Migration and the Rise of the United States: The Role of Old and New Diasporas

by Amba Pande (Editor), Camelia Tigau (Editor)

Overview

By bringing together eminent scholars, this book highlights the current scholarship in the field of migration, which tries to present a counter-narrative to the popular anti-immigrant rhetoric and the populist domestic politics of the US. There has been a growing global trend of alternative histories and anthropologies that brings forth the voices from the margins and the developing world. This volume, in that sense, without undermining the US's eminence, tries to deprovincialise (Burke, 2020) or deparochialise it from within or through the histories of the immigrants. In other words, it attempts to re-read the US's emergence as an important power with immigration as the site of analysis. It provides a comprehensive and in-depth theoretical and empirical discussion that will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399536899
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	10/31/2024
Series:	Edinburgh Studies on Diasporas and Transnationalism
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Amba Pande is associated with the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests include Indian Diaspora, International migration, Transnationalism and Gender/ women studies. She has been a visiting faculty/scholar at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), University of South Pacific (Fiji), and Otego University(New Zealand). Her research papers have appeared in journals such as Migration Letters, South Asian Diaspora, Internal Studies, Diaspora studies, Round Table and Strategic Analysis. Her edited volumes include Women in the Indian Diaspora: Historical Narratives and Contemporary Challenges (Springer, Singapore, 2018); Indentured and Post Indentured Experiences of the Women in Indian Diaspora (Springer Singapore, 2020); and co-edited Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture (Routledge UK). She is a regular reviewer for many international journals, books and book series published with Taylor and Francis, Sage, Cambridge, and Edinburgh UniversityPress. Dr Pande has received several fellowships and has conducted major projects on the Indian Diaspora in Fiji, Myanmar, and Southeast Asia. She has presented papers in around seventy-five international conferences and has been invited to as independent speakers and panel discussants. Dr Pande is a member of several diaspora organizations and is part of the editorial board of a number of journals. She is the founder co-editor of Migration and Diaspora: Interdisciplinary Journal.

Camelia Tigau is a full researcher at the Center for Research on North America, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Prof. Tigau teaches migration and international studies at the same university, at a graduate and undergraduate level. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences (2007) and a Masters in Communication (2004) from UNAM. She also studied journalism and communication at the University of Bucharest and the Schools of Journalism in Utrecht (Holland) and Aarhus (Denmark). She served as the Coordinator of the Area of Integration Studies of the CISAN (2020-2022). In 2022, she received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award for outstanding women scientists at UNAM. Camelia Tigau is a regional vice-president Global Research Forum on Diasporas and Transnationalism (GRFDT, India). She was a visiting researcher at the University of Toronto, (Global Migration Lab), Rice University(The Baker Institute for Public Policy) and the University of York, Canada. At present, she coordinates the collective research project ¨Diaspora Communication and Diplomacy. Perspectives From the Receiving contexts in the Americas, Europe and Asia¨, funded by the General Department of Academic Personnel (DGAPA, UNAM). She has published in the journals Migration and Development, Migration Letters, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy and Norteamérica, among others. Her last authored book is called Discriminación y privilegios de la migración calificada: el caso de los profesionistas mexicanos en Texas (Discrimination and privileges of skilled migration: the case of Mexican professionals in Texas), 2020, CISAN – UNAM. She also co-edited the volume Trump’s Legacy in Migration Policy and Postpandemic Challenges for Biden with Mónica Verea, CISAN/UNAM, 2022.

Table of Contents

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
Amba Pande, Camelia Tigau and Telésforo Ramírez

Part I. Old Diasporas (Pre-1965)

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

2. Immigrants as a Transnational Political Resource: The Case of American Jews
Kenneth D. Wald

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

4. Transnational Experience: The Armenian Diasporic Community in the US
Ani Yeremyan

5. The Labelling of Migrants and Diasporas in the US Media and Policy: A Historical Sketch
Camelia Tigau and Amba Pande

Part II. New Diasporas (post-1965)

Part IIa. Diasporas as Transnational Actors

6. The Naga Diaspora in the US: Integration and Transnationalisation
Ajailiu Niumai

7. The Indo-Caribbean American Contribution to the Growth and Development of the US and Transnational Linkage with Countries of Origin
Vishnu Bisram

8. West African Islam in the US: The Senegalese Murid Transnational Community
José Luis Gázquez Iglesias

9. Integrationist Acculturation: Experiences of Social Insertion of Professional Mexican Migrants in the US and their Contribution to American Multi-Culturalism
Laura Vázquez Maggio and Lilia Domínguez Villalobos　

Part 11b. Diasporas as Diplomatic and Cultural Actors

10. Civic and Political Engagement among Muslim and Arab Americans
Vera Eccarius-Kelly

11. Mexico City’s Diasporas in Chicago: An Approach From Urban and Trans-Local Diplomacy
Antonio Alejo

12. The Contribution of International Migration to the American Film industry
Alejandro Mercado Celis

13. The Contributions of Latinx Art to the Fight for Social Justice in the US
Maria Cristina Fernández Hall

Part III. Diasporas in US Politics

14. Chinese immigration in the US in the Post-Trump Era: Major Impacts and Trends
Yan Yuan

15. Moral Concerns: Immigrants who Reject Immigration in the US
Alejandro Mosqueda and Enrique Camacho Beltrán

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

Conclusion: An Everlasting Endowment: Insights From a Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Migration and Diasporas in the US
Amba Pande and Camilla Tigau

Index

Editorial Reviews

This book offers a wide window for a diversity of case studies to pour in and illuminate the most contested question in diaspora discourse - what have the older and newer generations of migrants given to the US? Writings by established and newer authors add a rare intergenerational flavour to the food for thought it serves.

Binod Khadria