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Immigration and Migration

 

Allerfeldt, Kristofer, “Rejecting the United States of the World: The Consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s New Diplomacy on the 1921 Immigration Act,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 26 (no. 3, 2007), 145–65.

Anderson, Kristen L., “German Americans, African Americans, and the Republican Party in St. Louis, 1865–1872,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 34–51.

Chang, Kornel, “Enforcing Transnational White Solidarity: Asian Migration and the Formation of the U.S.-Canadian Boundary,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 671–96.

Hoffman, Ronald, “The Carroll Family of Maryland,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 117 (part 2, 2007), 331–50.

Keil, Hartmut, “Francis Lieber’s Attitudes on Race, Slavery, and Abolition,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 13–33.

Light, Ivan, and Elsa von Scheven, “Mexican Migration Networks in the United States, 1980–2000,” International Migration Review, 42 (Fall 2008), 107–28.

Lo, Shauna, “Chinese Women Entering New England: Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, Boston, 1911–1925,” New England Quarterly, 81 (Sept. 2008), 383–409.

Naar, Devin E., “From the ‘Jerusalem of the Balkans’ to the Goldene Medina: Jewish Immigration from Salonika to the United States,” American Jewish History, 93 (Dec. 2007), 435–73.

Polland, Annie, “‘May a Freethinker Help a Pious Man?’: The Shared World of the ‘Religious’ and the ‘Secular’ among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants to America,” American Jewish History, 93 (Dec. 2007), 375–407.

Rowe, Amy E., “A Trace of Arabic in Granite: Lebanese Migration to the Green Mountains, 1890–1940,” Vermont History, 76 (Summer–Fall 2008), 91–129.

Sadowski-Smith, Claudia, “Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882–2007,” American Quarterly, 60 (Sept. 2008), 779–804.

Sisson, Kelly J., “Bound for California: Chilean Contract Laborers and Patrones in the California Gold Rush, 1848–1852,” Southern California Quarterly, 90 (Fall 2008), 259–305.

Smits, Nicholas J., “Roots Entwined: Archaeolgy of an Urban Chinese American Cemetery,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 3, 2008), 111–22.

Spaeth, Catherine T. C., “America in the French Imagination: The French Settlers of Asylum, Pennsylvania, and Their Perceptions of 1790s America,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 247–74.

Strickland, Jeffery, “How the Germans Became White Southerners: German Immigrants and African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, 1860–1880,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Fall 2008), 52–69.

 

Almalki, Ali Hassan, “Labor Market Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality of Arab Immigrants in the United States: 1980–2000” (Florida State University, 2007). Order No. DA3301519.

DeLeone, Felicia Yang, “Contextual and Policy Predictors of Early Fertility and Sex in the United States Immigrant Population” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300205.

Emetuche, Damian Okwudiri, “An Analysis of Worldviews of West African Immigrants to Greater Cincinnati and Their Missiological Implications” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2007). Order No. DA3300628.

Howard, Heather Fay, “An Economic Analysis of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300177.

Kia, Parandeh, “An Iranian Eden: Women Activists and the Emergence of an Iranian Immigrant Community in Southern California, 1979–1993” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296159.

Sutton, Wesley K., “Heritage Genetics of Spanish-Americans in the Southwest United States” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296896.

Varela-Lago, Ana María, “Conquerors, Immigrants, Exiles: The Spanish Diaspora in the United States (1848–1948)” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3296804.

Weinzimmer, Julianne Melissa, “The Distant Reach of the Middle East: How Perceptions of Conflict Affect Jewish Israeli American and Palestinian American Identity” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3297723.

van der Woude, Joanne, “Towards a Transatlantic Aesthetic: Immigration, Translation, and Mourning in the Seventeenth Century” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3298521.

 

Fitzgerald, David, A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiv, 243 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-520-25704-7. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-520-25705-4.)

Luconi, Stefano, and Matteo Pretelli, L’immigrazione negli Stati Uniti (Immigration in the United States). (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008. 224 pp. €13.00, isbn 978-88-15-12580-4.) In Italian.

Murakawa, Yoko, Kyokaisenjyo no shiminken (Citizenship on the boundaries). (Tokyo: Ochanomizu shobo, 2007. 354 pp. ¥7560, isbn 4-2750-0551-9.) In Japanese.

Rutledge, Doug, with Abdi Roble, The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xiv, 188 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5457-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Yoneyama, Hiroshi, and Norifumi Kawahara, eds., Nikkeijin no keiken to kokusaiido (Transnational Japanese mobility in the modern era: The experiences of overseas Japanese and their descendants). (Kyoto: Jinbun shoin, 2007. 276 pp. ¥2625, isbn 4-4092-3042-8.) In Japanese.

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