Full Description
By bringing together eminent scholars, this book highlights the current scholarship in the field of migration, which tries to present a counter-narrative to the popular anti-immigrant rhetoric and the populist domestic politics of the US. There has been a growing global trend of alternative histories and anthropologies that brings forth the voices from the margins and the developing world. This volume, in that sense, without undermining the US's eminence, tries to deprovincialise (Burke, 2020) or deparochialise it from within or through the histories of the immigrants. In other words, it attempts to re-read the US's emergence as an important power with immigration as the site of analysis. It provides a comprehensive and in-depth theoretical and empirical discussion that will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
About the Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Factoring Transnational Diasporas in the Rise of the US as a Great Power and a Multi-Cultural Society
Amba Pande, Camelia Tigau and Telésforo Ramírez
Part I. Old Diasporas (Pre-1965)
1. Italian Workers in the US: The American Accomplishments of a Transnational Diaspora
Stefano Luconi
2. Immigrants as a Transnational Political Resource: The Case of American Jews
Kenneth D. Wald
3. Irish Immigration to America: Revisiting Famine, Transnational Networks and Memorialisation
Jyoti Atwal
4. Transnational Experience: The Armenian Diasporic Community in the US
Ani Yeremyan
5. The Labelling of Migrants and Diasporas in the US Media and Policy: A Historical Sketch
Camelia Tigau and Amba Pande
Part II. New Diasporas (post-1965)
Part IIa. Diasporas as Transnational Actors
6. The Naga Diaspora in the US: Integration and Transnationalisation
Ajailiu Niumai
7. The Indo-Caribbean American Contribution to the Growth and Development of the US and Transnational Linkage with Countries of Origin
Vishnu Bisram
8. West African Islam in the US: The Senegalese Murid Transnational Community
José Luis Gázquez Iglesias
9. Integrationist Acculturation: Experiences of Social Insertion of Professional Mexican Migrants in the US and their Contribution to American Multi-Culturalism
Laura Vázquez Maggio and Lilia Domínguez Villalobos
Part 11b. Diasporas as Diplomatic and Cultural Actors
10. Civic and Political Engagement among Muslim and Arab Americans
Vera Eccarius-Kelly
11. Mexico City's Diasporas in Chicago: An Approach From Urban and Trans-Local Diplomacy
Antonio Alejo
12. The Contribution of International Migration to the American Film industry
Alejandro Mercado Celis
13. The Contributions of Latinx Art to the Fight for Social Justice in the US
Maria Cristina Fernández Hall
Part III. Diasporas in US Politics
14. Chinese immigration in the US in the Post-Trump Era: Major Impacts and Trends
Yan Yuan
15. Moral Concerns: Immigrants who Reject Immigration in the US
Alejandro Mosqueda and Enrique Camacho Beltrán
16. The Unrecognized Contributions of H-1B and H-4 Immigrants to the US Economy: An Ethnographic Study
Annapurna Devi Pandey
Conclusion: An Everlasting Endowment: Insights From a Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Migration and Diasporas in the US
Amba Pande and Camilla Tigau
Index
