Emigration category: 2215 books
by Neela Vaswani
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
American Book Award Winner: A “mesmerizing” memoir about identity from the daughter of an Irish-Catholic mother and a Sindhi-Indian father (Chandra Prasad, editor of Mixed).
A ForeWord Book of the Year
You Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders,...
Essay To Write? 2nd Edition
Make It Good, Make It Easy, Make It Fun!
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Whether you are studying to graduate high-school or university, whatever the major, you need to get your essays right. This book will ensure that your essay flows smoothly from the introduction to that all-important conclusion.
Go Back to Where You Came From
The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
What if politicians pose a graver threat to liberal democracy than mass migration?
Brexit and Donald Trump's victory were just the beginning--and Marine Le Pen's defeat does not signal a turning of the tide. --From the Introduction
From Europe to the United States, opportunistic politicians...
by Diana Caballero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Un breve ensayo sobre la memoria "Cuando era puertorriqueña" escrita y publicada por Esmeralda Santiago donde se relatan las vivencias de una adolescente que emigró de Puerto Rico a Nueva York.
Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Shaping Debates and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and sustainable development linkages from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles. Well-known scientists and practitioners present different perspectives regarding...
by Andrew Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Every year, tens of thousands of men and women from South Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world journey to Qatar and the other petroleum-rich states of the Arabian peninsula to work. As construction workers, drivers, servants, accountants, shopkeepers, custodians, general laborers, and countless...
Multiple Identities
Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups...
Dreamers
An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children—and now fighting to live here legally
Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary,...
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States
The View from Prince George's County, Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1968 to 2009. The life course trajectories of seventy individuals and their networks,...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
A brief preface opines the problem of a country that cannot control access to its own territory and proclaims the essay as an open letter to America. Chapter 1 proposes a 3 layer ECM (Electronics Counter-Measures) wall set up by military units as part of their training to get double use of expenditures....
Mapping the New African Diaspora in China
Race and the Cultural Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
When one thinks of African diasporas, it is likely that their mind will automatically drift to locations such as Europe and America. But how much is known about the African diaspora in East Asia and, in particular, within China, where race is such a politically sensitive topic?
Based on multi-sited...
The New America
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The US is being transformed. Little follows millions of 21st-century pioneers to a new frontier in the West. In the sprawling new cities of the Sun Belt states, he chronicles the people and places which have turbo-charged…and redefined… the American dream. This new America will not be defined...
Futureface
A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and identity: Who are my people?
“A thoughtful, beautiful meditation on what makes us who we are . . . and the values and...
Nigerian Immigrants in the United States
Race, Identity, and Acculturation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues...