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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only...
Becoming Mexican American
Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1995
Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing...
Chino
Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their...
Making the Mexican Diabetic
Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors...
by Parin Dossa, Cati Coe, Neda Deneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much...
Global Cities At Work
New Migrant Divisions of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the...
The End of the Refugee Cycle?
Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped,...
Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility
Health Integration in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs. At a political level, the EU issued the EU Directive no. 24/2011/CE of 9th March 2011 concerning the application of patients’ rights in...
American by Paper
How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers—the...
Exiled Home
Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980–1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, many grew...
Citizen Activism and Mediterranean Identity
Beyond Eurocentrism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book explores the commonalities between the struggles of the last years around the Mediterranean and tries to find the cultural roots of this season of protests and activism against repression and a growing systemic crisis. Who are their main characters? How has mobility of ideas and persons...
Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations
Lessons from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied Respondent Driven Sampling methodology to migrant populations.
Unpolished Gem
My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
**“Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung’s rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought...
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
A dazzling meditation on home-coming and belonging from one of “Africa’s greatest writers” and the Man Booker International Prize finalist (The Guardian).
Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When he finally came...