Emigration category: 2215 books
Violence Against Latina Immigrants
Citizenship, Inequality, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been...
Migration Across Boundaries
Linking Research to Practice and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working in Europe, North and South America, South Asia and the Middle East, this volume explores the question of how to ensure that migration research feeds back into improving the lives of migrants. It emphasises...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ explores mediated debates about belonging in contemporary Australia by combining research that proposes conceptual and historical frameworks for understanding the concept in the Australian context. A range of themes and case studies make the book...
Transnational Childhoods
British Bangladeshis, Identities and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London. Exploring the array of international events, communities and forces which influence them, Zeitlyn examines the socialisation practices among British Bangladeshi families and how this shapes their childhood and identities.
Contested Belonging
Spaces, Practices, Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies contributions by well-known international scholars from different disciplines address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Belonging is viewed from the perspectives...
Secularism and Identity
Non-Islamiosity in the Iranian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities, yet there exist within diasporic communities unique and complex secularisms. Drawing on detailed interview and ethnographic material gathered in the...
by Ami R. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Using James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. Almost all of the study participants Moore interviewed considered America a land of opportunity. Additionally, most of the black African...
Cosmopolitan Anxieties
Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have...
by Alfred Döblin
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Destiny's Journey by Alfred Döblin (edited by Edgar Pässler, translated from the German by Edna McCown, introduction by Peter Demetz; 131,000 words)
Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information...
by Ann Beaglehole
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Set in 1950s to 1970s New Zealand, this novel vividly brings the Jewish immigrant experience to life. Nazi persecution and oppression behind the Iron Curtain haunt the adults in this powerful novel as they struggle to adjust in a strange land. Their children, however, expand into the bright, open...
Transit States
Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
There are vast swathes of people in economic migration across the Gulf states today. In total, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. This book studies the impact of this mass migration, and its effect...
by Mary Antin, Werner Sollors
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
An extraordinary popular success when it was first published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience. Mary Antin emigrated with her family from the
Eastern European town of Polotzk to Boston in 1894, when she was twelve years old. Preternaturally...
From East to West
The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. And yet, the history of the Jewish migratory movements has not been fully explored in Jewish history. While the Jewish migratory movements in the nineteenth and twentieth...
by Barry Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Burdened with bundles and baskets, a million or more immigrant children passed through the often grim halls of Ellis Island. Having left behind their homes in Europe and other parts of the world, they made the voyage to America by steamer. Some came with parents or guardians. A few came as stowaways....