Emigration category: 2215 books
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine...
I'm Neither Here nor There
Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s...
The Weight of Shadows
A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Tracing his story of becoming a US citizen, José Orduña’s memoir explores the complex issues of immigration and assimilation.
José Orduña chronicles the process of becoming a North American citizen in a post-9/11 United States. Intractable realities—rooted in the continuity of US imperialism...
The Wherewithal of Life
Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men – a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston –...
Aftermath
Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin. While the rights of immigrants-with or without legal status--as well as the appropriate pathway to legal status are the subject of much debate,...
Translocal China
Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China’s reform era development within the concept of translocality.
A key element of spatial change in today’s China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs,...
Transnational Lives in China
Expatriates in a Globalizing City
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a second-tier city in China and uses sociological theory to understand the impact of global mobility on identity, community and belonging.
by Chan Kwok-bun, Chan Wai-wan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteen small-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to their ancestral hometowns in China to establish their enterprises. For these executives, business and social life alike...
Unfree Labour?
Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have...
Social Work and Migration
Immigrant and Refugee Settlement and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen Valtonen provides the first book-length study on the challenges these issues create for the profession. Drawing on a wide range of research...
The Expert Expat
Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Expanded and updated edition!
Trusted by thousands of families and individuals, The Expert Expat is essential reading for anyone moving overseas. Personal stories - from the authors' dozens of years abroad as well as the experience of countless expats worldwide - help prepare people for the...
A Place to Call Home
Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to differing social norms, to legal boundaries separating them from established residents, they are constantly navigating shifting and contradictory...
What Do We Do with a Difference?
France and the Debate over Headscarves in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The debate in France over the wearing of veils by Islamic girls in schools has served for nearly two decades as a nexus for emotional controversy and debate. Religion and secularism in public schools. Immigration and assimilation. Gender and ethnicity. Participation in democracy and public debate....
by Arthur Egbuniwe, Ayodele-Mike Uzama
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
Life in present day Austria (A Short History of Africans in Austria).