Emigration category: 2215 books
I'll Stand by You
One Woman's Mission to Heal the Children of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
**"This may be the book that changes your life."—Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone
“The saint of Staten Island” (People magazine) shares the inspirational story of how she’s changing the world, one child at a time.**
Over a decade ago, Elissa...
How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?
Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.
Dreamers and their allies, those who care about immigration justice, and anyone interested...
La Cacería
Una historia de inmigración y violencia en Estados Unidos (Hunting Season,Spanish)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2014
La verdadera historia del asesinato de un inmigrante que convirtió a un pueblo acogedor en Long Island, en la zona cero en la guerra contra la inmigración.
En noviembre del 2008, Marcelo Lucero, un inmigrante Ecuatoriano de treinta y siete años, fue atacado y asesinado por un grupo de adolecentes...
The Burden of White Supremacy
Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration....
Migrant Returns
Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and balikbayans—Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland—to reconceptualize migration as a process of connectivity. Focusing on the experiences of...
Two Faces of Exclusion
The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national...
In Spite of Oceans
Migrant Voices
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
The British-Asian population accounts for more than 7.5% of the population of Britain, or more than 5 million people. A number of books have been published on aspects of this culture, on music, sport, and business, but no book has yet looked at this experience in its totality. This book will attempt...
Weathering Katrina
Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese Americans
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The principal Vietnamese-American enclave was a remote, low-income area that flooded badly. Many residents arrived decades earlier as refugees from the Vietnam War and were marginally fluent in English. Yet, despite these poor odds of success, the...
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and...
The Politics of Immigration
Partisanship, Demographic Change, and American National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Immigration has been deeply woven into the fabric of American nation building since the founding of the Republic. Indeed, immigrants have played an integral role in American history, but they are also intricately tied to America's present and will feature prominently in America's future. Immigration...
Mobile Desires
The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book combines mobilities research with feminist and queer studies offering new perspectives on mobility justice. It foregrounds academic, activist, and artistic work revealing state-sponsored strategies for managing the mobility of people as mechanisms for aligning erotic and political desires with capitalist and nationalist interests.
American Karma
Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors.
American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth...
by Hope and Life Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Migrants and refugees have long been considered vulnerable populations within Christianity, but many, Christians included, remain to this day insufficiently knowledgeable about the specificity of the Church's views on the matter. Addressing the way in which the Catholic Faith has regarded voluntary...
Inventing the Immigration Problem
The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts—women and men trained in the new field of social science—fanned out across the country to collect data...