Migration, Immigration & Emigration

Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musi...

Despite the enormous work on diasporas relating to Africa, the majority of this work focuses on trade diasporas located in West African groups, onl...

When the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had ...

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen’s Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It i...

Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, two of the most persistent themes in American history were immigration and the growth of refo...

In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigra...

Novelist Ha Jin raises questions about language, migration, and the place of literature in a rapidly globalizing world. Consisting of three interco...

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

Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for...

It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in...

It's no secret that tens of thousands of Chinese children have been adopted by American parents and that Western aid organizations have invested in...

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen’s Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It i...

In Vietnam, international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora are quantitatively significant and contribute important economic inputs. Yet bey...