Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. History    5. Human Geography    6. Population geography    7. Refugees    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - Social Theory    11. Immigration & emigration   

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This one has it!

TOWARD IMMIGRATION LAW REFORM
A government "by the people and for the people" has brought forth patriots to again defeat the Mexicans. It is only a matter of time before a permanent solution is legally enacted: guest workers must be solely for cheap contracted seasonal agricultural labor; all other labor is to be reserved for citizens, and meritorious legal immigrants.

Wake up, America!
This book is both a warning and a tonic for those who have watched in helpless frustration and rage, wondering how to confront and reverse the process of Mexifornication extending from California and the other border states to the rest of the union.In IMMIGRATION ANARCHY, Dan Sheehy has presented the stories of several ordinary, decent Americans who realized the threat and -- earlier than the great bulk of their countrymen -- decided to get busy.These pioneers in the immigration reform movement had no special assets to bring to the struggle.They were not wealthy or powerful, and absent this threat most would probably have lived their lives in modest anonymity.Basically all they had were their patriotism, energy, and personal commitment.They are an inspiration to the rest of us, many of whom are just now waking up from our long slumber of habit, sloth, creature comfort, and multicultural indoctrination imbibed from the education establishment and mainstream media.Today, they and a few others like them have at last forced the issue to the top of our national consciousness, and they are making a profound impact on the national debate.
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Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Social Science    3. Sociology    4. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration   

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INTRODUCING THE POST COLONIAL
Comqests and Exodus are as old as human race&hence colonising is no new thing.But when we speak about colonialism we now mean the domination of Asia Africa &the far east by euoropean powers.Ania loomba analyses the phenomenon with unusual insight . A good introduction to colonialism and postcolonialism
I read the book in the process of selecting a text-book that would serve the purpose of introducing my students to the tricky issues pertaining to colonialism and post-colonialism. I would have given it five stars if itwere not for the author's failure sometimes in sufficiently expalining someof the terminology in connection with thinkers who influenced thisdiscipline. I had no trouble sailing through her review of Said, Althusser,Fucault and other thinkers whose work I am familiar with but my studentsare not. I would definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in aconscise introduction to colonialism and postcolonialism but I have to warnyou that some background reading is required first or else the first 30 or40 pages would read like Double-Dutch to the uninformed or first-timer. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asian - General    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Literary Criticism    4. Postcolonialism    5. Sociology    6. ASIA    7. Colonization & independence    8. Literary Criticism & Collections / General   

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Scrapbook of memories.....
JEWISH AMERICANS is a big fat wonderful book filled with hundreds of photographs of native and foreign-born Jewish Americans. The book is coffee-table sized so if you want to start a conversation this is the book that will do it. You'll need an ovesized book shelf to store it. Read more

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Ethnic Studies - General    3. History    4. History - General History    5. Jewish - General    6. Jews    7. Judaism - History    8. Migrations    9. Social Science    10. Social life and customs    11. Sociology    12. United States    13. United States - 20th Century    14. United States - General    15. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    16. Jewish studies    17. USA   

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Best ethnography on undocumented aliens ever written
Anthropologist Leo Chavez presents a very descriptive and detailed account that takes readers into the lives and experiences of illegal immigrants living and working in the farms and orchards of San Diego County. Chavez avoids the technical and complex jargon so common among contemporary audiences, so this book will be readable by anyone. Detailed accounts are given concerning peoples' decisions to migrate, their experiences of crossing the border and living in the United States without documentation. Although the entire book is great, the best chapter by far is the Epilogue, where the author contextualizes the lives of undocumented immigrants within the larger political and social environment that has recently sought to crack down on illegal aliens.
A case study of human survial
Chavez provides a clear unbiased look at the harsh and often dangerous life of undocumented immigrants mainly in Southern California.Chavez engages the reader through accurate portrayals of people who remain on the fringes of American society for fear of deportation. Their stories are moving; their tenacity amazing.North American readers will be reminded of just how protected and sheltered they are by the virture of living in America.A must read for anyone trying to understand the complexities of illegal immigration or in the postion to make policy on the topic. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Anthropology - General    3. Archaeology / Anthropology    4. California    5. California, Southern    6. Emigration & Immigration    7. Illegal aliens    8. San Diego County    9. Social Science    10. Sociology    11. Anthropology    12. Civil rights & citizenship    13. Gender studies    14. Immigration & emigration    15. Social Science / Anthropology / General    16. USA   

