Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by Anthony Vaver
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2011
In 1723, James Bell grabbed a book from a London bookstall and started to run, but he was chased by several witnesses and was discovered hiding in a dog kennel. As punishment for his crime, Bell was loaded on a ship and sent to colonial America, where he was sold at auction as an indentured servant...
Mexican New York
Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on transnationalism, vividly illustrating how immigrants...
by Spencer, Sarah
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
A contribution to one of the most hotly contested issues in Europe, The migration debate provides a well-balanced, critical analysis of UK migration policies, in a European context, from entry controls through to integration and citizenship. Exploring the pressures and constraints that have shaped...
You and I Eat the Same
On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food Matters
Named one of the Best Food Books of the Year by The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and more
MAD Dispatches: Furthering Our Ideas About Food
Good food is the common ground shared by all...
Working with Immigrant Women
Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Working with Immigrant Women addresses the gap between the needs of newcomer women and established structures and practices in Canada’s mental health care system.
With an interest in changing paradigms in mental health practice, the multidisciplinary group of authors—including researchers,...
Village of Immigrants
Latinos in an Emerging America
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend—immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America...
Holocaust Survivors in Canada
Exclusion, Inclusion, Transformation, 1947-1955
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
In the decade after the Second World War, 35,000 Jewish survivors of Nazi persecution and their dependants arrived in Canada. This was a watershed moment in Canadian Jewish history. The unprecedented scale of the relief effort required for the survivors, compounded by their unique social, psychological,...
by Chris MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
‘The UK is like the Holy Grail and they’re all expecting the crusades. We have to give it to them.’
Laurence loves to go out, get wrecked and rave to dub tep. He pays for it with a job at UK Immigration Control. Deciding who does or doesn’t get to stay in the country is hard enough...
Presente!
Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Immigration is a hot-button issue, and Presente! offers readers an inside look into the life of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.
This collection truly humanizes the immigrant experience, discussing the problems of “otherness” and integration.
Having done extensive organizing...
Cosmologies of Credit
Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggler. That longed-for call will send her out her door, away from Fuzhou, China, on a perilous, illicit journey to the United States. Nothing diffuses the...
Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration
Human Smuggling from Pakistan to Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Masculinity, Sexuality and Illegal Migration makes use of extensive new empirical material to explore the phenomena of migration, human smuggling and illegal work, in order to develop a compelling account of international migration, linking it with irrational, risky economic behaviour and male sexual...
Congolese Social Networks
Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Congolese Social Networks: Living on the Margins in Muizenberg, Cape Town is a closely researched ethnography that focuses predominantly on the lives of three Congolese transmigrants (self-identified as such). This monograph situates them in a cosmopolitan South African space amongst dissimilar South...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Migration is an enormously broad topic of academic enquiry engaging researchers from many different social science disciplines. A wide variety of contributors from across the globe capture some of the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This...
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity.
Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national...