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Had massive migration of mexican labor to the southwest not taken place in the twentieth century, it is probable, as Ruth Tuck observed in Not with the Fist: Mexican-Americans in a Southwest City (N.Y., 1946; 29-30), that "side-eddies" of native Spanish-speaking would have been gradually swept into the mainstream of American life, as they almost were in California by 1900. Or perhaps these Spanish-speakers would have remained a picturesque folk in such isolated areas as northern New Mexico and South Texas. But massive migration from Mexico did occur at the opening of this century, adding a new chapter to Southwestern settlement and development, a chapter that differs from the old romanticized Southwest as much as a Chicano barrio or migrant camp differs from a restored Spanish mission or a New Mexico adobe. And yet this chapter—now so important to the ethnic study movement—has been almost totally neglected by Latin Americanists both in the United States and Mexico.

"The 1905 Aliens Act was the first modern law to restrict immigration to British shores. In this book, David Glover asks how it was possible for Britain, a nation that had prided itself on offering asylum to refugees, to pass such legislation. Tracing the ways that the legal notion of the 'alien' became a national-racist epithet indistinguishable from the figure of 'the Jew', Glover argues that the literary and popular entertainments of fin de siècle Britain perpetuated a culture of xenophobia. Reconstructing the complex socio-political field known as 'the alien question', Glover examines the work of George Eliot, Israel Zangwill, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, together with forgotten writers like Margaret Harkness, Edgar Wallace and James Blyth. By linking them to the beliefs and ideologies that circulated via newspapers, periodicals, political meetings, Royal Commissions, patriotic melodramas and social surveys, Glover sheds new light on dilemmas about nationality, borders and citizenship"--

Preliminary Material /Marie-Aude Baronian , Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen -- Introduction: Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics /Marie-Aude Baronian , Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen -- Figures of Diasporic Cultural Production: Some Entries from the Palestinian Lexicon /Carol Bardenstein -- Comparing to Make Explicit: Diasporic Articulations of the Herero Communities in Namibia /Anette Hoffmann -- Home or Away?: On the Connotations of Homeland Imaginaries in Imbros /Elif Babul -- Longing for Home at Home: Armenians in Istanbul /Melissa Bilal -- Through the Lens of the Chronotope: Suggestions for a Spatio-Temporal Perspective on Diaspora /Esther Peeren -- Diaspora and Nation: Migration into Other Pasts /Andreas Huyssen -- Adopted Memory: The Holocaust, Postmemory, and Jewish Identity in America /Pascale R. Bos -- Memory's Exiles /Hanadi Loubani and Joseph Rosen -- The Refusal to Mourn: Confronting the facts of destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne /Karolina Szmagalska -- Testimonial Objects: Memory, Gender and Transmission /Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- Imaginary Lands and Figures of Exile in Elia Kazan's AMERICA, AMERICA /Sylvie Rollet -- The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting in present-day South Africa: André Brink's On the Contrary /Saskia Lourens -- Memory and Forgetting: Traces of Silence in Sarkis /Soko Phay-Vakalis -- Recollective Processes and the "Topography of Forgetting" in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz /Silke Horstkotte -- The Contributors /Marie-Aude Baronian , Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen -- Index /Marie-Aude Baronian , Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen.

Intro -- title page -- copyright page -- The Changing Face of the United States, by Marian L. Smith -- The Changing Face of Canada, by Peter A. Hammerschmidt -- 1. Success and Sadness -- 2. Why Cubans Want to Leave -- 3. A. History of Cuban Migration -- 4. New American Lives -- 5. Old Traditions Lost and Kept -- 6. A Community's Challenges -- 7. The Future of Cuban Immigration -- Famous Cuban Americans -- Series Glossary of Key Terms -- Further Reading -- Internet Resources -- Index -- Contributors -- Untitled -- Blank Page.