Emigration category: 2215 books
Living Beyond the Borders
Essays on Global Immigrants and Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Cross-border migration has resulted in many social, cultural, economic, and political challenges that need attention. Globalization, migration, and transnationalism have a strong impact on the lives of diasporic immigrants and refugees. Transnationalism and diaspora, which result from globalization...
Migration and Transformation:
Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s world. The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland....
Young Migrants
Exclusion and Belonging in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to uncover mechanisms at work in these individuals' lives.
by Gabriella Lazaridis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Having often been framed in terms of security concerns, migration issues have simultaneously given rise to issues of insecurity: on the one hand, security of borders, political, societal and economic security/insecurity in the host country; on the other, social, legal and economic concerns about human...
At America's Gates
Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese...
by S. Siporin
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Who Will Benefit from Reading this Book?This book is a short but clear roadmap that describes how the foreign spouse of an American citizen who resides legally in this country can obtain a green card. It applies only to a foreign spouse who has legal status. It is an extremely valuable resource...
by Bas Schotel
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Chris MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
‘The UK is like the Holy Grail and they’re all expecting the crusades. We have to give it to them.’
Laurence loves to go out, get wrecked and rave to dub tep. He pays for it with a job at UK Immigration Control. Deciding who does or doesn’t get to stay in the country is hard enough...
India Migration Report 2014
Diaspora and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
India Migration Report 2014 is one of the first systematic studies on contribution of diasporas in development, in countries of origin as well as destination. This volume:
examines how diasporic human and financial resources can be utilized for economic growth and sustainable development, especially...
Diaspora Lobbies and the US Government
Convergence and Divergence in Making Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
As a nation of
immigrants, the United States has long accepted that citizens who identify with
an ancestral homeland may hold dual loyalties; yet Americans have at times
regarded the persistence of foreign ties with suspicion, seeing them as a sign of
potential disloyalty and a threat to national...
Going First Class?
New Approaches to Privileged Travel and Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
People travel as never before. However, anthropological research has tended to focus primarily on either labor migration or on tourism. In contrast, this collection of essays explores a diversity of circumstances and impetuses towards contemporary mobility. It ranges from expatriates to peripatetic...
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical...
On the Line
Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
"How does one put into words the rage that workers feel when supervisors threaten to replace them with workers who will not go to the bathroom in the course of a fourteen-hour day of hard labor, even if it means wetting themselves on the line?"—From the Preface
In this gutsy, eye-opening...
Between Foreign and Family
Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate “back”...