Emigration category: 2215 books
Targeted
Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
America has always portrayed itself as a country of immigrants, welcoming each year the millions seeking a new home or refuge in this land of plenty. Increasingly, instead of finding their dream, many encounter a nightmare—a country whose culture and legal system aggressively target and prosecute...
One Nation, One Standard
An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups.
As the nation’s first Puerto Rican–born U.S....
Let Them In
The Case for Open Borders
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
A conservative columnist makes an eye-opening case for why immigration improves the lives of Americans and is important for the future of the country
Separating fact from myth in today’s heated immigration debate, a member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board contends that foreign workers...
by Kitty Calavita
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
The acclaimed socio-legal study of the Bracero labor program, why it failed, and what that means to immigration policy and organizational theory. By Kitty Calavita, professor of criminology, law and society at UC-Irvine and author of 'Invitation to Law & Society' (U. of Chicago, 2010), now with...
From Deportation to Prison
The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
A thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the past forty years have transformed immigration and border enforcement
Criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses have more than doubled over...
How Race Is Made in America
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
How Race Is Made in America examines Mexican Americans—from 1924, when American law drastically reduced immigration into the United States, to 1965, when many quotas were abolished—to understand how broad themes of race and citizenship are constructed. These years shaped the emergence of what...
Governing Immigration Through Crime
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In the United States, immigration is generally seen as a law and order issue. Amidst increasing anti-immigrant sentiment, unauthorized migrants have been cast as lawbreakers. Governing Immigration Through Crime offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the use of crime and punishment to...
Policing Immigrants
Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken...
The Immigration Crisis
Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2008
Immigration remains one of the most pressing and polarizing issues in the United States. In The Immigration Crisis, the political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at 400 years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention...
Dying to Live
A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Book will be published on May 1st, 2008, the third anniversary of “A Day Without A Mexican,” the major national immigrant protests. The complex topic of immigration becomes a visceral experience for the reader through the telling of one man’s story, and his ultimate death. Congress will likely...
Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond
The War On "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S. – Mexico Boundary
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This is a major revision and update of Nevins’ earlier classic and is an ideal text for use with undergraduate students in a wide variety of courses on immigration, transnational issues, and the politics of race, inclusion and exclusion. Not only has the author brought his subject completely up...
No Undocumented Child Left Behind
Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The 1982 U. S. Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe, which made it possible for undocumented children to enroll in Texas public schools, was a watershed moment for immigrant rights in the United States. The Court struck down both a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented children...
by Alfonso Borello
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
HOW DETRIMENTAL IS living in fear, segregated, trodden, almost discarded by society? I shouldn't use such terrible words; well, guess what? I've learned to live with it for the past year, more or less; I'm no longer keeping track of time. I could blame the ones who degraded me, with or without intentions,...
by Lionel Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
If you live in a developing country with few opportunities for advancement, it is natural to develop a strong desire to move to a new country with more opportunities in order to make your life and those of your family members better. What's more, it is your right to act on this desire so that you...