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Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the Somali population in Uganda. This spike reflects a new development in the history of Somali mobility in East Africa, shaped both by crises and by opportunities, from which sophisticated transnational and translocal strategies have emerged. In this article, we draw attention to these strategies to understand continuity and change in Somali migrant networks in Kampala, highlighting the dual significance of Uganda both as a safe haven and as a stepping stone for upward social mobility and business expansion across the region and beyond. By describing the entanglement of needs and aspirations driving the mobility and livelihood strategies of Somali refugees, students and entrepreneurs, we argue that the historical trajectory of the Somali community in Uganda over the past 30 years has been shaped by the interaction of pre-existing linkages and an institutional framework defined by a mix of donor-oriented policies and presidential patronage. We identify three moments in which Museveni's ability to 'manage donors' perceptions' has had implications for the economic, demographic and political configuration of the Somali diaspora in Uganda: the economic liberalisation of the 1990s; the 2006 Refugee Act; and the 2007 deployment of UPDF in Uganda.

Chen studies recent immigrants and their adult children in three domains: college education, union formation, and work. In education, Chen finds that second-generation youth universally achieve higher in high school graduation than their immigrant parents. However, assimilation in terms of college education is lower among some ethnic groups due to social, cultural and structural factors. In family life, Chen finds that being raised in immigrant families protects youth from assimilating into the alternative life style of cohabitation and encourages marriage. In employment, nativity and immigran

Since the end of World War II, more than one and a half million citizens of the U.S.S.R. have emigrated to the West in a unique and unprecedented movement called the "the Third Soviet Emigration." Notwithstanding the political and international importance of this exodus, it is not weIl known or understood today because it has not been adequately studied until now. This article is intended to improve our understanding of the Third Soviet Emigration by examining its background, evolution and dynamics.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Mexican Mahjar -- Chapter 2 Managing Mobility -- Chapter 3 Race and Patronage -- Chapter 4 Migrants and the Law -- Chapter 5 Modernism -- Chapter 6 Making the Mahjar Lebanese -- Chapter 7 Objects of Memory -- Chapter 8 The Arab and Its Double -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

The major humanitarian crises of recent years are well known: the Shoah, the killing fields of Cambodia, Rwandan genocide, the massacre in Bosnia, the tsunami in southeast Asia, not to mention bloody conflicts in Sudan, Syria, and Afghanistan. Millions have been killed and many millions more have been driven from their homes; the world is sadly full of refugees and internally displaced persons. Could these crises have been prevented? Why do they continue? This book seeks to understand how humanity is in crisis, and what we can do about it. Hollenbach draws on the values that have shaped major humanitarian initiative over the past century and a half, such as the commitments of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Oxfam, Doctors without Borders, as well as the values of religious and ethical traditions, to examine the scope of our responsibilities and practical solutions to these global crises. He also explores the economic and political causes of these tragedies, drawing on on-the-ground interviews with refugees and government and NGO leaders, and uncovers key moral issues for practitioners in the field

"A Themes in Canadian Sociology series best-seller, now in its fourth edition, "Race"and Ethnicity in Canada engages students in a critical examination of the complex and often paradoxical patterns of "race" and ethnic relations in Canada. Beginning with an overview of the major theoretical approaches in the field (with new content drawn from postcolonial studies and critical race theory), the book goes on to explore French/English relations, Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations, immigration, and multiculturalism in Canada and a wider global context. Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition includes expanded theoretical coverage, updated treatment of transnationalism and diaspora issues, current Canadian coverage of issues (including Canada's response to the Syrian refugee crisis, the introduction of the express entry system of immigration, Aboriginal issues, Quebec interculturalism, and racism on the internet), and brand-new Case Study boxes that highlight the experiences of people living with the realities of race and ethnicity. Concise, yet comprehensive, "Race" and Ethnicity in Canada is a thoroughly accessible introduction that enables students to thoughtfully analyse the ways in which we continue to both shape and challenge our understandings of "race" and ethnicity."--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 "Many negroes in these parts may prove prejudissial several wayes to us and our posteraty": The Crucial Elements of Exclusion and Social Control in Pennsylvania's Early Antislavery Movement -- 2 "A certain simple grandeur . . . which awakens the benevolent heart": The American Colonization Society's Effective Marketing in Pennsylvania -- 3 "Calculated to remove the evils, and increase the happiness of society": Mathew Carey and the Political and Economic Side of African Colonization -- 4 "We here mean literally what we say": Elliott Cresson and the Pennsylvania Colonization Society's Humanitarian Agenda -- 5 "They will never become a people until they come out from amongst the white people": James Forten and African American Ambivalence to African Colonization -- 6 "A thorough abolitionist could not be such without being a colonizationist": Benjamin Coates and Black Uplift in the United States and Africa -- 7 "Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands": Martin R. Delany and the Role of Self-Help and Emigration in Black Uplift -- 8 "Maybe the Devil has got to come out of these people before we will have peace": Assessing the Successes and Failures of Pennsylvania's Competing Antislavery Agendas -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Fourteen articles from the Journal of American Ethnic History illuminate the often fraught journey many migrants undertake.

Although Europe has experienced unprecedented numbers of refugee arrivals in recent years, there exists almost no causal evidence regarding the impact of the refugee crisis on natives' attitudes, policy preferences, and political engagement. We exploit a natural experiment in the Aegean Sea, where Greek islands close to the Turkish coast experienced a sudden and massive increase in refugee arrivals, while similar islands slightly farther away did not. Leveraging a targeted survey of 2,070 island residents and distance to Turkey as an instrument, we find that direct exposure to refugee arrivals induces sizable and lasting increases in natives' hostility toward refugees, immigrants, and Muslim minorities; support for restrictive asylum and immigration policies; and political engagement to effect such exclusionary policies. Since refugees only passed through these islands, our findings challenge both standard economic and cultural explanations of anti-immigrant sentiment and show that mere exposure suffices in generating lasting increases in hostility.