Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism
Dominican Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from...
The End of Hidden Ireland
Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1995
Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the worst year of the famine, is notorious, but the...
California Calling
A Self-Interrogation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book split my heart open and reminded me how much immigrants matter, how much we all carry the traces of other worlds. LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, The Chronology of Water
California Calling is a lyrical self-interrogation of obsession, emigration, and identity. Natalie Singer’s story opens in...
by Badri Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial...
by Steve Horrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book is an indispensible guide to the roller coaster ride that is the emigration process. It covers all the topics and issues that anyone thinking of emigrating to New Zealand will need to know about, from the discussion phase through to making friends when you're there. - Deciding to go - Applying...
Imperial Immigrants
The Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815–1840
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants.
Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa...
Old Lives and New
Soviet Immigrants in Israel and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This is the moving story of a number of individuals who made the difficult and sometimes hazardous decision to leave their home, family, and friends and start new lives in Israel and the United States. Edith Rogovin Frankel interviews them twice: shortly after they leave the Soviet Union in the late...
Migrants of the British diaspora since the 1960s
Stories from modern nomads
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This is the first social history to explore experiences of British emigrants from the peak years of the 1960s to the emigration resurgence of the turn of the twentieth century. It explores migrant experiences in Australia, Canada and New Zealand alongside other countries. The book charts the gradual...
by James L. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan’s hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for...
Fragile Migration Rights
Freedom of movement in post-Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration. In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the constitution and laws of the new Russian Federation appeared to herald a complete break with the repressiveness of the...
British Untouchables
A Study of Dalit Identity and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Dalits, formerly called 'untouchables', remain the most oppressed community in India, and indeed in South Asia and have, until recently, been denied human and civic rights. On emigration to the UK and other Western countries they faced a double disadvantage: caste discrimination and racial discrimination...
Latinos in New York
Communities in Transition, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Significant changes in New York City's Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a third...
Scottish Migration Since 1750
Reasons and Results
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Scottish Migration since 1750: Reasons and Results begins a fresh chapter in migration studies using new methods and unpublished sources to map the course of Scottish migration between 1750 and 1990. It explains why the Scottish population grew after 1650, why most Scots continued to be female, and...
by Ratha, Dilip; Mohapatra, Sanket; Ozden
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
A joint effort led by the African Development Bank and the World Bank 'Leveraging Migration for Africa' is the first comprehensive publication on harnessing migration remittances and other diaspora resources for the development of Africa. It comes at a time when countries in Africa and elsewhere...