Yucatecans in Dallas, Texas: Breaching the Border, Bridging the Distance
ISBN: 9780205521029 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through fascinating vignettes and case studies, this unique text illustrates how Yucatecan migrants actively maintain social ties across borders. It also paints a vivid picture of the people and their lives. It places them in the context of current U.S. immigration policy and mesmerizes students by bringing them up to speed on one of the most crucial issues facing the U.S. today.
Through fascinating vignettes and case studies, this unique text illustrates how Yucatecan migrants actively maintain social ties across borders. It a...
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216,98 zł |
Restless Nation: Starting Over in America
ISBN: 9780226394794 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Restless Nation," James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the present day, Americans have always had a deep-rooted belief in the "fresh start" a belief that still has Americans moving from place to place faster than the citizens of any other nation."
In "Restless Nation," James M. Jasper isolates a narrative that lies very close to the core of the American character. From colonial times to the pres...
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138,14 zł |
American Immigration
ISBN: 9780226406336 / Angielski / Miękka / 361 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immigration, writes Maldwyn Allen Jones, was America's historic raison d'etre. Reminding us that the history of immigration to the United States is also the history of emigration from somewhere else, Mr. Jones considers the forces that uprooted emigrants from their homes in different parts of the world and analyzes the social, economic, and psychological adjustments that American life demanded of them adjustments essentially the same for the Jamestown settlers and for Vietnamese refugees. As well as measuring the impact of America on the lives of the sixty million or so immigrants who have...
Immigration, writes Maldwyn Allen Jones, was America's historic raison d'etre. Reminding us that the history of immigration to the United States is al...
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175,33 zł |
Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936
ISBN: 9780226560250 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, this text argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can be best understood by taking into account their links to one another and China through a transnational perspective.
Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, this text argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can be...
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170,02 zł |
Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe
ISBN: 9780226768427 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many Western countries, rights that once belonged solely to citizens are being extended to immigrants, a trend that challenges the nature and basis of citizenship at a time when nation-states are fortifying their boundaries through restirictive border controls and expressions of nationalist ideologies. In this book, Yasemin Soysal compares the different ways European nations incorporate immigrants, how these policies evolved, and how they are influenced by international human rights discourse.
Soysal focuses on postwar international migration, paying particular attention to... In many Western countries, rights that once belonged solely to citizens are being extended to immigrants, a trend that challenges the nature and basis...
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148,76 zł |
Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate
ISBN: 9780230006539 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women refugees globally and explains how they differ from men. It looks at causes of refugee flows, international laws and conventions and their application, the policies and legislation of Western governments, and lived experiences of the refugees themselves.
This study provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women refugees globally and explains how they differ from men. It looks at causes of r...
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194,08 zł |
Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America
ISBN: 9780231060738 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charts the flight of some of this century's most important thinkers from Nazi Germany to the United States. Jay explores the theories of The Frankfurt School -- among them, the work of Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse -- as well, such as George Lichtheim, Hannah Arendt, and Henry Pachter.
Charts the flight of some of this century's most important thinkers from Nazi Germany to the United States. Jay explores the theories of The Frankfurt...
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245,62 zł |
Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America
ISBN: 9780231076814 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work updates an established American textbook on immigration and ethnic history, demonstrating the post-war shift from European to Third World immigrants. Extensive revisions include a discussion of undocumented immigration and the Simpson-Rodino Bill. All the important events of the last five years, especially the 1990 Immigration Act, are presented. The author examines the changes in refugee status and highlights the new wave of East European and Soviet immigrants to the USA.
This work updates an established American textbook on immigration and ethnic history, demonstrating the post-war shift from European to Third World im...
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209,72 zł |
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader
ISBN: 9780231100212 / Angielski / Miękka / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-colonial theory and criticism. The readings are drawn from a diverse selection of Third World and Western thinkers, both historical and contemporary. "Post-colonialism" is taken by the editors to include Third World and diasporic experience; like "colonialism," it is understood to contain a complex set of cultural, ethnographic, political, and economic processes and conflicts. This volume explores such issues as the nature of colonized cultures...
Equally suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provides an in-depth introduction to debates within post-coloni...
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196,32 zł |
Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930
ISBN: 9780252025624 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans (Americans) and non-Anglo European immigrants (foreigners), Orm Overland examines the creation and dissemination of homemaking myths: stories that weave immigrants into the basic fabric of America by linking them to the pivotal events and ideas of their new homeland. Devised by middle-class ethnic leaders and spread through ethnic media, banquets, and rallies, homemaking myths uncovered a role for immigrants in the nation's founding, a place of honor in the nation's wars, and traces of American...
Focusing on a period of American history marked by a sharp division between Anglo-Americans (Americans) and non-Anglo European immigrants (foreigners)...
