Emigration category: 2215 books
Inside Immigration Law
Migration Management and Policy Application in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this book provides new insights into the ’black box’...
Transnational Aging
Current Insights and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively...
Migrant Citizenship from Below
Family, Domestic Work, and Social Activism in Irregular Migration
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is produced by complex interactions between Germany's...
Governing Mobility Beyond the State
Centre, Periphery and the EU's External Borders
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This book explores the structural tensions and conflicts that arise with the abolition of border controls between the EU's member states and how this conflict ridden relationship affects and is affected by the institutional shape of the EU's external borders.
Fragmented Fatherland
Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of comparison,...
The Challenges of Diaspora Migration
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Israel and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Diaspora or 'ethnic return' migrants have often been privileged in terms of citizenship and material support when they seek to return to their ancestral land, yet for many, after long periods of absence - sometimes extending to generations - acculturation to their new environment is as complex as...
Educating Refugee-background Students
Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and voices, and reflect a high degree of awareness...
From California's Gold Fields to the Mendocino Coast
A Settlement History Across Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
California’s history is rich and diverse, with numerous fascinating stories hidden in its past. Before the discovery of gold in the Sierras, San Francisco (Yerba Buena) and its surroundings comprised a sparsely populated frontier on the edge of the old Spanish realm. After 1848, the area rapidly...
by Nicholas Beecroft
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Dr Nicholas Beecroft interviews William Nkata Masembe on his perspective on British Patriotism as a Ugandan who has come to live in London. He describes those things that he loves about Britain and the British and gives his observations on how multiculturalism is working. He loves the tolerance and...
by Armas K. E. Holmio
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Michigan's Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns during the peak years of migration in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Several Upper Peninsula communities had large Finnish populations and Finnish churches, lodges, cooperative stores, and temperance...
Resilience in South Sudanese Women
Hope for Daughters of the Nile
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Resilience in South Sudanese Women describes the historical injustices in Southern Sudan that led to the outbreak of civil wars. These injustices included socio-economic and political marginalization that denied the women basic needs. It gives firsthand life experiences of the Sudanese women during...
Tropical Renditions
Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identities, publics, and politics. To understand this dynamic, Balance advocates for a "disobedient...
Crossing the Gulf
Love and Family in Migrant Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately increase the challenges faced by migrants and their...
Downwardly Global
Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Downwardly Global Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward...