Emigration category: 2215 books
International Migration, Transnational Politics and Conflict
The Gendered Experiences of Colombian Migrants in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This book makes a timely contribution to debates surrounding transnational political participation, the relationship between diasporas and conflict, and the gendered experiences of migrants. It fills a significant lacuna in research by analysing how migrants relate to and become involved in the politics...
Homecomings
Unsettling Paths of Return
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2004
Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research. Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back...
International Migration in Southeast Asia
Continuities and Discontinuities
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
This book is a collection of work by migration scholars and researchers who are actively conducting fieldwork in Southeast Asia. It presents a wide variety of current research and approaches the field of international labor migration from a regional perspective, acknowledging that the migration process...
by Birinder Pal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book is a major intervention in the understanding of the dynamics of internal migration in South Asia. It traces the historical roots of certain migrant Sikh communities to the south and north-east India; chronicles their social, religious and economic practices; and examines peculiar identity...
by Kurt Wagner, Richard Schell, Debbie Schell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Passing the U.S. citizenship examination is no easy task. However, the actual test is just one aspect of the entire process of becoming a U.S. citizen. Understanding the complete process, from start to finish, is the true key of achieving your dream. Become a U.S. Citizen can help turn that dream...
Detained and Deported
Stories of Immigrant Families Under Fire
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world
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On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed...
Courting Gender Justice
Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Women and the LGBT community in Russia and Turkey face pervasive discrimination. Only a small percentage dare to challenge their mistreatment in court. Facing domestic police and judges who often refuse to recognize discrimination, a small minority of activists have exhausted their domestic appeals...
Mexican Migration to the United States
Perspectives From Both Sides of the Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Borderlands migration has been the subject of considerable study, but the authorship has usually reflected a north-of-the-border perspective only. Gathering a transnational group of prominent researchers, including leading Mexican scholars whose work is not readily available in the United States and...
by Joshua Woods, C. Damien Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book offers a broad interdisciplinary approach to the changes in the U.S. immigration debate before and after 9/11. A nation’s reaction to foreigners has as much to do with sociology as it does with political science, economics and psychology. Without drawing on this knowledge, our understanding...
Undocumented Workers' Transitions
Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on their own...
Refugees' Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace
Beyond Beneficiaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
How are refugee crises solved? This has become an urgent question as global displacement rates continue to climb, and refugee situations now persist for years if not decades. The resolution of displacement and the conflicts that force refugees from their homes is often explained as a top-down process...
Solidarity without Borders
Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Solidarity without Borders looks at the micropolitics of migrants as political actors by observing alliances between migrants and trade unions, worker organisations and different constituencies, all read within a Gramscian context.
This book presents an argument for Gramsci’s theory of the...
by Óscar García Agustín, Martin Bak Jørgensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European “refugee crisis.” The state—in the form of national governments—has not been able to implement any viable or sustainable solution to the crisis, but the solidarity movement has been very visible and active in European countries....
Ethnic Europe
Mobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas,...