wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens
ISBN: 9780520277779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In Paradise Transplanted, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure, status, and our experiences of nature and community. Drawing on historical archival research, ethnography, and over one hundred interviews with a wide range of people including suburban homeowners, paid Mexican...
Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of ideas, practices, plan...
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136,76 zł |
Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants
ISBN: 9780813539096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Religion has jumped into the sphere of global and domestic politics in ways that few would have imagined a century ago. Some expected that religion would die as modernity flourished. Instead, it now stares at us almost daily from the front pages of newspapers and television broadcasts. Although it is usually stories about the Christian Right or conservative Islam that grab headlines, there are many religious activists of other political persuasions that are working quietly for social justice. This book examines how religious immigrants and religious activists are working for equitable...
Religion has jumped into the sphere of global and domestic politics in ways that few would have imagined a century ago. Some expected that religion wo...
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191,47 zł |
Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration
ISBN: 9780520075146 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and men recreate families and community institutions in a new land. Hondagneu-Sotelo argues that people do not migrate as a result of concerted household strategies, but as a consequence of negotiations often fraught with conflict in families and social networks. Migration and settlement transform...
The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. ...
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184,17 zł |
Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, with a New Preface
ISBN: 9780520251717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.
In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women w...
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164,12 zł |
God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights
ISBN: 9780520257252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those...
In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrett...
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136,76 zł |
Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends
ISBN: 9780520237391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "An important collection of essays that goes beyond the 'immigrant women only' approach to present new perspectives and raise new questions about gender and contemporary U.S. immigration."--Nancy Foner, author of "From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration
"At last a book that puts gender front and center in debates about the U.S. immigration experience and provides those new to these discussions with an invaluable introduction to the field. Particularly impressive is the substantive breadth of the contributions in this volume, which range from scholarship on the... "An important collection of essays that goes beyond the 'immigrant women only' approach to present new perspectives and raise new questions about gend...
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164,12 zł |
South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.
ISBN: 9781479804023 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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384,57 zł |
South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A.
ISBN: 9781479807970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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140,27 zł |
Gender Through the Prism of Difference
ISBN: 9780190948559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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641,70 zł |