Book Reviews

Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam

Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar of the University of Washington reviews Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam by Ivan Small. In this book, Small considers the impact of international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora. In Vietnam, these remittances are...

As an Equal? Au Pairing in the 21st Century

Sondra Cuban of Western Washington University reviews As an Equal? Au Pairing in the 21st Century by Rosie Cox and Nicky Busch. In this book, Cox and Busch draw on detailed research to examine au pairs and the families who...

Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia

James Zarsadiaz of the University of San Francisco reviews Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia by Willow Lung-Amam. In this book, Lung-Amam looks closely at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of rapid...

From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights Beyond Borders

Pau Palop-García of the Institute of Latin American Studies and German Institute of Global and Area Studies reviews From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights Beyond Borders by Alexandra Délano Alonso. This book examines how Mexico and...

Rules, Papers, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy

Tiziana Caponio of the Migration Policy Institute, EUI, and the University of Turin reviews Rules, Papers, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy by Anna Tuckett. In this book, Tuckett highlights the complex processes of inclusion and exclusion produced...

The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life

Yalidy Matos of Rutgers University reviews The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life by Tomás R Jiménez. This book shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jiménez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation...

The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

Fredy González of the University of Illinois at Chicago reviews The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams. This book locates the origins of the modern American “alien” in anti-Chinese violence...

The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change

Eva A. Duda-Mikulin of the University of Bradford reviews The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change by White Anne, Izabela Grabowska, Pawel Kaczmarczyk & Krystyna Slany. In this book, the authors offer a new approach for...

Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion

Adua Elizabeth Paciocco reviews Tight Knit: Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion by Elizabeth L. Krause. In this book, Krause examines how families involved in the fashion industry are coping with globalization based on longterm research in...

Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange

Alexandros Sakellariou of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences reviews Humanism in Ruins: Entangled Legacies of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange by Asli Igsız. In this book, Igsiz maps the links between liberal discourses on peace and the legacies of...