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.

Notes:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes index.

ISBN:

• 9781399536912
• 1399536915