Emigration category: 2215 books
Another Man's Sombrero
A Conservative Broadcaster's Undercover Journey Across the Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Not since the Civil War has America been so divided over such a seemingly unsolvable issue as U.S. immigration policy.
The president and congress are at an impasse, while vigilante groups patrol our nation's borders looking for one of the million yearly invaders. Why are 20 million people disregarding...
American Immigration Policy
Confronting the Nation's Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Collaboration can be a painful process, especially between authors of different disciplines. This book is an outgrowth of discussions between a Political Scientist and Economists at the School of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville. The Economics perspective is found in Chapter 3 and...
Urban Villages in the New China
Case of Shenzhen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Focusing on Shenzhen as a representation of the general urban village phenomenon in China, this book considers the impact of China’s economic reform on urbanization and urban villages over the past three decades. Shenzhen’s urban villages are some of the first of their kind in China, unique in...
by Dr Maarten Den Heijer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Increasingly, European and other Western states have sought to control the movement of refugees outside their borders. To do this, states have adopted a variety of measures - including carrier sanctions, interception of migrants at sea, posting of immigration officers in foreign countries and external...
Armed Conflict and Forcible Displacement
Individual Rights under International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
This book addresses the involuntary and arbitrary displacement of individuals resulting from armed conflict and gross human rights violations. It shows that forcible displacement constitutes a serious violation of international law and of fundamental community interests.
Armed Conflict and...
The Accidental American
Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
The Accidental American advocates a bold new approach to immigration: a free international flow of labor to match globalization’s free flow of capital. After all, corporations are encouraged to move anywhere in the world they can maximize their earnings. People shouldn’t have to risk exploitation,...
by Joseph W. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest tells the story of the Ethiopian community in Seattle. The community began with approximately two dozen college students who came to the city during the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. These sojourning students earned college and university degrees, but were...
Education of Syrian Refugee Children
Managing the Crisis in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
With four million Syrian refugees as of September 2015, there is urgent need to develop both short-term and long-term approaches to providing education for the children of this population. This report reviews Syrian refugee education for children in the three neighboring countries with the largest...
Intersectionality, Class and Migration
Narratives of Iranian Women Migrants in the U.K.
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This book offers critical analysis of everyday narratives of Iranian middle class migrants who use their social class and careers to "fit in" with British society. Based on a series of interviews and participant observations with two cohorts of "privileged" Iranian migrant women...
Politics of Innocence
Hutu Identity, Conflict and Camp Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent “disciplining mechanisms” of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp....
Migration and Regional Integration in West Africa
A Borderless ECOWAS
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book explores the processes of migration and integration within the West African sub-region and unearths subsisting promises and failures of the ECOWAS' intent of transmuting the sub-region into a single socio-economic (and political) entity.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This edited volume explores the circumstances under which vulnerable communities can better adapt to climate and environmental change, and focuses in particular on the centrality of migration as a resilience and adaptation strategy for communities at risk. The book features important case studies...
Immigrants Under Threat
Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association
A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession
Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This new volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs play on creating the immigrant self. Distinguished...