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The crisis of multiculturalism in europe
A history of modern European cultural pluralism, its current crisis, and its uncertain futureIn 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar decrees. But ...
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The cruel optimism of racial justice
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 success...
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The deportation machine
The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' livesConstant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and border walls drive urgent debates about immigration and what it means to be an American in the twenty-first century. The Deportation Machine traces the long ...
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The good immigrants
Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance bec...
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The great demographic illusion
Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s future Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will crea...
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The migrant's jail
A century-long history of immigrant incarceration in the United StatesToday, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of hundreds of local jails. But this is nothing new: the federal government ...
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The mosaic myth
The Mosaic Myth shows how Canada’s 1971 adoption of the cultural mosaic model was doomed by false assumptions. Author Domenic Diamante explains Canada’s immigration history and analyzes key questions that informed the country’s multiculturalism policy.
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The outsiders
The history of Europe as a continent of refugeesEuropean history has been permeated with refugees. The Outsiders chronicles every major refugee movement since 1492, when the Catholic rulers of Spain set in motion the first mass flight and expulsion in modern European history. Philipp Ther provide...
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The politics of researching multilingually
This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers’ linguistic resources, and the languages they use, are politically and structurally constrained, with implications for the reliability of the research. The book will help readers to make theoretically and methodologically informed choices...
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The power of voice in transforming multilingual societies
Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, the chapters in this book link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access. They present powerful evidence of how marginalized speakers reclaim their voices and cha...
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The price of rights
Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows ...
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The shifting border: legal cartographies of migration and mobility
A critical assessment from the perspective of political and legal theory of how shifting borders impact on migration, mobility and the protection of displaced persons
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The walls within
A history of the battles over US immigrants’ rights since 1965—and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and moreThe 1965 Hart-Celler Act transformed the American immigration system by abolishing national quotas in favor of a seemingly egalitarian approach...
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Transcultural pedagogies for multilingual classrooms
This book explores the ways in which transcultural pedagogies can support learning and literacies in critical, creative and socially just ways, highlighting research initiatives from across the globe. Chapters present innovative perspectives for language/literacy education focusing on Indigenous,...
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Transnational research in english language teaching
The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across countries. It brings together language teachers, educators and researchers who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the...
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Trauma-informed applied linguistics
This book explores how applied linguistics can work more ethically and sympathetically through trauma-informed approaches. It considers the positionality of asylum seekers, the narrative construction of traumatic events, trauma-informed interviewing, interpreting and teaching, and the risk of vic...
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Unauthorized welfare
The evolution of federal welfare policies between the 1930s and the 1970s, and the roots of today’s anti-immigrant politicsBetween 1935 and 1972, US federal welfare policy did not distinguish between citizens and noncitizens. Noncitizens, including unauthorized immigrants, were eligible for Socia...
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Unbuild walls
“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer...
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Understanding success and failure in adult esl
This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular.
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Undesirable immigrants
How the racist legacy of colonialism shapes global migrationThe Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 officially ended the explicit prejudice in American immigration policy that began with the 1790 restriction on naturalization to free White persons of “good character.” By the 1980s, the rest o...
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Up against the wall
The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
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Using linguistically appropriate practice
This book provides an accessible guide to multilingual teaching in diverse classrooms world-wide. It is grounded in the latest research and takes a realistic approach to the challenges found in the modern school. The author argues that multilingual teaching is an option for all teachers, and that...
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Waiting for josé
A revealing look inside a controversial movementThey live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to h...
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What the oceans remember
In this memoir that traverses five continents and spans two centuries, Sonja Boon explores archives, family stories, and her memories in a search for origins, belonging, and home. Her journey is interwoven with reflections on the meaning of music, love, legacy, freedom, memory, ruin, and the rele...
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Wheat songs
Wheat Songs is memoir about war, survival and the love between a grandson and his grandfather. The piece is the result of WWII and the Nazi occupation of Greece, a trip across the Atlantic and a yearlong conversation between the author, Perry Rizopoulos and his grandfather or pappou, Pericles Riz...
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When ways of life collide
In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial film about Muslim suppression of women. The Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing pro...
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Willingness to communicate, multilingualism and interactions in community contexts
This book examines the communication behaviours of individuals in multilingual community contexts. Using a complexity lens and the presentation of a revised 3D pyramid model, the authors demonstrate the dynamic nature of willingness to communicate over time and shed new light on processes that af...
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Youth migration and the politics of wellbeing
This book examines the factors affecting the health and wellbeing of young people as they transition to adulthood under the shadow of migration control. Drawing on unique longitudinal data, it illuminates how they conceptualize wellbeing for themselves and others in contexts of prolonged and poli...
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