Emigration category: 2215 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This study examines contemporary U.S. immigration for humanitarian populations from Honduras, Cuba, and Syria. Humanitarian immigration refers to refugees, asylum seekers, and those who are...
![Cover of Multicultural America: An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans [4 volumes]](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2011/july/300x300/9780313357879-1P8f_300x.jpg)
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
This encyclopedia contains 50 thorough profiles of the most numerically significant immigrant groups now making their homes in the United States, telling the story of our newest immigrants and introducing them to their fellow Americans.
• Comprises contributions from 50 sociologists, anthropologists,...
The Global Edge
Miami in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful City on the Edge, The Global Edge examines...
The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain
Promoting Democracy Through Migrant Engagement, 19852010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book looks at how Muslims in Spain have changed legislation linked to religious pluralism and immigration and have fortified Spain’s frail history and practice of democracy since 1975. Spanish Muslims have achieved this through active civil engagement and a persistent struggle for rights and...
Transnational Agency and Migration
Actors, Movements, and Social Support
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Migrants, both spatially and mentally, no longer settle in only one national territory but interact or move across borders regularly, profoundly challenging the nation-state and the image of society as a container. This volume explores the ways in which migrants, activists and professionals connect...
Urbanization and the Migrant in British Cinema
Spectres of the City
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book examines a cycle of films about migration made in the late 1990s and 2000s. It argues that these films present a novel (and radical) aesthetic of planetary urbanization based upon the mobility of the migrant and the dissolution of the city. A stimulating cinematic analysis of our expanding...
Sanctuary City
A Suspended State
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Sanctuary City: A Suspended State traces the ancient concept of sanctuary up to the present day revealing how the contemporary and supposedly hospitable 'sanctuary city' inadvertently entrenches a hostile asylum regime. This book specifically explores the UK-based sanctuary movement with a focus on Glasgow,...
Mobility Justice
The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis...
Immigration and Women
Understanding the American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these...
Migrant Integration in Times of Economic Crisis
Policy Responses from European and North American Global Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book examines how the severe economic downturn following the 2007-2008 financial crisis affected the structural integration and quality of life of urban migrants in Europe and North America. It compares the experiences of migrants from Poland, Romania, Serbia, Pakistan, and Ghana in five similar,...
by Annette Mahoney
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States is a timely addition to the knowledge base concerning the integration of this population into the fabric of American society. On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, this book examines the relationship...
by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Freedom and Constraint in Caribbean Migration and Diaspora was borne out of the June 2006 conference Caribbean Migration: Forced and Free . It explores the contemporary nature of migration, the socio-economic, political and cultural impact of movements across and outside the Caribbean region. The...
Identities on Trial in the United States
Asylum Seekers from Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
ChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. Identities on Trial in the United States weaves together the cases of a tortured student from a Myanmar prison, an apostate from Islam, several...
Law and Asylum
Space, Subject, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
In contrast to the claim that refugee law has been a key in guaranteeing a space of protection for refugees, this book argues that law has been instrumental in eliminating spaces of protection, not just from one’s persecutors but also from the grasp of sovereign power. By uncovering certain fundamental...