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List of contributors

Introduction: migrants in environmental history

Marco Armiero and Richard Tucker

Part I

Changing natures

1 Waves of migration: settlement and creation of the Hawaiian environment
Carol MacLennan

2 European immigration and changes in the landscape of southern Brazil
Eunice Sueli Nodari and Miguel Mundstock Xavier de Carvalho

3 Migrants and the making of the American landscape
Marco Armiero

4 Making the land Russian? Migration, settlement, and environment in the Russian Far East, 1860?1914
Mark Sokolsky

5 Coal lives: body, work and memory among Italian miners in Wallonia, Belgium
Daniele Valisena and Marco Armiero

Part II

Racializing natures

6 Riotous environments: Filipino immigrants in the fields of California
Linda L. Ivey

7 Creating the threatening "others": environment, Chinese immigrants and racist discourse in colonial Australia
Fei Sheng

8 Nativist politics and environmental privilege: ecological and cultural conflicts concerning Latin American migration to the United States
David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park

Part III

Naturalising causes

9 Environmental degradation as a cause of migration: cautionary tales from Brazil
Angus Wright

10 The ecological and social vulnerability of the Three Gorges resettlement area in China, 1992?2012
Ying Xing

11 Archaeologies of the future: tracing the lineage of contemporary discourses on the climate?migration nexus
Giovanni Bettini

Index