Emigration category: 2215 books
Baseball beyond Borders
From Distant Lands to the Major Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
In 1973, Roberto Clemente was honored as the first baseball player born outside the continental U.S. to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the former Pittsburgh Pirate amassed 3,000 career hits and 240 home runs. Since then, eight more international players of Major...
Outsourcing Border Control
Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Using an original case study, private contractors that implement EU visa policy on governments’ behalf,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity
Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide--including some 45 million in the United States--claim it as their ancestral home. In this wide-ranging, ambitious book, Cian T. McMahon explores the nineteenth-century roots of this...
by Helena Lindholm Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
From the refugee camps of the Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and keep...
by T. Aechtner
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility of the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power.
by Edgar Holden
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
The tale of a voyage from Macao to Havana of a shipment of Mutinous Chinese Coolies. Written at a time (1864) when the Chinese were being considered as replacements for the soon to be freed American Slaves.
History, Memory and Migration
Perceptions of the Past and the Politics of Incorporation
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
By conversing with the main bodies of relevant literature from Migration Studies and Memory Studies, this overview highlights how analysing memories can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migrant incorporation. The chapters consider international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.
Changing communities
Stories of migration, displacement and solidarities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displacement...
Makeshift Migrants and Law
Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant. It critiques the postcolonial perspective on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural, and familial norms on which law is based as well as the historical backdrop of...
Alien Nation
Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the "coolie" trade and ending during World War II. The Chinese came as laborers, streaming across borders legally and illegally and working jobs few others...
America for Americans
A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee...
Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin’s emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community’s negotiation...