Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Anders, Guenter, Der Emigrant: Mit einem Nachwort von Florian Grosser. (C. H. Beck Paperback 6453) 96 S. 2021 (Beck, GW) <666-98>
ISBN 978-3-406-77666-3 paper ¥2,354.- (税込) EUR 10.00 *

"Kennzeichnend fuer uns ist nicht, dass unser Leben durch ein (unentrinnbares) Intermezzo eine Unterbrechung erfahren hat, sondern dass die Zerfaellung unseres Lebens in mehrere Leben endgueltig geworden ist; und das heisst, dass das zweite Leben im Winkel vom ersten absteht, und das dritte wieder vom zweiten, dass jedesmal eine "Wegbiegung" stattgefunden hat, eine Knickung, die den Rueckblick ? beinahe haette ich geschrieben: physisch ? unmoeglich macht." Guenther Anders Jede Emigration ist ein fundamentaler Bruch im Leben. Sie entwurzelt den Menschen, macht ihn sprachlos, einsam und unsichtbar. In schonungsloser Ehrlichkeit berichtet Guenther Anders von der Scham und Schande, die seine eigene Existenz als Gefluechteter mit sich gebracht hat. Sein fulminanter Essay wirft neues Licht auf die "moralische Hauptmisere" des 20. Jahrhunderts, behandelt zugleich das politische und gesellschaftliche Reizthema unserer Zeit ? und steht damit auf einer Stufe mit anderen Wiederentdeckungen, wie Hannah Arendts "Die Freiheit, frei zu sein", Theodor W. Adornos "Aspekte des neuen Rechtsradikalismus" oder George Orwells "Ueber Nationalismus".

Matthew, Dayna Bowen, Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America. 336 pp. 2022:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-753>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0266-1 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one's skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a person receives, and the disastrous health outcomes Americans suffer as a result of racism and an unjust healthcare system. Timely and accessible, Just Health examines how deep structural racism embedded in the fabric of American society leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial inequality pervades American society and the multitude of ways that this undermines the health of minority populations. The author provides a clear path forward for overcoming these massive barriers to health and ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to be healthy. She encourages health providers to take a leading role in the fight to dismantle the structural inequities their patients face. A compelling and essential read, Just Health helps us to understand how racial inequality damages the health of our minority communities and explains what we can do to fight back.

Yoon, Anderson Sungmin / Moon, Sung Seek et al. (eds.), Understanding Korean Americans' Mental Health: A Guide to Culturally Competent Practices, Program Developments, and Policies. (Korean Communities across the World) 408 pp. 2021:7 (Lexington Books, US) <666-770>
ISBN 978-1-79363-645-4 hard ¥29,968.- (税込) US$ 139.00 *

At nearly 1.9 million, the Korean American community is one of the major Asian ethnic subgroups in the United States. Though considered among one of the model minority groups, excelling academically and professionally, members in this community are plagued by unaddressed mental health obstacles. In Understanding Korean Americans' Mental Health: A Guide to Culturally Competent Practices, Program Developments, and Policies, the editors, Anderson Sungmin Yoon, Sung Seek Moon, and Haein Son, examine a variety of mental health issues in the Korean American community, including depression, anxiety, suicide, substance abuse, and trauma, and convincingly connect these challenges to cultural stigma and racial prejudice.The editors argue that this population and its mental health needs are, to varying degrees, neglected by current approaches in mainstream mental health services. Alarmingly, the very cultural values and attitudes that help make up the Korean American community are contributing to its members' reluctance to seek care, counting both familial and communal shame among the most pressing culprits. This book supports these claims with statistical realities and seeks to gather the relatively scarce research that does exist on this topic to underscore the heightened prevalence of mental health issues and related symptoms among Korean Americans, and the contributors make recommendations for more culturally competent practices, program developments, and policies.

Power, Maddy, Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain: An Inequality of Power. 160 pp. 2022:3 (Policy Pr., UK) <666-777>
ISBN 978-1-4473-5854-1 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food poverty debates. It argues that the food aid industry is infused with neoliberal governmentality and shows how food charity upholds Christian ideals and white privilege, maintaining inequalities of class, race, religion and gender. However, it also reveals a sector that is immensely varied, embodying both individualism and mutual aid. Drawing upon lived experiences, it documents how food sharing amid poverty fosters solidarity and gives rise to alternative modes of food redistribution among communities. By harnessing these alternative ways of being, food aid and communities can be part of movements for economic and racial justice.

Crepaz, Markus M. L. (ed.), Handbook on Migration and Welfare. (Elgar Handbooks in Migration) 552 pp. 2022:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-677>
ISBN 978-1-83910-456-5 hard ¥62,108.- (税込) GB￡ 218.00 *

Bringing together prominent scholars in the field, this Handbook provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the complex interrelationship between migration and welfare. Chapters explore the extent to which immigration policy affects - and is affected by - welfare states, from both economic and political perspectives. This Handbook also examines the effects of emigration on sending societies, exploring issues such as the impact of remittances, diasporas, and skill deterioration as a result of human capital flight on capacity building and on economic and political development more generally. Contributors draw on both qualitative and quantitative research to illuminate the contours and patterns of this complex relationship. This includes the assumed tension-reducing role of multiculturalist and integration policies, the shaping of native beliefs about migrants by socio-economic constraints and the potential for the extension of social rights to migrants to influence and increase pro-redistributive attitudes. Investigating the drivers of welfare chauvinism and its effects on social trust between native and immigrant groups, the Handbook also provides insights into the latest theoretical and empirical findings regarding the progressive's dilemma, one of the most formidable policy challenges leaders of modern societies face. Breaking new theoretical and empirical ground, this cutting-edge Handbook is essential reading for academics, researchers and students in political science, economics, sociology, social policy and political philosophy, particularly those focused on global migration and changing attitudes to welfare. It will also benefit policymakers looking for new data and pioneering perspectives on immigration policy and the future of welfare states in a changing world economy.

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Strunk, Kamden K. / Shelton, Stephanie Anne (eds.), Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education. (Critical Understanding in Education 4) 680 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-7>
ISBN 978-90-04-50671-8 hard ¥51,788.- (税込) EUR 220.00

Queer studies is an extensive field that spans a range of disciplines. This volume focuses on education and educational research and examines and expounds upon queer studies particular to education fields. It works to examine concepts, theories, and methods related to queer studies across PK-12, higher education, adult education, and informal learning. The volume takes an intentionally intersectional approach, with particular attention to the intersections of white supremacist cisheteropatriachy. It includes well-established concepts with accessible and entry-level explanations, as well as emerging and cutting-edge concepts in the field. It is designed to be used by those new to queer studies as well as those with established expertise in the field.

Bijak, Jakub, Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography: Agency, Complexity and Uncertainty in Migration Studies. (Methodos Series 17) 390 pp. 2021:10 (Springer, GW) <666-611>
ISBN 978-3-030-83038-0 hard ¥11,766.- (税込) EUR 49.99
ISBN 978-3-030-83041-0 paper ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration ? one of the most uncertain population processes and a top-priority policy area. The book discusses in detail the process of building a simulation model of migration, based on a population of intelligent, cognitive agents, their networks and institutions, all interacting with one another. The proposed model-based approach integrates behavioural and social theory with formal modelling, by embedding the interdisciplinary modelling process within a wider inductive framework based on the Bayesian statistical reasoning. Principles of uncertainty quantification are used to devise innovative computer-based simulations, and to learn about modelling the simulated individuals and the way they make decisions. The identified knowledge gaps are subsequently filled with information from bespoke laboratory experiments on cognitive aspects of human decision-making under uncertainty. In this way, the models are built iteratively, from the bottom up, filling an important epistemological gap in migration studies, and social sciences more broadly.

Ghosh, Bimal, The 2018 Global Migration Compact: A Major Breakthrough or an Opportunity Lost or Both? 90 pp. 2021:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-647>
ISBN 978-3-030-82862-2 hard ¥14,120.- (税込) EUR 59.99

This book analyses the 2018 Global Compact for Migration and the need for a multilateral agreement. The constraints and challenges of these kinds of agreements are discussed, with particular attention given to variations in labour needs and interests. A background history on migration multilateral agreements is provided, from 1927 onwards, to give context to the recent negotiations. The limitations of the 2018 deal, including the failure to set out the consequences of forced migration, the lack of clear recognition of migration as a global process, and absence of responsibility sharing arrangement, are also discussed. This book aims to highlight how the 2018 Compact for Migration can be built upon in the future to create harmony within global migration. It will be relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in migration and labour economics.

Watson, Tara / Thompson, Kalee, The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear. 304 pp. 2021:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-488>
ISBN 978-0-226-27022-7 hard ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, contentious topics in American politics. And for decades, urgent calls for its policy reform have gone mostly unanswered. As the discord surrounding the modern immigration debate has intensified, border enforcement has tightened. Crossing harsher, less porous borders makes unauthorized entry to the United States a permanent, costly undertaking. And the challenges don't end on the other side. At once enlightening and devastating, The Border Within examines the costs and ends of America's interior enforcement-the policies and agencies, including ICE, aimed at removing immigrants already living in the country. Economist Tara Watson and journalist Kalee Thompson pair rigorous analysis with deeply personal stories from immigrants and their families to assess immigration's effects on every aspect of American life, from the labor force to social welfare programs to tax revenue. What emerges is a critical, utterly complete examination of what non-native Americans bring to the country, including immigration's tendency to elevate the wages and skills of those who are native-born.

Loladze, Nika, Migratory Movements of Georgia's Greek Community: The Impact of Current Socio-economic Transformations. (Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen: Identitaeten und Zugehoerigkeiten / Linguistic Construction of Social Boundaries: Identities and Belonging 8) 142 pp. 2021:8 (P. Lang, SZ) <666-494>
ISBN 978-3-631-84726-8 hard ¥12,084.- (税込) SFR 48.40

This book investigates the interaction between complex transformational socio-economic processes, migratory vectors, and the role of ethnic belonging. It outlines the hitherto unexamined determining factors of the mass emigration of the Pontic and Urum Greeks of Georgia. The author addresses the following questions: How, if at all, did ethnic affiliation influence the decision-making process to emigrate? Therefore, should this migration be considered as a "repatriation" process, or should it rather be analyzed in the context of labor migration? The study triangulates qualitative and quantitative analyses of 47 interviews, spatial analysis, as well as materials on Georgia's and the destination countries' socioeconomic realities. This enables a clear understanding of the circumstances that stimulate emigration, the routes, and the experience of living abroad.

Reinke, Jens, Mapping Modern Mahayana: Chinese Buddhism and Migration in the Age of Global Modernity. (Dialectics of the Global 11) 300 S. 2021:4 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-393>
ISBN 978-3-11-068998-3 hard ¥16,465.- (税込) EUR 69.95 *

The book presents a multi-sited ethnography on the Taiwanese Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan. By considering spatial approaches to the research of modern Chinese religiosities, it adds to the study of modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism, while also aiming to contribute to a broader understanding of how religious border-crossings and transnational mobilities shape the revival of religion under today’s global condition.

Hinojosa, Felipe / Elmore, Maggie / Gonzalez, S. M. (eds.), Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945. 352 pp. 2022:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-334>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0451-1 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-0452-8 paper ¥7,977.- (税込) US$ 37.00 *

Illuminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community building Too often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the post-World War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies, de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on religious movements and how the religious movements in turn helped to shape larger political currents, the volume offers a compelling look at the twentieth-century struggle for justice.

