Journal of American History

Recent Scholarship

Immigration and Migration

Barkan, Elliot R., ed., “Immigration, Incorporation, Integration, and Transnationalism: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 7–278. Special Issue.

Cainkar, Louise, “The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 243–78.

Charles, Carolle, “Political Refugees or Economic Immigrants? A New ‘Old Debate’ within the Haitian Immigrant Communities but with Contestations and Division,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 190–208.

Daniels, Roger, “Immigration Policy in a Time of War: The United States, 1939–1945,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 107–16.

DeArmond, Robert N., and Terrence Cole, “George Holt: First White Man across the Chilkoot Pass,” Alaska History, 21 (Spring 2006), 39–47.

Ettinger, Patrick, “‘We sometimes wonder what they will spring on us next’: Immigrants and Border Enforcement in the American West, 1882–1930,” Western Historical Quarterly, 37 (Summer 2006), 159–81.

Fernandez, Lilia, “From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Mexican Community Formation and Activism in Mid-Twentieth Century Chicago,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 98 (Autumn 2005), 162–83.

Foner, Nancy, “Then and Now or Then to Now: Immigration to New York in Contemporary and Historical Perspective,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 33–47.

Green, Nancy, “Time and the Study of Assimilation,” Rethinking History (London), 10 (June 2006), 239–58.

Grenier, Guillermo J., “The Creation and Maintenance of the Cuban American ‘Exile Ideology’: Evidence from the fiu Cuba Poll 2004,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 209–24.

Grubb, Farley, “Babes in Bondage? Debt Shifting by German Immigrants in Early America,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 37 (Summer 2006), 1–34.

Hansen, Lawrence Douglas Taylor, “The Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco and the Smuggling of Chinese Immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1882–1930,” Journal of the Southwest, 48 (Spring 2006), 37–61.

Hernandez, Ester E., “Relief Dollars: U.S. Policies toward Central Americans, 1980s to Present,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 225–42.

Hickey, M. Gail, “Asian Indians in Indiana,” Indiana Magazine of History, 102 (June 2006), 117–40.

Innis-Jiménez, Michael D., “Organizing for Fun: Recreation and Community Formation in the Mexican Community of South Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 98 (Autumn 2005), 144–61.

Johnson, Val, “‘The Moral Aspects of Complex Problems’: New York City Electoral Campaigns against Vice and the Incorporation of Immigrants, 1890–1901,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 74–106.

Jones, Preston, “Yankees in Parkas: Native Influence at Nome, 1900–1920,” Alaska History, 20 (Fall 2005), 43–58.

Khisamutdinov, A. A., “Russkie, izcheznuvshie na Gavaiiakh” (Russians, disappeared in Hawaii), SShA-Kanada: Economika, Politika, Cul’tura (Moscow) (no. 1, 2005), 71–86. In Russian.

Marshall, Howard Wight, “Irish Echoes in Outstate Missouri,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (Oct. 2005), 40–53.

Moore, Deborah Dash, “At Home in America? Revisiting the Second Generation,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 156–68.

Nitoburg, E. L., “Iz istorii Russkikh obshchin v Amerikanskom gorode” (On the history of Russian communities in American cities), Etnograficheskoe obozrenie (Moscow) (no. 3, 2005), 124–41. In Russian.

Palmer, Susan L., “The Community-Building Experiences of Mexicans in Aurora, Illinois, 1915–1935,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 98 (Autumn 2005), 125–43.

Schwartz, Sharron P., “Bridging ‘The Great Divide’: The Evolution and Impact of Cornish Translocalism in Britain and the USA,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 169–89.

Sheeres, Janet Sjaarda, “From the Dikes to the Desert: The First Dutch Mormons in Utah in the Last Half of the 1800s,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Spring 2006), 114–30.

Tolnay, Stewart Emory, and Suzanne C. Eichenlaub, “Southerners in the West: The Relative Well-Being of Direct and Onward Migrants,” Social Forces, 84 (March 2006), 1639–63.

Vecchio, Diane, “Ties of Affection: Family Narratives in the History of Italian Migration,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring 2006), 117–33.

 

Ananian, E. V., “Emigratsiia nemtsev Povolzh’ia v Ameriku v 70-e gody XIX v.: Predposylki, prichiny i rezul’taty” (Emigration of Germans from the Volga region to America in the 1870s: Preconditions, causes, and results) (Volgograd State University, Russia, 2004). In Russian.

Blower, Brooke Lindy, “The Paris of Americans: Transnational Politics and Culture between the World Wars” (Princeton University, 2005). Order No. DA3188663.

Fattakhova, E. N., “Koreiskie diaspory v Rossii i SShA: Istoriia, adaptatsiia i integratsiia, konets XIX–XX vv.” (Korean diasporas in Russia and the United States: History, adaptation, and integration, late 19th–20th centuries) (Kuban State University, Russia, 2004). In Russian.

Gordillo, Luz María, “Engendering Transnational Ties: Mexicanas and the Other Sides of Immigration, 1942–2000” (Michigan State University, 2005). Order No. DA3189660.

 

Bakken, Gordon Morris, and Alexandra Kindell, eds., Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West. (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006. Vol. 1: xxx, 427 pp.; Vol. 2: xx, 419 pp. $295.00/set, isbn 1-4129-0550-8/set.)

Harinck, George, and Hans Krabbendam, eds., Morsels in the Melting Pot: The Persistence of Dutch Immigrant Communities in North America. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2006. 246 pp. €38.75, isbn 90-86590039.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Khisamutdinov, A. A., Posle prodazhi Aliaski: Russkie na Tikhookeanskom poberzh’e Severnoi Ameriki (1867–1980-e gg.). Materialy k entsiklopedii (After the sale of Alaska: Russians on the North American Pacific coast [1867–1980s]). (Vladivostok: bgues, 2003. 264 pp. isbn 5-822-40057-4.) In Russian.

Langum, David J., António de Mattos and the Protestant Portuguese Community in Antebellum Illinois. (Jacksonville, Ill.: Morgan County Historical Society, 2006. vi, 141 pp. $30.00, isbn 0-9718238-2-0.)

Lee, Taeku, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ramírez, eds., Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. xii, 307 pp. $49.50, isbn 0-8139-2545-2.)

Nitoburg, E. L., Russkie v ssha: Istoriia i sud’by, 1870–1970; Etnoistoricheskii ocherk (Russians in the United States: History and fate, 1870–1970—Ethnohistorical essay). (Moscow: Nauka, 2004. 421 pp. isbn 5-020-09875-2.) In Russian.

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