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Everything you wanted to know about immigration to the USA
Densely written and footnoted, based on substantial research, this study of immigration to the United States from before the Revolution up to yesterday is a hard book to read but certainly rewarding for the serious student of the subject.Marred a little by too many infelicitous grammatical constructions and several historical errors (the author after all is not an historian but a "political scientist") the book is still a substantial narrative and reference work on this important subject.
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Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Emigration and immigration    3. Government policy    4. History    5. Social Science    6. Sociology    7. United States    8. United States - General    9. Central government policies    10. Immigration & emigration    11. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration    12. Social history    13. USA   

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Children of immigrants    3. Education (Secondary)    4. Education / Teaching    5. Emigration & Immigration    6. Group identity    7. Multicultural Education    8. New York    9. New York (State)    10. Secondary    11. Social Science    12. Social aspects    13. Sociology    14. Vietnamese American youth   

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A Balanced Look at Immigration
If you only read one book about immigration this year read Lockout.It does have a bias towards allowing immigration but both sides of the argument are explored.She quotes John F. Kennedy saying: "Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible." Lockout is filled with very good historical data about how we got into the immigration mess that we are in today.It is not primarily about the low skilled Mexican illegal immigrants. It is focused much more on the difficulties encountered by skilled, highly educated people who would like to work in the United States.Michelle Wucker makes a very good argument that the labyrinth of immigration law that we have created is hurting our competitiveness in the world.
One sided view of acomplexproblem
It is too easy to write a book which has one sided view about a complex problem. This book is on the liberal side of immigration policy. The real issue is why we failed as a nation enforcing our immigration laws. Just painting sorry stories about immigrants but forgetting that we have serious economical problems to solve. Today's manufacturing GDP in USA is about 12.7% according to Clyde Prestowitz; soon America will stop being the honey pot. We are diluting the standard of living of average Americans, and Mexico is just dumping their unemployment problem into our country.
Eloquent Advocacy of a Sensible Immigration Policy for the United States
My favorite camera store in Tucson, AZ had two wonderful Mexican-American women employees who became close confidants and surrogate mothers of mine. We spent hours discussing not only photography, but also politics and immigration, noting with much dismay, the porous border existing between southern Arizona and the adjoining Mexican state of Sonora (For example I can recall at least two instances where young pregnant Sonoran women had moved into my apartment complex, staying long enough to deliver their babies in a Tucson hospital, before returning, almost immediately, to Sonora.). Both were proud to be American citizens, recognized the necessity of speaking in English in public, and were strongly opposed to government funding of bilingual education in public schools (But in private, amongst themselves, their families, and close friends, they enjoyed speaking the Mexican Spanish they had known since their youth.). If theirs were views widely held by Tucson's Mexican-American community - and I have much reason to believe that they were - then I'm not surprised that eight years after I had moved back to New York City, the citizens of Arizona voted in favor of Proposition 120 by a 56% to 44% margin, requiring public officials to verify the legal status of those seeking public assistance or the right to vote, and to deny them to those unable to offer such proof. I have no doubt that my Tucson friends would greet Michele Wucker's "Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Out Prosperity Depends On Getting It Right" with ample interest, but also harbor some reservations about her positive, somewhat practical, view of immigration to the United States, both now and in the future. These may be reservations that I too might share, but I would also add that Wucker's latest book is one deserving of wide readership, regardless of how one perceives this issue.
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Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Economic Conditions    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Emigration And Immigration    5. General    6. Government policy    7. Immigrants    8. Law    9. Public Policy    10. Public Policy - Economic Policy    11. Sociology    12. United States    13. Central government policies    14. Immigration & emigration   