Floyd-Thomas, Stacey M., Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic. With a forward by M. E. Dyson. (Religion and Social Transformation) 320 pp. 2022:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-311>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1019-2 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-1022-2 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Examines how the dynamics emerging from the pandemic affect our most vulnerable populations and shape a new religious landscape The COVID-19 pandemic upset virtually every facet of society and, in many cases, exposed gross inequality and dysfunction. The particular dynamics emerging from the coronavirus pandemic have been felt most intensely by America's most vulnerable populations, who are disproportionately people of color and the working poor, the people whom the Bible refers to as "the least of these." This book makes the case that the pandemic was not just a medical phenomenon, or an economic or social one, but also a religious one. Religious practice has been altered in profound ways. Controversies around religious freedom have been re-ignited over debates concerning whether government can restrict church services. Christian white supremacists not only defied shelter in place orders, but found new ways to propagate racist attacks, with their White Christian identity fueling their reactions to the pandemic. Some religious leaders, including those in communities of color, saw the virus as an indicator of God's wrath, or as a divine test, and viewed altering their traditional practices to mitigate the virus's spread as a weakening of faith. Religion, Race, and COVID-19 argues that there is a religious hierarchy in US society that puts "the least of these" last while prioritizing those who benefit most from white privilege. Yet these vulnerable populations draw on theological and religious resources to contend with these existential threats. The volume shows how social transformation occurs when faith is both formed and informed during crises, offering compelling insight into the saliency and lasting impact of religiosity within human culture.

Gault, Erika D., Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip Hop. (Religion and Social Transformation) 336 pp. 2022:1 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-318>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0581-5 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-0582-2 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church They stand at the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement, push the boundaries of the Black Church through online expression of Christian hip hop, and redefine what it means to be young, Black, and Christian in America. Young Black adults represent the future of African American religiosity, yet little is known regarding their religious lives beyond the Black Church. Networking the Black Church explores how deeply embedded digital technology is in the lives of young Black Christians, offering a first-of-its-kind digital-hip hop ethnography. Erika D. Gault argues that a new religious ethos has emerged among young adult Blacks in America. To understand Black Christianity today it is not enough to look at the traditional Black Church. The Black Church is itself being changed by what she calls digital Black Christians. The volume examines the ways in which Christian hip hop artists who have adopted Black-preaching-inspired spoken word performances create alternate kinds of Christian communities both inside and outside the walls of traditional Black churches. Framed around interviews with prominent Black Christian hip hop artists, it explores the multiple ways that digital Black Christians construct religious identity and meaning through video-sharing and social media. In the process, these digital Black Christians are changing Black churches as institutions, transforming modes of religious activism, inventing new communication practices around evangelism and Christian identity, and streamlining the accessibility of Black Church cultural practices in popular culture. Erika D. Gault provides a fascinating portrait of young Black faith, illuminating how the relationship between religion and digital media is changing the lived experiences of a new generation of Black Christians.

Edwards, Korie Little / Oyakawa, Michelle, Smart Suits, Tattered Boots: Black Ministers Mobilizing the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century. 208 pp. 2022:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-305>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0892-2 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-1253-0 paper ¥6,036.- (税込) US$ 28.00 *

Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play-or don't play-in twenty-first-century racial justice efforts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with many of his Black religious contemporaries courageously mobilized for freedom, ushering in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Their efforts laid the groundwork for some of the greatest legislative changes in American history. Today, however, there is relatively limited mass mobilization led by Black religious leaders against systemic racism and racial inequality. Why don't we see more Black religious leadership in today's civil rights movements, such as Black Lives Matter? Drawing on fifty-four in-depth interviews with Black religious leaders and civic leaders in Ohio, Korie Litte Edwards and Michelle Oyakawa uncover several reasons, including a move away from engagement with independent Black-led civic groups toward white-controlled faith-based organizations, religious leaders' nostalgia for and personal links to the legacy of the civil rights movement, the challenges of organizing around race-based oppression in an allegedly post-racial world, and the hierarchical structure of the Black religious leadership network, which may impede ministers' work towards collective activism. Black clergy continue to care deeply about social justice and racial oppression. This book offers important insights into how they approach these issues today, illuminating the social processes that impact when, how, and why they participate in civic action in twenty-first-century America. It reveals the structure and limitations of the Black religious-leader community and its capacity for broad-based mobilization in the post-civil rights era.

el-Aswad, el-Sayed, Countering Islamophobia in North America: A Quality-of-Life Approach. (Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making) 227 pp. 2021:12 (Springer, GW) <666-306>
ISBN 978-3-030-84672-5 hard ¥14,120.- (税込) EUR 59.99 *

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America. Dealing with an important and urgent issue of human rights, it explores how public policies, new conceptualizations, and social movements can transform Islamophobia into a positive and healthy discourse. Surprisingly, and apart from selected media studies, empirical investigations about countering xenophobia and hate are rare. The book proposes effective means and mechanisms to help generate debate, dialogue, and discussion concerning policy issues to mitigate Islamophobia. Written in uncomplicated language, this topical book will attract specialist and non-specialist readers interested in the topic of Islamophobia, understanding the roots of Islamophobic hate rhetoric, and how to counter it.

Curtis, Edward E., IV, Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest. 256 pp. 2022:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-288>
ISBN 978-1-4798-1256-1 hard ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Uncovers the surprising history of Muslim life in the early American Midwest The American Midwest is often thought of as uniformly white, and shaped exclusively by Christian values. However, this view of the region as an unvarying landscape fails to consider a significant community at its very heart. Muslims of the Heartland uncovers the long history of Muslims in a part of the country where many readers would not expect to find them. Edward E. Curtis IV, a descendant of Syrian Midwesterners, vividly portrays the intrepid men and women who busted sod on the short-grass prairies of the Dakotas, peddled needles and lace on the streets of Cedar Rapids, and worked in the railroad car factories of Michigan City. This intimate portrait follows the stories of individuals such as farmer Mary Juma, pacifist Kassem Rameden, poet Aliya Hassen, and bookmaker Kamel Osman from the early 1900s through World War I, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and World War II. Its story-driven approach places Syrian Americans at the center of key American institutions like the assembly line, the family farm, the dance hall, and the public school, showing how the first two generations of Midwestern Syrians created a life that was Arab, Muslim, and American, all at the same time. Muslims of the Heartland recreates what the Syrian Muslim Midwest looked, sounded, felt, and smelled like-from the allspice-seasoned lamb and rice shared in mosque basements to the sound of the trains on the Rock Island Line rolling past the dry goods store. It recovers a multicultural history of the American Midwest that cannot be ignored.

