Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisChapter 1 Introduction: Researching race and migration in a transnational context.- Part I: Race, Language, and Representations.- Chapter 2. The Whiteness of English: Raciolinguistic Chronotopes and Cultural Transformations in Contemporary China.- Chapter 3. Because I am a Foreigner: Western Migrants' Navigations of the Chinese State.- Part II: COVID 19, Geopolitics and shifting Ethno-Racial Ideologies.- Chapter 4. Now we are no longer needed!: How White European Migrants Talk about Race and Covid-19 in China.- Chapter 5. EuroAmerican teachers are our hardware: Shifting Racial Hierarchies in Chinese Private English Schools after 2020.- Chapter 6. Locating the Complexity of Whiteness in the Migration Context of Japan white Europeans as good migrants'.- Chapter 7. White Innovation': Conceptualizing Changing Racial Hierarchies Through Migrant Entrepreneurship in Singapore and Japan.- Part III: Gender and Interracial Encounters.-Chapter 8. Being a Black Woman in Japan: The Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Nationality.- Chapter 9. Navigating Whiteness in ELT: Fear, Anger, and Exhaustion Among Chinese Women Teachers.- Chapter 10. Post-Soviet White Femininities and Marriage Migration in China.- Chapter 11. Opening New Horizons in Race and Migration Studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the legitimacy of political asylum applications in the US and UK through an examination of the varieties of evidence, narratives, and documentation with which they are assessed. Credibility is the central issue in determining the legitimacy of political asylum seekers, but the line between truth and lies is often elusive, partly because desperate people often have to use deception to escape persecution. The vetting process has become infused with a climate of suspicion that not only assesses the credibility of an applicant’s story and differentiates between the economic migrant and the person fleeing persecution, but also attempts to determine whether an applicant represents a future threat to the receiving country. This innovative text approaches the problem of deception from several angles, including increased demand for evidence, uses of new technologies to examine applicants’ narratives, assessments of forged documents, attempts to differentiate between victims and persecutors, and ways that cultural misunderstandings can compromise the process. Essential reading for researchers and students of Political Science, International Studies, Refugee and Migration Studies, Human Rights, Anthropology, Sociology, Law, Public Policy, and Narrative Studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- SECTION ONE: Asylum Fraud.Chapter 1: Asylum Fraud.- SECTION TWO: Evidence: What Counts as Evidence?Chapter 2: Narratives.Chapter 3: Documentary Evidence.Chapter 4: Science and Technology as Determinants of Credibility.SECTION THREE: Misunderstandings and Suspicion.Chapter 5: Your Bribery is My Networking: Understanding the Meaning of Exchange in Asylum Claims.Chapter 6: New forms of Evidence: Membership in a Particular Social Group.SECTION FOUR: Victim or Perpetrator.Chapter 7: A Case Study: from Perpetrator to Victim to Perpetrator.Chapter 8: Victim or Perpetrator?.- Conclusion.​

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Book SynopsisIs Japan prepared for an ethnically diverse society? The volume examines the past and future trajectory of Japan’s immigration and integration policies and related institutions, taking a cross-disciplinary approach in social sciences. The authors highlight critical issues and challenges that the nation is facing as a result of the government’s inarticulate migrant-acceptance policy, e.g. in the fields of deportation, refugee policy, multicultural education and disaster protection. How can the situation be improved? The book investigates the changes and initiatives needed to build a resilient policy regime for a liberal, pluralistic, and inclusive Japan.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I National Immigration Policies Chapter 1: Problems from Leviathan’s Cells (Toake Endoh) Chapter 2: Refugee Policy (Ryuji Mukae) Part II Who Foreign Workers/Residents Are: From Micro-level Perspectives Chapter 3: Forty-Five Years of Multiculturalism in Japan: A Personal Narrative (J. F. Morris) Chapter 4: Socially Different: Diversity of Vietnamese Residents in Japan (Setsuko Shibuya) Chapter 5: The Unexplored Potential of Foreign Workers in Japan’s Travel and Tourism Industries (Hidekazu Iwamoto) Part III Issues of Migrant Integration on the Subnational Level Chapter 6: Japan’s Immigration Policy and Japanese Language Requirements (Uichi Kamiyoshi) Chapter 7: The Significance of Multicultural Coexistence in Post-Pandemic Japan (Akiyoshi Kikuchi) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWoman in the Nineteenth Century, published by Margaret Fuller, is a landmark essay which criticizes cultural standards and gender roles of the time. The work of literature is a powerful manifesto for women's liberation and empowerment in a world marked with tight expectations and limited risks. Margaret Fuller, a well-known feminist, writer, and thinker, is a staunch supporter of women's equality and liberty in both the public and private spheres. In beautiful words and serious analysis, she challenges patriarchal structures and advocates for women's self-awareness, education, and freedom.

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Book SynopsisA beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their creative potential — as lines of contact, catalyst, and blend — turning our thresholds into barricades.Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities. This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so. In each chapter, through detailed reporting, journalist and translator John Washington profiles a character impacted by borders. He adds to those portraits provocative analyses of the economics and ethics of bordering, concluding that if we are to seek justice or sustainability we must fight for open borders.In recent years, important thinkers have begun to urge a profoundly different approach to migration, but no book has made the argument as accessible or as compelling. Washington’s case shines with the multitudinous voices of people on the move, a portrait in miniature of what a world with open borders will give to our common future.Trade Review“A powerful and convincing case for human solidarity and cooperation for which Washington provides a roadmap. Unlike many commentaries and books about the fraught border, he does not leave out the Indigenous communities whose homelands have existed in the area for centuries before the border was violently imposed by the United States in 1848.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not “A Nation of Immigrants:” Settler-Colonialism , White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion "John Washington makes a strong, eloquent and even inspiring case for the relaxation and ultimately the abolition of border controls." —JM Coetzee"The Case for Open Borders offers an accessible and passionate case against border controls. Highlighting the complex stories and lived experiences of displaced and immobilized migrants in the crosshairs of violent bordering regimes, Washington shows how borders structure global difference across economies and ecosystems and ends with a multi-faceted and air-tight 21 arguments for open borders for people across the political spectrum." —Harsha Walia"John Washington’s The Case for Open Borders is a compelling, empathetic argument, a far-reaching look into the origins of borders. Washington is one of our most thoughtful, creative, and humane journalists, and this new work will make people think differently about what they think they already know, about what divides and unites the world in new, surprising ways. Highly recommended." —Greg Grandin“John Washington provides us with an essential evidence based, politically sophisticated, and ethically compelling tool to address one of the most important issues of our time.” —Alex Vitale, author of The End of PolicingThe Case for Open Borders reveals the extent to which today’s global borders have become, at their very core, irredeemably inhumane. Through riveting reporting and wide-ranging citations and case studies, John Washington deconstructs a host of broken metaphors, facile analogies, and fallacious arguments—deconstructing modern notions of scarcity, enforcement, and “order.” This is essential reading, a powerhouse manual for re-imagining a world without walls." —Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes a River"The Case for Open Borders is an urgently needed and timely appeal for justice for the expanding flows of migrants and refugees falling victim inside a hardened and darkening complex of enforced border walls, perilous waterways, and spirals of razor wire. A fluid blend of historical analysis, investigative journalism, and illustrative storytelling, this book grabs you immediately and turns your attention to these anti-human regimes jutting the global landscape—and won’t let you look away. Read this book that makes the most complete and comprehensive case for opening the borders—and then take action to make it a reality." —Justin Akers Chacón"Perhaps the most profound book you’ll read this year. Washington cleaves through all the cruel obfuscations and militaristic cant that derange our border and immigration politics and offers a better human alternative. Borders will not save us, or our rapidly broiling planet, but Washington's reportorial courage and ethical clarity just might." —Junot DíazTable of ContentsPrelude: What’s at Stake?Chapter One: Abu Yassin and The Friendship DamChapter Two: The Historical ArgumentChapter Three: Shafa and Hard Kinetic SolutionsChapter Four: The Economic ArgumentChapter Five: Never Merely TheaterChapter Six: The Case for Urgency, or The Environmental CaseChapter Seven: What Would Open Borders Look Like?Chapter Eight: How I Came to Open BordersChapter Nine: Josiel and Iron ObelisksChapter Ten: 22 Arguments for Open Borders

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Book SynopsisThe voices of Moria Refugee Camp are unified in their grief. Homes, hope, and dignity are lost in amongst squalid living conditions and the omnipresent void where the illusion of salvation once lived. Based on true stories, The Five Stages of Moria, resurrects the largest refugee camp in Europe and allows readers to bear witness to the monolithic trauma held within. In this blend of autobiography and fiction, readers not only meet five distinct characters who must grapple with the five stages of grief, but also the reality of a camp, and a world, in which they would otherwise be forgotten.Trade Review'Elika Ansari’s The Five Stages of Moria could not have arrived at a more significant time in UK politics. Although it was written before the exposure of the egregious conditions at Manston, the parallels between the two camps are deeply chilling. As a former aid worker at Moria, Ansari writes herself into the book through the character Maryam. Even if you had not read the preface that outlines Ansari’s experiences, it is clear that this level of insight could only be achieved by someone who has spent years on the frontline. I feel that this work is best read as a piece of investigative journalism that explores the psychology and culture of one of the most notorious refugee camps. This work is far too real to be dismissed as fiction.'

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Book SynopsisDespite the UK's long history of racial injustice, people from minoritised groups have fought back, engaging in advocacy, activism, and every-day acts of resistance to create positive change.This anthology is a prize-winning collection of these stories, spanning generations, cultures, and communities. They tell of subtle everyday acts of resistance like cooking traditional dishes from recipes passed down from grandparents displaced from their homelands, challenging microaggressions in the workplace, and sending care packages to relatives in occupied states. They also highlight bold and defiant rebellions such as building a successful business from scratch and against the odds, making perilous journeys, and fighting unlawful deportation.The fabric of these stories is made up of resistance, but also of belonging. They explore the complexities of feeling caught between identities as well as the joyful freedom found in reclaiming and rediscovering who you are.Full of humanity and bravery, this inspiring and unique kaleidoscope of journeys speaks to how nuanced and personal resistance against racism can be.Trade ReviewFocusing on "everyday" people and the oppression they face and deal with in different areas of their lives, rather than just a general populace, was refreshing and allowed you to feel deeply connected with the writers. This is filled with personal stories written by a variety of people, showcasing profound vulnerability, courage, and strength. Many valuable perspectives were given, and multiple hard topics were broached, including ones that I had very little knowledge of, like the UK deportation schemes and transracial adoption. Even with the stories mainly being sad and frustrating, the authors managed to infuse a sense of hope and encouragement to stand proud of yourself no matter your background, as well as stressing the importance of helping others. -- NetGalley reviewerIt is these everyday individual stories that make up the fabric of society which do not get read by most and often fall through the cracks. In a society and time where change is not enough, inclusion is not enough, and diversity is not enough, we need to see, hear, and feel a transformational change. The stories presented here are just the tip of the embedded problem, but I am hopeful that their impact will contribute towards bringing about a collective resistance to social injustice and racism. -- Dr Arun Verma, Inclusion, Intersectionality and Impact Specialist, Editor of Anti-Racism in Higher Education: An Action Guide for Change

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Book SynopsisStigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day discrimination against Muslims, refugees and the ''undeserving poor'', stigma has long been a means of securing the interests of powerful elites.In this radical reconceptualisation Tyler precisely and passionately outlines the political function of stigma as an instrument of state coercion. Through an original social and economic reframing of the history of stigma, Tyler reveals stigma as a political practice, illuminating previously forgotten histories of resistance against stigmatization, boldly arguing that these histories provide invaluable insights for understanding the rise of authoritarian forms of government today.Trade ReviewHistorically, when people were physically branded and maimed, it was clear who was creating stigma and why. While such practices are rare today, Tyler (Lancaster Univ., UK) argues that powerful, hidden processes in developed modern societies still create stigma … Chapters include an analysis of race and Black power in the US, the European refugee crisis, poverty within austerity Britain (based partly on her work with a local Poverty Truth Commission), and autobiographical insights from her working-class upbringing … [The] analysis of oppression in other places can provide a more acceptable way to explore dynamics that also apply to the US. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *A profoundly original and innovating book. By giving voice to the dehumanised, Tyler’s book powerfully bears witness to the suffering and tragedy unfolding in our age. Historically attentive and theoretically sophisticated… intellectually rich and elegantly written. * Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow *A devastating and brilliant book that reconceptualises stigma for the Twenty-First Century. Tyler skewers austerity and border regimes, laying out their human costs with clear-eyed, thoughtful analysis. Stigma is essential reading for these times. * Emma Jackson, Goldsmiths *If you think you know what stigma is, think again. This book is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the roots of stigma in our society and how it is leveraged to embed inequities. * Mary O'Hara *Imogen Tyler’s passionate book brings out the enduring power of stigma to mark inequality on the body in profound, searing ways. This will be a vital contribution to recognising the lived experience of inequality across history. * Mike Savage, London School of Economics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Stigma, the Machinery of Inequality 1. The Penal Tattoo 2. From Stigma Power to Black Power 3. The Stigma Machine of the Border 4. The Stigma Machine of Austerity 5. Shame Lives on the Eyelids 6. Conclusion: Rage Against the Stigma Machines

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Book SynopsisThe Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade, and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Integrationexplores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations in the world, in light of both a twenty-first-century political economy and the rise of Donald Trump. Despite the trillion-plus dollar contribution of Latinos to the US GDP, political leaders have paradoxically stirred racial resentment around immigrants just as immigration from Mexico has reached net zero. With a roster of state-of-the-art scholars from both Mexico and the US, The Trump Paradox explores a dilemma for a divided nation such as the US: in order for its economy to continue flourishing, it needs immigrants and trade.Trade Review“This is a big book––not so much in length, but in the breadth of coverage, depth of analysis, and gravitas of its contributors. . . . a thoughtfully organized edited volume examining the paradoxes associated with Trump’s pronounced opposition to migration from, and trade with, Mexico.” * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Looking forward, the contributors argue persuasively that strong national industrial and infrastructure policies, rather than trade accords, will speed future regional prosperity." * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Edward Telles PART ONE. The Trump Paradox 1. How Do We Explain Trump’s Paradoxical Yet Electorally Successful Use of a False US-Mexico Narrative? Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda and Edward Telles 2. What Were the Paradoxical Consequences of Militarizing the Border with Mexico? Douglas S. Massey PART TWO. Mexico-US Migration 3. How Did We Get to the Current Mexico-US Migration System, and How Might It Look in the Near Future? Silvia E. Giorguli, Claudia Masferrer, and Victor M. García-Guerrero 4. Recession versus Removals: Which Finished Mexican Unauthorized Migration? René Zenteno and Roberto Suro 5. How Is the Health of the Mexican-Origin Population on Both Sides of the Border Affected by Policies and Attitudes in the United States? Fernando Riosmena, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Megan Reynolds, and Justin Vinneau 6. What Shall Be the Future for the Children of Migration? LASANTI and the Educational Imperative Patricia Gándara and Gary Orfield 7. What Are the Policy Implications of Declining Unauthorized Immigration from Mexico? Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny 8. How Does Mexican Migration Affect the US Labor Market? Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier PART THREE. Trade Integration 9. Before and after NAFTA: How Are Trade and Migration Policies Changing? Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, Sherman Robinson, and Karen Thierfelder 10. What Is the Relationship between US-Mexico Migration and Trade in Agriculture? Antonio Yúnez-Naude, Jorge Mora-Rivera, and Yatziry Govea-Vargas 11. Is Complementarity Sustainable in the US-Mexico Automotive Sector? Jorge Carrillo 12. What Policies Make Sense in a US-Mexico Trade Deal? Robert A. Blecker, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, and Isabel Salat PART FOUR. Racial Politics 13. What Is the Historical and Political Context for Trump’s Nativist Appeal? David Montejano 14. How Has the New Mexico-US Relationship Affected Mexican Nationalism? Regina Martínez Casas and Rafael Elías López Arellano 15. What Are the Social Consequences of Immigrant Scapegoating by Political Elites? René D. Flores 16. How Do Latinos Respond to Anti-Immigrant Politics? Gary Segura, Matt Barreto, and Angela E. Gutierrez 17. Anti-Immigrant Backlash: Is There a Path Forward? Zoltan L. Hajnal List of Acronyms Notes Glossary of Key Terms References List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis.Trade ReviewAt once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery. * The Economist *Engrossing and poignant. -- Irina Dumitrescu * Times Literary Supplement *Engagingly describes the disorienting and sometimes shattering experience of feeling one’s native language atrophy as a new language takes hold…[A] beautifully written book…Sedivy elegantly captures why the language(s) we use are so dear to us and how they play a central role in our identities. If we believe multilingualism is valuable, then we must work to preserve language contexts while embracing linguistic diversity. -- Fernanda Ferreira * Science *As a child trying to fit in with her new surroundings, Sedivy quickly forgot much of her Czech…Relearning Czech as an adult offered redemption, and Sedivy’s book is in part an account of how through that act of learning she has found ways to bind disparate aspects of her identity…Beyond the striking anecdotes from her own biography, Sedivy’s book is at its best when she brings insights from psycholinguistics to the page. -- Gavin Francis * New York Review of Books *In this insightful and informative analysis, Julie Sedivy examines what happens to memory, dreams, and even the sense of self when you enter another language. It is a book which speaks to the condition of countless people who have changed language and culture in our globalized world. -- Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation: A Life in a New LanguageJulie Sedivy’s book is not just a study of what it means to cradle more than one language or more than one culture, perhaps even more than one identity—it is a profound elegy to memories that endure despite displacement and the many time zones that define our lives. -- André Aciman, author of Homo Irrealis: Essays[A] moving and deeply personal account…Sedivy also makes a case for saving endangered languages…The connection between language and memory is…beautifully rendered…An astute, thoughtful volume. * Publishers Weekly *With implications for communities and identities, Memory Speaks is an astute linguistic investigation, showing that language is something both in people and of them. * Foreword Reviews (starred review) *One of the finest books I have ever read about language: a wise and humane amalgam of poetry and scientific rigor, rooted in Julie Sedivy’s deeply-felt personal experience. Full of compassion and sharp-edged insights, Memory Speaks will touch all of us who care about the tongues we speak and about the countless tongues now falling into oblivion. -- Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened LanguagesAt last, a go-to book on bilingualism and why it matters. One part science and one part personal history, Sedivy’s book guides us through the eternal question of how we handle two or more languages. It leaves us monolinguals looking deprived rather than as the default. -- John H. McWhorter, author of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter—Then, Now, and ForeverBeautifully told. It is also packed with a tour of the science on bilingualism, in which [Sedivy] is an expert, as well as the controversial topic of how one’s native language influences thought. As if that were not enough for this fascinating book, she…illuminates what is lost when a language dies. * The Economist *Fascinating…In a panoramic vista of how we inhabit language and how it inhabits us, with openness and curiosity, Sedivy studies the process of losing one’s language and also provides several paths to reviving and reclaiming one’s lost self. -- Aqsa Ijaz * Dawn *A graceful blend of personal memoir with the author’s scholarly field of psycholinguistics, Memory Speaks offers generalist readers an opportunity to appreciate the marvelous complexity of human language—an ancient technology that our digital age’s most hyped AI, telematics and algorithms have yet to match. You don’t need to be an academic linguaphile—or even an everyday Wordle enthusiast—to reap rewards from this provocative book. -- Christine Wiesenthal * Alberta Views *

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Book SynopsisExplores how 'Britishness' functions as a tool of violent racial borderingTrade Review'Nadya Ali’s book shows how the very idea of Britishness brings with it a racial hierarchy of belonging. Tracing the connections between various policy areas normally discussed in isolation – the hostile environment, Prevent, and citizenship deprivation – the book is a devastating account of how British life is shaped by colonialisms, old and new.' -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming!' (Verso Books, 2014)'A groundbreaking book detailing how counterterrorism and immigration policy intersect to pressure Muslims and communities of colour to change their behaviour or risk being labelled 'extremists’ and ‘terrorists’. The book not only contributes to awareness of the ideologies and mechanics of racialised state violence but will provide students, scholars, and communities with the tools to challenge and resist state violence in multiple ways. A must read.' -- Dr. Rizwaan Sabir, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University and author of 'The Suspect' (Pluto Press, 2022)'How is it that in a society that eschews racism as a toxic remnant of the past, and that adopts explicitly non-racial policies, people of colour and Muslims especially are repeatedly rejected as belonging to Britain? In this sharp analysis of the intersection between counter terrorism and immigration, Nadya Ali shows how any answer must incorporate the structuring role of our colonial past.' -- Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex'In a moment when Britain seems to be in self-inflicted freefall, this work reminds us of the violence and cruelty involved in the demarcation of Britishness. Ali helps us to trace the connections between strands of state violence in order to persuade us that our only hope is an anti-racism that pushes back against all of these interlinked dehumanisations.' -- Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of 'Dangerous Brown Men' and co-author of 'Empire's Endgame''An excellent contribution to our understanding of the politics around who counts as sufficiently 'British', revealing a sustained and steadily tightening constriction of Muslim communities.' -- 'Renewal'Table of ContentsIntroduction: Undeserving citizens 1. The invitation 2. Domesticating Muslims 3. Conditional citizenship 4. The hostile environment 5. Hierarchies of citizenship in white Britain Concluding thoughts: The diminishing wages of whiteness

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Book SynopsisAn innovative approach to the refugee crisis through a focus on language use, discourse and representationTrade Review'A wide-ranging, erudite and multi-faceted analyses of the fundamental problem of who gets to be counted as human in a planet under stress' -- Kate Evans, award-winning cartoonist and activist, and author of 'Red Rosa''Absorbing [...] aimed at those looking to better understand the plight of refugees in terms of what the authors call 'a new humanism for the twenty-first century'. It is this humanism, urging us all to take seriously not only refugee justice, but our shared and fragile humanity, that is at the core of this remarkable book' -- Anna Gotlib is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York'This book is built around that which is absent from most books of this kind: the voices of the refugee. It challenges us to rethink the existing refugee lexicon and to open up fresh debates about the ethics, aesthetics, and politics of representation. What is particularly heartening about the book is the way in which, at a time of such negativity, the authors attempt to frame their overall approach in a context of hope' -- Roger Bromley, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham'Deftly weaving theoretical analysis with conversations from journalists, activists, and exiles themselves, 'Refugee Talk' stunningly accomplishes what responsible critique demands of us all: nuanced, ethical and material engagement with those to whom our thought is indebted' -- Sabeen Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College'In the midst of political conflicts concerning refugees, 'Refugee Talk' steps back from the immediate fray to reflect on the ethical character of 'refugee talk' in academic, media, activist artistic and literary contexts. The result is a genuinely thoughtful - and engagingly conversational - work that re-orients us to the recognition of hope as a common human dynamic and to a critical humanism expressed in acknowledging the dignity of refugees. Highly recommended' -- David Owen, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton'A lively and accessible intervention and an elegant collocation of multiple voices, many of whom are refugees. Rahbek and Knudsen make a compelling argument for a new politics of hope' -- Sam Durrant, Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of LeedsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Framing Crisis 1. Humanity – Ontology, Location and Migration 2. Responsibility – News Media and the (Re)framing of Refugees 3. Solidarity – Storytelling as Activism 4. Recognition – Refugee Literature and Defamiliarisation Framing Hope Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents an important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities. Issues of religion and race/ethnicity undergird current national debates around immigration, racial profiling, and democratic freedoms, but these issues, as the contributors document, are longstanding ones in the US.Trade Review“Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans brings to the forefront the intersections of race, gender, religion, citizenship, surveillance, transnational connections, and continuing constructions of identity among Asian Americans, and theorizes along those lines. It is a remarkable volume that should be required reading in part or in full for courses on Asian Americans, across the various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.”- Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College; “This volume brings much-needed attention to the religious lives of a racial/ethnic demographic—Asian Americans—that is so often ignored. The essays together establish the depth and breadth of the scholarship on Asian American religions, providing a rich snapshot of the wide range of Asian American religious life and the scholarly methods and approaches being used to study it. The editors have assembled a collection that will certainly serve as an invaluable resource for scholars working on Asian American religions.”- Sylvia Chan-Malik, associate professor, Department of American Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Book SynopsisThe first major oral history project dedicated to the stories of Ugandan Asian refugees in Canada, Gifts from Amin explores the historical context of their expulsion from Uganda, the multiple motivations behind Canada’s decision to admit them, and their resilience over the past fifty years.Table of Contents Introduction Ch 1: Exploring the Historical Roots of the Expulsion Decree Ch 2: Dreams and Reality: Amin’s Expulsion Decree and the International Community’s Response Ch 3: “Thank you, Pierre”: Canadian Immigration Policy in the 1970s and the Decision to Admit Ugandan Asian Expellees Ch 4: “His Dream Became My Nightmare”: Canadian Operations and Life in Uganda during the 90-day Expulsion Period Ch 5: “An Honourable Place”: Establishing New Roots in Canada and Evaluating Resettlement Initiative Ch 6: From Refugees to Citizens: Integration, Commemoration, and Identities in Canada Conclusion: Gifts that Keep on Giving: Ugandan Asian Canadians in the 21st Century

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2022Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland's Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself.Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called coffin ships they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences Trade ReviewA richly detailed and deeply humane book, the first full-length scholarly study of the Atlantic and Pacific crossings between 1845 and 1855 ... The Coffin Ship is a beautifully executed and highly readable work of social history that critically redraws a central icon of the Famine. McMahon not only sensitively describes tragedies and terrors, but grants his characters individuality, voice and a sense of agency. He also reminds us that the experiences of these Famine refugees should make us more sympathetic towards the plight of today’s refugees. * The Irish Times *In this highly readable book, Cian T. McMahon shows how the ‘flash flood’ of emigration helped survivors at home and abroad to rebuild their lives after the Famine. The Coffin Ship, of course, has things to say about coffin ships; but its true originality lies in its steady focus on the resilience of those who braved the ocean, on how they experienced the voyage, and on how they coped with the alien world that awaited them. -- Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future and Famine: A Short HistoryYears ago the great writer Toni Morrison asked me if there were any books about immigrant ships that told their story of the ‘middle passage.’ I wish I could have given her a copy of Cian T. McMahon’s brilliant study, The Coffin Ship. -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human HistoryThe Coffin Ship is a meticulously researched, groundbreaking work of history that replaces myth and legend with the voices of those who endured the mass flight set in motion by the Great Famine. McMahon’s in-depth account makes clear that rather than being an incidental part of the trans-oceanic passage, the migrants’ shipboard experience played a central role in the formation of the Irish diaspora. The Coffin Ship enriches and enlightens our understanding of the suffering and resilience of the dispossessed down to the present day. It is an enduring achievement. -- Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New YorkA fascinating, original, and beautifully written study of the process by which more than a million Irish famine refugees made their way to North America and Australia in the 1840s and ’50s. Few authors have done a better job than Cian T. McMahon in recapturing these emigrants’ unimaginable traumas and triumphs. -- Tyler Anbinder, author of Five Points and City of DreamsThe fount of primary material used here, including emigrant correspondence, ship-company administrative and medical records, and Parliamentary papers lends this book a luminous quality, while the emigrant voices populating its pages enhance The Coffin Ship's scholarly solidity with compelling readability. This welcome contribution to Famine history deserves a wide readership. * Irish Literary Supplement *Through the use of poetry and quotations from primary documents, he breathes life anew into these individuals so that readers experience their emotions, joys, and sufferings ... Even though his study focuses on the Irish diaspora, he connects it to current issues concerning refugees. This is an invaluable addition for any collection dealing with the Great Famine, the Irish diaspora, and the refugee experience. * Pirates and Privateers *McMahon has given us a colorful and insightful social and cultural history of the emigrant experience that expands our understanding of an iconic image of Irish popular history. * Irish Historical Studies *In its critical approach to Famine emigrants as part of a victim diaspora, McMahon’s study breaks new ground... McMahon’s study rightfully nuances the idea of the coffin ship from a historical perspective and on the basis of the wide array of sources. As such, The Coffin Ship is a significant new contribution to the field of Irish Famine research. * American Historical Review *The Coffin Ship is an exemplary social history. The care and nuance McMahon brings to his analysis of the firsthand accounts that migrants leaving Ireland between 1845 and 1855 produced is evident on every page. Guilt, a social concept that historians rarely address, is foregrounded here as one of the tools that impoverished Irish tenant farmers had at their disposal. * The Journal of American History *The Coffin Ship is an exemplary social history. The care and nuance McMahon brings to his analysis of the firsthand accounts that migrants leaving Ireland between 1845 and 1855 produced is evident on every page. * Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisEveryday War provides an accessible lens through which to understand what noncombatant civilians go through in a country at war. What goes through the mind of a mother who must send her child to school across a minefield or the men who belong to groups of volunteer body collectors? In Ukraine, such questions have been part of the daily calculus of life. Greta Uehling engages with the lives of ordinary people living in and around the armed conflict over Donbas that began in 2014 and shows how conventional understandings of war are incomplete.In Ukraine, landscapes filled with death and destruction prompted attentiveness to human vulnerabilities and the cultivation of everyday, interpersonal peace. Uehling explores a constellation of social practices where ethics of care were in operation. People were also drawn into the conflict in an everyday form of war that included provisioning fighters with military equipment they purchased themselves, smuggling insulTrade ReviewThe eloquent title Everyday War, stuns us with the "banality of evil" in the spirit of Hannah Arendt and, at the same time, helps us to look into the inner world of people for whom the presence of war, however paradoxically, has become commonplace. * Kritika *Heartfelt, important, and engaging, author Greta Lynn Uehling's Everyday War is a must-read nonfiction book on the political and sociological effects of war, in particular the Donbas region. The way the author was able to bring to light the multitude of "players" in the field aside from the soldiers themselves, as well as the devastating losses people endured during the war, from property loss and injuries to emotional distress and even loss of loved ones, helps readers to gain a better, more nuanced yet moving idea of what these battles do to those struggling to survive in the midst of war. -- Anthony AvilaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Everyday War 1. "Now We Have Funeral after Funeral": The Conflict over the Conflict in Donbas 2. Welcome to Café Patriot! Militarization and a Themed Café 3. Interpersonal Peace: The Micropolitics of Friendship 4. Home Fronts: Romantic Partnerships and Families during War 5. Boots, Gloves, and Tactical Kinship Intertext: "I Need a Peaceful Sky" 6. Praying to be Killed at Once: Ways of Coping with Military Violence 7. Everyday Sci-Fi and Practical Orientalism 8. The Volunteer Body Collectors of Ukraine: Outsourcing Undertaking and Smuggling Pediatric Insulin 9. Concluding Thoughts Intertext: "I Realize That Nothing Will Be the Same Again"

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Book SynopsisThe Chinese diaspora, consisting of both Chinese living overseas who are citizens of China (huaqiao), and people of Chinese descent who are citizens of foreign countries (huaren), have significantly shaped the making of modern China.China’s policy towards its diaspora is primarily governed by its national interests and foreign policy imperatives. However, the Chinese government has been careful to ensure that the huaqiao and the huaren fall into different policy domains: Chinese citizens living overseas are subject to China’s domestic policies, while Chinese descendants who are citizens of other countries come under China’s foreign affairs. Nevertheless, from the beginning, the latter continue to be regarded as kinsfolk distinct from other foreign nationals.The huaqiao-huaren distinction is often blurred in ordinary discourse and this has been a source of much misunderstanding. However, it has not been the policy of the Chinese government to blur this distinction, and it is acutely aware of the complexity of the issue and is therefore very cautious about implying any change. As such, when terms such as huaqiao-huaren are introduced in the official lexicon, they are meant to acknowledge certain historical and contemporary realities, and not to deliberately obfuscate the two categories. The use of the combined term is in fact a recognition of the clear-cut distinction between the two groups, and is meant to convey a semantic balance in which neither category is emphasized at the expense of the other.In general, since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government has treated the diaspora as an asset, rather than a liability. The sole exception was during the Cultural Revolution when returnees, or the guiqiao, were condemned as reactionary and bourgeois elements.There is therefore a fundamental continuity in China’s diaspora policy: namely, that China embraces both groups as part of a global Chinese community. Some policy shifts can be expected in future as China becomes more proactive in reaching out to its diaspora while balancing the needs and interests of Chinese abroad with the needs and interests of the Mainland.

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Book SynopsisA vivid, intellectual journey through the works of the renowned writerTrade Review'A scholar of unique range, learning, and originality' -- Jacqueline Rose, author of The Last Resistance (Verso, 2007)'Authoritative, knowledgeable, and fascinating ... an essential addition to understanding the nature of Israel and the conflict its establishment has created, not just for Palestinians but also for the Mizrahi or 'Arab Jews'. Poignant and thought-provoking' -- Ghada Karmi, author of Return: A Palestinian Memoir (Verso, 2015)'In this rich and wide-ranging collection, Ella Shohat demonstrates subtlety, imagination, and the potential of engaged writing. Although it probes many aspects of loss and dislocation, this work is sustained, in the end, by a profound sense of hope' -- Ahdaf Soueif, author of Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed (Bloomsbury, 2014)'Ella Shohat is a gifted cultural critic who writes about complex issues with great clarity, wisdom, and insight. In this collection of essays she tackles a wide range of Middle Eastern topics from a refreshingly original and radical perspective. She is a wrecking-ball of Zionist orthodoxies' -- Avi Shlaim, author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World'The volume is so rich in content and perspective on the changing patterns of ethnicity and its interaction with historical circumstance that I hardly know where to begin ... A genuine and enduring achievement.' -- Peace News'[A] profoundly important collection ... of enormous importance in understanding not only the tragedy of the post-1947 “population exchange” but the ethnic conflicts tearing apart the Middle East and North Africa today' -- CounterpunchTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Question of the Arab-Jew 1. Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims 2. Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew 3. Breaking the Silence 4. Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race and Multiculturalism 5. The Invention of the Mizrahim 6. Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography Part II: Between Palestine and Israel 7. The Trouble with Hanna (with Richard Porton) 8. In Defence of Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Threat in the Middle East (with Yerach Gover) 9. Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine 10. Territories of the National Imagination: Intifada Observed 11. Exile, Diaspora and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse 12. The Alphabet of Dispossession 13. On Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Interview Conducted by Jadaliyya) 14. In Memory of Edward Said, the Bulletproof Intellectual 15. A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the “Jews of the Orient and Palestinians” Meeting Part III : Cultural Politics of the Middle East 16. Egypt: Cinema and Revolution 17. Gender in Hollywood’s Orient 18. The Media’s War 19. The Carthage Film Festival (with Robert Stam) 20. The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation and Diaspora 21. Reflections on September 11 22. Anti-Americanism: The Middle East (A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi) 23. Postscript to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth 24. On the Margins of Middle Eastern Studies: Situating Said’s Orientalism Part IV: Muslims, Jews and Diasporic Readings 25. Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections 26. 'Coming to America': Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss 27. Diasporic Thinking: Between Babel and Babylon (A Conversation Conducted by Christian Höller) 28. Arab-Jews, Diasporas and Multicultural Feminism (A Conversation Conducted by Evelyn Alsultany) 29. Forget Baghdad: Arabs and Jews – the Iraqi Connection (A Conversation Conducted by Rasha Salti and Layla Al-Zubaidi) 30. Bodies and Borders (An Interview Conducted by Manuela Boatc and Sérgio Costa) 31. Don’t Choke on History: Reflections on Dar al Sulh, Dubai, 2013 (A Joint Conversation with Michael Rakowitz and Regine Basha) Notes Index About the Book and the Author

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Book SynopsisIn Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls for expanded sanctuary are insufficient when dealing with the everyday workings of immigration enforcement. Through fieldwork in migrant clinics, shelters, and the Sonoran Desert, Sostaita demonstrates that, as a sacred practice, sanctuary cannot be fixed in any one destination or mandate. She turns to those working to create sanctuary on the move, from a deported nurse offering medical care on the border to incarcerated migrant women denying rules on touch in detention facilities to collectives set up to honor those who died crossing the border. Understanding sanctuary to be a set of fugitive practices t

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives. Christina Zuber draws on contrasting case studies from Catalonia and South Tyrol to show that differences in policy can be explained by the political economy of historical industrialization and internal migration.Table of ContentsIdeational legacies and the politics of migration: An introduction 1: A theory of ideational policy stabilization 2: Immigration: opportunity or threat 3: Setting the terms for inclusion 4: The legacy of internal migration 5: Ideas of integration and separation 6: Ideational stabilization in policy practice 7: Conclusion Appendix References

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Shenila Khoja-Moolji highlights women''s critical role in this rebuilding process and breaks new ground by writing women into modern Ismaili history.Rebuilding Community tells the story of how Ismaili Muslim women who fled East Pakistan and East Africa in the 1970s recreated religious community (jamat) in North America. Drawing on oral histories, fieldwork, and memory texts, Khoja-Moolji illuminates the placemaking activities through which Ismaili women reproduce bonds of spiritual kinship: from cooking for congregants on feast days and looking after sick coreligionists to engaging in memory work through miracle stories and cookbooks. Khoja-Moolji situates these activities within the framework of ethical norms that more broadly define and sustain the Ismaili sociality. Jamat--and religious community more geTrade ReviewWith this monograph, Khoja Moolji fills a gap in the existing literature and moves the trajectory of her own work in compelling directions. It constitutes appropriate reading for graduate level or advanced undergraduate courses, and selections would enhance syllabi in a range of introductory level courses. The book will, no doubt, garner an enthusiastic audience among Ismailis who see their histories reflected with such care and precision. For all its academic and theoretical value, the most enduring impact may be the service, the seva, that Khoja Moolji performs in capturing so keenly and tenderly an era in Ismaili women's history. * Celene Ibrahim, Reading Religion *A Landmark study. Exploring the lives of Shia Ismaili Muslim women in the North American diaspora, Rebuilding Community illuminates many themes of our day - displacement, flight, migration (sometimes repeatedly from one country to another) followed by the work of recreating home and community in new spaces. Documenting the minutiae of their experience with brilliance and exquisite sensitivity, Khoja-Moolji also compellingly develops a theory of the ethics of care pertinent to any community of faith. * Leila Ahmed, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard University *In this brilliantly conceptualized work, Khoja-Moolji argues for how the deeply ingrained ethic of care among migrant Ismaili women illustrates the critical role played by women in creating a vibrant symbolic, imagined, and living community, turning displacement into emplacement. Her careful research destabilizes understandings of migratory and refugee populations as solely victimized and traumatized, pointing instead to how the placemaking practices of such women draw upon shared spiritualities, ritual practices, traumatizing dislocations, and cultural traditions to forge connections across generations and geographical locations. We are drawn into a richly textured world in which mundane activities take on much greater significance when seen as threads in an intergenerational tapestry that tell the stories of loss, relocation, resilience, and regeneration. * Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College *A pioneering study that sensitively explores the experiences of migrant Ismaili women in North America and the crucial role they have played in community formation through the ethic of care that is so central to their religious and spiritual lives. This compelling book will be of great interest to scholars in many intersecting fields, including religious studies, Islamic studies, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, migration and refugee studies. * Ali S. Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University *A book of rare power. Theoretically sophisticated and historically imaginative. The life stories and voices of Muslim women we encounter in this book offer new ways of thinking about and making visible the vital role of feminist ethics of care inside religious communities, and about the enduring power that practices of placemaking by women have in shaping and preserving religious identities. The book is written with an exemplary ethics of care and will itself become a cherished 'place' for honouring and celebrating the remarkable journeys of contemporary Ismaili Muslim communities. * Farouk Mitha, Institute of Ismaili Studies and University of Victoria *An insightful scholarly work that provides a rare, nuanced analysis of the experiences of Ismaili Muslim women...here is no doubt that [Khoja-Moolji's] book is a decolonial intervention within anthropology of religion that aims to engage with what is beyond the gaze of the ethnographer. * Shahana Munazir, Anthropology Book Forum *A powerful reminder of the importance of women to the forging of community. * Kirkus *The sharp theorisation of sacred spaces (jamatkhanas), the consideration of how care work informs religiosity, the focus on Muslim women's stories and the ethnographic methodology combine to render this book a worthy intervention into the fields of religious and Islamic studies. * Merin Shobhana Xavier, LSE Review of Books *Shenila Khoja-Moolji's eloquent and accessible book is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on lived Islam, and is written with special attention to the role of migrant women's ordinary ethical pursuits in cultivating spiritual intimacies in new spaces. Her book makes an especially important contribution to the anthropology of Islam, moving beyond paradigms of ethical self-cultivation to properly account for divine presence in an innovative and creative manner. * Anika Kabani, Journal of Gender, Place and Culture *Table of ContentsNote on Translation Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Re-Assembling Community 2. Ismaili Women's Lifeworlds, 1890-1970 Interlude: Fleeing, 1971-1972 3. Fostering Sacred Spaces 4. Storying Divine Intervention 5. Culinary Placemaking 6. Placemaking in the Second Generation 7. Conclusion: Spiritual Intimacies Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean Sea is now the deadliest region in the world for migrants. Although the death toll has been rising for many years, the EU response remains fragmented and short sighted. Politicians frame these migration flows as an unprecedented crisis and emphasize migration control at the EU''s external boundaries. In this context, At Europe''s Edge investigates why the EU prioritizes the fortification of its external borders; why migrants nevertheless continue to cross the Mediterranean and to die at sea; and how EU member states on the southern periphery respond to their new role as migration gatekeepers. The book addresses these questions by examining the relationship between the EU and Malta, a small state with an outsized role in migration politics as EU policies place it at the crosshairs of migration flows and controls. The chapters combine ethnographic methods with macro-level analyses to weave together policymaker, practitioner, and migrant experiences, and demonstrate how the Mediterranean is an important space for the contested construction of ''Europe''. This book provides rich insight into the unexpected level of influence Malta exerts on EU migration governance, as well as the critical role migrants and their clandestine journeys play in animating EU and Maltese migration policies, driving international relations, and producing Malta''s political power. By centring on the margins, the book pushes the boundaries of our knowledge of the global politics of migration, asylum, and border security.Trade ReviewThe way that Mainwaring cements her discussion in ongoing empirical evidence is one of the greatest joys in this book ... I found myself hooked by her attention to detail and have been following emerging events throughout this year as a result of the interest she has managed to pique. For Mainwaring this is not just research; At Europe's Edge reflects the determination of a type of academic activism (an intervention) that has been present in all the work of hers I have read to date. * Richard Vogt, Border Criminologies *At Europe's Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean [is] an impressively comprehensive and polished piece of work, addressing discourses, policy and security in relation to migration in the Mediterranean, based on a methodologically robust study. The book eloquently weaves together the historical evolution of border policy and migration in the Mediterranean, while also bringing the current realities into focus ... The author does not only centre migrant voices, but skilfully brings her interlocutors to life, by capturing in a few words their character, background or the impression that encounter left on her. * 2020 Annual Best Book Award of the'International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora' Working Group of the British International Studies Association Committee *It's all there, surgically taken apart by Ċetta Mainwaring in her excellent At Europe's Edge. Anyone who is serious about migration should buy and read this book. * Mark Anthony Falzon, Professor and Head of Sociology, University of Malta *At Europe's Edge is a compelling account ... [and] a valuable resource; it is relevant not only for scholars of governance and migration research but also for the interested public, migrants' advocates, and politicians alike... Mainwaring's book is timely and much-needed, as dehumanizing events like the tuna-pen incident still happen, as a glance at recent news reports from April 2020 reveals. * Dr Laura Otto, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main *From gripping opening to thoughtful ending, Ċetta Mainwaring adroitly locates Mediterranean crossings at the cutting edge of intellectual and political debate. At Europe's Edge demands that readers move border-crossers and small island states where they land from margin to centre. * Alison Mountz, Professor of Geography and Global Migration, Wilfrid Laurier University *At Europe's Edge offers an authoritative and accessible account of the social, political, and cultural construction of Europe's so-called 'migration' crisis. Mainwaring draws on a decade of ethnographic research to historicize the dominant 'crisis' narrative, to foreground the agency of actors presumed to be marginal in shaping Mediterranean space, and to emphasize the everyday production and contestation of Europe's borders. The result is a major new intervention that deserves urgent attention — this book will shape interdisciplinary debates about one of the most pressing public policy issues in the twenty-first century. * Nick Vaughan-Williams, Professor of International Security, University of Warwick *Table of Contents1: Notes from the Mediterranean: Shipwrecks, Politics, and Death 2: Constructing Crises to Manage: Migration Governance and the Power to Exclude 3: Limits of Migration Management: Clandestine Journeys to Europe 4: At Europe's Edge: Arrival on the Maltese Islands 5: Lilliputian Power? Malta's 'Crisis' 6: The Future of Europe Appendix: Reflections on Methods and Ethics

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that a conceptual and methodological shift is required in the way that border security is understood, and that a new approach is urgently required. It examines vernacular narratives of the 'crisis' and how they offer insight into citizens' knowledge of the 'crisis', and actually-existing alternatives to fantasies of control.Trade ReviewVernacular Border Security represents a major contribution to the burgeoning field of vernacular security studies and will be of immense interest to scholars looking for alternative conceptualizations to understand the contemporary politics of migration, borders, and security. * Peter Nyers, Perspectives on Politics *Vernacular Border Security is arguably the most conceptually and empirically ambitious contribution to the recent vernacular turn in critical security studies to date. It is not only an accomplished piece of research which should be of immense value to policymakers, but an agenda setting piece for critical border, security, and citizenship studies. * Ben Rosher, E-International Relations *Vaughan-Williams poses the important question, why has the recent frenzy of border fortification—especially but not only in the EU—intensified rather than reduced popular anxieties about borders and migrants? To answer it, Vaughan-Williams listens closely to the people churned by such anxieties. This essential, original, and extraordinarily well-researched contribution to border and migration studies arrives at conclusions that should stop both policy makers and critical theorists in their tracks. * Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Walled States, Waning Sovereignty *In foregrounding the vernacular, Nick Vaughan-Williams makes a powerful and highly significant interference in contemporary understandings of the politics of security, borders, and migration. Vernacular Border Security takes the extensive literature on the importance of language for securitization and desecuritization in a new direction by foregrounding conversations rather than speech acts, claims, or discourses. In doing so, Vaughan-Williams has given us a rich resource for critically engaging contemporary framings of security, borders, and migration through a democratic analytics that values the reflective and critical engagement of ordinary people in the politics of insecurity. * Jef Huysmans, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London *Vernacular Border Security is a must-read for all political geographers concerned with questions of borderings, wallings, and the contemporary political imaginations of migrations in Europe. Beautifully written and conceptually innovative, this book brilliantly connects the grand narratives of border security promoted by institutions at the most diverse scales with a set of vernacular perspectives on the experience of border security in specific European settings. The rich and original empirical material matched by the sophisticated theoretical analysis proposed here by Nick Vaughan-Williams makes this book a path-breaking intervention in the fields of border and migration studies. * Claudio Minca, Professor, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna *Coming from cultural studies and gender studies, I found Nick Vaughan-Williams' vernacular approach to be an illustrative perspective on security. Besides deconstructing the 'migration crisis' narrative, Vaughan-Williams explains theories of populism and ontological (in)security in a reader-friendly manner. I particularly enjoyed the author's take on affect and processes of gendering and racializing the figure of 'the migrant'. Reading this eloquent and important book gave me tools to analyze critically the perpetual debate about migration, borders, and securitization. * Tuija Saresma, Senior Researcher, University of Jyväskylä *European governments adopted inhuman, unlawful, and ineffective border security measures in the name of citizens allegedly frightened by migrants. Yet the empirical evidence offered by Nick Vaughan-Williams suggests that anti-migrant narratives originated at the top rather than at the bottom of societal ladders, aggravating anxieties among European citizens. The book points to counter-narratives embracing cultures of hospitality, rebuffing fantasies of walls and wired borders. These findings are not likely to deter populist politicians, but they should offer food for thought to moderate ones and to mass-media gurus eager to talk on behalf of 'ordinary people' without engaging in genuine conversation with them. I strongly recommend this book to all concerned citizens. * Jan Zielonka, Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and the University of Venice, Ca Foscari *Table of Contents1: Towards a Vernacular Study of Border Security 2: Exceptional Times, Emergency Borders: (De)Constructing Europe's 'Migration Crisis' 3: Populist and 'Post-Truth' Border Politics: The Securitization of Public Opinion on Migration 4: Dangerous Aliens, Crisis Constellations, and Information Gaps: Vernacular Narratives of Migration 5: Border Anxieties: Vernacular Narratives of Ontological (In)Security 6: Desecuritizing Strangeness: Vernacular Counter-Narratives of Border Security Appendix 1: Moderators' Discussion Guide Appendix 2: List of Focus Groups

