... influenced power structures at municipal, state, and national levels and impacted the development of social relations in Hamtramck. It considers how changes in Hamtramck connect to national socioeconomic fluctuations, internal migration, and immigration reform, as well as regional patterns of Muslim American...

.... Together, Central Americans comprise the largest group of immigrants placed in deportation proceedings each year after Mexicans. Thus, this chapter provides a brief overview of the sociopolitical history of Central American migration, as well as the structure of the U.S. immigration system, setting...

... the Black Coptic Church as an integral part of Great Migration history, while laying the foundation for latter parts of the book, which interrogate this Black religious movement in terms of beliefs and practices that both align with and differentiate from other Great Migration Black religions. Special...

... modernity Glaude Eddie Great Migration North America oppression slavery Black metropolis Protestantism religio racial Sernett Milton Weisenfeld Judith Clayton Horace Drake Sinclair Harlem Renaissance New York City Fauset Arthur Blackness Huldah queen Jacob prophet performative imagination...

... the flow of people at crossing-points, but also the flow of stories of migration among their publics. What is the role of digital technologies is shaping migration today? How do digital infrastructures, platforms, and institutions control the flow of people at the border? And how do they control...

...The conclusions to this book argue that for the potential of the field of pilgrimage studies to be fulfilled, its dimensions must be enlarged spatially, methodologically, and theoretically. Pilgrimage is enmeshed not only with tourism but also with processes of economic circulation, migration...

... aspects of people’s lives, ranging from an action as trivial as a stroll down the street to the magnitude of forced migration to another country or continent. The book offers a new theoretical lexicon and framework for exploring human pilgrimage. It presents a broad overview of how we can understand...

... families, the antebellum penal institutions that preceded mass imprisonment in the present day, the terror of lynchings, and the consequences of the Great Migration from South to North. This chapter further identifies numerous contemporary traumatic wounds disproportionately inflicted upon Black people...

... holders experience as individuals and in their public interactions. Building on the concept of governmentality of the visa regime, the author contends that the effectiveness of global labor migration is predicated on the seamless disciplining of individuals to become model migrants and ideal workers...

...Why do people leave their country of birth? In this chapter, we see that people migrate because they seek out a better life abroad and because they have the networks and resources to leave. We can’t understand international migration patterns simply by looking at poverty; we also have to consider...

...This chapter analyzes the cinematic and IMDb audience discourse about Latina migration and labor in two romantic Hollywood comedies, Spanglish (2004) and Maid in Manhattan (2002), to document how the symbolic colonization of Latinidad in the mainstream media...

... continued to be the best solution for “fixing” the occupation. Examining the start of the Great Migration, the 1917 Immigration Act, and the eventual passage of numerical restrictions on European immigration that the 1924 Immigration Act instituted, this chapter argues that the various exceptions built...

... ASEAN education tariffs World Trade Organization WTO ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement ASEAN University Network ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers migration ASEAN China...

... States that constantly renewed Latin cultural influences in Southern California and deepened interconnections between American and Mexican cultures, beginning with the surge in Mexican migration to the United States after the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, followed by the repatriation of Mexicans...

...This chapter analyzes the large-scale San Francisco Bay Area Religion and Remittance Survey, which measures the extent of transnational praying (homeland to hometown) then sending of money by Filipino faithful. Based on the results, it argues that migration brings not only a transnational influence...

... Atanasoski Neda Boston Marathon bombing 2013 Kaleem Jaweed Russians Terrorism Tsarnaev Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Cacho Lisa Marie Immigrant rights activism Immigration Jacobs Sallie Neoliberalism Return migration Russian identity US Transnational adoption Undocumented migration Visa regime US...

... Can't Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), and The Migration of Ghosts (1999) to explore the narrative dissonance that comes from the act of sequencing and organizing various representations of gender in their contemporary forms. These texts reconstruct gender as a collection...

...This chapter examines the changing contours of immigrant religion from home to new society, and in particular how moving changes an immigrant's faith. It considers whether immigrants with no religion become religious and those with religion become more religious after migration. It also explores...

... Caribbean Americans Culture Modernization Vulnerability sexual Femininity Resistance Fatherhood Linked lives Intergenerational dynamics Life course perspective Sexual scripts Filipino immigrants migration Americanized culture female chastity self-respect sexualization Life course research...

... (household registration system), and the phenomenon of rural-to-urban migration. Though in the mid-1980s rural peasants had engaged in non-farm work, particularly in township and village enterprises (TVEs) as the urban-and eastern-centered economic reforms progressed and as the old apparatuses of state...