Whitaker, Reg.:DOUBLE STANDARD: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CANADIAN IMMIGRATION.
- Taschenbuch 2018, ISBN: 9780886191726
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Oxford University Press, 2013. Hardcover. New. In the post-globalization world, many countries conceive special citizenship policies for emigrants and their descendants, their so called… Mehr…
Oxford University Press, 2013. Hardcover. New. In the post-globalization world, many countries conceive special citizenship policies for emigrants and their descendants, their so called diaspora. Migration, Citizenship, and Development examines the effects of countryof- origin citizenship on the Indian diaspora in the United States and return migrants in India. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it combines political concepts of state power and governance, sociological categorizations of behaviour and identity, and economic scholarship on remittances and development. This book explores how a legal status shapes national belonging and how citizenship policies in the country of origin influence naturalization and attachment to the country of residence. Naujoks analyses the effects of country-oforigin citizenship on diasporic actions, such as remittances, investment, philanthropy, political lobbying, and return migration. The book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of migration and development, political economy, sociology of law, immigrant integration, South Asian studies, and transnational studies. The work will also engage policymakers and journalists by throwing light on the complex interplay between individual and collective actions and the role of state policies and law. Printed Pages: 472., Oxford University Press, 2013, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2010. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang "See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage in the trunk, and took to the open highway. Chronicling this innately American ritual, Susan Rugh presents a cultural history of the American middle-class family vacation from 1945 to 1973, tracing its evolution from the establishment of this summer tradition to its decline. The first in-depth look at post-World War II family travel, Rugh's study recounts how postwar prosperity and mass consumptionÑabetted by paid vacation leave, car ownership, and the new interstate highway systemÑforged the ritual of the family road trip and how that ritual became entwined with what it meant to be an American. With each car a safe haven from the Cold War, vacations became a means of strengthening family bonds and educating children in parental values, national heritage, and citizenship. Rugh's history looks closely at specific types of trips, from adventures in the Wild West to camping vacations in national parks to summers at Catskill resorts. It also highlights changing patterns of family life, such as the relationship between work and play, the increase in the number of working women, and the generation gap of the sixties. Distinctively, Rugh also plumbs NAACP archives and travel guides marketed specifically to blacks to examine the racial boundaries of road trips in light of segregated public accommodations that forced many black families to sleep in carsÑa humiliation that helped spark the civil rights struggle. In addition, she explains how the experience of family camping predisposed baby boomers toward a strong environmental consciousness. Until the 1970s recession ended three decades of prosperity and the traditional nuclear family began to splinter, these family vacations were securely woven into the fabric of American life. Rugh's book allows readers to relive those wondrous wanderings across the American landscape and to better understand how they helped define an essential aspect of American culture. Notwithstanding the rueful memories of discomforts and squabbles in a crowded car, those were magical times for many of the nation's families. Susan Sessions Rugh is professor of history at Brigham Young University and author of Our Common Country: Family Farming, Culture, and Community in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. "Rugh's subject, perhaps best immortalized by the Griswold family in the film National Lampoon's Vacation, is the family road trip. . . . A valuable addition to the study of 20th-century popular culture and history."ÑLibrary Journal "Rugh treats this period of post-World War II innocenceÑor Cold War escapismÑwith a healthy revisionism minus any smudge of sepia sentimentality. . . . Smart and sensitive, well researched and no-nonsense, her ride is well worth taking."ÑThe Atlantic "A fascinating exploration of excursions from 1945 to the 1970s."ÑWashington Post "A captivating and provocative read. . . . Of particular interest is Rugh's argument that the family vacation represented a space for character building and patriotic affirmationÑsomething akin to reading Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis while cruising Route 66. One thing is certain: this book makes a convincing case for the centrality of the road to American culture."ÑAmerican Historical Review "Rugh's lively and enlightening book connects tourism to broader themes, including the history of consumption, consumer culture, civil rights, and family history. Perhaps its greatest contribution is its reconstruction of the experiences of African American tourists, which undercut any perceptions of tourism as a carefree adventure."ÑWestern Historical Quarterly "Rugh does an excellent job of contextualizing family vacations by explaining the factors that made them possible in a way that is both intuitive and intellectually satisfying. . . . Innovative and insightful."ÑJournal of American History "Accessible to the general reading public and of value to scholars, Rugh's book can also be readily incorporated into courses in history or American studies at both the undergraduate and graduate level."ÑTechnology and Culture "Superb! Filled with wonderful images, Rugh's study is exceptionally detailed, extremely well researched and subtly informed by theory rather than driven by it. A well-written and reader-friendly history of a familiar but fascinating subject. I can't wait to own this book!"ÑKaral Ann Marling, author of As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2010, Belknap Press, Cambridge: 2015. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation's seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and revolution created the first national, racially inclusive model of United States citizenship. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal immerses us in sailors' pursuit of safe passage through the ocean world during the turbulent age of revolution. Challenged by British press-gangs and French privateersmen, who considered them Britons and rejected their citizenship claims, American seamen demanded that the U.S. government take action to protect them. In response, federal leaders created a system of national identification documents for sailors and issued them to tens of thousands of mariners of all racesÑnearly a century before such credentials came into wider use. Citizenship for American sailors was strikingly ahead of its time: it marked the federal government's most extensive foray into defining the boundaries of national belonging until the Civil War era, and the government's most explicit recognition of black Americans' equal membership as well. This remarkable system succeeded in safeguarding seafarers, but it fell victim to rising racism and nativism after 1815. Not until the twentieth century would the United States again embrace such an inclusive vision of American nationhood., Belknap Press, Cambridge: 2015, Multilingual Matters, 2018. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. Risager analyzes a number of language textbooks with a special focus on their cultural representations, that is, their images of culture, society, and the world, including language as an integral part of culture and society. She distinguishes between five different theoretical approaches--national studies, citizenship education studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and transnational studies--and for each lists a number of analytical questions that may guide the analysis of any language textbook. The textbooks are of English, German, French, Spanish, Danish, and Esperanto. Distributed in the US by the National Book Network. (2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR), Multilingual Matters, 2018, Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1987. 348 pp, 9 1/4" H. "In 1986 Canada was awarded the United Nations' Nansen Prize, an award given to the country that best exemplifies compassion to refugees in its immigration policies. But has our immigration policy really been as compassionate as this honour suggests? (This) is the history of Canada's immigration policies from the time of the Second World War, through the troubled years of the Cold War, and into the present - from our notorious treatment of refugees from Hitler's Germany, throughour own McCarthy-like 'witch hunt' for undesirable immigrants, right up to the startling revelations made by the Dechenes commission. How is it possible that Canada admitted virtually an entire division of the Waffen-SS after the Second World War? Why do refugees from left-leaning countries find easier access to this country than do those from rightist regimes? In the light of the current debate over changes in our country's refugee and immigration policies, 'Double Standard' is particularly relevant and timely. It is both an engrossing and disturbing account of one aspect of our history, and an argument for ensuring that Canada maintains a just, fair, and humanitarian refugee policy in the future." Dust jacket has very minor edge wrinkling.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+., Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1987<
