Migration, Immigration & Emigration

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barrie...

In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and politic...

The Yunnanese from southwestern China have for millennia traded throughout upland Southeast Asia. Burma in particular has served as a back door to ...

The arduous, confusing and fraught journey that immigrants take through immigration court Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved th...

The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary imm...

Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it h...

Known locally as the birthplace of American religious freedom, Flushing, Queens, in New York City is now so diverse and densely populated that it h...

Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, a...

Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations  Remote detention ...

The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their home...

The articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodol...

North African immigrants, once confined to Frances social and cultural margins, have become a strong presence in Frances national life. Similarly, ...

How is it that self-identified environmental progressives in America can oppose liberalizing immigration policies? Environmentalism is generally as...

Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their child...

In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new pr...

What happens when people with HIV apply to immigrate to Canada? Screening Out takes readers through the process of seeking permanent residency, ill...

Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families h...

Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or...

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio...

The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American s...

Exposes the false narratives at the heart of Americans' fear of Latino/a immigration The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world...

The Children of Immigrants at School explores the 21st-century consequences of immigration through an examination of how the so-called second gener...

For immigrants to America, from Europeans in the early twentieth century through later Latinos, Asians, and Caribbeans, gaining social and politica...

The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their home...