Emigration category: 2215 books
Migrants in Translation
Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural, multiracial Europe....
by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among...
Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States
Yemenis in Djibouti and Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Although the Horn of Africa was historically one of the earliest destinations for Yemeni migrants, it has been overlooked by scholars, who have otherwise meticulously documented the Yemeni presence in the Indian Ocean region. Subjects of Empires/Citizens of States draws on rich ethnographic and historical...
Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art
Cinema Beyond Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe from the 1990s to today. Drawing on theories of migrant and diasporic cinema, moving-image art, and mobility studies, Bayraktar provides historically situated close...
Football Fandom and Migration
An Ethnography of Transnational Practices and Narratives in Vienna and Istanbul
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray football fans in Vienna, Austria. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Austria, Turkey...
Immigration Policy in the Age of Punishment
Detention, Deportation, and Border Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The events of 2016 catapulted immigration policy to the forefront of public debate, and Donald Trump’s administration has signaled a harsh turn in enforcement. Yet the deportation, detention, and border-control policies that North American and European countries have embraced are by no means new....
Illegal Immigration: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition
A Reference Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A valuable resource for high school, college, and general readers, this book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive examination of illegal immigration in America, addressing its complex history, comparing its occurrence today with the past, and explaining why a solution is so difficult to enact.
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Open Borders
In Defense of Free Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk...
Migration in an Era of Restriction and Recession
Sending and Receiving Nations in a Changing Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
We live in an age of global migration. The number of immigrants worldwide is large and growing. At the same time, public and political reactions against immigrants have grown in the US, the UK, Canada, and other traditional and non-traditional receiving nations. In response to this trend, this book assembles...
Immigration Structures and Immigrant Lives
An Introduction to the US Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Immigration Structures and Immigrant Lives provides a concise, comprehensive, interdisciplinary introduction to United States immigration and immigrants. The book is presented in two parts. Part I addresses the history, structure, dynamics, and politics of United States immigration from colonial times...
Elusive Citizenship
Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Since the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Whilst immigration policy is a highly controversial topic in the West, states continue to receive people who settle, whether as asylum-seekers or refugees, or as family members of existing migrants or labour migrants. Many who move violate the immigration rules either in entering a country or staying...
Strange Neighbors
The Role of States in Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since its founding, the U.S. has struggled with
issues of federalism and states’ rights. In almost every area of law, from
abortion to zoning, conflicts arise between the states and the federal
government over which entity is best suited to create and enforce laws. In the
last decade, immigration...
by John R. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two-year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts. It draws on myriad interviews with...