Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisAround 1825, the point at which emigration to Canada began to be seen as a cure for poverty and joblessness in England, certain English writers began arguing that the vocation of middle-class emigrants was to recreate the English class system in Canada. This title explores how and why this ideology gained currency.

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Book SynopsisChronicles the challenges facing Haitian immigrants and their US-born children as they seek to maintain their cultural identity in the United States. Beginning with an outline of Haitian political history, this explains how Haiti and the United States have become linked by a shared history of commerce and colonialism.

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Book SynopsisPresents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants’ narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travellers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Their stories reveal how they established new lives, how they endured homesickness and separation, what they gave up and what they gained.

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Book SynopsisIn this study, Frederick Hale relates the reasons why the Swedish immigrants left for the New World. He also tells of their arduous journeys, and their establishment of communities in Wisconsin. This edition includes the selected letters of Swedish novelist and feminist Frederika Bremer.

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Book SynopsisThe star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family. In the Country We Love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman''s extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious

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Book SynopsisFrom an exceptional storyteller, Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota's Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet.All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita than any other, from Syria to Bosnia, Thailand to Liberia. Now, with nativism on the rise, Kao Kalia Yangherself a Hmong refugeehas gathered stories of the stateless who today call the Twin Cities home.Here are people who found the strength and courage to rebuild after leaving all they hold dear. Awo and her mother, who escaped from Somalia, reunite with her father on the phone every Saturday, across the span of continents and decades. Tommy, born in Minneapolis to refugees from Ca

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Book SynopsisNow in a full-length book, the New York Times Pulitzer Prizewinning graphic story of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in AmericaAfter escaping a Syrian prison, Ibrahim Aldabaan and his family fled the country to seek protection in America. Among the few refugees to receive visas, they finally landed in JFK airport on November 8, 2016, Election Day. The family had reached a safe harbor, but woke up to the world of Donald Trump and a Muslim ban that would sever them from the grandmother, brothers, sisters, and cousins stranded in exile in Jordan.Welcome to the New World tells the Aldabaans' story. Resettled in Connecticut with little English, few friends, and even less money, the family of seven strive to create something like home. As a blur of language classes, job-training programs, and the fearsome first days of high school (with hijab) give way to normalcy, the Aldabaans are lulled into a sense of security. A

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Remarkable…The artwork is deliberately evocative of Mesoamerican logography, with figures and perspectives that feel at once bizarre and totally familiar.” -- Vulture“Undocumented, featuring multi-award winning author/illustrator Tonatiuh's (The Princess and the Warrior) vibrant, stylized illustrations, is an all-too-real discussion about fair pay and the hostility U.S. citizens often display toward undocumented immigrants.” -- Shelf Awareness“By focusing on the narrative of one immigrant worker, Tonatiuh breaks the mammoth issues of immigration and workers rights into an easy-to-swallow bite, allowing the reader to easily engage with an often intimidating topic. The personal is again political. Highly recommended.” -- Kirkus"Multiple Pura Belpré Medal and Honor–awarded Tonatiuh (Diego Rivera​, 2011) channels his interest in the Mixtec codex format to create a superb modern odyssey, stupendously illustrated in his signature contemporary adaptation of pre-Columbian art forms, presented on accordion pages in a handsome slip-case." -- Booklist online“Although Juan is a fictional character, the story is a very real one: many undocumented workers are mistreated by employers, but are too afraid to speak up.“ -- GeekDad“The book gives eloquent voice to the millions of undocumented people who come here with dreams of helping their families and work hard, contributing so much to this country.” -- Booklist online

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Book SynopsisShedding new light on integration and citizenship in France to reveal the ways in which immigrants do --and do not--share the attitudes of the majority population.Trade Review"As French as Everyone Else? is a timely, unique, and major contribution. Brouard and Tiberj-leading French political science researchers-offer a concise book on the important case of France. Given the relatively large size of the country's immigrant population and its political and social significance, its study is especially relevant. These scholars examine in depth the cultural, political, and religious attitudes of this very important community. It is one about which little is known, in a scientific sense, until now." -Michael Lewis-Beck, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa and author of How France Votes, The French Voter: Before and After the 2002 Elections, and French Presidential ElectionsTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Why this question? 1: Are the new french mroe religious and less laique? 2: Integration into the french political system 3: A welfare culture? 4: Women, mores and homosexuality 5: Racism and anti-semitism 6: Integration and equal opportunity 7: What identity/indentities? Conclusion French like everyone else Methodological annex

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Book SynopsisShedding new light on integration and citizenship in France to reveal the ways in which immigrants do --and do not--share the attitudes of the majority population.Trade Review"As French as Everyone Else? is a timely, unique, and major contribution. Brouard and Tiberj-leading French political science researchers-offer a concise book on the important case of France. Given the relatively large size of the country's immigrant population and its political and social significance, its study is especially relevant. These scholars examine in depth the cultural, political, and religious attitudes of this very important community. It is one about which little is known, in a scientific sense, until now." -Michael Lewis-Beck, F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Iowa and author of How France Votes, The French Voter: Before and After the 2002 Elections, and French Presidential ElectionsTable of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Why this question? 1: Are the new french mroe religious and less laique? 2: Integration into the french political system 3: A welfare culture? 4: Women, mores and homosexuality 5: Racism and anti-semitism 6: Integration and equal opportunity 7: What identity/indentities? Conclusion French like everyone else Methodological annex

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Book SynopsisWhen you think of American immigration, what images come to mind? Ellis Island. East Side tenements. Pushcarts on Eighth Avenue. Little Italy. Chinatown. El Barrio. New York City has always been central to the immigrant experience in the United States. In the last three decades, the volume of immigration has increased as has the diversity of immigrant origins and experiences. Contemporary immigration conjures up old images but also some new ones: the sweatshops and ethnic neighborhoods are still there, but so are cell phones, faxes, e-mails, and the more intense and multilayered involvement of immigrants in the social, economic, and political life of both home and host societies.In this ambitious book, nineteen scholars from a broad range of disciplines bring our understanding of New York's immigrant communities up to date by exploring the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic, gender dynamics in the City.Urban and suburban, Asian, European, Latin American, and Caribbean, men and women and children the essays here analyze the complex forces that shape the contemporary immigrant experience in New York City and the links between immigrant communities in New York and their countries of origin. Hector R. Cordero-Guzman is an Assistant Professor at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School University in New York City. Robert C. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College and part of the Barnard Project on Migration and Diasporas. Ramon Grosfoguel is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College.Trade Review"Innovative and illuminating, this book is exactly what we need at this time: an examination of specific instances which capture the features, the meaning and the implications of transnationalism. This volume is exciting because it includes a younger generation of researchers. One of the book's strengths is that it combines a focus on migration with a focus on the city. Through this detailed lens, [the editors] make a contribution to our understanding of larger cross-boarder dynamics." --Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and author of The Global City 2001 "One hears a lot about transnationalism these days. But the word is used so loosely that it often loses any real meaning. This book puts some meat on the bones of transnationalism by showing how it unfolds among various immigrant groups in one particular city--New York--not only now, but in the past. It reveals both the fascinating diversity and remarkable similarity of transnationalism as it plays out across different groups and times." --Douglas S. Massey, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "These sure-handed editors have produced a rich, varied, and sophisticated picture of how immigration is changing the face of America's gateway city, New York. Exploring a dozen immigrant groups, the leading scholars reveal how class, gender, transnational ties, discrimination, and political action are shaping the formation of new Americans in a renewed city." --John Mollenkopf, Director, Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center, and co-author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction Robert C. Smith, Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, and Ramon Grosfoguel Part I: Transnationalization, Globalization and Migration 1. Transnationalism, Then and Now: New York Immigrants Today and at the Turn of the Century Nancy Foner 2. The Generation of Identity: Haitian Youth and the Transnational Nation-State Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick Schiller 3. Political Incorporation and Re-Incorporation: Simultaneity in the Dominican Migrant Experience Pamela M. Graham 4. Suburban Transmigrants: Long Island's Salvadorans Sarah Mahler 5. The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules: The Political Dimension of Recent Chinese Immigration to New York Zai Liang 6. Gendered and Racialized Circulation-Migration: Implications for the Poverty and Work Experience of New York's Puerto Rican Women Dennis Conway, Adrian J. Bailey, and Mark Ellis Part II: Migration and Socio-Economic Incorporation in New York City 7. Class, Race, and Success: Indian-Americans Confront the American Dream Johanna Lessinger 8. Ethnic Niches and Racial Traps: Jamaicans in the New York Regional Economy Philip Kasinitz and Milton Vickerman 9. Neither Ignorance nor Bliss: Race, Racism and the West Indian Immigrant Experience Vilna Bashi 10. Peruvian Historical Networks for Migration in New York City Alex Julca 11. Entrepreneurship and Business Development among African-Americans, Koreans, and Jews: Exploring Some Structural Differences Jennifer Lee 12. When Co-ethnic Assets Become Liabilities: Mexicans, Ecuadorian and Chinese Garment Workers in New York City Margaret M. Chin

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Book SynopsisWhen you think of American immigration, what images come to mind? Ellis Island, East Side tenements, Pushcarts on Eighth Avenue, Little Italy, Chinatown, and El Barrio. New York City has always been central to the immigrant experience in the United States. In the last three decades, the volume of immigration has increased as has the diversity of immigrant origins and experiences. Contemporary immigration conjures up old images but also some new ones: the sweatshops and ethnic neighborhoods are still there, but so are cell phones, faxes, e-mails, and the more intense and multilayered involvement of immigrants in the social, economic, and political life of both home and host societies. In this ambitious book, nineteen scholars from a broad range of disciplines bring our understanding of New York's immigrant communities up-to-date by exploring the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic, gender dynamics in the City. Urban and suburban, Asian, European, Latin American, and Caribbean, men and women and children the essays here analyze the complex forces that shape the contemporary immigrant experience in New York City and the links between immigrant communities in New York and their countries of origin.Hector R. Cordero-Guzman is an Assistant Professor at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School University in New York City. Robert C. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College and part of the Barnard Project on Migration and Diasporas. Ramon Grosfoguel is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College.Trade Review"Innovative and illuminating, this book is exactly what we need at this time: an examination of specific instances which capture the features, the meaning and the implications of transnationalism. This volume is exciting because it includes a younger generation of researchers. One of the book's strengths is that it combines a focus on migration with a focus on the city. Through this detailed lens, [the editors] make a contribution to our understanding of larger cross-boarder dynamics." --Saskia Sassen, Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and author of The Global City 2001 "One hears a lot about transnationalism these days. But the word is used so loosely that it often loses any real meaning. This book puts some meat on the bones of transnationalism by showing how it unfolds among various immigrant groups in one particular city--New York--not only now, but in the past. It reveals both the fascinating diversity and remarkable similarity of transnationalism as it plays out across different groups and times." --Douglas S. Massey, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "These sure-handed editors have produced a rich, varied, and sophisticated picture of how immigration is changing the face of America's gateway city, New York. Exploring a dozen immigrant groups, the leading scholars reveal how class, gender, transnational ties, discrimination, and political action are shaping the formation of new Americans in a renewed city." --John Mollenkopf, Director, Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center, and co-author of Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction Robert C. Smith, Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, and Ramon Grosfoguel Part I: Transnationalization, Globalization and Migration 1. Transnationalism, Then and Now: New York Immigrants Today and at the Turn of the Century Nancy Foner 2. The Generation of Identity: Haitian Youth and the Transnational Nation-State Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick Schiller 3. Political Incorporation and Re-Incorporation: Simultaneity in the Dominican Migrant Experience Pamela M. Graham 4. Suburban Transmigrants: Long Island's Salvadorans Sarah Mahler 5. The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules: The Political Dimension of Recent Chinese Immigration to New York Zai Liang 6. Gendered and Racialized Circulation-Migration: Implications for the Poverty and Work Experience of New York's Puerto Rican Women Dennis Conway, Adrian J. Bailey, and Mark Ellis Part II: Migration and Socio-Economic Incorporation in New York City 7. Class, Race, and Success: Indian-Americans Confront the American Dream Johanna Lessinger 8. Ethnic Niches and Racial Traps: Jamaicans in the New York Regional Economy Philip Kasinitz and Milton Vickerman 9. Neither Ignorance nor Bliss: Race, Racism and the West Indian Immigrant Experience Vilna Bashi 10. Peruvian Historical Networks for Migration in New York City Alex Julca 11. Entrepreneurship and Business Development among African-Americans, Koreans, and Jews: Exploring Some Structural Differences Jennifer Lee 12. When Co-ethnic Assets Become Liabilities: Mexicans, Ecuadorian and Chinese Garment Workers in New York City Margaret M. Chin

