Migration, immigration and emigration Books

Book SynopsisMaltese in Michigan is an enlivening volume depicting the struggles and accomplishments of a singular culture, an immigrant narrative at once recognisable and enigmatic. Without realising it, most Americans are probably familiar with the Maltese people through the cross displayed by firefighters, which bears a strong similarity in design and meaning to the one used by the Knights of Malta. The noble qualities embodied by the Maltese Cross are reflected in the pride and accomplishments of Maltese immigrants in Michigan, a small but vibrant ethnic group. Rooted in the post–World War II experiences of the 20th century, the Maltese established themselves in the city of Detroit, and thrived due to a strong work ethic and Catholic faith, while maintaining a strong central identity. This volume is a tribute to the Maltese of Michigan and all who have begun anew in an unfamiliar land and culture.

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Book SynopsisImmigration of Danes and Icelanders to Michigan began in the 1850s and continued well into the twentieth century. Beginning with their origins, this book takes a detailed look at their arrival and settlement in Michigan, answering some key questions: What brought Danes and Icelanders to Michigan? What challenges did they face? How did they adjust and survive here? Where did they settle? What kind of lasting impact have they had on Michigan’s economic and cultural landscape? Extensively researched, this book examines the public and private lives of Danish and Icelandic immigrants in Michigan, drawing from both individual and institutional histories. Shedding new light on the livelihood, traditions, religion, social life, civic organisations, and mutual benefit societies, this thorough, insightful book highlights a small but important population within Michigan’s borders.

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Book SynopsisAfricans are among the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States. Although they are racially and ethnically diverse, few studies have examined how these differences affect their patterns of incorporation into society. This book is the first to highlight the role of race and ethnicity, Arab ethnicity in particular, in shaping the experiences of African immigrants. It demonstrates that American conceptions of race result in significant inequalities in the ways in which African immigrants are socially integrated. Thomas argues that suggestions that Black Africans are model-minorities who have overcome the barriers of race are misleading, showing that Black and Arab-ethnicity Africans systematically experience less favourable socioeconomic outcomes than their White African counterparts. Overall, the book makes three critical arguments. First, historical and contemporary constructions of race have important implications for understanding the dynamics of African immigration and settlement in the United States. Second, there are significant racial inequalities in the social and economic incorporation of contemporary African immigrants. Finally, Arab ethnicity has additional implications for understanding intra-racial disparities in incorporation among contemporary African immigrants. In general, these arguments are foundational for understanding the diversity of African immigrant experiences.

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Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, thousands of Finns emigrated from their communities in the United States and Canada to Soviet Karelia, a region in the Soviet Union where Finnish Communist émigrés were building a society to implement their ideals of socialist Finland. To their new socialist home, these immigrants brought critically needed skills, tools, machines, and money. Educated and skilled, American and Canadian Finns were regarded by Soviet authorities as agents of revolutionary transformations who would not only modernise the economy of Soviet Karelia, but also enlighten its society. North American immigrants, indeed, became active participants of socialist colonisation of what Bolshevik leaders perceived as dark, uneducated and backward Soviet ethnic periphery. The Search for a Socialist El Dorado is the first comprehensive account in English of this fascinating story. Using a vast body of documentary sources from archives in Petrozavodsk and Moscow, Russian- and Finnish-language press and literature from the 1930s, oral history interviews and secondary literature, Alexey Golubev and Irina Takala explore in depth the “Karelian fever” among Finnish Americans and Canadians, and the lives of immigrants in the Soviet Union, their contribution to Soviet economy and culture, and their fates in the Great Terror.

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Book SynopsisThe Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts is home to immigrants and refugees from around the globe, and their presence revitalizes the region and redefines its culture. Their journeys have involved fear, uprootedness, and isolation as well as perseverance, creativity, and hope. Words in Transit collects the personal stories of nearly thirty people who have made this area their new home. These stories were recorded by New England Public Radio in collaboration with the Copeland Colloquium at Amherst College and produced by Tema Silk and Cathleen O’Keefe under the direction of John Voci.Gathered together in a beautifully designed book that showcases Beth Reynolds’s photographic portraits of each immigrant, these oral histories illuminate the many paths leading to the Pioneer Valley and demonstrate the shared experience among those seeking a new life in a foreign land. Storytellers include a massage therapist from Ireland, a Fulbright scholar from Palestine, a health educator from Taiwan, a literature professor from Spain, and a yoga teacher from Romania. Other participants hail from far-flung places including Haiti, Jamaica, El Salvador, Côte d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Bhutan, Laos, Syria, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Congo, Slovenia, Iraq, and Ukraine. Introduced by the renowned scholar of translation and global literature Ilan Stavans, these stories testify to the resilience, bravery, and hopefulness of western New England émigrés. Proceeds from this book go to scholarships for immigrants at Holyoke Community College.

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Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editor''s Choice, this harrowing true story of two young men from Ghana and their quest for asylum highlights not only the unjust political system of their homeland, but the chaos of the United States’ failing immigration system.Long before their chance meeting at a Minneapolis bus station, Ghanaian asylum seekers Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal had already crossed half the world in search of a new home. Seidu, who identifies as bisexual, lived under constant threat of exposure and violence in a country where same-sex acts are illegal. Razak’s life was also threatened after corrupt officials contrived to steal his rightful inheritance.Forced to flee their homeland, both men embarked on separate odysseys through the dangerous jungles and bureaucracies of South, Central, and North America. Like generations of asylum seekers before, they presented themselves legally at the U.S. border, hoping for sanctuary. Instead they were imprisoned in private detention facilities, released only after their asylum pleas were denied. Fearful of returning to Ghana, Seidu and Razak saw no choice but to attempt one final border crossing. Their journey north to Canada in the harsh, unforgiving winter proved more tragic than anything they had experienced before.Based on extensive interviews, Joe Meno’s intimate, novelistic account builds upon the international media attention Seidu and Razak’s story has already received, highlighting the harrowing journey of asylum seekers everywhere while adding dimension to one of the greatest humanitarian concerns facing the world.

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the community those newspapers served disappeared with assimilation in the ensuing decades-but luckily, the complete run of one of the weeklies, Das Arkansas Echo, still exists, offering a lively picture of what life was like for this German immigrant community.'Das Arkansas Echo': A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South examines topics the newspaper covered during its inaugural year. Kathleen Condray illuminates the newspaper's crusade against Prohibition, its advocacy for the protection of German schools and the German language, and its promotion of immigration. We also learn about aspects of daily living, including food preparation and preservation, religion, recreation, the role of women in the family and society, health and wellness, and practical housekeeping. And we see how the paper assisted German speakers in navigating civic life outside their immigrant community, including the racial tensions of the post-Reconstruction South.'Das Arkansas Echo': A Year in the Life of Germans in the Nineteenth-Century South offers a fresh perspective on the German speakers who settled in a modernizing Arkansas. Mining a valuable newspaper archive, Condray sheds light on how these immigrants navigated their new identity as southern Americans.Trade ReviewKathleen Condray shines a light on Arkansas’s mostly Roman Catholic German immigrants, a group generally left out of the broader narrative about a state that was overwhelmingly Protestant and native-born. Not only does the book fill a gap but it also shows us how these German speakers viewed the issues the state faced in the late 1800s." —Kenneth C. Barnes, author of Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas

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Book SynopsisIn 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in searchof her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iranintensified and in 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iranon the last El-Al flight to Tel Aviv. Farideh's father was awell-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz.During his last visit to the US in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoirchronicalling his life after exile: the confiscation of hispassport when he returned to Iran for his belongings, the years ofloneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return tohis wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultryfarm that had supported his family. Leaving Iran knitstogether Farideh's story of dislocation and loss with her ownexperience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home.

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Book SynopsisCalifornia’s history is rich and diverse, with numerous fascinating stories hidden in its past. Before the discovery of gold in the Sierras, San Francisco (Yerba Buena) and its surroundings comprised a sparsely populated frontier on the edge of the old Spanish realm. After 1848, the area rapidly transformed into a settled urban system as a tremendous influx of prospectors and settlers came to seek their fortune in California. A wave of gold miners, merchants, farmers, politicians, carpenters, and many others from various backgrounds and corners of the world migrated to the area at that time. Interrelated social, geographic, and economic processes led to a very quick metamorphosis from frontier settlement to a firmly established system with ingrained economic patterns. The development of San Francisco’s outlying region from a wilderness into a prosperous village and farming mecca shows how quickly in-migration coupled with economic diversification can establish a stable settlement structure upon the landscape. Otterstrom describes an intricately woven tapestry of interrelated people who were contributing creators of a wide variety of prosperous northern California environs. He uncovers the processes that converted this sleepy post-Mexican outpost into a focal point of nearly hyperactive youthful growth. The narrative follows this crucial story of settlement development until the dawn of the twentieth century, through the interconnected framework of individual and family ingenuity, migration trajectories, and diverse geographical scales. Multiplying individualistic experiences from across far-flung appendages of the Northern California system into larger and larger scales, Otterstrom has achieved a matchless historical and sociological study that will form the basis for any future studies of the area.Trade ReviewThe historiography of the California Gold Rush and its aftermath is among the richest and deepest in Western Americana. Otterstrom is to be congratulated for attempting a new kind of sophisticated analysis of migration and settlement and applying it to a region that has long held a special place in the geographical imagination. As far as I can tell, there is presently no direct competition for this book. The approach is fresh and it adds to the literature in a meaningful way."" - David Larson, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, California State University, East Bay

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Book SynopsisThis book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada.Trade Review"This is a story that is simultaneously transnational and intensely local. Historians of the American West are deeply indebted to this fine young historian."— Steven M. Avella, professor of history, Marquette University, Milwaukee"Iker Saiatua provides a fresh perspective on the story of Basque migration to the American West. His painstaking research uncovers new source material and applies current race and labor historiography, while personal anecdotes tie it all together." — John Bieter, author of An Enduring Legacy: The Story of Basques in Idaho

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore​Honorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize​The Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. These two groups’ exchanges were numerous and diverse, proving at times harmonious when Jews’ and Natives people’s economic and social interests aligned, but discordant and fraught at other times. American Jews could be as exploitative of Native cultural, social, and political issues as other American settlers, and historian David Koffman argues that these interactions both unsettle and historicize the often triumphant consensus history of American Jewish life. Focusing on the ways Jewish class mobility and civic belonging were wrapped up in the dynamics of power and myth making that so severely impacted Native Americans, this books is provocative and timely, the first history to critically analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.Trade Review"The Jews' Indian bristles with original insights and suggests new ways of thinking about whiteness, and encounters between settlers and natives, in American history." -- Derek Penslar * Harvard University *"A fascinating account…Koffman masterfully reveals the complexities and contradictions in American Jewish inter-ethnic relations. The Jews’ Indian raises important questions about Jews’ relationships to the project of American colonialism and the politics of race." -- Eliyahu Stern * Yale University *"A major scholarly contribution, The Jews' Indian is endlessly fascinating and truly original. Koffman’s book is complex, distinctive, and—refreshingly—free of abstract polemics and sterile judgmentalism." -- Robert D. Johnston * professor of history, University of Illinois at Chicago *“The Jews’ Indian represents the best scholarship to date on the complex historical relationship between these two tribal peoples about which little has been written.” -- Walter C. Fleming * Professor and Department Head for Native American Studies, Montana State University *"A groundbreaking study revealing the tensions of identifying with marginalized peoples while participating in the colonial work of empires, The Jews’ Indian has implications for nearly all arenas of Jewish history." -- Michael Alexander * Maimonides Chair in Jewish Studies, University of California, Riverside *"America’s Jewish Colonizers," a conversation with David S. Koffman by Hadas Binyamini * Jewish Currents *"The Jews’ Indian examines these scenarios of cultural exchange, borrowing, and appropriation with sensitivity and a researcher’s skill and patience." * Canadian Jewish News *"Throughout, Koffman’s deep and original work in the archive is in abundant evidence, and the moral thrust of his argument is crystalline." * The Great Plains Quarterly *"The Jews’ Indian represents a significant achievement in American Jewish history that addresses a serious gap in prior scholarship and should hold broad appeal for readers in ethnic studies and modern Jewish history. As a bridge between “the literatures on white-Indian relations and Black-Jewish relations,” it deserves consideration for inclusion on graduate and advanced undergraduate syllabi in Jewish identity studies, American Jewish history, and modern Jewish historiography." * American Jewish Archives Journal *"Koffman’s excellent book serves as invitation for Jews and Native peoples to dialogue in both Canada and the United States, to find common ground but also appreciate differences, not only in terms of culture but also in communal objectives, contrasting pluralism with sovereignty." * Canadian Jewish Studies *"Koffman’s book offers readers, scholars, and students a powerful chance to remember the insidious workings of white supremacy on American Jewish communities, and how those Jewish communities then affect other people." * Journal of Jewish Identities *"An important contribution to both the study of encounter, perception and transformation by Jewish Americans as they participated in the westward expansion of the United States." * Australian Journal of Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Exile and Aboriginality, Kinship and Distance 1 Inventing Pioneer Jews in the New Nation’s New West 2 Land and the Violent Expansion of the Immigrants’ Empire 3 Jewish Middlemen Merchants, Indian Curios, and the Extensions of American Capitalism 4 Jewish Rhetorical Uses of Indians in an Era of Nativist Anxieties 5 Jewish Advocacy for Native Americans On and Off Capitol Hill 6 Anthropological Ventriloquism and Dovetailing Intellectual and Political Advancements Conclusion: Paths of Persecution, Stakes of Colonial Modernity Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThere are currently a record-setting number of forcibly displaced persons in the world. This number continues to rise as solutions to alleviate humanitarian catastrophes of large-scale violence and displacement continue to fail. The likelihood of the displaced returning to their homes is becoming increasingly unlikely. In many cases, their homes have been destroyed as the result of violence. Why are the homes of certain populations targeted for destruction? What are the impacts of loss of home upon children, adults, families, communities, and societies? If having a home is a fundamental human right, then why is the destruction of home not viewed as a rights violation and punished accordingly? From Bureaucracy to Bullets answers these questions and more by focusing on the violent practice of extreme domicide, or the intentional destruction of the home, as a central and overlooked human rights issue.Trade Review“This innovative and noteworthy book adds an important perspective to human rights scholarship with valuable insight into the use of domicide as a political and military strategy.” -- Scott Harding * associate professor, University of Connecticut *"Tracking the widespread and often unseen practices of domicide – the deliberate destruction of home – this book forces us to rethink the meaning of home as a human right. Clear, rigorous, and persuasive, it makes the need for a Convention Against Domicide an urgent and necessary endeavor." -- Michael Vicente Pérez * assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis *“This innovative and noteworthy book adds an important perspective to human rights scholarship with valuable insight into the use of domicide as a political and military strategy.” -- Scott Harding * associate professor, University of Connecticut *"Tracking the widespread and often unseen practices of domicide – the deliberate destruction of home – this book forces us to rethink the meaning of home as a human right. Clear, rigorous, and persuasive, it makes the need for a Convention Against Domicide an urgent and necessary endeavor." -- Michael Vicente Pérez * assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis *Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Castles and Cages: A Theory of Home and Home Loss 2. The Difference Between Life and Death: The Human Right to Home 3. A Causal Pathway and Typology of Extreme Domicide Part II: From Bureaucracy To Bullets 4. “And Leave Them Burning Our Homes”: The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (1952-1960) 5. No Place to Call Home: Mutually Assured Domicide in Cyprus (1974) 6. “The Cruelest Work I Ever Knew”: Domicide and The Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839) 7. Reducing Homes to Keys: The Occupation of Palestine and the Matrix of Control (1945-present) 8. "Their Home Will Be Razed Down to the Basement”: Chechnya’s Generations of Domicide (1944-2009) 9. Manufacturing Homogeneity: Domicide in Bosnia (1992-1995) 10. Wiping Neighborhoods Off the Map: The Syrian War (2011-present) 11. “All the Villages We Saw on the Way to the Sea Were Burning”: The Rohingya in Myanmar (2012-present) Part III: Conclusions 12. You Can’t Go Home Again: Justice, Reconciliation, and a Convention Against Domicide 13. Home Matters: Lessons Learned While Studying Extreme Domicide Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe rise of digital media and globalization’s intensification since the 1990s have significantly refigured global cinema’s form and content. The coincidence of digitalization and globalization has produced what this book helps to define and describe as a flourishing border cinema whose aesthetics reflect, construct, intervene in, denature, and reconfigure geopolitical borders. This collection demonstrates how border cinema resists contemporary border fortification processes, showing how cinematic media have functioned technologically and aesthetically to engender contemporary shifts in national and individual identities while proposing alternative conceptions of these identities to those promulgated by the often restrictive current political rhetoric and ideologies that represent a backlash to globalization. Trade Review"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *"While border aesthetics have attracted increasing attention over the last decade, this wide-ranging and innovative collection offers a dynamic argument about why border cinema has become a central direction in contemporary film. Intricately weaving the digital technologies that support it and the shifting global politics that are its target, the book intervenes precisely and provocatively in how we understand world cinema today.” -- Timothy Corrigan * author of A Short Guide to Writing about Film *"Examining media from around the globe, this collection of essays compellingly interrogates the relationship between the digital and border cinema aesthetics. As the editors show, the border has become multiple, even mobile borders; mediated representations of these third spaces call viewers to political action and ethical engagement while affording opportunities for re-imagining subjectivities in a post 9-11 world. Essential