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Southern Europe & New Immigrations
by  Book News Annotation Revised versions of nine papers presented at the December 1996 workshop of the Sussex Center for Migration Research address the evolving character of immigration phenomena in Southern Europe. Topics include Albanian, Egyptian, and Filipino immigrants...
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Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology
by Chris Carlsson Book News Annotation An anthology of writings and graphics from Processed world, a San Francisco-based magazine established in 1981 as a vehicle for presenting life in offices from the point of view of the workers. A collage of personal testimonies, humor, and critical...
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International Refugee Law
by B. S. (edt) Chimni Publisher Comments Focusing on the 1951 United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees, this book is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of international refugee law. Different chapters examine: the definition of a `refugee'; the law of asylum; the role of the...
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Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada: The Petworth Project, 1832-1837
by Wendy Cameron Publisher Comments Paternalism strong enough to slow the wheels of change is embodied here in Thomas Sockett, the organiser of the Petworth emigrations, and his patron, the Earl of Egremont, and in Lieutenant Governor Sir John Colborne in Upper Canada. The friction created...
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Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization (Asian American History and Culture)
by Evelyn, Hu-dehart Publisher Comments If Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge builders across the Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks, the promises, and the perils? The answer to this question comes in eight groundbreaking essays in which contributors to Across the...
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Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America
by Martin Jay Publisher Comments Charts the flight of some of this century's most important thinkers from Nazi Germany to the United States. Jay explores the theories of The Frankfurt School -- among them, the work of Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse -- as well, such as...
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Compelled To Excel : Education, and Opportunity Among Chinese Americans (04 Edition)
by Vivian S. Louie Publisher Comments In the contemporary American imagination, Asian Americans are considered the quintessential immigrant success story, a powerful example of how the culture of immigrant families—rather than their race or class—matters in education and upward...
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Immigration into Western Societies: Problems & Policies
by Emek M Ucarer Book News Annotation Examines and evaluates countries' responses to immigration pressures, touching on issues such as the integrity of modern nation-states, the meaning of citizenship, and the relevance of sovereignty in an increasingly interdependent world. Demonstrates...
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America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics Among Blue Collar Property Owners
by David Halle Publisher Comments Over a period of six years, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey's...
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Black lies, white lies :the truth according to Tony Brown.
by Tony Brown Book News Annotation PBS television commentator and syndicated radio talk show host Tony Brown attacks the political and cultural attitudes of both blacks and whites that have perpetuated racism and fostered a black underclass in the US. Also discusses the US economy...
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Citizenship Now, Revised Edition
by Aliza Becker Publisher Comments Citizenship New, Revised Edition, is an ESL Language citizenship preparation textbook for intermediate students. This text has been fully revised around the new N-400 form and updated to reflect the recent changes in naturalization law and the process of...
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Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)
by Adam Mckeown Publisher Comments As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is a direct consequence of more than 150 years of rapid globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of...
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Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
by Alicia Schmidt Camacho Publisher Comments "In this beautiful study, Schmidt Camacho demonstrates that Mexican migrant imaginaries affirm in songs, manifestos, poetry, novels, and testimonies visions of justice that exceed the limits of the nation-form and the logics of capital accumulation...
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Divisions & Solidarities: Gender, Class, & Employment in Latin America
by Alison Macewen Scott Publisher Comments MacEwen Scott examines the inter-relationship between gender and class, and demonstrates how this can sometimes create a shared interest amongst the labouring class' which is often ignored in traditional class analysis....
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Handbook of Latin American Studies: No. 61: Social Sciences
by Lawrence Boudon Publisher Comments Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and...
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Modernity and Exclusion (Theory, Culture & Society)
by Joel S. Kahn Publisher Comments Re-examines the project of modernity by opposing the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative ethnographic understanding....
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Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration
by David Reimers Publisher Comments Is it time for America -- a country founded and forged by immigrants -- to shut its doors? After decades of liberal policies that welcomed ever greater numbers of immigrants, America is seeing a surge in anti-immigration sentiment. Congressional debates,...
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Decline of the Public: The Hollowing Out of Citizenship
by David Marquand Publisher Comments The public domain of citizenship, equity and service is crucial for individual fulfilment and social well-being. But it has been under attack for thirty years - first from the market fundamentalists of the New Right, and then from their New Labour...
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Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of Fmigrant Workersf in Canada
by Nandita Sharma Publisher Comments A massive shift has taken place in Canadian immigration policy since the 1970s: the majority of migrants no longer enter as permanent residents but as temporary migrant workers. In Home Economics, Nandita Sharma shows how Canadian policies on citizenship...
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Deflecting Immigration: Networks Markets and Regulation in Los Angeles
by Ivan Light Publisher Comments A shrewd analysis of how Los Angeles has dealt with the challenges posed by the immigrants who seek to make the city their home....
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