Emigration category: 2215 books
Right to DREAM
Immigration Reform and America’s Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The DREAM Act, bipartisan legislation first introduced in Congress in 2001, would provide conditional residency for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children. It recognizes that undocumented youth have done nothing wrong and that they should be allowed to work, to go to school, and...
Child Exploitation and Trafficking
Examining Global Enforcement and Supply Chain Challenges and U.S. Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual and labor exploitation. Put simply, the growing epidemic of child exploitation demands a coordinated response.
In addition to compliance concerns raised by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), UK...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This collection of essays engages with a central theme in scholarship on EU citizenship – the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others – and seeks to expand its horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration....
Finding Fernanda
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud.
Over the past five years, over 100,000 children...
The New Cockney
New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London. Embedded in its social context, it focuses on the interaction and social practices within a single community and highlights some of the possible mechanisms for language change.
Body Counts
The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration,...
The Gift of Freedom
War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress,...
X Does Not Mark My Spot
Voices from the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
A lively collection of stories, essays, and poems by writers of South Asian descent living in North America.‘Call Me Confused, Please’ requests one of the stories in this insightful and engaging collection from women of South Asian origin living in the United States and Canada. ‘Made in the USA?’...
Waiting for José
The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen?...
by Chatwara Suwannamai Duran
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis’. With a focus on language and literacy...
Language, Immigration and Naturalization
Legal and Linguistic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences of immigrants/outsiders and the media’s interpretation of this process. The book brings together...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna), organised by Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which ** **was dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions...
Places of Pain
Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and...
by Calogero Giametta
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Today within neoliberal democracies, gender and sexuality provisions give people the opportunity of being granted social and legal protection. But how does the asylum system intervene within claimants’ understandings of themselves and in what ways does this affect their livelihoods in the country...