Tag: Immigration

January 5, 2024

Debating Immigration in the Age of Terrorism, Polarization, and Trump

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Free Download Joshua Woods, "Debating Immigration in the Age of Terrorism, Polarization, and Trump"
English | ISBN: 1498535216 | 2017 | 214 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book offers a broad interdisciplinary approach to the changes in the U.S. immigration debate before and after 9/11. A nation’s reaction to foreigners has as much to do with sociology as it does with political science, economics and psychology. Without drawing on this knowledge, our understanding of the immigration debate remains mundane, partial, and imperfect. Therefore, our story accounts for multiple factors, including culture and politics, power, organizations, social psychological processes, and political change. Examining this relationship in the contemporary context requires a lengthy voyage across academic disciplines, a synthesis of seemingly contradictory assumptions, and a grasp of research traditions so vast and confusing that an accurate rendering may seem implausible. And yet, to tell the story of the immigration debate in the age of terrorism, polarization, and Trump in any other way is to tell it in part.

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January 4, 2024

Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women’s On

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Free Download Joong-Hwan Oh, "Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media: American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women’s On"
English | ISBN: 1498519261 | 2016 | 256 pages | EPUB | 807 KB
In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks is as important as offline ethnic networks-families, friends, etc.-in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. This is something that has received very little attention in the academic field of international immigration which Oh hopes to rectify through this book. He focuses on the five American social institutions (immigration, welfare, education, housing, and finance) to explore this topic through the lens of married Korean-American women. In their online "MissyUSA" community, the largest Korean-American women’s online community in North America, they share a wide range of information about the rules of each of these social institutions as they work together to navigate American society. Oh explores how the "MissyUSA" community creates two distinctive forms of social capital: social resources and social support. For some of its members (inquirers or information seekers), the "MissyUSA" community functions as an important source of their information (social resources) about the rules of the American social institutions. Likewise, it also functions as a network of social supporters (respondents or information providers) for those information seekers. Here, what makes this book a significant one is the fact that these social supporters are distinctively identified as instrumental guiders (information describers, expositors, confirmers, and advisors) and emotional supporters (companions, encouragers, and critics). By researching the lives of Korean-American women who are members of the "MissyUSA" community, Oh’s book works to understand how a sub-set of the Korean-American community shares information about American institutions and uses the internet to do so.

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January 2, 2024

The Politics of Immigration in Scotland

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Free Download Aubrey Westfall, "The Politics of Immigration in Scotland"
English | ISBN: 1474491588 | 2022 | 352 pages | PDF | 4 MB
At a time when many European nationalist movements are attempting to preserve their culture by rejecting immigration and diversification, openness to immigration and diversity is a central political strategy for Scottish nation building, making Scotland a key case study for how nationalist sentiments and cosmopolitan identities can join together. This book discusses whether the pro-immigration strategies implemented by the Scottish political leadership could be employed elsewhere, addressing ongoing public debates about minority integration and multiculturalism in Western democracies, and the potential power of local or national political elites to steer rhetoric against anti-immigrant forces.

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