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Migration Reading List

Research Assistants Reading Lists Emigration, Immigration, Migration 0

Perspectives on migration: a reading list that might help understand the origins, meaning, and functions of migration, both emigration and immigration, in modern times and where it is made most controversial. Readers recommendations to add this list are welcome to submit it through the comments section or by email. Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (May 31, 2022; by Ran Abramitzky (Author), Leah Boustan (Author)) The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experience Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth, not facts. Using the tools of modern data analysis and ten years of pioneering research, new evidence is provided about the past and present of the American Dream, debunking myths fostered by political opportunism and sentimentalized in family histories, and draw counterintuitive conclusions, including: Upward Mobility: Children of immigrants from nearly every country, especially those of poor immigrants, do better economically than children of U.S.-born residents – a pattern that has held for more than a century. Rapid Assimilation: Immigrants accused of lack of assimilation (such as Mexicans today and the Irish in the past) actually assimilate fastest. Improved Economy: Immigration changes the economy in unexpected positive ways and staves off the economic decline that is the consequence of an aging population. Helps U.S. Born: Closing the door to immigrants harms the economic prospects of the U.S.-born—the people politicians are trying to protect. […]

Human Rights Reading List

Editorial Team Reading Lists Books on Human Rights 0

Human Rights Bibliography Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights; from Routledge Handbook of Human Rights, from Routledge Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature, from Routledge Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice; from Cornell University Press Natural Human Rights: A Theory, from Cambridge University Press The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, from Verso Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Human Rights in History), , from Cambridge University Press The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression, from BenBella Books Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (Gender and American Culture), from University of North Carolina Press The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values (Human Rights in History); , from Cambridge University Press Philosophy of Human Rights: Theory and Practice; from Routledge From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy; from Columbia University Press The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era; from University of California Press Towards the Ethics of a Green Future: The Theory and Practice of Human Rights for Future People (Routledge Studies in Sustainability); , from Routledge Human Rights Education: Theory, Research, Praxis (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights); from University of Pennsylvania Press African Cinema and Human Rights (Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora); from Indiana University Press The Meanings of Rights: […]