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Placed within the context of the past decade's war on terror and
emergent and countervailing Latino rights movement, Reform without
Justice addresses the issue of state violence against migrants in
the United States. It questions why it is that, despite its success
in mobilizing millions, the Latino immigrant rights movement has
not been able to effectively secure sustainable social justice
victories for itself or more successfully defend the human rights
of migrants. Gonzales argues that the contemporary Latino rights
movement faces a dynamic form of political power that he terms
"anti-migrant hegemony". This anti-migrant hegemony, found in sites
of power from Congress, to think tanks, talk shows and the prison
system, is a force through which a rhetorically race neutral and
common sense public policy discourse, consistent with the rules of
post-civil rights racism, is deployed to criminalize migrants.
Critically, large sectors of "pro-immigrant" groups, including the
Hispanic Congressional Caucus and the National Council of La Raza,
have conceded to coercive immigration enforcement measures such as
a militarized border wall and the expansion of immigration policing
in local communities in exchange for so-called Comprehensive
Immigration Reform. Gonzales says that it is precisely when
immigration reformers actively adopt the discourse and policies of
the leading anti-immigrant forces that the power of anti-migrant
hegemony can best be observed.
Migration began with our origin as the human species and continues
today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of
migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe.
Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies
evolved in different material environments, migrants conflicted,
merged, and cohabited with each other, creating, entering, and
leaving various city-states, kingdoms, empires, and nations. During
the early modern period, migrations reconnected the continents,
including through colonization and forced migrations of subject
peoples, while political concepts like "citizen" and "alien"
developed. In recent history, migrations changed their character as
nation-states and transnational unions sought in new ways to
control the peoples who migrated across their borders. This volume
will explore the process of migration chronologically and also at
several levels, from the illuminating example of the migration of a
individual community, to larger patterns of the collective
movements of major ethnic groups, to the more abstract study of the
processes of emigration, migration, and immigration. This book will
concentrate on substantial migrations covering long distances and
involving large numbers of people. It will intentionally balance
evidence from the now diverse people's of the world, for example,
by highlighting an exemplary migration for each of the six chapters
that highlights different trajectories and by keeping issues of
gender and socio-economic class salient wherever appropriate.
Further, as a major theme, the volume will consider how technology,
the environment, and various polities have historically shaped
human migration. Exciting new scholarship in the several fields
inherent in this topic make it a particularly valuable and timely
project. Each chapter will contain short individual examples, maps,
illustrations, and brief quotations from diverse types of primary
documents, all integrated with each other and analyzed engagingly
in the text.
Migration is the most imprecise and difficult of all aspects of
pre-industrial population to measure. It was a major element in
economic and social change in early modern Britain, yet, despite a
wealth of detailed research in recent years, there has been no
systematic survey of its importance. This book reviews a wide range
of aspects of population migration, and their impacts on British
society, from Tudor times to the main phase of the Industrial
Revolution.
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 The New York Times
bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese
Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up
mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her
own identity in the wake of her loss. 'As good as everyone says it
is and, yes, it will have you in tears. An essential read for
anybody who has lost a loved one, as well as those who haven't' -
Marie-Claire In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and
endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling
singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells
of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene,
Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high
expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months
spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and
her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work
in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band
- and meeting the man who would become her husband - her Koreanness
began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she
wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal
pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a
reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of
taste, language, and history her mother had given her. Vivacious,
lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner's voice is as radiantly alive
on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that
will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share,
and reread. 'Possibly the best book I've read all year . . . I will
be buying copies for friends and family this Christmas.' - Rukmini
Iyer in the Guardian 'Best Food Books of 2021' 'Wonderful . . . The
writing about Korean food is gorgeous . . . but as a brilliant
kimchi-related metaphor shows, Zauner's deepest concern is the
ferment, and delicacy, of complicated lives.' - Victoria Segal,
Sunday Times, 'My favourite read of the year'
As Senegal prepares to celebrate fifty years of independence from
French colonial rule, academic and policy circles are engaged in a
vigorous debate about its experience in nation building. An
important aspect of this debate is the impact of globalization on
Senegal, particularly the massive labor migration that began
directly after independence. From Tokyo to Melbourne, from Turin to
Buenos Aires, from to Paris to New York, 300,000 Senegalese
immigrants are simultaneously negotiating their integration into
their host society and seriously impacting the development of their
homeland.
