The failure of the attempts to create a Ukrainian state during the 1917-21 revolution created a large Ukrainian émigré community in Central Europe which, due to its experience of fighting the Bolsheviks, developed a decidedly anti-Communist ideology of integral nationalism. Howe…
This title concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the 20th century.
This title concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the 20th century.
"The Trump Paradox: Migration, Trade and Racial Politics in US-Mexico Relations explores one of the most complex and unequal cross-border relations anywhere in the world, in the light of a twenty-first century political economy generally and the rise of Donald Trump in particula…
Introduction -- How do we explain Trump's paradoxical yet electorally successful use of a false U.S.-Mexico narrative? / Raul Hinojosa, Edward Telles -- What were the paradoxical consequences of militarizing the border with Mexico? / Douglas S. Massey -- How did we get to the cu…
"In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by racial minorities and women. Although this expanded circle was increasingly visible in the…
Islam and security in the West
"During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by …
Are migrant workers needed to "do the jobs that locals will not do" or are they simply a more exploitable labor force? Do they have a better "work ethic" or are they less able to complain? Is migrant labor the solution to "skills shortages" or actually part of the problem? This …
Introduction / Debbie Lee-DiStefano -- Part I. Encounters : Moving past encounters : people of Asian descent in the Americas / Kathleen López -- Yellow blindness in a black and white ethnoscape : Chinese influence and heritage in Afro-Cuban religiosity / Martin A. Tsang -- Disru…
