Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
I Am Home
Portraits of Immigrant Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Meet the faces and voices behind the conversations around immigration. These portraits and stories of teenagers who are recent immigrants to the US from all over the world show the diversity, beauty, and potential of the people who now call the United States home.
Sixty full-page portraits...
Fighting for Foreigners
Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Although stereotypically homogenized and hostile to immigrants, Japan has experienced an influx of foreigners from Asia and Latin America in recent decades. In Fighting for Foreigners, Apichai W. Shipper details how, in response, Japanese citizens have established a variety of local advocacy groups—some...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Economic interaction has enlarged the international trade in goods and services, but the safe and humane flow of persons across international borders remains a challenge in a State-based model of territorial jurisdictions. Once an immigrant enters a new host country the guarantee of respect for their...
Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood
Spilling over the Wall
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars around an important question: how has migration changed in Europe as the European Union has enlarged, and what are the consequences for countries (and for migrants themselves) inside and outside of these redrawn jurisdictional and...
Desert Duty
On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
While politicians and pundits endlessly debate immigration policy, U.S. Border Patrol agents put their lives on the line to enforce immigration law. In a day's work, agents may catch a load of narcotics, apprehend groups of people entering the country illegally, and intercept a potential terrorist....
by Nina Michalikova
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine the cultural, socioeconomic, structural, and political adaptation of Eastern European immigrants after 1991. Also, the book engages in a systematic examination of adaptation experiences through...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Unstable social climates are causing the displacement of large numbers of people around the world. Thus, the issue of safe replacement arises causing the need for new policies and strategies regarding immigration. Global Perspectives on Human Migration, Asylum, and Security is a timely reference source...
Refugee Women and Their Mental Health
Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Currently, there are over 15 million legally designated refugees all over the world and it is documented that 75 percent of those refugees are women, yet most of the existent literature does not focus on this group as women. Most of the literature focuses on political, economic, and social issues...
by William Henry Wilkins, R. C. Bedford, H. de B. Gibbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
My object in writing this little book has been to collect together in a popular and readable form the main facts connected with the question of destitute immigration. I have endeavoured to set forth as concisely as possible the evils consequent upon our present system, and to place before the public...
Guadalupe in New York
Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Every December 12th, thousands of Mexican immigrants gather for the mass at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day. They kiss images of the Virgin, wait for a bishop’s blessing—and they also carry signs asking for immigration reform, much like...
Identity and Cultural Diversity
What social psychology can teach us
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling...
Bench-Pressed
A Judge Recounts the Many Blessings and Heavy Lessons of Hearing Immigration Asylum Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Every year, thousands of people seek asylum in the United States because they have been persecuted in other countries due to their race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion. In seeking refuge and protection, these immigrants must rely on the American court system to help them...
State Power and Asylum Seekers in Ireland
An Historically Grounded Examination of Contemporary Trends
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This book aims to account for the reception, treatment and sometimes, eventual deportation, of asylum seekers in Ireland, by analysing how they are framed and dealt with by the Irish state. Both historically and theoretically grounded, it will discuss contemporary immigration policies and issues in...
Integration at the Border
The Dutch Act on Integration Abroad and International Immigration Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
A recent development in the immigration policies of several European states is to make the admission of foreign nationals dependent upon criteria relating to their integration. As the practice of 'integration testing abroad' becomes more widespread, this book endeavours to clarify the legal implications...