Subjects:  1. Business/Economics    2. Economic Conditions    3. Economic History    4. Economic aspects    5. Emigration & Immigration    6. Emigration And Immigration    7. Government policy    8. History    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Business & Economics / International    13. Immigration & emigration    14. International economics   

Subjects:  1. Germany    2. Sociology    3. Identity (Psychology)    4. Emigration & Immigration    5. Ethnic Studies - General    6. Central government policies    7. Europe    8. Immigration & emigration    9. Political Science and International Relations    10. Social Science / Anthropology / General    11. Anthropology - General    12. Social Science    13. Emigration and immigration    14. Citizenship    15. France   

Reviews (7)

Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors. Aliens in a New America
Book is an excellent companion to a travelling show we saw at the University of Maine in Orono. It captures in an extraordinary fashion the incredible ethnic and cultural diversity within a relatively small section of Queens, NY.

Colorful and heartfelt tribute to a diverse population.
Queens, in New York City, is the most ethnically diverse community in the country. Over a period of three years, from 1999 to 2002, editors Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan collected stories from a sampling of the borough's 2 million residents. The result is this book, a much needed tribute to the people, most of them immigrants, who make Queens such a culturally rich locale.
FANTASTIC!
Well done and Bravo for Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan for this formidable effort! I couldn't put this book down, not so much because the book has stories of gore or thrill, but because of the beautiful and thoughtful way in which it is crafted, laid out and presented. The subjects are treated with complete dignity, affirmation and love, something that is rarely seen when dealing with immigrants and foreigners. I applaud this multi-media venture [the accompanying CD and website are mindblowing as well] and the amount of effort it took. I put down the book feeling like I had had the best world education lesson ever-if only high school were like this I'd be so much further in life! Bravo! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Elements In The U.S. Population    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration And Immigration    4. Ethnic Studies - General    5. Immigrants    6. New York    7. New York (N.Y.)    8. New York (State)    9. Photoessays & Documentaries    10. Queens (New York, N.Y.)    11. Social Science    12. Sociology    13. Sociology - General    14. Sociology - Urban    15. Immigration & emigration    16. Urban communities   

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Emigration and immigration    3. Ethnic relations    4. Intercultural Communication    5. Language and culture    6. Migration (Social Aspects)    7. Social Science    8. Social aspects    9. Sociology    10. Civil rights & citizenship    11. Communication Studies    12. Cultural studies    13. Immigration & emigration   

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diatribe
Erika Lee is a very angry woman. Her diatribe on American immigration policy equates anyone who is concerned about porous borders , the enforcement of laws in a nation of laws, and containment of disease as being a racist. It's hardly fair. And it detracts from her history of immigration legislation and enforcement. Yes, the Chinese Exclusion Act was reprehensible. Yes, we were and are a nation filled with racial prejudices and hatreds.
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Subjects:  1. 19th century    2. 20th century    3. Asia - General    4. Chinese Americans    5. Emigration & Immigration    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: American    9. Law    10. Legal status, laws, etc    11. Legal status, laws, etc.    12. Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights    13. Social conditions    14. United States - 19th Century/Turn of the Century    15. United States - 20th Century (1900-1945)    16. American history: c 1800 to c 1900    17. American history: from c 1900 -    18. China    19. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; Chinese American; immigration; race relations    20. Immigration & emigration    21. Law / Emigration & Immigration    22. Social history    23. USA    24. c 1800 to c 1900   

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An interesting academic work
The premise of Driven into Paradise involves the forced exodus of so many European classical musicians. Each of the essays in this book deals with this theme, albeit in a rather academic and dull manner. Thus I would not recommend it as light reading. By contrast, is a serious musicological work that analyzes a unique cultural phenomena associated with the Holocaust; namely, what was the effect of this musical exodus not only on the United States but on Europe as well?Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Exiles    3. Genres & Styles - International    4. Germany    5. History    6. History & Criticism - General    7. History and criticism    8. Music    9. Music Of The 20th Century    10. Music/Songbooks    11. National socialism and music    12. United States    13. American history: Second World War    14. Civil rights & citizenship    15. European history: Second World War    16. Immigration & emigration    17. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    18. Music / General    19. Second World War, 1939-1945    20. USA   

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Fascinating and Surprising
Interspersed with immigration tables, maps and personal vignettes, statistics models and modernist poetry, Between Two Nations is more than an exploration of immigration, marginality and political identity in the City; it approaches sociopolitical art.Capturing trial and tribulation, the melee of irrationality, self-interest and calculation in our polity, the faces and the thrum of humanity, one cannot help but wonder: who is Michael Jones-Correa?

