Migration & Diaspora Reading List
Theoretical Approaches to Migration & Diaspora
- Curtin, Philip D. Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century.
- Jackson, James H and Leslie Page Moch. “Migration and the Social History of Modern Europe” Historical Methods (1989): 27-36
- Diner, Hasia. “History and the Study of Immigration: Narratives of the Particular” in Brettell and Hollifeld Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines
- Nugent, Walter. Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 Bloomington: Indiana UP
- Ewa T. Morawska, A sociology of immigration : (re)making multifaceted America (2009)
- Xiang, Biao, Brenda S. A Yeoh, and Mika Toyota. Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia, 2013.***
- Anderson, Wanni W, and Robert G Lee. Displacements and Diasporas Asians in the Americas. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
- Selected articles from Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
- Safran, William. “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 1, no. 1 (1991): 83–99.
- Jon Stratton, “(Dis)placing the Jews : historicizing the idea of diaspora” Diaspora: A Journal of Transatlantic Studies v6n3 (1997) ***
- Braziel, Jana Evans, and Anita Mannur. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2003.
- Oesten Wahlbeck, “The concept of diaspora as an analytical tool in the study of refugee communities” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 28: 2: 221-238 April 2002
Transnationalism and Diasporas
- **Levitt, Peggy, Josh DeWind, and Steven Vertovec. 2003. “International Perspectives on Transnational Migration: An Introduction.” International Migration Review 37(3): 565-575.
- **Madeline Hsu Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: transnationalism and migration between the US and South China, 1882-1943
- Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2004. World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. HN13 .W35 2004
- Bloemraad, Irene. 2004. “Who Claims Dual Citizenship? The Limits of Postnationalism, the Possibilities of Transnationalism, and the Persistence of Traditional Citizenship.” International Migration Review 38 (2): 389-426.***
- Baumann, Martin “Diaspora: Geneaologies of Semantics and Transcultural Comparison” in Sahoo and Maharaj, eds, Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader
- Glick Schiller, Nina and Georges Fouron.. “Transnational Lives and National Identities: The Identity Politics of Haitian Immigrants.” in Transnationalism from Below, edited by M.P. Smith and L.E. Guarnizo. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998
- Ballinger, Pamela. “Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility.” In A Companion to Border Studies, edited by Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan, 387–404. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.***
- Khachig Tölölyan,“The Nation-State and Its Others: In Lieu of a Preface ” Diaspora 1:1 (Sp 1991):3-8.
- William Brown and Mary Odem, Readings: Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the U.S. South at http://www.southernspaces.org/2011/living-across-borders-guatemala-maya-immigrants-us-south
Ethnicity & Identity (and/or Hybridity)
- Sarah M. A. Gualtieri, Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press)***
- Ira Berlin, The Making of the African Diaspora***
- Levitt, P. and M. C. Waters, eds, The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation New York: Russell Sage. JV6455 .C434 2002
- Paul Gilroy, The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness (1993)**
- Stuart Hall & Mark Sealy, Different: A Historical Context (2001)
- Jonathan Rutherford (ed), Identity: Community, Culture, Difference (1990)
- Ortiz, Fernando, and Harriet De Onis. Cuban Counterpoint; Tobacco and Sugar. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1947.**
- Moya, Jose C. Cousins and Strangers Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.**
- Millington, Mark. “Transculturation: Contrapuntal Notes to Critical Orthodoxy.” Bulletin of Latin American Research 26, no. 2 (April 1, 2007): 256–68.***
- Nicholas Mirzoeff, Diaspora and Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (Routledge, 1999)
Jewish Diaspora
- Daniel Soyer, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (1997)
- Rebecca Kobrin, Jewish Bialystok and its Diaspora (2010) **
- Boyarin, Jonathan, and Daniel Boyarin. Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
- Rischin, Moses, and Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress). The Promised City: New York’s Jews, 1870-1914. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962.
- Moore, Deborah Dash. At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
- Shanes, Joshua. Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish Identity in Habsburg Galicia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Migration and Labor
- Anna Pegler-Gordon In sight of America: photography and the development of US Immigration Policy***
- Ewa T. Morawska, Insecure prosperity : small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890-1940 (1996)
- Chin, Rita C-K. The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Putnam, Lara. The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.***
- Michael Meng, “Democratic (In)Equalities: Immigration in 20thCentury Western Europe,” in Contemporary European History 21:1 (2013): 139-151.
- Terry Easton, “Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta’s African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers,” Southern Spaces http://www.southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers
- Gregory E. OʹMalley, “Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Migration from the Caribbean to North America, 1619‐1807,” William and Mary Quarterly 66:1 (2009): 125–172.
- Mary E. Frederickson, “Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South,” Southern Spaces http://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south
Europeans on the Move
Internal (within Europe)
- **Nick Baron and Peter Gatrell, eds. Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924 (Anthem Press, 2004)***
- Gatrell, Peter. A Whole Empire Walking Refugees in Russia during World War I. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999.
- Randolph, John, and Eugene M Avrutin. Russia in Motion: Cultures of Human Mobility since 1850, 2012.
- Baron, Nick, and Peter Gatrell. Homelands: War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924. London: Anthem Press, 2004.
- Gatrell, Peter, and Nick Baron. Warlands: Population Resettlement and State Reconstruction in the Soviet-East European Borderlands, 1945-50. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Buckley, Cynthia J, Blair A Ruble, and Hofmann. Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia. Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Md.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Ther, Philipp, and Ana Siljak. Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
- Uehling, Greta Lynn. Beyond Memory the Crimean Tatars’ Deportation and Return. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Schönwälder, Karen, Rainer Ohliger, and Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos. European Encounters: Migrants, Migration, and European Societies since 1945. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003.
External (elsewhere)
- James Melton, From Alps to Lowcountry: Confession, Community, and Slavery on a Southern Colonial Frontier (Cambridge University Press; forthcoming).
- Morawska, Ewa T. For Bread with Butter: The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Diaspora & the Homeland
- Daniel Soyer, Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 (1997)
- The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present. Ed. Allon Gal, Athena S. Leoussi, and Anthony D. Smith. Leiden: Brill, 2010
- Part I, “Charting the Historical Experience and Theoretical Frontiers of Diaspora Nationalisms,” includes articles by Anthony D. Smith, Khachig Tölölyan, and Chantal Bordes-Benayoun.
- Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
- Rogers Brubaker, “Accidental Diasporas and External ‘Homelands’ in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present” Institute for Advanced Studies 71 (2000). Available at: http://works.bepress.com/wrb/10
Diaspora/Migration and Language
- Shandler, Jeffrey. Adventures in Yiddishland Postvernacular Language & Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
- Goldstein, Eric. “The Politics of Yiddish in Postimmigrant America” in Diner, Hasia R, and Ėstraĭkh. 1929: Mapping the Jewish World, 2013.
- Clifford, James. Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Migration/Diaspora & Memory
- **Maud S. Mandel, In the Aftermath of genocide: Armenians and Jews in 20th-Century France
- **Leo Spitzer, Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory is a Refuge from Nazism
- Young, James Edward. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
- Confino, Alon. Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
- Vecoli, Rudolph J. “Contadini in Chicago: A Critique of The Uprooted.” The Journal of American History 51, no. 3 (December 1, 1964): 404–17.
- Boyarin, Jonathan. Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.
- Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Migration/Diaspora & Gender
- Donna R. Gabaccia, From the other side : women, gender, and immigrant life in the U.S., 1820-1990 (1994)
- Glenn, Susan A. Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
- Alternatively, this could go under Migration & Labor
- Hyman, Paula. Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995.
- Christine G. T. Ho, “Caribbean Transnationalism as a Gendered Process.” Latin American Perspectives 26: 5 (1999): 34-54.
Migration/Diaspora & Religion
- Orsi, Robert A. The Madonna of 115th Street Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
- Levitt, P. (2007). God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape, New Press.
- Levitt, P. (2013). Religion on the Move: Mapping Global Cultural Production and Consumption. Religion on the Edge: De-Centering the Sociology of Religion. C.
- Meyer, B. (2010). Pentecostalism and Golobalization. Studying Global Pentecostalism: Theories and Methods. M. B. Allan Anderson, André Droogers, and Cornelis van der Laan. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 113-130.
- Csordas, T. J. (2009). Introduction: Modalities of Transnational Transcendence. Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and Globalization. T. J. Csordas. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London, University of California Press: 1-29.
- Berkowitz, Michael. “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Globalization: Nationalism, Meet Religion.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 16, no. 3 (2007): 431–40.***
- Hasan, S. S. Christians versus Muslims in Modern Egypt the Century-Long Struggle for Coptic Equality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2003. http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=422599.
- Hourani, Albert, Nadim Shehadi, and Centre for Lebanese Studies (Great Britain), eds. The Lebanese in the World: A Century of Emigration. London: Centre for Lebanese Studies in association with I.B. Tauris, 1992.
- McLoughlin, Sean. “Religion, Religions, and Diasporas.” In A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, 125–38. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2013.***
Also see: Israel Bartal, David Engel
Forced Migrations
- Demshuk, Andrew. The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory, 1945-1970. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.***
- Ther, Philipp, and Ana Siljak. Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944-1948. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
- Service, Hugo. Germans to Poles: Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War, 2013.
List Provided by Steffi Krull, PhD Student at Emory University