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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
This edited volume focuses on how multiculturalism, as statecraft, has had both intended and unintended consequences on Singapore’s various ethnic communities. The contributing authors address and update contemporary issues and developments in the practice of multiculturalism in Singapore by interfacing...
Integration and Resistance
The Relation of Social Organisations, Global Capital, Governments and International Immigration in Spain and Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Integration is a key challenge facing modern society today. Integration and Resistance offers a new theoretical perspective for considering integration. By focusing on international immigrants and their organisations from a wider perspective the author demonstrates that the threat to social integration...
Undocumented Workers' Transitions
Legal Status, Migration, and Work in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on their own...
Ethnic Europe
Mobility, Identity, and Conflict in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration, strains on welfare economies, the durability of local traditions, the effects of globalized cultures, and the role of Islamic diasporas,...
by Francesco Cherubini
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
This book examines the rules governing the right to asylum in the European Union. Drawing on the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, and the 1967 Protocol, Francesco Cherubini asks how asylum obligations under international refugee law have been incorporated into the...
World of Walls
The Structure, Roles and Effectiveness of Separation Barriers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
"We’re going to build a wall.”
Borders have been drawn since the beginning of time, but in recent years artificial barriers have become increasingly significant to the political conversation across the world. Donald Trump was elected President of the United States while promising to build...
Global Perspectives on Migration and Development
GFMD Puerto Vallarta and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This volume is the first in a new Springer series to examine one of humanity’s most pressing concerns: global migration and its implications for development. As population mobility grows in an ever more crowded world, the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) has emerged as the most important...
Another Man's Sombrero
A Conservative Broadcaster's Undercover Journey Across the Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Not since the Civil War has America been so divided over such a seemingly unsolvable issue as U.S. immigration policy.
The president and congress are at an impasse, while vigilante groups patrol our nation's borders looking for one of the million yearly invaders. Why are 20 million people disregarding...
by Dr Maarten Den Heijer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Increasingly, European and other Western states have sought to control the movement of refugees outside their borders. To do this, states have adopted a variety of measures - including carrier sanctions, interception of migrants at sea, posting of immigration officers in foreign countries and external...
Immigrants Under Threat
Risk and Resistance in Deportation Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Co-Winner, 2019 Latina/o Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association
A portrait of two Mexican immigrant communities confronting threats of deportation, detention, and dispossession
Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This new volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the cultural psychology of immigrants. It demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural practices and beliefs play on creating the immigrant self. Distinguished...
by John R. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The central concern of this book is to find answers to fundamental questions about the British asylum system and how it operates. Based on ethnographic research over a two-year period, the work follows and analyses numerous asylum appeals through the British courts. It draws on myriad interviews with...
Iranians in Texas
Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Thousands of Iranians fled their homeland when the 1978–1979 revolution ended the fifty-year reign of the Pahlavi Dynasty. Some fled to Europe and Canada, while others settled in the United States, where anti-Iranian sentiment flared as the hostage crisis unfolded. For those who chose America, Texas...
The Warmth of the Welcome
Is Atlantic Canada a Home Away from Home for Immigrants?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Atlantic Canada is renowned for its lengthy coastlines, rural expanses, a reputedly slower pace and its welcoming, warm and friendly people. But for immigrants especially, how much of this is rhetoric, and how much is reality? Atlantic Canada is renowned for its lengthy coastlines, rural expanses,...