Books by Dominique Daniel
Oakland University
A book of historic photographs of Oakland University
L'immigration aux Etats-Unis, 1965-1995 : Le poids de la réunification familiale
This books tells the history of the passage of the 1965 immigration reform bill that abolished na... more This books tells the history of the passage of the 1965 immigration reform bill that abolished national origins quotas and set up family reunification as the priority of U.S. immigration policy. It then analyzes family reunification patterns among new immigrants in 1965-1995 and discusses the resulting political challenges to this policy, culminating in the adoption of a new act in 1990. The focus is on the interaction between legislative action and social phenomena.
Co-edited Books by Dominique Daniel
Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada
Identity Palimpsests assesses the ways ethnic identities and other forms of belonging are affect... more Identity Palimpsests assesses the ways ethnic identities and other forms of belonging are affected by, and also affect, current practices in ethnic archiving. The book begins with an overview of the evolution of the way ethnic organizations and communities have collected, preserved and provided access to their heritage. It then goes on to examine contemporary practices and theories in the context of a cultural heritage sector that is today defined by the digital medium and the Web. Institutions involved in ethnic archiving include libraries, archives and museums that document the history of immigration and ethnicity in the United States and Canada.
A documentary history of immigration to the United States
Articles by Dominique Daniel
Interpreting American Ethnic Experiences: The Development of the Balch Library Collections
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Oct 2016
The Balch Institute was a library and museum dedicated to immigration and ethnic history, based i... more The Balch Institute was a library and museum dedicated to immigration and ethnic history, based in Philadelphia. This article analyzes the development of its print and manuscript collections, from its first accessions in 1971 to its merger with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 2001. It focuses on its dual scholarly and educational mission and on the factors that shaped its collection development policies and practices over time. The article argues that the content of the collections, but also what was not included in them, was determined by the institutional and broader political, social, and scholarly context in which the Balch operated. The Balch’s contribution to the historical record illustrates the importance of historicizing the archives so that historians have deeper knowledge of the role played by the professionals who acquire and manage the sources they use.
Shaping Immigrant and Ethnic Heritage in North America: Ethnic Organizations and the Documentary Heritage
IdeAs: Idées d'Amérique, Dec 2015
This article will explore some of the issues that immigrant and ethnic groups have dealt with w... more This article will explore some of the issues that immigrant and ethnic groups have dealt with when tackling the task of archiving – gathering and preserving the documents that tell the group’s story – and that of history- or memory-building through archives, a process I will refer to, for the sake of convenience, as ethnic archiving. The paper will trace the process of ethnic archiving through the case study of three specific groups–Finnish, German and Jewish communities in the United States–in the period preceding and following the ethnic “revival” of the 1960s. These groups were chosen because they illustrate the evolution of ethnic archiving among immigrant groups that arrived in the United States before the 1920s and the adoption of restrictive immigration laws. The similarities and differences these groups display are visible in the groups’ negotiations of, and answers to, the following questions: Who should be responsible for archiving? What should be the purpose of archiving and of the transmission of migration heritage? What should be archived and transmitted? These questions have broad implications for the shaping of history and memory.
Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada (Sacramento, CA: Litwin Press), 2014
The interest in and literature on community archives 1 in recent years has expanded and accelerat... more The interest in and literature on community archives 1 in recent years has expanded and accelerated 2 in parallel with the changing nature of the notion of community across disciplines: from locus of identity formation, it has become a vector where identity is negotiated, performed, dissected and fragmented. This process disrupts traditional patterns of understanding ethnicity as a static framework, and instead reconceptualizes it as a sense making process. The use of the verb "archiving" in the title of this volume reflects this transition from discussing ethnicity in the context of "archives as place" or "archives as practice" to approaching it as a verb-based framework (a "verbing") that, according to Brenda Dervin, emphasizes the sense-making potential amidst the complexity and diversity of available information. 4 "Archiving" also reflects the active, interpretative role of archives as constituent parts of what Paul Ricoeur has called the "historiographical operation," i.e., the process of researching and writing history that supports, but also sometimes refutes collective memory. 5 For Jeannette Bastian and Ben Alexander, this interpretative role of archives is manifest in the process of formation, collection, maintenance, diffusion and use of records and their importance in "constructing a community, consolidating its identity and shaping its memories." The book aims to supplement and further the ongoing dialogue on communities and community research. In order to do this, it emphasizes three main points:
Archival representations of immigration and ethnicity in North American history: from the ethnicization of archives to the archivization of ethnicity
Archival Science, 2013
This article traces the representations of ethnicity and immigration in mainstream American and C... more This article traces the representations of ethnicity and immigration in mainstream American and Canadian archives since the 1950s. It identifies three main periods of evolution of these ethnic archives: the era prior to the civil rights movement, the 1960–1980s and the 1990s and beyond. Relying on an understanding of archival collections as social constructions anchored in specific historical contexts, the article considers the various political, economic, social and technological factors that affected ethnic archives over time, especially as they relate to changing scholarly and popular conceptions of ethnicity in North America. It pays particular attention to the impact of historical scholarship in fields related to immigration and ethnicity and of postmodernist archival theories that challenge the traditional view of archives as evidence of the past. It suggests that the relationship between ethnic archives and their historical context is dialectical: not only are they affected by the context in which they are developed and managed, but they also have an impact on that context as they favor certain conceptions of ethnicity and types of ethnic groups at the expense of others. Both curators and users of archival materials should therefore pay closer attention to the history of the processes that went into the construction of these archives to avoid falling victims to the illusion of ethnic authenticity.
