Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
I'm Neither Here nor There
Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California’s...
Unfree Labour?
Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have...
Social Work and Migration
Immigrant and Refugee Settlement and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Social work increasingly finds itself at the frontline of issues pertaining to immigrant and refugee settlement and integration. In this timely book, Kathleen Valtonen provides the first book-length study on the challenges these issues create for the profession. Drawing on a wide range of research...
A Place to Call Home
Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to differing social norms, to legal boundaries separating them from established residents, they are constantly navigating shifting and contradictory...
What Do We Do with a Difference?
France and the Debate over Headscarves in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The debate in France over the wearing of veils by Islamic girls in schools has served for nearly two decades as a nexus for emotional controversy and debate. Religion and secularism in public schools. Immigration and assimilation. Gender and ethnicity. Participation in democracy and public debate....
by Nicky Barclay, Mathew Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This essential handbook is for anyone wishing to enter the UK to work, study, settle, join their family, or visit - and who wants to remain in the UK indefinitely. It is ideal for students, would-be immigrants to the UK, HR professionals, and expats. It will help them to identify which visa category...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Study of diasporas provides a useful frame for reimagining locations, movements, identities, and social formations. This volume explores diaspora as historical experience and as a category of analysis. Using case studies drawn from African and Asian diasporas and immigration in the U.S., the contributors...
France, ce serait aussi un beau nom
Essai sur la langue française
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Une langue tue est une langue morte.
S'il est un sujet qui est passé sous silence dans la campagne présidentielle, c'est bien celui de la langue française. Même les discussions sur la culture, si fréquentes, s'en détournent et l'ignorent. Pourtant le français, dans les instances internationales,...
by Merling Sapene
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Ce cahier d'activité porte sur vous, les braves qui sont prêts à prendre une risque et à changer votre vie et celle de ceux qui vous entourent en commençant une nouvelle vie dans ce pays merveilleux et bien-aimé qu'est le Canada.
En expliquant le parcours d'immigration et les...
by Patrick Dearen
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A story that could have come out of today’s headlines, this reissue of Patrick Dearen’s 1981 novel explores an illegal alien’s desperate attempt to provide for his family.
Ricardo has known only poverty in Mexico, but he dreams of a better life in the United States. He enlists a “coyote”...
Encounter on the Great Plains
Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian...
Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea
Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
In Girt By Sea Mungo MacCallum provides a devastating account of the Howard government's treatment of the refugees as well as delineating the factors in Australian history which have worked towards prejudice and those which have worked against it; ranging from Calwell's postwar immigration policy to...
Visas for the United States
ExecVisa
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
ExecVisa published the ExecVisa book on how you go about obtaining many types of visa that allow you to work or do business legally in USA. This invaluable guide book has been published in a variety of languages (in both print and ebook versions). The book is an easy to read and understand guide....
Working in the Shadows
A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken...