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Immigration and Migration

 

Alanís Enciso, Fernando Saúl, “Regreso a casa: La repatriación de mexicanos en Estados Unidos durante la Gran Depresión; El caso de San Luis Potosí” (Going back home: Mexicans in the U.S. return to Mexico during the Great Depression; The case of San Luis Potosí), Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México (Mexico City), 29 (2005), 119–48. In Spanish.

Alex-Assensoh, Yvette M., “African Immigrants and African-Americans: An Analysis of Voluntary African Immigration and the Evolution of Black Ethnic Politics in America,” African and Asian Studies, 8 (March 2009), 89–124.

Alroey, Gur, “Aliya to America? A Comparative Look at Jewish Mass Migration, 1881–1914,” Modern Judaism, 28 (May 2008), 109–33.

Arrizabalaga, Marie-Pierre, “L’emigration des Pyrénéennes en Amérique du Nord aux XIXe et Xxe siécles” (Emigration of women from the Pyrenees to North America in the 19th and 20th centuries), Social History (Toronto), 40 (Nov. 2007), 269–96. In French.

Brighton, Stephen A., “Degrees of Alienation: The Material Evidence of the Irish and Irish American Experience, 1850–1910,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 4, 2008), 132–53.

Calloway, Colin G., “Sir William Johnson, Highland Scots, and American Indians,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 163–77.

Gerber, David A., “‘Yankeys Now’? Joseph and Rebecca Hartley’s Circuitous Path to American Identity—A Case Study in the Use of Immigrant Letters as Social Documentation,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Spring 2009), 7–33.

Grinev, A. V., “Kolonial’nye grazhdane Russkoi Ameriki: Problema formirovaniia postoiannogo russkogo naseleniia v Novom Svete” (Colonial citizens in Russian America: Problems of forming a constant Russian population in the New World), Amerikanskii Ezhegodnik (Moscow) (2006), 179–210. In Russian.

Gustafson, Anita Olson, “‘We Hope to Be Able to Do Some Good’: Swedish-American Women’s Organizations in Chicago,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (Oct. 2008), 178–201.

Kamphoefner, Walter D., “Immigrant Epistolary and Epistemology: On the Motivators and Mentality of Nineteenth-Century German Immigrants,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28 (Spring 2009), 34–54.

Lee, Soo-Young, “Ethnic Celebrations and American Identity: The Centennial Celebration of the Korean American Churches,” Journal of British & American Studies (Seoul) (no. 19, Dec. 2008), 319–45.

Luconi, Stefano, “Emigrazione, vita politica, e partecipazione sindacale” (Emigration, political life, and labor militancy), in Storia d’Italia: Annali 24; Migrazioni, ed. Paola Corti and Matteo Sanfilippo, 317–42. (Turin: Einaudi, 2009. 804 pp. €95.00, isbn 978-88-061-8887-0.) In Italian.

Lund, Eric R., “‘We Must Not Stop Now!’: The Founding Fathers of the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (July 2008), 113–36. Heavily illustrated.

Molina, Fernando, “Basque-Atlantic Shores: Ethnicity, the Nation-State, and the Diaspora in Europe and America (1808–98),” Ethnic and Racial Studies (London), 32 (May 2009), 698–715.

Olneck, Michael R., “What Have Immigrants Wanted from American Schools? What Do They Want Now? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigrants, Language, and American Schooling,” American Journal of Education, 115 (May 2009), 379–406.

Salomonsson, Eric J., “Ethnicity versus Reality: The Swedish Cemetery Corportation of Worcester, Massachusetts,” Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 59 (July 2008), 160–71.

 

Aguilar R., Daniel E., “Mexican Immigrants in Meatpacking Areas of Kansas: Transition and Acquisition of Cultural Capital” (Kansas State University, 2008). Order No. DA3310806.

Evensen, Erik Aalvik, “From Canaan to the Promised Land: Pioneer Migration from Hommedal Parish (Landvik and Eide Sub-parishes) Southern Norway to St. Joseph, Missouri, and East Norway, Kansas” (University of Oslo Unipub, Norway, 2009).

Jayasanker, Laresh Krishna, “Sameness in Diversity: Food Culture and Globalization in the San Francisco Bay Area and America, 1965–2005” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3315079.

 

Corti, Paola, and Matteo Sanfilippo, eds., Storia d’Italia: Annali 24; Migrazioni. (Turin: Einaudi, 2009. 804 pp. €95.00, isbn 978-88-061-8887-0.)

Dubrovic, Ervin, Amerika: Iseljavanje iz srednje Europe u Ameriku, 1880–1914 (Emigration from central Europe to America, 1880–1914). (Rijeke: Muzej Grada Rijeke, 2008. 231 pp. isbn 978-9-536-58745-2.) In Croatian.

Giordano, Paolo A., and Anthony Julian Tamburri, eds., Italian Americans in the Third Millenium: Social Histories and Cultural Representations. (New York: American Italian Historical Association, 2009. 232 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-934675-58-1.)

Janzen, Rod, Paul Tschetter: The Story of a Hutterite Immigrant Leader, Pioneer, and Pastor. (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick, 2009. xii, 304 pp. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-60608-134-1.)

Lintelman, Joy K., I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. x, 294 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-97351-636-5.)

Navarro, Armando, The Immigration Crisis: Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement. (Lanham: AltaMira, 2009. xl, 488 pp. Cloth, $99.00, isbn 978-0-7591-1208-7. Paper, $44.95, isbn 978-0-7591-1209-4.)

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