Emigration category: 2215 books
National Insecurities
Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical context....
Coming to America (Second Edition)
A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
One of our generation’s best historical accounts of immigration in the United States from the earliest colonial days
“Encyclopedic in scope, yet lively and provocative…. One of those rare book that will serve experts and the general public equally well.” – San Francisco Chronicle
Former...
Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State
A Gendered History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men. Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced by married women, it took...
100 Questions and Answers About Immigrants to the U.S.: Immigration policies, politics and trends and how they affect families, jobs and demographics
The facts about U.S. immigration patterns, motives, effects and language, history, culture, customs, and issues of health, wealth, education, deportation, citizenship and criminal justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about U.S. immigrants and immigration in everyday conversation. It has answers about identity, language, religion, culture, customs, social norms, economics, politics, education, work, families and food. It also covers contemporary...
Why Walls Won't Work
Repairing the US-Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not...
Captivity Beyond Prisons
Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full-length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization...
Village of Immigrants
Latinos in an Emerging America
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend—immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America...
by Claudia Haake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to determine...
Exclusion and Forced Migration in Central America
No More Walls
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book marks a critical contribution to the intercultural dialogue about immigration. Each year, thousands of Central Americans leave their countries and walk across Mexico, seeking to reach the United States.* *The author explores the dispossession process that drives these migrants from their...
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina
New Roots in the Old North State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Over recent decades, the Southeast has become a new frontier for Latin American migration to and within the United States, and North Carolina has had one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the nation. Here, Hannah Gill offers North Carolinians from all walks of life a better understanding...
Working the Boundaries
Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
While Chicago has the second-largest Mexican population among U.S. cities, relatively little ethnographic attention has focused on its Mexican community. This much-needed ethnography of Mexicans living and working in Chicago examines processes of racialization, labor subordination, and class formation;...
North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society
Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Ongoing ideological or political conflicts in the modern world have led to appalling human rights violations against North Korean defectors who attempt to escape from their repressive country and seek freedom. Although some North Korean defectors have survived the life-threatening escape journey and...
Human Cargo
A Journey Among Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An arresting portrait of the lives of today's refugees and a searching look into their future
The word refugee is more often used to invoke a problem than it is to describe a population of millions of people forced to abandon their homes, possessions, and families in order to find a place where...
by Cathryn Costello
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Focussing on access to territory and authorization of presence and residence for third-country nationals, this book examines the EU law on immigration and asylum, addressing related questions of security of residence. Concentrating on the key measures concerning both the rights of third-country nationals...