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Book Synopsis"Accent on Privilege" looks at the complexities of immigration, asking how native and immigrant construct race, gender, class and national identity. Katharine Jones investigates how white English immigrants live in the United States and how they use their status as privileged foreigners to gain the upper hand with Americans. Their privilege, she finds, is created by both American Anglophilia and the ways they perform their identities as "proper" English women and men in their host country. Jones looks at the cultural aspects of this performance: how English people play up their accents, "stiff upper lip," sense of humor and fashion even the way they drink beer.The political and cultural ties between England and the US act as a backdrop for the identity negotiations of these English people, many of whom do not even consider themselves to be immigrants. This unique exploration of the workings of white privilege offers an important new understanding of the paradoxes of how class, gender, and race are formed in the US and, by implication, in the UK. Katharine W. Jones is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Philadelphia University.Trade Review"It is to be hoped that very few Americans will read this book. In a most un-English way, it gives away all the trade secrets of the tribe that cares not to speak its name." --Christopher Hitchens, author of Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies "Immigration from England to the United States, so often 'invisible' to historians and to contemporary observers, is here shown to be a fascinating lens through which the transatlantic workings of identity and privilege may be acutely observed. Capturing the speech, longings, confusions, dress and politics of three dozen contemporary migrants, Accent on Privilege brilliantly shows how race in the United States is apprehended and negotiated by immigrants whose 'difference' constitutes an advantage." --David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois and the author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past "Herself an English immigrant, Jones (sociology, Philadelphia Univ.) analyzes the experiences of 34 other white upper- or middle-class English immigrants to the United States. She reveals the variety of methods these immigrants used to enhance or minimize their English identities in daily interactions with Americans (e.g., manipulation of their accents, their fashions, even how they drink beer). She also explores how America's love affair with all things English creates both advantages and restrictions for the immigrants and how they manipulate this Anglophilia to their advantage." --Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. "I Want to Be Able to Be English When I Want to Be": Identities as Sites of Contestation 2. Avoiding Extremes: Negotiating Nationalism and Nostalgia 3. Responding to Privilege: Class, Race, Nation, and Anglophilia 4. "Gee, I Love Your Accent": English People and Americans Interact 5. White Mischief? Doing Conceptual Work with Empire, Race, and Gender 6. "The English Are ... Not Racist, but ... Just English": Imagining a White Nation 7. To Be English or Not? Constructing Identities in the U.S. Appendix: Descriptions of Interviewees Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisLos problemas relativosa la inmigración son frecuentes y bien conocidos dentro de las comunidades latinas. Y la falta de información apropiada es enorme. ¿Cómo puede legalizar su estadía en los Estados Unidos? ¿Cómo puede evitar ser deportado? ¿Cómo evitar ser encarcelado? Este libro pequeño ofrece información, consejos, testimonios y recursos de donde conseguir representación legal. También informa sobre sus derechos y responsabilidades.

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

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Book SynopsisThe Michigan Guidelines on the International Protection of Refugees are the result of a collective endeavor of hundreds of scholars, advocates, judges, and international officials to tackle some of the most important and challenging questions in international refugee law.

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