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Immigration and Migration

 

Chew, Kenneth, Mark Leach, and John M. Liu, “The Revolving Door to Gold Mountain: How Chinese Immigrants Got around U.S. Exclusion and Replenished the Chinese American Labor Pool, 1900–1910,” International Migration Review, 43 (Summer 2009), 410–30.

Dugas, Kathy, “An Immigrant’s Journey to Wealth and Power: The Story of François-Xavier Martin,” Louisiana History, 50 (Summer 2009), 321–40.

Fasce, Ferdinando, “Singing at Work: Italian Immigrants and Music during the Epoch of World War I,” Italian Americana, 27 (2009), 133–48.

Fink, Leon, “New People of the Newest South: Prospects for the Post-1980 Immigrants,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Aug. 2009), 739–50.

Hao, Lingxin, and Julie J. H. Kim, “Immigration and the American Obesity Epidemic,” International Migration Review, 43 (Summer 2009), 237–62.

Hardin, Peter, “Poles and Puritans,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 271–83. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Jenkins, William, “Remapping ‘Irish America’: Circuits, Places, Performances,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Summer 2009), 90–99.

Kamphoefner, Walter D., “Uprooted or Transplanted? Reflections on Patterns of German Immigration to Missouri,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (Jan. 2009), 71–89.

Kupsky, Gregory, “‘We, Too, Are Still Here’: German Americans in St. Louis, 1919–1941,” Missouri Historical Review, 103 (July 2009), 212–25.

Lee, Rika, “Hawai Korian imin no nashonaruna katari no keisei: Taiheiyo sensoka de ‘Nihonjin’ ni bunruisareta Korian imin no shogu mondai o cushin ni” (The discourse of nationalism among Korean immigrants in wartime Hawaii distancing from ‘Japanese subject’ and ‘enemy alien’), Shicho (Tokyo), 64 (2008), 6–24. In Japanese.

Matsumoto, Yuko, “Imin kyoiku to ‘tasha’ no soshutu: ‘Amerika-ka’ no jidai” (Immigrant education and the creation of the ‘other’: The era of Americanization), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (no. 707, 2009), 4–19. In Japanese.

Sato, Natsuki, “Higoho imin mondai to ‘Hisupanikku’ komyuniti: ‘Hisupanikku’ soshiki lulac no komyuniti no saiteigi” (The problem of illegal immigrants and the ‘Hispanic’ community: Re-definition of the community of the ‘Hispanic’ organization lulac), Amerikashi Hyoron (Kyoto), 26 (2008) In Japanese.

Sen, Krishna, “The Bengal Connection: Transnationalising America in The Namesake and The Tree Bride,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (March 2009), 57–70.

Todayama, Tasuku, “‘Eru Paso jiken’ to sengo-ki burasero puroguramu no seirits: Imin tosei o meguru 1940 nendai kohan no bei-boku seifukan kosho o chushin ni” (The El Paso incident: U.S.-Mexican negotiations on immigration control in the late 1940s), Amerika Taiheiyo Kenkyu (Tokyo), 8 (2008), 139–50. In Japanese.

Tsuchida, Eiko, “Tekunoroji to imin no Amerikanizumu: Suweden-kei imin-shakai niyoru gunkan ‘Monita’ to Jon Erikuson no hyosho” (Technology and an immigrant version of Americanism: Swedish-American representation of the ironclad Monitor and John Ericsson), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 155–73. In Japanese.

 

Blaine, Patricia A., “‘I Had to Come Here for My Family’: Mexican Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert, 1990–2005” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3335251.

Efford, Alison Clark, “New Citizens: German Immigrants, African Americans, and the Reconstruction of Citizenship, 1865–1877” (Ohio State University, 2008). Order No. DA3324019.

Jaffe, Christopher, “‘Us and Them’: The Changing Boundaries of Acceptance and Exclusion for Incoming Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Groups in Rockford, Illinois, 1880–1933” (Northern Illinois University, 2008). Order No. DA3335048.

Madrigal, Cándida R., “Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, Resilience, Self-Esteem, and General Well-Being: A Psychosocial Study of Colombians in the United States” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2008). Order No. DA3320115.

Maegi, Bernard John, “Dangerous Persons, Delayed Pilgrims: Baltic Displaced Persons and the Making of Cold War America, 1945–1952” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3325305.

Mollno, Linda Frances, “Deep Roots and Immigrant Dreams: A Social History of Viticulture in Southern California, 1796–1960” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3327297.

Oh, Young-In, “As If It Was a Land of Language Diversity: Struggles over Immigrants’ Language in the United States, 1917–1966” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3327488.

Oum, Young Rae, “Korean American Diaspora Subjectivity: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Self-Reflexivity” (Clark University, 2008). Order No. DA3334138.

Owens, Anthony, “The U.S. Congress and Immigration in Early Twentieth Century America” (University Collge Dublin, Ireland, 2009).

Randall, Tresa M., “Hanya Holm in America, 1931–1936: Dance, Culture, and Community” (Temple University, 2008). Order No. DA3320021.

Reddy, Sujani, “Women on the Move: A History of Indian Nurse Migration to the United States” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330167.

 

Alexander, June Granatir, Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870–1920: How the Second Great Wave of Immigrants Made Their Way in America. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. xvi, 332 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-56663-830-2.)

Bergquist, James M., Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820–1870: How the First Great Wave of Immigrants Made Their Way in America. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009. xviii, 329 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-56663-829-6.)

Furuya, Hiroko, Amerika no Betonamujin: Sokoku tono kizano to betonamu seifu no seisaku tenkan (Vietnamese in the United States: The bond with the mother country and the change of policy by the Vietnamese government). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2009. 368 pp. ¥6,300, isbn 978-4-75032-927-7.) In Japanese.

Gonzalez, Joaquin Jay, III, Filipino American Faith in Action: Immigration, Religion, and Civic Engagement. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. viii, 221 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3196-3. Paper, $21.00, isbn 978-0-8147-3197-0.)

Kaczorowska, Teresa, Herodot Polonii Amerykanskiej: Mieczyslaw Haiman (1888–1949) (A history of Polish Americans: Mieczyslaw Haiman (1888–1949)). (Warszawa: Muzeum Wychodzstwa Polskiego im. Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego, Lazienki Krolewskie, 2008. 360 pp. zl. 45, isbn 979-83-928084-0-4.) In Polish.

Kasinitz, Philip, et al., Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 420 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02803-6.)

Koegel, John, Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840–1940. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xxvi, 593 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-1-58046-215-0.) Includes cd.

Mori, Hitoshi, Ekkyo no minzoku-shi: Taminzoku shakai Hawai niokeru Japanizu no esunisiti (Transborder ethnography: Japanese ethnicity in multiethnic Hawaii). (Tokyo: Akashi, 2008. 294 pp. ¥5,250, isbn 978-4-75032-824-9.) In Japanese.

Sonoda, Setsuko, Nanboku Amerika Kamin to kindai Chugoku: 19 seiki toransu-nashonaru maigureshon (Chinese in South and North Americas and modern China: Nineteenth-century transnational migration). (Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 2009. 350 pp. ¥7,400, isbn 978-4-13026-136-4.) In Japanese.

 

Heller, Francis H., Steel Helmet and Mortarboard: An Academic in Uncle Sam’s Army. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2009. xvi, 190 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1838-4.)

Ravage, M. E., An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant, ed. Steven G. Kellman. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xxxiv, 212 pp. Cloth, $72.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4537-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4538-7.)

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