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Book SynopsisModels of Immigrant Political Incorporation brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. It builds on a rich tradition of studying immigrant incorporation, but each chapter innovates by moving beyond singular accounts of particular groups and locations toward a general causal model with the scope and breadth to apply across groups, places, and time.Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation addresses three key analytic questions: what, if anything, are the distinctive features of immigrants or immigrant groups? How broadly should one define and study politics? What are the initial premises for analyzing pathways toward incorporation; does one learn more by starting from an assumption of racialization and exclusion or from an assumption of engagement and inclusion? While all models engage with all three key analytic questions, chapters vary in their relative focus Trade ReviewThis analytically incisive collection by a superb array of scholars provides an indispensable guide to one of the most fundamental social processes of our time. Anyone interested in the political inclusion of newcomers will profit from this state of the art volume. * Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Authors' Biosketches ; Acknowledgements and Dedication ; Introduction, by the editors ; I. Are Immigrants Distinctive? ; 1. Incorporation versus Assimilation: The Need for Conceptual Differentiation, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan ; 2. Is Incorporation of Unauthorized Immigrants Possible? Inclusion and Contingency for Non-Status Migrants and Legal Immigrants, Maria Lorena Cook ; 3. Tracks of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Christian Joppke ; 4. Ideas and Institutions in Immigrant Political Incorporation, Robert C. Lieberman ; 5. Immigrant Political Incorporation: Beyond the Foreign-Born vs. Native-Born Distinction, Janelle Wong ; II. How Broad Is Politics In Immigrant Political Incorporation? ; 6. Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation, John Mollenkopf ; 7. Culture, Context, and the Political Incorporation of Immigrant-origin Groups in Europe, Rafaela Dancygier ; 8. Structuring Immigrants' Civic-Political Incorporation into the Host Society, Ewa Morawska ; 9. The Importance of Demographic and Social Contexts in Determining Political Outcomes, Monica McDermott ; 10. Thru-ways, By-ways and Cul-de-sacs of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Michael Jones-Correa ; III. How Should One Approach the Topic of Incorporation? ; 11. <"The Great Concern of Government>": Public Policy as Material and Symbolic Resources, Irene Bloemraad ; 12. The Political Economy of Immigrant Incorporation into the Welfare State, Nolan McCarty ; 13. Continuity and Change in the Citizenship Laws of Europe: The Impact of Public Mobilization and the Far Right, Marc Morje Howard ; 14. Political Opportunity Structures and the Mobilization of Anti-Immigrant Actors: Modeling Effects on Immigrant Political Incorporation, Michael Minkenberg ; 15. Behavioral and Attitudinal Components of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Gary Segura ; 16. Assimilation and Political Attitude Tradeoffs, Rahsaan Maxwell ; 17. Moving Up and In: Two Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Jennifer Hochschild ; 18. Acquiescence or Transformation? Divergent Paths of Political Incorporation in America, Gary Gerstle ; IV. Rethinking Immigrant Political Incorporation: What Have We Learned, and What Next? Xavier de Sousa Briggs

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Book SynopsisDisplacement in the twenty-first century is urbanized. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the world's largest humanitarian organization and the main body charged with assisting displaced people globally, estimates that over 60 per cent of refugees now live in urban areas, a proportion that only increases in the case of internally displaced people and asylum seekers.Though cities and local authorities have become essential participants in the protection of refugees, only three decades ago they were considered to sit firmly beyond UNHCR's remit, with urban refugees typically characterized as aberrations. In The Urbanization of Forced Displacement Neil James Wilson Crawford examines the organization's response to the growing number of refugees migrating to urban areas. Introducing a broader study of policy-making in international organizations, Crawford addresses how and why UNHCR changed its policy and practice in response to shifting trends in displacement. CitinTrade Review“The Urbanization of Forced Displacement addresses an issue of significant concern to people working in the fields of refugee, migration, humanitarian, and urban studies, as well as those with an interest in the policymaking process of international organizations. As someone who was intimately engaged in many of the events and decisions examined in the book, I found Crawford's analysis to be engaging and enlightening.” Jeff Crisp, Oxford University and former head of policy development and evaluation, UNHCR"Neil Crawford's The Urbanization of Forced Displacement is a timely intervention on the debates about how and why international organizations experience policy change. [...] the analysis of the UNHCR’s experience of authority expansion to displaced groups in urban settings is sharp, and scholars of forced migration and refugee studies will find a fresh insight in it. Moreover, the book’s findings on the power of epistemic communities will be relevant to multiple audiences beyond the academic world. For policy-makers, Crawford offers an insightful analysis of the workings of international organizations. For civil society actors, it is an important source on the significance of knowledge and expertise in steering an international organization’s direction, and therefore, in crafting their impact strategies. In a time when science and epistemic communities are under constant criticism and challenges from different political forces, Crawford’s analysis reminds readers that knowledge and expertise still matter." International Affairs"[T]he author skillfully avoids treating an actor, like a state or an international institution, as a temporally stable, homogenous, and self-conscious unit. The book provides a productive example of how actors within and around UNHCR consist of internal contestations involving different branches and individuals, how they respond to change in the international system and discourse that they are embedded in, and how all these change over time [...]. The Urbanization of Forced Displacement is an important read for graduate and undergraduate students as well as researchers and policymakers working on forced migration." International Migration Review

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Book SynopsisThis study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing that transnational studies reinforce essentialist conceptions of identity and cultural authenticity in diasporic communities, and thus frustrate the promotion of ethnic co-existence and social cohesion in multi-ethnic societies.Trade Review'The study reveals a greater complexity to Chinese life in Britain than has been assumed to be the case, and clearly shows how a distinct identity has emerged and is now threatened, as young modern Chinese rely less on ethnic customs forged over the last century. The book also provides a useful case study of exclusionary practices of the dominant white society in Britain, and how they have influenced, for good and bad, British Chinese identity.' - CHOICE 'A reawakening, a rejection of infatuation with fashionable theories and concepts. The authors have stayed close and true to the studies of Chinese diaspora...Thus, the book is a valuable contribution towards to the understanding of similarities and more importantly diversities among Chinese communities.' - Yow Cheun Hoe, East Asia 'The most ambitious publication to date about the often overlooked Chinese population. The work offers a blend of history and anthropology that combines empirical depth with analytical perceptiveness. It demonstrates an unparallelled historical depth of scholarship. The book places Chinese in Britain in comparative context with Chinese migrants in other parts of Europe and North America. The authors' critique of transnationalism offers a starting point for a wider reflection on the state of Chinese migrant studies today.' - David Parker, Diaspora 'A major breakthrough in the study of European Chinese history and society that deserves a close reading by anyone interested in diasporic Chinese affairs. I suggest the authors and publisher consider bringing out a Chinese version to benefit those with no English.' - Liu Hong, International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies 'A comprehensive survey of the social and economic experiences of this group in an often unwelcoming host society. While the book's primary intended audience is scholars of the sociology of globalization and transnational studies and its primary focus is the twentieth century, there is much in this clearly written, thoroughly researched, and theoretically provocative account to interest a wider readership in Victorian studies. As we once again enter an era marked by profound ambivalence regarding China's role on the world stage, Benton and Gomez's work provides a timely antidote to all-too-common assumptions regarding the supposed ethnic unity of the Chinese and the historical novelty of their current economic prominence in national and international affairs.' - David Porter, Victorian Studies 'The first comprehensive study of the long history of Chinese migration to Britain. It corrects many misunderstandings in transnational studies and is a must-read for those studying Chinese migration, transnationalism, Chinese identity and British-Chinese relations. It will also be important for those who take an interest in Chinese business practices in Britain.' - Elena Barabantseva, The China Journal 'Does a great job of providing an unusually rich amount of detail on the Chinese historical presence in Britain.' - Leo Douw, China Information 'The most substantial monograph on the Chinese in Britain to date.' - Pal Nyiri, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Migration and Settlement The Chinese Economy in Britain Institutions and Divisions Transnationalism British Racism and the Shaping of the Chinese Community Ethnic Culture and Identity Conclusions Appendices: Companies Owned by British Chinese

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis broad-ranging collection brings into focus a set of approaches--techno-scientific, personal, and global-that add to the ever-compelling topics of identity, rootedness, mobility, and return. With its fascinating new perspectives, this book demonstrates the importance of memory studies for a better understanding of the future. -- Francoise Lionnet, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller 1 Tangled Roots and New Genealogies 1. The Factness of Diaspora: The Social Sources of Genetic Genealogy Alondra Nelson 2. Jews-Lost and Found: Genetic History and the Evidentiary Terrain of Recognition Nadia Abu El-Haj 3. The Web and The Reunion: http://czernowitz.ehpes.com Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 4. Queering Roots, Queering Diaspora Jarrod Hayes 5. Indigenous Australian Arts of Return: Mediating Perverse Archives Rosanne Kennedy 2 Genres of Return 6. Memoirs of Return Saidiya Hartman, Eva Hoffman, Daniel Mendelsohn in Conversation with Nancy K. Miller 7. Return to Half-Ruins: Fathers and Daughters, Memory and History in Palestine Lila Abu-Lughod 8. Singing with the Taxi Driver: From Bollywood to Babylon Jay Prosser 9. Off-Modern Homecoming in Art and Theory Svetlana Boym 10. Return to Nicaragua: The Aftermath of Hope Susan Meiselas 3 Rights of Return 11. Between Two Returns Amira Hass 12. Adoption and Return: Transnational Genealogies, Maternal Legacies Margaret Homans 13. Foreign Correspondence Sonali Thakkar 14. "O Give Me a Home" Patricia J. Williams, with Images by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick 15. The Politics of Return: When Rights Become Rites Elazar Barkan 4 Sites of Return and the New Tourism of Witness 16. Sites of Conscience: Lighting Up Dark Tourism Liz Sev?enko 17. Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony Nancy K. Miller 18. Trauma as Durational Performance: A Return to Dark Sites Diana Taylor 19. Pilgrimages, Reenactment, and Souvenirs: Modes of Memory Tourism Marita Sturken Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDuring a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades.Trade ReviewMigrant Anxieties is a compelling, up-to-date analysis of Italian migration cinema since the 1990s in a transnational perspective, under the critical lens of race, class, gender, and nationality. * Modern Language Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. After 1989: Projecting the Balkans2. Traffic from the East: Gender, Labor, and Biopolitics3. African Immigration in the 1990s4. Migration, Masculinity, and Italy's New Urban Geographies5. Imagining an Expanded Mediterranean Borderscape6. Living with Difference: From Noir to MelodramaAfterword: Accented and Transnational Filmmaking in ItalyFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisConfronting the role of foodie culture in gentrificationHaving discovered the flavors of barbacoa, bibimbap, bánh mi, sambusas, and pupusas, white middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated neighborhoods in search of authentic eateries run byand forimmigrants and people of color. Fueled by media attention and capitalized on by developers, this interest in ethnic food and places contributes to gentrification, and the very people who produced these vibrant foodscapes are increasingly excluded from them. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, geographer Pascale Joassart-Marcelli traces the transformation of three urban San Diego neighborhoods whose foodscapes are shifting from serving the needs of longtime minoritized residents who face limited food access to pleasing the tastes of wealthier and whiter newcomers. The $16 Taco illustrates how food can both emplace and displace immigrants, shedding light on the larger process of gentrification and the emotional, Trade Review"Joassart-Marcelli explores high-level theories about race, ethnicity, economics, systemic racism, and other factors that shape the food system, and then situates those theories within the city of San Diego... And part of the power of this book comes from the reality that every city is home to the same kinds of stories that Joassart-Marcelli uncovered in San Diego." * Civil Eats *"The book offers a contextualized and complex account of the making and remaking of urban spaces through food, and avoids romanticizing or dismissing the everyday practices of local residents." * The AAG Review of Books *"Jossart-Marcelli’s work makes a useful contribution to the literature on urban evolution and the processes—demographic, political, and financial—that perpetuate cycles of neighborhood ascension, decline, and gentrification... As the geography and culture of urban foodscapes continue to grow and change, Jossart-Marcelli has given readers plenty to chew on." * The Journal of Urban Affairs *"The $16 Taco reflects the best of food-related research and writing today, as it links the foods that sustain each of us with social and cultural practices that shape the material spaces we inhabit." * California History *

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Book SynopsisExplores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how they fit into their communities, countries, and the larger global Senegalese diaspora.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking interdisciplinary book that breathes fresh air into the study of migration, which has been dominated by economic perspectives. It brings together migration studies, the practice of strategic multilingualism, and racialized identity formation."" - Cilas Kemedjio, University of Rochester""The wonderful story told here about the Senegalese diaspora in three cities of different languages is one that will be of interest to all Africanists and postcolonial critics regardless of discipline."" - Jarrod Hayes, author of Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family TreeTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Global Senegalese Identity Formation through Language and Movement 1 What’s Language Got to Do with It? Language Attitudes and Identity Formation 2 Speaking while Black: The Quest for Legitimacy in Exclusionary Spaces 3 Neither Here nor There: Reflections on National and Transnational Belonging 4 Leveraging Language: Multilingualism and Transnational Identity Formation Epilogue Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMalaria Control During Mass Population Movements and Natural Disasters provides a basic overview of the state of knowledge of epidemiology of malaria and public health interventions and practices for controlling the disease in situations involving forced migration and conflict.Table of Contents1 Front Matter; 2 1. Introduction; 3 2. Malaria and Mobility -- A Brief History and Overview; 4 3. Epidemiology of Malaria; 5 4. Essential Components/Design of an Optimal Malaria Control Program; 6 5. Public Health Surveillance System; 7 6. Curative Services: Malaria Therapy and Case Management; 8 7. Preventive Interventions; 9 8. Community Involvement in Malaria Control and Prevention; 10 9. Special Studies and Operational Research; 11 10. Prophylaxis and Personal Protection for Relief Workers; 12 11. Return, Repatriation, or Resettlement of Displaced Populations; 13 12. Improving Malaria Control in Complex Emergencies; 14 References; 15 Appendix A: Description of Antimalarial Drugs; 16 Appendix B: Methodology for Efficacy Assessment of In Vivo Malaria Therapy; 17 Appendix C: Alternative Treatment Regimens for Severe Malaria; 18 Appendix D: Malaria Research and Technical Resources; 19 Appendix E: About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book explores who climate refugees are and how environmental justice might be used to overcome legal obstacles preventing them from being recognized at an international level. Francesca Rosignoli begins by exploring the conceptual and complex issues that surround the very existence of climate refugees and investigates the magnitude of the phenomenon in its current and future estimates. Reframing the debate using an environment justice perspective, she examines who has the responsibility of assisting climate refugees (state vs non-state actors), the various legal solutions available and the political scenarios that should be advanced in order to govern this issue in the long term. Overall, Environmental Justice for Climate Refugees presents a critical interrogation of how this specific strand of forced migration is currently categorized by existing legal, ethical and political definitions, and highlights the importance of applying a justice perspective to thTrade Review"As anthropogenic climate change alters the environment and interacts with socioeconomic and political drivers, people in vulnerable contexts are fleeing. Despite climate migration is receiving increasing attention in legislative and policy spheres, knowledge and actions are still limited. In this sense, Rosignoli’s challenging book is necessary, especially for those wishing to broaden their understanding in key issues of this topic from a comprehensive environmental justice perspective."Beatriz Felipe Pérez, CICrA Justicia Ambiental, SpainTable of ContentsTable of contents1 ‘Climate refugees’: Towards the construction of a new subjectivity1.1 Introduction 1.2 Methodology1.3 Historical knowledge of struggles1.3.1 The heterogeneity and multi-causality of climate-induced migration: empirical controversies1.3.2 History of the terminological disputes1.3.3 Competing for the future: The struggles of policymakers and the shift of nomenclature1.4. The insurrection of knowledges. Legal categories in motion1.5. Concluding remarks: Towards a decolonial environmental justice perspective 2. The unresolved legal dispute over the recognition of ‘Climate Refugees’2.1 International Refugee Law. The history of the 1951 Refugee Convention2.2 Regional Refugee Instruments: OAU Convention and Cartagena Declaration2.3 Towards the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration and beyond2.4 Limits and possibilities of the Refugee Law Concepts2.5 Looking for alternatives: The role of International human rights law and International environmental law2.6 Ioane Teitiota v. New Zealand. A legal tipping point? 3. Legal proposals and ongoing initiatives to fill the legal gap3.1 Three proposals for a new Universal Treaty3.2 Regional- and local-based proposals: regional responses, bilateral agreements, or enhanced domestic immigration laws? The case of Finland, Sweden, and Italy3.3 Beyond silos: connecting different international law regimes 3.4 Just a matter of extension?3.5 Combining existing legal framework with new multilateral treaty and complementary measures3.6 Nansen Initiative3.7 Peninsula Principles3.8 Migration with dignity4. The justice dilemma. ‘Climate Refugees’ as a case of Environmental (in)Justice4.1 What (Decolonial) Environmental Justice is and Why it matters for ‘Climate Refugees’4.2 The Threefold Injustice of ‘Climate Refugees’: Coloniality of Power, Knowledge, and Being4.2.1 The Coloniality of Power4.2.2 The Coloniality of Knowledge4.2.3 The Coloniality of Being4.3 Decolonizing the refugeehood 4.4 Concluding remarks5. Environmental justice for ‘Climate Refugees’: actors, instruments, and strategies5.1Why non-state actors can ‘solve’ the justice dilemma 5.2 A toolkit for non-state actors: collective capabilities5.3 Limitations and ways forward5.4 ConclusionAcknowledgements End matter Index

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Book SynopsisMonsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established icons of popular visual culture in sci-fi, doomsday and horror films and TV series, as well as in images reproduced by the news media to help trace the genealogy of modern fears to ontologies and logics of the Anthropocene. By logics of the Anthropocene, the book refers to a set of principles based on ontologies of exploitation, extermination and natural resource exhaustion processes determining who is worthy of benefiting from value extraction and being saved from the catastrophe and who is expendable. Fears for the loss of isolation from the unworthy and the expendable are investigated here as originating anxieties against migrants' invasions, terrorist attacks and planetary catastrophes, in a tTrade Review"A sense of catastrophe shapes the present. Terrorism and ‘war on terror’, environmental collapse, pandemic and "migrant crisis" build the background of the analysis pursued in this timely and original book. Investigating Western visual culture and imaginaries, Gaia Giuliani gives us a breathtaking tour across landscapes populated by monstrous creatures that, far from simply being the ‘West’s’ Other, continue to haunt it and in a way foreshadow the possibility of its vanishing. In the time of the catastrophe racialised bodies continue to be targeted by violent measures of control to allow the reproduction of the European and Western ‘we’, as Giuliani effectively shows. But with a classical postcolonial move she is also able to grasp and expose the cracks and fissures that destabilize that ‘we’ and open up the space for a postcolonial and feminist political project built upon such notions as ‘trans-corporeality’, ‘interactivity’ and ‘interdependency of Life and Nonlife’. Working the boundary between postcolonial, visual, and film studies, and at the same time drawing upon a number of other fields of knowledge, including philosophy and political theory, Monsters, Catastrophes, and the Anthropocene is a masterful academic work and a powerful contribution to a critical theory of our present predicament." – Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bologna, Italy, Co-author (with Brett Neilson) of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Duke, 2013)"In geological time scale, Anthropocene is a period from WWII to current time. In Gaia Giuliani’s extraordinarily erudite book, it is a time defined by ‘ontologies and logics’ of Othering, where the Western/European ‘we’ produces fears through mediatized narratives of monstrosity and catastrophe as its existential threats. Those fears are supposed to keep at bay resistance to extractivism of Earth’s resources and neoliberal exploitation and exclusion of people deemed expendable. Racialized, gendered, sexualized and classed constructions of monsters serve to preserve and continue colonial-cum-capitalist technologies of power and their political, social, economic and cultural outcomes that privilege white bodies while simultaneously inflicts cultural, material and mortal violence on all others. Giuliani’s critical feminist, postcolonial and ecological perspective offers an exceptional intersectional and genealogical analysis of plentiful examples from political theory and cultural production that links representations of contemporary migration, terrorism and natural disasters to the old colonial tales and images of slavery, apocalypse and endless forms of de-humanizing violence. Importantly, Giuliani also offers a glimpse of political practice that would link human and non-human life with non-living environment in different, non-exploitative modes of production (de-growth, non-exploitative) as well as social reproduction marked by interdependency of self-care and earth-care." – Dubravka Zarkov, Retired, Associate Professor of Gender, Conflict, Development, ISS/Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Nederlands, Research Associate, Radboud University Nijmegen, Co-Editor, European Journal of Women’s Studies, https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ejw"Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene A Postcolonial Critique is an urgent and rigorous theorization of global regimes of extractive capitalism, environmental devastation, pandemics, and ongoing war and state violence. Giuliani offers fresh and insightful ways of approaching crises and reimagining what belonging could be like if we abandon a notion of "we" that has promulgated exclusion, suffering, and the deaths of many millions." – Nicole R. Fleetwood, Professor of American Studies and Art History, Rutgers University, USA, Author of Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard UP, Spring 2020)"Gaia Giuliani's work has been consistently marked by an ambitious level of engagement and impressive scope. Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique is no exception. It takes a long, hard view of cultural history with particular reference to Europe/the West/Global North relations with its others. Giuliani places monsters as the prism through which these engagements unfold across time. But also how monsters inhabit our own ghostly crises times, culminating in the book’s conclusion on COVID-19. The result is a broad-scoped analysis of "cultural texts" with particular attention to popular culture." – Lars Jensen, Associate Professor of Intercultural studies, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark, Author of Postcolonial Europe (Routledge, 2020)"Giuliani’s extremely rich volume offers precious keys to decipher salient features of the current ‘end times’, murky and agitated by the spectre of planetary crises and permanent catastrophe. Leading the reader through an intense and exciting voyage in recent works of fiction, Giuliani skilfully traces the mutations of classic tropes of environmental discourse (contagion, crises, catastrophe and collapse), and their proliferation in contemporary political debates. Giuliani casts a spotlight on liminal figures such as the alien, the mutant, the monster, all situated in the in-betweens dead/undead, human/non-human. Embodied in widespread representations of the migrant, the terrorist, the victim of climate change/disaster, such figures of the monstrous are analysed by Giuliani as symptom of the reconfiguration of the boundaries between Life and Nonlife, a key site of political contestation in the face of tangled planetary crises. With a thorough and theoretically engaged exploration of visual imaginaries, Giuliani shows how apocalyptic (environmental) narratives extend into the future the postcolonial, racialised, gendered and classed relations that structure current fears and visions. Putting in conversation political theory, environmental humanities, postcolonial and critical feminist studies, Giuliani’s is a thought-provoking intervention in critical debates on the Anthropocene, and a contribution to the pursuit of non-exploitative, caring and decolonized constellations of (non)human Life/Nonlife."— Giovanni Bettini, Lecturer in Climate Politics and Development, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK"With clear insight of the fringes and structural contradictions of our time, Giuliani’s analysis celebrates an investigative method developed through her long-standing research. Through a broad comparative analysis of visual apocalyptic materials, such as films and TV series, to trace protagonists of present popular imaginary, Giuliani offers original reflections and a visionary energy toward a postcolonial critical approach to contemporary fears of the End. Through a careful use of diverse disciplinary registers, Giuliani’s book innovates philosophical form by building a historical and symbolic journey through the space-time geography of the world, masterfully braiding the threads of the colonial past and neo-colonial present to fix its knots in the construction of figures at the border of social fear; from the monster to the alien, from the virus to environmental catastrophes. The inevitability of concluding on the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic perfectly closes the circle of reflection, stigmatizing our time and future as an era of a realized (capitalistic) dystopia. The culmination of Giuliani’s brilliant book, however, is nested in its luminous ability to incite ways to think and move toward "a feminist, post-developmental and ecologist epistemology and a political project that embraces a new conception of the political." – Giovanni Ruocco, Associate Professor in History of Political Thought, Department of Political Science, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy, author of Razze in teoria. La scienza politica di Gaetano Mosca nel discorso pubblico dell’Ottocento (Quodlibet, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: The past devours the present: Fears of invasion and the repressed memory of colonial violence Section 2: Alien-ing the migrant. On Anthropocenic geographies of monstrosity Section 3: Lifting the veil on the monstrous Anthropocene: a postcolonial analysis Conclusions

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Book SynopsisWhile the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid legal framework and legal certainty.This book analyses the relevant legal instruments for the provision of a protection status for persons fleeing to Europe from conflict and violence. It focuses on the conceptualisation of conflict and violence in the countries of origin and the different approaches taken in the interpretation of them in the 1951 Refugee Convention, the Recast Qualification Directive of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights. It traces the hierarchical order of protection granted, starting with refugee protection status, to subsidiary protection status and finally with the negative protection from non-refoulement. Recent case law and asylum status determination practices of European countries illustrate the obstacles in the interpretation as well as the divergence in the applicatTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Refugee Protection in the Context of Conflict and Violence 3. European Union Asylum Law and Persons Fleeing Conflict and Violence 4. European Human Rights Law Protection for Persons Fleeing Conflict and Violence 5. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe book analyses how lines of (non)belonging are traced and how notions of (non)belonging circulate around and are attached to students from immigrant backgrounds. Such circulations coalesce around values and practices linked to gendered, ethnic majority middle-class norms, through which difference is positioned and opposed in hierarchical terms. This project analyses the relationship between teachers' identities and their attitudes and pedagogic dispositions towards students from immigrant backgrounds, showing how these affect each other, contributing to their state of (non)belonging in the educational setting and in the wider society. Attention is brought to the pervasive and normalised background of neoliberal ideology, permeating the educational environment. In examining the (problematic) relationship between the previous elements, the book uncovers the intersectional reproduction of lines of belonging - and not belonging. While the analysis is centred on a sTable of Contents1. The context 2. Key theories and concepts 3. Teachers’ perceptions of social class 4. Teachers’ views on Gender 5. Constructing (non)belonging6. Teachers’ understanding of neoliberal education policies and the shaping of power relations in the classroom7. Linking teachers dispositions and pedagogies

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Book SynopsisMigrants squats are an essential part of the corridors of solidarity' that are being created throughout Europe, where grassroots social movements engaged in anti-racist, anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics coalesce with migrants in devising non-institutional responses to the violence of border regimes. This book focuses on migrants' self-organised housing strategies in Europe and the collective squatting of buildings and land.In these spaces contentious politics and everyday social reproduction uproot racist and xenophobic regimes. The struggles emerging in these spaces disrupt host-guest relations, which often perpetuate state-imposed hierarchies and humanitarian disciplining technologies. The solidarities and collaborations between undocumented and documented activists in these radical spaces enable possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against and within citizenship. These do not only reverse forms of exclusion and repression, but produce ungovernable resources, alliTable of ContentsIntroduction: citizenship as inhabitance? Migrant housing squats versus institutional accommodation 1. Enforcing and disrupting circular movement in an EU Borderscape: housingscaping in Serbia 2. For ‘common struggles of migrants and locals’. Migrant activism and squatting in Athens 3. Urban commons and freedom of movement: the housing struggles of recently arrived migrants in Rome 4. The micropolitics of border struggles: migrants’ squats and inhabitance as alternatives to citizenship 5. Bordering through domicide: spatializing citizenship in Calais 6. Migrants’ inhabiting through commoning and state enclosures. A postface

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Book SynopsisMining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, this book exposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.Trade Review"Based on an impressive ethnographic study carried out over twelve years, the book brings to light the rich and detailed voices and experiences of the 1.5 generation." NACLA: Report on the Americas "A must-read... This book is a critical addition to blossoming research on the undocumented 1.5-generation." City & SocietyTable of ContentsForeword by Jose Antonio Vargas Preface Acknowledgments 1. Contested Membership over Time 2. Undocumented Young Adults in Los Angeles: College-Goers and Early Exiters 3. Childhood: Inclusion and Belonging 4. School as a Site of Belonging and Conflict 5. Adolescence: Beginning the Transition to Illegality 6. Early Exiters: Learning to Live on the Margins 7. College-Goers: Managing the Distance between Aspirations and Reality 8. Adulthood: How Immigration Status Becomes a Master Status 9. Conclusion: Managing Lives in Limbo Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA history of the United States' systematic expulsion of undesirables and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengerswho travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains. The United States, celebrated as a nation of immigrants and the land of the free, has developed the most extensive system of imprisonment and deportation that the world has ever known. The Deportation Express is the first history of American deportation trains: a network of prison railroad cars repurposed by the Immigration Bureau to link jails, hospitals, asylums, and workhouses across the country and allow forced removal with terrifying efficiency. With this book, historian Ethan Blue uncovers the origins of the deportation train and finds the roots of the current moment, as immigrant restriction and mass deportation once again play critical and troubling roles in contemporary politics and legislation. A century ago, deportation trains made coTrade Review"More than simply documenting migrants’ trials and tribulations, Blue highlights the increasingly constricted lines around U.S. citizenship in the 1910s. . . . The Deportation Express makes a meaningful contribution as the first book to examine the mechanics of expulsion during 'the age of rail-based removal.'" * Journal of Social History *"The Deportation Express is a breath of fresh air. It carefully combines theoretical understandings that provide insight into the inhumane practices of state control and violence, while using archival reproduction to illuminate narratives that center the human element in an inhumane system." * Journal of Arizona History *"Blue’s decision to use a series of microhistories. . . . highlights the brutal impacts of forced deportation on individuals, and the injustices inherent within the developing American State and the capitalist system it both supported and depended on. The microhistories teach us much about the racism, violence and cruelty of the early-twentieth-century American immigration system, designed to provide capital with cheap labor from foreign workers who could then be spat out over the border when they no longer had use or value." * Australasian Journal of American Studies *"The Deportation Express demonstrates how the United States emerged as a leader of global racial capitalism by this time, as well as the role that the immigration carceral state played in constructing and maintaining those hierarchies. . . . Blue’s detailed history of these early deportation trains provides an important foundation for understanding the 'twenty-first-century infrastructure of capture.'" * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Offers valuable insights on how racism and exclusionary borders take shape through physical infrastructure. These insights can help us understand the terrible costs of war, and the true wages of peace, from the standpoint of the global majority." * Public Books *"The Deportation Express is not only a true pleasure to read and a critical contribution to our understanding of state power and migration control in the early twentieth century. It is also a thoroughly moving account of the individuals and communities who experienced this power, and a model to historians seeking to craft nuanced, humanizing representations of their subjects." * American Historical Review *"The Deportation Express is a story about each of us, as participants in an ongoing national experiment, and our collective work to shape our discourse, values, and identity as a United States community." * Southern California Quarterly *"Elegantly written and amasses a monumental amount of research. . . . Ethan Blue’s book urges immigration activists and scholars to continue to embrace an abolitionist framework, tracing and disrupting the way that the immigration- and border-industrial complex are interwoven with and integral to the US settler-colonial, carceral state." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A valuable contribution to several growing fields. . . . Blue uncovers…the underlying vision of this “deportation regime” and its evolving historical entanglement with race and ethnicity in the era of U.S. immigration restriction." * California History *"The Deportation Express presents a compelling and interesting history of American immigration enforcement. . . . a critical addition to many fields of inquiry including American history and studies as well as immigration studies." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Building the Deportation State 1 • Planning the Journey Part Two: Eastbound 2 • Seattle 3 • Portland 4 • San Francisco 5 • Denver 6 • Chicago 7 • Buffalo 8 • Ellis Island Part Three: Westbound 9 • Carbondale 10 • New Orleans 11 • San Antonio 12 • El Paso 13 • Angel Island Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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