Meticulously researched and beautifully written,Fit to Be Citizens?demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful ...examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor exploitation, but rather that scientific discourses and public health practices played a key role in assigning negative racial characteristics to the group. The book skillfully moves beyond the binary oppositions that usually structure works in ethnic studies by deploying comparative and relational approaches that reveal the racialization of Mexican Americans as intimately associated with the relative historical and social positions of Asian Americans, African Americans, and whites. Its rich archival grounding provides a valuable history of public health in Los Angeles, living conditions among Mexican immigrants, and the ways in which regional racial categories influence national laws and practices. Molina's compelling study advances our understanding of the complexity of racial politics, attesting that racism is not static and that different groups can occupy different places in the racial order at different times.
This book attests to the ample research needs and opportunities around migration and health, with a focus on recent as well as earlier migration to Europe. It sheds light on several issues ranging ...from non-communicable disease epidemiology and health services utilization to aspects of quality of life, and of some methodological challenges.
In this third edition of Migration in World History, Patrick Manning presents an expanded and newly coherent view of migratory processes, conveying new research and interpretation. The engaging ...narrative shows the continuity of migratory processes from the time of foragers who settled the earth to farmers opening new fields and merchants linking purchasers everywhere. In the last thousand years, accumulation of wealth brought capitalism, industry, and the travels of free and slave migrants. In a contest of civilizational hierarchy and movements of emancipation, nations arose to replace empires, although conflicts within nations expelled refugees. The future of migration is now a serious concern.
The new edition includes:
An introduction to the migration theories that explain the shifting patterns of migration in early and recent times
Quantification of changes in migration, including international migration, domestic urbanization, and growing refugee movements
A new chapter tracing twenty-first-century migration and population from 2000 to 2050, showing how migrants escaping climate change will steadily outnumber refugees from other social conflicts
While migration is often stressful, it contributes to diversity, exchanges, new perspectives, and innovations. This comprehensive and up-to-date view of migration will stimulate readers with interests in many fields.
Serbia has traditionally been a country with a high emigration rate. Numerous administrative obstacles and slow economic reforms have discouraged migrants from returning and making business ...investments. Over the last few years there has been a noticeable effort to provide concrete assistance, introduce benefits and reliefs and stimulate return migrations, particularly of entrepreneurs and highly educated persons, by means of different strategies, legal acts, and the establishment of government agencies and non-governmental organizations.Our decade-long research on migrations has primarily focused on the so-called Gastarbeiter, as well as their descendants. We have conducted research on migrants from North-eastern Serbia, which is one of the biggest emigration zones in the country, and field research was also conducted in Vienna, the city with the most numerous Serbian diaspora in Europe, a specific population which, due to the geographic proximity between Serbia and Austria, often engages in cross-border movement and is transnationally active. As regards the studied population, return migrations to Serbia and economic investment in the country’s development are unlikely and certainly insufficient. In this paper, we will look at the classification of returnees as at their motives for a possible return, but also at the numerous reasons for staying in the host country.
This revised and expanded second edition of Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies provides a comprehensive basis for understanding the complexity and patterns of international ...migration. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon social, environmental, economic, political and cultural life in countries of origin and settlement. Such transformations impact not only those who are migrating, but those who are left behind, as well as those who live in the areas where migrants settle.
Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this new edition showcases evolving research and theorizing around refugees and forced migrants, new migration paths through Central Asia and the Middle East, the condition of statelessness and South to South migration. New chapters also address immigrant labor and entrepreneurship, skilled migration, ethnic succession, contract labor and informal economies. Uniquely among texts in the subject area, the Handbook provides a six-chapter compendium of methodologies for studying international migration and its impacts.
Written in a clear and direct style, this Handbook offers a contemporary integrated resource for students and scholars from the perspectives of social science, humanities, journalism and other disciplines.
