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This volume gathers scholars from different disciplines to address the role of migration during the most tumultuous centuries of Mesoamerican prehistory (A.D. 500-1500).

Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor exploitation, but rather that scientific discourses and public health practices played a key role in assigning negative racial characteristics to the group. The book skillfully moves beyond the binary oppositions that usually structure works in ethnic studies by deploying comparative and relational approaches that reveal the racialization of Mexican Americans as intimately associated with the relative historical and social positions of Asian Americans, African Americans, and whites. Its rich archival grounding provides a valuable history of public health in Los Angeles, living conditions among Mexican immigrants, and the ways in which regional racial categories influence national laws and practices. Molina's compelling study advances our understanding of the complexity of racial politics, attesting that racism is not static and that different groups can occupy different places in the racial order at different times.

This is the first book to examine the contemporary seasonal migration of Pacific Islanders to Australia through the Seasonal Worker Program (SWP). It reflects on this new age of guestwork from a broad social, economic, political and cultural perspective in both source countries and destinations. In so doing, it offers a critical perspective on different phases of managed labour migration from nineteenth century practices of blackbirding to the present day. This book examines why and how guestworker policies and programmes have developed, and the impact this has had in Australia and for the people, villages and islands of the sending states. It particularly focuses on Vanuatu, the main source of labour, and draws upon studies based in Australia, Vanuatu and other Pacific Island countries. The book therefore traces new patterns of migration, with intriguing economic and social consequences, that are restructuring parts of rural and regional Australia in response to labour demands from agriculture and evolving regional geopolitics. Dr Kirstie Petrou is a human geographer at the Climate and Sustainability Policy Research group, Flinders University. Her research interests include migration, urbanisation and development in the Pacific. John Connell is a Professor of Geography in the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. He works mainly on small island development issues in the Pacific region and has published several books on migration and colonialism.

\"My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward. And I can't do anything about it.\" -EsperanzaOver two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. InLives in Limbo,Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades and a strong network of community support that propelled him to college and DREAM Act organizing but still landed in a factory job a few short years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration checkpoints, and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations. This vivid ethnography explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers, despite the fact that higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America. Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles,Lives in Limboexposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor.

Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book is an integration of the biological, cultural and historical dimensions of population movement.

Using INDEPTH's multi-site network to provide new demographic insights into population variables, this book provides a new perspective on migration, health and livelihood's interaction over time. The book starts with providing a conceptual and methodological framework to inform the epidemiological studies that are clustered into two themes, showing the dynamics of migration with either household livelihoods or individual health outcomes. The findings demonstrate the important cross-national regularities in human migration. The contributed chapters also exemplify the fact that the impacts of migration can be either positive or negative for sending and/or receiving communities, depending on the issues at hand and the type of migration under consideration.

Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. With diverse contributions ranging from early modern martyrdom to post-Cold War commemoration efforts, this volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also placing the German case within the broader contexts of European and global migration.

This revised and expanded second edition of Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies provides a comprehensive basis for understanding the complexity and patterns of international migration. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts upon social, environmental, economic, political and cultural life in countries of origin and settlement. Such transformations impact not only those who are migrating, but those who are left behind, as well as those who live in the areas where migrants settle. Featuring forty-six essays written by leading international and multidisciplinary scholars, this new edition showcases evolving research and theorizing around refugees and forced migrants, new migration paths through Central Asia and the Middle East, the condition of statelessness and South to South migration. New chapters also address immigrant labor and entrepreneurship, skilled migration, ethnic succession, contract labor and informal economies. Uniquely among texts in the subject area, the Handbook provides a six-chapter compendium of methodologies for studying international migration and its impacts. Written in a clear and direct style, this Handbook offers a contemporary integrated resource for students and scholars from the perspectives of social science, humanities, journalism and other disciplines. List of figures List of tables Notes on the contributors Introduction to the second edition Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn Introduction to the first edition Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn PART I: Theories and histories of international migration 1 Economic perspectives on migration Peter Karpestam and Fredrik N.G. Andersson 2 Psychological acculturation: perspectives, principles, processes, and prospects Marc H. Bornstein, Judith K. Bernhard, Robert H. Bradley, Xinyin Chen, Jo Ann M. Farver, Steven J. Gold, Donald J. Hernandez, Christiane Spiel, Fons van de Vijver, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa 3 European migration history Leo Lucassen and Jan Lucassen 4 Migration history in the Americas Donna R. Gabaccia 5 Asian migration in the longue durée Adam McKeown 6 A brief history of African migration David Newman Glovsky PART II Displacement, refugees and forced migration 7 Forced migrants: exclusion, incorporation and a moral economy of deservingness Charles Watters 8 Refugees and geopolitical conflicts David Haines 9 Country of first asylum Breanne Grace 10 Displacement, refugees, and forced migration in the MENA region: the case of Syria Seçil Paçaci Elitok and Christiane Fröhlich 11 Climate change and human migration: constructed vulnerability, uneven flows, and the challenges of studying environmental migration in the 21st century Daniel B. Ahlquist and Leo A. Baldiga PART III: Migrants in the economy 12 Unions and immigrants Héctor L. Delgado 13 Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship Ali R. Chaudhary 14 High-skilled migration Metka Hercog 15 Immigration and the informal economy Rebeca Raijman 16 Vulnerability to exploitation and human trafficking: a multi-scale review of risk Amanda Flaim and Celine Villongco PART IV: Intersecting inequalities in the lives of migrants 17 The changing configuration of migration and race Miri Song 18 Nativism: a global-historical perspective Maritsa V. Poros 19 Gender and migration: uneven integration Stephanie J. Nawyn 20 Sexualities and international migration Eithne Luibhéid 21 Migrants and indigeneity: nationalism, nativism and the politics of place Nandita Sharma PART V: Creating and recreating community and group identity 22 Panethnicity Y.n Lê Espiritu 23 Understanding ethnicity from a community perspective Min Zhou 24 Religion on the move: the place of religion in different stages of the migration experience Jacqueline Maria Hagan and Holly Straut-Eppsteiner 25 Condemned to a protracted limbo? Refugees and statelessness in the age of terrorism Cawo M. Abdi and Erika Busse 26 Reclaiming the black and Asian journeys: a comparative perspective on culture, class, and immigration Patricia Fernández-Kelly PART VI: Migrants and social reproduction 27 Immigrant and refugee language policies, programs, and practices in an era of change: promises, contradictions, and possibilities Guofang Li and Pramod Kumar Sah 28 Immigrant intermarriage Charlie V. Morgan 29 International adoption Andrea Louie PART VII: Migrants and the state 30 Undocumented (or unauthorized) immigration Cecilia Menjívar 31 Detention and deportation Caitlin Patler, Kristina Shull, and Katie Dingeman 32 Naturalization and nationality: community, nation-state and global explanations Thomas Janoski 33 Asian migrations and the evolving notions of national community Yuk Wah Chan 34 Immigration and education Ramona Fruja Amthor 35 Emigration and the sending state Cristián Doña-Reveco and Brendan Mullan 36 International migration and the welfare state: connections and extensions Aaron Ponce 37 Immigration and crime and the criminalization of immigration Rubén G. Rumbaut, Katie Dingeman, and Anthony Robles PART VIII: Maintaining links across borders 38 The historical, cultural, social, and political backgrounds of ethno-national diasporas Gabriel (Gabi) Sheffer 39 Transnationalism Thomas Faist and Basak Bilecen 40 Survival or incorporation? Immigrant (re)integration after deportation Kelly Birch Maginot 41 Return migration Audrey Kobayashi PART IX: Methods for studying international migration 42 Census analysis Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield 43 Binational migration surveys: representativeness, standardization, and the ethnosurvey model Mariano Sana 44 Interviewing immigrants and refugees: reflexive engagement with research subjects Chien-Juh Gu 45 Using photography in studies of international migration Steven J. Gold 46 Comparative methodologies in the study of migration Irene Bloemraad Index Steven J. Gold is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His interests include international migration, ethnic economies, qualitative methods and visual sociology. He has conducted research on Israeli emigration and transnationalism, Russian-speaking Jewish and Vietnamese refugees in the U.S., ethnic economies, and on conflicts between immigrant merchants and their customers. Stephanie J. Nawyn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Co-Director of Academic Programs at the Center for Gender in Global Context at Michigan State University. Her work has primarily focused on refugee resettlement and protection, as well as the economic advancement of African voluntary migrants in the U.S. with a focus on gender. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Istanbul University for the 2013–14 academic year, studying the treatment of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Her most recent work was published in the Journal of Refugees Studies and the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies.