Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
At Home in Two Countries
The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
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The rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It...
Body Counts
The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration,...
Searching for Home Abroad
Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational...
Shifting Boundaries
Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
As politicians debate how to address the estimated eleven million unauthorized immigrants residing in the United States, undocumented youth anxiously await the next policy shift that will determine their futures. From one day to the next, their dreams are as likely to crumble around them as to come...
The German Jews in America
A Minority within a Minority
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century. Gerhard Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s, immigrated to America, and succeeded despite immense...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Fast growing in population, African immigrants in the United States have become a significant force, to the point that the idea of a new African diaspora is now a reality. This thriving community has opened new arenas of scholarly discourse on Black Atlantic history beyond the trans-Atlantic slave...
Between the Fences
Before Guantanamo, there was the Port Isabel Service Processing Center
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility...
Mental Health Care for New Hispanic Immigrants
Innovative Approaches in Contemporary Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
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While many Hispanic groups have lived in the mainland United States for years, there now is a growth of new groups, such as Dominicans in New York City and Cuban refugees that are in need...
Becoming Bicultural
Risk, Resilience, and Latino Youth
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Although the United States has always been a nation of immigrants, the recent demographic shifts resulting in burgeoning young Latino and Asian populations have literally changed the face of the nation. This wave of massive immigration has led to a nationwide struggle with the need to become bicultural,...
Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents
Conflict, Identity, and Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Based on culture-related themes derived from the author's psychotherapeutic work with young Chinese-American professionals, this important book relates personal problems and conditions to specific sources in Chinese and American cultures and the immigration experience. Unique and practical, this is...
Whiteshift
Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities
This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are...
Cultural Expertise and Litigation
Patterns, Conflicts, Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Cultural Expertise and Litigation addresses the role of social scientists as a source of expert evidence, and is a product of their experiences and observations of cases involving litigants of South Asian origin. What is meant in court by "culture," "custom" and "law"?...
Memory and Migration
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual...
An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The contributions of this book examine contemporary dynamics of migration and mobility in the context of the general societal transformations that have taken place in Europe over the past few decades. The book will help readers to better understand the manifold ways in which migration trends in the...