Emigration category: 2215 books
Unpack
A Guide to Life as an Expat Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
As an expat spouse, how do you choose the right home for your family, transition your kids to a new country and school, adjust to a new culture, and build a whole new network of friends?
Expat spouses face many questions, and this book is designed to offer straightforward answers. Written by...
Being Human, Being Migrant
Senses of Self and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant’s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living “in between” or...
Titans are in Town
A Novella and Accompanying Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Titans are in Town consists of a novella and cultural essays by Dr. Tomislav Sunic. In the novella and his essays, Sunic discusses the state of Europeans in their postmodern wasteland. Confronted by endless interracial chaos, Europe longs for the return of Titans. Based on Friedrich Georg Jünger’s...
Living and Working in India
The complete practical guide to expatriate life in the sub continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
As well as being a fascinating country, with a rich and varied culture, India is emerging as a major world economy. More and more people are going there to live and work. The purpose of this book is to ease the transition between western and Indian cultures. If you are going to India to do business...
Démanteler les frontières
Contre l’impérialisme et le colonialisme
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Aujourd’hui, plus que jamais, il est insensé de parler d’immigration tout en faisant abstraction des catalyseurs des déplacements de population : le colonialisme, l’impérialisme et le néolibéralisme. C’est là le point de départ que revendique Démanteler les frontières. Alliant théorie...
Illegal, Legal Immigration
Causes, Effects and Solutions. Why Some Succeed and Others Fail
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
This book will inform and educate the general public on illegal immigration and its effects not only on those directly involved in the process, but on the general population as well. Writing about it in the context of its impact on contemporary society seems to be the best way to do it. How the different...
Immigration and the State
Fear, Greed and Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This book examines how and why liberalism and human rights have proven insufficient to protect immigrants. Contemporary immigration systems are characterized by increasing complexity and expanding enforcement, and frequently criticized for violating human rights and for causing death, exclusion and...
Broad Is My Native Land
Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and...
Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Gain a better understanding of the past and cultures of Slavic and East European peoples with American archival collections!
Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States, the first collection of its kind, offers perspectives from leading Slavic librarians, archivists...
Nursing and Empire
Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British...
Transnational Crime and Human Rights
Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic,...
Detaining the Immigrant Other
Global and Transnational Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This edited text explores immigration detention through a global and transnational lens. Immigration detention is frequently transnational; the complex dynamics of apprehending, detaining, and deporting undocumented immigrants involve multiple organizations that coordinate and often act across nation...
by Umberto Eco
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2019
“Eliminare il razzismo non vuol dire mostrare e convincersi che gli Altri non sono diversi da noi, ma comprendere e accettare la loro diversità.” Dopo Il fascismo eterno, una nuova illuminante riflessione civile, contro ogni pregiudizio e intolleranza.
Marginal Workers
How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them without Protection
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as poor...