Emigration category: 2215 books
Memories on the Move
Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
‘Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.’
- Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA
‘Memories...
Slovenians in Cleveland
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The Newburgh, St. Clair and Collinwood neighborhoods formed the core of Greater Cleveland's enormous Slovenian population, still the largest in America. The city's Slovenian heritage is replete with gripping tales of World War II prison camp escapes and bizarre bank robbers who threatened the St....
So You Want to Move to Canada, Eh?
Stuff to Know Before You Go
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Laugh as you learn about America's friendly northern neighbor with this step-by-step guide to Canadian customs, pop culture, and slang -- perfect for anyone who's considered moving to (or just visiting) maple leaf country.
Written by New York Times bestselling author (and born-and-bred Canuck)...
Governing Refugees
Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism challenges such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognized as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but...
Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa
The Masupatsela Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It...
The Politics of Dependency
US Reliance on Mexican Oil and Farm Labor
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The United States and Mexico trade many commodities, the most important of which are indispensable sources of energy—crude oil and agricultural labor. Mexican oil and workers provide cheap and reliable energy for the United States, while US petro dollars and agricultural jobs supply much-needed income...
by Päivi Kannisto
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Presenting a ground-breaking study of the emerging phenomenon of location-independence, this book examines the way in which the practices of 'global nomads', who live on the road, without fixed abode, place of employment or localised circle of friends, question many of the unwritten norms and ideals...
Transnational Tortillas
Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico...
Roots and Reflections
South Asians in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Immigrants from South Asia first began settling in Washington and Oregon in the nineteenth century, but because of restrictions placed on Asian immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, the vast majority have come to the region since World War II. Roots and Reflections uses...
The Chinese Must Go
Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration...
by Chee Min Ng
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Australia continues to be a popular migration destination. In the first 15 years of the 21st century, 2.2 million people migrated to Australia with over 65% as skilled migrants.
This is the second book on emigrating to Australia by the author who has called Australia HOME for the last...
by John Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Terror in Australia: Workers' Paradise Lost, by veteran journalist John Stapleton, is a beautifully written snapshot of a pivotal turning point in the history of the so-called Lucky Country.This book is a sidewinding missile into the heart of Australian hypocrisy.In 2015 there were well attended...
Welsh Americans
A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation....
Rethinking the Irish Diaspora
After The Gathering
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book provides scholarly perspectives on a range of timely concerns in Irish diaspora studies. It offers a focal point for fresh interchanges and theoretical insights on questions of identity, Irishness, historiography and the academy’s role in all of these. In doing so, it chimes with the significant...