Emigration category: 2215 books
Conceptualisation of Integration
An Australian Muslim Counter-Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
This book identifies and examines the meanings of integration from the perspective of Australian Muslims, through analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews in the South East Queensland region. It provides a comprehensive overview of Muslim conceptualisation of integration, and...
The United Nations Democracy Agenda
A conceptual history
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
A critical, conceptual-historical analysis of democracy at the United Nations, detailed in four ‘visions’ of democracy: civilization, elections, governance and developmental democracy.
by Nicholas S. Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
This volume based on recent fieldwork by distinguished specialists includes information on the changing economic situation in the countryside, particularly after the 'owners and tenants' law of 1992. Along with the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture, marketing, and rural life, several...
by Francesco Cherubini
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book examines the rules governing the right to asylum in the European Union. Drawing on the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and the 1967 Protocol, Francesco Cherubini asks how asylum obligations under international refugee law have been incorporated into the...
Border Security
Shores of Politics, Horizons of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary? How is this transforming the shores of politics? And why does this seem to preclude a horizon of political justice for those affected? Border Security responds to these questions through an interdisciplinary exploration...
Documenting Transnational Migration
Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational...
The New Deportations Delirium
Interdisciplinary Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
Since 1996, when the deportation laws were hardened, millions of migrants to the U.S., including many long-term legal permanent residents with “green cards,” have experienced summary arrest, incarceration without bail, transfer to remote detention facilities, and deportation without counsel—a...
Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration
Evidence from Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This book examines the influences of social class and inequality structures on migration in Africa using information from Ghana. As the country achieves moderate to significant economic gains driven (in part) by the country’s diaspora communities, the desire to migrate has intensified. Migration...
World of Walls
The Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
"We’re going to build a wall.”
Borders have been drawn since the beginning of time, but in recent years artificial barriers have become increasingly significant to the political conversation across the world. Donald Trump was elected President of the United States while promising to build...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Long a recipient of migrants from its surrounding areas, the Arabian Peninsula today comprises a mosaic of communities of diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious origins. For decades, while the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have housed and employed groups of migrants coming and...
by Idil Osman
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities. Media, Diaspora and Conflict demonstrates a previously overlooked complexity in diasporic media by using the Somali conflict as a case study to indicate...
The Early Morning Phonecall
Somali Refugees' Remittances
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
As migration from poverty-stricken and conflict-affected countries continues to hit the headlines, this book focuses on an important counter-flow: the money that people send home. Despite considerable research on the impact of migration and remittances in countries of origin - increasingly viewed...
Safe Zone
A Response to Large-Scale Refugee Outflows and Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said...
Unravelling Europe’s ‘migration crisis’
Journeys over land and sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
What is it like to travel to Europe over land and sea in order to secure a future for yourself and your family? Why are so many people willing to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean? What are their hopes and fears? And why is Europe, one of the richest regions of the world, unable to cope?...