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Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government
Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
As a nation of
immigrants, the United States has long accepted that citizens who identify with
an ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties; yet Americans have at times
regarded the persistence of foreign ties with suspicion, seeing them as a sign of
potential disloyalty and a threat to national...
Going First Class?
New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic...
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical...
On the Line
Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
"How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line?"—From the Preface
In this gutsy, eye-opening...
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back”...
Talking About Global Migration
Implications for Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
How do migrants describe themselves and their experiences? As the world faces a migration crisis, there is an enhanced need for educational responses to the linguistic and cultural diversity of student bodies, and for consideration of migrant students at all levels of the curriculum. This book explores...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The May 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:
Article, "Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation," by Kristin Collins
Article,...
Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions...
Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women
Diasporic Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media?...
Education, Migration and Family Relations Between China and the UK
The Transnational One-Child Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Migration, Education and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families, examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents who remain in...
Identity and Language Learning
Extending the Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New World in the Upper Pleistocene...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Celtic-speaking peoples of Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Scottish Highlands and Wales played a vital role in the history of Europe and the Americas. Immigrant Celtic communities enjoyed many significant accomplishments explored in this volume.
by Henry H. Willis, Joel B. Predd, Paul K. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. Focusing on three missions--illegal drug control, counterterrorism, and illegal migration--this report recommends ways to measure performance of...