Tag: Immigrants

Free Download Rebecca Seungyoun Jeong, "Preaching to Korean Immigrants: A Psalmic-Theological Homiletic "
English | ISBN: 3031078845 | 2022 | 237 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In terms of practical-theology’s critical reflection on marginalized people’s wounds in a wider society, this book investigates the question, "How to proclaim the good news in response to first-generation Korean immigrants’ contextual suffering in the United Sates?" To answer the question, the book starts with investigating Korean immigrant hearers’ contextual predicaments in a new land to point out emerging practical-theological issues in relation to the practice of preaching. In this book, the primary subjects are first-generation Korean immigrants, especially those who have relatively low socio-economic status and struggle with the purpose of their lives as immigrants, particularly those whose material dreams have been shattered.

Free Download Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America By Kenyon Zimmer
2015 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 0252039386 | EPUB | 3 MB
From the 1880s through the 1940s, tens of thousands of first- and second-generation immigrants embraced the anarchist cause after arriving on American shores. Kenyon Zimmer explores why these migrants turned to anarchism, and how their adoption of its ideology shaped their identities, experiences, and actions. Zimmer focuses on Italians and Eastern European Jews in San Francisco, New York City, and Paterson, New Jersey. Tracing the movement’s changing fortunes from the pre-World War I era through the Spanish Civil War, Zimmer argues that anarchists, opposed to both American and Old World nationalism, severed all attachments to their nations of origin but also resisted assimilation into their host society. Their radical cosmopolitan outlook and identity instead embraced diversity and extended solidarity across national, ethnic, and racial divides. Though ultimately unable to withstand the onslaught of Americanism and other nationalisms, the anarchist movement nonetheless provided a shining example of a transnational collective identity delinked from the nation-state and racial hierarchies.

Free Download Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, "Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Education for Immigrants and Minorities in Israel Today"
English | 2004 | pages: 435 | ISBN: 9401743304, 1402080735 | PDF | 3,4 mb
Systems of state education are a crucial means for realizing the state’s focal aspiration of guaranteeing solidarity and civil loyalty (Van Kemenade, 1985 pp. 854ff. ). The means at hand include the state’s structuring and organization of schooling, determination of what education is compulsory, examinations that decide admittance to institutions of secondary and tertiary education, the design of educational aids, curricula, textbooks, didactic methods, and the general distribution of resources to schools. A further apparatus is that of teacher education and the regulations for appointment to the schools and remuneration (van Kemenade, 1985, p. 850). There are indications that the issue of equality and equity for all in education is a dilemma prevalent in systems of state education, among others, because the advancement of equity is liable to interfere with the state’s main goal. It is highly likely that the failing does not derive from contingent misund- standings, but rather from systemic contradictions. With this in mind, this book suggests a broad-spectrum approach to understanding how state education gets done, so to speak, and what in the process seems to obstruct impartiality. The case that I will examine is that of the state system of education in Israel. Underlying the study is the sociological assumption that an analysis of how one state system works is likely to bear a message that can be generalized.

Free Download Alison Kolesar, "America Is Immigrants"
English | 2019 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 1984819828 | EPUB | 222,4 mb
A gorgeously illustrated collection featuring inspiring immigrants from every country in the world, celebrating the incredible range of what it means to be an American

Free Download Asha Jeffers, "The Daughters of Immigrants: A Multidisciplinary Study"
English | ISBN: 1666941875 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB, PDF | 231 KB + 1066 KB
This collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the humanities and the social sciences whose work considers the daughters of immigrants. By showcasing these varied perspectives, the collection draws meaningful connections across national and ethnic lines while attending to the particularities of specific histories, locations, and migration journeys. The multidisciplinary nature of this project highlights the relevance and usefulness of varied methodological and theoretical approaches for understanding the diverse lived experiences of the daughters of immigrants, as well as how those experiences are theorized and represented. While each chapter contains its own argument, assumes its own conceptual and disciplinary viewpoint, and tends to specific national and ethnic origins and sites of immigration, each offers meaningful insight into the gendered positionality of the daughters of immigrants as mediated by the complexities of migration, kinship, and culture. Taken together, these contributions point to the nuanced ways national, ethnic, and gendered identity function, and how those not always well served by how these identities are constituted understand and navigate forces beyond their control.

Free Download Daniel Campos, "Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction "
English | ISBN: 1498547842 | 2017 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
At once narrative and reflective, Loving Immigrants in America: An Experiential Philosophy of Personal Interaction is a philosophical account of Daniel Camposʼs experience as a Latin American immigrant to the United States of America. A series of interrelated personal essays together convey this experience of walking or sauntering, going on road trips, reading American literature in the southern United States, playing association football (soccer or fútbol), churchgoing, and Latin dancing in the U.S. This book’s central motif is the caring saunterer, who is understood to be a person who makes him or herself at home anywhere, even as a Latino immigrant in the U.S. The narrative essays convey one immigrant’s experience seeking an affective, social, and intellectual home in a new land. The intertwined philosophical reflections lead to the recommendation of an ethic of love-resilient love-for the day-to-day interactions and long-term relations between immigrants and hosts in this country.

Free Download Cynthia Pizarro, "Bolivian Labor Immigrants’ Experiences in Argentina"
English | ISBN: 1498514162 | 2015 | 168 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Bolivian Labor Immigrants’ Experiences in Argentina examines key issues regarding the structural factors that pattern the integration of Bolivian immigrants in labor markets segmented by inequalities based on class, gender, ethnicity/race, nationality, and migratory and legal status. The book provides ethnographic insights about the various ways in which Bolivian immigrants experience harsh living and working conditions in Argentina, demonstrating that these men and women are capable of dealing with oppressive situations and of performing particular ways of resistance.

Free Download Alexander Freund, "Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants’ Local Lives in Transnational Cultures"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1442642785 | PDF | pages: 313 | 0.7 mb
Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries – from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migration – including Dirk Hoerder and the late Christiane Harzig – detail these German-Canadians’ experiences of immigration by investigating their imagined communities and collective memories.

Free Download Toula Drimonis, "We, the Others: Allophones, Immigrants, and Belonging in Canada"
English | ISBN: 1773901214 | 2022 | 223 pages | EPUB | 774 KB
Ungrateful, opportunistic, moochers, dangerous, incompatible with our values and our way of life?

Free Download Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers, "African Immigrants’ Experiences in American Schools: Complicating the Race Discourse "
English | ISBN: 149851071X | 2016 | 146 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
As the number of African-born students in American schools increases, it is important that schools enlarge the circle of diversity to include African-born students who are rendered invisible by their skin color and continent of origin.. African Immigrants’ Experiences in American Schools: Complicating the Race Discourse is aimed at filling the gap in the literature about African-born students in American schools. This book will not only assist teachers and administrators in understanding the nuanced cultural, sociological, and socio-cognitive differences between American-born and African-born students; it will also equip them with effective interpersonal teaching strategies adapted to the distinct needs of African-born students and others like them. The book explores in depth salient African-rooted factors that come into play in the social and academic integration of African immigrant students, such as gender, spirituality, colonization, religious affiliation, etc. The authors examine American-rooted factors that complicate the adaptation of these students in the US educational school system, such as institutional racism, Afrophobia, Islamophobia, cultural discontinuities, curricular mismatches, and western media mis-portrayals. They also proffer pedagogical tools and frameworks that may help minimize these deleterious factors.