This paper is one of the first attempts to synthetize in writing some of the findings that I made during my spring 2015 sabbatical, at which time I traveled to Argentina and presented my research in progress at the the...
On September 2, 2015, a photograph of three-year-old Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean went viral, spreading through social networks and into the media, accompanied by calls...
The growing share of women migrating for reasons of work—a trend conceptualized as the feminization of labor migration—has increasingly become a matter of interest in migration studies. This paper seeks to visibilize Bolivian...
Malaysian Americans, as naturalized citizens and permanent residents, make up a small percentage of the burgeoning Asian population of nearly 19 million in the United States. In 2013, 1,169 Malaysians became American citizens,...
The migrant letter, whether written by family members, lovers, friends, or others, is a document that continues to attract the attention of scholars and general readers alike. What is it about migrant letters that fascinates...
For more information on the published version, visit Wiley's Website. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijop.12672, Naila Smith is a professor of Psychology at Dickinson College. , Smith, Naila A., Joshua L. Brown,...
One Google search of the word “refugee” and the screen is immediately populated with images of human struggle. They are often striking depictions of families left destitute by forced relocation. They evoke imagery of suffering...
Menon, Sheela Jane. Time to Embrace, Not Shun, Malaysia’s Migrant Community: Malaysia Should Recognize our Shared Humanity and Welcome Neighbors in Need. The Diplomat (Article published online May 7, 2020)....
The unprecedented increase in transoceanic migrations in the second half of the nineteenth century was a major catalyst for an explosion in letter-writing and for the expansion of letter-writing to the working classes. Through...
