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Despite deep divisions on the issue of immigration, this book shows
that immigration promotes economic innovation, expands the job
market, and contributes to diversity and creativity in the United
States. Immigration, as a conduit for bringing new talent, ideas,
and inventions into the United States, is essential to the success
and vitality of our economy and society. In this timely book,
researched and written by the Immigration Book Project Team at Penn
State University, immigration is approached from historical,
economic, business, and sociological perspectives in order to argue
that treatment of immigrants must reflect and applaud their
critical roles in supporting and leading the economic, social,
cultural, and political institutions of civil society. Approaching
immigration as both a socioeconomic phenomenon and a matter of
public policy, The Danger of Devaluing Immigrants offers
demographics and statistics on workforce participation and job
creation along with stories of individual immigrants' contributions
to the economy and society. It supports the idea that, when
immigration is challenged in the political sphere, we must not lose
sight of the valuable contributions that immigrants have made-and
will continue to make-to our democracy. Approaches immigration from
many perspectives: economic, business, historical, and sociological
Investigates the substantial roles of immigrants in critical
industries and sectors across the U.S. economy Emphasizes the
bimodal nature of attitudes toward immigrants depending on their
education and skill level and abilities Includes personal stories
and case studies from immigrants Draws on the expertise of a team
from the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University
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.
El texto que usted tiene en las manos es el resultado de 10 anos
consecutivos de estudio, observacion e interaccion con seres
humanos que nacieron en un lugar, y por una u otra razon emigraron
a otro. La migracion dentro de un territorio nacional implica
elementos de empoderamiento; sin embargo, el enfoque esta puesto en
los movimientos migratorios internacionales. El objetivo central es
contribuir al analisis de la migracion internacional planteando un
marco de analisis teorico-metodologico denominado "empoderamiento
transnacional de los migrantes internacionales." Fluyen
aportaciones previas sobre transnacionalismo, empoderamiento y
redes sociales transnacionales para insertar esta propuesta de
analisis a los procesos migratorios internacionales. La
autenticidad del analisis esta identificada por un proceso de
empoderamiento humano desde el individuo a diferencia de los
programas de empoderamiento desde afuera que han sido ejecutados
por agencias y organismos internacionales de desarrollo humano.
Incluye dinamicas regionales con efectos multiples en las
sociedades emisoras y receptoras de migrantes internacionales, con
enfasis especial al proceso historico de la emigracion mexicana
hacia EUA y la construccion de relaciones de poder transnacional.
Finalmente los movimientos humanos internacionales continuan; y eso
no significa que los efectos se mantendran estaticos. El marco
general de analisis son los migrantes mexicanos y sus
organizaciones en el sur de California. Sin embargo, encontraran el
caso de estudio empirico de los migrantes nayaritas y sus
organizaciones. A partir de este modelo de analisis, encontre
cuatro premisas que se describen a lo largo del contenido: a) los
migrantes mexicanos tuvieron su primer nivel de empoderamiento
transnacional en los lugares de origen; b) de acuerdo a los
supuestos del modelo, existe una selectividad de los migrantes
internacionales ya que desde esta perspectiva no son los mas pobres
de la tierra los que emigran; c) La segunda y tercera etapas del
proceso de empoderamiento transnacional en los lugares de destino
estan enfaticamente marcadas en lo individual/familiar; y en lo
colectivo a traves de las organizaciones de migrantes; d) y de la
misma forma, quede totalmente convencido que la participacion del
Estado mexicano ha contribuido al fortalecimiento colectivo de los
migrantes y sus organizaciones, a lo que he denominado
empoderamiento transnacional a la inversa. Las cuatro etapas
concluyo, se encuentran intrinsecamente relacionadas con las redes
sociales de origen (Mexico) ya establecidas y re-funcionalizadas en
los lugares de destino (EUA) con actividades transnacionales
multiples en ambos paises.
