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Crossing the Border to India

Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal

Jeevan R. Sharma

Forthcoming in Paperback - Spring 2024

How the changing political economy of rural Nepal informs the desire and agency of young male migrants who seek work in cities

190 pages | 5.25 x 8.5 | 3 figures, 1 map

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Shelter on the Journey

Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration

Priscilla Solano

Forthcoming Spring 2024
How migrant shelters in Mexico become launching points for transnational politics of freedom of movement

210 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 figure, 3 halftones

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Crossing the Border to India

Youth, Migration, and Masculinities in Nepal

Jeevan R. Sharma

Forthcoming in Paperback - Spring 2024
How the changing political economy of rural Nepal informs the desire and agency of young male migrants who seek work in cities

190 pages | 5.25 x 8.5 | 3 figures, 1 map

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Intimate Strangers

Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020

Tritia Toyota

Exploring how Japanese women migrants (shin Issei ) are making place/space for themselves among generations of Americans of Japanese ancestry

244 pages | 6 x 9

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Solidarity & Care

Domestic Worker Activism in New York City

Alana Lee Glaser

How intersectional labor organizing and solidarity can effectively protect workers in the domestic work sector and other industries

204 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 14 halftones

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Migration and Mortality

Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas

Edited by Jamie Longazel and Miranda Cady Hallett

Documents and denounces the violent impacts of restrictive migration policies in the Americas, linking this institutional violence to broader forces of racial capitalism

318 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 tables, 2 figures, 1 halftone

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Psychobilly

Subcultural Survival

Kimberly Kattari

How people improve their lives by participating in a rebellious music-based subculture

258 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 line drawings, 9 halftones

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Action = Vie

A History of AIDS Activism and Gay Politics in France

Christophe Broqua

Chronicling the history and accomplishments of Act Up-Paris

340 pages | 6 x 9

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The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History

Edited by Dennis Waskul and Marc Eaton

Demonstrating the value of serious academic inquiry into supernatural beliefs and practices—from ghosts, vampirism, cryptozoology, and dark tourism to tarot cards, fortunetelling, voodoo, and alien abduction

248 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 halftones

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American Heathens

The Politics of Identity in a Pagan Religious Movement

Jennifer Snook

An in-depth examination of American Heathenry and of those who practice and live according to its ethic

234 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 figure, 7 halftones

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Four Germanys

A Chronicle of the Schorcht Family

Donald S. Pitkin

Charting the transformation of East Germany through the lens of one town and one multi-generational family

316 pages | 6 x 9

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Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia

Martin Demant Frederiksen

An in-depth look at urban youth in the Republic of Georgia offering new perspectives on how time and marginality are interlinked

214 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 halftones

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Ghostly Encounters

The Hauntings of Everyday Life

Dennis Waskul with Michele Waskul

How people experience ghosts and hauntings, the ways they make sense of uncanny experiences, and the consequences thereof

184 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 17 halftones

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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán

Biography of a Song of Struggle

David Spener

The international travels, history, and influence of a traditional song

212 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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The Struggling State

Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea

Jennifer Riggan

Examining Eritrean teachers’ paradoxical role of educating students forced into the military

258 pages | 6 x 9

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