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Understanding the path to citizenship
\"This book for elementary readers highlights the sequence of events from idea to implementation. Full-color photographs and a timeline support each step in the process, from first arrival in the U.S. through the application, testing and the final oath. A glossary, further resources, and an index are included\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hopes, needs, rights & laws : how do governments and citizens manage migration and settlement?
This book examines how governments and citizens manage and react to migration and settlement.
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Disrupting the dream: Undocumented youth reframe citizenship and deportability through anti-deportation activism
This essay analyzes how undocumented 1.5 generation activists respond to, disrupt and challenge state definitions of citizenship and belonging. The authors look at the work of the Immigrant Youth Justice League (IYJL), an immigrant rights group led by undocumented organizers in Chicago, with a focus on how they frame responses to federal deportation policies and deportations. This activism takes place in the context of a movement led by undocumented 1.5 generation youth whose tactics have included first-person testimony and civil disobedience. This is significant because they place the undocumented body at the forefront of the national dialog on immigration. Through interviews with members of the organization, analysis of first-hand documents and one author’s experience as an IYJL co-founder, we find that young undocumented activists increasingly fight for people who do not fit the nation-state’s parameters for accessing citizenship or relief from deportation. The state regulates access to citizenship, rights and deportation based on moral and hegemonic frameworks, systematic prejudices and socio-economic conditions. When young undocumented activists challenge these frames, they disrupt the power of the nation-state to make these determinations, and expand the debate about and boundaries of citizenship.
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Updating a Classic: Progressive Hollywood’s Take on West Side Story
The paper addresses the paradoxes of Steven Spielberg’s and Tony Kushner’s West Side Story (2021), a film that reframes the story of the classic 1957 stage musical and, inevitably, its point of reference for the new film. After a brief discussion of the most problematic issues at the heart of the 1957 musical, the paper will analyse the 2021 West Side Story, challenging the rewriters’ claim that their intention was to provide the musical with a deeper significance and a more historically informed, ethnically sensitive, and progressive reimagining of the original.
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This land is our land : a history of American immigration
\"This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Government Propaganda in Interwar Hungarian Male Juvenile Travel Writing
The Trianon Treaty of 1920 forced new realities upon Hungarians living in both what was left of Hungary and in the United States, while rising anti-immigrant sentiments in the New World culminating in the passing of the Johnson–Reed Act of 1924 further complicated the situation. With hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians resettling into smaller Hungary from the territories forcefully ceded to the successor states, Budapest was not interested in large-scale remigration from the US. At the same time, American immigration restriction drastically cut off the flow of Hungarian migrants to the New World communities established at the time of the “new immigration.” American popular culture (especially music, movies, and pulp fiction) took Hungary by storm and further strengthened the overtly positive image of the Transatlantic Promised Land. Travel writing continued to play a dominant role in shaping mutual images, and a new subgenre, juvenile male travel literature, emerged. Taking a closer look at the works of Lola Réz Kosáryné, Andor Kun, and Gedeon Mészöly I explain how tourism, romanticized images of the “Other,” and government propaganda mingled in these texts in what seems to be a concerted attempt to help young Hungarians come to terms with interwar political realities.
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Dreamers
\"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Afropolitanism and Cultural Ambivalence in Contemporary Nigerian Drama: A Case Study of Ade Solanke's Pandora's Box
Afropolitanism refers to the claim of universal citizenship by African migrants. In literary theatrical studies, a debate has been introduced about the cultural status of African immigrants. The main question has been how to strike a balance between their African identity and the new models of identity they are confronted with in host countries. This article examines the articulation of Afropolitanism and cultural ambivalence as identity reconfigurations in Ade Solanke's Pandora's Box (2012). Taking as a point of departure the experience of African immigrants in the UK, it asserts that in a globalized changing world marked by the rapid spatial migration of individuals and cultural interpenetrations, literary discourses have shifted from Afrocentrism (a cultural ideology or worldview that focuses on African history and identity) to Afropolitanism as global citizenship, giving way to the building of a new African identity in a hybrid modern world. The article argues that identity, sometimes a controversial concept, is very flexible and can be reshaped to suit the needs of the times and circumstances. Taking the example of African immigrants living in the UK, as represented in the characters in Pandora's Box, the article asserts that cultural homecoming is essential for the survival of African values.
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