Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom
Deportation, Removal, Exclusion and Deprivation of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Resort by the state to measures of exclusion and expulsion from the territory of the UK and/or from British citizenship have multiplied over the past decade, following the so-called 'War on Terror', increased globalisation, and the growing politicisation of national policies concerning immigration...
Living in America as an Undocumented Immigrant
How I Survived the Ordeal
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Without proper documentation, living in the United States is a heavy burden, so why do immigrants choose to remain, in the face of scorn and endless risks? And what of the political debates? There are those in America who would have illegal immigrants deported without delay, while others argue they...
Reaching a State of Hope
Refugees, Immigrants and the Swedish Welfare State, 19302000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Shedding new light on the issues concerning refugees and immigration in 20th-century Sweden, this analysis examines the implications of its immigration policies. On what grounds were refugees admitted? Where did they come from? How did the Swedish state aid its new citizens? What differences were...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: January 10, 2014
L'immigration donne lieu à de nombreux débats d'où l'anthropologie est assez souvent absente. Cela tient sans doute à ce que d'autres disciplines occupent le devant de la scène. En même temps, l'étude des phénomènes migratoires privilégie les ressortissants du Maghreb. Ce cahier présente...
Rachel, Jacob, Paul et les autres
Une histoire des Juifs à Bruxelles
Language: French
Release Date: September 11, 2014
L'immigration des Juifs en Belgique pour échapper aux rafles et persécutions religieuses de la GestapoÀ partir des années 1920, des milliers de familles juives s’installent à Bruxelles, à la recherche d’une vie meilleure.Rachel, Jacob, Paul et les autres suit l’histoire d’une vingtaine...
The Silver Chief
Lord Selkirk and the Scottish Pioneers of Belfast, Baldoon and Red River
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Belfast, Prince Edward Island, founded in August 1803, owes its existence to Lord Selkirk. Its bicentennial is a timely reminder of Selkirk's work in Canada, which extended beyond Belfast to Baldoon (later Wallaceburg) in Ontario, as well as to Red River, the precursor to Winnipeg. Aptly named "The...
With Axe and Bible
The Scottish Pioneers of New Brunswick, 1784-1874
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
New Brunswick’s enormous timber trade attracted the first wave of Scots in the late 18th century. As economic conditions in Scotland worsened, the flow of emigrants increased, creating distinctive Scottish communities along the province’s major timber bays and river frontages. While Scots relied...
The Great Shame
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the point of death, who in the face of...
Diaspora's Homeland
Modern China in the Age of Global Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Diaspora’s Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China’s politics, economics, and culture. Chan develops the concept of “diaspora moments”—a series of recurring disjunctions in which migrant...
by H.A. Citroen
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The publications of the Research Group for European mi gration problems represent studies by independent writers. These studies do not form an integrated whole, but are inter related by their subject, namely, European and international migration. The topic is, therefore, approached in various...
Creative State
Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocco and Mexico featured...
Migration Governance across Regions
State-Diaspora Relations in the Latin America-Southern Europe Corridor
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Migration policies are rarely effective. Examples of unintended and undesirable outcomes abound. In Latin America, very little is known about the impact and long-term sustainability of state policies towards emigrants. Following a world-wide trend, Ecuador, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil have...
by Telford Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
“The true quality of a judicial system is best measured by its resistance to stress, whether caused by community, racial, or other prejudice, or by the pressure of state political policies and interests.”
--Telford Taylor
Working in secret for the past several years, a group of distinguished...
Emigration Nations
Policies and Ideologies of Emigrant Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens living abroad. Using detailed case studies, this book sets out to explain this significant development, with an innovative new theoretical framework.