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Superb anthology
This anthology successfully synthesizes the work of leading social scientist in the diverse and growing field of gender and immigration.This book teaches readers about how immigrants (both men and women) are impacted by immigration policy, socialization, religion, and transnationalism. In addition, the essays also look at generational conflict, as well as ways that second and third generation minorities develop a cultural identity. All in all, this textbook is an invaluable resource for teachers and students. I highly recommend this book for course adoption, especially for those who teach about immigration, race, gender, and work. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Americas (North Central South West Indies)    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Essays    5. Ethnic Studies - General    6. Gender Studies    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. United States    10. Women immigrants    11. Ethnic studies    12. Immigration & emigration    13. Social Science / Sociology / General    14. USA   

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A must read
For anyone curious about the Mexican immigrant mentality, this is definately a book to read.I live near where the 3 brothers were killed, and have been to this spot on several occasions.For those who wonder why so many people are coming to this country to work, this book will answer many of those questions.It brings an understanding and a respect for those who risk their lives for a chance at the American dream, a dream that many of us take for granted.

Poignant but Flawed
A deeply empathetic portrayal of individual Mexican and Central American migrants chasing a livelihood in El Norte.Martinez suceeeds in his primary and most basic goal of humanizing the faceless tide of illegal immigrants to a fairly high degree and commendably does not seek to idealize them: the implusively destructive behavior of one character in particular rings true.Where he is less successful is his analysis of the larger macroeconomic and cultural consequences of this immigration (whether in this case illegal or legal).Martinez injects some Chicano pride-based politics fairly uncritically, and caricatures the 'Minuteman' groups on the border, even seeming to dismiss the concerns of property owners who are forced to contend with a de facto invasion.Much of his uncritical political perspective likely stems from Martinez's Southern California roots, where there is far more tension between the Latin American community (or better, communities) and others, than say in Texas, which is a model of peaceful cultural integration, or at least the closest thing we have to it now.
Crossing Over
Fabulous account of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants to the US. Clearly written. Easy to read. Extremelyinsightful and very timely given the current political debate. It gave me an understanding and sympathy for what Mexicans are looking for in the US and the hardships they are willing to endure to get it.
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Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Biography    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Ethnic Issues    5. Ethnic Studies - General    6. Immigrants    7. Mexican American families    8. Mexican Americans    9. Social Science    10. Social conditions    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General    13. Sociology - Marriage & Family    14. United States    15. Chavez family   

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. African Americans    3. Emigration & Immigration    4. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    5. History    6. History: American    7. Migration, Internal    8. Migrations    9. Sociology    10. Southern States    11. United States    12. United States - 20th Century    13. Great Migration; southern diaspora; southern exodus; civil rights; evangelical religion; Detroit; Chicago; Harlem; Miami Valley; Uptown; Bakersfield; San Joaquin Valley; hillbillies; Okies; black churches; black politics; white backlash; country music; Ku Klux Klan; Black Legion; George Wallace; Merle Haggard; Aretha Franklin; Lily Tomlin; Willie Morris; Willie Brown; Jesse Unruh; C. L. Franklin; Billy Graham; J. Frank Norris; Albert Murray; Harriette Arnow; Robert Penn Warren    14. Immigration & emigration    15. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration    16. Social history    17. USA   

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Emigration and immigration    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. International Relations - General    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Sociology, Social Studies   

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Table of Contents
Here is the table of contents for Making the Irish American:
collected essays go into all areas of Irish American heritage and accomplishments
Of the 29 articles, nine have been previously published; one in 1963, another in 1988, and the others in the past seven or so years. Some authors are widely-known--Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pete Hamill, Calvin Trillin; while the others are steeped in Irish traditions from heritage and academic or other professional positions. The collected articles are crossovers between popular interest and academic perspective. Most combine popular subjects and approach with historical documentation or data. Within major sections on Irish-American foundations and identity are articles on sports, music, religion, organizations, and the role of notably, in some cases somewhat stereotypical, Irish figures such as domestics known as "biddies" or firemen in Irish-American assimilation and as representative of Irish-Americans in general. For the astute editorial selection of the number of general and somewhat specialized articles, expertise of the authors, and documentation in articles and appendices plus notes and bibliographies, "Making the Irish American" is a major text tying together this field of ethnic studies with American history and social history.

