Emigration category: 2215 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a...
Gender in Refugee Law
From the Margins to the Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Questions of gender have strongly influenced the development of international refugee law over the last few decades. This volume assesses the progress toward appropriate recognition of gender-related persecution in refugee law. It documents the advances made following intense advocacy around the world...
Political Asylum Deceptions
The Culture of Suspicion
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
This book explores the legitimacy of political asylum applications in the US and UK through an examination of the varieties of evidence, narratives, and documentation with which they are assessed. Credibility is the central issue in determining the legitimacy of political asylum seekers, but the...
Claiming Place
On the Agency of Hmong Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women’s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women’s...
by Giorgio Fontana
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Karkadan, rapper tunisino. Kamal, giocatore di cricket dello Sri Lanka, portinaio per campare. José e Milca, editori peruviani a piazzale Loreto... Un viaggio in otto fermate affidato alla penna di un giovane scrittore di grande talento: i capitoli del libro sono intervallati da un racconto ambientato...
Home Now
How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A moving chronicle of struggle, transformation, and who belongs in America.
The once-thriving city of Lewiston had fallen on hard times--mills closed, jobs gone. It was mostly white, and the young were leaving. Then thousands of African Muslim immigrants came to town.
Over the past 15...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
This edited collection brings together new research on public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) with a focus on ideology, ethics and policy development. The contributions provide fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on the inconsistencies in translation and interpreting provision...
Medicine in Translation
Journeys with My Patients
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From a doctor Oliver Sacks has called a “born storyteller,” a riveting account of practicing medicine at a fast-paced urban hospital
For two decades, Dr. Danielle Ofri has cared for patients at Bellevue, the oldest public hospital in the country and a crossroads for the world’s cultures....
Global Exposure in East Asia
A Comparative Study of Microglobalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of what until now have been grand narratives of huge global phenomena. This book presents a micro-level...
A Nation of Immigrants
Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.
The...
Memories of Carolinian Immigrants
Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This is a book about identity and remembrance. This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries...
Chinese Migration to Europe
Prato, Italy, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this volume examines the most pressing migration and integration issues facing many societies today, from the political and policy-based challenges of managing increasingly diverse communities, to individual lived experiences of identity and belonging....
by James O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Immigration is the thorny question that just won’t go away. It feeds a whole industry of commentators, pundits and politicians who take great delight in whipping us all into a frenzy, speaking for the ‘ordinary people’. But, when ugly prejudices are being fed by professionals grown fat on the...
by Sue Methuen
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The year is 1913. Louisa and her husband Fred, along with their young daughter, leave the only place they have ever known to travel across the ocean to an unknown land. They leave because of hardships endured for so many years in England. Their hope for a better life in Canada gives them the courage...