Paul A. Shackel, author of The Ruined Anthracite: Historical Trauma in Coal-Mining Communities, answers questions on his new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? Over a […]
Q&A with Paul A. Shackel, author of THE RUINED ANTHRACITE
Tag: immigration
Q&A with Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, author of MAKING THE IMMIGRANT SOLDIER
Cristina-Ioana Dragomir, author of Making the Immigrant Soldier: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the US Military, answers questions on her scholarly influences, discoveries, and reader takeaways from her […]
Free E-book Giveaway: CHICAGO CATÓLICO
July’s free ebook is here! Check out Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican by Deborah E. Kanter before the month is over! Today, over one hundred Chicago-area Catholic churches offer […]
Q&A with Ann Flesor Beck, Author of Sweet Greeks
Author, Ann Flesor Beck of Sweet Greeks: First-Generation Immigrant Confectioners in the Heartland, answers questions about her family influences, purpose for writing and myths she hopes to dispel about first-generation […]
Italian American Studies at the U of I Press
The Journals and Books divisions at the Press endeavor to present scholarship not as two separate entities, but as a unified whole beneath the UIP banner. The field of Italian […]
Throwbacklist Thursday: The Immigrant Songs
Pretty much every world religion and ethical system makes a virtue of offering succor to travelers, the rootless, and the persecuted. Immigration, the social-political system we’ve constructed around those ideas, […]
Release Party: Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship
The latest e-book in our trendsetting Common Threads series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship draws on decades of scholarship to provide the context for current discussions about immigration, a topic of national […]
Best of Illinois: Turn the page
Oft-imitated, rarely surpassed, The Best of Illinois: Vol. 1 catalog provides one-stop shopping for the best books on all facets of the ever-fascinating Land of Lincoln. Shrooms, the Mafia, music […]
Intersecting queer rights and immigration rights
How are queerness and immigration linked? Karma R. Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities, sees many commonalities and barriers for activists in both these communities. […]
Illegal author José Ángel N.’s open letter to President Obama
José Ángel N. is an undocumented immigrant who lives in Chicago. In his memoir Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant, José Ángel writes of his own journey from Mexico to […]
The story of immigrant rights advocate Elvira Arellano continues
Elvira Arellano, a Mexican immigrant rights advocate who made headlines when she took refuge in a Chicago church in 2006, has asked refuge in the United States on humanitarian grounds. Arellano […]
Q&A with Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant author José Ángel N.
José Ángel N. came to the United States from Mexico in the 1990s with a ninth grade education. An undocumented immigrant, N. traveled to Chicago where he found access to ESL […]