Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Decolonizing Ethnography
Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
In August 2011, ethnographers Carolina Alonso Bejarano and Daniel M. Goldstein began a research project on undocumented immigration in the United States by volunteering at a center for migrant workers in New Jersey. Two years later, Lucia López Juárez and Mirian A. Mijangos García—two local...
New Immigrants, Changing Communities
Best Practices for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. The project studied immigration integration in areas that had no recent experience with foreign-born...
The Challenge of the Threshold
Border Closures and Migration Movements in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
The recent containment policies aimed at regulating immigration flows towards Europe have profoundly altered the dynamics of migration in Africa. The impact of these policies is apparent in the redefinitions of the routes, itineraries and actors of migration. But their effect can also be felt in migrant...
Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this volume model, deploy, and explain...
by Merling Sapene
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This workbook is about you, the brave ones who are willing to take a risk to change your life and the life of those around you by starting a new life in the amazing and beloved country of Canada.
By explaining the immigration journey and the phases of integration into a new community and by...
Controlling Frontiers
Free Movement Into and Within Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigration and the free movement of people, linking control within the state to the role of the police and internal security. The contributors all take as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on...
The Shadow of the Wall
Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, cartels, detention facilities, and the deportation process. Deportees...
Uncharted Terrains
New Directions in Border Research Methodology, Ethics, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
“We must secure our borders” has become an increasingly common refrain in the United States since 2001. Most of the “securing” has focused on the US–Mexico border. In the process, immigrants have become stigmatized, if not criminalized. This has had significant implications for social scientists...
The Reception of Asylum Seekers under International Law
Between Sovereignty and Equality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Increasingly, European states are using policy on the reception of asylum seekers as an instrument of immigration control, eg by deterring the lodging of asylum applications, preventing integration into their societies and exercising a large degree of control over asylum seekers in order to facilitate...
Life on the Other Border
Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont’s dairy industry,...
Refuge and Resilience
Promoting Resilience and Mental Health among Resettled Refugees and Forced Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Taking an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on the social and psychological resources that promote resilience among forced migrants, this book presents theory and evidence about what keeps refugees healthy during resettlement. The book draws on contributions from cultural psychiatry, anthropology,...
Transnational Marriage
New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as ‘secondary’ to labor migration, marriage has until recent years...
Getting Saved in America
Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity after immigrating. But Americanization...