This book addresses the modes of organization of transnational
societies in the globalized context, and specifically the role of
religion in the experience of migrant communities in Western
societies. Abundant literature is available on immigrants from
Latin America and Asia, but very little on Africans, especially
those from French speaking countries in the United States. Ousmane
Kane offers a case study of the growing Senegalese community in New
York City. By pulling together numerous aspects (religious, ethnic,
occupational, gender, generational, socio-economic, and political)
of the experience of the Senegalese migrant community into an
integrated analysis, linking discussion of both the homeland and
host community, this book breaks new ground in the debate about
postcolonial Senegal, Muslim globalization and diaspora studies in
the United States. A leading scholar of African Islam, Ousmane Kane
has also conducted extensive research in North America, Europe and
Africa, which allows him to provide an insightful historical
ethnography of the Senegalese transnational experience.
The United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for
foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than
Ellis Island. Through Ellis Island's halls and corridors more than
twelve million immigrants-of nearly every nationality and
race-entered the country on their way to new experiences in North
America. With an astonishing array of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century photographs, Ellis Island leads the reader
through the fascinating history of this small island in New York
harbor from its pre-immigration days as one of the harbor's oyster
islands to its spectacular years as the flagship station of the
U.S. Bureau of Immigration to its current incarnation as the
National Park Service's largest museum.
Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a
historically grounded comparative study to examine the form,
trajectory, and contradictions of redevelopment efforts following
the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters. Based on years of
research in the two cities, Gotham and Greenberg contend that New
York and New Orleans have emerged as paradigmatic crisis cities,
representing a free-market approach to post-disaster redevelopment
that is increasingly dominant for crisis-stricken cities around the
world. This approach, which Gotham and Greenberg term crisis driven
urbanization, emphasizes the privatization of disaster aid and
resources, the devolution of disaster recovery responsibilities to
the local state, and the use of generous tax incentives to bolster
revitalization. Crisis driven urbanization also involves global
branding campaigns and public media events to repair a city's image
for business and tourism, as well as internally-focused political
campaigns and events that associate post-crisis political leaders
and public-private partnerships with this revitalized urban image.
By focusing on past and present conditions in New York and New
Orleans, Gotham and Greenberg show how crises expose long-neglected
injustices, underlying power structures, and social inequalities.
In doing so, they reveal the impact of specific policy reforms,
public-private actions, and socio-legal regulatory strategies on
the creation and reproduction of risk and vulnerability to
disasters. Crisis Cities questions the widespread narrative of
resilience and reveals the uneven and contradictory effects of
redevelopment activities in the two cities.
THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'A suspenseful epic'
Daily Telegraph 'A triumph' Financial Times 'Heartbreaking' Mail on
Sunday 'Deeply moving' Sunday Times Mariam is only fifteen when she
is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a
friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as
strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban
take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation,
brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected
ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a
startling heroism.
What happens when people return to the land of their birth after
decades away? The migrants' journey is a well-told story but much
less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is
it like to be back home? Home Again is a collection of contemporary
real-life stories by men and women who have returned to Dominica.
Their feelings and experiences, expressed in their own words, link
the challenges of the past to both the positive aspects of return -
a sense of belonging and well-being - and also to its difficulties
- of rejection and frustration. Compelling, moving and intensely
personal, Home Again, is a revealing insight into the lives of
these pioneering migrants.
A TLS and Prospect Book of the Year. The scintillating story of the
Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge
in Belle Epoque Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917
forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with only the
clothes on their backs. Many came to France's glittering capital,
Paris. Former princes drove taxicabs, while their wives found work
in the fashion houses. Some intellectuals, artists, poets,
philosophers, and writers eked out a living at menial jobs; a few
found success until the economic downturn of the 1930s hit. In
exile, White activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime
from afar, and double agents plotted from both sides, to little
avail. Many Russians became trapped in a cycle of poverty and their
all-consuming homesickness. This is their story.
