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Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers’ experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national “other” in Japan.

Older people --- Caregivers --- Indonesia --- Japan --- Care --- Foreign economic relations --- anthropological scholarship. --- anthropological studies. --- anthropology. --- asia. --- biographical. --- career. --- caregiver. --- demographic change. --- demography. --- disease health issues. --- dying. --- elder care. --- eldercare. --- engaging. --- ethnographic research. --- ethnography. --- family. --- generational. --- gerontology. --- illness. --- immigration and immigrants. --- indonesian eldercare. --- indonesian workers. --- intimacy. --- japan. --- japanese colleagues. --- mass media. --- nursing homes. --- page turner. --- realistic. --- social science. --- social sciences. --- societal transformation. --- sociology. --- working class.

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Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to their stories, and visited their homes, churches, hospitals, farms, and jails. In this dazzling portrait of one of the least understood and most debated regions in the country, Hendricks introduces us to the ordinary Americans and Mexicans who live there-cowboys and Indians, factory workers and physicians, naturalists and nuns. A new picture of the borderlands emerges, and we find that this region is not the dividing line so often imagined by Americans, but is a common ground alive with the energy of cultural exchange and international commerce, burdened with too-rapid growth and binational conflict, and underlain with a deep sense of history.

International relations. --- Mexican-American Border Region --- Social conditions. --- americans. --- border policies. --- border residents. --- borderlands. --- common grounds. --- controversial. --- cowboys. --- crossing border. --- cultural exchange. --- debated. --- divisive. --- emigration. --- factory workers. --- factual account. --- immigration and immigrants. --- immigration. --- international relations. --- international trade. --- journalism. --- mexicans. --- national conflict. --- nonfiction. --- personal stories. --- political policies. --- united states border. --- united states passport. --- us mexico relations.

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how "food security" comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding women's relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.

Women immigrants --- Mexicans --- Central Americans --- Food security --- Food deserts --- Food insecurity --- Insecurity, Food --- Security, Food --- Human security --- Food supply --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Government policy --- Ethnology --- american immigration. --- american politics. --- american studies. --- anthropology. --- biopolitical. --- central american migrants. --- crossing the border. --- cultural studies. --- eating. --- family. --- feeding. --- food and hunger. --- food insecurity. --- food. --- healing. --- human condition. --- immigration and immigrants. --- mexican migrants. --- migrant mothers. --- migrant women. --- migrants. --- migration. --- national policy. --- neoliberalism. --- political. --- poverty. --- public policy. --- resistance. --- social services. --- suffering. --- survival. --- united states of america. --- welfare.

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This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians- and Arabs more generally-at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been marginalized. Between Arab and White focuses on the first wave of Arab immigration and settlement in the United States in the years before World War II, but also continues the story up to the present. It presents an original analysis of the ways in which people mainly from current day Lebanon and Syria-the largest group of Arabic-speaking immigrants before World War II-came to view themselves in racial terms and position themselves within racial hierarchies as part of a broader process of ethnic identity formation.

Syrian Americans --- Ethnology --- Syrians --- Race identity --- History. --- Ethnic identity --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Syria --- 20th century american culture. --- american immigration policy. --- arab immigration. --- arab settlement. --- arabs. --- diaspora. --- diasporic nationalism. --- emergent arabism. --- ethic identity formation. --- global disaster. --- historical. --- history. --- immigration and immigrants. --- immigration restriction. --- internal migration. --- international migration. --- jim crow south. --- lebanon. --- lynching. --- marginalized groups. --- marriage. --- political. --- race in america. --- racial formation. --- respectability. --- syria. --- syrian americans. --- syrian immigration. --- united states of america.

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An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in both the social sciences and the neurosciences, examine the challenges and opportunities now facing schools as a result of massive migration flows, new economic realities, new technologies, and the growing cultural diversity of the world's major cities. Writing for a wide audience, they address such questions as: How do we educate all youth to develop the skills and sensibilities necessary to thrive in globally linked, technologically interconnected economies? What can schools do to meet the urgent need to educate growing numbers of migrant youth at risk of failure in societies already divided by inequality? What are the limits of cultural tolerance as tensions over gender, religion, and race threaten social cohesion in schools and neighborhoods alike? Bringing together scholars with deep experience in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, this work, grounded in rich examples from everyday life, is highly relevant not only to scholars and policymakers but also to all stakeholders responsible for the day-to-day workings of schools in cities across the globe.

Education and globalization. --- Education and state. --- Educational change. --- Educational equalization. --- Education --- Learning. --- Learning process --- Comprehension --- Technological innovations --- Educational equality --- Educational equity --- Educational inequality --- Equal education --- Equal educational opportunity --- Equality of education --- Equalization, Educational --- Equity, Educational --- Inequality, Educational --- Opportunity, Equal educational --- Affirmative action programs in education --- Change, Educational --- Education change --- Education reform --- Educational reform --- Reform, Education --- School reform --- Educational planning --- Educational innovations --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Globalization and education --- Globalization --- Effect of technological innovations on. --- Aims and objectives --- Government policy --- africa. --- asia. --- cultural diversity. --- cultural tolerance. --- diversity. --- economics. --- education. --- europe. --- gender. --- global economy. --- global era. --- globalization. --- immigration and immigrants. --- immigration. --- inequality. --- integration. --- interconnection. --- interdisciplinary approaches. --- learning. --- middle east. --- migrant youths. --- migration flow. --- neurosciences. --- new technology. --- north america. --- policy. --- race. --- religion. --- school. --- social cohesion. --- social order. --- social sciences. --- south america. --- students and teachers. --- technology.