The History Teacher, Jan 1, 2012
The article discusses innovations in information and communication technologies and examines thei... more The article discusses innovations in information and communication technologies and examines their impact on the teaching of history, as well as student learning. Particular focus is given to ways in which the practices of historians, librarians, and history teachers are influenced by technology. Studies regarding the opinions of students, faculty members, and librarians regarding historical research training are highlighted and research processes such as metaliteracy and bibliographic instruction are explored. The article also notes collaborative efforts between academic librarians and college history teachers.
Information & Culture: A Journal of History , 2012
""This article examines the constitution of the collections of the Multicultural History Society ... more ""This article examines the constitution of the collections of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario between 1976 and 1982 in the context of the Canadian policy of multiculturalism. Set up as an independent nonprofit organization to document the history of ethnocultural communities in Ontario, the society was funded with public money. This article considers how competition with other cultural heritage organizations and relationships with ethnic donors affected collecting strategies. While the society’s mission was scholarly, the politicization of multiculturalism influenced its collecting process in significant ways. This case study illustrates the importance of understanding contextual factors when assessing the scope, content, and limitations of library, archive, or museum collections.
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The American Archivist, 2010
This paper examines the development of ethnic and immigrant archives in the United States since t... more This paper examines the development of ethnic and immigrant archives in the United States since the 1960s. It focuses on the dramatic evolution of “ethnic archiving”―the processes and objectives involved in documenting the immigrant and ethnic experience―and shows how cultural minorities evolved from an object or theme of archival collections to active participants in the creation, appraisal, description, and use of their own archives. A number of factors made this evolution possible: a new political context increasingly responsive to minority rights and cultural diversity, rising interest in social history, and the influence of postmodernist thought on archival theory. New digital technologies have also facilitated the expression and archiving of ethnic voices.
The Debate on Family Reunification and Canada's Immigration Act of 1976
American Review of Canadian Studies, Jan 1, 2005
September 1973 aimed at clarifying and modernizing the immigration legislation. The Act'... more September 1973 aimed at clarifying and modernizing the immigration legislation. The Act's introductory clause spelled out the objectives of the nation's immigration policy, among which were welcoming refugees, fulfilling the country's economic, social, and demographic needs, and ...
« Que pouvez-vous faire pour votre pays ? » La loi d'immigration de 1965 et la révolution des droits civiques
Matériaux pour l histoire de notre temps
Une autre nation d'immigrants: La politique d'immigration du Canada au 20e siecle
Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, 2003
C omme les Etats-Unis, le Canada est une nation d'immigrants: des l'6poque colo... more C omme les Etats-Unis, le Canada est une nation d'immigrants: des l'6poque coloniale, et plus encore apres la naissance politique du Canada moderne en 1867, l'immigration a ete indispensable a son peuplement et a son developpement. Alors que les Etats-Unis ont connu une ...
Les objectifs de la politique d'immigration canadienne dans la loi de 1976 : Intérets économiques et réunification familiale
Etudes Canadiennes, 2001
La politique d’immigration du Québec
Espace naturel, espace humain, espace immigré : La préservation de la nature dans le débat sur l'immigration en colombie-britannique
Etudes Canadiennes, 2006
En Colombie-Britannique, les grands espaces ont toujours été un facteur essentiel de la qualité d... more En Colombie-Britannique, les grands espaces ont toujours été un facteur essentiel de la qualité de vie, mais aussi un fondement de l'identité régionale. Dans les années 1960-1970 la province vit se développer de nombreuses associations écologistes. Quand Ottawa se lança dans ...
Ruth MILKMAN (Ed). Organizing Immigrants: The Challenge for Unions In Contemporary California.. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. 260 P
Transatlantica. Revue d'études américaines. …, 2006
1Organizing Immigrants, which is the result of a May 1998 conference at UCLA, is one of the first... more 1Organizing Immigrants, which is the result of a May 1998 conference at UCLA, is one of the first attempts to explore a domain that has received little academic attention as of today: the relations between immigrants and labor unions in the contemporary United States. California, the ...
Conference Presentations by Dominique Daniel
"Elusive Stories: Collecting and Preserving the Foreign-Language Press in North America since the 1960s"
Keynote presentation at the 5th International Transfopress Encounter, University Paris-Diderot, P... more Keynote presentation at the 5th International Transfopress Encounter, University Paris-Diderot, Paris, October 16-18, 2017
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