Emigration category: 2215 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment...
Stranieri residenti
Una filosofia della migrazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 26, 2017
«Occorre una politica che prenda le mosse dallo straniero inteso come fondamento e criterio della comunità».
Nel paesaggio politico contemporaneo, in cui domina ancora lo Stato-nazione, il migrante è il malvenuto, accusato di essere fuori luogo, di occupare il posto altrui. Eppure non esiste...
1001 Italianen
vijf eeuwen immigratie in de Nederlanden
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Al eeuwen komen Italianen naar Nederland, als bankiers, kunstenaars, instrumentmakers, sierstucwerkers, schoorsteenvegers, terrazzowerkers, ijsmakers en pizzabakkers. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog kwamen de charmante Italiaanse mannen vooral hierheen om in de industrie werken. Ze leefden en trouwden hier...
Extractions
An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Michal Nahman traces different kinds of 'extraction': the practices of human egg harvesting in different national contexts; the political economic consequences of such extraction for the women involved and the ways in which this has consequences for nationalism and race or 'Israeli extraction'.
A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora
Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. There is new interest in the ways in which migrants negotiate and renegotiate identities through their...
Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation
Reflections from India
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies...
Memory and Migration
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual...
by Paul Mckechnie
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
During the fourth century BC the number of Greeks who did not live as citizens in the city-states of southern mainland Greece increased considerably: mercenaries, pirates, itinerant artisans and traders, their origins differed widely. It has been argued that this increase was caused by the destruction...
Here We May Rest
Alabama Immigrants in the Age of HB 56
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in the state impossible, so...
Stasis Before the State
Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Heritage language policies define the context in which heritage languages are maintained or abandoned by communities, and this volume describes and analyzes international policy strategies, as well as the implications for the actual heritage language speakers.
This volume brings together heritage...
Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies
A Critical Realist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Recent years have witnessed growing interest in a series of issues related to migration, including identity formation and change, the role of social capital and social networks, ethnic discrimination, racism and xenophobia, socio-political participation and mobilisation and the complex nature of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship, scholars from a wide range of disciplines reflect on the transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states and on the proliferation of varieties of plural citizenship. The emergence of possible new forms of allegiance...
The Changing Soul of Europe
Religions and Migrations in Northern and Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This book paves the way for a more enlarged discussion on religion and migration phenomena in countries of Northern and Southern Europe. From a comparative perspective, these are regions with very different religious traditions and different historical State/Church relations. Although official religion...