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International Migration of China
Status, Policy and Social Responses to the Globalization of Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This book provides a systemic and detailed monographic study of Chinese outbound migration. It not only breaks down the basic trends of this migration with respect to destinations and the like, but also analyzes its unique features, which include the largely middle- and upper-class makeup of emigrants...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This volume brings together critical and landmark studies in Indian migration.
Covers a range of key themes — emigration policy in countries of destination and origin, development and remittances, gender issues, impact of the global financial crisis, conflict, and inclusive growth
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Migrant Integration Between Homeland and Host Society Volume 1
Where does the country of origin fit?
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book provides a theoretical framing to analyse and examine the interaction between origin and destination in the migrant integration process. Coverage offers a set of concrete conceptual tools, which can be operationalised when measuring integration. This title is the first of two complementary...
Ancestors on the Move
A History of Overseas Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ever wanted to understand more about your ancestor's sea travels? What was life like aboard ship for both passengers and crew, how long did the journey take, what kind of conditions could be expected, and what exotic locations might they have visited along the way? Following the tried and tested routes...
Caithness to Patagonia
Distant Lands and Close Relatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This is an extraordinary and little-known story of emigration from Scotland. Caithness and Patagonia are literally a world apart, yet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a number of Caithness men and women took on the challenge of this wild, open and windswept land. The book provides the origins...
Feeling Italian
The Art of Ethnicity in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation
Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago—;descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the “melting...
The Immigrant
A Journey of Good Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
When South Africa ended its policy of racial segregation and peacefully transitioned to a democracy in 1994, Jennie Gungiah was filled with hope and patriotism. As a young teacher who had attended all-Indian segregated schools as a child, she was thrilled to have students of all races in her classroom....
by France Meslé, Vladimir Shkolnikov, Serhii Pyrozhkov
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
The Ukraine faced two very different kinds of health crises during the twentieth century. First, in the 1930s and 1940s, famine, war and political upheaval caused massive population losses. Previous evaluations of overall losses have given an idea of the scale of these catastrophes but do not distinguish...
Exodus
How Migration is Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting the numbers? We are supposedly a nation of immigrants, and yet our...
I Was Their American Dream
A Graphic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun
“[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial...
The Best We Could Do
An Illustrated Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
National bestseller
**2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist
ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection
ALA 2018 Notable Books Selection
An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family’s journey...
by José Olivarez
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
“Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it.” —Eve Ewing, author of Electric Arches
In this stunning debut, poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and...
Crossing Over
A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
A moving account of a family's odyssey by "one of the brightest voices of a new generation of Hispanic writers" (Washington Post)
The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Yet the migrant gambit is perilous....
This Land Is Our Land
An Immigrant's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants
There are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In This Land Is Our Land, the renowned author Suketu Mehta...