Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Impossible Subjects
Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth...
The Death of Josseline
Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others
For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000....
This Immigrant Nation: Perspectives on an American Dilemma
Articles from The Nation 1868-the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
This unvarnished collection of articles traces evolving issues and provides a unique history of the long-running national immigration dilemma.
American immigration has been debated in the pages of The Nation almost since its founding in 1865. The magazine has generally come down on the inclusive...
Storming the Wall
Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Immigration and borders continues to be a major issue in the national and international news cycle and Todd Miller's print history ranging from his feature in the New York Times Magazine to Border Patrol Nation position him to address this. As people are displaced from the coast, they being to "challenge"...
Dying to Cross
The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
On May 14, 2003, a familiar risk-filled journey, taken by hopeful Mexican immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the United States, took a tragic turn. Inside a sweltering truck abandoned in Texas, authorities found at least 74 people packed into a "human heap of desperation." After...
Undocumented and in College
Students and Institutions in a Climate of National Hostility
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The current daily experiences of undocumented students as they navigate the processes of entering and then thriving in Jesuit colleges are explored alongside an investigation of the knowledge and attitudes among staff and faculty about undocumented students in their midst, and the institutional response...
Cultures in Contact
World Migrations in the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus...
How to Get a Spouse Visa for Japan: The TranSenz Guide
Your Complete Guide to Immigration Procedures for Spouses of Japanese Nationals and Permanent Residents
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This is the complete, step-by-step guide to every form and every document you need to apply for a spouse visa for Japan.
Applying for a certificate of eligibility and spouse visa for Japan can seem intimidating. After all, if lawyers charge over 100,000 yen to file your application, it can't...
The Startup Visa
Key to Job Growth & Economic Prosperity in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Tahmina Watson strips away the rhetoric and uses her remarkable skills as an immigration attorney to make a compelling argument for how and why U.S. immigration policy is working against our own best interest. And she explores why a bipartisan Startup Visa for foreign entrepreneurs, which the U.S. Congress...
Koreans in North America
Their Experiences in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
This is the only anthology that covers several different topics related to Koreans’ experiences in the U.S. and Canada. The topics covered are Koreans’ immigration and settlement patterns, changes in Korean immigrants’ business patterns, Korean immigrant churches’ social functions, differences...
Fortress Europe
Dispatches from a Gated Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region-and history’s greatest experiment with globalization-has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian...
by Huping Ling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Asian American women have played significant roles in Asian American history, yet their voices are not often heard. A firsthand look at Asian women of the Midwest, Voices of the Heart is a comprehensive and comparative oral history that includes Chinese, Japanese, Filipina, Korean, and Asian Indian women,...
International Migration
Globalization's Last Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Jonathon Moses makes moral, political and economic arguments in favor of the free mobility of human beings across national borders. Pointing to the importance of immigration to the sucess of many nations, he shows that Europe itself now faces a falling population, and has over the past fifty years...
United States and Mexico
Ties That Bind, Issues That Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
This binational reference for U.S. and Mexican policymakers presents the interrelated issues of Mexican immigration to the United States and Mexico's economic and social development. Differences in economic growth, wages, and the employment situation between two countries are critical determinants of...