Introduction: Immigration and the transformation of America -- The racial order -- Changing cities and communities -- The economy -- The territory of culture : immigration, popular culture, and the arts -- Electoral politics -- Conclusion: A nation in flux. "An in-depth look at…
"Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen explores the movement, fluidity and change characterizing contemporary life, as represented on screen media, from mobile devices, to television, film, computers, video art and advertising displays. People have never moved around more, a…
All the islands of the western Indian Ocean are immigrant societies: Austronesian seafarers, African slaves, Arab traders, South Asian indentured labourers and European plantation owners have all settled, more or less voluntarily, on Madagascar and Zanzibar, in the Mascarenes an…
Sie kommen in Scharen, sprechen laut und wissen alles besser. Immer mehr Deutsche leben und arbeiten in der Schweiz und machen sich dabei unbeliebt. Den Spitznamen Gummihälse haben sie sich eingebrockt, weil sie unentwegt nicken, wenn der Chef etwas sagt. Mit viel Humor wirft Br…
"For centuries Pashtuns from the Peshawar Valley and today's Pakistan-Afghan borderlands have circulated throughout the sub-continent and the Indian Ocean region. This interregional history of migration and mobility in the modern period from 1775 to 2006 follows Pashtun individu…
