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From:Nawa: journal of language and communication (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe paper explores the sophisticated and subtle nature of xenophobic chauvinism, xenophobic scapegoating and exclusion as represented in Zimbabwean literature, particularly post-independent short stories. The paper...
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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 212) Peer-ReviewedDuring the era of North America's Chinese Exclusion Acts and Head Taxes, Chinese, regardless of country of origin, found it difficult or expensive to enter North America and were denied citizenship in both the US and...
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From:Hebrew Studies (Vol. 51) Peer-ReviewedThis article focuses on descriptions of landscape in the literary output of poets who immigrated to the Land of Israel from Islamic lands. It shows how problems related to "the anguish of double roots" are reflected in...
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From:Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Vol. 37, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAtlantic Metropolis Atlantique (AMA) was established in January 2004 to promote research on issues of immigrant integration, population migration, and multicultural diversity within small cities and rural areas....
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 124, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSweden's immigration policy was imposed from above by the ruling class even though there was a demographic shift in the ratio of native-born to non-native born since World War II, and also a switch in the type of...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 22, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe first group of ethnic Czech immigrants to Texas arrived in 1851. (1) Other groups followed, but immigration was impeded by the American Civil War, and fewer than 800 foreign-born Czechs lived in Texas in 1870...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMobility has a long tradition on the European continent. Recent historical research shows migration as a "normal and structural element of human societies throughout history. (1) Among these people on the move were...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 80, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedCharles Laughton is said to have described his 1955 directorial debut, The Night of the Hunter, which was to be the only film he ever directed, as "a nightmarish sort of Mother Goose tale." The narrative of this...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 22, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlthough there is a longer history of Latino migration to the United States, in recent decades, individuals from across Central and South America and the Caribbean have been putting down new roots in the U. S. South at...
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From:American Jewish History (Vol. 100, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn mid-May of 1909, 18-year old Abraham Aker left his home in Samorz, Russia and headed west toward Germany. Once in Hamburg, he boarded the S.S. President Grant and set off for the United States. To historians, Aker's...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 316, Issue 9548)There's no mistaking the Front National's headquarters in the western Parisian suburb of Nanterre. Outside the entrance stands a martial statue of a Joan of Arc in full body armour. Inside there is a garish, gigantic...
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From:Journal of American and Canadian Studies (Issue 28) Peer-ReviewedRecent studies on migration tend to emphasize its "transnationality" and "internationality" due to the increasing number1 of international migrants and their1 communities along with the acceleration of globalization....
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From:Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political TheoryPeer-ReviewedThis article deals with the civic integration of migrants, focusing on the process immigrants undergo to become nationals of new states. Discussing some recent advances in immigration policies in European Union...
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From:German Politics and Society (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT While Ulrich Beck and Natan Sznaider advocate cosmopolitanism as a way of freeing ourselves from grand narratives and putting the subject back on the agenda of research, this article illustrates that such...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5996)I wonder, dear Alberto," wrote Pier Paolo Pasolini to Alberto Moravia in 1973, "whether this angry antifascism vented in the piazzas these days, when fascism is no more, isn't actually a weapon of distraction the ruling...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis introduction speaks to political struggle and transformation on the terrain of social reproduction, as presented by the contributors to this special edition of CLCWeb. The concerns of this special issue include...
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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 242) Peer-ReviewedIn their discussion of "The Cold War and Asian Canadian Writing," Christine Kim and Christopher Lee draw attention to "[a] significant moment in Canadian immigration history": the arrival in Canada of over sixty thousand...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5701)It is hard to imagine one of today's Cabinet ministers easing the retirement years with a retranslation of the Gospels; or writing poems in which Shakespearean allusion rubs against "Orphean magic"; or inserting Virgil...
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From:Southwestern American Literature (Vol. 43, Issue 2)I am an immigrant, though I have not always thought of myself as such. When I arrived to the U.S. I did not know that after twenty years I would s till be here. My first official status was as an international student....
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From:Estudios Irlandeses - Journal of Irish Studies (Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe limited critical attention given J.F. Powers (1917-99) has concentrated on his engagement with Catholicism. Powers also applies Irish American motifs to his fiction. This article analyzes the depiction that Powers...