Emigration category: 2215 books
This Immigrant Nation: Perspectives on an American Dilemma
Articles from The Nation 1868-the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
This unvarnished collection of articles traces evolving issues and provides a unique history of the long-running national immigration dilemma.
American immigration has been debated in the pages of The Nation almost since its founding in 1865. The magazine has generally come down on the inclusive...
Mobilizing against Inequality
Unions, Immigrant Workers, and the Crisis of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Among the many challenges that global liberalization has posed for trade unions, the growth of precarious immigrant workforces lacking any collective representation stands out as both a major threat to solidarity and an organizing opportunity. Believing that collective action is critical in the struggle...
Becoming British
UK Citizenship Examined
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
From Syrian asylum seekers to super-rich foreign investors, immigration is one of the most controversial issues facing Britain today. Politicians kick the subject from one election to the next with energetic but ineffectual promises to 'crack down', while newspaper editors plaster it across front...
The New Americans
How the Melting Pot Can Work Again
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Many Americans feel swamped by immigrants with alien cultures, languages, and customs apparently flooding into our country.
Illegals
The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
"The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive." ?Ronald Reagan
America is under siege, facing a hostile invasion on its own soil that most of its citizens know nothing about: the invaders are illegal immigrants, their battleground...
Illegals
The Unacceptable Cost of America's Failure to Control Its Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
AMERICA’S MELTING POT IS BOILING OVER.
Millions of illegals strain an overburdened system. Crime rates skyrocket. From the Valley of the Sun to the halls of Congress, debate rages. All the while, murder and mayhem reign along the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking into the fray at a timely juncture,...
Our 50-State Border Crisis
How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.**
Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across...
Multicultural Citizenship : A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1995
The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures.It argues that...
by Christine Chivallon, Antoinette Titus-Tidjani Alou (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States – the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still...
by Frank Graziano
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Undocumented Dominican Migration is the first comprehensive study of boat migration from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. It brings together the interactive global, cultural, and personal factors that induce thousands of Dominicans to journey across the Mona Passage in attempts to escape chronic...
by Pietro Bartolo, Lidia Tilotta
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
“Tears of Salt… reveals the human side of suffering through the life of one man.” —Adele Annesi, Washington Independent Review of Books
Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy’s southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first...
by Jessica Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of adult female victims for sexual exploitation, and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatment of trafficking victims.
Jessica...
Migra!
A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an...
Undocumented
How Immigration Became Illegal
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context
In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy,...