Curtis, Jesse, The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era. 320 pp. 2021:11 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-289>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0937-0 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-0938-7 paper ¥7,330.- (税込) US$ 34.00 *

Reveals how Christian colorblindness expanded white evangelicalism and excluded Black evangelicals In the decades after the civil rights movement, white Americans turned to an ideology of colorblindness. Personal kindness, not systemic reform, seemed to be the way to solve racial problems. In those same decades, a religious movement known as evangelicalism captured the nation's attention and became a powerful political force. In The Myth of Colorblind Christians, Jesse Curtis shows how white evangelicals' efforts to grow their own institutions created an evangelical form of whiteness, infusing the politics of colorblindness with sacred fervor. Curtis argues that white evangelicals deployed a Christian brand of colorblindness to protect new investments in whiteness. While black evangelicals used the rhetoric of Christian unity to challenge racism, white evangelicals repurposed this language to silence their black counterparts and retain power, arguing that all were equal in Christ and that Christians should not talk about race. As white evangelicals portrayed movements for racial justice as threats to Christian unity and presented their own racial commitments as fidelity to the gospel, they made Christian colorblindness into a key pillar of America's religio-racial hierarchy. In the process, they anchored their own identities and shaped the very meaning of whiteness in American society. At once compelling and timely, The Myth of Colorblind Christians exposes how white evangelical communities avoided antiracist action and continue to thrive today.

Hsy, Jonathan, Antiracist Medievalisms: From "Yellow Peril" to Black Lives Matter. (Arc Medievalist) 170 pp. 2021:4 (Arc Humanities Pr., UK) <666-2683>
ISBN 978-1-64189-314-5 hard ¥29,629.- (税込) GB￡ 104.00 *

Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth / Sniderman, Paul M., The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Minorities and the Democratic Ethos. 216 pp. 2021:12 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-2685>
ISBN 978-0-226-80724-9 hard ¥22,206.- (税込) US$ 103.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-80741-6 paper ¥7,114.- (税込) US$ 33.00 *

The politics of inclusion is about more than hate, exclusion, and discrimination. It is a window into the moral character of contemporary liberal democracies. The Struggle for Inclusion introduces a new method to the study of public opinion: to probe, step by step, how far non-Muslim majorities are willing to be inclusive, where they draw the line, and why they draw it there and not elsewhere. Those committed to liberal democratic values and their concerns are the focus, not those advocating exclusion and intolerance. Notwithstanding the turbulence and violence of the last decade over issues of immigration and of Muslims in the West, the results of this study demonstrate that the largest number of citizens in contemporary liberal democracies are more open to inclusion of Muslims than has been recognized. Not less important, the book reveals limits on inclusion that follow from the friction between liberal democratic values. This pioneering work thus brings to light both pathways to progress and polarization traps.

Jackson, Vanessa P. / Holland, Jacqueline M. et al. (eds.), African Americans in the Human Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities. 316 pp. 2021:7 (Lexington Books, US) <666-2686>
ISBN 978-1-79364-894-5 hard ¥28,674.- (税込) US$ 133.00 *

This book explores the role and experience of African American women scholars and educators in the field of human, family, and consumer sciences. Its five sections cover careers in education, the role of historically Black colleges and universities, opportunities and challenges brought about by the internationalization of the field, opportunities for new careers paths in the human sciences, and the current and future role of technology. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds with experiences in research, teaching, outreach, and service. Taken together, the essays capture the vitality and diversity of knowledge that has, over time, assisted in transforming the field.

帰還移民ハンドブック
King, Russell / Kuschminder, Katie (eds.), Handbook of Return Migration. (Elgar Handbooks in Migration) 392 pp. 2022:1 (E. Elgar, UK) <666-2692>
ISBN 978-1-83910-004-8 hard ¥53,276.- (税込) GB￡ 187.00 *

This authoritative Handbook provides an interdisciplinary appraisal of the field of return migration, advancing concepts and theories and setting an agenda for new debates. Structured into four parts, the Handbook maps the contemporary field of return migration, examining the effects and politicisation of return migration, before moving on to explore the theme of reintegration and the impact of return migration on development in the migrants' countries of origin. Taking an intersectional approach, expert contributors delve into the economics of return migration, deportation, the psychological wellbeing of migrants, student mobility and second-generation 'return' migration. The Handbook opens up new avenues for research, including new theories and conceptualisations of return migration, and articulates key issues that should be considered, both for research and for policy and practice. This Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students interested in migration and human rights. Its use of empirical examples and case studies will also be beneficial for policy-makers seeking an insight into the current issues in return migration.

Krim, Jessica S. / Hernandez, Jennifer M., Decolonizing the Classroom: Confronting White Supremacy in Teacher Education. 106 pp. 2021:6 (Lexington Books, US) <666-2694>
ISBN 978-1-79360-766-9 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *

Sixty-seven years after Brown V. Board of Education, public education is more segregated and entrenched in white supremacy than in the Jim Crow Era of this nation. The authors argue that an equitable education begins when we remove white supremacy from our teacher preparation programs. This book analyzes the multiple ways in which educator preparation programs continue to center whiteness and white supremacy. Innovative and affective practices are offered by the authors to enhance our educator preparation programs to center the lived experiences of students with marginalized identities in order to create a high-quality, equitable, educational experience.

Lane, Monique, Engendering #BlackGirlJoy: How to Cultivate Empowered Identities and Educational Persistence in Struggling Schools. (Urban Girls 1) 208 pp. 2021:8 (P. Lang, SZ) <666-2695>
ISBN 978-1-4331-5879-7 hard ¥30,350.- (税込) SFR 121.55
ISBN 978-1-4331-5878-0 paper ¥10,487.- (税込) SFR 42.00

We are living in historic times and negotiating multiple national crises. The confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic and unrelenting state-sanctioned murders of Black people has disproportionately impacted our women and girls at the intersections of employment, citizenship, housing, healthcare, and motherhood statuses. As many individuals rally for liberation on the frontlines, how might educational institutions intervene as sources of respite and reparation? Historically, racialized sexism in U.S. schools has manifested uniquely for Black girl-identified adolescents (including cisgender, queer, and transgender youth). These learners face heightened exposure to malicious discourses and exclusionary disciplinary policies. Engendering #BlackGirlJoy identifies the teaching practices that equip young Black women to locate, analyze, heal from, and ultimately thrive through the suffering they face inside and outside of schools. The book is rooted in the author's experience as a South Los Angeles high school teacher working at her alma mater, trying to cultivate the life-affirming education that she desired as a child. Centering her students' perspectives, Monique Lane outlines a Black feminist pedagogical framework that inspired bountiful #BlackGirlJoy in one embattled public school. This text is a heartfelt offering to educators committed to taking courageous and innovative action-in solidarity with Black girl learners-toward the betterment of their lives!

Lee, Valerie, Sisterlocking Discoarse: Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy. (SUNY series, Critical Race Studies in Education / SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) 180 pp. 2021:11 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-2697>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8585-0 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4384-8584-3 paper ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

Lentin, Ronit / Nedeljkovic, Vukasin, Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland's Asylum Industrial Complex. (Challenging Migration Studies) 200 pp. 2021:7 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <666-2698>
ISBN 978-1-78661-252-6 hard ¥25,225.- (税込) US$ 117.00 *

This book presents the for-profit Direct Provision asylum system in the Republic of Ireland describing and theorizing the remote asylum centres throughout the country as a disavowed incarceration system, operated by private companies and hidden from public view. The book combines historical and geographical analysis of the Direct Provision system with a theoretical analysis of the disavowal of the system by state and society and with a visual autoethnography via one of the authors' Asylum Archive and asylum diary, both acting as a first-person narrative of the experience of living in Direct Provision. The book argues that asylum seekers, far from being mere victims of their experiences in Direct Provision are active agents of change and resistance, and theorizes the Asylum Archive project as an archive of silenced lives that brings into public view the hidden experiences of the asylum seekers living in the Direct Provision system.

Lewkowicz, Bea / Grenville, Anthony, Emigre Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria. (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 21) 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-2699>
ISBN 978-90-04-46907-5 paper ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00 *

In Emigre Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s. Many of the interviewees rose to great prominence in their chosen career, such as the author and illustrator Judith Kerr, the actor Andrew Sachs, the photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, the violinist Norbert Brainin, and the publisher Elly Miller. The narratives of the interviewees tell of their common struggles as child or young adult refugees who had to forge new lives in a foreign country and they illuminate how each interviewee dealt with the challenges of forced emigration and the Holocaust. The voices of the twelve interviewees provide the reader with a unique and original source, which gives direct access to the lived multifaceted experience of the interviewees and their contributions to British culture.

Liden, Gustav / Nyhlen, Jon, Local Migration Policy: Governance Structures and Policy Output in Swedish Municipalities. 391 pp. 2022 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2700>
ISBN 978-3-030-83292-6 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book examines local migration policy in Sweden in light of the European migrant crisis. The novel approach of this volume covers both local governments’ policies on admission of immigrants and their efforts for enhancing social integration. The focus is on the division of responsibilities between political levels, examined through theories encompassing both governance structures and output and outcomes of policy. Sweden is a rare example where migration policy has undergone massive changes in the last decade. During the crisis, the country received some of the largest flows of immigrants in relation to its population compared with other European countries. Drawing from statistical material, case studies and a rich body of interviews, this innovative work provides a valuable resource that aspires to investigate the significance of the local level of government in migration policy. The objective is to reach general conclusions that go beyond the realms of the empirical focus.

Marnell, John, Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration. 288 pp. 2021:9 (Wits U. Pr., SA) <666-2705>
ISBN 978-1-77614-711-3 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-77614-710-6 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Meer, Nasar, The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice. (21st Century Standpoints) 184 pp. 2022:3 (Policy Pr., UK) <666-2708>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6302-6 paper ¥4,270.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99 *

What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial justice has long been linked to a 'cruel optimism' which normalises social and political outcomes that sustain racial injustice, despite successive governments wielding the means to address it. Researchers, activists and minoritised groups continually identify the drivers of these outcomes, but have grown accustomed to persevering despite strong resistance to change. Looking at numerous examples across anti-racist movements and key developments in nationhood/nationalism, institutional racism, migration, white supremacy and the disparities of COVID-19, Nasar Meer argues for the need to move on from perpetual crisis in racial justice to a turning point that might herald a change to deep-seated systems of racism.

Mills, Melinda A., The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships. 320 pp. 2021:12 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-2709>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0240-1 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-0241-8 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love In the United States, more than seven million people claim to be multiracial, or have racially mixed heritage, parentage, or ancestry. In The Colors of Love, Melinda A. Mills explores how multiracial people navigate their complex-and often misunderstood-identities in romantic relationships. Drawing on sixty interviews with multiracial people in interracial relationships, Mills explores how people define and assert their racial identities both on their own and with their partners. She shows us how similarities and differences in identity, skin color, and racial composition shape how multiracial people choose, experience, and navigate love. Mills highlights the unexpected ways in which multiracial individuals choose to both support and subvert the borders of race as individuals and as romantic partners. The Colors of Love broadens our understanding about race and love in the twenty-first century.

Nesbitt, George B., Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life. Ed. by P. Nesbitt et al. 360 pp. 2021:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-2711>
ISBN 978-0-226-78312-3 hard ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In his newly uncovered memoir-written fifty years ago, yet never published-he chronicles in vivid and captivating detail the story of how his upwardly-mobile Midwestern Black family lived through the tumultuous twentieth century. Spanning three generations, Nesbitt's tale starts in 1906 with the Great Migration and ends with the Freedom Struggle in the 1960s. He describes his parents' journey out of the South, his struggle against racist military authorities in World War II, the promise and peril of Cold War America, the educational and professional accomplishments he strove for and achieved, the lost faith in integration, and, despite every hardship, the unwavering commitment by three generations of Black Americans to fight for a better world. Through all of it-with his sharp insights, nuance, and often humor-we see a family striving to lift themselves up in a country that is working to hold them down. Nesbitt's memoir includes two insightful forewords: one by John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (1911-90), a pioneer in the study of African American life, the other a contemporary rumination by noted Black studies scholar Imani Perry. A rare first-person, long-form narrative about Black life in the twentieth century, Being Somebody and Black Besides is a remarkable literary-historical time capsule that will delight modern readers.

Norlund Shaswar, Annika / Rosen, Jenny (eds.), Literacies in the Age of Mobility: Literacy Practices of Adult and Adolescent Migrants. 265 pp. 2022:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <666-2712>
ISBN 978-3-030-83316-9 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This edited book brings together research on literacy practices of adolescents and adults during migration and in post-migration settlement in different contexts around the world, exploring both the often-ignored linguistic repertoires of migrants and their language learning processes in the new place of settlement.?Research on literacy development and use in the language(s) of host countries has often focused on children’s second language development through formal schooling, but in this volume the authors address such various language use settings as home life, preparing for a driving test, searching for a job, and different types of educational environments. Including case studies from across Asia, Europe and North America, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of multilingualism, applied linguistics, literacy studies, migration studies and sociology of education.?

Patel, Pranav, The Antiracist Educator. 160 pp. 2022:2 (Sage, UK) <666-2714>
ISBN 978-1-5297-6736-0 hard ¥20,227.- (税込) GB￡ 71.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5297-6735-3 paper ¥6,264.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

In a society that privileges whiteness, racist ideas have become normalised throughout our educational institutions and curriculum. We are not born racist or antiracist; these result from the choices we make. Choosing this book means making a conscious choice to learn about how racism is embedded within the UK education system and deciding to fight against it. Choosing this book starts you on your antiracist journey as a teacher. As a teacher you are in a position of power. It is the school system which is the starting point for how children learn to view the world and accept knowledge; and you have the power to impact change to create a more inclusive and diverse society. Written by Pran Patel, who has nearly 2 decades of teaching experience and is a TEDx speaker, campaigner and blogger, this book is your call to action. Covering a range of important topics such as unconscious bias, stereotyping, assessment and discrimination and racialised trauma in childhood, this book shows you: How to identify and challenge the racist structures in which we are brought upHow to acknowledge the impact and roles you play in upholding racismWhat actions can you take as an ally in your everyday life Becoming antiracist is not a quick-fix, it is a lifelong education, for you, and the children you teach. Let's begin the journey today.

Pinder, Sherrow O., Michael Jackson and the Quandary of a Black Identity. (SUNY series in African American Studies) 231 pp. 2021:8 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-2715>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8479-2 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Prakash, Amit, Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975. (Oxford Studies in Modern European History) 272 pp. 2022:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <666-2717>
ISBN 978-0-19-289887-6 hard ¥27,635.- (税込) GB￡ 97.00 *

Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit Prakash locates the origins of contemporary conflicts in race and empire in France's history. In Empire on the Seine, Prakash argues that the metropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to manage colonial and racial difference. With the North African community emerging as a sizable and durable presence in Paris after World War I, this policing became a key state practice in imagining and administering the immigrant population. Prakash shows that despite the French state's current reluctance to use race as an official category, racial thought and racial targets animated police services, social services, and urban planning schemes from the 1920s until the 1970s. Using police archival records, reports from colonial officials, urban planning and housing studies, and the records of French social workers and immigrant associations, Prakash shows that colonial racism was integrated into the policing of Paris and that architecture, urbanism, and social housing assumed police functions for colonial and postcolonial migrants. In light of this history, contemporary social and racial segregation, periodic protests and rioting against police violence, and the aggressive posture of the Parisian police emerge as the material traces of French colonialism in the metropole. The city of Paris was the capital of an empire and its imperial shadows are long.

Calvo-Quiros, William A., Undocumented Saints: The Politics of Transborder Spiritualities. 336 pp. 2022:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <666-272>
ISBN 978-0-19-763022-8 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-763023-5 paper ¥7,975.- (税込) US$ 36.99 *

Undocumented Saints follows the migration of popular saints from Mexico into the US and the evolution of their meaning. The book explores how Latinx battles for survival are performed in the worlds of faith, religiosity, and the imaginary, and how the socio-political realities of exploitation and racial segregation frame their popular religious expressions. It also tracks the emergence of inter-religious states, transnational ethnic and cultural enclaves unified by faith. The book looks at five vernacular saints that have emerged in Mexico and whose devotions have migrated into the US in the last one hundred years: Jesus Malverde, a popular bandido turned saint caudillo; Santa Olguita, an emerging feminist saint linked to border women's experiences of sexual violence; Juan Soldado, a murder-rapist soldier who is now a patron for undocumented immigrants and the main suspect in the death of an eight-year-old victim known now as Santa Olguita; Toribio Romo, a Catholic priest whose ghost/spirit has been helping people cross the border into the US since the 1990s; and La Santa Muerte, a controversial personification of death who is particularly popular among LGBTQ migrants. Each chapter contextualizes a particular popular saint within broader discourses about the construction of masculinity and the state, the long history of violence against Latina and migrant women, female erasure from history, discrimination against non-normative sexualities, and as US and Mexican investment in the control of religiosity within the discourses of immigration.

Ruehs-Navarro, Emily, Unaccompanied: The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border. (Critical Perspectives on Youth) 240 pp. 2022:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-2721>
ISBN 978-1-4798-2109-9 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-3861-5 paper ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

Explores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United States Every year, tens of thousands of children cross into the United States without a legal guardian at their side, often fleeing violence and poverty in their countries of origin. In Unaccompanied, Emily Ruehs-Navarro shows us one aspect of their heartbreaking journeys, as seen through the eyes of the aid workers who try-but too often fail-to help them. Drawing on interviews with aid workers, migrant children, and others, Ruehs-Navarro follows unaccompanied youth as they seek help from a wide range of professionals. From legal relief organizations to family reunification specialists, she shows us how different aid workers may choose to work for, with, or against unaccompanied immigrant youth, deciding whether they should be treated as refugees, child dependents, or, in some cases, criminals. Ruehs-Navarro highlights how aid workers, and the systems they represent, often harm the very children they are designed to help. Unaccompanied brings into focus the plight of immigrant youth at the border, illuminating our failure to manage the human casualties of a growing crisis.

Segev, Zohar, Immigration, Ideology, and Public Activity from an American Jewish Perspective: A Journey across Three Continents. (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 71) 2021:11 (Brill, NE) <666-2725>
ISBN 978-90-04-46692-0 hard ¥26,364.- (税込) EUR 112.00

Zohar Segev's book Immigration, Ideology, and Public Activity from an American Jewish Perspective examines the lives and careers of four distinguished figures involved in the Zionist movement in the USA and early years of Israel's statehood. Aryeh Tartakower, Aryey Kubovy, Benjamin Akzin, and Jacob Robinson emigrated from Europe to the USA during the 1930s and 1940s; they later immigrated to Israel. Following their paths reveals the multifaceted nature of modern Jewish history in the mid-twentieth century, providing a perspective on the reciprocal relations between the American Diaspora and the state of Israel. Key historic events such as Adolf Eichmann's trial and the debate over the bombing of Auschwitz are given intriguing new perspectives from the papers of these central leaders in the Jewish and Zionist endeavor.

Smithsimon, Gregory, Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism. 320 pp. 2022:2 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-2726>
ISBN 978-1-4798-4511-8 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-6149-1 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class. Focusing on Liberty Road, a Black middle-class suburb of Baltimore, Smithsimon tells the remarkable story of how residents broke the color barrier, against all odds, in the face of racial discrimination, tensions with suburban whites and urban Blacks, and economic crises like the mortgage meltdown of 2008. Drawing on interviews, census data, and archival research he shows us the unique strategies that suburban Black residents in Liberty Road employed, creating a blueprint for other Black middle-class suburbs. Smithsimon re-orients our perspective on race relations in American life to consider the lived experiences and lessons of those who broke the color barrier in unexpected places. Liberty Road shows us that if we want to understand Black America in the twenty-first century, we must look not just to our cities, but to our suburbs as well.

Steinhilper, Elias, Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations. (Protest and Social Movements) 204 pp. 2021:1 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <666-2729>
ISBN 978-94-6372-222-3 hard ¥30,484.- (税込) GB￡ 107.00 *

Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are often considered anomalies in social movement studies, and political sociology more broadly, due to "weak interests" and a particularly disadvantageous position of "outsiders" to claim rights connected to citizenship. In an attempt to address this seeming paradox, Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavorable contexts of marginalization. Such a perspective unveils both the odds of precarious mobilizations and the ways they can be temporarily overcome. While adopting the encompassing terminology of "migrant," this book focuses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and "illegalized" migrants.

Stokes, Lauren, Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany. (Oxford Studies in International History) 304 pp. 2022 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <666-2730>
ISBN 978-0-19-755841-6 hard ¥8,621.- (税込) US$ 39.99 *

Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labor force was essential to creating the postwar German economic miracle. Employers fantasized that foreign "guest workers" would provide labor power in their prime productive years without having to pay for their education, pensions, or medical care. They especially hoped that the workers would leave behind their spouses and children and not encumber the German state or society with the cost of caring for them. As Lauren Stokes argues, the Federal Republic of Germany turned fear of this foreign family into the basis of policymaking, while at the same time implementing policies that inflicted fear in foreign families. Workers did not always prove willing to live their work lives in the FRG and their family lives elsewhere. They consistently challenged the state's assumption that "family" and "labor" could be cleanly divided, defied restrictive and discriminatory policies, staged political protests, and took their deportation orders to court. In 1973, the federal court legally recognized the constitutional right to family reunification, but almost immediately after the decision, the migration bureaucracy sought to limit that right in practice. Officials derided family migrants as a group of burdensome dependents seeking to defraud the welfare state and demonized them as a dangerous source of foreign values on German soil. In this sweeping look at what being defined as "family migrants" has meant for millions at the immigration office, in the courtroom, in the workplace, and in the family itself, Fear of the Family illuminates how racial, ethnic, and gender difference have been inscribed in the neoliberal West German welfare state.

Thaler, Peter (ed.), Like Snow in the Sun?: The German Minority in Denmark in Historical Perspective. 280 S. 2022:1 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-2733>
ISBN 978-3-11-068194-9 hard ¥29,412.- (税込) EUR 124.95 *

The history of Schleswig and its relations to Holstein and Denmark used to inflame the political and scholarly debate. In the 19th-century, the so-called Schleswig-Holstein question marred the lives of diplomats and politicians. For many decades, local and international researchers interpreted the multilayered source material of a European region at the intersection of two larger cultural & political spheres.

Tharp, D. Scott, Decoding Privilege: Exploring White College Students' Views on Social Inequality. 248 pp. 2021:12 (Routledge, UK) <666-2734>
ISBN 978-0-367-53531-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-53529-2 paper ¥11,107.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

This book explores how White students understand the concept of privilege so that educators can more effectively teach students about social power and inequality. Specially, the text examines three elements that influence how White college students understand privilege: Ideas, beliefs, and feelings. As this volume demonstrates, examining all three aspects of students' understanding is critical for educators who wish to effectively educate White students about the nature of social inequality and specific manifestations of privilege. The book concludes with curricular and pedagogical considerations that educators may incorporate into their teaching practice.

