Emigration category: 2215 books
Just Work?
Migrant Workers' Struggles Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century. From workers' organisations in South African migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' structures in Hong Kong, this...
The End of the Refugee Cycle?
Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "refugee cycle" - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes. The 1990s, it was hoped,...
Brain Drain
Propensity for Malaysian Professionals to Leave for Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book focuses on skilled labour migration from Malaysia to Singapore. In this regard, it examines a number of variables such as Better Perks and Benefits, Quality of Work Life, Ease of Immigration Procedures, International Exposure, Greater Job Availability, and Social Networks, and how they influence...
Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility
Health Integration in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs. At a political level, the EU issued the EU Directive no. 24/2011/CE of 9th March 2011 concerning the application of patients’ rights in...
Sacrificing Families
Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Their dreams are straightforward: with more money, they can improve their children's...
Replenished Ethnicity
Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years. In this vividly detailed book, Tomás R. Jiménez takes us into the lives of later-generation descendents of Mexican...
American by Paper
How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers—the...
Exiled Home
Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980–1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, many grew...
Citizen Activism and Mediterranean Identity
Beyond Eurocentrism
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book explores the commonalities between the struggles of the last years around the Mediterranean and tries to find the cultural roots of this season of protests and activism against repression and a growing systemic crisis. Who are their main characters? How has mobility of ideas and persons...
Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations
Lessons from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied Respondent Driven Sampling methodology to migrant populations.
by George Megalogenis
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Australia was the only rich country not to have gone into recession during the GFC. Our standard of living is one of the highest in the world, and we're a multicultural mix of talented migrants from all over the world. We've been here before: at the end of the goldrush in the 1850s, Australians had...
Unpolished Gem
My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
**“Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung’s rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought...
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
A dazzling meditation on home-coming and belonging from one of “Africa’s greatest writers” and the Man Booker International Prize finalist (The Guardian).
Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When he finally came...
Word Images
New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This collection of critical essays unveils for the first time Norma Elia Cantú’s contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantú’s work: Part 1 comprises essays that individually examine Cantú’s oeuvre through critical...