Emigration category: 2215 books
The Closed Hand
Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese...
African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts
Crossing the Strait
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping...
Border Interrogations
Questioning Spanish Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions—subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past,...
A Long Dream of Home
The persecution, exile and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Twenty-five years ago, in the winter of 1990, about four hundred thousand Pandits of Kashmir were forced to leave Kashmir, their homeland, to save their lives when militancy erupted there. Even today, they continue to live as 'internally displaced migrants' in their own country. While most Kashmiri...
Shame and Pride in Narrative
Mexican Women's Language Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives.
Migrant Communication Enterprises
Regimentation and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative...
Motherhood across Borders
Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Winner, 2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award, given by the Ethnography in Education Research Forum
The stories of Mexican migrant women who parent from afar, and how their transnational families stay together
While we have an incredible amount of statistical information...
by Sheila Murugasu
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book is an exploration of the various types of transnational politics that the Chin and Acehnese people are engaged in, particularly in the Malaysian state. As with so many migrants elsewhere in the world who try to organize themselves transnationally, the Chin and Acehnese have needed to negotiate...
by Denis Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A Migrant Heart is about departures and arrivals, uprooting and attachment, resettling and returning. Denis Sampson left Ireland as a student, leaving behind the farming countryside of his childhood, the city of Dublin where he was educated, and the history and culture of his native country. He arrived...
The Newfoundland Diaspora
Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
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E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada
Jennifer Delisle
As the first literary figure of the Newfoundland diaspora, E.J. Pratt’s “authenticity” as a Newfoundlander has been the subject of much debate. Delisle analyzes receptions of Pratt’s work through the mid-twentieth...
Thinking Home
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to introduce new ways of thinking on home, from the individual...
The Cayman Islands in Transition
The Politics, History and Sociology of a Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
'Who is a Caymanian?' 'What should be the nature of the relationship between "established Caymanians" and “expatriate Caymanians" in arriving at a definition?'J.A. (Roy) Bodden argues that Caymanian society is based on a synergistic and symbiotic relationship between expatriates and...
War and Migration
Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology.