Migration and the Rise of the United States : The Role of Old and New Diasporas / edited by Amba Pande and Camelia Tigau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pande, Amba, editor.

Tigau, Camelia, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies on diasporas and transnationalism.

Edinburgh Studies on Diasporas and Transnationalism Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

Celebrates the contribution of diasporas and immigrants in the rise of United States.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

List of Tables

About the Contributors

Preface

Introduction: Factoring Transnational Diasporas in the Rise of the US as a Great Power and a Multi-cultural Society

Part I Old Diasporas (Pre-1965)

1 Italian Workers in the US: The American Accomplishments of a Transnational Diaspora

2 Immigrants as a Transnational Political Resource: The Case of American Jews

3 Irish Immigration to America: Revisiting Famine, Transnational Networks and Memorialisation

4 Transnational Experience: The Armenian Diasporic Community in the US

5 The Labelling of Migrants and Diasporas in US Media and Policy: A Historical Sketch

PART II New Diasporas (post-1965)

Part IIa Diasporas as Transnational Actors

6 The Naga Diaspora in the US: Integration and Transnationalisation

7 The Indo-Caribbean American Contribution to the Growth and Development of the US and Transnational Linkages with Countries of Origin

8 West African Islam in the US: The Senegalese Murid Transnational Community

9 Integrationist Acculturation: Experiences of Social Insertion of Professional Mexican Migrants in the US and their Contribution to American Multi-culturalism

Part IIb Diasporas as Diplomatic and Cultural Actors

10 Civic and Political Engagement among Muslim and Arab Americans

11 Mexico City's Diasporas in Chicago: An Approach from Urban and Trans-Local Diplomacy

12 The Contribution of International Migration to the American Film Industry

13 The Contributions of Latinx Art to the Fight for Social Justice in the US

Part IIc Diasporas in US Politics

14 Chinese Immigration in the US in the Post-Trump Era: Major Impacts and Trends

15 Moral Concerns: Immigrants who Reject Immigrants in the US

16 The Unrecognised Contributions of H-1B and H-4 Immigrants to the US Economy: An Ethnographic Study.

Conclusion: An Everlasting Endowment: Insights from a Multidimensional Analysis of Migration and Diaspora in the US

Index.

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9781399536912

1399536915