. Crépeau, C. Dauvergne, M. Duchatellier, T. Gammeltoft-Hansen, G. Gilbert, E. Guild, W. Kälin, H. Lambert, S.H. Legomsky, B. Lyon, L.A. Nessel, H. O'Nions, S. Ojeda, C. Phuong, R. Piotrowicz, J. Rhodes, P.J. Spiro, H. Storey, J.P. Trachtman, W. Vandenhole, A. Vermeer-Künzli, J. Vedsted-Hansen, R.M.M. Wallace, D. Weissbrodt, M. ZieckTrade Review‘This book, offers an outstanding collection of learned essays from over thirty expert contributors – including the editors – from top universities, government bodies and institutions worldwide. . . In this volume of almost 700 pages, there is much food for thought for the researcher and an almost endless supply of valuable references in the copious footnoting throughout. What a time saver! Additionally, there’s a detailed index of almost twenty-three pages at the back. From graduate students, to seasoned international practitioners, anyone involved in the often extremely difficult human rights issues generated by migration will appreciate the book’s practical as well as scholarly approach to this sensitive, diverse and increasingly complex area of law. The book therefore makes an important contribution to current literature on the subject.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘This comprehensive volume succeeds in its aim to solidify the place of international migration law as a distinctive field of study and intellectual engagement, and this book represents a must-read for any student, scholar, or policy-maker interested in the cutting edge and wide-ranging issues and topics within this burgeoning field.’ -- Michelle Foster, Journal of Refugee StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Transnational Movement of Persons under General International Law: Mapping the Customary Law Foundations of International Migration Law Vincent Chetail PART I: CONFRONTING REALITIES IN TIMES OF GLOBALISATION: THE MOVE OF PEOPLE AND STATE SOVEREIGNTY 2. Irregular Migration, State Sovereignty and the Rule of Law Catherine Dauvergne 3. National Security, Terrorism and the Securitization of Migration Idil Atak and François Crépeau 4. Extraterritorial Migration Control and the Reach of Human Rights Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen 5. Smuggling and Trafficking of Human Beings Ryszard Piotriowicz 6. The Removal of Irregular Migrants in Europe and America Stephen H. Legomsky PART II: HUMAN RIGHTS, ALIENHOOD AND CITIZENSHIP: IDENTIFYING THE GLOBAL NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK 7. Detention of Migrants: Harsher Policies, Increasing International Law Protection Beth Lyon 8. Family Unity in Migration Law: The Evolution of a More Unified Approach in Europe Hélène Lambert 9. Migration and Discrimination: Non-Discrimination as Guardian against Arbitrariness or Driver of Integration? Wouter Vandenhole 10. Minority and Cultural Rights of Migrants Helen O’Nions 11. Diplomatic Protection and Consular Assistance of Migrants Annemarieke Vermeer-Künzli 12. Citizenship, Nationality, and Statelessness Peter J. Spiro PART III: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE FORGOTTEN REALITY OF MIGRANT WORKERS 13. United Nations Treaty Bodies and Migrant Workers David Weissbrodt and Justin Rhodes 14. Human Dignity or State Sovereignty? The Roadblocks to Full Realisation of the UN Migrant Workers Convention Lori A. Nessel 15. Economic Migration and Mode 4 of GATS Joel P. Trachtman 16. Labour Migration and the European Union Elspeth Guild PART IV: REFUGEES AND THE CHANGING PATTERN OF INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION 17. The Mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees T. Alexander Aleinikoff 18. The Principle of Non-Refoulement in International Refugee Law Rebecca M.M. Wallace 19. The Asylum Procedures and the Assessment of Asylum Requests Jens Vedsted-Hansen 20. Persecution: Towards a Working Definition Hugo Storey 21. Exclusion under Article 1F since 2001: Two Steps Backwards, One Step Forward Geoff Gilbert 22. Subsidiary Protection and Other Alternative Forms of Protection Hemme Battjes 23. The Limitations of Voluntary Repatriation and Resettlement of Refugees Marjoleine Zieck PART V: INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS AND THE NEW CHALLENGES OF FORCED MIGRATION 24. Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: National and International Responsibilities Roberta Cohen 25. The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Search for a Universal Framework of Protection for Internally Displaced Persons Walter Kälin 26. International Humanitarian Law and the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons Stephane Ojeda 27. The African Contribution to the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: A Commentary on the 2009 Kampala Convention Moetsi Duchatellier and Catherine Phuong

