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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography
The story of white flight and the neglect of black urban
neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent
decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed black agency
and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural
forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's black
middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that a
nascent community established footholds in areas outside the
overcrowded, inner-city neighborhoods to which most African
Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these
outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials,
allied with politically progressive whites, and relied upon both
black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these
""surrogate suburbs"" and maintain their livability until the bona
fide suburbs became more accessible. By tracking the trajectories
of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney
offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on
racial conflict and black poverty and tells the neglected story of
the black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.
Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing
branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved
rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations
since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as
its implications for security and human rights have become clearer.
This fascinating study by international experts provides original
research findings on human trafficking, with particular reference
to Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. A major focus is on why
and how many states and organisations act in ways that undermine
trafficked victims' rights, as part of 'quadruple victimisation'.
It compares and contrasts policies and suggests which seem to work
best and why. The contributors also advocate radical new approaches
that most states and other formal organisations appear loath to
introduce, for reasons that are explored in this unique book. This
must-read book will appeal to policymakers as well as advanced
undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of
criminology, human rights law, gender studies, political science
and international studies. Contributors: J. Debeljak, L. Holmes, S.
Kneebone, Z. Lasocik, K. Leong, S. Milivojevic, S.
Schwandner-Sievers, M. Segrave, O. Simic, S. Yea
Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the
movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The
deprivation of liberty of non-citizens due to their undocumented or
irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book
stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these
practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human
rights and prevent detention abuses. Approaching detention from an
interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together leading
writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it
is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront
it locally and globally. Challenging Immigration Detention
thematically examines a broad range of situations across the globe,
with contributors providing overviews of key issues, case studies
and experiences in their fields, while highlighting potential
strategies for curbing detention abuses. Demonstrating the value of
varied analytical frameworks and investigative angles, the
contributors provide urgently needed insight into a growing human
rights issue. With cross-disciplinary investigation into an issue
with immediate global importance, Challenging Immigration Detention
is vital for undergraduates, postgraduates, activists, lawyers and
policy-makers interested in international human rights. National
and international humanitarian organizations and advocacy groups
working in migrant and asylum rights will find this a compelling
and diverse overview of migrant detention. Contributors include: S.
Albert, N. Bernstein, M. Bosworth, S. Brooker, P. Ceriani, D.
Conlon, G. Cornelisse, N. De Genova, M.B. Flynn, M.J. Flynn, M.
Grange, N. Hiemstra, I. Majcher, G. Mitchell, A. Mountz, C. Munoz,
D. Schriro, H. Singh Bhui, Z. Steel, D. Wilsher, M.P. Young, P.
Young
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of
Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi straddles these two perspectives
in My Two Italies to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's
north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its
passion for art, food, and family. From his Calabrian father's time
as a military internee in Nazi Germany - where he had a love affair
with a local Bavarian woman - to his adventures amid the
Renaissance splendour of Florence, Luzzi creates a deeply personal
portrait of Italy that leaps past facile cliches about Mafia
madness and Tuscan sun therapy. He delves instead into why Italian
Americans have such a complicated relationship with the "old
country," and how Italy produces some of the world's most
astonishing art while suffering from corruption, political
fragmentation, and an enfeebled civil society. With topics ranging
from the pervasive force of Dante's poetry to the meteoric rise of
Silvio Berlusconi, Luzzi presents the Italians in all their glory
and squalor, relating the problems that plague Italy today to the
country's ancient roots. He shares how his "two Italies" - the
earthy southern Italian world of his immigrant childhood and the
refined northern Italian realm of his professional life - join and
clash in unexpected ways that continue to enchant the many millions
who are either connected to Italy by ancestry or bound to it by
love.
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.
Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi
Germany, and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man
of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley
Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in
America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted emigres in
Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at
its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly
German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler,
Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the
Circle's nascent years in Princeton, were "stupendously"
productive. In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces
the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton, treating
literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary
history, and the Circle's afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a
fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in
the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of
writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture
and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.
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.
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.
Migration is now firmly embedded as a leading global policy issue
of the twenty-first century. Whilst not a new phenomenon, it has
altered significantly in recent decades, with changing
demographics, geopolitics, conflict, climate change and patterns of
global development shaping new types of migration. Against this
evolving backdrop, this Handbook offers an authoritative overview
of key debates underpinning migration and health in a contemporary
global context. The first major handbook in this field, this
Handbook of Migration and Health provides a comprehensive global
overview of issues relating to migration and health. The Handbook
is organised into six main sections: theories and models of
migration; rights and deservingness; vulnerability and precarity;
specific healthcare needs and priorities; healthcare provision; and
transnational and diasporic networks. Chapters focus on a wide
range of migrant groups including refugees, asylum seekers,
trafficked people, international students, healthcare workers, and
diasporic communities. Bringing together the contributions of 58
leading researchers and drawing on case studies and examples from
across the globe, the Handbook is intended as a scholarly, yet
accessible reference tool for researchers, students, and
practitioners interested in the field of migration and health.
Contributors include: S. Bacci, L. Baldassar, C. Bennouna, J.
Botfield, E. Chase, J. Cook, E. Duffell, R. Evans, J. Gideon, K.
Hall, A.-C. Hoyez, D. Ingleby, H. Jayaweera, M.-A. Karlsen, M.
Kilke, R. Labonte, Y. Lu, S. Mayell, L. Manderson, M. McKee, J.
McLaughlin, C. McMichael, L. Merla, S. Meyer, P. Mladovsky, L.
Newman, C. Newman, T. Noori, L. Nunez Carrasco, A. Odone, D. Oksen,
S. Oram, M. Ormond, G. Ottosdottir, C. Packer, A. Pharris, O.
Razum, B. Rechel, A. Reeske, A. Reid, V. Runnels, A. Sandgren, R.
Shadwick, D. Sime, J. Spallek, D.L. Spitzer, L. Stark, J.E. Suk, A.
Tianbo Zhang, T. Tillmann, F. Thomas, K. Vasey, J. Vearey, G.A.
Williams, R. Wilding, S.S. Willen, H. Zeeb, A. Zwi
At the landmark centennial anniversary of the 1917 Jones-Shafroth
Act, which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, the island
confronts an unfolding humanitarian crisis initially triggered by
an acute economic crisis surging since 2006. Analyzing large
datasets such as the American Community Survey and the Puerto Rican
Community Survey, this book represents the first comprehensive
analysis of the socioeconomic and demographic consequences of "La
Crisis Boricua" for Puerto Ricans on the island and mainland,
including massive net outmigration from the island on a scale not
seen for sixty years; a shrinking and rapidly aging population; a
shut-down of high-tech industries; a significant loss in public and
private sector jobs; a deteriorating infrastructure; higher sales
taxes than any of the states; $74 billion in public debt plus
another $49 billion in unfunded pension obligations; and defaults
on payments to bondholders. This book also discusses how the
socioeconomic and demographic outcomes differ among stateside
Puerto Ricans, including recent migrants, in traditional settlement
areas such as New York versus those in newer settlement areas such
as Florida and Texas. Florida is now home to 1.1 million Puerto
Ricans (essentially the same number as those living in New York)
and received a full third of the migrants from the island to
mainland during this time. Scholars interested in the transition of
migrants into their receiving communities (regardless of the Puerto
Rican case) will also find this book to be of interest,
particularly with respect to the comparative analyses on earnings,
the likelihood of being impoverished, and self-employment.
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.
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.
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional
governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in
the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral
hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional
inter-governmental institutions has kept the peace, but produced
episodes of crisis from overstretching jurisdictions, thematically
and geographically. Polarization between nationalist and
integrative forces has displaced the idealistic aspirations of
prior decades to build the rule of law and deter violence.
Academics and policy makers will learn from the various legal and
political efforts to integrate supranational and inter-governmental
agencies with national political systems.
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.
State Profiles 2022: The Population and Economy of Each U.S. State
has been completely updated and provides a wealth of current,
authoritative, and comprehensive data on key demographic and
economic indicators for each U.S. state and the District of
Columbia. Each state is covered by a compact standardized chapter
that allows for easy comparisons and timely analysis between the
states. A ten-page profile for each U.S. state plus the District of
Columbia provides reliable, up-to-date information on a wide range
of topics, including: population, labor force, income and poverty,
government finances, crime, education, health insurance coverage,
voting, marital status, migration, and more. If you want a single
source of key demographic and economic data on each of the U.S.
states, there is no other book like State Profiles. This book
provides an overview of the U.S. economy which provides a framework
for understanding the state information. State Profiles is
primarily useful for public, school, and college and university
libraries, as well as for economic and sociology departments.
However, anyone needing state-level information including students,
state officials, investors, economic analysts, and concerned
citizens will find State Profiles wealth of data and analysis
absolutely essential!
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