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James A. Beckford ed. Number on Jehovah Le Jehovah's Witnesses has seen a significant expansion in the mining basin of northern France, where he recruited mainly Polish emigrant workers but also French workers to a lesser extent. The author tries to trace the history of the expansion of this religion. It examines the causes of this unique development in France. These are linked to the social conditions of this population: cultural and social change, unmet hopes, lack of political role, crisis of conscience towards the Catholic Church. They may refer to a more general assumption that the Jéhoviste Movement would have been a home for the Polish emigrated travalers. Recruits of French origin partly shared the destiny of Polish workers. Individual particularities must also be taken into account. ; International audience The Watchtower movement saw considerable expansion in Northern of France, especially in the mining basin where it recruited Polish emigrant workers, but also French workers in lesser proportions. The author attempts to retrace the history of the spread of the movement in this region and examine the causes of its unique development in France. These causes could be linked to the social conditions of this population : social and cultural change, unsatisfied expectations, absence of political power, a cris of confidence in the Catholic Church. They could also be subsumed under a more global hypothesis according to wich the Watch Tower movement would have constituted a substitute homeland for the emigrant Polish workers. As for the Franch Jehovah's Witnesses, it was seen that they partially shared the Polish workers'fate, and individual particularities had to be taken into account. ; James A. Beckford ed. Number on Jehovah Le Jehovah's Witnesses has seen a significant expansion in the mining basin of northern France, where he recruited mainly Polish emigrant workers but also French workers to a lesser extent. The author tries to trace the history of the expansion of this religion. It examines the causes ...

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people's mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world

"As German Jews emigrated in the 19th and early 20th centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany--and Berlin in particular--attracted both secular and religious Jewish scholars from eastern Europe. They engaged in vital intellectual exchange with German Jewry, although their cultural and religious practices differed greatly, and they absorbed many cultural practices that they brought back to Warsaw or took with them to New York and Tel Aviv. After the Holocaust, German Jews and non-German Jews educated in Germany were forced to reevaluate their essential relationship with Germany and Germanness as well as their notions of Jewish life outside of Germany. Among the first volumes to focus on German-Jewish transnationalism, this interdisciplinary collection spans the fields of history, literature, film, theater, architecture, philosophy, and theology as it examines the lives of significant emigrants. The individuals whose stories are reevaluated include German Jews Ernst Lubitsch, David Einhorn, and Gershom Scholem, the architect Fritz Nathan and filmmaker Helmar Lerski; and eastern European Jews David Bergelson, Der Nister, Jacob Katz, Joseph Soloveitchik, and Abraham Joshua Heschel--figures not normally associated with Germany. Three-Way Street addresses the gap in the scholarly literature as it opens up critical ways of approaching Jewish culture not only in Germany, but also in other locations, from the mid-19th century to the present"--

Introduction -- The alien in the social imagination of the founding texts -- Rejecting the legacy of empire : postcolonial dereliction (East African Asians case) -- Dislocating families : the Strasbourg reversal (Abdulaziz, Cabales and Balkandali) -- Not-so-threatening foreigners : nationality as a core human rights issue (Advisory Opinion 4/84) -- Shattering lives : the normalisation of deportation (after Berrehab) -- The sleeping beauty awakens late : an absolute prohibition with many buts (around Soering) -- Social protection? All are equal, but some more so than others (after Gaygusuz) -- The voice of the Inter-American Court : equality as jus cogens (Advisory Opinions 16/99 and 18/03) -- Reparations are a big issue : taking human rights one step further (Yean and Bosico) -- Migrants, not criminals : the continual elaboration of strong human rights norms in the Inter-American system (Vélez Loor) -- Domestic asylum procedures aside : scrutinising Strasbourg's 'scrutiny' (M.S.S.) -- The darkest case law : condoning rightlessness (Bonger et alia) -- On the road to substantive equality : due process and non-discrimination at San José (Nadege Dorzema and Pacheco Tineo) / Lourdes Peroni -- Conclusion : The way forward.

Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in this country for more than two decades. In American Gulag, prisoners, jailers, and whistle-blowing federal officials come forward to describe the frightening reality inside these INS facilities

TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1 THE MEANING OF INTEGRATION; 2 CROSS-NATIONAL MIGRATION; 3 A THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE OF MIGRANTS; 4 THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES: OPENNESS OF POLICY TOWARD MIGRANTS; 5 THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES: NONPOLICY FACTORS AFFECTING ACCEPTANCE AND ADJUSTMENT; 6 THE DEPENDENT VARIABLES: WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE; 7 THE INTEGRATION OF PEOPLE; Appendix A. SELECTED NEWSPAPER ARTICLES; Appendix B. SYNOPTIC TABLE OF DIFFERENTIAL LAWS GOVERNING FOREIGN WORKERS; NOTES; INDEX

"Just days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders targeting noncitizens-authorizing the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. The new administration's approach towards noncitizens was defined by bans, walls, and raids. This is the essential primer on how we got here, and what we must do to create a different future. Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that these features have a long history and have long harmed all of us and our relationships to each other. The 45th president's xenophobic, racist, ableist, patriarchal ascendancy is no aberration, but the consequence of two centuries of U.S. political, economic, and social culture. Further, as A. Naomi Paik deftly demonstrates, the attacks against migrants are tightly bound to assaults against women, people of color, workers, ill and disabled people, queer and gender non-conforming people. These attacks are neither un-American nor unique. By showing how the problems we face today are embedded in the very foundation of the US, this book is a rallying cry for a broad-based, abolitionist sanctuary movement for all"--

"Much like the United States, Western Europe has experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country's population is foreign-born. Spanish Legacies, written by internationally known experts on immigration, explores how the children of immigrants - the second generation - are coping with the challenges of adaptation to Spanish society, comparing their situation with that experienced by their peers in the United States. Using a rich data set based on both survey and ethnographic material, Spanish Legacies describes the experiences of growing up by the large population of second generation youths in Spain and the principal outcomes of the process - from national self-identification and experiences of discrimination to educational attainment and labor-market entry. The study is based on a sample of almost 7,000 second-generation students who were interviewed in Madrid and Barcelona in 2008 and then followed and re-interviewed four years later. A survey of immigrant parents, a replacement sample for lost respondents in the second survey, and a survey of native-parentage students complement this rich data set. Outcomes of the adaptation process in Spain are systematically presented in five chapters, introduced by real-life histories of selected respondents drawn by the study's ethnographic module. Systematic comparisons with results from the United States show a number of surprising similarities in the adaptation of children of immigrants in both countries, as well as differences marked by contrasting experiences of discrimination, self-identities, and ambition"--Provided by publisher

"Reports the results of a study carried out in Stockholm, Sweden, of the situation for descendants of migrants from Turkey. It is part of the international comparative study of the 'integration of second generation migrants'. This Swedish study was carried out by researchers at the Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO) at Stockholm University; it looks into issues of identity, family situation, language use, education, labour market experiences and employment."

Luis F.B. Plascencia's Disenchanting Citizenship explores two interrelated issues: U.S. citizenship and the Mexican migrants' position in the United States. Through an extensive and multifaceted collection of interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, ethno-historical research, and public policy analysis, Plascencia probes the ways in which citizenship discourses are understood and taken up by individuals. The book uncovers citizenship's root as a Janus-faced construct that encompasses a simultaneous process of inclusion and exclusion. This notion of citizenship is mapped on to t

"Focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations among "second-tier" metropolitan areas. Examines the changes wrought by these new suburban settlement patterns and provides comparative analysis of immigration trends and local policy responses in these gateways. Case examples explore the challenges of newcomer integration, as well as immigration's impact on suburban infrastructure"--Provided by publisher