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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular. It provides a comparative analysis embracing eleven European countries from Northern (UK, Germany, Sweden, France), Southern...
The Managed Hand
Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for...
by Mary Antin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Written from the authors own personal experiences of her journey from Polotsk, Russia to Boston, USA in 1894 at the age of 11. This early works, published in 1899, is a fascinating look at American history and immigration. Mary Antin's vivid description of all she and her dear ones went through,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The U.S.-Mexico Border Region is among the poorest geographical areas in the United States. The region has been long characterized by dual development, poor infrastructure, weak schools, health disparities and low-wage employment. More recently, the region has been affected by the violence associated...
Transnational Traditions
New Perspectives on American Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Despite being the archetypal diasporic people, modern Jews have most often been studied as citizens and subjects of single nation states and empires—as American, Polish, Russian, or German Jews. This national approach is especially striking considering the renewed interest among scholars in global...
by Martha Donkor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Using the convergence of the impact of globalization and political turmoil in Ghana on Ghanaian women as a backdrop, this book examines the migration of the women to the US and their decisions to care for upper middle class white seniors who elected to stay in their homes to be cared for by private...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The size and complexity of the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) is dramatically different today than it was only two decades ago. Whereas the USBP was traditionally focused on enforcement...
Fiancé and Marriage Visas
A Couple's Guide to U.S. Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The book that’s helped thousands of couples around the world
You’re engaged or married to a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, and all you want is the right to be together in the United States. Should be simple, right? It’s not. The pile of application forms can be overwhelming, the...
The Gift of Global Talent
How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Talented individuals migrate much more frequently than the general population, and the United States has received exceptional inflows of human capital. This foreign talent has transformed U.S. science...
Transitions
The Development of Children of Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Winner Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence
Immigration to the United States has reached historic numbers— 25 percent of children under the age of 18 have an immigrant parent, and this number is projected to grow to one in three by 2050. These children...
Global Teachers, Australian Perspectives
Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
This is the first book on global teachers and the increasingly important phenomenon of ‘brain circulation’ in the global teaching profession. A teaching qualification is a passport to an international professional career: the global teacher is found in more and more classrooms around the world...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a number of informed 'dialogues' addressing three main theoretical concerns in this field: the role of...
Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion
Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Exploring the debate within social sciences on the consequences of ethnic diversity for social cohesion and the production of public goods, this book draws on extensive survey data from Germany to engage with questions surrounding the relationship between ethnic diversity and issues such as welfare...
The Scramble for Citizens
Dual Nationality and State Competition for Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
It is commonly assumed that there is an enduring link between individuals and their countries of citizenship. Plural citizenship is therefore viewed with skepticism, if not outright suspicion. But the effects of widespread global migration belie common assumptions, and the connection between individuals...