reading for those invested in the way cinema imagines liminal social spaces." -- Laura Isabel Serna * author of Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: “Moving Images: Cinematic Contestations of Global Borders in the Digital Age,” by Monica Hanna and Rebecca A. Sheehan “Composite Aesthetics as Cultural Cartographies of Europe-in-Transition,” Marina Hassapopoulou “Undocumation: Documentary Animation’s Unsettled Borders,” Rebecca A. Sheehan “The Art of Witness in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada (2001),” Rosa-Linda Fregoso “The Cinematic Borderlands of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel,” Monica Hanna “Challenging European Borders: Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons,” Anita Pinzi “Remapping the Borderlands in ¿Quién diablos es Juliette?” Elena Lahr-Vivaz “Crossing through el Hueco: The Visual Politics of Smuggling in Colombian Migration Films,” Jennifer Harford Vargas “Toward a Transfrontera-Latinx Aesthetics: An Interview with Filmmaker and Artist Alex Rivera,” Frederick Luis Aldama “No-man's Land: Shifting Borders and Alternating Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema,” Anat Zanger and Nurith Gertz “Te Borders We Cross in Search of a Better World: On Border Crossing in Three of Amos Gitai’s Feature Films,” Yael Munk “Filipinos at the Border: Migrant Workers in Transnational Philippine Cinema,” José B. Capino

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Book SynopsisIt is not an easy road—but hope is the oxygen of my life. These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of the eleven men and women featured in this book. These refugees share their extraordinary experiences of fleeing oppression, violence and war in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Each chapter of Refugees in America focuses on an individual from a different country, from a 93-year-old Polish grandmother who came to the United States after surviving the horrors of Auschwitz to a young undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who became an American college graduate, despite being born impoverished and blind. Some have found it easy to reinvent themselves in the United States, while others have struggled to adjust to America, with its new culture, language, prejudices, and norms. Each of them speaks candidly about their experiences to author Lee T. Bycel, who provides illuminating background information on the refugee crises in their native countries. Their stories help reveal the real people at the center of political debates about US immigration. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as South Sudan, Guatemala, Syria, and Vietnam, this book weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to two organizations that are doing excellent refugee resettlement work and offer many opportunities to support refugees: HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) hias.org International Rescue Committee (IRC) rescue.org Trade Review"Refugees in America is a timely, important, and deeply moving testament to the profound ways in which refugees have enriched our nation. By letting refugees tell their stories, Rabbi Lee Bycel reminds us of their humanity and our responsibilities to help them." -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright"Bycel’s powerful depiction of the lives of refugee families and their struggle for safety and freedom - from Iraq to Darfur - prove a testament to the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit." -- Nancy A. Aossey * President & CEO, International Medical Corps *"This compelling book is a timely reminder that refugees are an indispensable part of the American nation. Their deeply affecting anecdotes of escape from terror highlight the existential motivations that continue to bring reasonable, desperate people to the United States. Readers will be inspired by the gratitude and hope in these pages." -- Leon Botstein * President of Bard College *"Lee Bycel offers us a compelling and astute look into the very difficult lives of refugees. His powerful insights and the historical context he provides make this compilation of deeply moving first-person stories an excellent primer for everyone—individuals, book groups, religious study groups, academic classes—who wishes to go beyond the myths and headlines into the real world of the refugee experience.” -- Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom * director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism *"Lee Bycel wrote this book to 'move readers to not only care deeply about the plight of refugees…but also deepen their resolve to help.' His touching profile of 11 refugees from around the world achieves that goal. This is definitely a book for our xenophobic times." -- Stephen A. Privett, SJ * President Emeritus, University of San Francisco, President, Verbum Dei High School *"These tales so effectively make real the multiple reasons people leave behind all that is familiar and undertake fraught journeys and face untold risks in pursuit of freedom and hope, Bycel’s gathering is a critical read for all who are grappling with the moral implications of borders and global human-rights obligations." * Booklist *"The Best of the University Press: Recommendations for Smarter Reading: In Honor of University Press Week" https://lithub.com/the-best-of-the-university-press-recommendations-for-smarter-reading/?single=true * Literary Hub *"Author Speaks About The Humanity Of Refugees" interview with Lee T. Bycel on Aspen Public Radio https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/post/author-speaks-about-humanity-refugees * Aspen Public Radio *"One of the main points of [Bycel]’s book is that one does not have to be a humanitarian activist to either be concerned about this issue or engaged in searching for a solution to the global crisis that displaced peoples and refugees will continue to be." * Aspen Daily News *"QA with the Author: Refugees in America," by Calin Van Paris https://marinmagazine.com/people/qa-with-the-author-of-refugees-in-america/ * Marin Magazine *"Hometown Radio 02/03/20 4p: Lee Bycel, author of Refugees in America" http://www.920kvec.com/episode/hometown-radio-02-03-20-4p-lee-bycel-author-of-refugees-in-america/ * KVEC "Hometown Radio" *"Refugees’ stories illuminate universal pain of leaving home," by Robert Nagler Miller https://www.jweekly.com/2019/09/18/refugees-stories-illuminate-universal-pain-of-leaving-home/ * Jewish News of Northern California *"On Sukkot, think of the Kurds," by Jeffrey Salkin https://religionnews.com/2019/10/17/sukkot-refugees-kurds/ * Religion News *"‘Refugees in America’ focus of discussion: Humanitarian comes to Odd Fellows Hall" by August Howell https://www.hmbreview.com/community/refugees-in-america-focus-of-discussion/article_1a579f98-c9d3-11e9-9e4e-379840d8001e.html * Half Moon Bay Review *"Coping with uncertainty: Insights from the real experts," by Lee Bycel https://napavalleyregister.com/opinion/letters/coping-with-uncertainty-insights-from-the-real-experts/article_cccd3f9d-f057-5704-9ebf-7bcd667ebdb3.html * Napa Valley Register *"Immigration Policy and the Cry of the Stranger," by Rabbi David Ellenson https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/immigration-policy-and-the-cry-of-the-stranger/ * Jewish Week *"93 Best Immigration Books of All Time," recommended by by Faiza Shaheen, Danneel Harrisackles, Sherrilyn Ifill, Nafeez Ahmed and others https://bookauthority.org/books/best-immigration-books * Book Authority *Table of ContentsForeword by Ishmael Beah Introduction 1 Meron Semedar, Eritrea Hope Is the Oxygen of My Life 2 Noemi Perez-Lemus, Guatemala Children Who Returned from a Walk through Hell 3 Asinja Badeel, Iraq and the Yazidis The Imaginary Girl 4 Deng Ajak Jongkuch, South Sudan He Threw Garbage on Me 5 Sidonia Lax, Poland The Apple Lady 6 Malk Alamarsh, Syria The Walls Have Ears 7 Vanny Loun, Cambodia A River of Memories 8 Darwin Velasquez, El Salvador Blind but the Heart Can See 9 Kien Ha Quach Thien, Vietnam The Life Before and the Life After 10 Wilita Sanguma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) They Bombed My Church on Christmas Day 1998 11 Jawad Khawari, Afghanistan Empty Walls Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisUnder Quarantine is the riveting story of Shaar Ha’aliya, a central immigrant processing camp opened shortly after Israel became an independent state. This historic gateway for Jewish migration was surrounded by a controversial barbed wire fence. The camp administrators defended this imposing barrier as a necessary quarantine measure - even as detained immigrants regularly defied it by crawling out of the camp and returning at will. Focusing on the conflicts and complications surrounding the medical quarantine, this book brings the history of this place and the remarkable experiences of the immigrants who went through it to life. Evocative and bold, Under Quarantine shows that we cannot fully understand Israel until we understand Shaar Ha’aliya. The gate of arrival for nearly half a million immigrants - a space of homecoming, conflict, exclusion and welcoming - here was the country’s crucible.Trade Review"With uncompromising care and sensitivity, Rhona Seidelman unpacks the 'great story' of 'Aliah to the newly created Israel and puts the medical dimension of migration at the center. An essential chapter in the history of the Mizrahim." -- Zvi Ben-Dor Benite * author of The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History *"An important contribution to the ever-growing body of Jewish and Israeli studies literature, Jewish immigration studies, and health and immigration scholarship. In particular, it facilitates a broader multidimensional perspective on a specific locus in its historical as well as current contexts." * AJS Review *"Immigrants and Quarantine at Israel’s Founding with Rhona Seidelman" * Infectious Historians Podcast *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Barbed Wire 1 Confines 2 Structure 3 Meaning 4 Memory Conclusion: Under Quarantine Epilogue: The Shaar Ha’aliya Memorial for Migrants and Medicine Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between countries and areas as uneven in size and influence as the United States, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. More so than other world regions, the Caribbean has been characterized as an always already colonial region. It has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres in the new world, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation over the last five centuries. In Caribbean Migrations, an interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science scholars study migration from a long-term perspective, analyzing the Caribbean's "unincorporated subjects" from a legal, historical, and cultural standpoint, and exploring how despite often fractured public spheres, Caribbean intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.Trade Review"Profoundly interdisciplinary and nearly Pan-Caribbean in scope, Caribbean Migrations transforms our understanding of how migration has shaped the Caribbean and how Caribbean migration has shaped the United States. The analysis of Caribbean people on the move, asserting political power across digital platforms and through art, explodes the long-held notion that Caribbean migration is the story of flight from poverty to a better life in the United States and breaks down the boundary between Caribbean and American Studies." -- Leah Rosenberg * co-editor of Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar West Indian Literature *"The starting point of Caribbean Migrations is a series of reflections that help illuminate the fascinating legal fiction that is Puerto Rico's 'unincorporated' status, using the unique experiences of Puerto Rican subjects as a poignant counterpoint and a compelling framework to understand Caribbean migration more generally. Together, the essays in this collection offer a rich blueprint to understand pervasive as well as new forms of colonialism, virtual and real citizenship, affect, and structural violence in a post-disaster world." -- Guillermina De Ferrari * author of Community and Culture in Post-Soviet Cuba *"All in all the book represents a rich contribution to an international literature constantly transforming the way we view and try to understand the links between colonialism, migration and identity, and particularly in the case of the Caribbean and Caribbean diasporas." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The essays emphasize the geo-strategic ambitions of the US in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, especially Puerto Rico. However, the theoretical breadth of the volume sheds new light on migration throughout the Caribbean region, as well as the formation of transnational identities in other parts of the world. This study is a must read for Caribbean studies specialists and postcolonial scholars. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Figures Introduction: Another Archive on Migration by Anke Birkenmaier Chapter 1: A Permanent Periphery: Caribbean Migration Flows and The World Economy by Alejandro Portes Part 1: Unincorporated Subjects (Puerto Rico, Guam) Chapter 2: The Role of State Actors in Puerto Rico’s Long Century of Migration (1899-2015) by Carlos Vargas-Ramos Chapter 3: ’May God Take Me to Orlando’: The Puerto Rican Exodus to Florida before and after Hurricane Maria by Jorge Duany Chapter 4: Caribbean Mediascapes: Ruins, Debt in Puerto Rico by Jossianna Arroyo Chapter 5: Circumscribed Citizenship: Caribbean American Visibility by Vivian Halloran Chapter 6: From Father to Humanitarian: Charting the Intimacies and Discontinuities of Ricky Martin’s Social Media Presence by Edward Chamberlain Chapter 7: Terripelagoes: Archipelagic Thinking in Culebra (Puerto Rico) and Guam by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel Part 2: Technologies of Representation (Cuba, Jamaica) Chapter 8: The Caribbean in the US Imagination: Travel Writing, Annexation, and Slavery by Daylet Domínguez Chapter 9: Afro-Cubana Feminisms: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Havana by Devyn Spence Benson Chapter 10: Going Back to Cuba: How Enclaves of Memory Stimulate Returns and Repatriations by Iraida H. López Chapter 11: The Floating Generation. Cuban Art in the Post-Soviet Period (1991-2017) by Rafael Rojas Chapter 12: ‘It would make a rat puke’: Diasporic Thinking in Contemporary Jamaican Art Practices by Jane Bryce Part 3: Languages of the Diaspora (Hispaniola, United States) Chapter 13: Kreyòl Sung, Kreyòl Understood: Haitian Songwriter BIC (Roosevelt Saillant) Reflects on Language and Poeticsby Rebecca Dirksen and Kendy Vérilus Chapter 14: Migration and Its Discontents: The Dominican Films of Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas by Anke Birkenmaier Chapter 15: Transnational Hispaniola: The First Decade in Support of a New Paradigm for Haitian and Dominican Studies by Kiran C. Jayaram and April J. Mayes Chapter 16: New Points of the Rhizome: Rethinking Caribbean Relation in U.S. Latino Poetry by Emily A. Maguire Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPrecarity and Belonging examines how the movement of people and their incorporation, marginalization, and exclusion, under epochal conditions of labor and social precarity affecting both citizens and noncitizens, have challenged older notions of citizenship and alienage. This collection brings mobility, precarity, and citizenship together in order to explore the points of contact and friction, and, thus, the spaces for a possible politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens.The editors ask: What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens, such as undocumented migrants, guest workers, permanent residents, refugees, detainees, and stateless people? How is the concept of citizenship, based on assumptions of deservingness, legality, and productivity, challenged when people of various and competing statuses and differential citizenship practices interact with each other, revealing their co-constitutive connections? How is citizenship valued or revalued when labor and social precarity impact those who seemingly have formal rights and those who seemingly or effectively do not? This book interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, insider/outsider, entitled/unentitled, “legal”/“illegal,” and deserving/undeserving in order to explore the fluidity--that is, the dynamism and malleability--of the spectra of belonging. Trade Review"This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely." -- Cecilia Menjívar * co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises *"Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality." -- Jonathan Xavier Inda * author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics *"This judiciously selected compilation shines by threading the critical link of insecurity through spaces of belonging, labor, and migration across time and contexts. Through the lens of precarity, the insightful, accessible, brilliant essays in this collection expose the complexity and fragility of life at the heart of our troubled times. It breaks new ground and will be read widely." -- Cecilia Menjívar * co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises *"Precarity and Belonging is a marvelous and timely collection. The essays brilliantly explore how the increasing precarization of life impacts the social and physical mobility of both citizens and noncitizens, blurring the boundaries between them and thus making possible a politics of commonality." -- Jonathan Xavier Inda * author of Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Politics of Commonality: The Nexus of Mobility, Precarity, and (Non)citizenship CATHERINE S. RAMÍRE Z, JUAN POBLETE, SYLVANNA M. FALCÓN, STEVEN C. McKAY, AND FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFERPart I Mobility and Migration 1 More Equal Than Others: Managing the Boundaries of Citizenship BRIDGET ANDERSON 2 Refractions of the Nation: The Democratic Impacts of “Chain Migration” ADRIÁN FÉLIX 3 Racialization of Central Americans in the United States LEISY J. ABREGO AND ALEJANDRO VILLALPANDO 4 The Waste of Globalization’s Party ALEJANDRO GRIMSON 5 Occupation on Sacred Land: Colliding Mobilities on the Tohono O’odham Reservation FELICITY AMAYA SCHAEFFER 6 A State-to-Come: Tibetan Refugee-Citizenship and the Nation in Exile TSERING WANGMO DHOMPAPart II Labor and Precarity 7 Apartheid, Migrant Labor, and Precarity in Comparative Perspective MARCEL PARET 8 Labor Precarity, Immigration, and the Challenges of Accessing Worker Rights: Evidence from California SHANNON GLEESON 9 Negotiating Indenture: Migrant Domestic Work and Temporary Labor Migration in Singapore RHACEL SAL A ZAR PARREÑAS AND KRITTIYA KANTACHOTE 10 Pocketed Proletarianization: Why There Is No Labor Politics in the “World’s Factory” BIAO XIANG 11 The Urban Exclusion of Internally Displaced Farmers in Medellín, Colombia CLAUDIA MARIA LÓPEZPart III Belonging and (Non)citizenship 12 Exclusionary Inclusion: Applying for Legal Status in the United States SUSAN BIBLER COUTIN AND VÉRONIQUE FORTIN 13 Formal and Informal Citizenships: The Spectrum of Practices and Statuses in Latin America and the United States JUAN POBLTE 14 Denizenship 227 NICHOLAS DE GENOVA 15 Black No More: Black Denizenship and the Struggle for the Future CATHERINE S. RAMÍREZ 16 Imperial Citizenship: Marshall Islanders and the Compact of Free Association EMILY MITCHELL-EATON Afterword: The Politics of Precarity and Noncitizenship under Global Capitalism TANYA GOLASH-BOZA Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThrough a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to make sustained claims on and have their interests represented in public policies. The author, Yang Sao Xiong argues that the key to understanding how immigrants incorporate themselves politically is to understand how they mobilize collective action and make choices in circumstances far from racially neutral. Immigrant groups, in response to political threats or opportunities or both, mobilize collective action and make strategic choices about how to position themselves vis-à-vis other minority groups, how to construct group identities, and how to deploy various tactics in order to engage with the U.S. political system and influence policy. In response to immigrants’ collective claims, the racial state engages in racialization which undermines immigrants’ political standing and perpetuates their marginalization.Trade Review"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *Table of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresList of MapsList of Abbreviations1 Immigrant Agency2 History and Contexts of Exit3 Campaign for Justice4 Battle for Naturalization5 Movement for Inclusion6 Racialized Political Incorporation and Immigrant RightsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIt is not an easy road—but hope is the oxygen of my life. These insightful words of Meron Semedar, a refugee from Eritrea, reflect the feelings of the eleven men and women featured in this book. These refugees share their extraordinary experiences of fleeing oppression, violence and war in their home countries in search of a better life in the United States. Each chapter of Refugees in America focuses on an individual from a different country, from a 93-year-old Polish grandmother who came to the United States after surviving the horrors of Auschwitz to a young undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who became an American college graduate, despite being born impoverished and blind. Some have found it easy to reinvent themselves in the United States, while others have struggled to adjust to America, with its new culture, language, prejudices, and norms. Each of them speaks candidly about their experiences to author Lee T. Bycel, who provides illuminating background information on the refugee crises in their native countries. Their stories help reveal the real people at the center of political debates about US immigration. Giving a voice to refugees from such far-flung locations as South Sudan, Guatemala, Syria, and Vietnam, this book weaves together a rich tapestry of human resilience, suffering, and determination. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to two organizations that are doing excellent refugee resettlement work and offer many opportunities to support refugees: HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) hias.org International Rescue Committee (IRC) rescue.org Trade Review"Refugees in America is a timely, important, and deeply moving testament to the profound ways in which refugees have enriched our nation. By letting refugees tell their stories, Rabbi Lee Bycel reminds us of their humanity and our responsibilities to help them." -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright"Bycel’s powerful depiction of the lives of refugee families and their struggle for safety and freedom - from Iraq to Darfur - prove a testament to the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit." -- Nancy A. Aossey * President & CEO, International Medical Corps *"This compelling book is a timely reminder that refugees are an indispensable part of the American nation. Their deeply affecting anecdotes of escape from terror highlight the existential motivations that continue to bring reasonable, desperate people to the United States. Readers will be inspired by the gratitude and hope in these pages." -- Leon Botstein * President of Bard College *"Lee Bycel offers us a compelling and astute look into the very difficult lives of refugees. His powerful insights and the historical context he provides make this compilation of deeply moving first-person stories an excellent primer for everyone—individuals, book groups, religious study groups, academic classes—who wishes to go beyond the myths and headlines into the real world of the refugee experience.” -- Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom * director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism *"Lee Bycel wrote this book to 'move readers to not only care deeply about the plight of refugees…but also deepen their resolve to help.' His touching profile of 11 refugees from around the world achieves that goal. This is definitely a book for our xenophobic times." -- Stephen A. Privett, SJ * President Emeritus, University of San Francisco, President, Verbum Dei High School *"These tales so effectively make real the multiple reasons people leave behind all that is familiar and undertake fraught journeys and face untold risks in pursuit of freedom and hope, Bycel’s gathering is a critical read for all who are grappling with the moral implications of borders and global human-rights obligations." * Booklist *"The Best of the University Press: Recommendations for Smarter Reading: In Honor of University Press Week" https://lithub.com/the-best-of-the-university-press-recommendations-for-smarter-reading/?single=true * Literary Hub *"Author Speaks About The Humanity Of Refugees" interview with Lee T. Bycel on Aspen Public Radio https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/post/author-speaks-about-humanity-refugees * Aspen Public Radio *"One of the main points of [Bycel]’s book is that one does not have to be a humanitarian activist to either be concerned about this issue or engaged in searching for a solution to the global crisis that displaced peoples and refugees will continue to be." * Aspen Daily News *"Q&A with the Author: Refugees in America," by Calin Van Paris https://marinmagazine.com/people/qa-with-the-author-of-refugees-in-america/ * Marin Magazine *"Hometown Radio 02/03/20 4p: Lee Bycel, author of Refugees in America" http://www.920kvec.com/episode/hometown-radio-02-03-20-4p-lee-bycel-author-of-refugees-in-america/ * KVEC "Hometown Radio" *"Refugees’ stories illuminate universal pain of leaving home," by Robert Nagler Miller https://www.jweekly.com/2019/09/18/refugees-stories-illuminate-universal-pain-of-leaving-home/ * Jewish News of Northern California *"On Sukkot, think of the Kurds," by Jeffrey Salkin https://religionnews.com/2019/10/17/sukkot-refugees-kurds/ * Religion News *"‘Refugees in America’ focus of discussion: Humanitarian comes to Odd Fellows Hall" by August Howell https://www.hmbreview.com/community/refugees-in-america-focus-of-discussion/article_1a579f98-c9d3-11e9-9e4e-379840d8001e.html * Half Moon Bay Review *"Coping with uncertainty: Insights from the real experts," by Lee Bycel https://napavalleyregister.com/opinion/letters/coping-with-uncertainty-insights-from-the-real-experts/article_cccd3f9d-f057-5704-9ebf-7bcd667ebdb3.html * Napa Valley Register *"Immigration Policy and the Cry of the Stranger," by Rabbi David Ellenson https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/immigration-policy-and-the-cry-of-the-stranger/ * Jewish Week *"93 Best Immigration Books of All Time," recommended by by Faiza Shaheen, Danneel Harrisackles, Sherrilyn Ifill, Nafeez Ahmed and others https://bookauthority.org/books/best-immigration-books * Book Authority *"Refugees in America is a timely, important, and deeply moving testament to the profound ways in which refugees have enriched our nation. By letting refugees tell their stories, Rabbi Lee Bycel reminds us of their humanity and our responsibilities to help them." -- Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright"Bycel’s powerful depiction of the lives of refugee families and their struggle for safety and freedom - from Iraq to Darfur - prove a testament to the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit." -- Nancy A. Aossey * President & CEO, International Medical Corps *"This compelling book is a timely reminder that refugees are an indispensable part of the American nation. Their deeply affecting anecdotes of escape from terror highlight the existential motivations that continue to bring reasonable, desperate people to the United States. Readers will be inspired by the gratitude and hope in these pages." -- Leon Botstein * President of Bard College *"Lee Bycel offers us a compelling and astute look into the very difficult lives of refugees. His powerful insights and the historical context he provides make this compilation of deeply moving first-person stories an excellent primer for everyone—individuals, book groups, religious study groups, academic classes—who wishes to go beyond the myths and headlines into the real world of the refugee experience.” -- Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom * director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism *"Lee Bycel wrote this book to 'move readers to not only care deeply about the plight of refugees…but also deepen their resolve to help.' His touching profile of 11 refugees from around the world achieves that goal. This is definitely a book for our xenophobic times." -- Stephen A. Privett, SJ * President Emeritus, University of San Francisco, President, Verbum Dei High School *"These tales so effectively make real the multiple reasons people leave behind all that is familiar and undertake fraught journeys and face untold risks in pursuit of freedom and hope, Bycel’s gathering is a critical read for all who are grappling with the moral implications of borders and global human-rights obligations." * Booklist *"The Best of the University Press: Recommendations for Smarter Reading: In Honor of University Press Week" https://lithub.com/the-best-of-the-university-press-recommendations-for-smarter-reading/?single=true * Literary Hub *"Author Speaks About The Humanity Of Refugees" interview with Lee T. Bycel on Aspen Public Radio https://www.aspenpublicradio.org/post/author-speaks-about-humanity-refugees * Aspen Public Radio *"One of the main points of [Bycel]’s book is that one does not have to be a humanitarian activist to either be concerned about this issue or engaged in searching for a solution to the global crisis that displaced peoples and refugees will continue to be." * Aspen Daily News *"QA with the Author: Refugees in America," by Calin Van Paris https://marinmagazine.com/people/qa-with-the-author-of-refugees-in-america/ * Marin Magazine *"Hometown Radio 02/03/20 4p: Lee Bycel, author of Refugees in America" http://www.920kvec.com/episode/hometown-radio-02-03-20-4p-lee-bycel-author-of-refugees-in-america/ * KVEC "Hometown Radio" *"Refugees’ stories illuminate universal pain of leaving home," by Robert Nagler Miller https://www.jweekly.com/2019/09/18/refugees-stories-illuminate-universal-pain-of-leaving-home/ * Jewish News of Northern California *"On Sukkot, think of the Kurds," by Jeffrey Salkin https://religionnews.com/2019/10/17/sukkot-refugees-kurds/ * Religion News *"‘Refugees in America’ focus of discussion: Humanitarian comes to Odd Fellows Hall" by August Howell https://www.hmbreview.com/community/refugees-in-america-focus-of-discussion/article_1a579f98-c9d3-11e9-9e4e-379840d8001e.html * Half Moon Bay Review *"Coping with uncertainty: Insights from the real experts," by Lee Bycel https://napavalleyregister.com/opinion/letters/coping-with-uncertainty-insights-from-the-real-experts/article_cccd3f9d-f057-5704-9ebf-7bcd667ebdb3.html * Napa Valley Register *"Immigration Policy and the Cry of the Stranger," by Rabbi David Ellenson