Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by James O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Immigration is the thorny question that just won’t go away. It feeds a whole industry of commentators, pundits and politicians who take great delight in whipping us all into a frenzy, speaking for the ‘ordinary people’. But, when ugly prejudices are being fed by professionals grown fat on the...
How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?
Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.
Dreamers and their allies, those who care about immigration justice, and anyone interested...
Militarizing the Border
When Mexicans Became the Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing...
by Rita J. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The obstacles to assimilation and treatment of immigrant women are major issues confronting the leading immigrant-receiving nations today-the United States, Canada, and Australia. This volume provides a range of perspectives on the concerns, the sources of problems, how issues might be addressed,...
by Ronit Lentin, Elena Moreo
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This book analyzes the interaction between migrant activists and leaders and the state of the Republic of Ireland - a late player in Europe's immigration regime - against the background of an increasingly restrictive immigration regime.
Language, Immigration and Naturalization
Legal and Linguistic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This volume focuses on the everyday legalities and practicalities of naturalization including governmental processes, the language of citizenship tests and classes, the labelling and lived experiences of immigrants/outsiders and the media’s interpretation of this process. The book brings together...
Spanish Legacies
The Coming of Age of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s...
Culture and Immigration in Context
An Ethnography of Romanian Migrant Workers in London
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Based on ethnographic data, this revealing study presents a humane and realistic account of Romanian economic migrants and their life in the UK, providing a more balanced picture of the way new immigrant groups are depicted and popularly perceived.
Here We May Rest
Alabama Immigrants in the Age of HB 56
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Hailed as the most restrictive immigration bill in the nation, the Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer & Citizen Protection Act (known as HB 56) went into effect in September 2011. Its intent was to create jobs for Alabamians by making the lives of undocumented immigrants in the state impossible, so...
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered
US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles...
Imaginary Lines
Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Although popularly conceived as a relatively recent phenomenon, patterns of immigrant smuggling and undocumented entry across American land borders first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Ingenious smugglers and immigrants, long and remote boundary lines, and strong push-and-pull factors created...
The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain
Promoting Democracy Through Migrant Engagement, 19852010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book looks at how Muslims in Spain have changed legislation linked to religious pluralism and immigration and have fortified Spain’s frail history and practice of democracy since 1975. Spanish Muslims have achieved this through active civil engagement and a persistent struggle for rights and...
Identities on Trial in the United States
Asylum Seekers from Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
ChorSwang Ngin radically shifts the asylum seeking narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. Identities on Trial in the United States weaves together the cases of a tortured student from a Myanmar prison, an apostate from Islam, several...
New Italian Migrations to the United States
Vol. 1: Politics and History since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our histories. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading...