Emigration category: 2215 books
American Sanctuary
Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From “one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession” (Gordon S. Wood)—a dazzling and original work of history.
A. Roger Ekirch’s American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered...
The Cosmopolites
The Coming of the Global Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The cosmopolites are literally "citizens of the world," from the Greek word kosmos, meaning "world," and polites, or "citizen." Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced...
by Rory Dunlop, Graham Denholm, Lisa Giovannetti QC
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The UK has some of the largest immigration detention facilities in Europe, holding as many as 3000 individuals at any point in time. Foreign nationals are held under immigration powers in a variety of circumstances including on arrival pending examination, whilst an asylum claim is considered in the...
Visas for the United States
ExecVisa
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
ExecVisa published the ExecVisa book on how you go about obtaining many types of visa that allow you to work or do business legally in USA. This invaluable guide book has been published in a variety of languages (in both print and ebook versions). The book is an easy to read and understand guide....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Modern businesses and organizations understand that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an important factor for sustainable success. At the same time CSR has established itself as a widely accepted element of courses in managerial training and education. This book, designed to support...
International Migration Research
Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the theoretical and research agendas of the social science disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of authors presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or breaking of the family unit is mainly contingent on how individuals handle remittance processes.
Deterritorialized Youth
Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development....
Garden of the World
Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. In Garden of the World, Cecilia Tsu tells the overlooked, intertwined histories of the Santa Clara Valley's agricultural...
by E. Kofman, P. Raghuram
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration. They highlight the range of sites, sectors, and skills in which migrants are employed and how migration is both a cause and an outcome of depletion in social reproduction.
A Family Matter
Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family in order to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship's inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights. Established and emerging scholars explore the exclusion of migrants, welfare claimants, women, children and others.
Immigrants in Regional Labour Markets of Host Nations
Some Evidence from Atlantic Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
This book is the first to present a detailed analysis of economic integration of immigrants in smaller areas of their host nations. It uses Atlantic Canada as a case in point and uses unpublished data based on several databases of Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration, Canada. It identifies...
Trust beyond Borders
Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Will immigration undermine the welfare state? Trust beyond Borders draws on public opinion data and case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the United States to document the influence of immigration and diversity on trust, reciprocity, and public support for welfare programs. Markus M. L. Crepaz demonstrates...