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  • Blue Dreams

    Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots

    by Nancy Abelmann, John Lie ...
    No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • The German Political Foundations' Work between Jerusalem, Ramallah and Tel Aviv

    A Kaleidoscope of Different Perspectives

    Edited by Anna Abelmann, Katharina Konarek ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The German political foundations are a world-wide unique phenomenon. The concept of their international work as both independent organizations and state financed institutes are naturally raising several questions. This book focus on the foundations’ work in Jerusalem, Ramallah and Tel Aviv. This region holds a special position within the German foreign policy due to unique character of the German ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • South Korea's Education Exodus

    The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad

    Edited by Adrienne Lo, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, Sumie Okazaki ...
    Series series Center For Korea Studies Publications
    South Korea's Education Exodus analyzes Early Study Abroad in relation to the neoliberalization of South Korean education and labor. With chapters based on demographic and survey data, discourse analysis, and ethnography in destinations such as Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United States, the book considers the complex motivations that spur families of pre-college youth to embark on ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD

  • Quickly the Magic Spatula

    by Jeryl Abelmann, Miriam Kronish ...
    Award winning authors Jeryl Abelmann and Miriam Kronish bring the enchanting story of Quickly the Magic Spatula to life. This warm childhood memory describes a touching family story. Quickly is discovered in the upstairs attic in an old dusty box. This seemingly magical spatula brings the warmth of Mommy’s kitchen to life.What is the real secret of Mommy’s pancakes?How did Quickly get its name?A ... Read more

    $7.85 CAD

  • The Intimate University

    Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation

    by Nancy Abelmann ...
    The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—including the large population of Korean American students—come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus’s largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping to realize the liberal ideals of the modern American university, in which individuals can exit their ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Korean American Families in Immigrant America

    How Teens and Parents Navigate Race

    by Sumie Okazaki, Nancy Abelmann ...
    An engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United StatesBoth scholarship and popular culture on Asian American immigrant families have long focused on intergenerational cultural conflict and stereotypes about “tiger mothers” and “model minority” students. This book turns the tables on the conventional imagination of the Asian American immigrant family, arguing ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

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    Do Immigrants Threaten the West?

    by Doug Saunders ...
    Even among people who would never subscribe to its more dramatic claims, the "Eurabia" movement has popularized a set of seemingly common-sense assumptions about Muslim immigrants to the West: that they are disloyal, that they have a political agenda driven by their faith, that their nhigh reproduction rates will soon make them a majority. These beliefs are poisoning politics and community ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Reflections on the Revolution In Europe

    Immigration, Islam, and the West

    by Christopher Caldwell ...
    In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West.This provocative and unflinching analysis ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • China's New Confucianism

    Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    What is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their customers? And why do some Communist Party cadres get promoted if they care for their elderly parents? In this entertaining and illuminating book, one of the few Westerners to teach at a Chinese university draws on his personal experiences to paint an ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • The Battle for Justice in Palestine

    by Ali Abunimah ...
    A major proponent of Palestinian liberation offers a comprehensive analysis of the current conflict with Israel—and the potential for Palestinian victory.As the longstanding tensions between Israel and Palestine continue to erupt into violence, Ali Abunimah offers astute insights into the politics behind the headlines. In The Battle for Justice in Palestine, Abunimah looks at the shifting tides of ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growing Up in Transit

    The Politics of Belonging at an International School

    by Danau Tanu ...
    “[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration….[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.”—Social AnthropologyIn this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Raising Global Families

    Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US

    by Pei-Chia Lan ...
    Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising Global Families, Pei-Chia Lan examines how ethnic Chinese parents in Taiwan and the United States ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD