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This edited volume analyzes the Korean diaspora across the world and traces the meaning and the performance of homeland. The contributors explore different types of discourses among Korean diaspora across the world, such as personal/familial narratives, oral/life histories, public discourses, and media discourses.

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This volume provides an overview of the history of Korean immigration to this countryfrom the first immigrants who arrived in Hawaii at the beginning of the century to the most recent waves of the 1980s and 1990sand a detailed analysis of the main problems Korean Americans face in adjusting to life in their adopted country.

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An analysis of the ways in which the intersection of class, race, and ethnicity shape the practices of diaspora-building and knowledge transfer and cause heterogeneous consequences in society, this book examines emergent highly skilled Asian migrants as racialized transnational elites through interviews with Korean international students.

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The wide-ranging study explores the history of Chicanas and the meaning of the term Chicana, and considers her socialization process, the consequences of deviating from gender roles, and the evolution of Hispanic women onto the national scene in politics, health, economics, education, religion, and criminal justice.

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The wide-ranging study explores the history of Chicanas and the meaning of the term Chicana, and considers her socialization process, the consequences of deviating from gender roles, and the evolution of Hispanic women onto the national scene in politics, health, economics, education, religion, and criminal justice.

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Professor Cannon considers Lamarck the greatest of all French biologists. His book challenges many of the positions held by the orthodox school of modern genetics.

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This book explores how the legacy of violence during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia is memorialized. Engaging with war, violence and critical heritage studies, the book looks at how the selective production of heritage diminishes opportunities for justice and reconciliatio...

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This book explores how the legacy of violence during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia is memorialized. Engaging with war, violence and critical heritage studies, the book looks at how the selective production of heritage diminishes opportunities for justice and reconciliatio...

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The Nicaraguan revolution of 1978 and the subsequent violence engulfing the Central American states, causes mass migration of Latin American persons seeking territorial asylum.

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Latinas Crossing Borders and Building Communities in Greater Washington addresses the strategies used by Latina/o immigrants to adapt to the Washington, D.C. area. Contributors focus on models of collaboration and interaction in community institutions providing opportunity for activities that contribute to cultural knowledge and action.

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Seeks to map the inexorable but unstable relationship of law to violence. Building on the seminal work of Robert Cover and striving to situate his insights within political, social, economic, and cultural contexts, this book contemplates diverse and interrelated subjects surrounding the theme of law and violence.

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Nearly 200 interviews with legal services lawyers and administrators, bar association officers, judges, and political officials form the basis for this book on the delivery of civil legal services to the poor.

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Encourages competent parenting to ensure society's well-being through its children's well-being

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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in the Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are suffering the effects. This title examines the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster.

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In this moving memoir, a veteran business journalist details his recent bout with prostate cancer and what he learned about the disease and himself on the road to recovery.

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Today we find ourselves exhausted and depleted by natural and economic disruption. Worse, we face more of the same but on a greater, even more frightening scale. Hopeful and provocative, this book considers the principal social and ecological threats facing Australia, and outlines ways in which these crises need to be confronted and addressed.

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People who participate in debates about the causes and cures of poverty often speak from religious conviction. But those convictions are rarely made explicit or debated on their own terms.

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Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion This title examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan.

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This landmark book examines the most urgent social problem facing us today: the welfare of America's children.

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This NIH-supported study of HIV's physical and psychosocial impacts offers both practical and inspiring accounts of how individuals living with HIV respond and cope with the disease and its progressive stages and impacts.

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This NIH-supported study of HIV's physical and psychosocial impacts offers both practical and inspiring accounts of how individuals living with HIV respond and cope with the disease and its progressive stages and impacts.