Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Migration and Integration in Singapore
Policies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Between 2000 and 2010, Singapore witnessed a huge influx of foreign migrants. The proportion of permanent residents in the total population increased from 7% to 11%, while the share of non-resident foreigners has risen from 19% to 25%. This was as much the result of the spontaneous movement of labour...
by Judith T. Shuval
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This first large-scale empirical work on the adjustment problems of immigrants in Israel is now updated with a new introduction by the author and a preface by Alex Weingrod. The extraordinary phenomenon of worldwide immigration to Israel has made this searching study of people in transit possible....
The Undocumented Everyday
Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a variety of advocacy groups, social service...
Building Walls
Excluding Latin People in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The election of Donald Trump has called attention to the border wall and anti-Mexican discourses and policies, yet these issues are not new. Building Walls puts the recent calls to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border into a larger social and historical context. This book describes the building...
Writing the Roma
Histories, Policies and Communities in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The culmination of four years of ethnographic research at the Roma Community Centre in Toronto, Writing the Roma is the first book to provide an overview of the identities, origins, history and treatment of Roma refugees. Cynthia Levine-Rasky traces the historical and cultural roots of the Roma in...
Illegal
Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Terry Greene Sterling enters the fearful ghettoes of Arizona, the gateway for nearly half of the nation's undocumented immigrants and the state that is the least welcoming toward them, to tell the stories of the men, women, and children who have crossed the border.
Travelling towards Home
Mobilities and Homemaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices...
Under the Starry Flag
How a Ban of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this gripping tale, a prelude to today’s immigration battles.
Human Migration in the Arctic
The Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
This book discusses the past, present, and future of migration in the Arctic. It addresses many of the critical dynamics of immigration and migration, and emerging challenges that now confront the region. What can be learned from the past? What are the challenges and solutions of tomorrow?
Migration...
by Chiufang Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
During the late 1960s through the early and mid-1970s, Chinese immigration into the United States came almost exclusively from Taiwan. They arrived on American shores to flee the regime of a dictator who used murder, brutality, and fear to stay in power and quell any political or social dissent.
While...
Voices from Mariel
Oral Histories of the 1980 Cuban Boatlift
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Between April and September 1980, more than 125,000 Cuban refugees fled their homeland, seeking freedom from Fidel Castro's dictatorship. They departed in boats from the port of Mariel and braved the dangerous 90-mile journey across the Straits of Florida. Told in the words of the immigrants themselves,...
The English diaspora in North America
Migration, ethnicity and association, 1730s–1950s
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of immigrants. While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish, Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the English are far less widely explored....
Mottak
An African Tale of Immigration and Asylum
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Imagine being stranded in the heart of winter, in an isolated town at the northern edge of the world. Though born on the continent of Africa, political officials have made citizenship and social mobility at home difficult for many youth and young adults to realize. And so some flee to Europe, seeking...
by Thanasis Lagios, Vasia Lekka, Grigoris Panoutsopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and administration via border...