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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.
• Accidental immigrants: from roots to routes — Transitions: Negotiating identity in a new culture — Turning points: realization, transformation, and commitment — Lejania Cercana: living closely far from home.
• The effect of immigration on individual lives is not short-lived. Those who stay permanently in an adopted country go through a continual process of adjustment and learning about both their new country and themselves. The four women profiled in Carol Kelley’s poignant book, who moved to new countries not for economic or political reasons, but for marriage, education, or career, challenge immigrant stereotypes as their lives are transformed. The intimate stories of these accidental immigrants broaden conventional notions of home. From a Maori woman who moves to Norway to the daughter of an Iranian diplomat now living in France, Kelley weaves together these stories of the personal and emotional effects of immigration with interdisciplinary discussions drawn from anthropology and psychology. Ultimately, she reveals how the lifelong process of immigration affects each woman’s sense of identity and belonging and contributes to better understanding today’s globalized society. –Publisher’s website.

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• Immigrants — Cultural assimilation — Case studies.
• Women immigrants — Case studies.
• Ethnicity — Case studies.
• Group identity — Case studies.
• Identity (Psychology) — Case studies.
• Transnationalism — Case studies.

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• With a dedication from Garrison Keillor –Cover.
• Somalia. Sharmake, health-care worker, success story — Liberia. Moses, strong man, victim of torture Semantics, bold critic, committed journalist — Burma (Myanmar). Kaw Lah, goal setter, human being Lah Paw, community gardener, eager learner Josiah, pastor, community leader — Zimbabwe. Malaba, former prisoner, family man Maka, motivated mother, determined advocate — Ethiopia. Hiruy, rights holder, seeker of hope Munira, young woman, freedom chaser — Democratic Republic of Congo. Abdul & Dunia, world citizens, true Minnesotans — Iraq. Sena, self-starter, cross-cultural navigator — Bhutan. Krishna, father, future US citizen Prakash & Shailesh, brothers, thankful survivors Januka, daughter, witness of change –Cameroon. Bayongson, civil servant, man of God.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185).
• Eighteen new Minnesotans, refugees and asylees from nine different countries, share stories of fear, courage, sorrow, and hope for enriched futures in the United States.

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Part of the series Citizenship and migration in the Americas;Citizenship and migration in the Americas.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Anti-immigrant rhetoric — Empirical data on immigration — Immigration’s effects on state and local economies — The conflicted United States-Mexico relationship : invitation and exclusion — Sociological and psychological insights on anti-immigrant bias — A pragmatic proposal for immigration reform.
• The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant, was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his brother. Yelling anti-Latino slurs, the men beat Sucuzhanay into a coma. He died 5 days later. The incident is one of countless attacks–ranging from physical violence to raids on homes and workplaces to verbal abuse–that Latino/a immigrants have confronted for generations in America. And these attacks–physical and otherwise–are accepted by a substantial number of American citizens and elected officials, who are virulently opposed to immigrant groups crossing the Mexican border. Quick to cast all Latino/a immigrants as illegal, opponents have placed undocumented workers at the center of their anti-immigrant movement, and as such, many different types of native Spanish-speakers in this country (legal, illegal, citizen, guest), have been targeted as being responsible for increasing crime rates, a plummeting economy, and an erosion of traditional American values and culture. In Those Damned Immigrants, Ediberto Román takes on critics of Latina/o immigration, drawing on empirical evidence to refute charges of links between immigration and crime, economic downfall, and a weakening of Anglo culture. Román utilizes government statistics, economic data, historical records, and social science research to provide a counter-narrative to what he argues is a largely one-sided public discourse on Latino/a immigration. –Publisher’s website.

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• United States — Emigration and immigration — Government policy.
• Immigrants — United States.
• Citizenship — United States.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-343) and index.
• Introduction. Reconceptualizing diasporas and national identities in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1850-1950 / Michael Goebel — Migrants, nations, and empires in transition: native claims in the greater Caribbean, 1850s-1930s / Lara Putnam — The limits of the cosmic race: immigrant and nation in Mexico, 1850-1950 / Jürgen Buchenau — Immigration, identity, and nationalism in Argentina, 1850-1950 / Jeane DeLaney — Nation and migration: German-speaking and Japanese immigrants in Brazil, 1850-1945 / Frederik Schulze — Motherlands of choice: ethnicity, belonging, and identities among Jewish Latin Americans / Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein — The reconstruction of national identity: German minorities in Latin America during the first World War / Stefan Rinke — In search of legitimacy: Chinese immigrants and Latin American nation building / Kathleen López — British Caribbean migration and the racialization of Latin American nationalisms / Nicola Foote — Italian fascism and diasporic nationalisms in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay / Michael Goebel — The summit of civilization : nationalisms among the Arabic-speaking colonies in Latin America / Steven Hyland Jr. — Conclusion. Writing Latin American nations from their borders: bringing nationalism and immigration histories into dialogue / Nicola Foote.

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• Latin America — Emigration and immigration.
• National characteristics, Latin American.
• Nationalism — Latin America.

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• Originally published in German as Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2008 –T.p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction — Colonialism before colonial empires — Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes — The German colonial empire — The colonial state — Economy and work — Colonial society — Knowledge and colonialism — The colonial metropole — Colonialism in europe — Colonial globality — Memory — Selected readings.
• Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany’s short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia and the Pacific and reveals the colonialist culture which permeated the German nation and its politics. Drawing on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation he highlights the close interactions and shared vocabularies of the colonial powers and emphasises Germany’s major role in the period of high imperialism before 1914. Even beyond the official end of the empire in 1919 the quest for Lebensraum and the growth of the Nazi empire in Eastern Europe can be viewed within a framework of colonialism whose effects resonate to the present day.

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• Germany — Colonies — History.
• Germany — Foreign relations — 1871-1918.

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• v.1. Acculturation — Acculturation stress — Activism — Adult education — Advocacy — Airports — American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — American Friends Service Committee — Amnesty — Amnesty International — Arizona — Arizona SB 1070 — Assimilation — Asylum — Aztlán — Banking — Barriers to health — Barrios — Bilingualism — Border control — Border crossing — Bracero Program — California — Canadian Border — Catholic Church — CC-IME (Consejo Consultivo Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior) — Central American civil wars — Childcare — Children — Chinese — Citizenship — Citizenship education — Civil Rights — Clinton Administration — Colleges and universities — Community activism — Community concerns — Corridos — Counterfeit documents — Counterterrorism and immigrant profiling — Coyotes — Crime — Cubans — Cultural citizenship — Culture — Day labor — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — Department of Homeland Security — Deportation — Detention centers — Devil’s Highway — Dillingham Report (1910) — Discrimination and barriers — Displacement — Domestic violence — Domestic work — Dominicans — The DREAM Act — Driver’s licenses — Drug trade — East Asians — Eastern Europeans — Economics — Education — Elementary schools — Emergency Quota Act of 1921 — Employer sanctions — Employment — Employment visas — Enclaves — English as a second language (ESL) programs — English language learners (ELL) — English-Only Movement — Exclusion — Expedited removal — Faith-based organizations — Families — Family economics — Family reunification — Family reunification — Family structure — Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales — Film and television representation — Flores-Figueroa v. United States : no. 08-108 — Foreign consulates — Form I-9 — Fourteenth Amendment — Gangs — Garment industry — Gateways — Gender roles — Globalization — Governance and criminalization — Great Lakes Region — Green cards — Guatemalans — Guestworker and contract labo
• v.2. Kanjobal Mayans — Koreans — Labor supply — Labor unions — Landscaping industry — Lawful permanent residents — Laws and legislation, post-1980s — League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) — Legal representation – Legal status — LGBT immigrants without documentation — Limited English Proficiency (LEP) — Literature and poetry — LULAC — Marriage — McCarran-Walter Act : 1952 — Meat processing plants — Media coverage — Mental health care access — Mental health issues for immigrants — Mental health issues for undocumented immigrants — Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) — Mexicans — Midwest — Migrant farm workers — Migration — Military recruitment and participation — Minutemen — Mixed-status families — Mobility — Mortgages — Morton Memo — Multicultural education — NAFTA — National Council of La Raza (NCLR) — National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) — Naturalization — New Jersey — New Mexico — New York — Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) — Nicaraguans — North American Free Trade Agreement — Nutrition — Obama Administration — Operation Streamline — Operation Wetback — Overstayers — Passports — Patriot Act — Patriotism — Personal Responsibility and work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) : 1996 — Plyler v. Doe — Policies of attrition — Policy and political action — Ports of entry — Postville, Iowa raid — Pregnancy and childbirth — Proposition 187 — Prostitution — Protests — Provisional Unlawful Presence (PUP) Waiver — Public libraries — Racialized labeling of Mexican-origin persons — Racial profiling — Racism — Refugee Act (1980) — Refugees — Religion — Remittances — Repatriation — Restaurants — Salvadorans — Sanctuary cities and secure communities — Sanctuary Movement — Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy — Seniors — Shadow population — Single men — Small business ownership — Social interaction and integration — Social Security — South Asia
• This two-volume reference work addresses the dynamic lives of undocumented immigrants in the United States and establishes these individuals’ experiences as a key part of our nation’s demographic and sociological evolution — Provided by publisher.

