Hispanic American Studies
- Becoming Brazuca
- Edited by Clémence Jouët-Pastré
- Edited by Leticia J. Braga
- Brazilians in the United States are a relatively new wave of immigrants from South America. This volume offers a broad-ranging discussion of an understudied population and also brings insights into the core issues of immigration research: how immigration can complicate issues of social class, race, and ethnicity, how it intersects with the educational system, and how it fits into the assimilation paradigm.
- Paperback 2008
- The Latino Education Crisis
- Patricia Gándara
- Frances Contreras
- Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group.
- Hardcover 2009
- Migration Miracle
- Jacqueline Maria Hagan
- Migration Miracle humanizes the immigration controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants’ desperate journeys. Drawing on over 300 interviews with men, women, and children, Hagan focuses on an unexplored dimension of the migration undertaking—the role of religion and faith in surviving the journey.
- Hardcover 2008
- The Other Latinos
- Edited by José Luis Falconi
- Edited by José Antonio Mazzotti
- Contributions by Michael Jones-Correa
- Contributions by Helen B. Marrow
- Contributions by Arturo Arias
- Contributions by Nestor Rodriguez
- Contributions by Juan Zevallos-Aguilar
- Contributions by Claret Vargas
- Contributions by Edmundo Paz-Soldán
- Contributions by Debra Castillo
- Contributions by Teresa Sales
- Contributions by Maxine Margolies
- Contributions by Ana Cristina Braga Martes
- Contributions by Luciano Tosta
- The Other Latinos addresses an important topic: the presence in the United States of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants from countries other than Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. Focusing on the Andes, Central America, and Brazil, the book brings together essays by a number of accomplished scholars, hoping that this introductory work will inspire others to construct a more complete understanding of the realities of Latin American migration into the United States.
- Paperback 2008
- Security in Paraguay
- James L. Cavallaro
- Jacob Kopas
- Yukyan Lam
- Timothy Mayhle
- Soledad Villagra de Biedermann
- The perception of rising insecurity has plagued Paraguay over the past decade as the country has continued its transition from authoritarian to democratic rule. At the same time, reforms of the penal code and the code of criminal procedure have been implemented, leading many to attribute the rising sense of insecurity to the new, rights-based approach to criminal justice. In Security in Paraguay, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School assesses the disparity between the sensation of insecurity and actual levels of urban crime.
- Paperback 2008