Einwanderer

Émigré cultures in design and architecture

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This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designe…

Cultural psychology of immigrants

by Mahalingam, Ram

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This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs play on creating the immigrant…

American refugees: turning to Canada for freedom

by Deverell, Rita Shelton

fromThe Regina collection

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"When it became clear that Donald Trump would become the new US president on election night in 2016, the website for Citizenship and Immigration Canada crashed. It was overwhelmed by Americans afraid that the United States would once again enter a period of intolerance and milit…

Free to move: foot voting and political freedom

by Somin, Ilya

fromA Cato Institute book

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"Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have only a tiny chance of making a difference, and they also have strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet…

Free to move: foot voting, migration, and political freedom

by Somin, Ilya

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"Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have only a tiny chance of making a difference, and they also have strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet…

Insurgent aesthetics: security and the queer life of the forever war

by Kapadia, Ronak K.

fromArt History Publication Initiative

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"In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a distinctive post-9/11 infrastruc…

Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Natio…

by Goebel, Michael

fromGlobal and international history

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This book traces the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars, where countless future leaders of Third World countries spent formative stints. Exploring the local social context in which these emergent activists moved, the st…

Nature behind barbed wire: an environmental history of the Japanese American…

by Chiang, Connie Y.

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"Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. It demonstrates how the complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained federal authority and provided Japanese Amer…

Nature behind barbed wire: an environmental history of the Japanese American…

by Chiang, Connie Y.

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"Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. It demonstrates how the complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained federal authority and provided Japanese Amer…

Nature behind barbed wire: an environmental history of the Japanese American…

by Chiang, Connie Y.

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"Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. It demonstrates how the complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained federal authority and provided Japanese Amer…