Emigration category: 2215 books
We Built the Wall
How the U.S. Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican government
From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector...
A Nation of Immigrants
Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1998
This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.
The...
by R. M. Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable—between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of them...
Quarterly Essay 13 Sending Them Home
Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2004, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine...
by Mary Jo Leddy
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Our Friendly Local Terrorist tells the story of the fourteen-year struggle of Suleyman Goven, a Kurd accused by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service of being a terrorist. Mary Jo Leddy was “accidentally” present at Suleyman’s first interview with CSIS. During that eight-hour ordeal he...
by Hamid Reza Yousefi
Language: German
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: December 2, 2014
In dieser biografischen Skizze zeichnet der Philosoph Hamid Reza Yousefi sein bewegtes und bewegendes Leben nach. Er erzählt von seiner ersten Heimat Iran, seiner Kindheit, von den Umständen, die ihn zum Verlassen seines Landes bewegten und seinem Migrantenschicksal in Deutschland. Besonders würdigt...
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic...
The Making of the Mosaic
A History of Canadian Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2010
Immigration policy is a subject of intense political and public debate. In this second edition of the widely recognized and authoritative work The Making of the Mosaic, Ninette Kelley and Michael Trebilcock have thoroughly revised and updated their examination of the ideas, interests, institutions,...
Impossible Subjects
Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth...
Not Fit for Our Society
Immigration and Nativism in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In a book of deep and telling ironies, Peter Schrag provides essential background for understanding the fractious debate over immigration. Covering the earliest days of the Republic to current events, Schrag sets the modern immigration controversy within the context of three centuries of debate over...
Foreign Relations
American Immigration in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who arrive on its shores. Yet this is not a truly accurate depiction of the nation's complex connections to immigration. Offering a brand-new global history of the subject, Foreign...
We Have Overcome
An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
It has been more than fifty years since the Civil Rights Act enshrined equality under the law for all Americans. Since that time, America has enjoyed an era of unprecedented prosperity, domestic and international peace, and technological advancement. It’s almost as if removing the shackles of enforced...
Global Latin America
Into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside...
by Soraya Ataide, María Lourdes Basualdo, Roberto Benencia
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Bolivian Labor Immigrants' Experiences in Argentina examines the projects, trajectories, and everyday lives of Bolivian immigrants. It gathers research results of specialists who have studied the various ways in which these immigrants participate in certain labor markets in different urban and rural...