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In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple, identities, which alter with time and changing circumstances. The contributors consider minorities who have received a lot of attention, such as Turkish Germans, and some who have received little, such as Kashubians and Tartars in Pola

Race, nation, and culture in recent immigration studies / George J. Sanchez -- Is everywhere nowhere? Nomads, nations, and the immigrant paradigm of United States history / Donna R. Gabaccia -- How the Indians got to be red / Nancy Shoemaker -- Muslims in early America / Michael A. Gomez -- "A distinct and antagonistic race" : constructions of Chinese manhood in the exclusionist debates, 1869-1878 / Karen A. Leong -- Becoming Caucasian : vicissitudes of whiteness in American politics and culture / Matthew Frye Jacobson -- Encountering the color line in the everyday : Italians in interwar Chicago / Thomas A. Guglielmo -- Crossing boundaries, claiming a homeland : the Mexican Chinese transpacific journey to becoming Mexican, 1930s-1960s / Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho -- The foreignness of germs : the persistent association of immigrants and disease in American society / Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern -- "Looking like a lesbian" : the organization of sexual monitoring at the United States-Mexican border / Eithne Luibheid -- Migration, emergent ethnicity, and the "third space" : the shifting politics of nationalism in greater Mexico / David G. Guttiérez

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans constitute the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are also one of the most religiously diverse. Through them Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism have been introduced into every major city and across a wide swath of Middle America. The contributors to this volume provide an essential inter-disciplinary resource for the study of Asian and Pacific Islander American religion.