Emigration category: 2215 books

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Immigration and the Law

Race, Citizenship, and Social Control

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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

In the era of globalization, shifting political landscapes, and transnational criminal organizations, discourse around immigration is reaching unprecedented levels. Immigration and the Law is a timely and significant volume of essays that addresses the social, political, and economic contexts of migration...
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White Backlash

Immigration, Race, and American Politics

by Marisa Abrajano, Zoltan L. Hajnal
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015

White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences,...
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Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens

The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s

by Christina Gerken
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Model Immigrants...
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by Richard Bowen, David Finch, Geoffrey Wingard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

The late 19th century saw a dynamic growth of contacts between Western countries and the Far East. Along with the increase in travel came a wave of educational opportunities for Americans and Europeans to gain first-hand experience of living in countries such as China, India, and Japan. Likewise,...
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You and I Eat the Same

On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1)

by Chris Ying, René Redzepi, MAD
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018

Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food Matters Named one of the Best Food Books of the Year by The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and more MAD Dispatches: Furthering Our Ideas About Food Good food is the common ground shared by all...
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Working with Immigrant Women

Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals

by Sepali Guruge, RN, BScN
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008

Working with Immigrant Women addresses the gap between the needs of newcomer women and established structures and practices in Canada’s mental health care system. With an interest in changing paradigms in mental health practice, the multidisciplinary group of authors—including researchers,...
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Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families

Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service

by Sayali S. Amarapurkar, Laura Bates, Libby Balter Blume
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009

Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions_from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers_the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
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by Ron Sunquest
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012

How to get new friends and job? Our position and progress in life depends on how we interact with other people. Many well-educated professional people cannot even find a job because of a lack of proper manners. This book gives a concise review of typical behavior of people living in Australia, Canada,...
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Diversity and Contact

Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities

by Karen Schönwälder, Sören Petermann, Jörg Hüttermann
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them. Focusing on Germany, where in some cities more than one third of the population are first or second-generation immigrants, it examines...
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The Citizen and the Alien

Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership

by Linda Bosniak
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008

Citizenship presents two faces. Within a political community it stands for inclusion and universalism, but to outsiders, citizenship means exclusion. Because these aspects of citizenship appear spatially and jurisdictionally separate, they are usually regarded as complementary. In fact, the inclusionary...
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Xaripu Community across Borders, The

Labor Migration, Community, and Family

by Manuel Barajas
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009

During the past three decades there have been many studies of transnational migration. Most of the scholarship has focused on one side of the border, one area of labor incorporation, one generation of migrants, and one gender. In this path-breaking book, Manuel Barajas presents the first cross-national,...
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Ethnic Americans

A History of Immigration

by Leonard Dinnerstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009

For more than three decades, Ethnic Americans has been hailed as a classic history of immigration to America. Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English...
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by Michael C. LeMay
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018

This invaluable resource investigates U.S. immigration and policy, making links the ethnic and religious affiliations of immigrants to the United States to trends in immigration, both legal and unauthorized. • Presents data in 15 tables that provide insight into the relationships between...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012

Combining the insight of two-dozen expert contributors to examine key figures, events, and policies over 200 years of U.S. immigration history, this work illuminates the foundations of the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of our nation. • 45 entries covering such issues as the Alien and Sedition...
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