Taking Root? Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Migrations
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 273
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This edited volume includes 17 chapters about immigration to and across the United States and elsewhere within a historical context. The book is divided into two sections: The United States Context and Outside the United States.
Included in the United States Context section is a chapter on the African American Great Migration from the south to the north and west, as well as a narrative within another chapter on the Indigenous Tribal Nations’ Trail of Tears where Tribes in the Southeast were forced to relocated to the west of the Mississippi because of the Federal Indian Removal Act in the early 19th century. Both are examples of internal migrations within the United States, frequently left out of books on migration and immigration.
In addition, in the Outside the United States section, there is a chapter on colonialism’s continuing influence on migrations and immigrations in the post-colonial world.
The book is geared towards undergraduate students to provide them with a comprehensive understanding of what migration and immigration are, reasons why people from all over the world move either within their own country or to another country, and how immigration policies vacillate between being more open or more restrictive, depending in large part on the economic and labor needs of the destination. The book also provides a clear understanding of the positive contributions migrants and immigrants make to their destination countries and addresses negative stereotypes. At the beginning of each substantive chapter is a concise list of key concepts covered.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Deirdre Oakley
Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Cosmopolitan Migrations: Theories over Time
Deirdre Oakley
The United States Context
Chapter 3 Back to the Past: Foundations of U.S. Immigration, Internal Migrations, and Detentions
Deirdre Oakley
Chapter 4 Confusing Immigration with the Border: Labor Needs and U.S. Immigration in Recent Decades
Ernesto Castañeda
Chapter 5 The Migrant Crime Myth
Maria Reyes
Chapter 6 The Migratory Ambitions & Experiences of Black Americans
Trovona Davis and James Fraser
Chapter 7 I am Black, but not African American: The Social Construction of Race and Ethnic Identities of African Immigrants
Rebecca M. Amin and Heying J. Zhan
Chapter 8 Who are South Asians, You Ask? Culture, Identity, and Diversity
Rafia J. Mallick
Chapter 9 From Small Town to the Most Diverse Square Mile in America: Refugee Resettlement and Socio-demographic Change in Clarkston, Georgia
Allen Hyde, Kera Allen, Shatakshee Dhongde
Chapter 10 Building Communities: Exploring the Interplay Between Immigration and Neighborhood Dynamics Grace Sementilli and Robert Adelman
Chapter 11 The Role of Immigrants in Shaping Identity and Gentrification in a Chicago Neighborhood
Brian Tuohy & Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker
Outside the United States
Chapter 12 Outside the United States: Migration, Borders, and the Role of Colonization
Deirdre Oakley
Chapter 13 Untangling Haiti in Historic Context
Deirdre Oakley
Chapter 14 Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities: The U.S. and China
Cathy Yang Liu and Rory Renzy
Chapter 15 Wandering in Taiwan: The Cultural Dynamics of Urban Migration among People Experiencing Homelessness
Scott R. Beck
Chapter 16 Queering Transnational Movement: Beyond Heteronormative Migration and Borders
Ryan Centner
Chapter 17 Conclusion
Deirdre Oakley
Dr. Deirdre Oakley is a sociology professor at Georgia State University, where she studies urban issues, housing, public policies, the built environment, and immigration. She has testified before Congress about Atlanta’s public housing demolition and collaborates on projects related to Atlanta’s infrastructure and its historical ties to segregation.