Crossing Over

Reviews / Votes

This timely and ambitious volume features a broad set of comparative studies which raise new questions and offer new insights into the contemporary world of migration. The combination of theoretical depth and empirical exemplification takes the debate to a new level and makes Crossing Over a must for anyone interested in migration research. -- Professor Klaus J. Blade, Director, Institute for Migrations Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS), Osnabrueck University Timely and relevant, Professor Henke's edited text brings to life in compelling fashion all the "hot button" theoretical and policy issues confronting nation states in Europe and the United States in this post 9/11 era. It should be a standard supplementary text for professors and policy-makers engaged in the study of migration and is well worth reading. -- Aubrey W. Bonnett, SUNY College at Old Westbury This volume's profound significance rests in the use, by every single one of its authors, of comparative case studies either between Europe and the United States or across European national formations. The volume is framed by the profound challenges being made in a post-September 11th world to the idea of national peoplehood, culturally and socially, and to notions of the rights of citizenship by rapidly growing immigrant populations. It is a timely engagement with the tensions produced by efforts aimed at the management of a global shift to diasporic identity among immigrants in host countries. The new concern with security has catapulted this shift to the top of the agenda of national policy making, multiculturalism, and scholarly examination. The volume speaks profoundly to each of these issues. -- Percy C. Hintzen * University Of California, Berkeley * Crossing Over is one of only a few books that analyzes the hotly debated processes of transnational migrations in a multi-faceted comparative perspective. The volume moves beyond the usual and often ideological generalizing conclusions and stereotypes, teaching us to see the different as well as the common economic, political, and intercultural repercussions of transnational migrations in a way that is politically and culturally enabling. -- Guenter H. Lenz, Institut fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Humboldt-Universitaet