Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Deported
Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Winner, American Sociological Association Latino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award
The United States currently is deporting more people than ever before: 4 million people have been deported since 1997 –twice as many as all people deported prior to 1996. There is...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
This encyclopedia contains 50 thorough profiles of the most numerically significant immigrant groups now making their homes in the United States, telling the story of our newest immigrants and introducing them to their fellow Americans.
• Comprises contributions from 50 sociologists, anthropologists,...
Let Their People Come
Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five "irresistible forces" of global labor migration, and the "immovable ideas" that form a political backlash against it. Increasing wage gaps, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and...
The Writing on the Wall
Chinese and Japanese Immigration to BC, 1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
With tales of a gruesome murder, a typhoid epidemic, corrupt politicians, and a Japanese invasion, The Writing on the Wall was intended to shock its readers when it was published in 1921. Thinly disguised as a novel, it is a propaganda tract exhorting white British Columbians to greater vigilance...
The Nation and Its Peoples
Citizens, Denizens, Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge*.* Focusing on the shifting and contradictory meaning of race, The Nation and Its Peoples underscores the persistence of structural discrimination, and the ways in which "race"...
The Protections for Religious Rights
Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
The Protections for Religious Rights is the first practitioner work to offer a full and systematic treatment of the law as it pertains to religious rights in the UK and abroad. A practical working aid to a sensitive and important area of increasing litigation and public debate, this text examines...
Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Peregrination of a Persecuted Human Being in Search of a Safe Haven
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
It is not often acknowledged that the great majority of African refugee movement happens within Africa rather than from Africa to the West. This book examines the specific characteristics and challenges of the refugee situation in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering a new and critical vision on the situation...
Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is most often associated with a version of Scottish culture that has evolved in its own unique ways. Though worthy of celebration, that perception tends to overwhelm the realities of everyday life experiences by people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. A strong and vibrant...
by Linda Dowling Almeida
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Irish Immigrants in New York City,
1945-1995
Linda Dowling Almeida
The story of one of the most visible groups of immigrants in the major city of immigrants in the last half of the 20th century.
Almeida offers a dynamic portrait of Irish New York, one that keeps reinventing itself...
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas brings together the work of leading experts to cast a powerful light on the rich and diverse history of Arkansas’s racial and ethic relations. The essays span from slavery to the civil rights era and cover a diverse range of topics including the frontier experience...
Immigrants and Electoral Politics
Nonprofit Organizing in a Time of Demographic Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
In Immigrants and Electoral Politics, Heath Brown shows why nonprofit electoral participation has emerged in relationship to new threats to immigrants, on one hand, and immigrant integration into U.S. society during a time of demographic change, on the other. Immigrants across the United States tend...
Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
The Politics of Black Women in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed...
Indian Skilled Migration and Development
To Europe and Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This edited contribution explores strategies and measures for leveraging the potential of skilled diasporas and for advancing knowledge-based evidence on return skilled migration and its impact on development. By taking the example of Indian skilled migration, this study identifies ways of involving...
The Mexican Revolution in Chicago
Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Few realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S. citizenship and have thus far been lost to...