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176,66 zł |
Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants
ISBN: 9780252067020 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on richly textured interviews conducted from one end of the country to the other, veteran journalist Sanford J. Ungar documents the real-life struggles and triumphs of America's newest immigrants and assesses their contributions. He finds that the self-chosen who arrive every day, most of them legally, still enrich our national character and experience and make invaluable political, economic, social, and even gastronomic contributions. Ungar takes us inside immigrant communities - the Koreans in Los Angeles, the Poles in Chicago, the Cubans in Miami, the Ethiopians in Washington - and...
Drawing on richly textured interviews conducted from one end of the country to the other, veteran journalist Sanford J. Ungar documents the real-life ...
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156,47 zł |
The Japanese in Latin America
ISBN: 9780252071447 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines Japanese agricultural colonies in Latin America, as well as the subsequent cultural networks that sprang up within and among them, and the changes that occurred as the Japanese moved from wage labor to ownership of farms and small businesses. This is a comprehensive study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole.
Examines Japanese agricultural colonies in Latin America, as well as the subsequent cultural networks that sprang up within and among them, and the ch...
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136,23 zł |
Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99
ISBN: 9780252073007 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, California. This title demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women is crucial in terms of the identity formation and community development.
Analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, California. This title demon...
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100,89 zł |
American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History
ISBN: 9780252073052 / Angielski / Miękka / 563 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An introduction to the best from the new directions in U.S. immigration history
Representing a selection of the finest new research on immigration, American Dreaming, Global Realities explores the ways in which immigrant lives and those of their children are shaped by transnational bonds, globalization, family ties, and personal choice, and the ways in which they engender a sense of belonging and a sense of themselves as Americans. American Dreaming, Global Realities considers a plurality of very specific historical, economic, regional, familial, and cultural contexts. This history... An introduction to the best from the new directions in U.S. immigration history
Representing a selection of the finest new research on immigration... |
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176,66 zł |
Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82
ISBN: 9780252073519 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first detailed examination of the link between the "Chinese question" and the "Negro problem" in nineteenth-century America, this work forcefully and convincingly demonstrates that the anti-Chinese sentiment that led up to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is inseparable from the racial double standards applied by mainstream white society toward white and nonwhite groups during the same period. Najia Aarim-Heriot argues that previous studies on American Sinophobia have overemphasized the resentment labor organizations felt toward incoming Chinese workers. This focus has...
The first detailed examination of the link between the "Chinese question" and the "Negro problem" in nineteenth-century America, this work forcefully ...
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121,09 zł |
Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation
ISBN: 9780252074295 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exit, like entry, has helped define citizenship over the last two centuries, yet little attention has been given to the politics of emigration. How have countries impeded or facilitated people leaving? How have they perceived and regulated those who leave? What relations do they seek to maintain with their citizens abroad and why? Citizenship and Those Who Leave reverses the immigration perspective to examine how nations define themselves not just through entry but through exit as well."
Exit, like entry, has helped define citizenship over the last two centuries, yet little attention has been given to the politics of emigration. How... |
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116,04 zł |
Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914
ISBN: 9780253209535 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Nugent's study, well illustrated and documented... will become a must for courses on migration history." --Dirk Hoerder, International Migration Review "A brilliant analysis of a critical chapter of migration history." --Ira Glazier, American Historical Review "Nugent's work is the ideal--the only--narrative companion to any quantitative analysis of late-nineteenth century population movements in the Atlantic economy." --Journal of Economic History "In terms of synthesizing existing literature and extending comparisons across boundaries, Nugent offers a shining example... "Nugent's study, well illustrated and documented... will become a must for courses on migration history." --Dirk Hoerder, International Migration R... |
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85,75 zł |
Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke
ISBN: 9780268025700 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,18 zł |
Chinese Christians - Ppr.
ISBN: 9780271019178 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christianity has become the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America, but very little solid research exists on Chinese Christians and their churches. This book is the first to explore the subject from the inside, revealing how Chinese Christians construct and reconstruct their identity--as Christians, Americans, and Chinese--in local congregations amid the radical pluralism of the late twentieth century. Today there are more than one thousand Chinese churches in the United States, most of them Protestant evangelical congregations, bringing together diasporic Chinese from... Christianity has become the most practiced religion among the Chinese in America, but very little solid research exists on Chinese Christians and t... |
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185,69 zł |
Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9780271026107 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book adds a wealth of new data on the political significance of inter-American migration, through case studies of the policies of population flows from Cuba, Central America, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. This theme has received only preliminary attention fully ten years after the Mariel boat-lift from Cuba. The contributing scholars bolster an emerging trend in the broad study of international population movements, emphasizing the effect government policies on migration is a social process quire insulated form the effects of public policy. This book adds a wealth of new data on the political significance of inter-American migration, through case studies of the policies of population f... |
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221,38 zł |