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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “yen espiritu”
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  • Asian American Panethnicity

    Bridging Institutions and Identities

    by Yen Espiritu ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    With different histories, cultures, languages, and identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid 1960s, however, these different Asian American groups have come together to promote and protect both their individual and their united interests. The first book to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Sage Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies

    Edited by Yen Le Espiritu ...
    Refugees and displacement are defining issues of the 21st century, with over 70 million asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless individuals forced from their homes as of 2020. Every two seconds, one person is forcibly displaced due to climate change, global epidemics, and ongoing conflicts. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, edited by members of The Critical Refugee Studies Collective, ... Read more

    $371.99 CAD

  • Departures

    An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

    by Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um ...
    Series Book 3 - Critical Refugee Studies
    Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Home Bound

    Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

    by Yen Le Espiritu ...
    Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Body Counts

    The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees

    by Yen Le Espiritu ...
    Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Second Generation

    Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans

    by Pyong Gap Min, Yen Le Espiritu, Hung C. Thai, Sharmila Rudrappa, Bangele D. Alsaybar, Pyong Gap Min & Rose Kim, Nazli Kibria, Mia Tuan ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans
    In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural barriers have a powerful influence on the formation of ethnic identities in a strongly racialized ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

  • Looking Back on the Vietnam War

    Twenty-first-Century Perspectives

    by Brenda M. Boyle, Jeehyun Lim, Quan Tue Tran, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lan Duong, Vinh Nguyen, Robert Mason, Leonie Jones, Heonik Kwon0, Diane Niblack Fox1, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials2, Yen Le Espiritu3 ...
    Series series War Culture
    More than forty years have passed since the official end of the Vietnam War, yet the war’s legacies endure. Its history and iconography still provide fodder for film and fiction, communities of war refugees have spawned a wide Vietnamese diaspora, and the United States military remains embroiled in unwinnable wars with eerie echoes of Vietnam.Looking Back on the Vietnam War brings together ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    A Provocation

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • "They Take Our Jobs!"

    And 20 Other Myths about Immigration

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series Book 1 - Myths Made in America
    Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • International Security

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher S. Browning ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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