Emigration category: 2215 books
Suburban Crossroads
The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The political debate over comprehensive immigration reform in the United States reached a pinnacle in 2006. When Congress failed to implement federal immigration reform, this spurred numerous local and state governments to confront immigration policy in their own jurisdictions. In fear of becoming...
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration...
American Aliya
Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zionism, aliya, and the Jewish experience. Chapters include "Zion in Jewish culture,"...
Women Migrants From East to West
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria...
Discipline and the Other Body
Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control...
by Emmy E. Werner
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the “Guardian of the Western Gate,” the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States....
by Abou Farman
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Migration stories, says Abou Farman, are often told through the personal struggles and travails of the migrant, ‘the great voyager figure of our most recent centuries, the harbinger of hybridity, the metaphor for risk, sacrifice, toil, abuse, inhumanity. And humanity.’ These are the stories (both...
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent...
The End of Tolerance
Racism in 21st Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism.*BR**BR*Exacerbated by the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Kundnani argues...
by John Sesay, Erika Celeste
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Young man sets out to immigrate to America from West Africa but encounters and overcomes corrupt government officials and ruthless criminals in Africa but eventually gets to America and falls into the hands of human traffickers. He finally succeeds in finding his way into the mainstream flow of society where he finds the freedom to develop his potential as a complete human being
Il sogno fasullo
Memorie di un raffinato migrante senegalese in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 5, 2016
“L’errore enorme che ho fatto venendo qui è aver pensato che qui ci fosse il Paradiso, che potessi guadagnare soldi, diventare ricco. Ho mollato tutto per venire in Europa, ma non era affatto come pensavo e come mi avevano fatto credere. È stata un’esperienza fondamentale, ora ho capito, e...
The Road to Citizenship
What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal...
by María Cristina García
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries. In the post-Cold War period, a wider range of geopolitical and domestic interests...
Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights
Life Outside the Pale of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights, but they also spend billions fortifying their borders, detaining unauthorised immigrants, and policing migration. Meanwhile, public debate over the...