Tichavakunda, Antar A., Black Campus Life: The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution. (SUNY series, Critical Race Studies in Education) 278 pp. 2021:12 (State U. New York Pr., US) <666-2735>
ISBN 978-1-4384-8591-1 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Tomlinson, Joe / Maxwell, Jack, Experiments in Automating Immigration Systems. (Bristol Shorts Research) 128 pp. 2022:1 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <666-2736>
ISBN 978-1-5292-1984-5 hard ¥12,247.- (税込) GB￡ 42.99 *

In recent years, the United Kingdom's Home Office has started using automated systems to make immigration decisions. These systems promise faster, more accurate, and cheaper decision-making, but in practice they have exposed people to distress, disruption, and even deportation. This book identifies a pattern of risky experimentation with automated systems in the Home Office. It analyses three recent case studies including: a voice recognition system used to detect fraud in English-language testing; an algorithm for identifying 'risky' visa applications; and automated decision-making in the EU Settlement Scheme. The book argues that a precautionary approach is essential to ensure that society benefits from government automation without exposing individuals to unacceptable risks.

Vukadinovic, Vojin Sasa (Hrsg.), Rassismus: Von der fruehen Bundesrepublik bis zur Gegenwart. 350 S. 2023 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-2737>
ISBN 978-3-11-070266-8 hard ¥5,872.- (税込) EUR 24.95 *

Rassismus ist in Deutschland wieder Thema. In historischer Dimension haben sich bislang nur wenige Studien seinen wandelnden Erscheinungsformen in der alten Bundesrepublik und in Deutschland nach 1990 gewidmet. Diese Luecke soll der vorliegende Band fuellen. Die Beitraege schlagen einen Bogen von der aktiven Verdraengung der weiblichen Beteiligung an den NS-Verbrechen und Kontinuitaeten voelkischen Denkens nach 1945, den Anfaengen des Rechtsterrorismus und den gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen der Auslaendergesetzgebung hin zu den identitaetspolitischen Fragestellungen und wissenschaftlichen Aporien in der Gegenwart. Analysiert werden u. a. das Rassismus-Verstaendnis der politischen Linken nach 1968, der Aufschwung des rechten Terrors in den 1970er Jahren und die Zeit nach der Wiedervereinigung, als Belagerungen von Asylbewerberunterkuenften in Hoyerswerda und Rostock zeigten, wie gefaehrlich der Rassismus noch war.

Wailoo, Keith, Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette. 392 pp. 2021:11 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-2738>
ISBN 978-0-226-79413-6 hard ¥7,114.- (税込) US$ 33.00 *

Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store in Minneapolis known as "the best place to buy menthols." Black smokers overwhelmingly prefer menthol brands such as Kool, Salem, and Newport. All of this is no coincidence. The disproportionate Black deaths and cries of "I can't breathe" that ring out in our era-because of police violence, COVID-19, or menthol smoking-are intimately connected to a post-1960s history of race and exploitation. In Pushing Cool, Keith Wailoo tells the intricate and poignant story of menthol cigarettes for the first time. He pulls back the curtain to reveal the hidden persuaders who shaped menthol buying habits and racial markets across America: the world of tobacco marketers, consultants, psychologists, and social scientists, as well as Black lawmakers and civic groups like the NAACP. Today most Black smokers buy menthols, and calls to prohibit their circulation hinge on a history of the industry's targeted racial marketing. Ten years ago, when Congress banned flavored cigarettes as criminal enticements to encourage youth smoking, menthol cigarettes were also slated to be banned. Through a detailed study of internal tobacco industry documents, Wailoo exposes why they weren't and how they remain so popular with Black smokers. Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted-and how the industry's disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day.

Whelehan, Niall, Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War. (The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series) 224 pp. 2021:12 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-2740>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0955-4 hard ¥6,468.- (税込) US$ 30.00 *

How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League's demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish "landlordism" in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants' activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. By including Argentina, which was home to the largest Irish community outside the English-speaking world, this book addresses the neglect of developments in non-Anglophone places in studies of the "Irish world." Changing Land presents a powerful addition to our understanding of the history of modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora, migration, and the history of transnational radicalism.

Wijeyesinghe, Charmaine L. (ed.), The Complexities of Race: Identity, Power, and Justice in an Evolving America. 304 pp. 2021:12 (New York U. Pr., US) <666-2741>
ISBN 978-1-4798-0140-4 hard ¥19,188.- (税込) US$ 89.00 *
ISBN 978-1-4798-0141-1 paper ¥6,899.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

Illuminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood today The Complexities of Race illustrates how several recent dynamics compel us to reconsider race, racial identity, and racial inequality. It argues that race and racism provide key but complex lenses through which critical events and issues of any moment can be more fully understood. The emergence of intersectionality, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, changing ethnic and racial demographics in the United States, and other forces challenge prevailing values and narratives related to race. The volume provides new and detailed snapshots of the diverse and complicated ways that race, racism, racial identity, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in America, offering new ways of understanding the complex dynamics of power and systems of oppression. Each chapter uses a current, real-world example to demonstrate how race works in tandem with other locations of identity, with the aim of showing that a single social identity is rarely at play in issues of social inequality. The contributors include scholars who have studied race, identity, racism, and social justice for decades, as well as emerging researchers and practitioners at the forefront of examining evolving topics related to race, culture, and experiences of naming and belonging. This exploration of pressing, current, and emerging issues offers the depth, information, and clarity needed to understand many of the questions left unanswered and issues avoided in current discussions of race, identity, and racism, whether those discussions occur in the classroom, in the boardroom, at the dining room table, or in the streets of America. The Complexities of Race provides readers with inspiration, information, and paths for moving the understanding of race, identity, and social justice forward.