Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
The Closed Hand
Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese...
African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts
Crossing the Strait
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs,...
Motherhood across Borders
Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Winner, 2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award, given by the Ethnography in Education Research Forum
The stories of Mexican migrant women who parent from afar, and how their transnational families stay together
While we have an incredible amount of statistical information...
Démanteler les frontières
Contre l’impérialisme et le colonialisme
Language: French
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Aujourd’hui, plus que jamais, il est insensé de parler d’immigration tout en faisant abstraction des catalyseurs des déplacements de population : le colonialisme, l’impérialisme et le néolibéralisme. C’est là le point de départ que revendique Démanteler les frontières. Alliant théorie...
Marginal Workers
How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them without Protection
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Undocumented and authorized immigrant laborers, female workers, workers of color, guest workers, and unionized workers together compose an enormous and diverse part of the labor force in America. Labor and employment laws are supposed to protect employees from various workplace threats, such as poor...
American Aliya
Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The major focus is on the who, when, and where of American immigration to Israel, but it is the "why" of this aliya which constitutes the core of the book. Waxman analyzes the relationship between Zionism, aliya, and the Jewish experience. Chapters include "Zion in Jewish culture,"...
The Road to Citizenship
What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Between 2000 and 2011, eight million immigrants became American citizens. In naturalization ceremonies large and small these new Americans pledged an oath of allegiance to the United States, gaining the right to vote, serve on juries, and hold political office; access to certain jobs; and the legal...
by María Cristina García
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries. In the post-Cold War period, a wider range of geopolitical and domestic interests...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City fills a gap in existing research in terms of how immigration relates to urban tourism and investigates the new theoretical insights and challenges for empirical research using informative case studies drawn from several advanced economies in Europe, North America...
by Jack Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This eBook edition appears to coincide with the acquisition of the Exclusion/Inclusion Exhibition from the New York Historical Society by the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco (CHSA).
“Before World War I, when Chinese contributed importantly to the building of America...
by Edward Lama Wonkeryor
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
An overview of the involuntary and voluntary immigration of people of African nativity to the United States, with a discussion of the pre- and post-1960 African immigrant experience and useful statistics on the U.S. African immigrant population from the colonial era to 2011.
The Mess We're In
Managing the Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
Detailing the issues of the global refugee crisis is easy, finding a workable solution is not.
The global refugee crisis is not simple and must be thoroughly understood in order to find the best way forward. The future of billions of people rest on how the world responds. *The Mess We’re...
Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers
Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements.
Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life that Ontario and Quebec offered. Set free from the stifling economic and social constraints...
Activism, NGOs and the State
Multilevel Responses to Immigration Politics in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Many NGOs are mobilizing transnationally in order to form new social networks that enable them to better interact with nation-state policies on migrant and refugee inclusion.
This book empirically investigates the rich varieties of cooperative cross-border activity, and compares how the same...