Tag: Immigration

Immigration and its Dimensions

Immigration and its Dimensions

With other Association of University Presses members, we recognize that immigration has recently been a vital and omnipresent topic on both a national and a global scale. To reflect this public interest,  we have an assembled a recommended reading list organized by Global and U.S.  focus.

KOREATOWN LANDMARKS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT

Why a Oaxacan Restaurant in a Korean community makes perfect sense

Raising Global Families across the Pacific

Parenting anxieties abound for Asian immigrants at the intersection of cultural transformation and persistent inequality.

Immigrants Make America Great

Immigrants and native-born citizens equally benefit or suffer from a nation’s policies.

The Barbarism of the Migrant

Mexican immigrants to the U.S. face a stigma that stretches back to ancient civilization.

Dismantling the Racial Paradise

How migration to and from the U.S. is transforming notions of race in Brazil.

A Russian Jewish Woman in New York Seeks Dating Advice (… in 1916)

The question of the hour: can a Sephardi-Ashkenazi romance survive? The following letters originally appeared in a Ladino newspaper, La Bos del Pueblo. They were translated into English by Aviva Ben-Ur and are excerpted below from Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History 1700-1950: In early-twentieth-century New York City,