Emigration category: 2215 books
Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age
Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Combining methodological and theoretical approaches to migration and mobility studies with detailed analyses of historical, cultural, or social phenomena, the works collected here provide an interdisciplinary perspective on how migrations and mobility altered identities and affected images of the...
Transnational Family Communication
Immigrants and ICTs
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Sondra Cuban recounts the fascinating stories of sixty female immigrants living in Washington state, and explores how gender,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book provides a timely warning of the dangers still present and building in the global economic system, whose frailty was exposed by the global financial crisis, and the Eurozone crisis it spawned. The contributors to this volume draw on SPERI’s work on the political economy of growth, stagnation,...
Migration, Whiteness, and Cosmopolitanism
Europeans in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This book analyzes the increase in contemporary European migration to Japan, its causes and the lives of Europeans in Japan. Desconstructing the picture of highly skilled, privileged, cosmopolitan elites that has been frequently associated with white or Western migrants, it focuses on the case of...
Immigrant Children and Youth: Psychological Challenges
Psychological Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
This book is intended to inform both the general public and professionals working with immigrant children and adolescents about the importance and complexity of addressing their psychological issues and experiential challenges. The work covers the topic of immigrant children's mental health from multiple...
Media in Motion
Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Owing to increased migration dating from the 1990s, Nordic countries have gone through substantial cultural and social changes, resulting in increased debate surrounding the politics of multiculturalism. One of the central realms of the discussion around multiculturalism in the Nordic region concerns...
Towards Openly Multilingual Policies and Practices
Assessing Minority Language Maintenance Across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book investigates the maintenance of multilingualism and minority languages in 12 different minority communities across Europe, all of which are underrepresented in international minority language studies. The book presents a number of case studies covering a broad range of highly diverse minorities...
Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice
Turkish-Germans in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
What are the consequences of staying in or moving out of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood? In European urban sociology, research has mostly focused either on lower class ethnic minorities, or on white ethnic majority middle classes. By contrast, studies on upwardly mobile ethnic minorities...
Let Their People Come
Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five "irresistible forces" of global labor migration, and the "immovable ideas" that form a political backlash against it. Increasing wage gaps, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and...
The Writing on the Wall
Chinese and Japanese Immigration to BC, 1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
With tales of a gruesome murder, a typhoid epidemic, corrupt politicians, and a Japanese invasion, The Writing on the Wall was intended to shock its readers when it was published in 1921. Thinly disguised as a novel, it is a propaganda tract exhorting white British Columbians to greater vigilance...
Three Worlds of Relief
Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth...
Immigrant Experiences
Why Immigrants Come to the United States and What They Find When They Get Here
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Immigrant Experiences: Why Immigrants Come to the United States and What They Find When They Get Here weaves together detailed historical and contemporary examples of immigration to the United States that move beyond hackneyed stereotypes about immigrants to give readers a fact-based understanding...
Deportation in the Americas
Histories of Exclusion and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
In Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, editors Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas have compiled seven essays, adapted from the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that deeply consider deportation policy in the Americas and its global effects.
These...
New Italian Migrations to the United States
Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading...