Introduction : the migrant's paradox -- The scale of the migrant -- Edge territories -- Edge economies -- Unheroic resistance -- A citizenship of the edge. "Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how "race" maps onto place across the globe, state, and s…
Islam and security in the West
"How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land--and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing …
Prolonged violence in the Horn of Africa has led growing numbers of Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Somalis to flee to the United States. Despite the enmity created by centuries of conflict, they often find themselves living as neighbors in their adopted cities. In conversations with…
"Borders and Belonging explores the role of libraries as both places of belonging as well as instruments of exclusion, xenophobia and assimilation for library users who are immigrants.
This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially ""alien."" This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be indigenous to the nat…
"Issues of immigration remain fresh in the minds of many Americans whose lives are impacted in some form or other. Schooling is a public space where this impact is most often inevitable. Literature is one medium in which children are given a representational view of immigrants' …
As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. In this volume, international scholars examine how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora represented this new China to gl…