Emigration category: 2215 books
Children and Youth on the Front Line
Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers...
Pockets of resistance
British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian migrations, this new handbook therefore seeks to examine and evaluate the flows of movement within Asia, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization,...
Iraqi Migrants in Syria
The Crisis before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
During the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. International aid organizations, the media, and diplomats alike praised...
EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security
Technology, Externalization and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management. In light of the refugee crises in the Mediterranean and the responses on the part of EU member states, this volume presents an in-depth reflection on European border practices and their political, social and economic consequences....
The Refugee Crisis and Religion
Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world, closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion. Moving beyond discussions of religious differences, what can we learn about the interaction between religion and migration? Do faith-based organisations play a role within...
Understanding Cuba as a Nation
From European Settlement to Global Revolutionary Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbable survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the world has kept international...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is one of the first books to explore Nepali diaspora in a global context, across India and other parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Australia. It discusses the social, political and economic status and aspirations of the Nepali community worldwide. The essays in the volume cover...
Searching for Home Abroad
Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational...
by Stanley A. Renshon
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Continuing large-scale migration to the United States raises the question of how best to integrate new immigrants into the American national community. Traditionally, one successful answer has been to encourage immigrants to learn our language, culture, history, and civic traditions. New immigrants...
Brain Gain
Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Many of America's greatest artists, scientists, investors, educators, and entrepreneurs have come from abroad. Rather than suffering from the "brain drain" of talented and educated individuals emigrating, the United States has benefited greatly over the years from the "brain gain"...
Shifting Boundaries
Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely to crumble around them as to come...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book focuses on the experiences of temporary movements between Asia and Europe from the perspective of migrants and mobile people. It raises important questions such as: Why do people migrate on a temporary basis and what does this actually mean? How are these trajectories shaped? What are the...