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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration
The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of
modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban
migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and
Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert
warfare in the Reagan administration's globalized War on Drugs.
Using newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how
migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the
intersections of U.S. war-making and domestic carceral trends. As
the Reagan administration developed retaliatory enforcement
measures to target a racialized specter of mass migration, it laid
the foundations of new forms of carceral and imperial expansion.
Reagan's war on immigrants also sowed seeds of mass resistance.
Drawing on critical refugee studies, community archives, protest
artifacts, and oral histories, Detention Empire also shows how
migrants resisted state repression at every turn. People in
detention and allies on the outside-including legal advocates,
Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, and the Central American peace
and Sanctuary movements-organized hunger strikes, caravans, and
prison uprisings to counter the silencing effects of incarceration
and speak truth to U.S. empire. As the United States remains
committed to shoring up its borders in an era of unprecedented
migration and climate crisis, reckoning with these histories take
on new urgency.
Twenty Years at Hull House, by the acclaimed memoir of social
reformer Jane Addams, is presented here complete with all
sixty-three of the original illustrations and the biographical
notes. A landmark autobiography in terms of opening the eyes of
Americans to the plight of the industrial revolution, Twenty Years
at Hull House has been applauded for its unflinching descriptions
of the poverty and degradation of the era. Jane Addams also details
the grave ill-health she suffered during and after her childhood,
giving the reader insight into the adversity which she would
re-purpose into a drive to alleviate the suffering of others. The
process by which Addams founded Hull House in Chicago is detailed;
the sheer scale and severity of the poverty in the city she and
others witnessed, the search for the perfect location, and the
numerous difficulties she and her fellow activists encountered
while establishing and maintaining the house are detailed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted about 1 billion migrants (both
international and domestic) in a variety of ways, and this book
demonstrates how COVID-19 has widened the gaps between citizens,
non-migrant and migrant populations in terms of income, job
retention, freedom of movement, vaccine etc.While there is an
emerging literature studying the impacts of COVID-19 on migration,
the situation in Southeast Asia has not received much scholarly
attention. This book fills the literature gap by studying the
experiences of migrants and citizens in Brunei, Malaysia and
Singapore and highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated
inequalities between and within the groups. These three countries
are studied due to their high reliance of migrants in key economic
sectors. Findings in this volume are derived from a qualitative
approach, complemented by secondary data sources.This book is
appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate students of
population studies, epidemiology, political science, public policy
and administration, international relations, anthropology,
psychology, sociology, and migration and refugee studies. Migration
and labour scholars benefit from the nuanced comprehension about
how a pandemic could cause a schism between migrants and the
population at large. Policymakers may consider the proposed
recommendations in the book to improve the migration situation.
Principally, this book comprises a conceptual analysis of the
illegality of a third-country national's stay by examining the
boundaries of the overarching concept of illegality at the EU
level. Having found that the holistic conceptualisation of
illegality, constructed through a combination of sources (both EU
and national law) falls short of adequacy, the book moves on to
consider situations that fall outside the traditional binary of
legal and illegal under EU law. The cases of unlawfully staying EU
citizens and of non-removable illegally staying third-country
nationals are examples of groups of migrants who are categorised as
atypical. By looking at these two examples the book reveals not
only the fragmentation of legal statuses in EU migration law but
also the more general ill-fitting and unsatisfactory categorisation
of migrants. The potential conflation of illegality with
criminality as a result of the way EU databases regulate the legal
regime of illegality of a migrant's stay is the first trend
identified by the book. Subsequently, the book considers the
functions of accessing legality (both instrumental and corrective).
In doing so it draws out another trend evident in the EU illegality
regime: a two-tier regime which discriminates on the basis of
wealth and the instrumentalisation of access to legality by Member
States for mostly their own purposes. Finally, the book proposes a
corrective rationale for the regulation of illegality through
access to legality and provides a number of normative suggestions
as a way of remedying current deficiencies that arise out of the
present supranational framing of illegality.
After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of
international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for
safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most
comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite
these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a
state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down
manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly
multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based governance with
meaningful participation of migrant civil society. Drawing on 15
years of participant observation on all levels of migration
governance, the book maps out the relevant actors, "invited" and
"invented" spaces for participation as well as alternative
discourses and framing strategies by migrant civil society. It thus
provides a comprehensive and timely overview on global migration
governance from below, starting with the first UN High Level
Dialogue in 2006, evolving around the Global Forum on Migration and
Development (GFMD) and leading up to the consultations for the
International Migration Review Forum in 2022.
Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African
skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants'
experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their
lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based
arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in
Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of
mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of
everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'.
The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African
diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of
such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured
interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant
experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and
overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of
the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they
adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for
social work, public health and community development practices.
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to
the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic
intersections between the local and the global, and between agency
and identity, are presented through case studies in this book.
Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of
music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and
collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of
identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and
political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus,
through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between,
this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism
and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between
music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.
This book examines language education policy in European
migrant-hosting countries. By applying the Multiple Streams
Framework to detailed case studies on Austria and Italy, it sheds
light on the factors and processes that innovate education policy.
The book illustrates an education policy design that values
language diversity and inclusion, and compares underlying
policymaking processes with less innovative experiences. Combining
empirical analysis and qualitative research methods, it assesses
the ways in which language is intrinsically linked to identity and
political power within societies, and how language policy and
migration might become a firmer part of European policy agendas.
Sitting at the intersection between policy studies, language
education studies and integration studies, the book offers
recommendations for how education policy can promote a more
inclusive society. It will appeal to scholars, practitioners and
students who have an interest in policymaking, education policy and
migrant integration.
aImpressive, provocative and smart.Immigrant Rights in the Shadows
of U.S. Citizenship is breathtaking in its timeliness and its broad
scope.a
-- Erika Lee, author of "At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration
during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943"
aAn urgent collection of essays by both activists and scholars
that puts legislative and judicial histories into dialogue with
activists' struggles to bring about social justice for immigrant
communities. Its ever-present focus on social justice connects the
specificity of individual historical struggles to broader political
aspirations.a
--Wendy Kozol, Oberlin College
Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of
2006, immigrant rights has re-emerged as a significant and highly
visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S.
Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to
examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary
immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary
immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by
looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims
to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in
different communities around the United States. Scholars explain
the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts
around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current
movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built
among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and
native- born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which
questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity,
including gender, race, and sexuality.
Finalist, 2020 Latino Book Awards, Best Academic Themed Book The
surprising effects of American TV on global viewers As a dominant
cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to
American ideals and the English language for many people throughout
the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents
race, class, and gender in ways that many find unfair and
unrealistic. What happens, then, when people who grew up on
American television decide to come to the United States? What do
they expect to find, and what do they actually find? In America, As
Seen on TV, Clara E. Rodriguez surveys international college
students and foreign nationals working or living in the US to
examine the impact of American television on their views of the US
and on their expectations of life in the United States. She finds
that many were surprised to learn that America is racially and
economically diverse, and that it is not the easy-breezy, happy
endings culture portrayed in the media, but a work culture. The
author also surveys US-millennials about their consumption of US TV
and finds that both groups share the sense that American TV does
not accurately reflect racial/ethnic relations in the US as they
have experienced them. However, the groups differ on how much they
think US TV has influenced their views on sex, smoking and
drinking. America, As Seen on TV explores the surprising effects of
TV on global viewers and the realities they and US millennials
actually experience in the US.
This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars
from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European
identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions
with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role
played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of
governance, culture and development, considering the construction
of Europe as an ideological and politico-economic entity in the
process. Split up into three sections that investigate the
influence of colonialism on the shaping of post-WWII Europe, the
nature of co-operation, dependence and interdependence in the
region, and the impact of the Arab Spring, North Africa and the
Making of Europe investigates the Mediterranean space using a
transnational, interdisciplinary approach. This, in turn, allows
for historical analysis to be fruitfully put into conversation with
contemporary politics. The book also discusses such timely issues
such as the development of European institutions, the evolution of
legal frameworks in the name of antiterrorism, the rise of
Islamophobia, immigration, and political co-operation. Students and
scholars focusing on the development of postwar Europe or the EU's
current relationship with North Africa will benefit immensely from
this invaluable new study.
Initially upheld as a bastion of success in curbing the spread of
COVID-19, Singapore eventually found itself home to the highest
number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia. Over 90% of its
cases in 2020 occurred among the 300,000 migrant construction
workers primarily from Bangladesh, India, and China who live as
part of a transient population in this city-state.This collection
looks beyond the immediacy of heightened concerns surrounding the
migrant worker population in the time of the COVID-19 crisis. It
gives attention to broader questions of migrant lives and labour in
a city-state that has thrived on migration since its beginnings as
a colonial entrepot. Serving as a primer for the general and
academic reader interested in developing a richer understanding of
the structural conditions of migrant construction work, the book
draws together key studies on migrant construction work in
Singapore.The chapters in this volume, contributed by a range of
academic experts, spotlight the processes of unequal global
development, precarious work, and welfare exclusion that have
rendered low-waged labour migrants especially vulnerable to the
pandemic. They also highlight migrant men's social identities
beyond the sphere of work by attending to their experiences and
strategies as members of transnational families and social-cultural
communities. Accompanying the chapters are short reflections from
the authors that not only summarise the findings but also provide
updates on the research context in view of the recent situation.
An urgent study on how punitive immigration policies undermine the
health of Latinx immigrants Of the approximately 20 million
noncitizens currently living in the United States, nearly half are
"undocumented," which means they are excluded from many public
benefits, including health care coverage. Additionally, many
authorized immigrants are barred from certain public benefits,
including health benefits, for their first five years in the United
States. These exclusions often lead many immigrants, particularly
those who are Latinx, to avoid seeking health care out of fear of
deportation, detention, and other immigration enforcement
consequences. Medical Legal Violence tells the stories of some of
these immigrants and how anti-immigrant politics in the United
States increasingly undermine health care for Latinx noncitizens in
ways that deepen health inequalities while upholding economic
exploitation and white supremacy. Meredith Van Natta provides a
first-hand account of how such immigrants made life and death
decisions with their doctors and other clinic workers before and
after the 2016 election. Drawing from rich ethnographic
observations and in-depth interviews in three states during the
Trump presidency, Van Natta demonstrates how anti-immigrant laws
are changing the way Latinx immigrants and their doctors weigh
illness and injury against patients' personal and family security.
The book also evaluates the role of safety-net health care workers
who have helped noncitizen patients navigate this unstable
political landscape despite perceiving a rise in anti-immigrant
surveillance in the health care spaces where they work. As
anti-immigrant rhetoric intensifies, Medical Legal Violence sheds
light on the real consequences of anti-immigrant laws on the health
of Latinx noncitizens, and how these laws create a predictable
humanitarian disaster in immigrant communities throughout the
country and beyond its borders. Van Natta asks how things might be
different if we begin to learn from this history rather than
continuously repeat it.
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