Emigration category: 2215 books
A Suitable Enemy
Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Liz Fekete is a leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. A Suitable Enemy draws on sixteen years of research to present a comprehensive overview of EU immigration, asylum, race and security policies.
Fekete argues that at the same time as the EU...
by Ronit Lentin, Elena Moreo
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasingly restrictive immigration regime.
Migration in the Age of Genocide
Law, Forgiveness and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book presents a novel proposal for establishing justice and social harmony in the aftermath of genocide. It argues that justice should be determined by the victims of genocide rather than a detached legal system, since such a form of justice is more consistent with a socially grounded ethics,...
Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable
Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material...
Negotiating National Identity
Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite’s efforts to craft the nation’s identity in its own image—white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identity Jeffrey Lesser...
Not Fit to Stay
Public Health Panics and South Asian Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, public leaders – including physicians, union leaders, civil servants, journalists, and politicians...
Run for the Border
Vice and Virtue in U.S.-Mexico Border Crossings
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
Mexico and the United States exist in a symbiotic relationship: Mexico frequently provides the United States with cheap labor, illegal goods, and, for criminal offenders, a refuge from the law. In turn, the U.S. offers Mexican laborers the American dream: the possibility of a better livelihood through...
Trans-Border Studies
The Motivation and Integration of Immigrations in the Nigeria-Niger Border Area/ Transborder Movement and Trading. A Case Study of a Borderland in Southwestern
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
This report is a pilot study - a fuller picture will emerge after more data shall have been collected, analysed and explained. Borders are artificially constructed, geographic or astronomic lines that form the boundary of a nation. Within this delimited boundary, a nation exercises power and jurisdiction...
The Headscarf Debates
Conflicts of National Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular...
by Bruno Vartuli
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
As a young man in Italy’s Southern Calabria, Bruno Vartuli dreamed of starting a new life in a new land. On his arrival in Australia in the 1950s Bruno struggled to understand the language and culture, but with tremendous strength and perseverance he overcame each adversity and achieved amazing results....
Britain's Anglo-Indians
The Invisibility of Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian subcontinent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948–62, under the terms of the British Nationality...
At Home in Two Countries
The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York Times
The rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It...
Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
Racializing Chineseness
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration,...
Human Trafficking in Thailand
Current Issues, Trends, and the Role of the Thai Government
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Few subjects elicit greater moral outrage than human trafficking. Media reports of dehumanizing practices such as slavery, abduction, child prostitution, and torture, along with shocking statistics, form the basis of public knowledge. Those who work closely with victims acknowledge the complexity...