Emigration category: 2215 books
Race, Place and Globalization
Youth Cultures in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
What does it mean to be young in a changing world? How are migration, settlement and new urban cultures shaping young lives? And in particular, are race, place and class still meaningful to contemporary youth cultures? This path-breaking book shows how young people are responding differently to recent...
by Huang Ping, Genevieve Domenach-Chich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Urban Poverty Reduction Among Migrants in China is the result of a large-scale research project conducted across China from 2002 to 2010. Packed full of original material, academic analysis, expert knowledge and practical policy suggestions, it paints a detailed picture of the consequences of Chinas...
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, identity, nationhood and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples.
Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualise her and...
The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness
Next Generation Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are embedded within...
International Migration into Europe
From Subjects to Abjects
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This book aims to decipher the complex web of structural, institutional and cultural contradictions which shape the inclusion-exclusion dialectic and the multifaceted grid within which the 'us' becomes the 'other' and the 'other' becomes the 'us'. It looks at how international migrants in Europe transform from legal subjects into legal abjects.
by Christine Velde
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Although there have been many discussions about challenges faced by individuals going through East to West migrations, there are few literary accounts about those moving from the West to the East. Yet these migrations are becoming more frequent now due to advances in technology and the fact that a writers...
Inmigración, trabajo y servicio doméstico
En la Europa urbana, siglos xviii-xx
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Los trabajos de este libro permitirán al lector hacerse con una visión comparada de la relación que la inmigración, el funcionamiento de los mercados de trabajo y el servicio doméstico han establecido entre sí en el seno de diferentes ciudades europeas en el curso de los siglos XVIII, XIX y...
Migraciones en la Patagonia
Subjetividades, diversidad y territorialización
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Este libro reúne diversos estudios sobre la población migrante de países latinoamericanos en la Patagonia argentina. Los autores analizan las experiencias y prácticas culturales de estos grupos habitualmente ignorados o invisibilizados por los discursos dominantes, con el objetivo de comprender...
Migrants and the Courts
A Century of Trial and Error?
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Written in a lively and engaging style from the perspective of a leading immigration judge, this book examines how states resolve disputes with migrants. The chapters reflect on changes in the laws and rules of migration on an international and regional basis and the impact on the parties, administration,...
Suspect Families
DNA Analysis, Family Reunification and Immigration Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Suspect Families is the first book to investigate the social, political, and ethical implications of parental testing for family reunification in immigration cases. Drawing on policy documents, legal frameworks, case study material and interviews with representatives of governmental and non-governmental...
Social Work, Immigration and Asylum
Debates, Dilemmas and Ethical Issues for Social Work and Social Care Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2004
The practical and ethical challenges facing human service professionals working with refugees, asylum seekers and other people subject to immigration controls are discussed in this much-needed book. The contributors explore the tensions that exist between traditional anti-oppressive values and the...
The Health of Newcomers
Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Immigration and health care are hotly debated and contentious issues. Policies that relate to both issues—to the health of newcomers—often reflect misimpressions about immigrants, and their impact on health care systems. Despite the fact that immigrants are typically younger and healthier than...
Foreigners, Refugees or Minorities?
Rethinking People in the Context of Border Controls and Visas
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
When immigration policy and the treatment of Roma collide in international relations there are surprising consequences which are revelatory of the underlying tensions between internal and external policies in the European Union. This book examines the relationship of citizenship, ethnicity and international...
Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas
From Global Perspectives to Everyday Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book examines the relationship between post-Soviet societies in transition and the increasingly important role of their diaspora. It analyses processes of identity transformation in post-Soviet space and beyond, using macro- and micro-level perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches combining...