Emigration category: 2215 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical...
Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization
Social Movements and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Development studies is in a state of flux. A new generation of scholars has come to reject what was once regarded as accepted wisdom, and increasingly regard development and globalization as part of a continuum with colonialism, premised on the same reductionist assumption that progress and growth...
Gridlock
Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors—but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however,...
Created Equal
Voices on Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The Palgrave Macmillan/Amnesty International series illuminates the greatest human rights issues facing the world today. From human trafficking to poverty, terrorism to freedom of expression, this dynamic and accessible series encourages debate about the situation today and, the path we took to get...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The United States has always been a land of immigrants and a destination for refugees. With the increase in immigration in the late 1980s—when the number of refugees entering the United States nearly doubled as well—the number of clients needing social work services rose dramatically. Social Work...
Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees
Legal Issues, Clinical Skills and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
"This book is an optimal tool for instructors and students of graduate classes in social work and related disciplines."
--Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
"I applaud social work students, professors, and social workers who seek to serve and empower the immigrant...
by Miriam Potocky
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups...
Place and Replace
Essays on Western Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Place and Replace is a collection of recent interdisciplinary research into Western Canada that calls attention to the multiple political, social, and cultural labours performed by the concept of “place.” The book continues a long-standing tradition of situating questions of place at the centre...
The Last Best Place?
Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed...
Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives
Academic Mobility at the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Migrating is a life-changing decision that academics might take because of career. But leaving a homeland is a lot more than a job issue. Many other factors and adjustment challenges are put in the line. This book tells the stories of a selected group of geographers who migrated to one side to another...
La Travesia de Enrique
La arriesgada odisea de un niño en busca de su madre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Actualizada con un nuevo epílogo, reflexiones finales, fotos de Enrique y su familia, una entrevista con la autora y mucho más, esta es la versión definitiva de un clásico contemporáneo de los Estados Unidos.
Basada en la serie de Los Angeles Times ganadora de dos premios Pulitzer—al...
Saving Face
The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical Asian family have given rise to two versions of the Asian immigrant family myth. The first celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the “normal...
by Roni Berger
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
***I felt like an alien who fell down to earth, not understanding the rules of the game, making all the possible mistakes, saying all the wrong things.
Your whole life is in the hands of other people who do not always mean well and there is nothing you can do about it. They can decide...
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity.
Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national...