Emigration category: 2215 books
Immigrant Life in the US
Multi-disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children...
The Company They Kept
Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Immigration, Incorporation and Transition is an intriguing collection of articles and essays. It was developed to commemorate the twenty-fi fth anniversary of The Journal of American Ethnic History. Its purpose, like that of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, is to integrate interdisciplinary...
The Nation and Its Peoples
Citizens, Denizens, Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge*.* Focusing on the shifting and contradictory meaning of race, The Nation and Its Peoples underscores the persistence of structural discrimination, and the ways in which "race"...
American Immigration After 1996
The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker programs and focusing on the economic benefits of immigration, and the other proposing greater physical...
Migrants and Migration in Modern North America
Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Presenting an unprecedented, integrated view of migration in North America, this interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the movements of people within and between Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States over the past two centuries. Several essays discuss recent migrations...
Across Generations
Immigrant Families in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Immigrants and their American-born children represent about one quarter of the United States population. Drawing on rich, in-depth ethnographic research, the fascinating case studies in Across Generations examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups—from...
Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity
Immigration and Belonging in North America and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Fifty years of large-scale immigration has brought significant ethnic, racial, and religious diversity to North America and Western Europe, but has also prompted hostile backlashes. In Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity, a distinguished multidisciplinary group of scholars examine whether and how...
The Protections for Religious Rights
Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and systematic treatment of the law as it pertains to religious rights in the UK and abroad. A practical working aid to a sensitive and important area of increasing litigation and public debate, this text examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This edited collection addresses theoretical, political and practical aspects of the connection between external immigration controls and internal welfare controls. It considers the implications for the both those subject to controls and those drawn into the web of implementing internal welfare controls....
Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Peregrination of a Persecuted Human Being in Search of a Safe Haven
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
It is not often acknowledged that the great majority of African refugee movement happens within Africa rather than from Africa to the West. This book examines the specific characteristics and challenges of the refugee situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering a new and critical vision on the situation...
Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives
Migration, Citizenship and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Sanctuary Practices in Perspective examines the diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to asylum-seekers. The ancient tradition of church sanctuary underwent a revival in the late 1970s. Christian churches began providing physical protection to migrants living without legal...
The Indian Caribbean
Migration and Identity in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies Association
This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean--one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the...
Nation-Building and Citizenship
Studies of Our Changing Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Nation-Building and Citizenship examines how states and civil societies interact in their formation of a new political community. Reinhard Bendix directs our attention to relations established between individual and state during nation-building. While the development of citizenship and the interplay...