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Immigration and Migration

Abraham, David, “The Boundaries and Bonds of Citizenship: Recognition and Redistribution in the United States, Germany, and Israel,” in Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective, ed. Marc S. Rodriguez and Anthony T. Grafton, 201–50. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xx, 262 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-58046-159-7.)

Arrizabalaga, Marie-Pierre, “Les femmes pyrénéennes et l’émigration transatlantique aux XIXe et XXe siécles: Une réalité mal connue” (Pyrenean women and transatlantic immigration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: A little-known reality), in Rapports sociaux de sexe et immigration: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Social relations of sex and immigration: Nineteenth-twentieth century Atlantic worlds), ed. Philippe Rygiel and Natacha Lillo, 59–70. (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 144 pp. Paper, €22.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3476.)

Björk, Ulf Jonas, “Norwegian Idiocy and Swedish Indolence: Swedish Americans and the Dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian Union,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 58 (July 2007), 158–75.

Faires, Nora, “La construction d’un avant-poste féminin et bourgeois du nationalisme: Le Club des femmes américaines de Calgary, (1919–1945)” (The construction of a female outpost and of national citizenship: The Club of American Women in Calgary, [1912–1945]), in Rapports sociaux de sexe et immigration: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Social relations of sex and immigration: Nineteenth–twentieth century Atlantic worlds), ed. Philippe Rygiel and Natacha Lillo, 127–42. (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 144 pp. Paper, €22.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3476.)

Hallet, Hilary, “L’émigration des femmes et les débuts d’Hollywood” (The immigration of women and their Hollywood debuts), in Images et représentations du genre en migrations: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Images and representations of gender in migration: Nineteenth-twentieth century Atlantic worlds), ed. Natacha Lillo and Philippe Rygiel, 91–104. (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 135 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3816-4.)

Janiewski, Dolores, “Conquérants et déposséedés d’Amérique: Genre, État et migrations de colons, 1790–1890” (The conquerors and the dispossessed of America: Gender, the state, and colonial migration, 1790–1890), in Images et représentations du genre en migrations: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Images and representations of gender in migration: Nineteenth–twentieth century Atlantic worlds), ed. Natacha Lillo and Philippe Rygiel, 55–68. (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 135 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3816-4.)

Jones, Ginger, “De bella à belle: Les femmes américaines originaires de l’Italie méridionale en Louisiane” (From bella to belle: American women native to southern Italy in Louisiana), in Images et représentations du genre en migrations: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Images and representations of gender in migration: Nineteenth–twentieth century Atlantic worlds), ed. Natacha Lillo and Philippe Rygiel, 79–90. (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 135 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3816-4.)

Kato, Yoko, “Kokka ni yoru kisei to hito no ido” (Immigration controls by the state), Kokusai Kankei Kenkyu (Mishima), 27 (no. 2, 2006), 1–20. In Japanese.

Murphy, Nathan W., “Cornelius McDermott Roe: Indentured Servant to George Washington,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 95 (June 2007), 135–46.

Nordström, Lars, “Swedish Emigration to America and Oregon after World War II,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 58 (July 2007), 135–57.

Oda, Yuki, “Beikoku 1942 nen iminho ni okeru Mekisiko-jin” (Mexicans under the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 6 (2006), 261–73. In Japanese.

Överland, Orm, “Norwegian Americans Meet Native Americans: Exclusion and Inclusion in Immigrant Homemaking in America,” in Postcolonial Dislocations: Travel, History, and the Ironies of Narrative, ed. Charles I. Armstrong and Øyunn Hestetun, 109–22. (Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2006. 246 pp. nkr 360.00, isbn 978-82-7099-430-4.)

Uzawa, Yoshiko, “Will the White Man and the Yellow Man Ever Mix?,” Japanese Journal of American Studies (Tokyo), 17 (2006), 201–22.

Versteeg, Pien, “Une maniére de s’en sortir: Les réseaux de femmes polonaises aux États-Unis et en Allemagne, 1890–1940” (Style sorts itself out: Networks of Polish women in the United States and Germany, 1890–1940), in Rapports sociaux de sexe et immigration: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Social relations of sex and immigration: Nineteenth–twentieth century Atlantic worlds), ed. Philippe Rygiel and Natacha Lillo, 99–118. (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 144 pp. Paper, €22.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3476.)

 

Hartman, Michelle L., “Irish Military Service during the American Civil War: A Case against Assimilation; New York, 1861–1865” (New School University, 2006). Order No. DA3239932.

Hashemi, Mahasti, “Immigrants and Exiles: Iranian Women in the United States” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2006). Order No. DA3240219.

Melillo, Edward Dallam, “Strangers on Familiar Soil: Chile and the Making of California, 1848–1930” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3243669.

Nussel, Jill Schaarschmidt, “From Stew Pot to Melting Pot: Immigrant Women and the Cookbooks They Wrote in the Age of Immigration, 1873–1916” (University of Toledo, 2006). Order No. DA3244440.

Rogers, Pamela Ann, “Intraurban Mobility, Immigration, and Urban Settlement Patterns: The Case of Texas Gateways” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3245336.

Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., “Pledging Transnational Allegiances: Nationhood, Selfhood, and Belonging in Jewish American and Asian American Immigrant Narratives” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3242114.

Seeger, Gordon Scott, “Socio-economic Influence on Low German in North-Central Kansas: From Immigrant Language Lost to Heritage Language Revived” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3243518.

Ugbe, Utiang P., “The New Americans: Factors Affecting Economic Integration among African Refugees in New Hampshire” (Southern New Hampshire Univesity, United States, 2006). Order No. DA3240852.

Wilk, Deborah J., “The Representation of Immigration in Art and Architecture in New York City, 1850–1920” (University of Kansas, 2005). Order No. DA3250049.

 

Elliott, Bruce S., David A. Gerber, and Suzanne M. Sinke, eds., Letters across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. x, 315 pp. $69.95, isbn 978-1-4039-7101-2.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Lillo, Natacha, and Philippe Rygiel, eds., Images et représentations du genre en migrations: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Images and representations of gender in migration: Nineteenth–twentieth century Atlantic worlds). (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 135 pp. Paper, €21.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3816-4.) In French. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Rodriguez, Marc S., and Anthony T. Grafton, eds., Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2007. xx, 262 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-58046-159-7.)

Rygiel, Philippe, and Natacha Lillo, eds., Rapports sociaux de sexe et immigration: Mondes atlantiques XIXe–XXe siècles (Social relations of sex and immigration: Nineteenth–twentieth century Atlantic worlds). (Paris: Editions Publibook, 2007. 144 pp. Paper, €22.00, isbn 978-2-7483-3476.) In French. In French. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

 

Browning, Christopher R., Richard S. Hollander, and Nechama Tec, eds., Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence from Poland. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xxii, 285 pp. $28.00, isbn 978-0-521-88274-3.)

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