Emigration category: 2215 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that individuals on the move cross, inhabit, and leave behind. As conflicts over identities...
Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia
Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó, Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations, such as the survivors of this...
Reporting at the Southern Borders
Journalism and Public Debates on Immigration in the U.S. and the E.U.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Undocumented immigration across the Mediterranean and the US-Mexican border is one of the most contested transatlantic public and political issues, raising fundamental questions about national identity, security and multiculturalism—all in the glare of news media themselves undergoing dramatic transformations.
This...
The Immigrant Other
Lived Experiences in a Transnational World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The immigrants profiled in The Immigrant Other shed light on a system designed to dehumanize and disenfranchise them, and they describe the difficulty of finding shelter in an increasingly globalized and unsympathetic world. They include Muslims facing discrimination from both the "War on Terror"...
The Politics of Immigration
Questions and Answers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the spring of 2006, millions of immigrants and supporters organized in cities and small towns across the United States to defend their rights following the passage of HR4437, a bill designed to punish unauthorized immigrants. In an unprecedented show of force, tens of thousands of workers marched...
Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Persons from Myanmar
Royal Thai Government Policy and Donor, INGO, NGO and UN Agency Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This volume examines the protracted refugee situation at the Thai–Myanmar border. Displaced persons...
by Tudorel Toader, Marieta Safta
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book, both internally and internationally, determines the constitutionalization and uniformity of law, respectively the overall strengthening of the protection of values of the rule of law. The authors present the mechanisms of institutional cooperation between the Constitutional Court and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
This edited volume focuses on how multiculturalism, as statecraft, has had both intended and unintended consequences on Singapore’s various ethnic communities. The contributing authors address and update contemporary issues and developments in the practice of multiculturalism in Singapore by interfacing...
by Grete Brochmann, Anniken Hagelund
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
This book explores the historical development of post-war immigration politics in Norway, Sweden and Denmark from the perspective of the welfare state, examining how welfare states with high ambitions, generous and inclusive welfare schemes and a strong sense of egalitarianism cope with the pressures of immigration and growing diversities.
Frontiers of Fear
Immigration and Insecurity in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
On both sides of the Atlantic, restrictive immigration policies have been framed as security imperatives since the 1990s. This trend accelerated in the aftermath of 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks in Europe. In Frontiers of Fear, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia raises two central questions with...
Welcoming the Stranger
Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
by Susanna Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Asylum-Seeking, Migration and Church addresses one of the most pressing issues confronting contemporary society. How are we to engage with migrants? Drawing on studies of church engagement with asylum seekers in the UK and critical immigration and refugee issues in North America, Snyder presents an...
Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues. It provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women in global forced migration, and explains the ways in which women's experiences are shaped by gendered relations and structures.
Integration and Resistance
The Relation of Social Organisations, Global Capital, Governments and International Immigration in Spain and Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Integration is a key challenge facing modern society today. Integration and Resistance offers a new theoretical perspective for considering integration. By focusing on international immigrants and their organisations from a wider perspective the author demonstrates that the threat to social integration...