Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Ignored but Not Forgotten
Canada's English Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The story of early English Canadian immigration to Canada is finally told in detail.
Ignored but Not Forgotten is a compelling and moving account of one of Canada’s foremost immigrant groups: the story of the great migration of English people to Canada that peaked during the early twentieth...
Go home?
The politics of immigration controversies
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message 'In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.' This book tells the story of what happened next.
The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsored...
Beautiful Balts
From Displaced Persons to New Australians
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 – the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as ‘Beautiful Balts'. Amid the hierarchies of the White...
Transnational Tortillas
Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produces in the Global North? A Mexican tortilla company, "Tortimundo," has two production facilities within a hundred miles of each other, but on different sides of the U.S.-Mexico...
The Chinese Must Go
Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration...
Parents Without Papers
The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain unauthorized. In Parents Without Papers, immigration scholars Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier document the...
Fragmented Fatherland
Immigration and Cold War Conflict in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany. Turkish, Kurdish, and Italian groups have been studied extensively, and while this book uses these groups as points of comparison,...
The House on Lemon Street
Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In 1915, Jukichi and Ken Harada purchased a house on Lemon Street in Riverside, California. Close to their restaurant, church, and children's school, the house should have been a safe and healthy family home. Before the purchase, white neighbors objected because of the Haradas' Japanese ancestry,...
Language, Immigration and Labor
Negotiating Work in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This book explores dominant ideologies about citizenship, nation, and language that frame the everyday lives of Spanish-speaking immigrant day laborers in Arizona. It examines the value of speaking English in this context and the dynamics of intercultural communication in fast-paced job negotiations.
Migration Italy
The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
In terms of migration, Italy is often thought of as a source country - a place from which people came rather than one to which people go. However, in the past few decades, Italy has indeed become a destination for many people from poor or war-torn countries seeking a better life in a stable environment....
Immigration, Integration and Mobility
New Agendas in Migration Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
A compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late 1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe. Tackling in turn issues of multiculturalism, immigrant integration, free movement, high skilled mobilities, new East-West...
Fair Borders?
Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
‘Our migration policy impacts on New Zealand citizens, on recent immigrants and on people who are never permitted to set foot on this land. It creates prosperity for some and hardship for others.’
Debates over immigration are heating up with grave political consequences. Fair Borders draws...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
Migrants and the Courts
A Century of Trial and Error?
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Written in a lively and engaging style from the perspective of a leading immigration judge, this book examines how states resolve disputes with migrants. The chapters reflect on changes in the laws and rules of migration on an international and regional basis and the impact on the parties, administration,...