Washington Heights in located in New York City.
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Offers a general understanding of immigration and immigrants, and helps to find out about particular cultures, topics and communities. This book brings together the disciplines of anthropology, social studies, political studies, international studies, and immigrant and immigrati…
With around 30 million migrants worldwide, the ethnic Chinese and the Chinese in diaspora form the largest diaspora in the world. The economic reform of China in the late 1970s marked a huge phase of migration from China, and the new migrants have had a major impact on the local…
Klappentext: "After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under…
Introduction -- Tempos of Life -- The Outside Inside -- Wives of Elsewhere -- Beautiful Futures -- The Gender of the Crossing -- The Outside -- Conclusion: Migration as Life. "The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco traces how migration has come to occupy a striking place in …
Nineteenth-century settler emigration in British literature and art is the first book to undertake a survey of the literature produced by nineteenth-century settler emigration. It argues that the demographic shift in the nineteenth century to settler colonies in Canada, Australi…
"Drawing on a wide range of studies of Italian migrants to a dozen different countries, Donna Gabaccia puts the modern Italian diaspora in historical context, charting the emergence of this one regionally fragmented diaspora as a nationally conscious cultural group. Italy's Many…
