Emigration category: 2215 books
by Robert M. Grogans
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In 1863 there was only one method of travelling from Britain to the other side of the world by sailing ship, on a journey that could take up to four months, and when the vagaries of wind and weather could put travellers in peril during long voyages. The offer of grants of land in New Zealand was a...
Calais and its Border Politics
From Control to Demolition
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Calais has a long history of transient refugee settlements and is often narrated through the endeavour to ‘sanitize’ it by both the English and the French in their policy and media discourses. Calais and its Border Politics encapsulates the border politics of Calais as an entry port through the...
La inmigracion y usted
Como navegar por el laberinto legal y triunfar
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2011
**La fuente de información inmigratoria más autorizada hasta la fecha,
escrita por uno de los abogados más respetados de la nación.**Dirigida exclusivamente al mundo hispanoparlante, La inmigración y usted es una guía esencial que resuelve todas las dudas relacionadas con las leyes inmigratorias...
Migration and Remittances from Mexico
Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, is an indispensable resource for Mexico-US migration studies. It includes a review of the most important available databases for the study of migration from Mexico and Latin...
Women and Irish diaspora identities
Theories, concepts and new perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of the place of women in the Irish diaspora. It compares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments...
L'ospite e il nemico
La Grande Migrazione e l’Europa
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2018
«La prima domanda che il cittadino si pone dinanzi alla Grande Migrazione è: che cosa sono i nuovi arrivati? Chi sono? Sono destinati a restare****e a diventare come noi oppure sono e rimarranno estranei? Sono ospiti o nemici?»
La storia ricorderà i nostri anni come gli anni della Grande...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees,...
Britain and Africa Under Blair
In pursuit of the good state
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Critically explores Britain's fascination with 'doing good' in Africa under New Labour, and in particular under the premiership of Tony Blair, and, in so doing, sets out to explain the role of idealisation in international relations.
Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France
In the hyphen of the nation-state
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
An examination of how Britain and France are handling the new religious and racial diversity that has become a fact of life in both countries, and how postcolonial minorities are caught between the nation and the state in relation to status and identity, acceptance and integration.
International Migration and Crisis
Transition Toward a New Migratory Phase
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book presents an analysis of the various transformation processes at work in the international migratory dynamic of Mexicans as a consequence of the 2008 international economic crisis and the implementation of an increasingly strict American migration policy. Employing a methodology that combines...
Colonial Phantoms
Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association
Highlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people
Using...
Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is most often associated with a version of Scottish culture that has evolved in its own unique ways. Though worthy of celebration, that perception tends to overwhelm the realities of everyday life experiences by people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. A strong and vibrant...
Longing for Home
Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced displacement on communities in the Congo and South...
by Linda Dowling Almeida
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Irish Immigrants in New York City,
1945-1995
Linda Dowling Almeida
The story of one of the most visible groups of immigrants in the major city of immigrants in the last half of the 20th century.
Almeida offers a dynamic portrait of Irish New York, one that keeps reinventing itself...