Emigration category: 2215 books
Municipalities and Multiculturalism
The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The Canadian model of diversity management is considered a success in the international community, yet the methods by which these policies are adopted by local governments have seldom been studied. Municipalities and Multiculturalism explores the role of the municipality in integrating immigrants...
by Peter Stalker
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Virtually any commodity can move around the world to satisfy demand, but human beings have far less freedom. Many would-be migrants are forced to risk life and limb traveling illegally. Yet most rich countries are short of workers, have shrinking populations, and need more immigrants. This is a timely...
by Arvis Jean-Francois; Smith Graham; Carruthers Robin
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
This book aims to help the policymaker and development community in general to understand the nature of the problems and policy dilemmas that landlocked countries face to trade with the rest of the World. This volume presents an important breakthrough in the literature by focusing on a new conceptual...
Rethinking Coordination of Services to Refugees in Urban Areas
Managing the Crisis in Jordan and Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This study analyzes coordination of international and national entities managing the Syrian refugee response in urban areas in Jordan and Lebanon and provides recommendations on improving coordination strategies and practices. It presents a new framework for planning, evaluating, and managing refugee...
A Guide to Studying and Living in Britain
Up-to-date Information and Advice for International Students in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Every year more than 270,000 students from all around the world come to study in the UK - and the number is growing by 10 per cent a year. At present, most students coming to the UK have to rely on information from their friends, and brief leaflets and booklets supplied by universities. This indispensable...
by Yoku Shaw-Taylor, Lorraine McCall
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Immigration reform and border security are highly charged topics in America today. Immigration, Assimilation, and Border Security examines the history of immigration along with the immigration debate of today. This book shows how attitudes about immigration have shifted and the author examines recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations. In this volume, by contrast, the focus is on migrants as the subjects of history who not only...
Making Immigrant Rights Real
Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits...
Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds
Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
An unprecedented account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican-Americans will have on the collective character of our nation.In considering the largest immigrant group in American history, Gregory Rodriguez examines the complexities of its heritage and of the racial and cultural...
Becoming Mexican American
Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 1995
Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history. Yet this study is among the first to examine the relationship between ethnicity and identity among the largest immigrant group to that city. By focusing...
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Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their...
Making the Mexican Diabetic
Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors...
by Parin Dossa, Cati Coe, Neda Deneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much...
Global Cities At Work
New Migrant Divisions of Labour
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the...