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Transpacific Americas as Relational Space / Philipp Schorch and Eveline Dürr -- Historicising the "Indigenous International" : Museums, Anthropology, and Transpacific Networks / Conal McCarthy -- Performing Transpacific Identities : The Role of Music and Musicians in Interactions Between Easter Island and Chile / Dan Bendrups -- Shadowed Lives : Invisibility and Visibility of Mexicans in Hawai'i / Monisha Das Gupta -- Border Crossings and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Touring Exhibition : An Aotearoa New Zealand-Mexico Exchange / Lee Davidson -- Transpacific Discourses of Primitivism and Extinction on "Fuegians" and "Tasmanians" in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century / Fernanda Peñaloza -- Re-assembling Language in Nests : Transpacific Indigenous Strategies for Cultural Revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand and Mexico / Eveline Dürr -- Disjunctive Policy Assemblages : The New Zealand Model of Welfare Reform in Alberta, Canada / Catherine Kingfisher -- Tangled up in Food : The Moral Economy of Food Politics in the Transpacific Region / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- Taualuga : Decolonising and Globalising the Pacific / Vilsoni Hereniko

Nation-states are no longer contained by their borders. In times of mass migration and ever more dense transnational networks, states of all sizes and all migration profiles reach out to their emigrated citizens in wholly new ways. The variety of policies that target emigrants ("emigrant policies") is so vast that it seems to have become a new state function. For example, it is well known that states are expanding citizen participation beyond the nation's boundaries through voting rights and new modalities of representation and that they are opening channels for remittance transfer and offering specific investment opportunities to returning emigrants. However, other, less studied emigrant policies, comprise the symbolic incorporation of emigrants into the nation-state (e.g. through awards celebrating emigrants' achievements); social service provisions for non-residents (e.g. health and education); and the institutional inclusion of emigrants in consultative bodies, to name just a few.
This book is the first to systematically take stock of the emigrant policies in place across 22 Latin American and Caribbean countries, as of 2015. By covering an entire geographical region and being based on rigorous data-collection, this will be a reference in a literature that has so far centered on a few specific cases. Also, our proposed definition of "emigrant policies" encompasses a wide range of policies that are aimed at emigrants beyond the "usual suspects" analyzed in the extant literature (electoral, citizenship, and economic policies), resulting in 112 different dimensions. This survey of such a broad sample of countries and policy dimensions will allow researchers to theorize and make comparisons on models of emigrant policy on a solid empirical and conceptual base.

Summary -- Vision for the American Community Survey -- Sample Design and Precision of Estimates -- Data Collection Methods -- Data Processing and Analytic Issues -- Data Dissemination -- Survey Content -- References -- Appendix A. Usability Analysis: Tract-Level 2008-2012 ACS Data -- Appendix B. Examples of Differences Between Census Counts and ACS Population Estimates -- Appendix C. Data Quality Filtering Rates, 1-Year ACS Data, 2012 -- Appendix D. Data Quality Filtering Rates, 3-Year Data, 2010-2012 -- Appendix E. 2014 American Community Survey Mail Questionnaire -- Appendix F. ACS Questions by Year Introduced and Agency -- Appendix G. Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff.

Introduction: New Histories of Latin America at the League of Nations / Yannick Wehrli -- Part One. Sovereignty and Conflict Resolution -- Anti-Imperialism and the Failure of the League of Nations / Alan McPherson -- A Dangerous League of Nations : The Abyssinian War and Latin American Proposals for the Regionalization of Collective Security / Yannick Wehrli -- Mexico and its "Defense" of Ethiopia at the League of Nations / Fabián Herrera León -- Non-Intervention through Intervention : Mexican Diplomacy in the League of Nations during the Spanish Civil War / Abdiel Oñate -- Part Two. Labor -- Europe-Geneva-America : The First International Conference of American States Affiliated to the International Labour Organization / Norberto Osvaldo Ferreras -- "To Raise Awareness of Difficulties and to Assert their Opinion" : The International Labour Office and the Regionalization of International Cooperation in the 1930s / Véronique Plata-Stenger -- Beyond Social Legislation : Worker Unity in Latin America and its Links to the International Labour Organization, 1936-1939 / Patricio Herrera González -- Part Three. Intellectual and Scientific Cooperation -- "The Spirit of Harmony" and the Politics of (Latin American) History at the League of Nations / Corinne Pernet -- Latin America at the Crossroads : The Inter-American Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, the League of Nations, and the Pan-American Union / Juliette Dumont -- Between National and International Science and Education : Miguel Ozório de Almeida and the League of Nations's Intellectual Cooperation Project / Letícia Pumar -- Rudolf Kraus, South America, and the League of Nations's Permanent Commission on Biological Standardization / Juliana Manzoni -- Part Four. Economic and Social Activities -- Discovering Underdevelopment : Argentina and Double Taxation at the League of Nations / José Antonio Sánchez Román -- Latin America and International Nutrition : Integrative Channels in the Interwar Period / Maria Leticia Galluzzi Bizzo -- Separating the Political from the Technical : The 1938 League of Nations Mission to Latin America / Amelia Kiddle -- Conclusion: The Distinct Integration of Latin America / Alan McPherson

"Volume 3 of Double Exposure highlights NMAAHC's rich collection of photographs of African American women, some of whom are cultural icons. This volume demonstrates the dignity, joy, heartbreak, commitment, and sacrifice of women of all ages and backgrounds, with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Beverly Conley, Robert Galbraith, Ernest C. Withers, Wayne F. Miller, P.H. Polk, Joe Schwartz, and Milton Williams." -- Amazon.com

Intro -- Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean in Global Perspective -- 3 Health Status, Disability, and Mortality -- 4 Health Care Systems, Access, and Quality -- 5 Labor Market Participation/Retirement -- 6 Family and Social Transfers -- 7 Resilience and Aspects of Well-Being in Older Age -- 8 Opportunities to Generate Evidence on Older Adults and Move the Research Agenda Forward -- References -- Appendix A WORKSHOP AGENDA

This book examines one of the most important demographic changes facing the United States: an overall aging population and the increasing influence of Latinos. It also looks at the changing demographics in Mexico and its impact on the health and financial well-being of aging Mexicans and Mexican Americans. The book provides a conceptual and accessible framework that will educate and inform readers about the interconnectedness of the demographic trends facing these two countries. It also explores the ultimate personal, social, and political impact they will have on all Americans, in the U.S. a

Acknowledgments -- The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) : hard data and what is at stake -- The different faces of mestizaje : ethnicity and race in Mexico -- Colombia : from whitened miscegenation to triethnic multiculturalism -- "El pa's de todas las sangres? : race and ethnicity in contemporary Peru -- Mixed and unequal : new perspectives on brazilian ethnoracial relations -- A comparative analysis of ethnicity, race, and color based on PERLA findings -- Notes -- References -- About the authors -- Index.

Improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America using a broad "quality-of-life" concept that challenges standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income. Builds upon new economic approaches related to the study of happiness, finding some paradoxes as respondents evaluate their well-being - Provided by publisher

Immigrants and the church : German-Americans in comparative perspective / Reinhard R. Doerries -- Community versus separation : a northwest German emigrant settlement region in nineteenth-century Ohio / Anne [Aengenvoort] Höndgen -- The dialectics of ethnic identity : German Jews in Chicago, 1850-1870 / Tobias Brinkmann -- Immigrant religion and the public sphere : the German Catholic milieu in America / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Prescriptions and perceptions of labor and family among ethnic groups in the nineteenth-century American Middle West / Jon Gjerde -- German-origin settlement and agricultural land use in the twentieth-century Great Plains / Myron Gutmann, Sara Pullum-Pinon, Susan Gonzalez Baker, Ingrid Burke -- German and Irish political engagement : the politics of cultural diversity in an industrial age / Donald DeBats -- German and Irish big city mayors : comparative perspective on ethnic politics / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Ethnic politicians in congress : German-American congressmen between ethnic group and national government circa 1880 / Willi Paul Adams -- The political and pedagogical in bilingual education : yesterday and today / Paul Fessler -- German-born Union soldiers : motivation, ethnicity, and "Americanization" / Wolfgang Helbich -- Reviving ethnic identity : the foreign office, the Reichswehr, and German Americans during the Weimar Republic / Michael Wala

This theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowledge. Virginia Walsh's approach reverses the traditional focus of international relations literature--which most often deals with how scientific knowledge influences institutions--and offers an original way to look at international environmental governance. After proposing a theory of institutional mechanisms by which global institutions shape the generation of knowledge, the book turns to detailed case studies of two institutions in the under- studied but vital area of marine science, the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, to illustrate these mechanisms.In part 1, "Theory," the book identifies three specific mechanisms or "fixes" that provide the means by which institutions shape the generation and use of knowledge. With the positional fix, key individuals use their social roles or positions in an institution to influence the beliefs of members or fix the direction of research. The statutory fix occurs when beliefs gain acceptance as a consequence of being embedded in rules or treaties. The committee fix is illustrated in the regularized practices through which social groups accept statements as group beliefs. Part 2, "Evidence," shows these mechanisms at work in the two case studies. The Scripps Institution, for example, illustrates the positional fix, as successive directors used their position to frame research. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, on the other hand, exemplifies both the statutory fix and the committee fix in its regulatory actions.

About the North American Carbon Program Plan (NACP) -- Executive summary -- Introduction: motivation, major goals and program objectives -- Major elements of the NACP -- Synergy of the NACP with other major areas of research -- Management and deliverables -- Appendices.

Centers on the consequence of the reforms implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades. Trade and financial liberalization and the privatization of production activities have radically altered the rules of the game governing labor and business. The macroeconomic policy changes that accompanied or preceded the reforms sometimes strengthened the latter 's specific objectives, especially the growth of exports, but on other occasions they had the opposite effect. That combination of factors prompted the emergence of new market structures and transformations in microeconomic behavior. This book is part of a project carried out by ECLAC, in conjunction with researchers from nine countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru), to study the impact of the reforms. Income distribution in the region is the most unequal in the entire world, a situation that has been true for as long as the statistics have been kept. This publication identifies three contributing factors that help explain Latin America 's high level of inequality

Reconstructing human societies with ancient molecules / Anne C. Stone -- mtDNA variation in native Americans and Siberians and its implications for the peopling of the New World / Theodore G. Schurr and Douglas C. Wallace -- Databases for Paleo-American skeletal biology research / Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz -- Peopling of the Americas / D. Gentry Steele and Joseph F. Powell -- From Jamestown to Kennewick / Douglas W. Owsley -- The native American graves Protection and Repatriation Act and first Americans research / Francis P. McManamon

"Brief, insightful essays and valuable commentary by conference participants at the Carter Center in Sept. 1993 (including former President Jimmy Carter and Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide). Emphasis on legitimacy of collective international actions for peace, democracy, and human rights and accompanying ambivalence of many Latin Americans in terms of State sovereignty"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57