Emigration category: 2215 books

Cover of University of Chicago Law Review: Symposium - Immigration Law and Institutional Design: Volume 80, Number 1 - Winter 2013
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013

This first issue of 2013 features articles from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars of immigration and emigration, including an extensive Symposium on immigration and its issues of policy, law, administrative process, and institutional design in the United States. Topics include...
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Managing Migration

The Promise of Cooperation

by Susan F. Martin, Philip L. Martin, Patrick Weil
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2006

A growing share of the world's population lives in the 175 developing countries, while global income and wealth are increasingly concentrated in the 25 developed countries. The resulting migration from developing to developed countries is proving difficult to manage at national, regional, and local...
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International Migration of China

Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration

by Lu Miao, Huiyao Wang
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017

This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration. It not only breaks down the basic trends of this migration with respect to destinations and the like, but also analyzes its unique features, which include the largely middle- and upper-class makeup of emigrants...
Cover of Social Work and Integration in Immigrant Communities
by Kathleen Valtonen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

There has been a marked rise in global migration with many former countries of emigration becoming immigration destinations. As a result of this, social workers increasingly encounter immigrant clients and are called upon to work in their communities. At the same time, in the field of research, theories,...
Cover of Racial Criminalization of Migrants in the 21st Century
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

Over the last two decades in the West, there has been a significant increase in the arrest, imprisonment and detention of migrants. The racial criminalization and victimization of migrants and Roma people has led judicial authorities, local governments, the police, mass media and the general population...
Cover of India Migrations Reader
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

This volume brings together critical and landmark studies in Indian migration. Covers a range of key themes — emigration policy in countries of destination and origin, development and remittances, gender issues, impact of the global financial crisis, conflict, and inclusive growth Looks...
Cover of Migrant Integration Between Homeland and Host Society Volume 1
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

This book provides a theoretical framing to analyse and examine the interaction between origin and destination in the migrant integration process. Coverage offers a set of concrete conceptual tools, which can be operationalised when measuring integration. This title is the first of two complementary...
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Ancestors on the Move

A History of Overseas Travel

by Karen Foy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

Ever wanted to understand more about your ancestor's sea travels? What was life like aboard ship for both passengers and crew, how long did the journey take, what kind of conditions could be expected, and what exotic locations might they have visited along the way? Following the tried and tested routes...
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Immigrants and Social Work

Thinking Beyond the Borders of the United States

by Diane Drachman, Ana Paulino
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013

Explore an understudied but vital aspect of the immigration experience! Until now, the American social work literature on immigration has emphasized one part of the migration process-the experiences of immigrants in this country. Country-of-origin experiences that lead to emigration have received...
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Caithness to Patagonia

Distant Lands and Close Relatives

by Ian Leith
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

This is an extraordinary and little-known story of emigration from Scotland. Caithness and Patagonia are literally a world apart, yet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a number of Caithness men and women took on the challenge of this wild, open and windswept land. The book provides the origins...
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Feeling Italian

The Art of Ethnicity in America

by Thomas J. Ferraro
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005

2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago—;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the “melting...
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The Immigrant

A Journey of Good Hope

by Jennie Gungiah
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015

When South Africa ended its policy of racial segregation and peacefully transitioned to a democracy in 1994, Jennie Gungiah was filled with hope and patriotism. As a young teacher who had attended all-Indian segregated schools as a child, she was thrilled to have students of all races in her classroom....
Cover of Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine
by France Meslé, Vladimir Shkolnikov, Serhii Pyrozhkov
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012

The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these catastrophes but do not distinguish...
Cover of All They Will Call You
by Tim Z. Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017

All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted...
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