Emigration category: 2215 books
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas brings together the work of leading experts to cast a powerful light on the rich and diverse history of Arkansas’s racial and ethic relations. The essays span from slavery to the civil rights era and cover a diverse range of topics including the frontier experience...
The Vanishing American Dream
Immigration, Population, Debt, Scarcity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government—abetted by mass media—that serves special interests rather than the greater national good. Americans' tendencies to trust, play fair, and help have been abused and require replacement...
by Ngozi Iwuoha
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Beyond Borders is based on a true story about a family's struggle to overcome the limits placed on it by geographical borders.
Immigrants and Electoral Politics
Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend...
Immigration and Citizenship in an Enlarged European Union
The Political Dynamics of Intra-EU Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public debates on Romanian migrants and the Roma minority in Italy and Spain.
Boats, Borders, and Bases
Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Discussions about U.S. migration policing have traditionally focused on enforcement along the highly charged U.S.-Mexico boundary. Enforcement practices such as detention policies designed to restrict access to asylum also transpire in the Caribbean. Boats, Borders, and Bases tells a missing, racialized...
The Reasons for Underdevelopment
The Case of Decolonisation in Somaliland
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. It is a complex and involved question. Over the last few years, though perhaps slightly later than the more mature historiography of other European countries, the work of some important...
The immigrant war
A global movement against discrimination and exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The abuse of Asian workers in the oil-rich Gulf countries, the trafficking of undocumented latinos at the US border, the exploitation of African sans papiers in France and the attacks on Sub-Saharan farmhands by the mob in Italy. All these events show how migrants, especially those without legal...
by Wendy Pojmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The influx of female migrants to Europe has posed challenges to established European feminist movements. In this book the author assesses the significance of female immigration to Italy and its impact on Italian feminism by analyzing the way in which immigrant and Italian women have constructed their...
Asylum Policy, Boat People and Political Discourse
Boats, Votes and Asylum in Australia and Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This book compares the policies of Australia and Italy towards boat people who have arrived in the two countries since the early 1990s. While the regular and varied inflow of immigrants arriving at national airports, ferry terminals and train stations is seldom witnessed by the public, the arrival...
Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe
Actors, Dynamics and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and political systems. In doing so, it answers vital policy questions regarding the continued existence of irregular migration,...
Eurafrican Migration
Legal, Economic and Social Responses to Irregular Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.
Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
The Politics of Black Women in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed...
Indian Skilled Migration and Development
To Europe and Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This edited contribution explores strategies and measures for leveraging the potential of skilled diasporas and for advancing knowledge-based evidence on return skilled migration and its impact on development. By taking the example of Indian skilled migration, this study identifies ways of involving...