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• Immigrants — United States — Social conditions.
• Illegal aliens — United States — Social conditions.
• United States — Emigration and immigration — Encyclopedias.
• Emigration and immigration. fast (OCoLC)fst00908690
• Encyclopedias. fast (OCoLC)fst01423798

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-210) and index.

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• São Paulo (Brazil : State) — Emigration and immigration.
• Land settlement — Brazil — São Paulo (State) — History.
• Coffee industry — Brazil — São Paulo (State) — History.
• Colonisation intérieure — Brésil — São Paulo (État)
• Café — Commerce — Brésil — São Paulo (État)
• São Paulo (Brésil : État) — Émigration et immigration.
• Brazil — São Paulo (State) fast (OCoLC)fst01330480
• SAO PAULO (BRASIL : ESTADO) — EMIGRACION E INMIGRACION. renib
• Coffee industry Brazil São Paulo (State) History
• Geschichte 1886-1934
• Land settlement Brazil São Paulo (State) History
• São Paulo (Brazil : State) Emigration and immigration
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-297) and index.
• Contemporary migrations: general trends — International migration in global governance — Ethnic diversity, racism and multiculturalism — The migratory process and the formation of ethnic minorities — Explaining the migratory process — The formation of ethnic minorities — International migration before 1945 — Colonialism — Industrialization and migration to North America and Australia before 1914 — Labour migration within Europe — The inter-war period — Migration to highly-developed countries since 1945 — Migration in the long boom — Migrations in the period of global economic restructuring — The state and international migration: the quest for control — Employer sanctions — Legalization programmes — Temporary foreign worker admissions programmes — Refugees and asylum — Regional integration — The ‘migration industry’ — Human smuggling and trafficking — Summing it up: restriction and ‘root causes’ — The next waves: the globalization of international migration — The Arab region — North Africa and Turkey: still Western Europe’s labour reservoir? — Arab migration to oil-rich Arab states — Arab migration to non-oil producing states — Sub-Saharan Africa — Latin America and the Caribbean: transition from an immigration to an emigration region — New migrations in the Asia-Pacific region — The development of Asian migration — Asian migration to Western Europe, North America and Australasia — Contract labour migration to the Middle East — Labour migration within Asia — East Asia — South-East Asia.

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Part of the series The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series;Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
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• Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands is the first detailed account, based on recently-opened archives, of when, how, and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independence to the Pacific Islands. As Britain began to dissolve the Empire in Asia in the aftermath of the Second World War, it announced that there were some countries that were so small, remote, and lacking in resources that they could never become independent states. However, between 1970 and 1980 there was a rapid about-turn. Accelerated decolonization suddenly became the order of the day. Here was the death warrant of the Empire, and hastily-arranged independence ceremonies were performed for six new states – Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Vanuatu. The rise of anti-imperialist pressures in the United Nations had a major role in this change in policy, as did the pioneering examples marked by the release of Western Samoa by New Zealand in 1962 and Nauru by Australia in 1968. The tenacity of Pacific Islanders in maintaining their cultures was in contrast to more strident Afro-Asia nationalisms. The closing of the Colonial Office, by merger with the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1966, followed by the joining of the Commonwealth and Foreign Offices in 1968, became a major turning point in Britain’s relations with the Islands. In place of long-nurtured traditions of trusteeship for indigenous populations that had evolved in the Colonial Office, the new Foreign & Commonwealth Office concentrated on fostering British interests, which came to mean reducing distant commitments and focussing on the Atlantic world and Europe. –Publisher’s website.
• ‘Imperialism, as such, is a newly coined word’: Empire and Oceania — ‘The task of Empire un-building is a difficult one’: decolonization — ‘Britain’s withdrawal east of Suez is also a withdrawal west of Panama’: the end in the Pacific: when, why, and how? — ‘A dramatic and liberal gesture’: Attlee’s secret Smaller Territories Enquiry, 1949-51 — ‘Limbo’, ‘mezzanine status’, and ‘independence minus’: self-government within the Commonwealth — ‘Something of a profit and loss account’: Macmillan’s Audit of Empire and aftermath, 1957-60 — ‘The Cold War Front is advancing upon Oceania’: pressures from the United Nations, 1960-61 — ‘To complete the process of decolonization as soon as possible’: Whitehall’s response to the UN Declaration, 1962-64 — ‘Coming to the most difficult period of decolonization’: The Lady Margaret Hall Conference, 1965 — ‘A line would have to be drawn somewhere’: Oceania and the paradox of the expanding United Nations, 1965-68 — ‘The British Empire is past history’: retreat from ‘never’ land begins: Tonga and Fiji, 1970 — ‘Independence and self-government have the same value’: self-determination for Niue, 1970-74 — ‘It is more blessed to go than be pushed’: the 1973 Programme Analysis and Review — ‘To encourage Australia and New Zealand to take a larger share’: The Anzac role in decolonization — ‘Liquidating colonial arrangements with as much speed as could be decently mustered’: accelerated decolonization: Solomon Islands — ‘We cannot now apply the brakes’: accelerated decolonization: the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, 1975-78 — ‘The most difficult pre-independence conference we have had for a Pacific territory’: accelerated decolonization: Kiribati and Banaba, 1968-79 — ‘The dying art of decolonization is difficult to pursue in a condominium’: accelerated decolonization: New Hebrides.

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• Decolonization — Islands of the Pacific.
• Great Britain — Foreign relations — Oceania.
• Oceania — Foreign relations — Great Britain.

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• Introduction : brave men run — No land of opportunity : folk ballads and the story of why we left — Murder the brother who killed the tree : fratricide and the story of deforestation — Sisters and a beaver hat : desire and the story of colonial commodity culture — To sink it in the lonesome sea : betrayal and the story of indentured servitude — Seduction of the house carpenter’s wife: abandonment and the story of colonial — Migration — Epilogue : ballad of the laboring poor.

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• United States — Emigration and immigration — History — 17th century.
• United States — Emigration and immigration — History — 18th century.
• Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — History — 17th century.
• Great Britain — Emigration and immigration — History — 18th century.
• British Americans — History — 17th century.
• British Americans — History — 18th century.
• Immigrants — United States — History — 17th century.
• Immigrants — United States — History — 18th century.
• Folk music — United States — History.
• Folk music — Great Britain — History.

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