Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Not Quite Australian
How Temporary Migration Is Changing the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Permanent migration has long been vital to the story of Australia. From the arrival of early settlers to waves of post-war immigration, the symbolic moment of disembarking onto Australian soil is an image deeply embedded in our nation’s consciousness.
Today, there are more than million temporary...
Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migration
The Transatlantic Council on Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Greater mobility and migration have brought about unprecedented levels of diversity that are transforming communities across the Atlantic in fundamental ways, sparking uncertainty over who the "we" is in a society. As publics fear loss of their national identity and values, the need is greater than...
Refuge New Zealand
A Nation's Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Unlike people who choose to migrate in search of new opportunities, refugees are compelled to leave their homeland. Typically, they are escaping war and persecution because of their ethnicity, their religion or their political beliefs. Since 1840, New Zealand has given refuge to thousands of people...
by Julian Langness
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The Coming War In Europe: Essays On Europe’s Impending Destabilization And Internal Confrontation With Islam is a collection of articles and essays published by Julian Langness in 2015-2017. These essays detail and analyze the situation in Europe vis a vis mass-Muslim immigration, as well as the...
by Ilona Bray, J.D., Loida Nicolas Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Demystifies immigration law, helping ordinary people figure out whether they’re eligible for a U.S. green card and how best to apply for it.
Roots and Reflections
South Asians in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Immigrants from South Asia first began settling in Washington and Oregon in the nineteenth century, but because of restrictions placed on Asian immigration to the United States in the early twentieth century, the vast majority have come to the region since World War II. Roots and Reflections uses...
Welsh Americans
A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States. A majority of them were skilled laborers from the coal mines of Wales who had been recruited by American mining companies. Readily accepted by American society, Welsh immigrants experienced a unique process of acculturation....
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York
Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using...
Citizenship in Question
Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue—either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through ambiguous and dynamic laws. In case...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been given to the Holocaust within the historiography...
The Challenges of Diaspora Migration
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Israel and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Diaspora or 'ethnic return' migrants have often been privileged in terms of citizenship and material support when they seek to return to their ancestral land, yet for many, after long periods of absence - sometimes extending to generations - acculturation to their new environment is as complex as...
From East to West
The Westward Migration of Jews from Eastern Europe During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Migration has been a major factor in the life of the Jewish people throughout the two and a half millennia of their dispersion. And yet, the history of the Jewish migratory movements has not been fully explored in Jewish history. While the Jewish migratory movements in the nineteenth and twentieth...
by Erica Rand
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie’s Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is...
Migrant Men
Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This edited volume contributes an important collection of chapters to the growing theoretical and empirical work being undertaken at the international level on men and migration. The chapters presented here focus on what we might call ‘migratory masculinities': the experiences men have of masculinity...