Emigration category: 2215 books
Buddha Is Hiding
Refugees, Citizenship, the New America
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant,...
Pain, Pride, and Politics
Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil...
Hmong and American
From Refugees to Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Farmers in Laos, U.S. allies during the Vietnam War, refugees in Thailand, settlers in the Western world--the stories of the Hmong have been told in detail through books and articles and oral histories over the past several decades. Like any immigrant group, the first generation may yearn for the...
Wind Over Water
Migration in an East Asian Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates...
The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora
Revisiting the boat people
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee era...
by Antoinette Vlieger
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Fascinating study and inside account of the lives of maids and caregivers in the oil-rich Middle East, who become contractually bound to near-slavery by taking positions overseas. Dutch law professor Vlieger interviewed many maids, bosses, and job agencies to get to the truth. She places what she...
The Politics of Immigration (2nd Edition)
Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A straightforward discussion of the issues surrounding immigration
U.S. immigration has been the subject of furious debates for decades. On one side, politicians and the media talk about aliens and criminals, with calls to “deport them all.” On the other side, some advocates idealize immigrants...
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants
A Resource Guide for Service Providers in Central Minnesota
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants focuses on African immigrant elders culture, religion, and spirituality in the United States. The ultimate aim is to provide a resource guide on African immigrant elders for the social workers, nursing homes, physicians, pharmacists, bankers, lawyers,...
Special Issue: Who Belongs?
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Constitution of Legality
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities. This special issue interrogates how law defines identity. It addresses the key themes of immigration...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What role does the protection of citizens abroad play in motivating states’ policies? How does citizenship of non-residents map onto domestic nation-building projects? And in what ways do extraterritorial citizenship issues differ from those related to diaspora and migration?
This volume...
Contested Embrace
Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and...
by Mikyoung Kim
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
This important book focuses on North Korean refugee human rights issues—a topic largely ignored in favor of addressing North Korea's domestic politics and deterrence of Pyongyang's nuclear threat.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Drawing on examples from the global North and South, this book examines the relationship between migration, development and diaspora engagement from a governance perspective. It explores the ways that governments interact with their own extra-national diasporic populations in order to boost economic...
Global Diasporas and Development
Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This volume discusses how diasporas have evolved and engaged in economic, social and cultural domains of their host and home countries across the globe. The volume is divided into six parts: Issues, Challenges and Development Experiences; Diaspora Finance and Economic Development; Knowledge Transfer...