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| 1. |  | Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species  Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Geography | Ecology | Botany Publisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men: living in urban Mexico Author: Napolitano, Valentina Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Urban Studies | Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborho . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975 Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Demography | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Legacies: the story of the immigrant second generation Author: Portes, Alejandro 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Anthropology | Asian American Studies | Chicano Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Politics | Latino Studies | Social Problems | Immigration Publisher's Description: One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the great migration to the Great Depression Author: Monroy, Douglas Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Latino Studies | United States History | California and the West Publisher's Description: This sweeping, vibrant narrative chronicles the history of the Mexican community in Los Angeles. Douglas Monroy unravels the dramatic, complex story of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles during the early decades of the twentieth century and shows how Mexican immigrants re-created their lives and the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Gendered transitions: Mexican experiences of immigration Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Latin American Studies | Gender Studies | Chicano Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Strangers at the gates: new immigrants in urban America Author: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Urban Studies | African American Studies | Asian American Studies | Latino Studies | Labor Studies | Social Problems | Immigration Publisher's Description: Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of the last . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Driven into paradise: the musical migration from Nazi Germany to the United States Author: Brinkmann, Reinhold 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Musicology | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: The forced migration of artists and scholars from Nazi Germany is a compelling and often wrenching story. The story is twofold, of impoverishment for the countries the musicians left behind and enrichment for the United States. The latter is the focus of this eminent collection, which approaches the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Gender and U.S. immigration: contemporary trends Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Chicano Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Immigration | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: American gulag: inside U.S. immigration prisons Author: Dow, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing fede . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Covering immigration: popular images and the politics of the nation Author: Chavez, Leo R. (Leo Ralph) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "The Immigration Wars" on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it. In the foreground, the Statue of Liberty topped by an upside-down American flag is joined by a grow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market Author: Solinger, Dorothy J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Anthropology | Labor Studies | Demography | Asian History Publisher's Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The second gold rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II Author: Johnson, Marilynn S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | American Studies | California and the West | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Colonial subjects: Puerto Ricans in a global perspective Author: Grosfoguel, Ramón Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Postcolonial Studies | Urban Studies | Immigration | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Re-drawing boundaries: work, households, and gender in China Author: Entwisle, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History Publisher's Description: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform. The contributors are respected sch . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Sociology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: This land is our land: immigrants and power in Miami Author: Stepick, Alex Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Politics | Sociology | Urban Studies | Immigration Publisher's Description: For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanish is ubiquitous, and Denny's is an ethnic restaurant. Are Miami's immigrants representative of a trend that is undermining American culture and identi . . . [more] Similar Items |