Emigration category: 2215 books
From Africa to America
Religion and Adaptation among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Upon arrival in the United States, most African immigrants are immediately subsumed under the category “black.” In the eyes of most Americans—and more so to American legal and social systems—African immigrants are indistinguishable from all others, such as those from the Caribbean whose skin...
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic...
Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender and Customary Law
Religion, Gender and Customary Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The resurgence of national and historical awareness among the people of what was once the USSR has been nowhere stronger than among the Russians themselves. Some of the larger projects of rediscovery amount to a reinterpretation of traditional culture. This carefully annotated collection of recent...
In Their Own Words
Letters from Norwegian Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters...
Letters From The Promised Land
Swedes in America, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
Swedish immigrants tell their own stories in this collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs—a perfect book for those interested in history, immigration, or just the daily lives of early Swedish-American settlers.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Chapter 7 “The Whole World Opened Up”: Women in Canadian Theosophy
Gillian McCann
Gillian McCann focuses on Toronto Theosophical Society women who, through political and religious experimentation, sought to build a spiritually based society anchored in social justice and equity....
Rallying for Immigrant Rights
The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
From Alaska to Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets across the United States to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The scope and size of their protests, rallies, and boycotts made these the most significant events of political activism in the United...
Undocumented and in College
Students and Institutions in a Climate of National Hostility
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The current daily experiences of undocumented students as they navigate the processes of entering and then thriving in Jesuit colleges are explored alongside an investigation of the knowledge and attitudes among staff and faculty about undocumented students in their midst, and the institutional response...
Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers
Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate...
Latinas Crossing Borders and Building Communities in Greater Washington
Applying Anthropology in Multicultural Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
After crossing several borders, Latina/o immigrants and their children meet challenges of globalization as they acclimate to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Facing different social and cultural barriers while adapting to this metropolis, most of them meet these challenges by building transnational...
The Mayans Among Us
Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig, a Spanish instructor, and Martha Florinda González, a Mayan community leader living in Nebraska,...
Closing the Gate
Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all
Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal
law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race
or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open
immigration, this landmark legislation...
Immigrant City
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the...
A Short Border Handbook
A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A unique perspective on being an immigrant - Kapllani, who left Albania in 1991 to make his home in Greece, diagnoses the malaise of "border syndrome" by relating key episodes in his own experience and that of those migrants who accompanied him.
A wonderful, memorable cast of characters:...