Emigration category: 2215 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume examines the ways different countries around the world have responded to rising numbers of mobile citizens. Complete with detailed case studies, it provides a groundbreaking and global analysis of emigration and diaspora policies in the 21st century.
First, an introduction considers...
Immigration, Emigration, and Migration
NOMOS LVII
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Immigration, Emigration and Migration consists of essays written by distinguished scholars across the fields of law, political science, and philosophy that examine questions of travel and migration across national borders.
Questions of immigration and border enforcement practices are particularly...
Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability
Overseas Recruitment Practices in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors....
Seeking a Better Future
The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.
Drawing...
by Patricia Alvarenga, Roger E. Bonilla-Calderón, Mónica Brenes
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2010
Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica provides the first comprehensive examination of transnational migration patterns into and out of Costa Rica. This impressive edited volume brings together the work of 18 top scholars from diverse social science backgrounds to analyze Costa...
After the Hector
The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America. The arrival of the Hector in 1773, with nearly 200 Scottish passengers, sparked a huge influx of Scots to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Thousands of...
The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855
Glengarry and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to a growing tide of emigration that eventually engulfed all of...
The English In Canada Historical 3-Book Bundle
Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers / Seeking a Better Future / Ignored but not Forgotten
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Lucille H. Campey’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series on English immigration to Canada is finally available in a collected volume with this complete, three-book edition. A must for genealogists and history lovers interested in the tremendous waves of English immigration to Canada, whose story has...
by R.T. Appleyard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
Each year nearly 30,000 Britons emigrate to Australia under the Assisted Passages Scheme. In return for near-free transport they are required only to stay a minimum of two years in Australia. Are these persons the ne'er-do-wells of British society, the unskilled misfits who have not been able to succeed...
India Migration Report 2012
Global Financial Crisis, Migration and Remittances
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This volume is a collection of articles dealing with various dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis and its economic and social impact in terms of governance, emigration, remittances, return migration and re-integration.
The crisis, which had its origin in the United States in 2008, spread...
The Silver Chief
Lord Selkirk and the Scottish Pioneers of Belfast, Baldoon and Red River
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Belfast, Prince Edward Island, founded in August 1803, owes its existence to Lord Selkirk. Its bicentennial is a timely reminder of Selkirk's work in Canada, which extended beyond Belfast to Baldoon (later Wallaceburg) in Ontario, as well as to Red River, the precursor to Winnipeg. Aptly named "The...
With Axe and Bible
The Scottish Pioneers of New Brunswick, 1784-1874
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
New Brunswick’s enormous timber trade attracted the first wave of Scots in the late 18th century. As economic conditions in Scotland worsened, the flow of emigrants increased, creating distinctive Scottish communities along the province’s major timber bays and river frontages. While Scots relied...
The Great Shame
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the point of death, who in the face of...
Diaspora's Homeland
Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of “diaspora moments”—a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant...