Emigration category: 2215 books
The Penguin Book of Migration Literature
Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
**The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside
A Penguin Classic**
Every year, three to four million people move to...
Mental Health Care for New Hispanic Immigrants
Innovative Approaches in Contemporary Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Save time-inform your clinical planning with core knowledge and tips offered from experienced clinicians!
While many Hispanic groups have lived in the mainland United States for years, there now is a growth of new groups, such as Dominicans in New York City and Cuban refugees that are in need...
Becoming Bicultural
Risk, Resilience, and Latino Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Although the United States has always been a nation of immigrants, the recent demographic shifts resulting in burgeoning young Latino and Asian populations have literally changed the face of the nation. This wave of massive immigration has led to a nationwide struggle with the need to become bicultural,...
Spanish Legacies
The Coming of Age of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s...
Immigration and the Border
Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The advent of the twenty-first century marks a significant moment in the history of Latinos in the United States. The “fourth wave” of immigration to America is primarily Latino, and the last decades of the twentieth century saw a significant increase in the number of Latino migrants, a diversification...
On New Shores
Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in North America. However, our understanding of...
Immigrant America
A Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume.
Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political,...
Migration, Women and Social Development
Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
This book presents a selection of major research texts by Prof. Dr. Lourdes Arizpe Schlosser, a Mexican Pioneer in Anthropology. A global intellectual leader on culture, social development, sustainability, women's studies and indigenous groups, her texts provide both an outlook on the evolution of...
Migrant Friendships in a Super-Diverse City
Russian-Speakers and their Social Relationships in London in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations. It explores the informal relationships of migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of their social ties function as a part...
The Latino Threat
Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, particularly Mexicans, are an invading force bent on reconquering land once their own and destroying the American way of life. In this book, Leo R. Chavez contests this assumption's basic tenets, offering facts to counter the...
The Immigration Crucible
Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In the debate over U. S. immigration, all sides now support policy and practice that expand the parameters of enforcement. Philip Kretsedemas examines this development from several different perspectives, exploring recent trends in U.S. immigration policy, the rise in extralegal state power over the...
When Children of Immigrants Are Left Behind
My Story Must Be Told
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
As a child, author Barbara Deotisis Luna De Acostas parents left her and her siblings behind and in the care of others while they pursued their dreams in America. Her story is one of a multitude of emotions and experiences, and she shares it all here. Her experience serves as a warning and a lesson...
by Paul K. Davis, Eric V. Larson, Zachary Haldeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Using and testing a conceptual model that draws on social science and particularly social movement theory, this volume examines public support for al-Qa'ida's transnational jihadist movement, the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, and the Maoist insurgency...
by Sheng-mei Ma
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude....