Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
The Southern Diaspora
How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America...
From Africa to America
Religion and Adaptation among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Upon arrival in the United States, most African immigrants are immediately subsumed under the category “black.” In the eyes of most Americans—and more so to American legal and social systems—African immigrants are indistinguishable from all others, such as those from the Caribbean whose skin...
Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic...
Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender and Customary Law
Religion, Gender and Customary Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The resurgence of national and historical awareness among the people of what was once the USSR has been nowhere stronger than among the Russians themselves. Some of the larger projects of rediscovery amount to a reinterpretation of traditional culture. This carefully annotated collection of recent...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Chapter 7 “The Whole World Opened Up”: Women in Canadian Theosophy
Gillian McCann
Gillian McCann focuses on Toronto Theosophical Society women who, through political and religious experimentation, sought to build a spiritually based society anchored in social justice and equity....
Rallying for Immigrant Rights
The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
From Alaska to Florida, millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets across the United States to rally for immigrant rights in the spring of 2006. The scope and size of their protests, rallies, and boycotts made these the most significant events of political activism in the United...
Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers
Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate...
Latinas Crossing Borders and Building Communities in Greater Washington
Applying Anthropology in Multicultural Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
After crossing several borders, Latina/o immigrants and their children meet challenges of globalization as they acclimate to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Facing different social and cultural barriers while adapting to this metropolis, most of them meet these challenges by building transnational...
A Short Border Handbook
A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A unique perspective on being an immigrant - Kapllani, who left Albania in 1991 to make his home in Greece, diagnoses the malaise of "border syndrome" by relating key episodes in his own experience and that of those migrants who accompanied him.
A wonderful, memorable cast of characters:...
Polish Orphans of Tengeru
The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943.
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Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood
1525 to 1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and...
Pat’s India
Memories Of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
How do we each define our own intimate culture?
How do we know where we belong?
Daughter of New Zealand Baptist missionaries, Patricia Booth was born in north-east India during World War Two, just as the Allies’ “forgotten army” fought desperately 250 kilometres away in Kohima...
Writing Your Dissertation, 3rd Edition
The bestselling guide to planning, preparing and presenting first-class work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
This book gives you the confidence, tools and techniques to produce a first-class dissertation. It offers practical guidelines to planning realistic timetables and structuring every aspect of your work. Find out how to avoid common mistakes and the best way to present your work, and even how to assess your dissertation in the same way as a university or college tutor does.
From Alba to Aotearoa
Profiling New Zealand's Scots Migrants 1840–1920
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Scots made up nearly 20 percent of the immigrant population of New Zealand to 1920, yet until the past few years the exact origins of New Zealand's Scots migrants have remained blurred. From Alba to Aotearoa establishes for the first time key characteristics of the Scottish migrants arriving between...