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Migrant Families and Transcultural Dynamics
Migration affects migrants' families and family relations in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even decades and access to citizenship and welfare state resources change concepts of parenting and care as well as gender relations. In this volume, authors from Europe, the MENA region, and North America discuss the diversity and dynamics of migrant families, including the individual and collective challenges, strategies, and agencies. They focus on gender dimensions and crisis intervention.
Italian Workers of the World
Offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on the experiences of Italian workers on foreign soil, Italian Workers of the World explores the complex links between international class formation and nation building. Distinguished by an international panel of contributors, this wide-ranging volume examines how the reception of immigrants in their new countries shaped their sense of national identity and helped determine the nature of the multiethnic states in which they settled. In Argentina and Brazil, Italian migrants were welcomed as a civilizing influence and were instrumental in establishing and leading syndicalist and anarcho-syndicalist labor movements committed to labor internationalism. In th...
Societies in Transition — Challenges to Women’s and Gender Studies
The book presents inside perspectives of women's and gender studies programs from a great variety of countries. It analyses how societal transitions influence the emergence and further development of such programs and by doing this reflects the contradictory changes of women's status and roles worldwide.
Circa
The darkened limbs of the naked trees swayed in the November wind. A jack o' lantern from the night's previous gaiety had begun to sink in on itself. The once haunting grin appeared saddened as the teeth made their descent into the dark mass of its mouth. The house it belonged to was void of any light. The orange devil placed there as a reminder of times past. A time so far away it was just a dream.
History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Workers of the World
After examining immigrant political activity in the context of the rise of the racist Northern League, the book ends with a discussion of the possibilities that immigrant experiences are setting the stage for a new planetary working class movement."--BOOK JACKET.
Migration History in World History
Migration plays a crucial role in the development of human societies. This book offers an overview of the state of the art in disciplines that study the ‘deep past’ and shows how historians and social scientists can profit from their insights.
Latin America and Global Capitalism
2009 Best Book, International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association This ambitious volume chronicles and analyzes from a critical globalization perspective the social, economic, and political changes sweeping across Latin America from the 1970s through the present day. Sociologist William I. Robinson summarizes his theory of globalization and discusses how Latin America’s political economy has changed as the states integrate into the new global production and financial system, focusing specifically on the rise of nontraditional agricultural exports, the explosion of maquiladoras, transnational tourism, and the export of labor and the import of remittances...
