
Global Immigration
Date Published: 11/7/2019
Immigration combines enormous technical complexity with emotionally charged concerns about national identity. Selections in this reading list examine how underlying issues of sovereignty and humanitarianism intersect with cultural, ethnic, and economic issues. They focus on specific areas of tension within and between nations over issues of immigration.
The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.
BOOK
The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
Charles Piot
2019
BOOK
Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico
Beth C. Caldwell
2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
A Legacy of Exclusion: The Geopolitics of Immigration and Latinas/os in the South
Yalidy Matos
Labor 16:3, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Radical Histories of Sanctuary
A. Naomi Paik, Jason Ruiz, and Rebecca M. Schreiber, editors
Radical History Review 135, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
How Immigration Policy Impacts Health Equity
Tiffany D. Joseph, Franciso I. Pedraza, Vanessa Cruz Nichols, and Alana M. W. LeBrón
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 42:5, 2017
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Cruel Optimism of Mobility: Aspiration, Belonging, and the “Good Life” among Transnational Chinese Migrants in Tokyo
Jamie Coates
positions 27:3, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Empowering Arab Immigrant Women in Chicago: The Arab Women’s Committee
Rasmea Odeh
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 15:1, 2019
BOOK
Diaspora’s Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
Shelly Chan
2018
JOURNAL ISSUE
Rethinking Migration and Autonomy from within the "Crises"
Martina Tazzioli, Glenda Garelli, and Nicholas De Genova, editors
South Atlantic Quarterly 117:2, 2018
BOOK
The Borders of "Europe": Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering
Nicholas De Genova, editor
2017