Emigration category: 2215 books
Polish Orphans of Tengeru
The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943.
As...
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
1525 to 1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and...
Pat’s India
Memories Of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
How do we each define our own intimate culture?
How do we know where we belong?
Daughter of New Zealand Baptist missionaries, Patricia Booth was born in north-east India during World War Two, just as the Allies’ “forgotten army” fought desperately 250 kilometres away in Kohima...
Writing Your Dissertation, 3rd Edition
The bestselling guide to planning, preparing and presenting first-class work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This book gives you the confidence, tools and techniques to produce a first-class dissertation. It offers practical guidelines to planning realistic timetables and structuring every aspect of your work. Find out how to avoid common mistakes and the best way to present your work, and even how to assess your dissertation in the same way as a university or college tutor does.
From Alba to Aotearoa
Profiling New Zealand's Scots Migrants 1840–1920
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Scots made up nearly 20 percent of the immigrant population of New Zealand to 1920, yet until the past few years the exact origins of New Zealand's Scots migrants have remained blurred. From Alba to Aotearoa establishes for the first time key characteristics of the Scottish migrants arriving between...
Rewriting the Break Event
Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the “Mennonite Commonwealth” in the 1920s....
Across the Wire
Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his...
The House of Early Sorrows
A Memoir in Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
DeSalvo is a noted American writer, editor, and professor at Hunter College. Much of her work focuses on Italian-American culture, though she is also a renowned Virginia Woolf scholar.
by Hugh Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
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Quite simply the ONLY book you need to pass the Life in the UK Test.
It includes everything you need in just the one eBook. You do not need to buy anything else.
Key features:
The...
The Irish Way
Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city.
In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban...
Cultures in Contact
World Migrations in the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus...
by Christiane Harzig, Dirk Hoerder
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The study of migration is and always has been an interdisciplinary field of study, vast and vibrant in nature. This short introduction to the field, written by leading historians of migration for student readers, offers an acute analysis of key issues across several disciplines. It takes in its scope...
by Massimo Livi Bacci
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Translated by Carl Ipsen.
This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to the successes and failures...
by Ranabir Samaddar
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession. The central argument here is that Europe’s present crisis suggests a post-colonial bind,...