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Journal articles on the topic "North-American immigration"
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Gober, Patricia. "IMMIGRATION AND NORTH AMERICAN CITIES." Urban Geography 21, no. 1 (2000): 83–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.21.1.83.
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Howell, Brian M. "Multiculturalism, Immigration and the North American Church." Missiology: An International Review 39, no. 1 (2011): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182961103900109.
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Yavorska, Oksana. "The North American species of the non-native flora of the Kyiv urban area (Ukraine): a checklist and analysis." Biodiversity: Research and Conservation 13, no. 1 (2009): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10119-009-0005-3.
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The North American species of the non-native flora of the Kyiv urban area (Ukraine): a checklist and analysisThis paper presents an annotated checklist of the North American species established in the flora of the Kyiv urban area (KUA). For each taxon, the following data are provided: distribution in the area, degree of naturalization, period of immigration, mode of immigration and ecological characteristics. The group of the North American neophytes consists of 114 species belonging to 71 genera and 36 families and 23 cultivated species and of problematic taxonomic status. Among them prevail ergasiophytes (26%), ergasiophygophytes (22%) and ephemerophytes (19%). The majority of neophytes (47%) have spread over all types of ecotopes. Among them 12 species are invasive alien plants in the KUA.
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Hussain, Imtiaz. "Canadian immigration, mexican emigration, and a North American regional interpretation." Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale 6, no. 1 (2005): 81–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12134-005-1003-8.
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Jacobs, Louis, and Christine Janis. "Patterns of evolution in North American Neogene mammals." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200007061.
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The Neogene of North American represents a time of climatic change from an initially warm, non-arid climate to one with the development of increasing aridity, with warming temperatures through the early part and fluctuating (but basically cooler) temperatures through the later part. This reflects the classic story of a vegetational change from woodland to savanna and eventually to prairie. Note that the transition to true savanna in the Late Miocene was considerably earlier than the first savannas in the Pliocene of the Old World. The evolutionary trends in mammals reflect these climactic and vegetational changes.Some general broad trends are as follows: the replacement of terrestrial and subfossorial moles and geomyid rodents with more specialized fossorial ones; a decrease in the diversity of brachydont rodents and an increase in the diversity of hypsodont ones (including saltatorial forms), and a late Neogene diversification of microtines and deer mice; a decline in the diversity of tree squirrels and terrestrial beavers, and an increase in diversity of ground squirrels and aquatic beavers; the replacement of carnivores belong to more archaic families by more modern types; taxa and an increase in body size, leg length, and hypsodonty in most ungulate taxa, including oreodonts, protoceratids, camelids, antilocaprids, rhinos and equine horses although a couple of taxa show an apparent reversal of these trends: dromomerycids (cervoids) and some anchitherine horses show other morphological changes that suggest progressively more woodland-adapted (rather than savanna-adapted) forms. Tapirs and (to a lesser extent) peccaries seem little affected by the Neogene changes, and persist until the Recent.The Neogene was also punctuated by immigration events (primarily from Asia) and extinctions. The start of the Neogene shows surprisingly little change, with many Paleogene “holdovers”: some new forms appear as either the result of evolution in situ (e.g. equine horses and osteoborine dogs) or as immigrants (e.g. chalicotheres and hemicyonine “dog bears”). The initial major immigrations are during the late Early Miocene, marked by the Asian appearances of true felids (replacing the “false saber-tooths” or nimravids), pecoran ruminants (replacing the hypertragulids), more derived rhinos (replacing the diceratherine rhinos), neomustelids and procyonids. Archaic suoids such as anthracotheres and entelodonts become extinct at this time, and only the more derived ticholeptine oreodonts survive this period. The start of the Middle Miocene is notable for the appearance of proboscideans and deer mice. The Late Miocene sees the decline and eventual disappearance of hedgehogs, archaic carnivores (hemicyonine bears and amphicyonids), most browsing ungulates (oreodonts, protoceratids, many camelids, anchitherine horses, dromomerycids, merycodontine antilocaprids, hornless ruminants, chalicotheres, bunodont gomphotheres), and rhinos. New taxa appearing including ursine bears (immigrants), oversized camels and more derived gomphotheres (in situ evolution). The Pliocene marks a new wave of immigration: microtines, hyenas, true saber-tooths, and cervids come in from Asia; ground sloths (two families appearing in the Late Miocene), glyptodonts, armadillos and capybaras come in from South America. Most mammals that survived the end Miocene extinctions persist, but for many of them (such as horses, camels and antilocaprids) the generic diversity is greatly reduced.
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ADAMS, ROBERT LEE. "Tales of Two Countries: Recent North American Immigration Policies and Experiences." Transforming Anthropology 17, no. 1 (2009): 65–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-7466.2009.01042.x.
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Satia, Jessie A., Ruth E. Patterson, Alan R. Kristal, T. Gregory Hislop, and Michele Pineda. "A household food inventory for North American Chinese." Public Health Nutrition 4, no. 2 (2001): 241–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/phn200097.
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AbstractObjectiveTo determine whether a short set of questions about foods in the household can provide information about the fat-related dietary behaviour of individual household members in less-acculturated Chinese populations.DesignCross-sectional survey.ParticipantsThe study population included 244 adult females of Chinese ethnicity in Seattle, WA, and Vancouver, BC, Canada.SettingBilingual interviewers collected information on the presence of 14 high-fat foods and seven reduced-fat foods in the household. Respondents were also asked about the consumption of foods and behaviour reflective of adoption of Western dietary practices, fat-related dietary behaviour, changes in consumption of high-fat foods since immigration, and sociodemographic characteristics.ResultsAlthough this was a less-acculturated sample, many households had Western foods such as butter (58%), lunchmeats (36%), snack chips (43%), and 1% or skim milk (48%). Households with respondents who were younger, married, employed outside the home, and lived with young children had significantly more high-fat foods, while high education and longer percentage of life in North America were significantly associated with having more reduced-fat foods (P ≤ = 0.05). Participants living in households with more high-fat foods had higher-fat dietary behaviour than those with fewer high-fat foods (fat-related dietary behaviour score, 1.54 versus 1.28; P < 0.001). Women in households with more reduced-fat foods had a significantly decreased consumption of high-fat foods since immigration compared with those in households with fewer reduced-fat foods (P < 0.001). Western dietary acculturation was higher among women in households both with more high-fat foods and more reduced-fat food counterparts (P ≤ 0.05).ConclusionsOur inventory of household foods was strongly associated with current dietary behaviour, changes in food consumption, and westernization of dietary patterns. This simple, practical measure may be a useful alternative dietary assessment tool in less-acculturated Chinese populations.
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Massey, Douglas S. "America's Immigration Policy Fiasco: Learning from Past Mistakes." Daedalus 142, no. 3 (2013): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00215.
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In this essay I discuss how and why U.S. policies intended to stop Latin American immigration to the United States not only failed, but proved counterproductive by ultimately accelerating the rate of both documented and undocumented migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As a result, the Latino population grew much faster than demographers had originally projected and the undocumented population grew to an unprecedented size. Mass illegality is now the greatest barrier to the successful integration of Latinos, and a pathway to legalization represents a critical policy challenge. If U.S. policy-makers wish to avoid the failures of the past, they must shift from a goal of immigration suppression to one of immigration management within an increasingly integrated North American market.
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Marks, Amy K., John L. McKenna, and Cynthia Garcia Coll. "National Immigration Receiving Contexts." European Psychologist 23, no. 1 (2018): 6–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000311.
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Abstract. Extraordinary increases in refugee and voluntary migration have recently been observed in many European and North American countries. At the same time, negative attitudes toward immigrants and unfavorable immigration-related policy changes are promoting national climates of increased discrimination, fear of deportation, and experiences of income and education inequality among many immigrant origin youth and families. This paper considers how national receiving contexts, in particular the efficacy of national immigration integration policies and markers of national attitudes toward immigrants, can shape both native-born youth and immigrant and refugee youth well-being. Using an ecological framework, we draw from the recent empirical literature and three sources of international policy and child well-being data, to assess how national receiving contexts matter for native-born children and immigrant youth adaptation. Results indicate strong linkages among the macro-level contexts of multicultural policies and positive integration approaches with overall child well-being. More favorable immigrant national attitudes, and the more micro-level perceptions of discrimination and xenophobia, also matter tremendously for immigrant and refugee youth adaptation and health outcomes.
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Kraut, Alan M. "Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and American Efficiency, 1890–1924." Social Science History 12, no. 4 (1988): 377–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200016175.
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In a 1902 North American Review article, United States Commissioner General of Immigration Terence Powderly called for stricter health controls on arriving aliens. Powderly cautioned that unless “proper precautions” were taken to detect two contagious diseases—trachoma, an eye infection, and favus, a dermatological disease of the scalp—the future American might be “hairless and sightless.” He called upon Americans to refuse to allow their country to become “the hospital of the nations of the earth” (Powderly, 1902).
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "North-American immigration"
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Haydar, Maysan. "Immigration and the Forging of an American Islam." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595279435195722.
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Traister, Laura. "Immigration and Identity Translation: Characters in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake as Translators and Translated Beings." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/335.
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Bharati Mukherjee’s 1989 novel Jasmine and Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2003 novel The Namesake both feature immigrant protagonists, who experience name changes and identity transformations in the meeting space of Indian and American cultures. Using the theory of cultural translation to view translation as a metaphor for identity transformation, I argue that as these characters alter their identities to conform to cultural expectations, they act as both translators and translated texts. Although they struggle with the resistance of untranslatability via their inability to completely assimilate into American culture, Jasmine and Gogol ultimately gain the ability to bypass the limitations of a foreigner/native binary and enter a space of negotiation and growth.
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Ezquerra, Sandra 1976. "The Regulation of the South-North Transfer of Reproductive Labor: Filipino Women in Spain and the United States." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9017.
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xx, 471 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>This dissertation examines the experiences of Filipina migrant domestic and care workers and the role of the state in the Global South-Global North transfer of reproductive labor. On the one hand, Western countries currently face a "care void" resulting from women's entry in the workforce, aging populations, and limited state support, among other factors.
On the other hand, countries in the Global South have gone through decades of economic restructuring. This has resulted in the perpetuation of economic crisis, high unemployment rates, and massive out-migration. In the past two decades, these migration flows have become increasingly feminized. Women from the South move to semi-industrialized and industrialized countries and take jobs as domestic and care workers. Given this scenario, the overall question that guides my analysis is, how do states regulate the South-North transfer of reproductive labor? Particularly, how do the Philippine, Spanish, and U.S. governments shape this transfer through their migration and labor laws? How do Spain and the United States regulate the immigration and reproductive labor of Filipino women? And how do these two receiving countries of reproductive labor, resemble or differ from each other in all these tasks?
My goal is to contribute to a growing scholarship that studies government regulation of female migration. I do this by examining Filipinas' out-migration, their arrival in the United States and Spain, and their labor as care givers and domestic workers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Barcelona. Although work on the intersection of gender and the state is growing, there is a need to further analyze the gender factors, components, and consequences of the regulation of migrant labor in the Philippines, the United States and Spain.
The methods I use in this study include in-depth interviews with Filipino women, government employees and officials, and representatives from migrant workers' organizations, among other subjects, in the three countries. I also conduct participant observation in the three research sites and analyze multiple documents such as legislation, newspaper articles, and migrant workers' organizations newsletters.<br>Adviser: Linda Fuller
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Ray, Sarah Jaquette 1976. "The ecological other: Indians, invalids, and immigrants in U.S. environmental thought and literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10352.
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xi, 233 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>This dissertation argues that a fundamental paradox underlies U.S. environmentalism: even as it functions as a critique of dominant social and economic practices, environmentalism simultaneously reinforces many social hierarchies, especially with regard to race, immigration, and disability, despite its claims to recognize the interdependence of human and ecological well-being. This project addresses the related questions: In what ways does environmentalism--as a code of behavioral imperatives and as a set of rhetorical strategies--ironically play a role in the exploitation of land and communities? Along what lines--class, race, ability, gender, nationality, age, and even "sense of place"--do these environmental codes and discourses delineate good and bad environmental behavior?
I contend that environmentalism emerged in part to help legitimize U.S. imperial ambitions and support racialized and patriarchal conceptions of national identity. Concern about "the environment" made anxieties about communities of color more palatable than overt racism. Furthermore, "environmentalism's hidden attachments" to whiteness and Manifest Destiny historically aligned the movement with other repressive ideologies, such as eugenics and strict anti-immigration. These "hidden attachments" exist today, yet few have analyzed their contemporary implications, a gap this project fills.
In three chapters, I detail nineteenth-century environmentalism's influence on contemporary environmental thought. Each of these three illustrative chapters investigates a distinct category of environmentalism's "ecological others": Native Americans, people with disabilities, and undocumented immigrants. I argue that environmentalism defines these groups as "ecological others" because they are viewed as threats to nature and to the American national body politic. The first illustrative chapter analyzes Native American land claims in Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel, Almanac of the Dead . The second illustrative chapter examines the importance of the fit body in environmental literature and U.S. adventure culture. In the third illustrative chapter, I integrate literary analysis with geographical theories and methods to investigate national security, wilderness protection, and undocumented immigration in the borderland. In a concluding fourth chapter, I analyze works of members of the excluded groups discussed in the first three chapters to show how they transform mainstream environmentalism to bridge social justice and ecological concerns.
This dissertation contains previously published material.<br>Committee in charge: Shari Huhndorf, Chairperson, English;
Louise Westling, Member, English;
David Vazquez, Member, English;
Juanita Sundberg, Member, Not from U of 0
Susan Hardwick, Outside Member, Geography
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Rousseau, Bobb. "Haitian Votes Matter: Haitian Immigrants in Florida in Local Politics and Government." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5520.
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This qualitative study investigated perceived barriers to the incorporation of Haitian immigrants in Florida into local politics and government. The theoretical framework for this study was Marschall and Mikulska's theory of minority political incorporation to better understand the political ambition of Haitian immigrants to emerge as candidates and voters toward achieving electoral success and a substantive representation. The research question addressed the lived experiences and perceptions of Haitian immigrants related to barriers to their political mobilization at district, state, and federal levels. A phenomenological study design was used with open-ended interviews of 10 Haitian Americans who lived in Florida for at least 3 years. Data were analyzed through a six phase thematic analysis, were categorized into themes and subthemes and were later coded to determine which ones best expressed the challenges that Haitian immigrants were facing. Results indicated immigration statuses, language, and poor knowledge of Haitian immigrants of U.S. politics as well as poor leadership and the absence of a communication platform as factors hindering the incorporation of Haitian immigrants into local politics and governments. Haitian-American leaders could benefit from the results of this study as they may develop a cohesive framework for citizenship drives, voter registration, community outreach, and literacy programs. The positive social change implications from this research include the view that Haitian immigrants are not a burden on the U.S. economy, but a potentially mature and attractive minority group with political value to U.S. lawmakers, district, state and presidential candidates.
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Dias, Filho Ailton Gonçalves. "A imigração norte-americana e a implantação do protestantismo em Americana e Santa Bárbara d Oeste, SP." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2659.
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Previous issue date: 2011-08-29<br>Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie<br>The only moviment of North-American immigration happened between the years 1866 and 1890 to Brazil. After the civil war, a great number of families from the north of the US headed to Brazil looking for a new home. Some regions took those immigrants, creating the immigrant colonies. The colony that has succeeded and has developed the most was the once which has established itself in the region of Campinas, in the cities of Americana and Santa Bárbara d‟Oeste in the state of São Paulo. Those immigrants were mostly protestants. Their arrival has contributed to the development of the region in several aspects. Nobody can deny the fact that the presence of the American colony in the region has contributed abundantly with the introduction of machines and agricultural equipments to the racional and productive development of the existent crops. This presence has also contributed to the implantation and expansion of the Protestantism in the region.<br>O único movimento de imigração de norte-americanos aconteceu entre os anos de 1866 a 1890 para o Brasil. Após o fim da guerra da secessão, inúmeras famílias do sul dos Estados Unidos rumaram para o Brasil procurando um novo lar. Algumas regiões acolheram esses imigrantes, formando colônias de imigrantes. Contudo, a que logrou êxito e se desenvolveu foi a que se estabeleceu na região de Campinas, mas precisamente nas cidades de Americana e Santa Bárbara
d‟Oeste, no interior do Estado de São Paulo. Estes imigrantes eram quase todos de origem protestante. Sua chegada na região contribuiu para o desenvolvimento da região em vários aspectos. É fato incontestável que a presença da colônia americana na região contribuiu em muito com a introdução de máquinas e equipamentos agrícolas no desenvolvimento racional e produtivo das lavouras existentes. Esta presença contribuiu também com a implantação e expansão do protestantismo na região. Assim, a educação, a agricultura, o comércio, a indústria e a religião, vão receber a influência desta presença norte-americana.
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Ferreira, J?nior Tito Matias. "Entre fronteiras: a escrita imigrante de Julia Alvarez em How the Garc?a girls lost their Accents." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2014. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16335.
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Previous issue date: 2014-06-02<br>This master s thesis aims at investigating the way in which diasporic subjects in the novel
How the Garc?a Girls Lost their Accents (1992) cope with the clash of two cultures the
Caribbean one, from the Dominican Republic, and the North-American one, from the U.S., as
well as the implications of such negotiations in the lives of immigrants, once it apparently
depicts the plight of those who are torn between mother-lands and mother-tongues (IYER,
1993, 46). At the same time, the implications of such negotiations in the lives of immigrants
are relevant issues in the writing of Julia Alvarez. For this, there is the analysis of the uses of
family memories as one of the main strategies immigrant writers possess to recall their
identities. Moreover, this thesis will also consider the language issue for the construction of
the immigrant identity insofar as bilingualism is a key factor in the negotiation the Garc?a
girls must effect between their Caribbean and their American halves in order to understand
where they stand in the contemporary world. In order to build a theoretical framework that
supports this master s thesis, we list the works of Homi K. Bhabha (1990, 1996, 2003, 2005),
Stuart Hall (2001, 2003), Julia Kristeva (1994), Salman Rushdie (1990, 1994), Sonia Torres
(2001, 2003) among other contributions that were crucial to the completion of this academic
research<br>A presente disserta??o objetiva investigar a maneira em que sujeitos diasp?ricos ficcionais da
obra How the Garc?a Girls Lost their Accents (1992), de Julia Alvarez (1950 ), negociam o
embate entre duas culturas a caribenha, oriunda da Rep?blica Dominicana, no Caribe, e a
estadunidense, proveniente dos Estados Unidos da Am?rica, j? que aparentemente espelha a
dor daqueles que se encontram divididos entre terras natais e l?nguas maternas (IYER, 1993,
p. 46). As implica??es desta negocia??o na vida do imigrante s?o quest?es relevantes na
escrita de Alvarez. A autora leva em considera??o o uso das mem?rias da esfera familiar
como uma das estrat?gias essenciais empregadas por escritores imigrantes para rememorar
sua(s) identidade(s). A signific?ncia da escrita das reminisc?ncias do ?mbito familiar ?
observada como um meio de apresentar a coletividade da escrita imigrante e, mais importante,
como um meio que escritores imigrantes de diferentes lugares usam para se sentirem
conectados uns com os outros. Do mesmo modo, leva-se tamb?m em considera??o a quest?o
da l?ngua na constru??o da identidade imigrante para buscar entender onde as irm?s Garc?a se
posicionam no mundo contempor?neo, visto que o bilinguismo ? um fator chave na
negocia??o que agencia entre suas por??es caribenha e estadunidense. Dentre os autores
estudados, citamos Homi K. Bhabha (1990, 1996, 2003, 2005), Stuart Hall (2001, 2003), Julia
Kristeva (1994), Salman Rushdie (1990, 1994), Sonia Torres (2001, 2003) e outras
contribui??es que foram imprescind?veis para a finaliza??o desta pesquisa
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Deperne, Marcel. "La Belle Rivière dans l'espace atlantique, 1783-1815 : migrations commerciales francophones entre Pittsburgh (PA) et Henderson (KY)." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LAROF003.
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L’historiographie a souvent négligé la place occupée par les migrants francophones au sein de la jeune république américaine, se bornant à suivre l’itinéraire des exilés politiques les plus célèbres, bannis par la Révolution Française ou la Restauration, ou celui des utopistes rêvant d’instaurer une société nouvelle au Nouveau Monde. Au cœur de la Jeune Amérique confrontée à l’épineux problème de l’esclavage, à l’agonie des empires coloniaux et à la naissance de l’esprit d’entreprise et du capitalisme, ils furent nombreux à tenter la fortune outre atlantique entre 1783 et 1815, établissant dans le corridor créole de puissants liens commerciaux, culturels et religieux entre côte Est, Nouvelle-Orléans, Antilles et espace atlantique. Tel est l’objet de la présente réflexion qui emprunte la voie ouverte par l’histoire atlantique, et propose, en tirant parti de la correspondance et des ressources archivistiques, une écriture novatrice de l’histoire des migrations commerciales francophones entre Pittsburgh et Louisville à l’époque des révolutions atlantiques<br>Historiography often neglects the part of Francophone migrants in the young American republic, merely following the route of the most famous political exiles banished by the French Revolution and the Restoration, or the Utopians dreaming to establish a new society in the New World. In the Early Republic faced with the thorny problem of slavery, the agony of colonial empires and the birth of entrepreneurship and capitalism, many migrants tried fortune beyond the Atlantic Ocean, between 1783 and 1815, establishing in the “Creole corridor” powerful commercial, cultural and religious ties between east coast, New Orleans, West Indies and Atlantic space. This is the purpose of this discussion that borrows the path opened by the Atlantic history, and proposes, through the study of correspondence and archival resources, an innovative history of francophone business migrations from Pittsburgh to Louisville in the age of the Atlantic Revolutions
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Rang, Leah. "Bharati Mukherjee and the American Immigrant: Reimaging the Nation in a Global Context." 2010. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/655.
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With its focus on immigration to the United States and development of American identity, Bharati Mukherjee’s fiction eludes literary categorization. It engages with the various contexts of multiculturalism, postcolonialism, and globalization, yet Mukherjee adamantly positions herself as an American author writing American literature. In this essay, I investigate the intersections between Mukherjee’s focus on the American character, culture, and people and developing theories and critical debates on globalization. Through Mukherjee’s works, we can see American identity in a state of flux, made possible by the immigrant and the relationships established between the transnational individual and America. Mukherjee’s immigrant characters challenge and expose American mythology from the American Dream of individual achievement to the canonical literature of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, rewriting them to show how foundational the immigrant is to American culture. I trace Mukherjee’s redefinition of the American character in and through three successive novels – Wife, Jasmine, and The Holder of the World. In Wife, Mukherjee challenges America’s adoption of multiculturalism because she considers it a means of essentializing ethnicity and both maintaining and enhancing difference. This multiculturalism, as part of America’s assumed principles of acceptance, alienates the protagonist Dimple from her immigrant community and the larger American culture, resulting in her violent attempts to force her Americanization. Jasmine continues to work against multiculturalism by explicitly inserting the immigrant into the American mythos, reshaping the Western literary canon to include the transnational individual and to assert the immigrant foundations of American ideology. Mukherjee expands her focus in Holder of the World as her protagonist Hannah travels to England, India, and the bourgeoning United States, rewriting The Scarlet Letter to suggest that globalizing forces have been present throughout American cultural history, not just at the end of the 20th century when critical debates began to flourish. Through analysis of these novels, I argue that Mukherjee’s reformulation of American character reasserts American ideals by including and developing with the rise of globalization theory.
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(8722203), Ricardo Quintana Vallejo. "CHILDREN OF GLOBALIZATION: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS IN GERMANY, ENGLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES." Thesis, 2020.
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<p><i>Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States </i>is an exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels written in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Framed in the long tradition of <i>Bildungsroman </i>studies, this study illuminates the structural transformations that the coming-of-age genre has undergone in contemporary diasporic communities. <i>Children of Globalization</i> analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation migrant protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that these diasporic formative processes have for the tercentennial genre. While the most traditional iteration of the <i>Bildungsroman </i>genre follows male middle-class heroes who forge their identities in a process of complex introspection to become citizens and workers, contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels represent formative processes that fit into, resist, or even disregard, narratives of nationhood. Recent changes in the global genre are the direct consequence of the intricacies of the formative processes of culturally-hybrid protagonists who must negotiate their access into adulthood and citizenship, and puzzle over sexuality and gender identity, in host societies that at times regard them with contempt and distrust. The study spans three centuries as it traces both perennial and volatile elements of the genre through its contemporary state. In doing so, it identifies thematic and structural seeds which, planted through the centuries in varied locations, have bloomed into nuanced explorations of the self in an interconnected world where regional and national definitions of identity are increasingly contested and in flux.</p><p>In order to contextualize the genre and provide evidence of its enduring malleability, the study begins in Germany, tracing what I term Proto-<i>Bildungsromane, </i>long medieval narrative poems that follow the formative processes of knights and heroes in grandiose style. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s thirteenth-century poem <i>Parzival </i>and the coeval Gottfried von Straßburg’s <i>Die Geschichte der Liebe von Tristan und Isolde </i>ponder the development of the self but too heavily rely on destiny to be considered <i>Bildungsromane. </i>Still in Germany, I illustrate the fundamental characteristics of the genre in Wolfgang von Goethe’s <i>Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. </i>In order to showcase the flexibility of the genre, I analyze its early transformations in England in prominent works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and E. M. Forster. The last four chapters focus on the exciting development of Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in England, the United States, and Germany. Despite the stark differences between these societies and the particular cultural wealth of diasporic groups that have migrated there, the Diasporic Coming-of-age Novel has enabled sophisticated explorations of identity and belonging in all three countries. As the chapter summaries show, contemporary writers have used the Diasporic Coming-of-age Novel to untangle complicated formative processes, understand the expectations of their social environments, and achieve different levels of belonging and maturity.</p><p>With <i>Children of Globalization, </i>I seek to deepen our understanding of the exciting influence that contemporary diasporic movements have on the coming-of-age genre in particular and literary studies in general. Additionally, it is my hope that the exploration of Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels contributes to a capacious understanding of the important role of literature in the study of migration.</p>
Books on the topic "North-American immigration"
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Tilly, Charles. The weight of the past on North American immigration. University of Toronto, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, 1994.
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Cheetham, Janet H. Immigration practice and procedure under the North American Free Trade Agreement. 2nd ed. American Immigration Lawyers Association, 2001.
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The forerunners: Dutch Jewry in the North American diaspora. Wayne State University Press, 1994.
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Ahlburg, Dennis A. The north east passage: A study of Pacific islander migration to American Samoa and the United States. National Centre for Development Studies, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University, 1990.
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Parliament, Great Britain. Emigration: Papers relative to emigration to the North American colonies (in continuation of papers presented 17th June 1853). G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 2000.
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Great Britain. Colonial Office. Emigration (North American colonies): Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 25 July 1856, for " Copies or extracts of despatches relative to emigration to the North American colonies (in continuation of Parliamentary paper no. 464, of session 1855). HMSO, 2000.
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Great Britain. Colonial Office. Emigration (North American colonies): Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 17 April 1861 for " copies or extracts of despatches relative to emigration to the North American colonies, in continuation of Parliamentary Paper no. 606 of Session 1860". HMSO, 2001.
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Gilbert, Liette. "North American Anti-Immigration Rhetorics: Continental Circulation and Global Resonance of Discursive Integration." In The Impacts of NAFTA on North America. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230110007_4.
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Gill, Hannah. "Immigration in North Carolina’s Past." In The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Second Edition. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646411.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 recalls North Carolina’s four-hundred-year history of migration to the state. Immigrant populations from Europe and Africa provide a background for later Latin American immigration to North Carolina. Importantly, the chapter places North Carolina immigration history in a larger national context. U.S. policies have shaped who has migrated to North Carolina by dictating the inclusion and exclusion of immigrant groups throughout the nation’s history. Political and economic relations between the United States and Mexico have also created extensive migration networks between the two countries and have led to the formation of centuries-old Latino communities in border states that now look to North Carolina for new opportunities. In more recent years, Asian immigrants have settled in the state and represent one of the fastest growing demographic groups.
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Gerber, David A. "1. Unregulated immigration and its opponents, from colonial America to the mid-nineteenth century." In American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780197542422.003.0002.
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Colonial British North America was a melting pot for northern and western Europeans, with a majority white population from Great Britain. Colonial authorities encouraged immigration because of a need for labor. Immigration, both bonded and voluntary, supplemented the slave trade as a labor source. The same economic logic was present after the United States was founded in 1789, but, amid unregulated massive immigrations from northern and western Europe, suspicions based on race, nationality, and religion grew about the suitability of the immigrants for American citizenship, as did fears about their negative impact on American life. Thus, from the start, Americans looked in different directions when considering immigration. Immigrants were economically beneficial, yet too many of them were thought dangerous in variety of ways. In fear of immigrant political power, the American Party emerged in the 1850s, arguing unsuccessfully for extension of the period necessary for residence to become a citizen and vote.
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Gill, Hannah. "Bienvenidos a Norte Carolina." In The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina, Revised and Expanded Second Edition. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646411.003.0004.
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Chapter 3 takes up the story of contemporary Latin American immigration to North Carolina from the 1970s to the present. The chapter seeks to answer such questions as what Latin American migrant and refugee groups are currently moving to North Carolina and why? Where do they come from? What global and local factors precipitate and sustain migration to the state? How has immigration affected state and local economies? How do native North Carolinians play a role in these processes, and how do they perceive immigrants?
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Hsu, Madeline Y. "1. Empires and migration." In Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190219765.003.0001.
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The first Asians—Filipino “Luzon Indians” on a Spanish galleon—arrived on the North American continent in the late sixteenth century. Through periods of conquest and capitalism, and then colonization and adaptation, almost one million people from China, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, and India arrived seeking opportunities to better their fortunes and improve their lives. “Empires and migration,” outlines the key historical periods that facilitated this mobilization. It also explains that Asian immigration challenged the United States’ constitutional claims of equality for all, highlighting the question of which racial groups could claim citizenship, triggering America’s first attempts to systematically control its borders and limit the rights of immigrants and visitors.
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Willis, Andy. "The Cultural Politics of Remaking Spanish Horror Films in the Twenty-first Century: Quarantine and Come Out and Play." In Transnational Film Remakes. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407236.003.0004.
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The 21st century revival in Spanish horror film production has seen both a resurgence of interest in the genre’s Iberian past and an interest in transnational film remakes for North American audiences. This chapter will consider the cultural politics of remaking Spanish horror through two case studies - Quarantine (2008), the US remake of [REC] (2007), and Come Out and Play (2012), the Mexican remake of Who Can Kill a Child? (1976). The chapter argues that Who Can Kill a Child? might profitably be read as an engagement with the legacy of Francoist Spain, and that [REC] could be productively understood in relation to Spain’s recent tensions surrounding immigration. Through a discussion of the potential political readings of these films, the chapter argues that the North American remakes are divested of the most urgent political aspects of their Spanish counterparts in an endeavour to create globally marketable horror films.
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Geiger, Andrea. "Negotiating the Boundaries of Race, Caste, and Mibun." In Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies. University of Hawai'i Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824847586.003.0007.
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Cultural attitudes rooted in the Tokugawa-era status system (mibunsei) provided an interpretive framework for the race-based hostility Meiji-era Japanese encountered in the United States and Canada, informing the discursive strategies of Meiji diplomats who sought to refute the claims of anti-Japanese exclusionists by distinguishing Japanese labor migrants from themselves, aiding in the reproduction of Japanese as an excludable category when anti-Japanese elements turned their arguments against all Japanese. Concerns about social hierarchy and the significance of historical status categories (mibun), including cultural taboos associated with outcaste status, also mediated the responses of Meiji immigrants to conditions they encountered on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, including white racism and job opportunities. Japanese immigrant negotiations of race and identity in the North American West can be fully understood only by also considering mibun, in addition to more the familiar paradigms of race, class, and gender, in analyzing Meiji-era Japanese immigration history.
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Hoy, Benjamin. "Blood and Bones." In A Line of Blood and Dirt. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197528693.003.0008.
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By 1874, Canada and the United States had surveyed land and placed boundary stones over 6,000 kilometers of territory. They had established a cohesive skeleton for the border in every major region except the Arctic. Drawing on government correspondence, annual reports, and paylists, chapter 7 rebuilds the bureaucratic footprint of the Canada–US border at the end of the nineteenth century. It maps the positions and operations of the North-West Mounted Police and American soldiers as well as customs, immigration, and Indian Affairs personnel. In doing so, it shows how the border diverged across the East Coast, Great Lakes, Prairies, West Coast, and Artic, as well as differentiating the US approach to its border with Canada and Mexico.
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Yu, Timothy. "The Multicultural Cringe." In Diasporic Poetics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867654.003.0004.
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The category of the “Asian Australian” has emerged only in recent years, as the exclusionary “White Australia” policy gave way in the late-twentieth century to substantial waves of Asian immigration. Journals and anthologies from the mid-2000s onward have employed the idea of “Asian” identification with an eye on North American examples and shared history, but also with a discomfort with US-style “identity politics.” Ouyang Yu, among the first and best-known Asian Australian poets, is harshly critical of Australian multiculturalism, seeing it as a means of continuing to exclude non-white writers from Australian writing; remaining suspicious of any notion of belonging, his work instead presents itself as a kind of “invasion literature” that seeks to disrupt the English language.
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Keating, Ryan W. "Illinois and Mulligan’s Irish Brigade." In Shades of Green. Fordham University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823276592.003.0002.
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This chapter traces Irish immigration to Illinois and the formation of the 23<sup>rd</sup> Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Utilizing census data this chapter argues that settlement patterns and the socio-economic place of Irish immigrants in Illinois differed drastically from those in larger cities such as New York and Boston. As the nation was torn apart by war, Illinois’s Irish responded to Lincoln’s initial call for troops with enthusiasm, organizing into the 23<sup>rd</sup> Illinois. Enlistment patterns illustrate broad commitment to the war effort by Irish and Irish American volunteers from throughout Illinois and Michigan, and the early service of the regiment at the battle of Lexington, Missouri in the fall of 1861 reinforced, nationally, the notion of Irish loyalty to the Union and encouraged Irish enlistment in other states in the north.
Conference papers on the topic "North-American immigration"
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Mendelsohn, Julia, Ceren Budak, and David Jurgens. "Modeling Framing in Immigration Discourse on Social Media." In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.179.
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