Emigration category: 2215 books
by Spencer, Sarah
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A contribution to one of the most hotly contested issues in Europe, The migration debate provides a well-balanced, critical analysis of UK migration policies, in a European context, from entry controls through to integration and citizenship. Exploring the pressures and constraints that have shaped...
Global Philadelphia
Immigrant Communities Old and New
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
The racial and ethnic composition of Philadelphia continues to diversify as a new wave of immigrants—largely from Asia and Latin America—reshape the city’s demographic landscape. Moreover, in a globalized economy, immigration is the key to a city’s survival and competitiveness. The contributors...
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun
Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating...
The Story That Brought Me Here
To Alberta From Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers.
What pulls them to Canada? What happens to them on the journey? What experiences have they deliberately left behind? What treasures do they bring? How do they...
Immigration and American Popular Culture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2006
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?
Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry...
The Borders of "Europe"
Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis. The contributors to The Borders of "Europe" see this crisis less as an incursion into Europe by external conflicts than as the result of migrants exercising their freedom...
Migration in China and Asia
Experience and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia. The chapters presented in this volume offer variety in not only theme but in approach to migration in Southeast and East Asia. Particularly...
Planning Your Gap Year
Hundreds of Opportunities for Employment, Study, Volunteer Work and Independent Travel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The diversity of gap year opportunities on offer is such that it is only limited by your imagination or your ambition. Packed with ideas on where to go and what to do, this guidebook will make your planning easier. OVER 220 CONTACT ORGANISATIONS VALUABLE ADVICE ON HEALTH AND SAFETY USING THE INTERNET...
Cities and Labour Immigration
Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael Alexander charts the development of migrant...
Illegal, Alien, or Immigrant
The Politics of Immigration Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2008
While the United States cherishes its identity as a nation of immigrants, the country’s immigration policies are historically characterized by cycles of openness and xenophobia. Outbursts of anti-immigrant sentiment among political leaders and in the broader public are fueled by a debate over who...
Those Damned Immigrants
America’s Hysteria over Undocumented Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The election of Barack Obama prompted people around the world to herald the
dawning of a new, postracial era in America. Yet a scant one month after
Obama’s election, Jose Oswaldo Sucuzhanay, a 31-year old Ecuadorian immigrant,
was ambushed by a group of white men as he walked arm and arm with his...
by David Scott FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination.
Opening the Floodgates
Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people into this country.
Open migration policies deserve fuller analysis, as evidenced by President Barack...
by David Coates; Peter Siavelis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2009
Getting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico. The scale and character of illegal immigration is only one facet of the immigration problem currently before Congress...