... El Paso Galveston Asians and alienness Canada and Asian exclusion exclusion of Asians Mexican Revolution sovereignty Ciudad Juarez head taxes Immigration Act of 1917 literacy tests Prohibition Marx Archibald Emergency Committee for Jewish Refugees ECJR race and alien registration...

...This chapter elucidates trends in moral thinking from a transnational comparison of Hmong refugee families in both Thailand and the United States. An intergenerational comparative analysis of moral reasoning in these two locations challenges some core assumptions within “acculturation...

...This chapter focuses on health equity as it relates to those defined as refugees and asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, trafficked people, and low-wage economic migrants. It discusses the conditions in which migrants travel, live, and work, which can carry significant risks to their physical...

...Marguerite Wildenhain (b. France, 1896-1985) was the first woman to be named a master potter at the Bauhaus in 1925. Owing to her Jewish heritage, she fled Europe in 1941. Her subsequent career in the United States represents a series of exclusions: a Bauhaus-trained Jew, a French refugee/German...

...This chapter presents “And So It Begins...” (1941), an essay written by Yehoshua Rapoport shortly after his arrival in Shanghai. It is at first glance an optimistic statement about Jewish life, despite the indifferent welcome he and his fellow refugees received. In this essay, Rapoport sees his own...

...This chapter presents “My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me” (1942), a poem written by E. Simkhoni. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of the Pacific War must have been a crushing blow to the refugees, who were now totally cut off from Europe. In this short poem, written no doubt...

... days in Kobe, Japan. The poem expresses a longing for hope, perhaps foremost on the minds of refugees at the time because, by the summer of 1942, World War II was not going well for the allies and the Shanghai refugees were completely cut off from Europe. Rotenberg Mordechai poem Shanghai Mordechai...

...Refugees are not aberrant in Jordan, but instead are a formative and quite normal part of society. This chapter highlights Jordan’s refugee histories, geographies, policies, and practices, with a focus on the mass displacements of Palestinians and Syrians into Jordan. Despite having scarce...

...Capturing the racial project of asylum in Brazil, this book shows how racialized hierarchies manifest through legal inclusion and lead asylum to take manifold forms. The introduction presents how, in doing so, it builds upon and complicates approaches that universalize the refugee condition...

...While prior chapters focus on the legal process, Chapter Six attends to the racial project underlying the allocation and distribution of care, charity, and social assistance. While the highly visible Syrian refugee situation catalyzed a wave of donations and volunteers, Syrians find little...

... unmuting Darfuri refugee voices through a form of ethnography centered around a conception of "allegory." allegory Clifford James colonialism Edgar Andrew ethnography ibra Taussig Michael Umm Kwakiyya violence Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi ethnic categories O’Fahey Rex Seán political power politics...

...Displacing Territory examines the various ways that the concept of territory affects and frames forced displacement. While the state-territorial nexus dominates the global ordering of the world and international refugee laws and policies, Karen Culcasi shows that there are many other forms...

...This chapter argues that the refugee crisis that began in the 1970s and included migrants from Southeast Asia and Latin America, set the stage for church groups to advocate for Los Angeles' sanctuary city status in the mid-1980s. Drawing on the grassroots organizing of the previous decades, church...

...This chapter examines how the state-territorial nexus lies at the foundation of the international refugee regime’s policies and practices. This is readily notable through the legal definition of a refugee, which requires that a person crosses an international border, and through the three “durable...

... migrant racial domination always or only works through selection and exclusion as seen in the Global North. Brazil signals the need to analyze the bureaucratic operations of racial states. Racial domination occurs in the everyday workings of the refugee regime, while being mystified through the smoke...

...Chapter 1 provides an overview of the plight of refugees during the forced migration out of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa beginning in the mid-1970s, as well as details of the multilocale and long-term ethnographic research processes in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian American diaspora that tracked...

... for refugees. The chapter discusses how the developments at the Summit at the United Nations (UN) in 2016 occurred against a backdrop of rising international migration at unprecedented levels, mainly displacements of millions of people due to conflict. It points out the growing recognition of the impacts...

...In 1947, at the moment of Indian independence and the partitioning of the subcontinent, the Purana Qila became a refugee camp to tens of thousands of stateless persons. This chapter positions the Purana Qila at the intersection of two origin stories of Delhi—the first as the capital of a nation...

... kilometers. An immigrant remembers someone on the ship who left alone to walk from Perth to Melbourne and perished. Fifty years later the immigrant resumes that walk. loss ritual Gabriel García Márquez bicycle ride refugees Altiplano, Bolivia, 2010. Work is launched by envisioning...

...Chapter 5 focuses on ethnographic accounts of Darfuri refugees in Israel. Their story begins in Egypt, where Darfuri first attempted to seek refuge, but destitution, desperation, and threats of deportation pushed them to seek out the Bedouin of Sinai to smuggle them across the desert into Israel...