Recent Scholarship
Immigration and Migration
Bhalla, Vibha, “‘Couch Potatoes and Super-Women’: Gender, Migration, and the Emerging Discourse on Housework among Asian Indian Immigrants,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Summer 2008), 71–99.
Donner, William W., “‘Neither Germans nor Englishmen, but American’: Education, Assimilation, and Ethnicity among Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Germans,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 197–226.
Kelley, Suzzanne, “Coffins, Country Stores, and Carnivals: Emily Lunde’s Memory Paintings,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (Jan. 2008), 9–34.
Klaczkow, Jaroslaw, “Polska emigracja protestancka w krajach anglosaskich w XIX i XX w” (Polish Protestant emigration in Anglo-Saxon countries in the 19th and 20th centuries), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 149–63. In Polish.
Lamarre, Jean, “L’émigration des Canadiens français au Michigan et en Illinois au XIXe siècle” (French-Canadian migration to Michigan and Illinois during the nineteenth century), in Franco-Amérique (Franco-America), by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, 197–214. (Sillery: Septentrion, 2008. 378 pp. $39.95, isbn 2-89448-533-6.) In French.
Lee, Rika Rihwa, “Hawai Kaigenreika no Korian Imin no Nashonarizumu: ‘Tekisei Gaikokujin’ kara ‘Yukoteki Gaikokujin’ eno Katari no Keisei” (Nationalism under martial law in Hawai‘i: Reconstructing a narrative of the ‘enemy alien’ into that of the ‘friendly foreigner’), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 42 (2008), 137–54. In Japanese.
Lichtenstein, Merav, “An Examination of Guest Worker Immigration Reform Policies in the United States,” Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal, 5 (Spring 2007), 689–727.
Murata, Katsuyuki, “Amerikajin” no Kyokai to Ratino Esunishiti: “Higoho-imin Mondai” no Shakai-Bunkashi (The social cultural history of the “problem of the illegal aliens”). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2007. 302 pp. ¥6,090, isbn 978-4-13-026131-9.) In Japanese.
Pula, James S., “Forgotten Ancestors: Nineteenth Century Antecedents of Modern Polonia,” Polish American Studies, 64 (Spring 2007), 47–62.
Siener, William H., “Through the Back Door: Evading the Chinese Exclusion Act along the Niagara Frontier, 1900 to 1924,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 27 (Summer 2008), 34–70.
Takai, Yukari, “Hokubei-Tairiku-shi toshiteno Imin-shi Kochiku ni Mukete: 20seiki-shoto kabei kokkyo no nihonjin ekkyosha wo chushin ni” (Doing transnational history at a Canada-U.S. borderland: Japanese emigrants crossing the border at the beginning of the 20th century), Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 30 (2007), 64–81. In Japanese.
Tichenor, Daniel J., “Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 5 (Summer 2008), 39–60.
Anderson, Shannon Latkin, “Assimilation and the Meaning of America, 1915–2005” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3282499.
Bartley, Katherine, “New Migratory Dynamics, North of the Border, across the Border, and below the Border: Three Essays Examining Internal and Mexico-U.S. Migration” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3292007.
DelSordi, Nicholas C., “Contextualizing Assimilation: A Comparative-Historical Analysis of Cultural and Structural Change across the Generations in the United States and Great Britain” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3287931.
Lubotina, Paul A., “Conflict and Community Building: The Dichotomy of Immigrant Life on Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range, 1893–1930” (Saint Louis University, 2006). Order No. DA3280213.
Choate, Mark I., Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xii, 319 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-674-02784-8.)
Dunn, Mary Lee, Ballykilcline Rising: From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xxiv, 218 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-1-55849-658-3. Paper, $28.95, isbn 978-1-55849-659-0.)
Hathaway, Karen L., Making His Own Way: A Biography of Frank Clarkson Garbutt. (Nashville: Cold Tree Press, 2008. xii, 334 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-58385-270-5.)
Hernández-León, Rubén, Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 258 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-520-25673-6. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-520-25674-3.)
Jacobson, Robin Dale, The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxviii, 190 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8166-5027-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5029-6.)
Junn, Jane, and Kerry L. Haynie, eds., New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xii, 195 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-521-85427-6. Paper, $25.99, isbn 978-0-521-67014-2.)
Lachowicz, Teofil, Dla Ojczyzny ratowania: Szkice z dziejów wychodzstwa polskiego w Ameryce i inne (For rescue of the Motherland: Essays from the history of Polish immigration to America and others). (Warsaw: Stowarzyszenie Weteranów Armii Polskiej w Ameryce, 2007. 545 pp. zl. 64.00, isbn 978-83-7399-225-2.) In Polish.
Lee, Anthony W., A Shoemaker’s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. x, 303 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-691-13325-6.) Heavily illustrated.
Nevins, Joseph, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid. (San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2008. 255 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-87286-486-3.) Heavily illustrated.
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