https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/immigration-policy-and-the-cry-of-the-stranger/ * Jewish Week *"93 Best Immigration Books of All Time," recommended by by Faiza Shaheen, Danneel Harrisackles, Sherrilyn Ifill, Nafeez Ahmed and others https://bookauthority.org/books/best-immigration-books * Book Authority *Table of ContentsForeword by Ishmael Beah Introduction 1 Meron Semedar, Eritrea Hope Is the Oxygen of My Life 2 Noemi Perez-Lemus, Guatemala Children Who Returned from a Walk through Hell 3 Asinja Badeel, Iraq and the Yazidis The Imaginary Girl 4 Deng Ajak Jongkuch, South Sudan He Threw Garbage on Me 5 Sidonia Lax, Poland The Apple Lady 6 Malk Alamarsh, Syria The Walls Have Ears 7 Vanny Loun, Cambodia A River of Memories 8 Darwin Velasquez, El Salvador Blind but the Heart Can See 9 Kien Ha Quach Thien, Vietnam The Life Before and the Life After 10 Wilita Sanguma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) They Bombed My Church on Christmas Day 1998 11 Jawad Khawari, Afghanistan Empty Walls Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisWhen the first wave of post-1965 Korean immigrants arrived in the New York-New Jersey area in the early 1970s, they were reliant on retail and service businesses in the minority neighborhoods where they were. This caused ongoing conflicts with customers in black neighborhoods of New York City, with white suppliers at Hunts Point Produce Market, and with city government agencies that regulated small business activities. In addition, because of the times, Korean immigrants had very little contact with their homeland. Korean immigrants in the area were highly segregated from both the mainstream New York society and South Korea. However, after the 1990 Immigration Act, Korean immigrants with professional and managerial backgrounds have found occupations in the mainstream economy. Korean community leaders also engaged in active political campaigns to get Korean candidates elected as city council members and higher levels of legislative positions in the area. The Korean community's integration into mainstream society also increasingly developed stronger transnational ties to their homeland and spurred the inclusion of "everyday Korean life" in the NY-NJ area.Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts. This publication was supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-P-009). Trade Review"Full of rich and fascinating material on the Korean community in the New York area, this valuable book shows that, at the same time as Korean immigrants have become increasingly incorporated into American society, they also seek to preserve and promote a wide range of homeland cultural practices and traditions." -- Nancy Foner * author of One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America *"In this innovative and rigorous investigation of Koreans’ engagement with transnational cultural linkages to their homeland, Pyong Gap Min finds that migrants’ participation in activities that promote Korean ethnic culture facilitates both their assimilation to host country activities and their involvement in transnational cultural linkages embedded in the country of origin. This analysis significantly advances our understanding of Korean immigrants’ adaptation to the US while providing a compelling challenge to classical theories of immigrant assimilation more generally." -- Steven J. Gold * author of The Israeli Diaspora *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 The Korean Community in Greater New York 3 Transnational Cultural Events Held in the Korean Community in 2001 and 2014 4 Korean-Language Schools 5 The Movement to Promote Korean to American Schools 6 Korean Food 7 Korean Cultural Festivals and Parades 8 Korean Traditional Performing Arts 9 Korean Contemporary Music and Dance Performances 10 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.Trade Review"This exquisitely nuanced ethnography takes anti-carceral feminism to new heights! In tracing how 'coercive violence' amongst migrant families in Australia comes to be defined and policed, Zeweri demonstrates how Muslim women are still being used to justify anti-immigrant policies, whether they are framed as victim or threat. Most importantly, she shows that intimate forms of violence cannot be understood outside the violence of war, displacement and detention." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Between Care and Criminality offers unique insights into how social policies are lived on the ground by frontline workers, community leaders, and the young people who they target. The book resists the static portrayals of forced marriage in providing empirical examples of families who negotiate tensions surrounding marriage decisions within the context of family dynamics." -- Reva Jaffe-Walter * author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth *"Between Care and Community, a well-documented, well researched analysis of forced marriage prevention policy, both informs and unsettles. Helena Zeweri makes a real contribution to studies on the anthropology of marriage and biopolitics of intimacy, and poses important questions concerning first generation migrant women and notions of family, culture, and the domestic." -- Frances Julia Riemer * author of Working at the Margins: Moving Off Welfare in America *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: An Emergent Regime of Truth Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Forced Marriage Prevention Chapter 2: The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced Marriage Scenario Planning Chapter 3: Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in Prevention Work Chapter 4: Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical Narratives Chapter 5: Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of Displacement Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the “Puerto Rican problem” campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that arose in reaction to the entry of Puerto Rican migrants to the city after 1945. The “problem” narrative influenced their incorporation in New York City and other regions of the United States where they settled. The anti-Puerto Rican campaign led to the formulation of public policies by the governments of Puerto Rico and New York City seeking to ease their incorporation in the city. Notions intrinsic to this narrative later entered American academia (like the “culture of poverty”) and American popular culture (e.g., West Side Story), which reproduced many of the stereotypes associated with Puerto Ricans at that time and shaped the way in which Puerto Ricans were studied and perceived by Americans. Trade Review"Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis." -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know *"The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies." -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY *"Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis." -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know *"The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies." -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY *Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Study of Puerto Rican Migration and Incorporation in the United States 2 The “Puerto Rican Problem” Campaign in New York City 3 Dealing with the “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City 4 The “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City and Puerto Rico’s Migration Policy 5 Marcantonio, the “Puerto Rican Problem,” and the 1949 Mayoral Election in New York City 6 The Mayor’s Committee on Puerto Rican Affairs 7 The Demise of MCPRA and the Redefinition of the “Puerto Rican Problem” 8 In the Aftermath of the “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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