Emigration category: 2215 books
Talking About Global Migration
Implications for Language Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
How do migrants describe themselves and their experiences? As the world faces a migration crisis, there is an enhanced need for educational responses to the linguistic and cultural diversity of student bodies, and for consideration of migrant students at all levels of the curriculum. This book explores...
by Yale Law Journal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The May 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include:
Article, "Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation," by Kristin Collins
Article,...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student case notes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of emerging Developments in the Law. This year’s subject...
Presente!
Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Immigration is a hot-button issue, and Presente! offers readers an inside look into the life of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
This collection truly humanizes the immigrant experience, discussing the problems of “otherness” and integration.
Having done extensive organizing...
Raising Global Families
Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising...
Rural Origins, City Lives
Class and Place in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Many of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression. Yet, their individual experiences are far more nuanced than popular narratives might suggest. Rural Origins, City Lives probes long-held assumptions...
Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women
Diasporic Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media?...
Education, Migration and Family Relations Between China and the UK
The Transnational One-Child Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Migration, Education and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families, examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the UK to study, and their parents who remain in...
Identity and Language Learning
Extending the Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and imagined communities in the field of language learning and teaching. Bonny Norton demonstrates that a poststructuralist conception of identity as multiple,...
by Lowell Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Lowell Green presents a powerful persuasive well-documented and incredibly well researched argument for a substantial reduction in Canada's yearly intake of immigrants and refugees and an immediate halt to multiculturalism. Lowell minces no words in demonstrating how immigration has changed from...
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Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration [3 volumes]
Perspectives on U.S. Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Transforming America: Perspectives on U.S. Immigration covers immigration to the United States from the founding of America to the present. Comprising 3 volumes of 31 original scholarly essays, the work is the first of its kind to explore immigration and immigration policy in the United States throughout...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas contains contributions by leading international scholars concerning the character, timing, and geography of regional migrations that led to the dispersal of human societies from Inner and northeast Asia to the New World in the Upper Pleistocene...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Celtic-speaking peoples of Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Scottish Highlands and Wales played a vital role in the history of Europe and the Americas. Immigrant Celtic communities enjoyed many significant accomplishments explored in this volume.
by Henry H. Willis, Joel B. Predd, Paul K. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This report offers research and recommendations on ways to measure the overall efforts of the national border-security enterprise between ports of entry. Focusing on three missions--illegal drug control, counterterrorism, and illegal migration--this report recommends ways to measure performance of...