Emigration category: 2215 books
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion
Australia from 1788
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion presents Australian traditions, myths and legends in an understanding but often critical light in the belief that such devices have often been used by interested parties and even governments to maintain social solidarity and to mould a very complex people into a...
Lights in the Distance
Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Immersive, engrossing report on the European refugee crisis
A mother puts her children into a refrigerator truck and asks, “What else could I do?” A runaway teenager comes of age on the streets, sleeping in abandoned buildings. A student leaves his war-ravaged country behind because he...
Precarious Lives
Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed...
Beautiful Balts
From Displaced Persons to New Australians
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 – the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as ‘Beautiful Balts'. Amid the hierarchies of the White...
Debating American Identity
Southwestern Statehood and Mexican Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
In the early 1900s, Teddy Roosevelt, New Mexico governors Miguel Antonio Otero and Octaviano Larrazolo, and Arizona legislator Carl Hayden—along with the voices of less well-known American women and men—promoted very different views on what being an American meant. Their writings and speeches...
Globalisation and Migration
New Issues, New Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how does...
Collective Terms
Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and second-generation immigrant teenagers against the police,...
Irregular Afghan Migration to Europe
At the Margins, Looking In
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book examines the issue of irregular transit migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans. Focusing on the Afghans that arrive in and seek to move through Greece, it highlights the unique problems facing this distinctive migratory movement. Recognising that the migratory journey...
by Julian Langness
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The Coming War In Europe: Essays On Europe’s Impending Destabilization And Internal Confrontation With Islam is a collection of articles and essays published by Julian Langness in 2015-2017. These essays detail and analyze the situation in Europe vis a vis mass-Muslim immigration, as well as the...
Why do Immigrants in the USA Speak with Foreign Accents?
SHORT STORY # 40. Nonfiction series # 1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Many people sometimes are asking me: “Why do you speak with accent?” Indeed, why do I ? My children, who come with me, do not speak with accent. No one ever thought that they are not Americans. Why even British, who lived in the USA for a long time, still speak with their British accent? Why they...
Refugee Economies
Forced Displacement and Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Refugees have rarely been studied by economists. Despite some pioneering research on the economic lives of refugees, there remains a lack of theory and empirical data through which to understand, and build upon, refugees' own engagement with markets. Yet, understanding these economic systems may hold...
Return Migration to Afghanistan
Moving Back or Moving Forward?
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration–development–peace-building nexus. Using the concept of multidimensional embeddedness, it provides an encompassing view of returnees’ identification...
Mainstreaming Integration Governance
New Trends in Migrant Integration Policies in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as one of the major contemporary trends in immigrant integration governance in Europe. Bringing together unique empirical material and theoretical insights on mainstreaming, it examines how, why and to what effect immigrant integration is mainstreamed....
The Long Road Ahead
Status Report on the Implementation of the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements on Professional Services
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Over the past decade, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) in seven occupations, all designed to facilitate professional mobility within the region. MRAs are not easy to operationalize, however. Despite progress in key areas, member states...