Emigration category: 2215 books
Amerikanuak
Basques In The New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
This work, by William Douglass (who helped initiate the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno) and Jon Bilbao (author of several Basque reference works), is the most accessible overview of the Basque diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. Amerikanuak is a pioneering study of one of...
by Stephane Dufoix
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers working abroad. This concise book provides a critical introduction to the concept of diaspora, bringing...
Unsettled Americans
Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform, the President has proposed executive actions, and state and local governments have responded unevenly and ambivalently to burgeoning immigrant communities in the context of...
The British Dream
Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of postwar immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over the country and a wealth of statistical evidence, he paints a striking picture of how Britain has been transformed by immigration...
In Lady Liberty's Shadow
The Politics of Race and Immigration in New Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Home to Ellis Island, New Jersey has been the first stop for many immigrant groups for well over a century. Yet in this highly diverse state, some of the most anti-immigrant policies in the nation are being tested. American suburbs are home to increasing numbers of first and second-generation immigrants...
Holocaust Survivors in Canada
Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological,...
The Mentelles
Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky -- a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years,...
African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg
Deconstructing the Threatening ‘Other’
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South African society. They are often perceived as a threat to South Africa and its patrimony, accused of committing crime, taking jobs and competing for resources with South African citizens....
by Claire L. Adida
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Amid fears of Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies explores this question and concludes that both Muslim and non-Muslim French must share responsibility for the slow progress of integration.
Moving Matters
Paths of Serial Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "home." The stories told here are both extraordinary and increasingly common. Serial migrants rarely travel freely—they must negotiate a world...
The Places We Share
Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
While some people study globalization, others live their lives as global experiments. This book brings together people who do both. The authors or subjects of these studies are of diverse national, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. What they have in common is a connection to Morocco. It is from this...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Climate change will increase the frequency of extreme weather events, making more geographic places inhospitable to human habitation and secure livelihoods. This report presents a detailed picture of the potential impacts of climate change on migration in Asia and the Pacific. It draws upon a wealth...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions...
Diaspora as Cultures of Cooperation
Global and Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'. Focusing on the agency of diasporic groups, rather than (forced or voluntary) dispersion and a continued longing for the country of origin, it analyses how a diaspora presence impacts...