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This is a ground-breaking research study on Black immigrant
identities in South African schools. It is the first major book on
racial integration and immigrant children in South African schools.
The overall aim of this study is to investigate how immigrant
students negotiate and mediate their identity within the South
African schooling context. This study set out to explain this
complex phenomenon, guided by the following research objectives:
One, to describe how immigrant student identities are framed,
challenged, asserted and negotiated within the institutional
cultures of schools. Two, to evaluate the extent to which the ethos
of these schools has been transformed towards integration in the
truest sense and to determine how immigrant students perceive this
in practice? Three, to explore the `transnational social fields' in
terms of social networks and cross-border linkages of immigrant
students and how this impacts on their identity formation. Four, to
determine if there are any new forms of immigrant student
self-identities that are beginning to emerge? Five, to determine
the extent to which racial desegregation has been accompanied by
social integration between immigrant and local students. Six, to
determine the impact of the South African social/schooling context
on immigrant student identity formation. And seven, to identify
critical lessons and `good practice' that could be learnt and used
to accelerate the racial desegregation and social integration of
immigrant students in South African schools.
The third edition of this book presents a most comprehensive and
up-to-date analysis of population trends and patterns in Singapore
since its foundation in 1819 to the present day. Separate chapters
are devoted to population growth and distribution, changing
population structure, migration, mortality trends and
differentials, marriage trends and patterns, divorce trends and
patterns, fertility trends and differentials, family planning,
abortion and sterilisation, fertility policies and programmes,
immigration policies and programmes, labour force and future
population trends. The strength of the book lies in the author's
deep familiarity with the subject acquired through spme personal
involvement in the compilation of demographic statistics, as well
as the formulation of population policies for the country.
Despite the fact that immigration policy is today one of the most
salient political issues in the OECD countries, we know
surprisingly little about the factors behind the very different
choices countries have made over the last decades when it comes to
immigrant admission. Why has the balance between inclusion and
exclusion differed so much between countries - and for different
categories of migrants? The answer that this book provides is that
this is to an important extent a result of how domestic labour
market and welfare state institutions have approached the question
of inclusion and exclusion, since immigration policy does not stand
independent from these central policy areas. By developing and
testing an institutional explanation for immigrant admission, this
book offers a theoretically informed, and empirically rich,
analysis of variation in immigration policy in the OECD countries
from the 1980s to the 2000s.
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!
"A vital book for understanding the still-unfolding nightmare of
nationalism and racism in the 21st century." -Francisco Cantu,
author of The Line Becomes a River Stephen Miller is one of the
most influential advisors in the White House. He has crafted Donald
Trump's speeches, designed immigration policies that ban Muslims
and separate families, and outlasted such Trump stalwarts as Steve
Bannon and Jeff Sessions. But he's remained an enigma. Until now.
Emmy- and PEN-winning investigative journalist and author Jean
Guerrero charts the thirty-four-year-old's astonishing rise to
power, drawing from more than one hundred interviews with his
family, friends, adversaries and government officials. Radicalized
as a teenager, Miller relished provocation at his high school in
liberal Santa Monica, California. He clashed with administrators
and antagonized dark-skinned classmates with invectives against
bilingualism and multiculturalism. At Duke University, he cloaked
racist and classist ideas in the language of patriotism and
heritage to get them airtime amid controversies. On Capitol Hill,
he served Tea Party congresswoman Michele Bachmann and nativist
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions. Recruited to Trump's campaign,
Miller met his idol. Having dreamed of Trump's presidency before he
even announced his decision to run, Miller became his senior policy
advisor and speechwriter. Together, they stoked dystopian fears
about the Democrats, "Deep State" and "American Carnage," painting
migrants and their supporters as an existential threat to America.
Through backroom machinations and sheer force of will, Miller
survived dozens of resignations and encouraged Trump's harshest
impulses, in conflict with the president's own family. While Trump
railed against illegal immigration, Miller crusaded against legal
immigration. He targeted refugees, asylum seekers and their
children, engineering an ethical crisis for a nation that once saw
itself as the conscience of the world. Miller rallied support for
this agenda, even as federal judges tried to stop it, by courting
the white rage that found violent expression in tragedies from El
Paso to Charlottesville. Hatemonger unveils the man driving some of
the most divisive confrontations over what it means to be
American--and what America will become.
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on
social reproduction-defined by Marx as the necessary labor to
arrive the next day at the factory gate-and extended by feminist
geographers and others into complex understandings of the
relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life.
The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus
on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and
identity, nonhuman materialities, and diverse economies. Reflecting
and expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, with
additional cross-disciplinary contributions from sociologists and
political scientists, Precarious Worlds explores the productive
possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical
lens, and an analytical framework for what Geraldine Pratt has
called "a vigorous, materialist transnational feminism.
How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's
fused to shape modern views on democracy In the 1980s, amid
increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia,
the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden,
reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and
women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in
the daily lives of Americans through TV shows, films, and popular
news media, these gains were circumscribed by the discourse that
certain immigrants, for instance single and working mothers, were
feared, censured, or welcomed exclusively as laborers. In The
Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration, Leah Perry argues that 1980s
immigration discourse in law and popular media was a crucial
ingredient in the cohesion of the neoliberal idea of democracy.
Blending critical legal analysis with a feminist media studies
methodology over a range of sources, including legal documents,
congressional debates, and popular media, such as Golden Girls,
Who's the Boss?, Scarface, and Mi Vida Loca, Perry shows how even
while "multicultural" immigrants were embraced, they were at the
same time disciplined through gendered discourses of
respectability. Examining the relationship between law and culture,
this book weaves questions of legal status and gender into existing
discussions about race and ethnicity to revise our understanding of
both neoliberalism and immigration.
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that
runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian
capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of
steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might
seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end
thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art
and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists
Andre Eugene and Celeur in the late 1990s, the Grand Rue's urban
environmental aesthetics-defined by motifs of machinic urbanism,
Vodou bricolage, the postprimitivist altermodern, and performative
politics-radically challenge ideas about consumption, waste, and
environmental hazards, as well as consider innovative solutions to
these problems in the midst of poverty, insufficient social
welfare, lack of access to arts, education, and basic needs. In
Riding with Death, Jana Braziel explores the urban environmental
aesthetics of the Grand Rue Sculptors and the beautifully
constructed sculptures they have designed from salvaged automobile
parts, rubber tires, carved wood, and other recycled
materials.Through first-person accounts and fieldwork, Braziel
constructs an urban ecological framework for understanding these
sculptures amid environmental degradation and grinding poverty.
Influenced by urban geographers, art historians, and political
theorists, the book regards the underdeveloped cities of the Global
South as alternate spaces for challenging the profit-driven
machinations of global capitalism. Above all, Braziel presents
Haitian artists who live on the most challenged Caribbean island,
yet who thrive as creators reinventing refuse as art and resisting
the abjection of their circumstances.
Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking work that examines the
phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city
to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia.
Christine Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework that she
terms "3C" (city, creativity and cosmopolitanism) in order to show
how factors at the local, state, transnational and individual
levels work together to shape women's ability to migrate to perform
sex work. Chin's book will show that as neoliberal economic
restructuring processes create pathways connecting major cities
throughout the world, competition and collaboration between cities
creates new avenues for the movement of people, services and goods
(the "city" portion of the argument). Loosely organized networks of
migrant labor grow in tandem with professional-managerial classes,
and sex workers migrate to different parts of cities, depending on
the location of the clientele to which they cater. But while global
cities create economic opportunities for migrants (and survive on
the labor they provide), states also react to the presence of
migrants with new forms of securitization and surveillance.
Migrants therefore need to negotiate between appropriating and
subverting the ideas that inform global economic restructuring to
maintain agency (the "creativity"). Chin suggests that migration
allows women to develop intercultural skills that help them to make
these negotiations (the "cosmopolitanism"). Chin's book stands
apart from other literature on migrant sex labor not only in that
she focuses on non-trafficked women, but also in that she
demonstrates the co-dependence between global economic processes,
sex work, and women's economic agency. Through original
ethnographic research with sex workers in Kuala Lumpur, she shows
that migrant sex work can provide women with the means of earning
income for families, for education, and even for their own
businesses. It also allows women the means to travel the world - a
form of cosmopolitanism "from below."
In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of
migrantmen who participated in the Bracero Program (1942-1964), a
binationalagreement between the United States and Mexico that
allowed hundredsof thousands of Mexican workers to enter this
country on temporary workpermits. While this program and the issue
of temporary workers has longbeen politicized on both sides of the
border, Loza argues that the prevailingromanticized image of
braceros as a family-oriented, productive, legal workforcehas
obscured the real, diverse experiences of the workers
themselves.Focusing on underexplored aspects of workers' lives-such
as their transnationalunion-organizing efforts, the sexual
economies of both hetero andqueer workers, and the ethno-racial
boundaries among Mexican indigenousbraceros-Loza reveals how these
men defied perceived political, sexual, andracial norms. Basing her
work on an archive of more than 800 oral histories from theUnited
States and Mexico, Loza is the first scholar to carefully
differentiatebetween the experiences of mestizo guest workers and
the many Mixtec,Zapotec, Purhepecha, and Mayan laborers. In doing
so, she captures themyriad ways these defiant workers responded to
the intense discriminationand exploitation of an unjust system that
still persists today.
In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage
gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the
United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe
Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on
the eve of the bloody 1798 Irish rebellion, and concluding with the
role of Bill Clinton's White House in the historic 1998 Good Friday
Agreement in Northern Ireland, Brundage tells a story of more two
hundred years of Irish American (and American) activism in the
cause of Ireland. The book, though, is far more than a narrative
history of the movement. Brundage also effectively weaves into his
account a number of the analytical themes and perspectives that
have transformed the study of nationalism over the last two
decades. The most important of these perspectives is the "imagined"
or "invented" character of nationalism. A second theme is the
relationship of nationalism to the waves of global migration from
the early nineteenth century to the present and, more precisely,
the relationship of nationalist politics to the phenomenon of
political exile. Finally, the work is concerned with Irish American
nationalists' larger social and political vision, which sometimes
expanded to embrace causes such as the abolition of slavery,
women's rights, or freedom for British colonial subjects in India
and Africa, and at other times narrowed, avoiding or rejecting such
"extraneous concerns and connections. All of these themes are
placed within a thoroughly transnational framework that is one of
the book's most important contributions. Irish nationalism in
America emerges from these pages as a movement of great resonance
and power. This is a work that will transform our understanding of
the experience of one of America's largest immigrant groups and of
the phenomenon of diasporic or "long-distance" nationalism more
generally.
Migration is a problem of highest importance today, and likewise is
its history. Italian migrants who had to leave the peninsula in the
long sixteenth century because of their heterodox Protestant faith
is a topic that has its deep roots in Italian Renaissance
scholarship since Delio Cantimori: It became a part of a twentieth
century form of Italian leyenda negra in liberal historiography.
But its international dimension and Central Europe (not only
Germany) as destination of that movement has often been neglected.
Three different levels of connectivity are addressed: the
materiality of communication (travel, printing, the diffusion of
books and manuscripts); individual migrants and their biographies
and networks; and the cultural transfers, discourses, and ideas
migrating in one or in both directions.
The growing importance of the Indian diaspora is felt today across
the globe due to its emergence as the second-largest diasporic
community. By examining historical, socio-cultural, economic,
political, and literary aspects of the Indian diaspora, this volume
sets out to trace the latest developments in the field of Indian
diaspora studies. It brings together essays by Indian and foreign
scholars, thus providing an authoritative platform for discussions
in which identities and affiliations are contested and constituted
through the hierarchies of cross-cultural migration in this
increasingly globalized world. This volume traces the transnational
network of the Indian diaspora, and will prove of interest to
scholars working in the fields of the Indian diaspora, diaspora
theory, and cultural studies. Countries covered include Mauritius,
Fiji, Singapore, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, the UK,
Ireland, the USA, Canada, Malaya, South Africa, and New Zealand.
Creative writers discussed include Ramabai Espinet, Vikram Chandra,
Rohinton Mistry, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Nisha Ganatra, Jhumpa
Lahiri, Kavery Nambisan, and Sarita Mandanna, along with the work
of filmmakers (Mira Nair, Yash Chopra, Kabir Khan, Shuchi Kothari,
Mandrika Rupa, Karan Johar, Sugu Pillay, Mallika Krishnamurthy, and
Nisha Ganatra).
Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents
texts by international media and cultural scholars that address the
relationship between symbolic and infrastructural dimensions of
media, analysing traffic in terms of media ecology, as
epistemological principle, and as (trans-)formative power.
Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard
Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp,
Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele
Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sutzl, Hartmut Winkler
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The `refugee crisis' and the recent rise of anti-immigration
parties across Europe has prompted widespread debates about
migration, integration and security on the continent. But the
perspectives and experiences of immigrants in northern and western
Europe have equal political significance for contemporary European
societies. While Turkish migration to Europe has been a vital area
of research, little scholarly attention has been paid to Turkish
migration to specifically Sweden, which has a mix of religious and
ethnic groups from Turkey and where now well over 100,000 Swedes
have Turkish origins. This book examines immigration from Turkey to
Sweden from its beginnings in the mid-1960s, when the recruitment
of workers was needed to satisfy the expanding industrial economy.
It traces the impact of Sweden's economic downturn, and the effects
of the 1971 Turkish military intervention and the 1980 military
coup, after which asylum seekers - mostly Assyrian Christians and
Kurds - sought refuge in Sweden. Contributors explore how the
patterns of labour migration and interactions with Swedish society
impacted the social and political attitudes of these different
communities, their sense of belonging, and diasporic activism. The
book also investigates issues of integration, return migration,
transnational ties, external voting and citizenship rights. Through
the detailed analysis of migration to Sweden and emigration from
Turkey, this book sheds new light on the situation of migrants in
Europe.
The Figure of the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema explores
contemporary debates around the concepts of 'Europe' and 'European
identity' through an examination of recent European films dealing
with various aspects of globalization (the refugee crisis, labour
migration, the resurgence of nationalism and ethnic violence,
neoliberalism, post-colonialism) with a particular attention to the
figure of the migrant and the ways in which this figure challenges
us to rethink Europe and its core Enlightenment values
(citizenship, justice, ethics, liberty, tolerance, and hospitality)
in a post-national context of ephemerality, volatility, and
contingency that finds people desperately looking for firmer
markers of identity. The book argues that a compelling case can be
made for re-orienting the study of contemporary European cinema
around the figure of the migrant viewed both as a symbolic figure
(representing post-national citizenship, urbanization, the 'gap'
between ethics and justice) and as a figure occupying an
increasingly central place in European cinema in general rather
than only in what is usually called 'migrant and diasporic cinema'.
By drawing attention to the structural and affective affinities
between the experience of migrants and non-migrants, Europeans and
non-Europeans, Trifonova shows that it is becoming increasingly
difficult to separate stories about migration from stories about
life under neoliberalism in general
A primary source analysis of the migration of Jews from Argentina
to Israel. Between Exile and Exodus: Argentinian Jewish Immigration
to Israel, 1948-1967 examines the case of the 16,500 Argentine
Jewish immigrants who arrived in Israel during the first two
decades of its existence (1948-1967). Based on a thorough
investigation of various archives in Argentina and Israel, author
Sebastian Klor presents a sociohistoric analysis of that
immigration with a comparative perspective. Although manystudies
have explored Jewish immigration to the State of Israel, few have
dealt with the immigrants themselves. Between Exile and Exodus
offers fascinating insights into this migration, its social and
economic profiles, and the motivation for the relocation of many of
these people. It contributes to different areas of study-Argentina
and its Jews, Jewish immigration to Israel, and immigration in
general. This book's integration of a computerized database
comprising the personal data of more than 10,000 Argentinian Jewish
immigrants has allowed the author to uncover their stories in a
direct, intimate manner. Because immigration is an individual
experience, rather than a collective one, the author aims to
address the individual's perspective in order to fully comprehend
the process. In the area of Argentinian Jewry it brings a new
approach to the study of Zionism and the relations of the community
with Israel, pointing out the importance of family as a basis for
mutual interactions. Klor's work clarifies the centrality of
marginal groups in the case of Jewish immigration to Israel, and
demystifies the idea that aliya from Argentina was solely
ideological. In the area of Israeli studies the book takes a
critical view of the "catastrophic" concept as a cause for Jewish
immigration to Israel, analyzing the gap between the
decision-makers in Israel and in Argentina and the real
circumstances of the individual immigrants. It also contributes to
migration studies, showing how an atypical case, such as the
Argentinian Jewish immigrants to Israel, is shaped by similar
patterns that characterize "classical" mass migrations, such as the
impact of chain migrations and the immigration of marginal groups.
This book's importance lies in uncovering and examining individual
viewpoints alongside the official, bureaucratic immigration
narrative.
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