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook discusses theoretical approaches to migration studies in general, as well as confronting various issues in international migration from a distinctive and unique international political economy perspective. With a focus on the relation between globalization and migration, the international political economy (IPE) theories of migration are systematically addressed.Original new contributions from leading migration scholars offer a complete overview of international migration. They examine migration as part of a global political economy whilst addressing the theoretical debates relating to the capacity of the state to control international migration and the so called 'policy gap' or 'gap hypothesis' between migration policies and their outcomes. An examination of the relationship between regional integration and migration, with examples from Europe, North America, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as South-East Asia - is also included.Aimed at political scientists and political economists with an interest in globalization and EU policymaking this collection will be accessible to students, academic and policymakers alike.Contributors: R.G. Anghel, A. Balch, M. Fauser, C. Finotelli, A. Geddes, W.J. Haller, F. Jurje, O. Korneev, S. Lavenex, A.I. León, S. McMahon, E. Nadalutti, H. Overbeek, F. Pasetti, H. Pellerin, M. Piracha, T. Randazzo, R. Roccu, M. Samers, G. Sciortino, K. Surak, L.S. Talani, R. Zapata-BarreroTrade Review'The editors have amassed an impressive range of international experts on the political economy of migration to create an invaluable teaching resource on the subject for many years to come.' --Vassilis K. Fouskas, University of East London, UK'This superb Handbook provides an indispensable guide to what is arguably the most serious political and humanitarian crisis of our time. Including chapters by numerous leading scholars in the field of migration studies, the Handbook is distinctive not only because of its international political economy orientation, but also because of its comprehensiveness: the Handbook combines sustained theoretical and conceptual engagement as it engages with the most important migration crises in North America, Europe, and Asia.' --Alan Cafruny, Hamilton College, US'An excellent book on one of the most pressing issues of our time: international migration. By bringing together the dominant approaches in the literature, and applying them to a broad spectrum of migration problems, this book sets a standard for academics and policymakers.' --Stefan Collignon, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy and University of Hamburg, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction: An IPE Perspective on International Migration Leila Simona Talani PART I THE THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRATION 1. International Migration: IPE Perspectives and the Impact of Globalization Leila Simona Talani 2. Neoliberal Globalisation, Transnational Migration and Global Governance Alba I. León and Henk Overbeek 3. The State and the Regulation of Migration Andrew Geddes and Oleg Korneev 4. Towards a Just Mobility Regime: An Applied Ethical Approach to the Study of Migrants’ Admission – The Case of Skill Selection Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Francesco Pasetti 5. Assessing the International Regime Against Human Trafficking Alex Balch 6. Migration, Transnationalization and Urban Transformations Margit Fauser PART II THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION OF MIGRATION 7. Global Foreign Workers’ Supply and Demand and the Political Economy of International Labour Migration Hélène Pellerin 8. Guestworker Regimes Globally: An Historical Comparison Kristin Surak 9. Closed Memberships in a Mobile World? Welfare States, Welfare Regimes and International Migration Giuseppe Sciortino and Claudia Finotelli 10. The Expat-Sensitive State? Globalization, Development, and the Shifting Loci of Transmigrant Resources William J. Haller 11. Migrant’s Remittances: Channeling Globalization Remus Gabriel Anghel, Matloob Piracha and Teresa Randazzo, 12. The Migration-Trade Nexus: Migration Provisions in Trade Agreements Sandra Lavenex and Flavia Jurje PART III THE REGIONAL DIMENSION OF MIGRATION 13. Regional Integration and Migration in the European Union. Simon McMahon 14. The Political Economy of Migration from the MENA Area Before and after the Arab Spring: The Case of Tunisia and Egypt Leila Simona Talani 15. Neoliberal Restructuring, Forced Migration and Unprotected Work in a Globalising Cairo: A Critical International Political Economy Perspective Roberto Roccu 16. Migration Policies, Migration and Regional Integration in North America Michael Samers 17. Regional Integration and Migration in Southeast Asia: The Rise of ‘Iskandar-Malaysia’. Elisabetta Nadalutti Index

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Book SynopsisThe experience of immigration to Australia from Scotland is outlined here, from daily life and occupation, to interactions with the indigenous inhabitants. Despite their significant presence, Scots have often been invisible in histories of Australian migration. This book illuminates the many experiences of the Scots in Australia, from the first colonists in the late-eighteenth century until the hopeful arrivals of the interwar years. It explores how and why they migrated to Australia, and their lives as convicts, colonists, farmers, families, workers, and weavers of culture and identity. It also investigatestheir encounters with the Australian continent, whether in its cities or on the land, and their relationship with its first peoples; and their connections to one another and with their own collective identities, looking at diversity and tension within the Scottish diaspora in Australia. It is also a book about the challenges of finding a place for oneself in a new land, and the difficulties of creating a sense of belonging in a settler colonial society. Dr Benjamin Wilkie is a Lecturer in Australian Studies and Early Career Development Fellow at Deakin University, Australia.Trade ReviewWill be welcomed by historians of the Scottish diaspora and those interested in Australian migration....A book that will be read with profit. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *A highly readable book [which] makes a significant contribution to the field of Scottish migration, revealing without doubt the extent to which it must be regarded as an entirely separate and distinctive diaspora. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *[This] book offers important new insights into the settlement of Scots in Australia, their networks, their culture, and, in a particularly important chapter, their interactions with, and impact on, indigenous Australians. . . . Wilkie's study is a well-written and nicely presented examination of one of Australia's most significant foundational migrant groups. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A fresh and engaging excursion through the gloaming of Scottish Australia. * AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction From Scotland to Australia: Convicts, Free Settlers, and Encounters with Australia Caledonia Australis: Imperial Commerce, Migrant Networks, and Australian Pastoralism Scottish Migrants and Indigenous Australians Imagining Home: Scottish Culture in Australia Warriors of Empire: A Case Study of Popular Imperialism The Empire Builders: Imperial Commerce and Migration Between the Wars New Scots: Industry, Settlement, and Working-Class Migration At the Edge of Scotland's Diaspora: Diversity and Tension in the Twentieth Century Conclusion: The Imperial Legacy Bibliography

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