A great range for the interested reader, makes a great gift
I got this book for my Irish-American dad for his birthday and it turned out to be the perfect pick-- for both of us.The chapters from the various contributors covered a large range of topics within Irish-American history and really got both of us interested in our Irish-American heritage.
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Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Emigration And Immigration    3. Essays    4. Ethnic Studies - General    5. General    6. History    7. History - U.S.    8. History: World    9. Irish Americans    10. Literature - Classics / Criticism    11. Social History    12. U.S. Ethnic Politics    13. United States - General    14. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    15. Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural    16. USA   

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Poorly argued points hidden by complex vocabulary
I had to read this book for a political theory class in college.After talking with several other members I was happy to find out that I do not have the reading skills of a third grader...Benhabib goes out of her way to use vocabulary words that most educated people are not familiar with.The book is also not organized well.In order to really understand this book you will have to read it while taking notes.Points that could be grouped together for arguments are scattered throughout entire chapters and even the whole book.Benhabib may have used her vocabulary and lack of organization as tools to hide that the points she makes are not very well argued.Throughout much of the book Benhabib is trying to shoot down the theories of John Rawls and other theorists to support her views on migratory rights.To be honest, I disagree with her views and admit that I might have found her organization and vocabulary more tolerable if I agreed with her.Still, I do not have a problem with her making these claims if she did so logically.Much of her work is based on telling the reader why other people are wrong and she will use theories she supposedly already disproved in one arguement to justify her later arguments for disagreeing with other theories.
Bright Ideas but a hard translation
Benhabib is a writer that has researched his subject area well. The book reads almost like a report and and it is on an area less discussed. The meat of the book deals with immigrant rights as well as the world as a "Global Village". The vocabulary in the book is very tough however if you are determined you can get through it to uncover a different way of looking at the world. The book can be applied to U.S.A.'s immigration problem with Mexico. Apparently the United States of America only views the middle part of America as United and refuses to see South America as an extension of itself no matter how many puppet governments we setup. All in all the book includes very revolutionary ideas presented in a practical manner. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aliens    2. Citizenship    3. Civics & Citizenship    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. Emigration and immigration    6. History & Theory - General    7. Internationalism    8. Political Science    9. Political rights    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Politics/International Relations    12. Sociology - Social Theory    13. Human rights    14. Political Science / History & Theory   

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A very good read
A very good read about the tense and diverse relations that exist at the Mexican - U.S. border.Author is a good storyteller, and offers great detail.A must for anyone seeking to understand our neighbor to the South.

This man knows of what he speaks
I grew up on the Mexican border, and Langewiesche beautifully captures the schizophrenic love/hate relationship entangling the two sides.He writes with the clean, precise lines of the journalist, but gives the end result aspin of philosophy that could only come from really feeling the people andplaces he visits.Much like his second work, "Sahara Unveiled",this is much more than reportage.It's too bad not more people have readthis book...I think it would greatly help Americans' understanding ofborder relations.

Highly descriptive of my personal experiences in Marfa, TX
As a former City Manager of Marfa, Texas, I have observed and experienced first hand many of the incidents described in the book. For instance, the morning gathering of area ranchers at the former Thunderbird Restaurant,totally devoid of Hispanic participants; the persistent overtones ofbigotry amoung many of the well established Anglo citizens;and, there arestill semblances of the old "Patron" system alive andwell.Read more

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Essays & Travelogues    3. History - General History    4. Latin America - Mexico    5. Mexico    6. New Age    7. Travel    8. Travel / Mexico    9. Travel writing   

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A lively, intimate look at some flesh-and-blood Third-Culture Kids
Through personal interviews with well-chosen 13 subjects, Linda Bell gets to explore in some depth the strange experience of growing up American overseas, and then of having to readjust to life in the States after coming "home."Her interviewees range from age 29 through late 50s, and they come alive in these pages. Those of us who have had analogous upbringings will feel shocks of sympathetic recognition as we read the life stories of these adult "Third Culture Kids." Such familiar issues as "Who I Was, When," and "Living on the Surface," and "Why Do I Feel So migratory?" (all of them titles of chapters) spring vividly to life here. Issues of language inevitably crop up. And the absence, among these subjects, of any sense of attachment to a landscape came as a newinsight to this reader. As Linda Bell herself says of her subjects, "they didn't seem to take much notice of where they were living... It just didn't come up as a topic. Also, not one of the voices seems really attached to the geography where they find themselves now."This is a fresh and highly readable addition to a growing literature on the still scarcely acknowledged matter of being raised American in foreign lands and how it can affect one's psyche and personality.