A terrific book
Really lets us know how Latino immigrants think about citizenship, and how they act politically.Given the way that immigration is changing America, a must read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Citizenship    2. Ethnic Studies - General    3. Hispanic Americans    4. Immigrants    5. Minority Studies - Ethnic American    6. New York    7. New York (State)    8. Political Process - General    9. Political Science    10. Political activity    11. Politics - Current Events    12. Politics / Current Events    13. Politics and government    14. Politics/International Relations    15. Public Policy - Social Policy    16. Sociology - Urban    17. Civil rights & citizenship    18. Elections & referenda    19. Ethnography    20. Immigration & emigration    21. USA   

Subjects:  1. Citizenship    2. Civics & Citizenship    3. History & Theory - General    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Sociology - General    8. Central government policies    9. Civil rights & citizenship    10. Immigration & emigration    11. Welfare & benefit systems   

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

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Deconstructing the histriocity of cosmopolitan
Clifford looks at culture in transition, identity construction in motion and the relationship between transnational movements of people and transnational conceptions of identity. This perspective of culture on the move is particularly important to understanding the rapid dynamics of culture, culture clash, cognitive dissonance and social re-embedding taking place in relationship to mass mediated electronic representations.

An Anthropology for Postmodern Times
I really had a hard time conceptualizing my own ethnographic research in sociology concerning a non-federally recognized Native American community in South Carolina (now a book: Native Americans in the Carolina Borderlands: A Critical Ethnography, Carolinas Press, 2000). The lights came on after reading the Predicament of Cultures by Clifford. His theme of "Borderlands" is so central to the experience of many cultures around the globe--including our own! To understand how people occupy and contend with borderzones between races, classes, cultures, and histories, turn to Clifford's work. His work is essential for the social analyst because we, all of us, are increasingly living within borderlands and, thus, the need for new conceptualizations of the nature of the social/cultural. Clifford is one of the leading figures within the growing movement toward new, critical, and alternative forms of ethnography. Routes is about travel and how we might conceptualize culture when it is "put into motion." A must-read for all ethnographers, as well as those concerned with postmodernity and postcolonialism.

Roots/routes of transnational belonging explored.
The roote/routes of transnational (as well as local) belonging are explored in all their full global/local complexity and poetics.Probing and interesting at many points.I use one of the poems/essays/travelogues,"Honolulu: The Year of the Ram" in my course on the literaturesof Hawai'i, as it gives a tourist view of Hawaii and moves way beyond thatin its critique of US militarism and the arrogant masculinist gaze of"anthropology."Clifford is, for me, a kind of global and localpoet of the postcolonial condition, an honest and caring soul in the muck. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Archaeology    3. Ethnology    4. Field work    5. Human geography    6. Philosophy    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Travel    10. Anthropology    11. Civil rights & citizenship    12. Cultural studies    13. Immigration & emigration    14. Social Science / Anthropology / General   

Subjects:  1. Civics & Citizenship    2. Comparative Government    3. Individual And The State    4. Political Ideologies - Democracy    5. Political Science    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Civil rights & citizenship    9. Immigration & emigration    10. Political Science / Democracy    11. Political science & theory    12. Political structures: democracy    13. Politics | International Studies   

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Emigration And Immigration    3. Government - U.S. Government    4. Government policy    5. History    6. Politics - Current Events    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Prevention    9. Public Policy - Social Policy    10. Social Science    11. Sociology    12. Terrorism    13. United States    14. Economics    15. Immigration & emigration    16. USA   

Subjects:  1. Civil society    2. Liberalism    3. Philosophy    4. Political    5. Political Theory    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Post-communism    8. Civil rights & citizenship    9. Economic theory & philosophy    10. Immigration & emigration    11. Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies    12. Political economy   

Subjects:  1. Civics & Citizenship    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration And Immigration    4. Europe    5. Europe - General    6. Government - Comparative    7. Government policy    8. History    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Politics/International Relations    11. Central government policies    12. Immigration & emigration    13. Political science & theory   

Reviews (4)

A must-read on immigration
If you don't think 400 million people living in the US by the year 2050 are too many, then I guess you don't have to read this book.But if, like me, you are tired of gridlock, crowded everything, degraded schools, unpaid hospital bills, crime,etc., to say nothing of the loss of civic duty and responsibility, then Graham's book explains how we got here.
A Corrective
InUnguarded GatesProfessor Graham provides a much needed corrective to what passes as the history of immigration restrictions from the 1880s to the present. Any suggestion in the current debate that perhaps the lifeboat of immigration is nearing capacity is sure to be greeted by a reminder thatthe Statue of Liberty stands as a permanent testament to our historic invitation to the world's "huddled masses yearning to be free." A new look at immigration history.
This is a very interesting book, particularly on the early restrictionists. It gave me a new perspective on why Americans restricted immigration in the early 20th century, and gave me historical insight into today's immigration policy crisis. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Congresses    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Government policy    5. History    6. History - U.S.    7. History: American    8. Immigrants    9. United States    10. United States - General    11. American history    12. Current Events / General    13. History / United States / General    14. Immigration & emigration    15. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects    16. Social history    17. USA   

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The Deconstructionist Left Deconstructs America Today
It's sad that the mainstream media portrays the new book "The Good Citizen" as a "collection of essays by the best minds in the nation", when the editor, a San Francisco prof, has obviously screenedout any writers with traditional views of anything American.Even a pieceby the foreign-born "person of color" Dinesh D'Souza would havegiven this book "something of value". The composite mind here canbe summarized rather easily."We" are now ready to move beyondindividual rights and move on to: "social rights", in which"society" (i.e., government) guarantees a certain standard ofliving for everyone; and "cultural rights", in which everyself-identified minority group has a "right" to attempt toconstantly increase their power and influence. Of course, it is"unthinkable" that the successul majority, would ever have theright to say that they did not wish to subsidize the remnants of societythrough tax payments to a so-called "acceptable" standard ofliving. Nor does the U.S. majority, which still happens to be white,Christian, and heterosexual, have the same rights as self-identifiedminority groups to attempt to constantly increase THEIR own power andinfluence. If you already believe this kind of deconstructionist fallacy, you will be supported in exactly what you already think.As forthe rest of us, don't waste your time.

Eclectic essays that prod re-examination of "Citizenship"
"The Good Citizen"; an equal opportunity inciter...Read more

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. History & Theory - General    3. Political Ideologies - Democracy    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Popular Culture - General    7. Sociology    8. Civil rights & citizenship    9. Immigration & emigration    10. Social Science / Popular Culture    11. USA   

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Fantastic source of information for genealogical work!
Doug Kelly has provided a much needed addition to the geneological arena with this 500 page work.If your family is from Carolina and of Scottish derivation, it is probably in here.The general history section is worthtwice the price alone.A must have for even the part-time family historybuff.

Fantastic geneaologic help!
Helped me trace my wife's heritage back to Scotland.Since we live in the heart of Scots Carolina it all hits home.All Scottish genealogists will use this book.Very well written.

An excellent genealogical and Scottish historical work
When I first ordered this book, it was for purely personal reasons. I was tracing hard to find ancestors; however, once the book arrived, I found myself engrossed in compelling reading.In fact, CAROLINA SCOTS isaddictive, and I could not put it down until I had finished it.Read more

Subjects:  1. Emigration & Immigration    2. Europe - Great Britain - Scotland    3. Genealogy    4. Great Britain - Scotland    5. History    6. History - General History    7. North Carolina    8. Pee Dee River Region (N.C and    9. Pee Dee River Region (N.C and S.C.)    10. Reference / Genealogy    11. Scottish Americans    12. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration    13. Sociology    14. United States - State & Local    15. United States - State & Local - General    16. Emigration And Immigration    17. Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours    18. Immigration & emigration    19. Reference    20. Scotland    21. USA    22. United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)   

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Historical - Holocaust    4. Biography: political    5. China    6. Civil rights & citizenship    7. Immigration & emigration   

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Fine historical work
Mr. Perea has assembled a fine group of articles from various scholars, showing the different sides of modern nativism.Facts are inserted into the often heated debate about immigrants, and as a result a more logicaloutlook takes place.Not a must-have work, but interesting for those whodesire to study the topic of immigration in any depth as well as for thosewho care about policy discussions in this country. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. General    5. Immigrants    6. Nativism    7. Sociology    8. United States    9. Civil rights & citizenship    10. Ethnography    11. Immigration & emigration    12. Multicultural studies    13. Social issues    14. USA   

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Intellectualism and theory dominate
If you're looking for a factual history of immigration in United States history, this is not the text to read.If political science, sociology and theoretical arguments are your cup of tea, then this is for you.This bookwas obviously written for academians, but it is not unreadable to normalfolks.Most of us, though, are likely not interested in the viewpoint usedby the authors.Somewhat recommended, but many finer studies ofimmigration are available. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Congresses    2. Emigration & Immigration    3. Emigration and immigration    4. Government policy    5. History    6. History: American    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. United States    10. Civil rights & citizenship    11. History, American | Cultural    12. Immigration & emigration    13. Social Science / Emigration & Immigration    14. USA