Emigration category: 2215 books
Women, Migration and Citizenship
Making Local, National and Transnational Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Given the recent and rapid changes to migration patterns and citizenship processes, this volume provides a timely, compelling, empirical and theoretical study of the gendered implications of such developments. More specifically, it draws out the multiple connections between migration and citizenship...
Managing Diversity through Non-Territorial Autonomy
Assessing Advantages, Deficiencies, and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Non-territorial autonomy (NTA) is a statecraft tool that is increasingly gaining importance in societies seeking to accommodate demands by ethno-cultural groups for a voice in cultural affairs important to the protection and preservation of their identity, such as language, education, and religion....
Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law
The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed 'Illegal'
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book describes the experiences of undocumented migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges they face from the moment they consider leaving their country of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Migration is an enormously broad topic of academic enquiry engaging researchers from many different social science disciplines. A wide variety of contributors from across the globe capture some of the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This...
The Anthropology of Security
Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-citizens in profound ways.
The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification...
Following Father Chiniquy
Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Winner, ISHS Certificate of Excellence, 2016
In the late 1850s and early 1860s, the attention of the Catholic and Protestant religious communities around the world focused on a few small settlements of French Canadian immigrants in northeastern Illinois. Soon after arriving in their new home,...
Building Trust
Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
This book studies five ethnic communities_South Asian Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Somoan Americans_to understand how their members feel about being studied by researchers. American society has always had tension between and among ethnic groups, and yet...
Identity and the Second Generation
How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Most recently, Americans have become familiar with the term "second generation" as it's applied to children of immigrants who now find themselves citizens of a nation built on the notion of assimilation. This common, worldwide experience is the topic of study in Identity and the Second Generation....
Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families
Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.5-generation' migrants with similar 'roots' (the Philippines), traversing different 'routes' (receiving countries). By shedding light on the diversified paths of their migratory lives, it revisits the relationships between mobility, sociality and identity.
Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity
Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media. It examines the role played by digital technologies and uncovers how the combined wider field of entertainment media (films, television shows and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist...
Race on the Move
Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for...
Migrants and Race in the US
Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be indigenous to the nation. In the...
Slipping Away
Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This volume...