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Book Review: Ethnic Pride and American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era

are already familiar with, and share an appreciation for, the theorists featured in the book. At the very least, most will leave this study convinced that migration and migrants are socially and politically produced. Yet, I wonder what the more empirically grounded will take away practically from Tyner’s urging that we refuse to see migration and migrants as somehow “normal” and “natural.” The same skepticism on my part holds for state officials whom, we are told, search erroneously for objective “knowledge” upon which to base migration policy. It is a shame that Tyner did not provide a concluding discussion of how his discursive framework extends and/or challenges central premises and methods employed in neoclassical, structural, and other leading approaches to migration studies. Tyner sets out to advance the gendered study of migration. Here he is partially successful. For a scholar who is so respectful of discourse, it is surprising that Tyner does not reflect more critically on the fact that he, like so many others, claims to be writing about gender while largely focusing on women. The reader is left to wonder how the state and private recruiting agencies go about making male migrant subjects. We also lack sufficient understanding of how “knowledge” about bodies, production, commodification, and consumption is gendered and contested among and between Filipino women and men. An exploration of discourses and practices of sexuality among the female performers is also absent. Indeed, it is implied that the women are heterosexual an unfortunate misstep in a book that wisely cautions us against naturalizing. Tyner has written a highly ambitious and challenging book. It surely will inform those seeking to more fully engender migration research and theory. With its showcasing Foucault and poststructural feminism, it urges us to engage the nexus between migration and power in ways that have largely eluded previous scholars. Finally, it enriches the already outstanding body of literature on Philippine migration, Ethnic Pride and American Patriotism: Slovaks and Other New Immigrants in the Interwar Era. June Granatir Alexander. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 296.