Emigration category: 2215 books

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Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States

Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities

by Linda Park, Rose Kim, Alex Jeong
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four influential factors of ethnic identity: retention...
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by Jin-Heon Jung
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015

Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.  
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by Nicky Barclay, Mathew Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

This essential handbook is for anyone wishing to enter the UK to work, study, settle, join their family, or visit - and who wants to remain in the UK indefinitely. It is ideal for students, would-be immigrants to the UK, HR professionals, and expats. It will help them to identify which visa category...
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by Anatoly Oleksiyenko
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018

*Winner of the Best Book Award from Researchers and Students and Study Abroad Programmes at the CIES2019 conference 2019 This book examines learning-mobility tensions and ties caused by convergences and divergences of social, organizational and cognitive forces in global higher education. As...
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by Behzad Yaghmaian
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005

An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-American Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has managed to...
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by Shari Lavin
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013

Applying for a green card isn't as complicated as it may at first appear. Our guide, How to Get a Green Card, will walk you through the steps to take if you wish to become a permanent resident of the United States. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.
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Surviving Remnant

Memories of the Jewish Greenhorns in 1950s America

by Hanna Perlstein Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

How does a young girl search for a benevolent father figure and suitable husband for her single mother among a group of Holocaust survivors? Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to her award-winning memoir,...
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Oral History at the Crossroads

Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement

by Steven High
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members “shared authority”...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012

Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the U.S., the contributors...
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by Shirley Camia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

There is a belief, in Filipino culture, that the recently deceased may return in the form of a moth. Though their bodies disintegrate, their spirits linger on. Fragile but insistent, these spirit-memories permeate Shirley Camia�s collection of poetry, The Significance of Moths. In her latest...
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Irish Migrants in New Communities

Seeking the Fair Land?

by Noémie Beck, Malcolm Campbell, Bridget Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history...
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France, ce serait aussi un beau nom

Essai sur la langue française

by Marie-Pierre Pruvot
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2017

Une langue tue est une langue morte. S'il est un sujet qui est passé sous silence dans la campagne présidentielle, c'est bien celui de la langue française. Même les discussions sur la culture, si fréquentes, s'en détournent et l'ignorent. Pourtant le français, dans les instances internationales,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters explore...
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SIX WORDS FRESH OFF THE BOAT

Stories of Immigration, Identity, and Coming to America

by Larry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Six Words Fresh Off the Boat marries the phenomenon of Larry Smith's successful Six-Word Memoirs with ABC and 20th Century Fox Television's hit comedy Fresh Off the Boat. The book captures hundreds of takes on the immigration experience, from every-day people as well as world-famous celebrities including...
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