Emigration category: 2215 books
An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The contributions of this book examine contemporary dynamics of migration and mobility in the context of the general societal transformations that have taken place in Europe over the past few decades. The book will help readers to better understand the manifold ways in which migration trends in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book explores the role that boundary making plays in creating a societal understanding of current migration dynamics and, by extension, in legitimising migration regimes. By comparing most recent developments in Europe and China, it reveals insights on convergent social and political practices of boundary making under divergent conditions.
Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries
Vol. I: Gender on the Move
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The two volumes Gender and Migration: crossing borders and shifting boundaries offer an interdisciplinary perspective on women and men on the move today, exploring the diversification of migratory patterns and its implication in different parts of the world. It reflects the vibrant scholarly debates...
The Culture of Migration
Politics, Aesthetics and Histories
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history but today, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globalization, a higher percentage of people than ever before live outside their country of birth. Increased international migration has resulted in more movement of information, traditions...
by Jakub Bijak, Arkadiusz Wisniowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
International migration is becoming an increasingly important element of contemporary demographic dynamics and yet, due to its high volatility, it remains the most unpredictable element of population change. In Europe, population forecasting is especially difficult because good-quality data on migration...
Deported
Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Winner, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award
The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 –twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is...
An American Journey
Life Lessons for Parents of Immigrant Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Valuable teaching moments and life lessons are illustrated in a personal and colorful story told by a successful immigrant parent. Immigrants struggle with two cultures and so do their children. How do they mesh the two? An American Journey teaches immigrant parents life lessons to convey to their...
Servants of Globalization
Migration and Domestic Work, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor...
Fear in Bongoland
Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas.
This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story...
Beyond Citizenship
American Identity After Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship has mostly been about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for citizenship have worked to resolve the peculiar challenges of American identity. But globalization is...
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered
US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles...
Imaginary Lines
Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Although popularly conceived as a relatively recent phenomenon, patterns of immigrant smuggling and undocumented entry across American land borders first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Ingenious smugglers and immigrants, long and remote boundary lines, and strong push-and-pull factors created...
U.S. - Mexican Border: Official U.S. Army Strategy Against Transnational Criminal Organizations & The New Presidential Order
Preventing Criminal Organizations, International Trafficking & Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This edition provides a starting point in understanding U.S. – Mexico relations and the border issues. The book addresses the importance of strategic guidance and the dangers of certain hasty actions, as it relates to operational planning for synchronized tactical actions and border politics. Analyzing...
Ethical Borders
NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
In his topical new book, Ethical Borders, Bill Ong Hing asks, why do undocumented immigrants from Mexico continue to enter the United States and, what would discourage this surreptitious traffic? An expert on immigration law and policy, Hing examines the relationship between NAFTA, globalization,...