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Introduction to the second edition
Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn
Introduction to the first edition
Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn
PART I: Theories and histories of international migration
1 Economic perspectives on migration
Peter Karpestam and Fredrik N.G. Andersson
2 Psychological acculturation: perspectives, principles, processes, and prospects
Marc H. Bornstein, Judith K. Bernhard, Robert H. Bradley, Xinyin Chen, Jo Ann M. Farver, Steven J. Gold, Donald J. Hernandez, Christiane Spiel, Fons van de Vijver, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
3 European migration history
Leo Lucassen and Jan Lucassen
4 Migration history in the Americas
Donna R. Gabaccia
5 Asian migration in the longue durée
Adam McKeown
6 A brief history of African migration
David Newman Glovsky
PART II Displacement, refugees and forced migration
7 Forced migrants: exclusion, incorporation and a moral economy of deservingness
Charles Watters
8 Refugees and geopolitical conflicts
David Haines
9 Country of first asylum
Breanne Grace
10 Displacement, refugees, and forced migration in the MENA region: the case of Syria
Seçil Paçaci Elitok and Christiane Fröhlich
11 Climate change and human migration: constructed vulnerability, uneven flows, and the challenges of studying environmental migration in the 21st century
Daniel B. Ahlquist and Leo A. Baldiga
PART III: Migrants in the economy
12 Unions and immigrants
Héctor L. Delgado
13 Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship
Ali R. Chaudhary
14 High-skilled migration
Metka Hercog
15 Immigration and the informal economy
Rebeca Raijman
16 Vulnerability to exploitation and human trafficking: a multi-scale review of risk
Amanda Flaim and Celine Villongco
PART IV: Intersecting inequalities in the lives of migrants
17 The changing configuration of migration and race
Miri Song
18 Nativism: a global-historical perspective
Maritsa V. Poros
19 Gender and migration: uneven integration
Stephanie J. Nawyn
20 Sexualities and international migration
Eithne Luibhéid
21 Migrants and indigeneity: nationalism, nativism and the politics of place
Nandita Sharma
PART V: Creating and recreating community and group identity
22 Panethnicity
Y.n Lê Espiritu
23 Understanding ethnicity from a community perspective
Min Zhou
24 Religion on the move: the place of religion in different stages of the migration experience
Jacqueline Maria Hagan and Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
25 Condemned to a protracted limbo? Refugees and statelessness in the age of terrorism
Cawo M. Abdi and Erika Busse
26 Reclaiming the black and Asian journeys: a comparative perspective on culture, class, and immigration
Patricia Fernández-Kelly
PART VI: Migrants and social reproduction
27 Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change: promises, contradictions, and possibilities
Guofang Li and Pramod Kumar Sah
28 Immigrant intermarriage
Charlie V. Morgan
29 International adoption
Andrea Louie
PART VII: Migrants and the state
30 Undocumented (or unauthorized) immigration
Cecilia Menjívar
31 Detention and deportation
Caitlin Patler, Kristina Shull, and Katie Dingeman
32 Naturalization and nationality: community, nation-state and global explanations
Thomas Janoski
33 Asian migrations and the evolving notions of national community
Yuk Wah Chan
34 Immigration and education
Ramona Fruja Amthor
35 Emigration and the sending state
Cristián Doña-Reveco and Brendan Mullan
36 International migration and the welfare state: connections and extensions
Aaron Ponce
37 Immigration and crime and the criminalization of immigration
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Katie Dingeman, and Anthony Robles
PART VIII: Maintaining links across borders
38 The historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds of ethno-national diasporas
Gabriel (Gabi) Sheffer
39 Transnationalism
Thomas Faist and Basak Bilecen
40 Survival or incorporation? Immigrant (re)integration after deportation
Kelly Birch Maginot
41 Return migration
Audrey Kobayashi
PART IX: Methods for studying international migration
42 Census analysis
Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield
43 Binational migration surveys: representativeness, standardization, and the ethnosurvey model
Mariano Sana
44 Interviewing immigrants and refugees: reflexive engagement with research subjects
Chien-Juh Gu
45 Using photography in studies of international migration
Steven J. Gold
46 Comparative methodologies in the study of migration
Irene Bloemraad
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Steven J. Gold is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His interests include international migration, ethnic economies, qualitative methods and visual sociology. He has conducted research on Israeli emigration and transnationalism, Russian-speaking Jewish and Vietnamese refugees in the U.S., ethnic economies, and on conflicts between immigrant merchants and their customers.
Stephanie J. Nawyn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Co-Director of Academic Programs at the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University. Her work has primarily focused on refugee resettlement and protection, as well as the economic advancement of African voluntary migrants in the U.S. with a focus on gender. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Istanbul University for the 2013–14 academic year, studying the treatment of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Her most recent work was published in the Journal of Refugees Studies and the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
The article concerns the wartime history of Peru and examines both topdown and bottom-up practices of accounting for the internal conflict of 1980–2000, which were initiated in the background of the ...warfare. The aim of the article is to discuss the connections I observed between the phenomena referred to in the title: return migrations of the inhabitants of the central-southern province, their search for the victims of forced disappearances, as well as the exhumation challenges emerging since the beginning of the war. In other words, the text constitutes an attempt to contextualise the above-mentioned issues given competing versions of memory about political violence in the Andes, with particular focus on their top-down determinants in the Fujimorism era.
Using INDEPTH's multi-site network to provide new demographic insights into population variables, this book provides a new perspective on migration, health and livelihood's interaction over time. The ...book starts with providing a conceptual and methodological framework to inform the epidemiological studies that are clustered into two themes, showing the dynamics of migration with either household livelihoods or individual health outcomes. The findings demonstrate the important cross-national regularities in human migration. The contributed chapters also exemplify the fact that the impacts of migration can be either positive or negative for sending and/or receiving communities, depending on the issues at hand and the type of migration under consideration.
Human mobility has been a defining feature of human social evolution. In a global community, the term "mobility" captures the full gamut of types, directions, and patterns of human movement. The ...psychology of mobility is important because movement is inherently behavioral. Much of the behavioral study of mobility has focused on the negative - examining the trauma of forced migration, or the health consequences of the lack of adaptation - but this work looks into the benefits of mobility, such as its impact on career capital and well-being. Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal increase in efforts to understand human mobility, by social scientists, think-tanks, and policymakers alike. The book focuses on the transformational potential of mobility for human development. The book details the historical, methodological, and theoretical trajectory of human mobility (Context), followed by sections on pre-departure incentives and predispositions (Motivation), influences on acculturation, health and community fit (Adjustment), and changes in career capital, overcoming bias, and diaspora networks (Performance). TOC:Context.- Introduction.- History.- Methodology.- Theory.- Motivation.- Personality.- Identity.- Economy.- Disaster.- Adjustment.- Preparation.- Acculturation.- Fit.- Health.-Performance.- Career.- Bias.- Diaspora.- Human Development.
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