Emigration category: 2215 books
The Russian Management Revolution: Preparing Managers for a Market Economy
Preparing Managers for a Market Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Soviet managerial culture, however resistant to change, is in fact changing (just as Western managers have begun to grasp some of its written rules). This volume attempts to reveal the direction of those changes. It spotlights the problems that are preparing students, career managers, and the employees...
The Consequences of Mobility
Reflexivity, Social Inequality and the Reproduction of Precariousness in Highly Qualified Migration
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing...
Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migration
The Transatlantic Council on Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Greater mobility and migration have brought about unprecedented levels of diversity that are transforming communities across the Atlantic in fundamental ways, sparking uncertainty over who the "we" is in a society. As publics fear loss of their national identity and values, the need is greater than...
by Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Now in its eighth edition, the Immigration Law Handbook continues to bring together all the key materials relevant to immigration and asylum law in one volume, providing an essential reference tool for those working in the area. This new edition maintains the strengths of the handbook as a reference...
The Law of Employees’ Provident Funds
A Case-Law Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This title has been written with an underlying aim in mind to document critical judicial interpretations relating to the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 in a wide variety of situations. The book annotates the statute section by section from the legal standpoint...
Migrant Dubai
Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Dubai shows that even within highly restrictive mobility regimes, marginalized migrants find ways to cope with structural inequalities and quotidian modes of discrimination.
Open Borders
The Case Against Immigration Controls
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2004
'A very impressive achievement.' Ann Dummett, founder, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants'Teresa Hayter has written a formidably comprehensive book on the history, mechanisms, and debates surrounding immigration controls in Britain ... The crux of Hayter's argument is that immigration controls...
by Frank Parker, Patrick Lillis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
An in-depth study of the events leading up to the Irish Potato Famine in the latter half of the 19th century. “This is a deeply researched and well-written book. I was expecting it to focus almost entirely on the famine years. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it covers much broader topics...
Performing Citizenship
Undocumented Migrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Undocumented migrants in the United States raise compelling questions about political legitimacy, obligation, and citizenship. If they are truly members of their communities, should they have a voice in the laws and policies that impact their lives? Should their interests be considered, especially...
by Matthew Kaemingk
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
An alternative, uniquely Christian response to the growing global challenges of deep religious difference
In the last fifty years, millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America. Their arrival has ignited a series of fierce public debates on both sides of the Atlantic about religious...
Ignored but Not Forgotten
Canada's English Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The story of early English Canadian immigration to Canada is finally told in detail.
Ignored but Not Forgotten is a compelling and moving account of one of Canada’s foremost immigrant groups: the story of the great migration of English people to Canada that peaked during the early twentieth...
Refuge New Zealand
A Nation's Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping war and persecution because of their ethnicity, their religion or their political beliefs. Since 1840, New Zealand has given refuge to thousands of people...
Refugees, Capitalism and the British State
Implications for Social Workers, Volunteers and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for social workers and service users to understand the structures of oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance. This book uses Marxism's lost insights and reinterprets...
Go home?
The politics of immigration controversies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next.
The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored...