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Immigrant Life in the US
Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children...
The Vanishing American Dream
Immigration, Population, Debt, Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government—abetted by mass media—that serves special interests rather than the greater national good. Americans' tendencies to trust, play fair, and help have been abused and require replacement...
Arendt, Agamben and the Issue of Hyper-Legality
In Between the Prisoner-Stateless Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt famously argued that the stateless were so rightless, that it was better to be a criminal who at least had some rights and protections.
In this book, Kathleen R. Arnold examines Arendt’s comparison in the context of post-1996 U.S. criminal...
Group Integration and Multiculturalism
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
With immigration fulfilling the role of population maintenance in many Western democracies, how should newcomers be welcomed? Pfeffer argues that states ought to promote group integration for communities that have settled through immigration, facilitating the development of group institutions that enable communication with the receiving society.
The Immigrant Other
Lived Experiences in a Transnational World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The immigrants profiled in The Immigrant Other shed light on a system designed to dehumanize and disenfranchise them, and they describe the difficulty of finding shelter in an increasingly globalized and unsympathetic world. They include Muslims facing discrimination from both the "War on Terror"...
Detained and Deported
Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world
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On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed...
Mexican Migration to the United States
Perspectives From Both Sides of the Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Borderlands migration has been the subject of considerable study, but the authorship has usually reflected a north-of-the-border perspective only. Gathering a transnational group of prominent researchers, including leading Mexican scholars whose work is not readily available in the United States and...
Colonias in Arizona and New Mexico
Border Poverty and Community Development Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
There are approximately half a million people living in 227 officially designated colonias in southern Arizona and New Mexico. These border communities are characterized by poor-quality housing, a lack of infrastructure (paved roads, water and sewer systems, and electricity), high levels of poverty...
Elusive Citizenship
Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants...
John Lennon vs. The U.S.A.
The Inside Story of the Most Bitterly Contested and Influential Deportation Case in United States History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as 5 million illegals in the United States, the 1972 John Lennon deportation case takes on special relevance today, notwithstanding the passage of forty years since...
Revoking Citizenship
Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Reveals America’s long history of making both naturalized immigrants and native-born citizens un-American after stripping away their citizenship
Expatriation, or the stripping away citizenship and all the rights that come with it, is usually associated with despotic and totalitarian regimes....
From Immigrants to Americans
The Rise and Fall of Fitting In
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
Immigration has always caused immense public concern, especially when the perception is that immigrants are not assimilating into society they way they should, or perhaps the way they once did. Americans are frustrated as they try to order food, hire laborers, or simply talk to someone they see on...
Turkish Immigrants in the European Union
Determinants of Immigration and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book provides an analytical contribution to the contested issues marking Turkish membership to the European Union.
On October 2005 Turkey started the accession process towards EU membership. Currently, many Europeans fear that large numbers of Turkish nationals will flood member countries...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book explores trends in migration from Bulgaria to Switzerland since Bulgaria joined the European Union (EU) in 2007. Due to several unique factors, this in-depth case study provides a basis for understanding transnational migration in a wider European context. Bulgarians represent a fairly small...