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Scottish Exodus: Travels Among a Worldwide Clan
by James Hunter  Publisher Comments Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last 400 years, and until now, they have mostly been written about in general terms. Gathering the tales of particular emigrants, drawn from the once-powerful Clan MacLeod, and discovering what...
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Forced Displacement and Human Security in the Former Soviet Union: Law & Policy
by Arthur C Helton Book News Annotation Without delving into the complex reasons that populations in many parts of the former Soviet Union face rather permanent displacement and migration, Helton (Council of Foreign Relations) and Voronina (ethnology and anthropology, Russian Academy of...
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Migration Policies and Political Participation: Inclusion or Intrusion in Western Europe? (Migration, Minorities, and Citizenship)
by Pontus Odmalm Publisher Comments Comparing differences in migrant political participation, the author discusses the influence that institutions have on opportunities and constraints for migrants' political engagement. The book adopts a multi-country comparative approach, highlighting...
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The European Texans (Texans All)
by Allan O Kownslar Publisher Comments "The European Texans highlights the contributions of those who immigrated to Texas from Europe. Allan O. Kownslar introduces readers to the life and culture of French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German...
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Immigration and the American Future
by Chilton Williamson Synopsis "Can immigration be expected to change America for better, or for worse? If we accept at face value President George W. Bush's claim that terrorism represents the gravest threat to America, as indeed it may, then we must ask ourselves whether terrorism...
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The Road from Rio: Immigrant Essays
by Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Publisher Comments The title of thie book, is a take on those old "Road To..." movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, where the pair would travel to different countries and make fun of other cultures. Far from innocent comedies, the series, the author believes, became a...
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Namast America
by Padma Rangaswamy Synopsis At some point during the 1990s the size of the Asian Indian population in the United States surpassed the one million mark. Today's Indians in America are a diverse group. They come from every state in India as well as from around the globe: England...
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Suburban Sweatshops (05 Edition)
by Jennifer Gordon Publisher Comments Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all; her employer...
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The Business of Decolonization: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast
by Sarah Stockwell Publisher Comments The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from the viewpoint of British companies and businessmen, investigating their involvement...
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Immigration and Race: New Challenges for American Democracy
by Gerald D Jaynes Publisher Comments The real and potential impact of immigration policy decisions on African Americans is profound. Yet policy makers today lack systematic knowledge of crucial social, political, and economic issues relating to the formulation of wise immigration policies...
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The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats
by Jim Goad Publisher Comments Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash...
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Italians in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan)
by Russell M Magnaghi Publisher Comments For more than 350 years, Italian immigrants have played important roles in the opening and development of the land that is now Michigan, from their participation in the French fur trade up to the present day. Through an emphasis on the family as the...
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The Deadly Ethnic Riot
by Donald L Horowitz Publisher Comments Donald Horowitz defines a deadly ethnic riot as "an intense, though not necessarily unplanned, lethal attack by members of one ethnic group on civilian members of another ethnic group." The book draws examples from all over the world and rigorously...
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Transnationalism #3: New Approaches to Migration: Transnational Communities and the Transformation of Home
by Nadje Al-ali Publisher Comments This book critically evaluates the transnational communities approach to contemporary international migration. It does so through a specific focus on the relationship between 'transnational communities' and 'home'. The meaning of 'home' for international...
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Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America #42: Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City
by Robert P. Swierenga Publisher Comments Now at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years below the radar screens of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In "Dutch Chicago" Robert Swierenga offers a colorful...
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Latino High School Graduation: Defying the Odds (Hogg Foundation Monograph Series)
by Harriet D. Romo Publisher Comments The authors conclude with seven far-reaching recommendations for changes in the public schools. Sure to provoke debate among all school constituencies, this book will be required reading for school administrators, teachers, parents, legislators, and...
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The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation: Becoming White, Becoming Other, Becoming American in the Late Progressive Era
by Linda Joyce Brown Publisher Comments This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of...
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Refugee Health: an Approach To Emergency Situations (UK Edition)
by Medecins Sans Frontieres Publisher Comments Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use their experience in the area to produce an operational manual of the issues...
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Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir (Hispanic Civil Rights)
by Evelio Grillo Publisher Comments The first original work by a living author to become part of the series, Grillo captures the joys and sorrows of York City, a thriving factory town populated by emigrant cigar-makers that slowly faded away as he grew to adulthood and was absorbed into...
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Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders : Social Categories, Metaphors and Narrative Identities on the U.S.--mexico Border (00 Edition)
by Pablo Vila Publisher Comments Along the U.S.-Mexico frontier, where border crossings are a daily occurrence for many people, reinforcing borders is also a common activity. Not only does the U.S. Border Patrol strive to hold the line against illegal immigrants, but many residents on...
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