TCKs
This is useful for parents living overseas and wishing to know how 'Third Culture Kids' struggle to re-enter their 'home' countries after being raised overseas. It can also provide useful background reading for ethnographic researchers as Bell provides extracts from original transcripts. Bell is clear that she is a journalist and not an academic, so do not expect in- depth analysis drawing on lots of other sources. However, the extracts are very effectively compiled to demonstrate common trends.
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Subjects:  1. Americans    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    4. Foreign countries    5. General    6. Intercultural Communication    7. Interviews    8. Migration (Social Aspects)    9. Pluralism (Social sciences)    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Sociology - General    13. Communication Studies    14. Cultural studies    15. Immigration & emigration   

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Emigration And Immigration    3. Europe    4. European federation    5. Government policy    6. Immigrants    7. International Relations - General    8. Politics - Current Events    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Public Affairs & Administration    12. Public Policy    13. Social Science    14. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration   

Subjects:  1. Economic conditions    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Ethnic Studies - General    5. Immigrants    6. Social Science    7. Social conditions    8. Sociology    9. United States    10. Cultural studies    11. Immigration & emigration    12. Social & cultural anthropology    13. Social Science / Sociology / General    14. USA   

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Outstanding History
Roediger does a great job refrenceing his case in other historians.This is VERY importnat when discussing challenging topics like this.
Joseph R. Goldman, University of Minnesota
This is one of the finest sociological treatises on American immigration of a former "underclass"- -working Whites from southern and eastern Europe who came to this country in droves between the 1880s and 1930s.Roediger presents a solid analytical framework for readers to use as a compass through the complex history and transformation of "foreigners" of the same color into "gradual natives" whose color is a badge of acceptable passage over time.Here we see Jews, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians and other "undesirables" sweat their way across factory floors, climb to academic heights, even get elected to high national offices beyond the dreams of their ancestors.The data are presented clearly; the interpretations are crisp and penetrating.Roediger does a great service to his subjects who happened to be "Americans in the making".A must study for any scholar of race and assimilation, and a good read for anyone interested in how some of us got to be "Americans" even with the wrong religions, national origins, or accents as impediments fueled by homegrown bigots of an earlier time!

Roediger focuses on Southern & Eastern European immigrants
David Roediger has been toiling for years in the historical trenches, documenting the social construction of race.This is another solid entry in that category.It's not exhaustive, but compiles material on how Eastern and Southern European immigrants to the U.S. "became white."The category of "white people" is treated as a given, and as a constant in the U.S. today, but Roediger and others reveal the shifting meaning of the category, and the fight that various groups have waged to gain entry into the "white club" with its privileges.Just one example:the club was established by the British, of course, and from their point of view the Irish were certainly not white.The ruling WASPs had the power to keep the Irish out, viewing them as practically subhuman, and it took the Irish many decades to fight their way in.So "white" is a marker of group boundary between the more and less powerful, pure and simple, a marker of division, not an inherent biological OR cultural category.
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Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Ethnic Studies - General    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History - U.S.    7. History: American    8. United States - 19th Century    9. United States - 20th Century    10. 20th century    11. American history: from c 1900 -    12. Ethnic studies    13. Immigration & emigration    14. USA   

Editorial Review

New York City, the melting pot of the United States, contains the nation's largest West Indian immigrant population. Since the immigration explosion of 1965, the Afro-Caribbean influx has impacted the social dynamic of the United States and its native-born African Americans, often with volatile results. Read more

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Ethnic Issues    3. Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General    4. Folklore & Mythology    5. Minority Studies - Ethnic American    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. Black studies    9. Immigration & emigration    10. Multicultural studies    11. Social Science / African-American Studies    12. USA