Emigration category: 2215 books
What Have the Immigrants Ever Done For Us?
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Right now, immigration is a central point of discussion in both political debate and cultural discourse. With the growth of right-wing parties in Britain, it seems that animosity towards outsiders is increasing every day - after all, immigrants come to our country, steal our jobs and exploit our public...
The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause
Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian...
by Neha Ahmed, Angie Y. Chung, Miliann Kang
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada, Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh have compiled a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. As the chapters demonstrate, comparing younger-generation Koreans with first-generation...
Engaging the Diaspora
Migration and African Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Considering the intensifying wave of migration across the globe, Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families is a timely endeavor. It engages the scholar and facilitates critical re-assessment of African immigrants, as well as their transnational challenges. This book will be of interest...
Making Diaspora in a Global City
South Asian Youth Cultures in London
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis of urban...
The German Jews in America
A Minority within a Minority
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century. Gerhard Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s, immigrated to America, and succeeded despite immense...
by Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish...
Trans-Atlantic Migration
The Paradoxes of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed...
Global Africans
Race, Ethnicity and Shifting Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
"Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Fast growing in population, African immigrants in the United States have become a significant force, to the point that the idea of a new African diaspora is now a reality. This thriving community has opened new arenas of scholarly discourse on Black Atlantic history beyond the trans-Atlantic slave...
Postmortem Report
Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Along with his other published works, Tomislav Sunic is steadily turning his attention to a wide variety of topics affecting Europe’s cultural and political heritage, including such sacred and less sacred cows, as liberalism, the artistic legacy of the Third Reich, the religion of multiculturalism,...
Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism
The Pontic Greeks
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book addresses the issue of emerging transnationalism in the conditions of post-socialism through focusing on migrants’ identity as a social construction resulting from their experience of the ‘transnational circuit of culture’ as well as from post-Soviet shifts in political and economic...
Self-Referentiality of Cognition and (De)Formation of Ethnic Boundaries
A Comparative Study on Korean Diaspora in Russia, China, the United States and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book develops a new approach towards the formation of the ethnic boundary as a complex interrelation between cognitive operations and ethnic/national boundaries formation process. Korean diaspora in China, Russia, the United States, and Japan illustrate how this process correlates with the nationalism...