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  • Intimate Migrations

    Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans

    by Deborah A. Boehm ...
    In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to “come and go.” Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States’ rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Intimate Migrations

    Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans

    by Deborah A. Boehm ...
    In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to “come and go.” Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States’ rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Returned

    Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation

    by Deborah Boehm ...
    Series Book 39 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    Returned follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation—an emergent global order of social injustice—reaches far beyond the individual deportee, as family members with diverse U.S. immigration statuses, including U.S. citizens, also ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Tattoo Murder Case

    by Akimitsu Takagi ...
    Translated by Deborah Boehm ...
    Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who was first to discover the crime scene, feels compelled to assist his detective brother, who is in charge of the case. But Kenzo has a secret: ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Changeling

    by Kenzaburo Oe ...
    Translated by Deborah Boehm ...
    Oe introduces Kogito Choko, a writer in his early sixties, as he rekindles a childhood friendship with his estranged brother-in-law, the renowned filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro sends Kogito a trunk of tapes he has recorded of reflections about their friendship, but as Kogito is listening one night, he hears something odd. "I'm going to head over to the Other Side now," Goro says, and then Kogito ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • States of Return

    Rethinking Migration and Mobility

    Edited by Deborah A. Boehm, Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar ...
    Explores global migration through the concept of “return”The current global moment is characterized by both forced and desired returns, whether it’s the United States’ mass deportations to Mexico, ships carrying North African migrants turned back en route to Spain and Italy, urban Chinese migrants going back to their rural home communities, or domestic workers returning to their families in ... Read more

    Was $26.99 USD Now $19.99 USD

  • Illegal Encounters

    The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People

    Edited by Deborah A. Boehm, Susan J. Terrio ...
    The impact of the U.S. immigration and legal systems on children and youthIn the United States, millions of children are undocumented migrants or have family members who came to the country without authorization. The unique challenges with which these children and youth must cope demand special attention. Illegal Encounters considers illegality, deportability, and deportation in the lives of young ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Difficult Attachments

    Anxieties of Kinship and Care

    by Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Sandra Bamford, Marilyn Strathern, Janelle S. Taylor, Jason Danely, Celeste Pang, Danilyn Rutherford, Noa Vaisman, Erika Finestone0, Dawa Lokyitsang1, Deborah A. Boehm2, Katie Kilroy-Marac3, Patrick McKenzie4, Brady G’Sell5, Julia Kowalski6, Sonia Yuhui Zhang7, Michael Lambek8, Professor Riché J. Daniel Barnes9 ...
    Anthropologists have long considered kinship as the basis for social solidarity. Indeed, the idea that kinship is grounded in positive sociality has found its way into most anthropological accounts and has served as an orienting framework directing decades of scholarly research. But what about when it is not? What about instances when kinship is anything but ‘warm and fuzzy’ but is characterized, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Introduction to Humans in Engineered Systems

    by Roger Remington, Charles L. Folk, Deborah A. Boehm-Davis ...
    Fully up-to-date coverage of human factors engineering-plus online access to interactive demonstrations and exercisesEngineering accomplishments can be as spectacular as a moon landing or as mundane as an uneventful drive to the local grocery store. Their failures can be as devastating as a plane crash or a massive oil spill. Over the past decade, psychologists and engineers have made great ... Read more

    $134.00 USD

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    by Tetsuya Ayukawa ...
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  • The Noh Mask Murder

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    Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...
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