Emigration category: 2215 books
Postcolonial Migrants and Identity Politics
Europe, Russia, Japan and the United States in Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
These transfers of sovereignty resulted in extensive, unforeseen movements of citizens and subjects to their former countries. The phenomenon of postcolonial migration affected not only European nations, but also the United States, Japan and post-Soviet Russia. The political and societal reactions...
Islamic Organizations in Europe and the USA
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This volume explores the variety of forms, strategies and practices of Islamic organizations in Europe and the United States. It focuses on the reactions of organized Muslims at local, national, and transnational levels to the on-going debates on their integration into society and the structures of state-church relations.
Dream Chasers
Immigration and the American Backlash
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
How the immigration battle plays out in America, from curriculum disputes to federal raids to the civil rights activism of young “Dreamers.”
Illegal immigration continues to roil American politics. The right-wing media stir up panic over “anchor babies,” job stealing, welfare dependence,...
Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture
Movements in Irish Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Using an interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. With attention to people’s different uses of social space, relationships...
Arendt, Agamben and the Issue of Hyper-Legality
In Between the Prisoner-Stateless Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
In the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt famously argued that the stateless were so rightless, that it was better to be a criminal who at least had some rights and protections.
In this book, Kathleen R. Arnold examines Arendt’s comparison in the context of post-1996 U.S. criminal...
A Forgetful Nation
On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
In A Forgetful Nation, the renowned postcolonialism scholar Ali Behdad turns his attention to the United States. Offering a timely critique of immigration and nationalism, Behdad takes on an idea central to American national mythology: that the United States is “a nation of immigrants,” welcoming...
Searching for Subversives
The Story of Italian Internment in Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions. Several thousand aliens and a few U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings, and hundreds were interned. Shedding new light on an injustice...
by Tanya Golash-Boza
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Due process protections are among the most important Constitutional protections in the United States, yet they do not apply to non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Due Process Denied describes the consequences of this lack of due process through the stories of deportees and detainees. People...
by Youna Kim
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data...
Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK
Forced displacement and onward migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The Chagos islanders were forcibly uprooted from the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean between 1965 and 1973. This is the first book to compare the experiences of displaced Chagos islanders in Mauritius with the experiences of those Chagossians who have moved to the UK since 2002. It thus provides...
Group Integration and Multiculturalism
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
With immigration fulfilling the role of population maintenance in many Western democracies, how should newcomers be welcomed? Pfeffer argues that states ought to promote group integration for communities that have settled through immigration, facilitating the development of group institutions that enable communication with the receiving society.
The Mexican Revolution in Chicago
Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Few realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S. citizenship and have thus far been lost to...
The Other Side of the Fence
American Migrants in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A growing number of Americans, many of them retirees, are migrating to Mexico's beach resorts, border towns, and picturesque heartland. While considerable attention has been paid to Mexicans who immigrate to the U.S., the reverse scenario receives little scrutiny. Shifting the traditional lens of...
Melting Pot or Civil War?
A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
“A clarion call to everyone who cares about the American nation and
every person who calls it home.” —J.D. VANCE, author of Hillbilly Elegy
Why would a son of immigrants call for tighter restrictions on immigration?
For too long, liberals have suggested that only cruel, racist,...