An undertaking without parallel or precedent, this monumental
volume encapsulates much of what is known of the history of food
and nutrition. It constitutes a vast and essential chapter in the
history of human health and culture. Ranging from the eating habits
of our prehistoric ancestors to food-related policy issues we face
today, this work covers the full spectrum of foods that have been
hunted, gathered, cultivated, and domesticated; their nutritional
make-up and uses; and their impact on cultures and demography. It
offers a geographical perspective on the history and culture of
food and drink and takes up subjects from food fads, prejudices,
and taboos to questions of food toxins, additives, labelling, and
entitlements. It culminates in a dictionary that identifies and
sketches out brief histories of plant foods mentioned in the text -
over 1,000 in all - and additionally supplies thousands of common
names and synonyms for those foods.
Essays and poems exploring the diverse range of the Arab American
experience. This collection begins with stories of immigration and
exile by following newcomers' attempts to assimilate into American
society. Editors Ghassan Zeineddine, Nabeel Abraham, and Sally
Howell have assembled emerging and established writers who examine
notions of home, belonging, and citizenship from a wide array of
communities, including cultural heritages originating from Lebanon,
Palestine, Iraq, and Yemen. The strong pattern in Arab Detroit
today is to oppose marginalization through avid participation in
almost every form of American identity-making. This engaged stance
is not a by-product of culture, but a new way of thinking about the
US in relation to one's homeland. Hadha Baladuna ("this is our
country") is the first work of creative nonfiction in the field of
Arab American literature that focuses entirely on the Arab diaspora
in Metro Detroit, an area with the highest concentration of Arab
Americans in the US. Narratives move from a young Lebanese man in
the early 1920s peddling his wares along country roads to an
aspiring Iraqi-Lebanese poet who turns to the music of Tupac Shakur
for inspiration. The anthology then pivots to experiences growing
up Arab American in Detroit and Dearborn, capturing the cultural
vibrancy of urban neighborhoods and dramatizing the complexity of
what it means to be Arab, particularly from the vantage point of
biracial writers. Included in these works is a fearless account of
domestic and sexual abuse and a story of a woman who comes to terms
with her queer identity in a community that is not entirely
accepting. The volume also includes photographs from award-winning
artist Rania Matar that present heterogenous images of Arab
American women set against the arresting backdrop of Detroit. The
anthology concludes with explorations of political activism dating
back to the 1960s and Dearborn's shifting demographic landscape.
Hadha Baladuna will shed light on the shifting position of Arab
Americans in an era of escalating tension between the United States
and the Arab region.
This forward-looking Research Handbook showcases cutting-edge
research on the relationship between international migration and
digital technology. It sheds new light on the interlinkages between
digitalisation and migration patterns and processes globally,
capturing the latest research technologies and data sources.
Featuring international migration in all facets from the migration
of tech sector specialists through to refugee displacement, leading
contributors offer strategic insights into the future of migration
and mobility. Covering diverse geographies and using
interdisciplinary approaches, contributions provide new analysis of
migration futures. A discrete chapter on digital technology and
COVID-19 global pandemic offers reflections on how migration and
mobility are being profoundly reshaped by the global pandemic. The
practical applications and limitations of digital technology in
relation to international migration are also highlighted and
supported with key case studies. Analytical yet accessible, this
Research Handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and
scholars in the fields of migration and digital technology, while
also being of benefit to policy makers and civil society actors
specialising in migration.
An undertaking without parallel or precedent, this monumental
volume encapsulates much of what is known of the history of food
and nutrition. It constitutes a vast and essential chapter in the
history of human health and culture. Ranging from the eating habits
of our prehistoric ancestors to food-related policy issues we face
today, this work covers the full spectrum of foods that have been
hunted, gathered, cultivated, and domesticated; their nutritional
make-up and uses; and their impact on cultures and demography. It
offers a geographical perspective on the history and culture of
food and drink and takes up subjects from food fads, prejudices,
and taboos to questions of food toxins, additives, labelling, and
entitlements. It culminates in a dictionary that identifies and
sketches out brief histories of plant foods mentioned in the text -
over 1,000 in all - and additionally supplies thousands of common
names and synonyms for those foods.
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