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

Olaniyi, Rasheed Oyewole, Migration and Diaspora Identity in Northern Nigeria and Ghana, 1900-1970: Yoruba Citizenship and Belonging. (Western Africa Series) 320 pp. 2025:6 (J. Currey, UK) <744-969>
ISBN 978-1-84701-428-3 hard ¥26,752.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

This book uncovers the driving forces and mechanisms through which Yoruba migrant communities in Kano, the largest commercial and administrative city in northern Nigeria, and Tamale, the largest commercial and administrative city in northern Ghana, forged diaspora identities and grappled with the challenges of social inclusion and exclusion. Drawing on fieldwork interviews and archival research in particular, it analyses how socio-economic forces and power relations shaped the very different experiences of the two communities as well as how they sustained ties with the homeland in southwestern Nigeria.By contrasting Yoruba diaspora identity in northern Nigeria and Ghana, this book closely examines how citizenship and belonging, used as a form of political control during colonial rule, was further developed in the post-colonial era and furthers discourses on transnationalism and homeland politics.

Pena, Beatriz, 26 Years a Slave: Juan Miranda and Other "Spanish Negroes" in Colonial New York. (Caribbean Series 42) 403 pp. 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <744-988>
ISBN 978-90-04-73376-3 hard ¥28,780.- (税込) EUR 124.00

26 Years a Slave represents the inaugural book-length study of the little-known "Spanish Negroes," or non-white Spanish-speaking sailors enslaved in colonial North America. Bringing to light their history of slavery and resistance, the book tells the incredible story of the free-born Juan Miranda. Enslaved in New York, Miranda fights an arduous legal battle to win his freedom. His attorney, William Kempe, makes a strong case for his rights and against slavery based on skin color. This well-illustrated account touches on legal history, the War of Jenkins' Ear, and the so-called "Slave Plot" of 1741. 26 Years a Slave is not just a translation of the critically acclaimed publication 26 anos de esclavitud but a revised enriched version, containing a selection of additional study cases. The original Spanish edition of this book received the following awards: Willi Paul Adams Award, Organization of American Historians, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (2023) Best Academic Themed Book, The 24th International Latino Book Awards, Gold medal, Los Angeles, USA (2022) The Victor Villasenor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award - Spanish or Bilingua, The 24th International Latino Book Awards, Silver medal, Los Angeles, USA (2022) Best Biography - Spanish or Bilingual, The 24th International Latino Book Awards, Silver medal, Los Angeles, USA (2022)

Liu, Amy H. / Hlatky, Roman / Chew, Keith Padraic et al., Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in Cabinets: Asia and Europe in Comparative Perspective. (Elements in Gender and Politics) 102 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-755>
ISBN 978-1-009-57047-3 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-57043-5 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

What explains patterns of representation - of women and ethnic minorities - in government cabinets? The authors argue governments diversify their cabinets when (1) a minority group - and it need not be ethnic - is sizable and can mobilize (political competition); and/or (2) the general population believes in and expects the inclusion of minorities (popular norms). The authors test their argument using original cabinet data from Asia and Europe (N=93) 1960-2015 and a most-similar design of four case studies. They identify the gender and ethnicity of 91,000 country-year-minister observations - with consideration of the rank of their ministerial portfolio. They find evidence that in countries where there is political competition and/or popular norms, cabinets have fewer double-hegemons. However, this does not necessarily suggest minorities are holding portfolios of substantive prestige. This project offers a way to study intersectionality in democratic representation and political institutions.

石生義人著　アフリカ系アメリカ人の愛国心の社会学
Ishio, Yoshito, The Sociology of African American Patriotism: Contradictions, Religiosity and Constructive Attitudes. (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) 180 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-765>
ISBN 978-1-041-00410-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book offers a sociological examination of the reasons why African Americans feel love toward their country in spite of continuing to perceive or experience racial prejudice and discrimination against themselves and other African Americans. Dr. Ishio conducted face-to-face, in-depth interviews with college-educated African Americans in Texas between 2014 and 2015. The main conclusion of this study is that contradictory trends marked by persistent racism and racial progress, combined with the effects of Christian faith/practice fostered in the Black Church and the effects of foundational principles of the United States, have molded a distinctive form of patriotism among African Americans for whom the country is their homeland. This book presents an insightful analysis by a Japanese sociologist.Every important finding in this book is supported by interviewees' statements, making it easy for readers to follow the points being made and to understand African Americans' perspectives. Numerous interviewees' statements are judiciously inserted so that readers can virtually "hear" interviewees' voices describing their experiences and views.A unique study of African Americans and their feelings of patriotism, it will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in the sociology of race and ethnicity, Black studies, and the sociology of religion.

Kriesi, Hanspeter, Crisis Policymaking in the EU: The COVID-19 Crisis and the Refugee Crisis 2015-16 Compared. (Elements in European Politics) 96 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-805>
ISBN 978-1-009-54945-5 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-54949-3 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element compares crisis-specific policymaking, its causes and consequences, at the two levels of the EU polity during the COVID-19 and the refugee crisis 2015-16. In both crises, EU policymaking responded to exogenous pressure and was dominated by executive decision-making. Still, it also differed in three critical aspects: it was much more salient, consensual, and effective during the COVID-19 than the refugee crisis. The present study accounts for both similarities and differences, which it attempts to explain by features of the nature of the crises. The key argument of the study is that the policymaking process during crises is, to a large extent, determined by the crisis situation - the crisis-specific functional problem pressure, the institutional context (of the EU polity), and the corresponding political pressure at the origin of a given crisis. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ウクライナの女性戦争移民
Grabowska, Izabela / Kyliushyk, Ivanna / Chrol, Emil, Ukrainian Female War Migrants: Mobilising Resources for Prospective Social Remittances. (Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement) 228 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-816>
ISBN 978-1-032-76993-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book delves into the experiences of Ukrainian women forced to leave their country in search of refuge following the devastating escalation of conflict with Russia in February 2022, exploring the diverse forms of capital they bring with them and develop on the way.Drawing on extensive original research, the book focuses on Ukrainian female war migrants in Poland-a country that, even before the war, served as the primary destination for Ukrainian labour migrants and now hosts a significant number of refugees. The book examines the human, social, psychological and economic capital Ukrainian women bring with them, alongside their participation in the local labour market, their mobilization of resources, and the acquisition of new skills and knowledge. Far from merely documenting this historic wave of migration, the book highlights the potential of Ukrainian women to become key agents in Ukraine's post-war reconstruction and development, by bringing social remittances such as ideas, practices, and norms, back home with them.Integrating advanced statistical analysis of data from over 340 migrants with rich qualitative insights, this book will be an important resource for researchers studying migration, security, politics, sociology, and development. It also provides valuable insights and data for NGOs and policymakers working to support Ukrainian migrants in Poland and beyond.

Flowers, Petrice R., Refugee Policies in East Asia. (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia) 88 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-833>
ISBN 978-1-009-50728-8 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-99553-5 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

East Asia stands apart from the rest of Asia in the prevalence of the institutionalization of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Despite this widespread adoption of the Convention in East Asia, the record on implementation into domestic law and policy is uneven. This Element offers a comparative analysis of the gap between the institutionalization of the Refugee Convention and the implementation of refugee policy in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia. Specific attention is given to two key policy issues: refugee status determination-deciding who is granted government recognition as a refugee-and complementary forms of protection-protection based on statutes other than the Refugee Convention. This Element demonstrates that implementation of the Refugee Convention in East Asia depends on a vibrant civil society with the space and opportunity to engage with local UNHCR offices, local branches of international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and other stake holders.

Withers, Matt, Emigration States: Migration-Development Policymaking in the Asia-Pacific. (Elements in Global Development Studies) 92 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <744-842>
ISBN 978-1-009-56519-6 hard ¥14,076.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-31874-7 paper ¥4,787.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

Guestworker migration has become an increasingly prominent feature within the economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific. Longstanding regional disparities have underscored the emergence of fragile remittance economies where a structural reliance on labour-export has offered an unsustainable 'fix' for stubborn developmental challenges. Combining political-economic and Foucauldian frames of analysis, this Element reconciles the macroeconomic contradictions of remittance economies with the political logics bound up in emigration policymaking, contending that new modalities of governance have emerged in the transition from developmental to emigration states. Comparing the policy histories of four diverse remittance economies in the region - Myanmar, the Philippines, Samoa, and Sri Lanka - it frames emigration policies as complex, inward-facing interventions that simultaneously promote and constrain mobility to address counterpoised economic and political pressures. Important variations are explored though the example of gendered migration bans, whereby emigration states have situated women's bodies as sites for resolving contextually specific social tensions accompanying labour-export.

日本への移民に関する視点
Strausz, Michael (ed.), No Island Is an Island: Perspectives on Immigration to Japan. 277 pp. 2025:1 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <744-855>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9851-9 hard ¥16,087.- (税込) US$ 75.00

Guy, Kolleen / Winter, Jay (eds.), Statelessness After Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific During the Second World War. (Cultural History of Modern War) 388 pp. 2025:5 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-870>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8302-6 hard ¥26,752.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism. To her, statelessness was the product of a failed European nation-state system. We find a very different story when we examine the history of stateless people, many of them Jews, fleeing to Asia from Europe. In Asia, we see that being stateless was not a uniform experience, but a variety of possibilities reflecting the political structure of the states and cities in which refugees found shelter. We find too that stateless people managed to enter the political realm long before they reached the threshold of citizenship.

植民地期後期のビルマにおけるイギリスの帝国主義と人種の政治
Bowser, Matthew, Containing Decolonisation: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma. (Studies in Imperialism) 264 pp. 2025:7 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-889>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8794-9 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This book examines British imperialism in late colonial Burma to study how imperialists attempted to protect their strategic and economic interests after decolonisation: they did so by supporting ethnonationalism. This process resembles the Cold War tactic of "containment," and the book makes a crucial contribution to the study of modern imperialism by demonstrating the continuity between "containment's" late- and "neo"-colonial manifestations. For Burma/Myanmar, it also explores the origin of the present-day military junta's racial regime: it emphasizes the protection of the ethnoreligious majority from ethnic minority insurgency. The Rohingya people are currently suffering a genocide because of this racial regime. As the country endures civil war against the junta, this book highlights how ethnonationalists in the late colonial period first promoted this racial regime to seize power and prevent revolution, a process supported by British imperialists for their own ends.

Whittington, Vanessa, Visitors, Settler Colonialism and Aboriginal Cultural Heritage: Australian Protected Areas as Transformative Landscapes. (Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect) 262 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-905>
ISBN 978-1-032-65495-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book analyses visitor responses to the interpretation of Aboriginal cultural heritage in Australian protected areas, focusing on Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in the Northern Territory and the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area in New South Wales.It provides insights into the discursive features that structure various forms of interpretation of Aboriginal cultural heritage at these locales, ranging from on-site interpretative signage to audio tours available on mobile phone applications. It draws on visitors' first-hand accounts of the experience of participating in Traditional Custodian led cultural tours and camps, and the visitor learnings that resulted from these. Based on extensive interviews with visitors, the author argues that visitor responses to these experiences both perpetuate and challenge settler-colonial assumptions about Aboriginal peoples and their cultures in both more urban and remote locations. The book provides insight into the forms of interpretation that foster visitor transformations, thereby advancing a politics of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and the types of interpretation that may hinder such transformations, by reinforcing settler-colonial discourses and affective states.The book is aimed at students and academics attempting to develop a more critical practice in relation to heritage interpretation, tourism, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage and settler-colonialism. It will also have appeal to heritage professionals, cultural tour operators and agencies responsible for the provision of protected area interpretation, including both government sector and Indigenous organisations.

