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Anthropology of Migration - Research Resources

A Selected List

The University of Texas at Arlington Bibliography Series

John Dillard, Social Sciences Librarian,
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Below are listed of some research resources that might prove to be of interest to students who is examining human migration. Some of these academic research resources link out to articles and books that are FULL TEXT OnLine. Perhaps one of these titles will aid your own research; quickly locate human migration topics using Ctrl-F to find a word or phrase; please contact me to learn this type of quick and easy search. This bibliography may especially aid those students taking ANTH 3348.
Academic Articles - - Academic Books & Book Chapters - - Digital Dissertations

The items within each of these three sections are listed in alpha order by title.


Academic Articles

A many of the articles in this section require the Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing of each full-text online article. The items in this section are available for UT Arlington faculty and students by simply clicking on the links under each article citation.
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"Adaptive Strategies in Urban Migration."
By Nancy B. Graves and Theodore D. Graves.
Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 3. (1974), pp. 117-151.
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"An Analysis of Interstate Migration in Mexico: Impact of Origin and Destination States on Migration Patterns."
By Hiroshi Fukurai, James B. Pick, Edgar W. Butler, and Swapan Nag.
Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos. Vol. 3, No. 2. (Summer, 1987), pp. 365-396.
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"Assimilation, Separation, and Out-Migration in an American Indian Group."
By John H. Peterson, Jr.
American Anthropologist. New Series, Vol. 74, No. 5. (October, 1972), pp. 1286-1295.
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"Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand."
By Mary Beth Mills.
American Ethnologist. Vol. 24, No. 1. (February, 1997), pp. 37-61.
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"From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration."
By Nina Glick Schiller, Linda Basch, and Cristina Szanton Blanc.
Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 68, No. 1. (January, 1995), pp. 48-63.
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"Human Agency in International Migration: The Maintenance of Transnational Social Fields by Yucatecan Migrants in a Southwestern City."
By Rachel H. Adler.
Mexican Studies / Estudios Mexicanos. Vol. 16, No. 1. (Winter, 2000), pp. 165-187.
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"The Liminal Family: Return Migration and Intergenerational Conflict in Japan."
By John W. Traphagan.
Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 56, No. 3. (Autumn, 2000), pp. 365-385.
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"Migration and the Labour Market."
By Emanuel Marx.
Anthropology Today. Vol. 2, No. 6. (December, 1986), pp. 17-19.
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"Migration Dynamics in the Interior of Ceará, Brazil."
By Bernard J. Siegel.
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 27, No. 3. (Autumn, 1971), pp. 234-258.
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"Migration, Education, and the Status of Women in Southern Nigeria."
By Marida Hollos.
American Anthropologist. New Series, Vol. 93, No. 4. (December, 1991), pp. 852-870.
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"Migration, Minority Status, and Education: European Dilemmas and Responses in the 1990s."
By Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly. Vol. 22, No. 2, Migration, Minority Status, and Education: European Dilemmas and Responses in the 1990s. (June, 1991), pp. 99-120.
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"Migration, Money and Masculinity in Kerala."
By Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella.
The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 6, No. 1. (March, 2000), pp. 117-133.
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"The Migration of French West Indian Women to Metropolitan France."
By Jean Goossen.
Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 49, No. 1, Women and Migration. (January, 1976), pp. 45-52.
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"Migration, Resettlement, and Refugeeism: Issues in Medical Anthropology."
By James A. Morrissey.
Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Vol. 15, No. 1. (November, 1983), pp. 3+11-14.
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- - GN 296 .M44

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"Multiple Migratory Experiences of Dominican Women."
By Nancie L. Gonzalez.
Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 49, No. 1, Women and Migration. (January, 1976), pp. 36-44.
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"Networks and Migration Resettlement: Cherchez La Femme."
By M. Estellie Smith.
Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 49, No. 1, Women and Migration. (January, 1976), pp. 20-27.
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"Return Migration."
By George Gmelch.
Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 9. (1980), pp. 135-159.
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"Return Migration and Tertiary Development: A Calabrian Case-Study."
By Russell King, Jill Mortimer, and Alan Strachan.
Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 57, No. 3. (July, 1984), pp. 112-124.
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"Wage-Labor Migration and the Household in a Mexican Town."
By Raymond E. Wiest.
Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 29, No. 3. (Autumn, 1973), pp. 180-209.
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Academic Books & Book Chapters

The UT Arlington Library has more than a number of books that deal with the anthropology of migration, and if you do not see anything useful on this selected list, then searching the UT Arlington Library's Online Catalog <pulse.uta.edu> might be a useful research strategy. Researchers may ask questions at the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the UT Arlington Central Library, or call my cell phone at: (817) 675-8962 or email me at: <dillard@uta.edu>.

Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity.
By Caroline Brettell.
Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2003.
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- - DP 534.5 .B74 2003

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The Bikinians: A Study in Forced Migration.
By Robert C. Kiste.
Menlo Park, CA: Cummings Pub. Co., 1974.
Series: The Kiste and Ogan Social Change Series in Anthropology.
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- - GN 671 .M33 K57

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From Cuenca to Queens: An Anthropological Story of Transnational Migration.
By Ann M. Miles.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2004.
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- - F 128.9 .E28 M55 2004

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From Welcomed Exiles to Illegal Immigrants: Cuban Migration to the U.S., 1959-1995.
By Felix Roberto Masud-Piloto.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996.
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- - HV 640.5 .C9 M35 1996

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Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics.
Edited by Lillian Trager.
Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005.
Series: Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs; Volume 22.
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- - JV 6217 .M54 2005

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"Nonmigrant Households in Oaxaca, Mexico: Why Some People Stay While Others Leave."
By Jeffrey H. Cohen.
Chapter In: Migration and Economy: Global and Local Dynamics.
Edited by Lillian Trager.
Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005.
Series: Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs; Volume 22.
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Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World.
Edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
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- - GN 492 .S68 2005

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Strangers in a Not-So-Strange Land: Indian American Immigrants in the Global Age.
By Arthur Wesley Helweg.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004.
Series: Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology.
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- - E 184 .E2 H45 2004

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Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America.
By Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Series: Anthropology of Contemporary Issues.
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- - E 184 .S77 A28 2002

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Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives.
Edited by Jacqueline Knörr, Barbara Meier.
Franfurt, NY: Campus Verlag New York: St Martin's Press, 2000.
Series: New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology.
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- - JV 6347 .W66 2000

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Digital Dissertations

Link to a guide to aid researchers in searching the ProQuest Digital Dissertations Collection. The Digital Dissertations collection is for the use of UT Arlington faculty and students. Just click on the link marked "Page Image - PDF" in the upper right. These dissertations all require the Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing and printing.

Bodies in motion: Mexican migration, embodied experience and the sense of place.
By Shutika, Debra Lattanzi, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 2001, 190 pages
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Bridges: Garifuna migration to Los Angeles.
By Miller, Linda Ruth, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine, 1993, 244 pages
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Broken storylines: How the economics of flexibility is affecting international migration discourse.
By Drevet, Tarra, Ph.D.
Rice University, 2005, 150 pages
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The Contemporary culture of Nador, Morocco, and the impact of international labor migration.
By McMurray, David Andrew, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, 1992, 442 pages
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Education and migration in rural Mexico: An ethnographic view of local experience.
By Uttech, Melanie Renee, Ph.D.
The University of Arizona, 1999, 324 pages
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A Ghost in the city: Return migratory experiences and constructions of identity in post-socialist Hungary.
By Pope, Lisa Lynne, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 2001, 294 pages
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Governing "lost boys": Sudanese refugees in a UNHCR Camp.
By Schechter, James Alan, Ph.D.
University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004, 474 pages
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German Turks in Berlin: Migration and their quest for social mobility.
By Simsek-Caglar, Ayse S., Ph.D.
McGill University (Canada), 1994, 273 pages
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The Impact of migration: Women's voices from Mexican migrant communities.
By Tokarsky-Unda, Louise Elizabeth, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006, 451 pages
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Migration and identity among Black Sea Turks.
By DiCarlo, Lisa, Ph.D.
Brown University, 2001, 260 pages
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Migration and relations of production in the Dominican coffee economy: Haitian workers on El Fondo coffee plantations.
By Clerisme, Renald Jean, Ph.D.
Yale University, 1996, 267 pages
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El Norte no se hizo para todos/The United States wasn't made for everyone: Imagined lives, social difference, and discourse in migration.
By Dick, Hilary Parsons, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania, 2006, 370 pages
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Procedures of exile: Afghan experiences of asylum in Germany.
By Gehrig, Tina Annette, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine, 2006, 248 pages
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Return migration to Eritrea: Asmara returnees' characteristics and resettlement challenges.
By Chirum, Berhane Keleta, Ph.D.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002, 206 pages
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They will remember me in the house: The pwen of Haitian transnational migration.
By Richman, Karen Ellen, Ph.D.
University of Virginia, 1992, 242 pages
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Traffic in the diaspora: Pakistan, modernity and labor migration.
By Rana, Junaid Akram, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, 2003, 233 pages
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Tunga: A study of Malian Soninke labor migration to France.
By Konate, Moussa, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 1997, 223 pages
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Why not migrate? A case study of two rural villages in Chiapas, Mexico.
By Balkan, Jennifer Lynn, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin, 2001, 211 pages
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