Emigration category: 2215 books
Strangers No More
Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across...
Population and Development
The Demographic Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy. When discussed in relation to the global south and the modern project of development, the questions and answers become more problematic. Population and Development...
by Shannon Latkin Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Over the course of the 20th century, there have been three primary narratives of American national identity: the melting pot, Anglo-Protestantism, and cultural pluralism/multi-culturalism. This book offers a social and historical perspective on what shaped each of these imaginings, when each came...
by R. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My interest in the 'refugee question' of the 1930s stemmed initially from time spent as an undergraduate at Manchester University, an interest which has been expanded, via a doctoral thesis, to the writing of this book. In wri ting about the German and Austrian refugees who fled to the Netherlands...
by McLinden Gerard; Fanta Enrique; Widdowson David; Doyle Tom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Border clearance processes by customs and other agencies are among the most important and problematic links in the global supply chain. It takes three times as many days nearly twice as many documents and six times as many signatures to import goods in poor countries than it does in rich ones. Delays...
Working in the Shadows
A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken...
by Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Informative and enlightening April 25, 2007
By Reader Views
Format:Paperback
Reviewed by William Phenn for Reader Views (3/07)
Ian Moore is a well-traveled and exceptional individual. Born in London, England to Jamaican and English parents; Ian received his own culture shock as a young man....
Not Quite Australian
How Temporary Migration Is Changing the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Permanent migration has long been vital to the story of Australia. From the arrival of early settlers to waves of post-war immigration, the symbolic moment of disembarking onto Australian soil is an image deeply embedded in our nation’s consciousness.
Today, there are more than million temporary...
The Microstates of Europe
Designer Nations in a Post-Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The seven microstates of Europe, i.e. Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Malta, San Marino, Sovereign Order of St. John, and Vatican City are remarkable not only for their size, but their persistence. It is a sociopolitical phenomenon that has rarely been addressed, but The Microstates of Europe: Designer...
Oriental Identities in Super-Diverse Britain
Young Vietnamese in London
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain.
The Daily Lives of Muslims
Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism. From 9/11 to the Paris attacks, our headlines are dominated by images of violence and extremism. Now, as the Western world struggles to cope with the refugee crisis, there is a growing obsession with the issue of Muslim integration. Those...
Immigration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
Negotiating Membership and Remaking the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
German migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges. Focusing on these new challenges that German policy makers face, the authors, both internationally recognized in this field, use historical argument, theoretical...
Poor Participation
Fighting the Wars on Poverty and Impoverished Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is that decisions made about those living in poverty or near-poverty are illegitimate, inadvisable, and non-responsive to the needs and interests of the poor...
German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers
Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and political terrains. Surveying an...