Sara M. Wijma, "Embracing the Immigrant: The participation of metics in Athenian polis religion (5th-4th century BC)"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 3515106421 | PDF | pages: 190 | 1.1 mb
What does it mean to belong to a community? How is membership conceptualised and in what way is the position of newcomers negotiated and the community's cohesion secured? Although no clear definition of citizenship survives from classical Athens, many sources include the statement that belonging to the polis consisted of participation in public life, often specified as sharing in the ritual obligations of the Athenians. Contrary to the still prevalent understanding of the Athenian polis as a city-state run by politically privileged men, this book explores this notion of the polis as a cultic and participatory community. In that context it reconsiders the position of immigrants in Athens, who are commonly viewed as outsiders or even anti-citizens in modern research. It is argued that as immigrants were gradually included in Athenian polis religion as metics, they should, at least to a degree, be considered members of the polis. In order to arrive at a better understanding of the ways in which the demos conceptualised this separate membership for immigrants, this book investigates the participation of metics in several polis and deme rites

Andrea Flores, "The Succeeders: How Immigrant Youth Are Transforming What It Means to Belong in America (Volume 53) "
English | ISBN: 0520376846 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 9 MB
A powerful and challenging look at what "success" and belonging mean in America through the eyes of Latino high schoolers.

Lives Beyond Borders - US Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice
pdf | 912.09 KB | English | Isbn:‎ B08XN2419M | Author: Ina C. Seethaler; | Year: 2021

Lives Beyond BorderUS Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice | 912.09 KB
English | 234 Pages

Title: Lives Beyond Borders
Author: Ina C. Seethaler;
Year: 2021

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1324004517 | 283 pages | True EPUB | 529.09 KB
[b]One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021

Taste Makers Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen | 529.09 KB
English | 10 Pages

Title: Taste Makers
Author: Mayukh Sen
Year: 2022

Here, There, and Elsewhere - The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World
pdf | 3.85 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 150361283X | Author: Shams, Tahseen; | Year: 2020

Tahseen Shams, "Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World "
English | ISBN: 150361283X | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies―not only the societies of origin and destination, but also, the societies in places beyond. Tahseen Shams posits a new concept for thinking about these places that are neither the immigrants' homeland nor hostland―the "elsewhere." Drawing on rich ethnographic data, interviews, and analysis of the social media activities of South Asian Muslim Americans, Shams uncovers how different dimensions of the immigrants' ethnic and religious identities connect them to different elsewheres in places as far-ranging as the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. Yet not all places in the world are elsewheres. How a faraway foreign land becomes salient to the immigrant's sense of self depends on an interplay of global hierarchies, homeland politics, and hostland dynamics. Referencing today's 24-hour news cycle and the ways that social media connects diverse places and peoples at the touch of a screen, Shams traces how the homeland, hostland, and elsewhere combine to affect the ways in which immigrants and their descendants understand themselves and are understood by others.