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During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades. Áine O'Healy traces a phenomenology of anxiety that is not only present at the sociopolitical level but also interwoven...
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This study of media and migrant communities in Germany's capital city is a "model of clarity and rigor in its arguments" (Martin Stokes, University of Chicago).
In this innovative and thought-provoking study, Kira Kosnick explores the landscape of Turkish-language broadcasting in Berlin. From twenty-four-hour radio broadcasting in Turkish to programming on Germany's national public broadcasting and local public access channels, Germany's largest...
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Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both "here" and "there" (aqui y alla). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply...
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By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigrants create ethnic communities and maintain ties to countries of origin. Yet such narratives can center exceptional stories of individual success or obscure the political forces that uproot millions of people the world over.
Glenda R. Carpio argues that...
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In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of "strangers." Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel to settle in Brazzaville, Congo. Whitehouse considers how these migrants live simultaneously inside and outside of Congolese society as merchants, as Muslims in a predominantly non-Muslim society, and as parents seeking to instill in their children...
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Adam Michael Auerbach is associate professor in the School of International Service at American University. He is the author of Demanding Development. Tariq Thachil is the Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Elite Parties, Poor Voters.
How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanization
As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions...
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"Elina Penners Sprache ist genau das, was wir brauchen. Klüger, lustiger, unentbehrlich." Yasmine M'Barek
In Elina Penners fulminantem Sachbuchdebüt geht es um Dinge, die auf den ersten Blick wenig kontrovers anmuten: den Kauf eines Schulranzens, das Sitzenbleiben der Kinder am Tisch nach dem Essen oder Medienkonsum. All das wird von Eltern mit Migrationshintergrund, Alleinerziehenden oder Eltern aus der sogenannten "Arbeiterschicht" oft anders...
8) La migrante
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En el año 2050, la economía de Terrazola se basa en la extracción y venta de los órganos de sus nacionales. Lilac es una joven terreca de quince años, que no se conforma con la vida que han llevado sus antepasados. Sabe que, si se queda en casa, su futuro estará plagado de mutilaciones y dolor. Sabe también que, si escapa, estará diciendo adiós a la vida como la conoce y se enfrentará a la inmensidad de un mundo que parece aterrador. Esta...
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"You are struggling to survive during the Great Depression. As a migrant worker, you travel from place to place hoping to earn enough money to get by. How will you find a way to feed and clothe yourself and your family? Step back in time to face the challenges that real people were met with during this difficult time in history"--Provided by publisher.
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"I-Migrant" is the seventh novella of I Hotel, a National Book Award finalist and epic of America's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco's Chinatown. Yamashita's cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, caught in riptides of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil.
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[2023]
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"Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo "Lalo" García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta restaurants as a teenager before being convicted of a robbery, incarcerated, and eventually deported. Lalo landed in Mexico City as a new generation of chefs was questioning the hierarchies that had historically privileged European cuisine...
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This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century. From workers' organisations in South African migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' structures in Hong Kong, this book brings together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time.
Highlighting the changing nature of frontline struggles...
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Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkable...
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The life of migrant workers is richly diverse and ever-changing. The stories told in this book are but a drop in the ocean compared to real life, yet they accurately capture and reflect the real experiences of young migrant workers. These workers "venture into the cities" to survive; they "take control of their own lives" to realize their value amidst harsh environments; and they resist temptation by taking the "righteous path to prosperity," demonstrating...
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This compelling young adult graphic memoir, based on real events, tells the story of Gricelda, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl who attempts to cross the border into America with her mother and younger brother in search of a better life. Their treacherous journey, filled with both heartbreak and hope, begins in Tijuana, where they are transported from house to house by strangers. Here they meet the mysterious smuggler el Güero, who promises to lead...
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The little-known history of the Suffolk County camps where migrant workers lived in squalor during and after WWII-includes photos.
During World War II, a group of potato farmers opened the first migrant labor camp in Suffolk County to house farmworkers from Jamaica. Over the next twenty years, more than one hundred camps of various sizes would be built throughout the region. Thousands of migrant workers lured by promises of good wages and decent...
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In the 1980s, numerous scientific surveys documented both declining bird populations, especially among Neotropical songbirds that winter in the tropics, and the loss of tropical rain forest habitat. Drawing the seemingly obvious conclusion, scientists and environmental activists linked songbird declines to loss of tropical habitats and alerted the world to an impending ecological catastrophe. Their warnings led to the establishment of the Neotropical...
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In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growingnumber of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informaleconomy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly collegeeducated and middle class, who take on domestic service and unskilled laborjobs, Hamal Gurung challenges conventional portraits of Third World womenas victims forced into low-wage employment. Instead, she sheds light on Nepaliwomen's...
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Learn how to cook traditional dishes from Iran the way they have been handed down from mothers to daughters over hundreds of years.
This easy-to-use cookbook includes recipes for popular dishes, including:
- Chelow Kebab (Lamb Kebabs)
- Vegetable Kukoo (Persian Omelette)
- Gheimeh Badenjan (Eggplant and Split Pea Bake)
- Gormeh Subzi (Lamb and Herb Stew)
- Persian Rice
- Persian Koftah (Beef Rissoles)
- Sabzi Khordan (Herb Platter)
- Yoghurt
- Mishmishiya...
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Learn how to cook traditional Iraqi dishes the way they have been handed down from mothers to daughters over hundreds of years. This easy-to-use cookbook includes recipes for popular dishes, including: Chicken Biryani. Kabuli Rice (Lamb Rice with Pistachios). Shorbat (Green Dumpling Soup). Faisinjan (Chicken in Pomegranate Sauce). Shahkam Asheh (Rice Stuffed Vegetables). Masgouf (Baked Whole Fish)Mujaddara (Lentils with Rice). Zard w'Haleeb (Yellow...