Narratives of Forced Mobility and Displacement in Contemporary
Literature and Culture: Border Violence focuses on the evidence of
the effects of displacement as seen in narratives-cinematic,
photographic, and literary-produced by, with, or about refugees and
migrants. The book explores refugee journeys, asylum-seeking,
trafficking, and deportation as well as territorial displacement,
the architecture of occupation and settlement, and border
separation and violence. The large-scale movement of people from
the global South to the global North is explored through the
perspectives of the new mobilities paradigm, including the fact
that, for many of the displaced, waiting and immobility is a common
part of their experience. Through critical analysis drawing on
cultural studies and literary studies, Roger Bromley generates an
alternative "map" of texts for understanding displacement in terms
of affect, subjectivity, and dehumanization with the overall aim of
opening up new dialogues in the face of the current stream of
anti-refugee rhetoric.
Contemporary Jewish identity, integration and acculturation in
Europe has become an urgent topic in view of the current wave of
antisemitism and reliable research on the present state of Jewish
identity is scarce. Lilach Lev Ari has chosen three ethnically
diverse communities - Paris, Brussels, and Antwerp - that can shed
a light on the identity and acculturation of the Jewish minority in
Europe. To understand patterns of social integration of native-born
and immigrant Jews in the three host societies she applies the
correlational quantitative method and has conducted semi-structured
interviews. The study can promote further understanding of Jewish
continuity within the non-Jewish host societies in a situation,
when there is a concern about the resilience and strength of the
Jewish communities vis-a-vis new waves of antisemitism.
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.
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
This book explores the connections between migration and terrorism
and extrapolates, with the help of current research and case
studies, what the future may hold for both issues. Migration and
Radicalization: Global Futures looks at how migrants and terrorists
have both been treated as Others outside the body politic, how
growing migrant flows borne of a rickety state system cause both
natives and migrants to turn violent, and how terrorist
radicalization and tensions between natives and migrants can be
reduced. As he contemplates potential global futures in the light
of migration and radicalization, Gabriel Rubin charts a course
between contemporary migration and terrorism scholarship, exploring
their interactions in a methodologically rigorous but theoretically
bold investigation.
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.
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.
Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the
Needs of the Twenty-First-Century Student and Modern Workplace
presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and
implications of transformative and active instructional strategies
in higher education. It examines the changing landscape of higher
education and serves as a foundational lens and framework for
thinking through higher education from both an experiential and
transformative instructional context. As instructors and
administrators struggle with twenty-first-century challenges, this
seminal text serves as a companion resource that presents
innovative twenty-first-century techniques in a fair and balanced
theoretical context.
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.
This book analyses the politicization of immigration and the
European Union in Italy, the UK, and the European Parliament (EP)
from 2015 to 2020. The book uses the case studies of Italy, the UK,
and the EP to study party positioning specifically towards
immigration and the European Union, to understand to what extent
mainstream-left, mainstream-right and populist parties adopt
different framing strategies to compete on the new cultural
dimension created by globalization. The book draws on saliency
theory, issue ownership theory, and yield theory to investigate the
multidimensional nature of political competition, and the relevance
of institutional settings in determining party framing strategies.
Bridging two fields that typically do not interact-party politics
and migration studies-this book fills gaps in the academic
literature and as such will be appropriate for students and
researchers interested in party politics, European politics,
immigration politics, populism, and text analysis.
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.
Amidst mounting global policy attention directed toward
international migration, this book offers an exhaustive review of
the issues and evidence linking economic development in low-income
countries with their migration experiences. The diversity of
outcomes is explored in the context of; migration from East Europe
and from the Maghreb to the EU; contract labor from South Asia in
the Persian Gulf; highly skilled migrants moving to North America;
and labor circulation within East Asia. Labor market responses at
home, the brain drain, remittances, the roles of a diaspora, and
return migration are each addressed, as well as an exploration of
the effects of economic development upon migration and the
implications of long-term dependence on a migration nexus. Robert
Lucas concludes with an assessment of the winners and losers in the
migration process, both at home and in the destination regions,
before summarizing the main policy options open to both. This
accessible and topical book offers invaluable insights to policy
makers in both industrialized and developing countries as well as
to scholars and researchers of economics, development,
international relations and to specialists in migration.
Immigration has become a significant public policy issue in all of
the developed countries, as well as an important area of study for
academic researchers. Barry R. Chiswick has been a pioneer in
research on the economics of immigration and has published numerous
seminal studies on the labor market, the educational and linguistic
adjustment of immigrants, and the impact of immigrants on the host
economy. He has also written extensively on various aspects of
immigration policy. Now his most influential and widely-cited
papers, published over a span of 25 years in a variety of journals
and conference volumes, are available in a single volume. The
author has written an original essay introducing this valuable
collection. Scholars of economics, public policy, sociology,
anthropology and immigration will find this book an essential
addition to their libraries.
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.
Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid
significantly less attention to the movement of people than they
have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance
and provides timely insights into recent developments in return
skilled migration in four regions in the Asia Pacific - Bangladesh,
China, Taiwan and Vietnam. The authors believe that the movement of
skilled migrants, and the tacit knowledge they bring with them, is
a vital component in the process of globalisation. The authors
examine the patterns and processes of return migration and the
impacts it can have on migrants, their families and communities
(including gender relations), as well as the effects on both the
original source country and the host country. They highlight the
many considerations which can influence the decision to return
home, including social factors, career-related prospects, and the
economic and political environment. Government policies in
facilitating return migration through the promotion of
entrepreneurship, education and training can also play a crucial
role. In the long term, fears of a 'brain drain', under certain
circumstances, may be replaced by the prospect of a 'brain gain' or
'global brain circulation', where emigration and immigration (or
return migration) co-exist and are supplemented by short-term
circulatory movements as a country becomes more integrated into the
global economy. This is a pioneering comparative study of return
migration in the Asia Pacific based on original primary data.
Researchers, academics and students interested in migration,
globalisation, demography and social transformation will find this
a valuable and highly rewarding book.
Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in
a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of
American society on cultural, political, and economic levels.
Because the movements of southerners-and people in general-are
controlled not only by physical boundaries marked on a map but also
by narratives that define movement, narrative is central in
building and sustaining borders and in breaking them down. In
Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of
Southern Identity, author Mary Weaks-Baxter analyzes narratives by
and about those who left the South and how those narratives have
remade what it means to be southern. Drawing from a broad range of
narratives, including literature, newspaper articles, art, and
music, Weaks-Baxter outlines how these displacement narratives
challenged concepts of southern nationhood and redefined southern
identity. Close attention is paid to how depictions of the South,
particularly in the media and popular culture, prompted southerners
to leave the region and changed perceptions of southerners to
outsiders as well as how southerners saw themselves. Through an
examination of narrative, Weaks-Baxter reveals the profound effect
gender, race, and class have on the nature of the migrant's
journey, the adjustment of the migrant, and the ultimate decision
of the migrant either to stay put or return home, and connects the
history of border crossings to the issues being considered in
today's national landscape.
Research on linguistically and culturally sustaining education has
recently placed increased attention on the need to rethink the
field by promoting more equitable linguistic pedagogical
opportunities for all students, including immigrant and newcomer
youth. It has been evident for some time that immigration patterns
around the globe have been increasingly shifting, posing a new
challenge to educators. As a result, there is a gap in the
literature that is meant to address educational practices for
immigrant communities comprehensively. The Handbook of Research on
Advancing Language Equity Practices With Immigrant Communities is a
critical scholarly book that explores issues of linguistic and
educational equity with immigrant communities around the globe in
an effort to improve the teaching and learning of immigrant
communities. Featuring a wide range of topics such as higher
education, instructional design, and language learning, this book
is ideal for academicians, teachers, administrators, instructional
designers, curriculum developers, researchers, and students in the
fields of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, educational policy,
and discourse analysis.
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