Emigration category: 2215 books

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Migrants' Participation in Exclusionary Contexts

From Subcultures to Radicalization

by K. Pilati
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016

This insightful book analyzes the political engagement and marginalization of three of Milan's migrant groups, Filipinos, Egyptians and Ecuadorians. Bringing together data relating to the civic and political engagement of individual migrants, and of migrant organizational networks, the result is an...
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Fritz Marti

Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir

by Judith Baumrin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015

Fritz Marti (1894–1991) came from Switzerland, where he had completed his doctorate in philosophy, to The University of Oregon, Eugene, in 1923. He was a serious, committed scholar in the tradition of German Idealism. The book is about his search for intellectual freedom in America. He was...
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Class Acts

Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels

by Rachel Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range...
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by Fiona Chan
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017

Did you know that the processing times for Australian partner visas are close to 15 months? What if I told you that you can speed up this process by following a simple road map? This easy-to-follow guide will provide you with a road map to get your Australian partner visa application ready...
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by Michael Allen Fox
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013

This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and...
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by Neil Foley
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014

America has always been a composite of racially blended peoples, never a purely white Anglo-Protestant nation. The Mexican American historian Neil Foley offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico’s northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build.
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Immigrants in Prairie Cities

Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada

by Royden Loewen, Gerald Friesen
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009

Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that...
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by Ellen Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

‘A fierce, big-hearted novel.’ Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air‘Pushes us to find our kinder selves.’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You‘A wonderful book.’ Maurice Wren, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council One of the Guardian’s Readers’ Books of the YearLong...
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Girl, Undressed

On Stripping in New York City

by Ruth Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009

A young British woman-broke and out of luck-does battle with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, drugs, and the sex industry Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background who arrives in New York City with dreams of becoming a journalist. But...
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by Diego Enrique Osorno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017

En tiempos de Donald Trump, ésta es una defensa de la vida común y humilde entre Estados Unidos y México Gerónimo González Garza cruzó la frontera de México con Estados Unidos por primera vez en 1969. Desde entonces y hasta principios de los noventa, cuando finalmente se asentó legalmente...
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The Snakehead

An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

by Patrick Radden Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.   Keefe reveals the...
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Korean, Asian, or American?

The Identity, Ethnicity, and Autobiography of Second-Generation Korean American Christians

by Jacob Yongseok Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012

The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with minority, marginality, cultural ambiguity, and negative perceptions. Born in the United States, they are still viewed as foreigners because of their Korean...
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Becoming Refugee American

The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon

by Phuong Tran Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees ”as opposed to willing immigrants ”profoundly influenced...
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