Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bernadette Ludwig is a sociologist and the assistant dean of the Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. She is also an Affiliated Faculty at the New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility in New York City. She is a first-generation immigrant and college graduate. Prior to entering academia, she worked with refugee and immigrant communities in Atlanta, Georgia for several years.
"Full of rich and absorbing ethnographic material, <i>Unwelcome Shores</i> puts race at center stage as it reveals the complex meanings and consequences of being Black for Liberian refugees in the United States. A valuable and welcome contribution." - Nancy Foner, author of <i>One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America</i> <br /><br />"With deep ethnographic engagement, Ludwig centers the perspectives of Liberian refugees to illuminate the complexities of life for Black immigrants as they confront the twin forces of hostile bureaucracies and entrenched U.S. racialization practices. <i>Unwelcome Shores</i> offers a welcome contribution to our understanding of the plurality of experiences in immigrant integration and community building, and it deserves to be read widely. Highly recommended!" - Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles <br /><br />"In <i>Unwelcome Shores</i>, Ludwig tells the fascinating story of Liberian refugees and migrants who have settled, and created a community, in a neighborhood on Staten Island in New York City. Combining research on anti-Black racism in America and years of on-the-ground observations of refugee communities, Ludwig provides an illuminating and nuanced account of the complicated connections of race, immigration, and refugee status among newcomers and native-born New Yorkers." - T. Alexander Aleinikoff, executive dean, The New School for Social Research <br /><br />"<i>Unwelcome Shores</i> provides a comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of a community that has been marginalized within scholarship, public discourse, and policy conversations. Through a sociological and historical approach, Bernadette Ludwig shows how the lived experience of war, displacement, resettlement, and finding community are shaped by slavery, capitalism, and immigration laws that limit who can enter and who can leave the U.S. in different historical moments." - Helena Zeweri, author of <i>Between Care and Criminality: Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare</i>
List of Abbreviations xi
1 The United States, a Home and a Refuge for Black People? 1
2 When the War Came, Everyone
Scattered 17
3 Searching for Home in Staten Island 42
4 Someone Call Me a “Damn” Refugee 66
5 Whites Are the Boss 96
6 We Have the Same Skin Color 127
7 There
Are Liberian Refugees in the Future
153
Appendix 1: Liberian Research Participants 165
Appendix 2: Other Research Participants 169
Acknowledgments
171
Notes 173
References 185
Index 000
"Full of rich and absorbing ethnographic material, <i>Unwelcome Shores</i> puts race at center stage as it reveals the complex meanings and consequences of being Black for Liberian refugees in the United States. A valuable and welcome contribution." - Nancy Foner, author of <i>One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America</i> <br /><br />"With deep ethnographic engagement, Ludwig centers the perspectives of Liberian refugees to illuminate the complexities of life for Black immigrants as they confront the twin forces of hostile bureaucracies and entrenched U.S. racialization practices. <i>Unwelcome Shores</i> offers a welcome contribution to our understanding of the plurality of experiences in immigrant integration and community building, and it deserves to be read widely. Highly recommended!" - Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles <br /><br />"In <i>Unwelcome Shores</i>, Ludwig tells the fascinating story of Liberian refugees and migrants who have settled, and created a community, in a neighborhood on Staten Island in New York City. Combining research on anti-Black racism in America and years of on-the-ground observations of refugee communities, Ludwig provides an illuminating and nuanced account of the complicated connections of race, immigration, and refugee status among newcomers and native-born New Yorkers." - T. Alexander Aleinikoff, executive dean, The New School for Social Research <br /><br />"<i>Unwelcome Shores</i> provides a comprehensive and thoughtful analysis of a community that has been marginalized within scholarship, public discourse, and policy conversations. Through a sociological and historical approach, Bernadette Ludwig shows how the lived experience of war, displacement, resettlement, and finding community are shaped by slavery, capitalism, and immigration laws that limit who can enter and who can leave the U.S. in different historical moments." - Helena Zeweri, author of <i>Between Care and Criminality: Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare</i>
List of Abbreviations xi
1 The United States, a Home and a Refuge for Black People? 1
2 When the War Came, Everyone
Scattered 17
3 Searching for Home in Staten Island 42
4 Someone Call Me a “Damn” Refugee 66
5 Whites Are the Boss 96
6 We Have the Same Skin Color 127
7 There
Are Liberian Refugees in the Future
153
Appendix 1: Liberian Research Participants 165
Appendix 2: Other Research Participants 169
Acknowledgments
171
Notes 173
References 185
Index 000
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Bernadette Ludwig is a sociologist and the assistant dean of the Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. She is also an Affiliated Faculty at the New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility in New York City. She is a first-generation immigrant and college graduate. Prior to entering academia, she worked with refugee and immigrant communities in Atlanta, Georgia for several years.