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A Postcolonial Relationship
(December 2021)
Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other
Choi Hee An - Author
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Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.
A Postcolonial Relationship critically examines the problems of current US racial relations from an Asian immigrant perspective and provides a new understanding of the complications that Asian immigrant groups experience...(Read More) |
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Lives beyond Borders
(November 2021)
US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice
Ina C. Seethaler - Author
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The Students We Share
(May 2021)
Preparing US and Mexican Educators for Our Transnational Future
Patricia Gándara - Editor
Bryant Jensen - Editor
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Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.
Millions of students in the US and Mexico begin their educations in one country and find themselves trying to integrate into the school system of the other. As global migration increases, their number...(Read More) |
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Fearless
(May 2020)
A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America
Neil Thomas Proto - Author
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Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.
Finalist for the 2020 ForeWord INDIE Book of the Year in the Biography Category
In 1977, a thirty-nine-year-old Italian American professor of Renaissance literature, A. Bartlett Giamatt...(Read More) |
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Help (Not) Wanted
(August 2019)
Immigration Politics in Japan
Michael Strausz - Author
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Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.
In Help (Not) Wanted, Michael Strausz offers an original and provocative answer to a question that has long perplexed observers of Japan: Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demograp...(Read More) |
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The Autobiography of a Language
(August 2019)
Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing
Andrea Ciribuco - Author
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Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.
The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length w...(Read More) |
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Facing toward the Dawn
(January 2019)
The Italian Anarchists of New London
Richard Lenzi - Author
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Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.
In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vibrant anarchist movement that existed in New London’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood for seventy years. Comprised of immigrants fro...(Read More) |
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A Queer Way Out
(June 2018)
The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel
Hila Amit - Author
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2019 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Book Award
Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.
The very language of Zionism prizes the concept of immigration to Israel (aliyah, literally ascending) while stigmatizing emigration from Israel (yerida, descending). In A Queer Way Out, Hila Amit explores the as-yet-unt...(Read More) |
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Cities of Refuge
(April 2018)
German Jews in London and New York, 1935-1945
Lori Gemeiner Bihler - Author
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Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.
In the years following Hitler’s rise to power, German Jews faced increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws, and many responded by fleeing to more tolerant countries. Cities of Refuge compares the experiences of Jewish refugees who immigrated to London and New York City by analyzing letters, diaries, newspape...(Read More) |
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Understanding Immigration
(December 2017)
Issues and Challenges in an Era of Mass Population Movement
Marilyn Hoskin - Author
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Undergraduate-level textbook introducing students to the factors which define immigration politics in the United States and Europe.
Based on the dual premise that nations need to learn from how immigration issues are handled in other modern democracies, and that adaptation to a new era of refugee and emigration movements is critical to a stable world, Marilyn Hoskin systematically compares the immigration polici...(Read More) |
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