Emigration category: 2215 books
Migrant Nation
Australian Culture, Society and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Focusing on particular historical blind spots by telling stories of individuals and groups that did not fit the favoured identity mould, the essays in 'Migrant Nation' work within the gap between Australian image and experience and offer fresh insights into the ‘other’ side of identity construction....
Beyond the Journey
Women's Stories of Settlement and Community Building in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Beyond the Journey features the voices of women who have experienced the challenge of living in Canadas immigrant communities. Some women were brought to Canada as children, while others immigrated as adults; yet others were born in Canada to immigrant parents. The women chronicle their journey of settlement...
Diversities Old and New
Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.
by Christian H. Kälin
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons. “The...
by Henley & Partners
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Global Residence and Citizenship Programs 2016 provides a comprehensive, systematic analysis and benchmarking of the world’s most relevant investor immigration and citizenship-by-investment programs. A distinguished panel of independent experts – immigration and citizenship lawyers, economists, country...
by Dr. Christian H. Kälin
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons. “The...
by Patrick Dearen
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A story that could have come out of today’s headlines, this reissue of Patrick Dearen’s 1981 novel explores an illegal alien’s desperate attempt to provide for his family.
Ricardo has known only poverty in Mexico, but he dreams of a better life in the United States. He enlists a “coyote”...
On the Move
Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better employment opportunities. This is the general view that most Americans...
The World in Brooklyn
Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to...
Encounter on the Great Plains
Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian...
Many Voices, One Nation
Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Many Voices, One Nation explores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America’s many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, offer distinctive insight into the peopling of the United States from the Europeans’ North...
Migrant Sites
America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In Migrant Sites, Dalia Kandiyoti presents a compelling corrective to the traditional immigrant and melting pot story. This original and wide-ranging study embraces Jewish, European, and Chicana/o and Puerto Rican literatures of migration and diasporization through the literary works of Abraham Cahan,...
Immigrants in the Far West
Historical Identities and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an important...
Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea
Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
In Girt By Sea Mungo MacCallum provides a devastating account of the Howard government's treatment of the refugees as well as delineating the factors in Australian history which have worked towards prejudice and those which have worked against it; ranging from Calwell's postwar immigration policy to...