Emigration category: 2215 books
Sanctuary and Asylum
A Social and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The practice of sanctuary�giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger�may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern...
by Klemen Jaklic
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Where does the law and political power of any given territory come from? Until recently it was believed that it came from a single and hierarchical source of constitutional authority, a sovereign people and their constitution. However, how can this model account for the new Europe? Where state constitutions...
Indian Transnationalism Online
New Perspectives on Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This...
South Asian Diaspora Narratives
Roots and Routes
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in...
Making Refuge
Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine...
Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care
Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative...
Labour, Mobility and Temporary Migration
A Comparative Study of Polish Migration to Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Labour, Mobility and Temporary Migration delves into sociological research on Polish migrants who migrated to the lesser-explored South Wales region after Poland joined the European Union in 2004. At the time of enlargement, Polish migrants were characterised as being economically motivated, short-term...
by Janey Mac
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Every country has dark moments in its history. Some are the result of considered actions that only become dark in retrospect, when the morals of the time evolve; others are morally indefensible even at the time of commission. Here in Australia, we have seen the pre-1949 ‘White Australia’ policy...
Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families
Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue
New Conversations in Public Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and...
Militarizing the Border
When Mexicans Became the Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing...
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say...
by Rita J. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations today-the United States, Canada, and Australia. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might be addressed,...
Rethinking Transit Migration
Precarity, Mobility, and Self-Making in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants' mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countries, Mexico, and the US.