Natarajan, Kalathmika, Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67. 320 pp. 2025:9 (Hurst, UK) <744-912>
ISBN 978-1-80526-297-8 paper ¥10,560.- (税込) GB￡ 37.50

Uncovers the remarkable role of emigration, particularly of indentured labourers, in forging independent India's foreign relations. Over the centuries, millions of migrant labourers sailed from the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, to shape what is now the world's largest diaspora. This book recovers the histories and legacies of those 'coolie' migrants, and presents a new paradigm for the diplomatic history of independent India, going beyond high politics to explore how indenture, emigration and international relations became entangled. After independence, Indian notions of the international realm as a sanctified space were shaped by migrant journeys; this was a space of anxiety in which to negotiate the 'coolie stain' on the country's reputation. Discourse was defined by intersections of caste, class, race and gender-and framed the migrant worker as the quintessential 'other' of Indian diplomacy. Drawing on rich, multi-archival analysis spanning the vast geographies of labour migration, Kalathmika Natarajan pieces together the stories of quarantine camps en route to Ceylon; cultural and educational missions in the Caribbean; discretionary passport policies in India; and the mediation of immigrant life in Britain. The result is a nuanced history from the interwar period to the decades after independence, and a critical analysis centring both caste and negotiation of 'undesirable' mobility as foundational to Indian diplomacy.

Bachelet, Sebastien, The Adventure: Violent Borders, Illegal Migration, and the Uncertain Quest for Life in Morocco. (New Ethnographies) 256 pp. 2025:7 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-933>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7768-1 hard ¥7,040.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

This ethnographic exploration of irregular migration from Western and Central Africa in Morocco deconstructs dehumanising narratives of a "migration crisis" and a "sub-Saharan problem" in politics of migration. The book provides an original focus on how migrants understood and experienced their entrapped mobility. The emic notion of "the adventure" at the heart of this study sheds light on a transformative, epic quest to carve out a better life and future. The book traces how young men from Western and Central Africa sought to assert themselves as agents of their own destinies, despite uncertain, illegalising processes. In steering away from aesthetics of despair and fearmongering narratives, the book brings new insights into inter-disciplinary debates (e.g. illegality, uncertainty, immobility, violence, suffering, transit, etc.). Such focus is essential to draw out the complexity and existential depth of (irregular) migrants' lives, journeys, and stories.

Bridgen, Elizabeth / Zeler, Ileana, Race, Diversity, and Social Mobility in the Public Relations Industry. (Global PR Insights) 76 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-456>
ISBN 978-1-032-69211-1 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

This book explores the recent academic and practice-based research and thinking on race, diversity and social mobility within the public relations industry, arguing for the necessity of more transformative actions to address systemic inequities. Through an analysis of interviews with UK-based public relations practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds, the book integrates and illustrates different strands of research to shed light on persistent challenges and opportunities in the field and understand how those who are often the subjects of such discussions experience discrimination. The authors introduce complex topics in an accessible manner, providing an overview of recent research, demonstrating practical applications of theoretical frameworks, and suggesting reading for further exploration. It also includes additional pedagogical features which allow readers to explore specific topics through guided reading and exploratory questions. By grounding its analysis in the lived experiences of public relations practitioners, the book contributes to the literature of race, diversity, and social mobility while fostering discussion on the systematic discrimination faced by practitioners. It will help and encourage researchers, educators and practitioners to critically explore their own practice and open up new conversations about this crucial issue.

Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten (ed.), Tracking Global Wokeism. (Value Inquiry Book Series / Social Philosophy 407) 325 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-51>
ISBN 978-90-04-72779-3 hard ¥33,654.- (税込) EUR 145.00

In this volume, nineteen authors ask: does wokeness exist in the non-Western world? And if yes, is it imported from America or can it also have its own vernacular roots? Wokeness has helped advance the cause of social justice in many domains. However, a cursory search on the internet can yield the impression that 'woke' is now predominantly used in a negative fashion. The present book approaches woke from unusual philosophical angles that do not adhere to either pro or counter positions but that try to transcend purely ideological perspectives. The book shifts the debate to an international or global level by asking whether Wokeism also exists in the non-Western world. ?????

Jayne, Mark / Siying, Wu / Chenhui, Wu, Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers. (Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City) 302 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-321>
ISBN 978-1-032-60100-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Building The City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.The book offers complementary blending of longstanding political-economic accounts of migration, gender, labour, and urban life alongside advances in feminist, postcolonial, post-structural, materialist, and more-than-representational thinking. Drawing on these critical resources the authors explore the complexities of migrant's everyday past, present, and future lives. More specifically, they interrogate diverse and heterogeneous connections between work, domestic, and family times and spaces as well as foregrounding new theoretical and empirical terrain regarding consumption, pleasure, leisure, fashioned, sexual identities, and digital lives within and beyond cities.Premised on ethnographic research undertaken in cities across China the authors develop detailed relational comparative dialogue with the most up-to-date international interdisciplinary research.This critically challenging yet engaging and accessible research monograph provides an excellent resource for scholars at all career stages as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in diverse disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, management, organisational and business studies, human geography, planning, political science, sociology, and urban studies.

不安定な移民労働者
Theodoropoulos, Panos, The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity. 224 pp. 2025:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <744-325>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6498-9 hard ¥15,004.- (税込) US$ 69.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6499-6 paper ¥5,351.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Migrant workers in the West are at the frontline of the precarious condition that is coming to dominate economic life in neoliberal societies. Yet despite the highly insecure and exploitative working conditions they routinely face, labour mobilizations by precarious workers are rare.In this immersive portrait of the daily realities of precarious migrant labour, Panos Theodoropoulos found work in Glasgow's warehouses, factories and kitchens to uncover the ways that precarity is lived and contested. Connecting the realms of structure, subjectivity and culture, his analysis shows that precarity not only dictates workers' labour conditions, but socializes them in an individualist, survival-oriented struggle that erodes solidarities and enforces its own neoliberal logic. Crucially, however, precarity and the wider neoliberal culture are unable to erase workers' material awareness and experience of class injustice. It is on this basis that the foundations of new forms of struggle must be laid. Blending interviews, ethnographic notes and social theory, The Precarious Migrant Worker offers a unique glimpse into our increasingly precarious social reality and will be a valuable resource for scholars, students and activists interested in issues of migration, precarity and resistance.

白人のオーストラリアにおける日本人医師－偏見を治療する
Lamb, John, Japanese Doctors in White Australia: Treating Prejudice. (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies) 306 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-346>
ISBN 978-1-032-99122-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Lamb tells the stories of an unusual collection of men who, by being aliens in a largely unwelcoming country, have been omitted from the historical narrative. More than a dozen of these medical practitioners arrived and contributed to the welfare of Australian communities during the hundred years prior to the dismantling of race-based immigration policies, and this book examines not only what they achieved, but the political, social and economic context in which they operated and the prejudice with which they dealt.Through its forensic investigation of archival materials both in Japan and Australia, as well as contact with descendants of the men, this study book throws unprecedented light on their trials and tribulations, and on the factors most important in determining acceptance and performance in a discriminatory environment. Moreover, through its many illustrations, explanations and general narrative, it draws the reader into the personal lives of the doctors and what they faced. At the same time, its inclusion of detailed mortality and morbidity statistics, and their analysis in conjunction with population and economic parameters, will doubtless prove an important resource for medical historians. In its depth of research and access to relevant information in both countries and languages, this book contributes to Australia-Japan relations and understanding, and sets a new standard in cross-cultural research.A valuable resource for Australian and Japanese researchers and students of international immigration, medical history, the politics and character of racism, Asian Studies and International Relations. Migrant narratives further enjoy broad international appeal in countries including Asia, the United States and Europe.

Aisenberg, Igal, Jewish Immigrants, Nationalism and Finance Sourcing in Argentina: Otherness and Industrial Entrepreneurship. (Jewish Latin America 18) 205 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-373>
ISBN 978-90-04-73211-7 hard ¥25,066.- (税込) EUR 108.00

"The book represents an innovative and outstanding contribution to the economic, social, and business history of Argentina. It focuses on the factors that conditioned the emergence and development, between 1930 and the early 1960s, of large industrial enterprises founded by Jewish immigrants, with emphasis on the absence of community financial institutions to support their creation and expansion. lt is characterized both by the relevance of the issues it addresses and by the author's ability to conduct original and solid research based on a non-dogmatic conceptual framework, on the analysis of a wide variety of unexplored sources, and the virtuous combination of different scales of observation." Professor Dr. Maria Ines Barbero, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Margaca, Clara / Walmsley, Andreas / Knoerr, Helena (eds.), Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Religion and Ethnicity: Cases from Europe, Africa and Asia. (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business) 200 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-401>
ISBN 978-1-032-78515-8 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

International migration is a growing phenomenon in the 21st century and is increasingly seen as a high-priority public policy issue by many governments, politicians, and the broader public throughout the world. Its importance to economic prosperity, human development, and safety and security ensures that it will remain a top priority for the foreseeable future.This book highlights the importance of ensuring that we remain focused on the successes of migration as well as the challenges. At the end of the 20th century, more importance was given to immigrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship, due to a positive impact on local economic growth and overall economic development in the hosting nations. In the 21st century, the imperative of the United Nations 2030 agenda involves a deeper understanding of the complex challenges for the achievement of sustainable goals. One of these challenges is to understand how migrant-entrepreneurs may or may not identify with their ethnic community, therefore dissociating themselves from their ethnic group. In this sense, religion and ethnicity are differentiating factors between social groups, and the relationships allows preserving their culture and establishing relationships and integration in the community at all levels. This edited volume brings together impactful contributions that will interest multidisciplinary academic areas and aims to contribute to the enhancement of scientific knowledge on the intersection of entrepreneurship, migration, ethnicity and religion, a gap in the existing literature that has the potential to provide a deeper understanding of factors that influence migrant populations' contribution to socio-economic development in their communities.This book will be an invaluable resource to researchers and scholars in the fields of Immigration, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial culture and Economic Development.

Margaca, Clara / Walmsley, Andreas / Knoerr, Helena (eds.), Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the Americas: Drivers, Challenges and Local Economic Impact. (Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship and Small Business) 186 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-402>
ISBN 978-1-032-78512-7 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

Migration in the Americas continues unabated. Seeking to improve understanding of the complexity of this phenomenon, this book presents different approaches that are at the root of an immigrant-entrepreneur's decision-making and the implementation of entrepreneurial activity in North and South America.The cases presented provide a knowledge base upon which policy makers, government agencies, and the like can draw, providing a basis for comparison for other countries regarding how and why immigrants decide to become entrepreneurs, the challenges they face and the contributions they make. In this sense, the book presents a overview of immigrant entrepreneurship in the Americas. The studies presented include the cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds behind the reasons for starting a business in the host community, as well as the factors that influence the choice of business area. Furthermore, it explores how this type of entrepreneur contributes to local and sustainable and economic development and will deepen the understanding of immigrants' triggers for emigrating and for engaging in entrepreneurship in the host society. Based on the studies presented, it will offer guidelines regarding policies to support immigrant entrepreneurs, as well as to outline future research avenues.This book will be an invaluable resource to researchers and scholars in the fields of Immigration, Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial culture and Economic Development.

Balci, Zozan, Erased Voices and Unspoken Heritage: Language, Identity and Belonging in the Lives of Cultural In-betweeners. 190 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1087>
ISBN 978-1-032-87312-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

In a world where cultural identity is often defined by national borders, this book follows the compelling journeys of young adults caught between preserving the culture and language of their migrant parents and navigating societal pressures to fit into the country in which they were born. Through intimate "walk-and-talk" interviews, the book gives voice to young adults who reflect on their experiences growing up with multiple languages and cultures. These personal stories offer a rich exploration of language, place, and belonging that resonates with anyone familiar with the struggle to reconcile different worlds.The book provides an insight into their multifaceted lives, inviting readers into the intimate spaces where personal identity meets societal expectation. The book challenges conventional paradigms of cultural conformity and examines how these young adults define themselves beyond simplistic labels.Erased Voices and Unspoken Heritage offers fresh perspectives on why some second-generation migrants embrace, reject, or negotiate their heritage languages. It also critiques the harmful consequences of "passing" within homogenous constructs and highlights the broader implications for diversity, hybridity, and multilingualism. This thought-provoking book will appeal to anyone interested in the complexities of identity, race, and language in multicultural societies.

Alessio, Dominic / Wallis, Robert J., Faith, Folk and the Far Right: Racist and Anti-Racist Heathenry and Occultism in Britain. 328 pp. 2025:6 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-109>
ISBN 978-1-5261-7947-0 hard ¥25,344.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

This book offers the first examination of extremist Heathenry and occultism in the UK and how anti-racist Heathens act to counter this discourse. It explores the spectrum of Heathen practice today and the historical origins of racist Heathenry in nineteenth century Germanic romanticism and twentieth century folkish nationalism. Treating each of the three main extremist Heathen organisations, the book extends the analysis to the neo-Nazi occult organization the Order of the Nine Angles (O9A), and the wider racist Heathen cultural scene in Black Metal and Dark Folk music. The authors balance this with discussion of how inclusivist Heathens are countering this discourse, from visible protests at far-right rallies to inter-faith forums and an active presence on social media platforms. The book makes an important contribution to the intersecting fields of new religious movements, nationalist history and racist politics.

批判的人種理論とアメリカのメディア
Turner, Sarah E. / Nilsen, Sarah D. (eds.), Critical Race Theory and the American Media. (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics) 304 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1136>
ISBN 978-1-032-97717-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Critical Race Theory and the American Media analyses the widespread circulation of Critical Race Theory (CRT) within academic and popular discourses and its relationship to media studies.Undertaking a two-tiered analysis of CRT and media studies, this volume showcases the wide range of media analyses conducted by a diversity of researchers that utilize CRT as a methodological and theoretical framework for demonstrating how systemic racism impacts media industries. It also analyses how the current anti-CRT backlash that occurred throughout the American media landscape contributes to the systemic racism that perpetuates inequities and racial injustice in America.This comprehensive study will interest students and scholars of critical race studies, media studies, film and television Studies, cultural studies, American studies, ethnic studies, sociology, communication and pop culture.

Asese Aihiokhai, SimonMary / Daily, M. et al. (eds.), How First-Generation Students Navigate Higher Education through An Embrace of Their Multiple Identities. (Rethinking Higher Education Through the Strengths and Insights of First-Generation College Students) 192 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1151>
ISBN 978-1-032-95851-4 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book explores how first-generation college students negotiate the culture of higher education through an embrace of their multiple identities. Featuring contributors with multiple experiences and identities, this volume attempts to shed light on the creative approaches first-generation students use to succeed in college as well as help broaden the vision of the institutions they choose to call their intellectual home. In doing so, this text argues that higher education institutions can and should factor the experiences and insights of first-generation students into the ongoing process of revitalizing their mission. This resource will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students with interests in higher education, cultural studies, philosophy of education, decolonial studies, and social mobility.

Bergamaschi, Alessandro / Pica, Cinzia (eds.), Intergroup Contact, Friendships and Prejudice Reduction in Multiethnic Schools and Communities: Sociological, Psychological and Pedagogical Research and Theory. (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) 240 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1154>
ISBN 978-1-032-73658-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This edited collection addresses the important study of the conditions that support positive intergroup contact that leads to intergroup friendships and prejudice reduction through a multidisciplinary lens. Employing Intergroup Contact Theory and Intergroup Friendships Theory as conceptual foundations, this book brings together researchers in psychology, sociology, and education.European societies are increasingly diverse spaces in which children, adolescents and adults of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, and cultural-linguistic practices interact daily. These spaces provide fertile ground for a continuum of relational experiences, from positive intergroup relationships and friendships to tensions and experiences of discrimination, marginalization and isolation. Bergamaschi, Pica and their contributors examine the psychological and sociological conditions, as well as the pedagogical interventions that can shape interactions among young people. The book will be of great interest to academics and students across disciplines, educators, policy makers, and activists interested in how to support intercultural societies and schools towards the goal of reduced prejudice and discrimination towards a more intercultural and just society. A valuable read for scholars of the sociology of multiethnic society and the role of education and school environments.

Chhuon, Vichet, Cambodian American Youth, Identity, and Schooling: Ethnographic Research. 122 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-1158>
ISBN 978-1-032-99198-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-99199-3 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book examines how Cambodian American high school youth reconcile stereotypes, identities, and school opportunities and the ways these factors impact academic achievement and well-being, through ethnographic research.The backdrop for Cambodian American life is intimately embedded within how Asians and Asian Americans are imagined within U.S. society. This book argues that how Cambodian American students negotiate certain identities are in relation to perceived advantages associated with ethnic and panethnic labels across varying social contexts. It highlights how the embrace of the model minority stereotype can come at a psychological cost for Asian Americans including increased feelings of internalized racism. The chapters draw on ethnographic research collected across 2 years in one Southern California community. Through students' own meaning-making, it shows readers how Cambodian American youth are simultaneously invisible and hyper-visible in their school and community, which shape access to important identities and relationships. This work invites interrogation of the Asian American category itself and seeks to move the fields of Asian American and educational studies forward by critically examining not only how the model minority stereotype is constructed and imposed but also how it can be adopted and affirmed by Asian American youth themselves.Practitioners who work with marginalized and underrepresented students, students of courses such as Asian American studies, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Education and Psychology will find this to be a helpful and enlightening text. The accessible and clear writing means this book will also be of interest to a general audience.

Fassin, Didier / Defossez, Anne-Claire, Exile: Chronicle of the Border. 340 pp. 2025:4 (Polity Pr., UK) <744-1160>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6858-1 hard ¥17,149.- (税込) US$ 79.95
ISBN 978-1-5095-6859-8 paper ¥6,209.- (税込) US$ 28.95

In recent decades, the forced displacement of populations has fueled nationalism and xenophobia across the world, arousing fear and hostility. Policies have been implemented to deter migrants, crack down on humanitarian workers and externalize border monitoring in remote territories. Men, women and children who flee political violence, religious persecution or poverty in their country and set off on journeys often lasting years may find themselves on dangerous routes where they face police brutality, gang rackets, confinement camps, barbed-wire fences, the rigors of the desert and the perils of the sea. Many lose their lives. But what do we really know about the experience of these people, the hazards they encounter, repression they endure, and the assistance they receive? This is what Didier Fassin and Anne-Claire Defossez set out to uncover through the research they conducted at the border between Italy and France, in a region of the Alps that has become, since the mid-2010s, a privileged site of passage for people arriving in Europe from Afghanistan, Iran, the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. Over a period of five years, they collected their poignant stories, participated in the activities of a shelter, took part in mountain rescue operations, interviewed politicians, policy makers and law enforcement officers. Their investigation reveals the ineffectiveness of the militarization of the border and the dismay of the police who are aware of the futility of their mission; it attests to the solidarity and commitment of the volunteers; and it explores the form of life of exiles, which has become a defining feature of our time. This timely and well-researched book will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, politics and geography, and to anyone interested in migration and refugees today.

J.R.フィーギン他著　人種主義アメリカ　第5版
Feagin, Joe R. / Ducey, Kimberley, Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations. 5th ed. 462 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1161>
ISBN 978-1-032-67867-2 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-67869-6 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

The fifth edition of Racist America is thoroughly revised and updated, focusing on systemic racism and antiracism issues, especially those arising since the fourth edition (2018). Expanding the discussion on racialized intersectionality, as well as on the white racial frame, elite-white-male dominance system, and antiracist action, this book details how these racism realities continue to impact black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, and white Americans. The book explains how and why Black Lives Matter movement and other antiracist protests have erupted; how and why Latino, Asian, and Indigenous Americans have responded to expanding racist discrimination; and how and why a diverse array of Americans has demanded major societal responses to dismantle entrenched white racism.

Francis, Clarissa E., Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement. (Leading Conversations on Black Sexualities and Identities) 128 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <744-1163>
ISBN 978-1-032-69945-5 hard ¥13,795.- (税込) GB￡ 48.99

This text explores scholarship, practice, and advocacy for Black women's pursuit of bodily autonomy, sexual freedom, and pleasure. Inspired by Megan Thee Stallion's song, "Hot Girl Summer," and pleasure activism, Dr. Clarissa Francis ("The Real Hot Girl Doc") examines the cultural and social impacts of "hot girl" music and its transformative effects on Black women's sexual liberation journeys. Francis introduces readers to the Hot Girl Movement, addressing intergenerational trauma, denial of bodily autonomy, and pleasure politics.This book offers a historical review and current documentation of Black women's role in the evolving movement for sexual liberation in the United States, with a particular focus on Atlanta, Georgia. Chapters delve into the history of systemic oppression, presenting research on Black women's experiences with gendered racism while demonstrating the socio-cultural influences shaping Black women's sexual liberation. The book centers Black women's narratives featuring the work of sexologists, clinicians, somatic practitioners, and community organizers in guiding Black women to achieve sexual liberation.The final chapter outlines conclusions of the research on the Hot Girl Movement and provides recommendations for participating in and supporting this Movement.This interdisciplinary text is essential reading for scholars, clinicians, healing practitioners, birthworkers, and activists, including those in fields of sexuality, sex therapy, sociology, gender studies, Black/Africana studies, public health, and social justice. Exercises and additional resources are available on the product page under Support Material.

Garcia, Antero / Mirra, Nicole (eds.), Other Suns: Designing for Racial Equity Through Speculative Education. 172 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <744-1164>
ISBN 978-1-041-04709-4 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This volume outlines powerful theoretical and methodological approaches for expanding the possibilities of educational research. By illuminating speculative education as an emerging scholarly practice, this collection offers pragmatic guidance for scholarly worldbuilding.It introduces "speculative education" as a critical and hopeful approach to educational research. Through empirical scholarship, the book describes paradigms of collective thriving beyond the existing horizons guiding research, policy, and practice in educational research. The collection of scholarship here offers visionary and future-oriented approaches to teaching and learning that operate beyond the bounds of current social, economic, and cultural arrangements that perpetuate various forms of oppression. Through specific examples and a collection of thematic interludes, this collection details a framework through which educational researchers and practitioners can enact speculative dreaming. This speculative framework seeks to foreground ethical relations as the basis of civic trust; foster an ethos of collaborative practice as the work of world-building; and engage in joyful struggle toward just futures. Ultimately, this volume highlights how researchers, designers, educators, and individuals linked in community with each other must question the intended outcomes of educational scholarship writ large and if the priors of academic scholarship actually lead toward destinations of freedom. In recognizing the pluralistic nature of speculative worlds that might be built, the possibilities for new educational models and experiences are boundless.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Learning Sciences.

欧州における黒人研究
Gregoire, Nicole / Fila-Bakabadio, Sarah et al. (eds.), Black Studies in Europe: An Anthology of Soil and Seeds. (Critical Insurgencies) 256 pp. 2025:8 (Northwestern U. Pr., US) <744-1166>
ISBN 978-0-8101-4876-5 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) US$ 120.00
ISBN 978-0-8101-4875-8 paper ¥8,151.- (税込) US$ 38.00

Reflecting on contemporary epistemologies of European Blackness Long absent from research in the humanities and social sciences, Black people in continental Europe have become the focus of a growing body of literature in the past two decades that addresses their unique history and social positioning. Black Studies in Europe: An Anthology of Soil and Seeds brings together essays and case studies by a collective of scholars, writers, and activists to offer a critical overview of the emerging field of Black European studies and a vital reflection on contemporary epistemologies of European Blackness. This collection addresses key questions: What is Blackness from a European standpoint? Which epistemologies and theoretical tools have been used to offer a better understanding of Black experiences in Europe? How is this knowledge being produced and by whom? Can we define a common European conceptual framework for Black studies? Related to this work is an even more urgent enterprise: forging an epistemological distinction between the study of Black people and "Black studies" as an emancipatory project.

イスラームフォビア、反人種主義、イギリスの左派
Harris, Scarlet, Islamophobia, Anti-Racism and the British Left. (Racism, Resistance and Social Change) 192 pp. 2025:4 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-1168>
ISBN 978-1-5261-6965-5 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Islamophobia is one of the most misunderstood and pernicious forms of racism in Britain. But how do those committed to challenging Islamophobia understand it? And what does this mean for their practices 'on the ground'?Islamophobia, anti-racism and the British left combines first-hand accounts from activists and community workers across two British cities with sociological theory, critically interrogating Islamophobia's relationship to 'race', racial capitalism and other modalities of racism. Setting this discussion against some of the most pertinent political shifts in Britain in recent years - from the resurgence of left nationalism to Black Lives Matter - the book assesses the limits of recent attempts to think about and tackle Islamophobia, and considers the possibilities of an alternative approach from and for the anti-racist left.

Peguero, Anthony A. / Campie, Patricia / Nation, M. (eds.), Racial/Ethnic Equity and School Safety. 139 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-1179>
ISBN 978-1-041-07002-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book highlights the intimate connection between racial/ethnic equity and school and community safety, the consequences of current inequities, and establishes the way forward in terms of future research, policy, and practice.School safety has taken on increased urgency as the United States' educational systems, families, and students grapple with the residual effects of a public health pandemic that kept students out of classrooms and away from critical supportive services. It is increasingly important to center the investigation, understanding, and policy implementations that highlight the correlates, root causes, and consequences of racial/ethnic inequality in the pursuit of school safety. This book addresses a range of aspects impacting racial/ethnic equity and school safety, all of which is being shaped by a growing population of diverse youth. The chapters in this volume touch on family, schools, neighborhoods, and communities; however, common to all of these chapters is an understanding of the challenges, barriers, consequences, and importance of connecting minoritized students to provide opportunities and protection. Thus, each of these chapters takes care to identify points for intervention, suggestions for policy, and promising directions for future research. Each study featured in this book stands out for its original and noteworthy contribution to the literature on the significance of race/ethnicity in regard to school safety research. Future research should further expand our understanding of equity, school safety, and justice for one of the fastest growing segments of the population - racial/ethnic minority youth. The growing number of racial/ethnic minority youth present both a challenge and an opportunity for increasingly diverse societies, communities, and schools. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of School Violence.

Romania, Vincenzo / Bertazzo, Tommaso, Romani People in Italy: The Different Shades of Segregation. (Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity) 168 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1181>
ISBN 978-1-032-77736-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Romani People in Italy offers an in-depth, updated, and detailed analysis of the segregated condition of Romani people in Italy. The different shades of segregation take the form of housing, educational and social isolation.While much of the existing literature focuses on individual case studies, or on historical and documentary analysis, this book combines the two approaches. In the first part of the text, the authors reconstruct a history of the policies of exclusion and segregation aimed at Italian Romanies since the Renaissance. In the second part, the authors draw on an ethnographic work conducted in the cities of Turin and Padua to reconstruct the complex migratory stratification of Italian Romanies and the divisions and conflicts within the different Romani populations.Finally, this book finally contributes to the understanding of the reality of Romani camps in terms of a space that produces habitus of isolation, but also positive forms of resistance to neoliberal logics of individualization. It is suitable for courses in ethnic studies, minority studies, migration studies, urban studies, and Romani studies.

Rosen, Rachel / Dickson, Eve, Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows. (Women on the Move) 192 pp. 2025:4 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-1182>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8927-1 hard ¥7,040.- (税込) GB￡ 25.00

Bordering social reproduction explores what happens when migrants subject to policies that seek to deny them the means of life nonetheless endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. Developing innovative theorisations of welfare bordering, the volume provides rich ethnographic insights into the everyday lives of destitute mothers and children who are denied mainstream welfare support in the United Kingdom due to their immigration status. This book shows how enforced destitution and debt work alongside detention and deportation as part of a tripartite of exclusionary technologies of the racial state. It advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother's and children's life-making practices under duress - arguing that these are neither acts of heroic resilience nor solely symptomatic of lives rendered disposable, but indications of the fragilities of repressive migration regimes and, on occasion, refusals to accept their terms of existence.

Stroja, Jessica (ed.), Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement. (Routledge Studies in Religion) 200 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <744-1184>
ISBN 978-1-032-74098-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book provides a new approach to understanding the histories of refugee resettlement and their relevance for contemporary emergencies. By drawing on histories of faith-based humanitarianism from 1917 to the present, it explores how faith-based organisations have engaged with refugee aid and the efforts of other secular humanitarian movements.This book explores understandings of humanitarianism and refugee resettlement through the lens of faith-based histories and intersections with secular humanitarian movements. It uses these histories to understand trends in humanitarian development and interactions between multiple organisations that have held ongoing roles in refugee emergencies. Exploring interactions between these organisations provides new ways of understanding humanitarianism and trends in the delivery of refugee aid. As the number of refugees requiring assistance continues to increase globally, understanding trends in this historical development has never been more important.This book provides new ways to understand the provision of refugee aid via a broad spectrum of organisations rather than groups from separate "categories" acting in isolation. Despite the frequent marginalisation of faith-based organisations, the book shows they have reframed humanitarian efforts. This provides researchers, policy makers and practitioners with new ways to approach this challenge and the historical development of refugee aid.

Wiegers, Gerard A. / Garcia-Arenal, Mercedes (eds.), The Morisco Diaspora and the Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean. (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 86) 432 pp. 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <744-1188>
ISBN 978-90-04-72940-7 hard ¥32,261.- (税込) EUR 139.00

The expulsion of the Moriscos from Habsburg Spain between 1609 and 1614 represents the largest expulsion of a minority in Europe in the early modern period, an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 forced migrants. This book studies for the first time how this group, which was affected by discrimination, religious persecution, and repression, displayed physical and spiritual resilience and prepared themselves for imminent radical measures by forming networks which helped them before, during, and after the expulsion to contact authorities in France, Italy, Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Egypt and the Ottoman Empire in order to ask for help and to establish themselves in the news lands and form Diaspora communities which in many places have remained visible until today. Contributors are Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Hossain Bouzineb, Houssem Eddine Chachia, Mercedes Garcia-Arenal, Catherine Infante, Tijana Krstic, Amine Oulad Lmaroudia, Bruno Pomara, Barbara Ruiz-Bejarano, Ana Struillou, and Gerard Wiegers.

Wilkinson, Emily, Constellating Emotional Dialogues in Secondary Education: Autoethnographic Insights into Queerness, Race, and Compassion. (Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education) 168 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <744-1189>
ISBN 978-1-032-77679-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This innovative, autoethnographic study examines 12 stories of "wobble" moments - looking at "wobble" as an emotional experience - to illuminate new perspectives on LGBTQIA+ identity, school violence, racism, mental illness in students and teachers, and the emotional costs of empathy.Utilising the authors experiences as shey navigates education's most difficult years of practice from 2020-2022, and extending the existing scholarship on dialogical pedagogy and teacher identity by offering a framework that goes "beyond wobble", it provides a new theory for how teachers can deconstruct the emotions that surround the heaviest moments of their practice, shift perspectives on situations and selves, and "see the light" of compassionate possibility in both person and practice.A sobering inquiry which provides valuable insight into the emotional landscape of a contemporary classroom embroiled in America's culture wars and serves as a poignant exemplar of dialogical pedagogy in practice, it will appeal to scholars and post-graduate students of teacher education, educational psychology, and education policy.

欧州他におけるロマの人種化の理解と課題
Zevnik, Andreja / Russell, Andrew, The Politics of Unbelonging: Understanding and Challenging Racialisation of Roma in Europe and Beyond. (European Politics) 328 pp. 2025:5 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-1191>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8354-5 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This book offers a comprehensive study of racialisation of Romani communities in Europe (and beyond). Drawing on the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how Romani communities are placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions as well as public media discourses. It shows how such positionality impacts the ability of Roma to self-represent politically and build capacity for change. From the position of unbelonging the book offers an account of Romani agency which both challenges the mainstream representations of Roma but also develops an alternative none-nation-state sense of belonging. In doing so the book outlines an account of Romani alternative expressions in order to take control of their relationship with their own history, future, knowledge, and identity, and the rest of the society.

Elgvin, Olav, The Islamic Council of Norway and the Challenge of Representing Islam in Europe: Muslims under Pressure. (Muslim Minorities 46) 300 pp. 2025:7 (Brill, NE) <744-138>
ISBN 978-90-04-70113-7 hard ¥22,977.- (税込) EUR 99.00

Governments all across Europe have attempted to govern the Muslim population by working with representative Muslim councils. These councils, however, have often been plagued by conflicts and splits. Why? This book is the first attempt to answer this question in full. It does so by zooming in on the history of The Islamic Council of Norway. For many years, this organization functioned well. But after a prolonged conflict, the organization split in two in 2017. Based on a thorough study of the organization, the author claims that pressure from society at large has made it more difficult for such organizations to fulfil their role as Muslim representatives.

Momesso, Lara, Cross-Border Intimacies: Affect and Emotions in Marriage Migration. (Governing Intimacies in the Global South) 216 pp. 2025:7 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <744-1061>
ISBN 978-1-5261-8953-0 hard ¥23,936.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between China and Taiwan have paved the way to migration across a previously closed border and to social and cultural interactions between the two populations. Despite these broader changes, the unresolved issue of Taiwan sovereignty has tainted not only the relations between the two governments but also the everyday life of those who move across the Taiwan Strait. In this politicised environment, intimate and affective practices linked to cross-border marriage and family formation are never just private. Instead, they are deeply entangled with the emotional and affective processes generated at the macro and meso level of political and social life and revolving around national interests. Tracing the intimate, emotional and affective practices linked to family creation, identity formation and integration with the local and national communities, this ethnographic study offers a subjective, dynamic, and complex picture of what it means to be a mainland spouse in Taiwan.