Emigration category: 2215 books
Alienated
Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a “legitimate” proxy for otherwise invidious, and often unconstitutional, discrimination on the basis of race. While racial discrimination...
Whiteshift
Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities
This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are...
The politics of compassion
Immigration and asylum policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Whether addressing questions of loss, (be)longing, fears of an immigration ‘invasion’ or perceived injustices in immigration policies, immigration debates are infused with strong emotions. Emotion is often presented as a factor that complicates and hinders rational discussion. This book explores...
Punjabi Immigrant Mobility In the United States
Adaptation Through Race and Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
How did so many Punjabi immigrants come to find themselves behind the wheels of so many New York City taxi cabs, and what do their stories have to teach us about how immigrants must navigate life in a new society? Diditi Mitra analyzes how race and class influence settlement patterns in the United...
Japan's Demographic Revival
Rethinking Migration, Identity and Sociocultural Norms
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the "best" or "sole" solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community – women. Whilst much of the current literature continues to focus on the issues of remittances and brain drain, there has been...
Britishness, belonging and citizenship
Experiencing nationality law
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Long term resident migrants to the UK, who often possess valuable skills for the economy, still face significant barriers to citizenship. In this important book, Dr Prabhat captures the experiences of those who successfully become British citizens through...
Regulating the International Movement of Women
From Protection to Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico
Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. Laura González-Murphy offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies...
Borders and Mobility in Turkey
Governing Souls and States
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
In the last two decades, Turkey has witnessed a variety of bordering interventions rooted in its problematisation as variously "transit," "destination," "European," "Muslim" and "safe." This book brings into focus seemingly disparate actors involved...
Links to the Diasporic Homeland
Second Generation and Ancestral 'Return' Mobilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book examines return mobilities to and from ancestral homelands of the second generation and beyond. It presents cutting-edge empirical research framed within the mobilities, transnational and return migration/diaspora paradigms on a trans/local and global scale. The book is unique in presenting...
Refugees and the Meaning of Home
Cypriot Narratives of Loss, Longing and Daily Life in London
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book explores the meaning of home for Cypriot refugees living in London since their island was torn apart by war. Taking an innovative approach, it looks at how spaces, time, social networks and sensory experiences come together as home is constructed. It places refugee narratives at its centre to reveal the agency of those forced to migrate.
For Love of the Dollar
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
For Love of the Dollar is a young writer’s tale of ambitions undermined by economic forces, racial divides and artistic hubris. Hilarious, irreverent, even cynical, Servín worked in kitchens, gas stations, golf courses, and finally, as a “manny" for a dysfunctional Connecticut family. His view of...
Cultural Expertise and Litigation
Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by "culture," "custom" and "law"?...