Emigration category: 2215 books
by DIXION RWAKASYAGURI
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Learn How You Too Can Live the American Dream — You Too Can Live The Dream by Dixion Rwakasyaguri
Is the American Dream still achievable today? For those of you striving to realize your true potential and live your life to the fullest, this Dream can seem elusive. Full of practical instruction...
African Transnational Diasporas
Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Pasura proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. The book explores the origin, formation and performance of the Zimbabwean transnational diaspora in Britain and examines how the diaspora is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland.
In Erdogans Visier
Warum er die Deutschtürken radikalisieren will und was das für uns bedeutet
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Spätestens seit dem gescheiterten Militärputsch vergeht kaum ein Tag ohne besorgniserregende Meldungen aus Ankara. Unverhohlen baut der türkische Präsident Erdogan seine Machtstellung immer weiter aus. Die Instrumentalisierung des Islam, Massenverhaftungen oder Eingriffe in die Pressefreiheit...
Following the Ball
The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949–1975
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal’s African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975....
Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This book is the first to analyze the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism. It explores how migration and transnationalism are producing diverse spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church as institution and parish, pilgrimage and network, community...
Reinventing the Republic
Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families had taken refuge in the church under threat of deportation due to the French state's increasingly restrictive immigration policies. Rather than disperse...
by Maria Laurino
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This richly researched, beautifully illustrated volume illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history.
From extensive archival materials and interviews with well-known Italian Americans, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights and challenges for empirical research using informative case studies drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North America...
Laws Harsh As Tigers
Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials,...
by Jack Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This eBook edition appears to coincide with the acquisition of the Exclusion/Inclusion Exhibition from the New York Historical Society by the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco (CHSA).
“Before World War I, when Chinese contributed importantly to the building of America...
by Levon Ter-Petrossian
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia. Additionally, it discusses the ongoing conflict with Azerbaijan, and the Armenian government’s handling of the commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
Migration Italy
The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a destination for many people from poor or war-torn countries seeking a better life in a stable environment....
Border Lampedusa
Subjectivity, Visibility and Memory in Stories of Sea and Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book analyses the European border at Lampedusa as a metaphor for visible and invisible powers that impinge on relations between Europe and Africa/Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary approach (political, social, cultural, economic and artistic), it explores the island as a place where social relations...
Identity, Ideology and Positioning in Discourses of Lifestyle Migration
The British in the Ariège
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration. With a focus on British migrants living in the Ariège, south-west France, the study identifies common positioning strategies to demonstrate links...