Emigration category: 2215 books
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
European Angst
A Conference on Populism, Extremism and Euroscepticism in Contemporary European Societies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
What is ‘European Angst’? Is it the extension of ‘German Angst’ to a whole continent? The latter term is often used disparagingly to describe the German tendency to problematise, weigh up and hesitate, especially when reasons for this seem slight and insignificant. But European Angst has nothing...
Hispanic Immigrant Literature
El Sueño del Retorno
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Immigration has been one of the basic realities of life for Latino communities in the United States since the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important themes in Hispanic literature, and it has given rise to a specific type of literature while also defining what it means to be Hispanic in...
The Nation's Tortured Body
Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence...
by Vincent Panella
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The Other Side is a sensitive, candid portrait of an immigrant culture from a third-generation perspective. Vincent Panella portrays his family in Italian villages and American neighborhoods, and what emerges is a critical but loving view of the Italian-American experience: its cloying love, intense...
The Strangers We Became
Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned to their home...
Words of Passage
National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives...
Being a Man in a Transnational World
The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book explores the masculinity and sexuality of migration, analyzing the complex processes of becoming a man and the strategies used by men to reconcile paradoxes and contradictions that co-exist between multiple masculinities and contradictory models of being a man. Vasquez del Aguila offers...
Walls
Travels Along the Barricades
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
What does it mean to live against a wall? In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. Di Cintio shares...
Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan
A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo and Osaka in the development of Korean communities...
by Danny Méndez
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...
Strangers in Our Midst
The Political Philosophy of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
How should democracies respond to the millions who want to settle in their societies? David Miller’s analysis reframes immigration as a question of political philosophy. Acknowledging the impact on host countries, he defends the right of states to control their borders and decide the future size, shape, and cultural make-up of their populations.
by Laura Westra, Satvinder Juss
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and...
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the...