"Immigration is shaking up electoral politics around the world. In this book, economist Neeraj Kaushal investigates this rising anxiety and tests common complaints against immigration. She finds that immigration, on balance, is beneficial. It is neither the volume nor pace of im…
Causes of discontent -- The costs and benefits of restricting immigration -- Is America's immigration system broken? -- From global to local : towards integration or exclusion? -- The balance sheet : economic costs and benefits of immigration -- Refugees and discontent -- Crime,…
Immigration is shaking up electoral politics around the world. In this book, economist Neeraj Kaushal investigates this rising anxiety and tests common complaints against immigration. She finds that immigration, on balance, is beneficial. It is neither the volume nor pace of imm…
An analysis of how South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have claimed rights for immigrants who do not have the privileges of citizenship.
The author explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims to rights for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship.
In Traditional Society in Transition: The Yemeni Jewish Experience Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman offers an account of the unique circumstances of Yemeni Jewish existence in the wake of major changes since the second half of the nineteenth century. It follows this community's transition…
Recounts how the author and her family was marginalized and tormented for their Jewish heritage after the Nazi invasion of Austria, describing how they were forced to flee to a Shanghai ghetto where the living conditions tested their ability to survive.
Recounts how the author and her family was marginalized and tormented for their Jewish heritage after the Nazi invasion of Austria, describing how they were forced to flee to a Shanghai ghetto where the living conditions tested their ability to survive.
"Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a variety of advocacy groups, s…
"Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingr…
A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.
Canadian author David Chariandy writes a letter to his daughter to share with her the story of his life and to talk to her about the politics of race in her world.
