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While most histories of immigrants in the United States begin with the experiences of migratory men disguised as genderless humans, From the Other Side instead begins with the experiences of migratory women. But though centered on women, its analysis does not stop with them. Immigrant women cannot be studied apart from men of their own backgrounds, nor apart from American women. As mobile and culturally distinctive outsiders, foreign-born women shared key experiences with foreign-born men, as well as with native-born women who migrated from country to city, poor women who struggled to survive and prosper, and native-born minorities seeking dignity and acceptance as Americans. Immigrants' daughters, in turn, encountered elite majority women eager to guide them toward American-style womanly behavior.

Nothing better symbolizes the intensifying pace of globalization in recent years than the foreigner, who—as tourist, student, worker, businessperson, refugee, or immigrant—brings the wider world home to almost every nation on earth. While most studies of the earth's most mobile people focus on the challenges they pose for national economies, societies, governments, and cultures, Bonnie Honig in this book explores the challenge of foreigners to democracy itself.