Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Tracking Europe
Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Tracking Europe is a bold interdisciplinary critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. Ginette Verstraete interrogates European discourses on unlimited movement for everyone and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary social...
Contemporary Asylum Narratives
Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Contemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in twenty-first century literature, film and theatre.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This book provides an overview of the application of Corporate Social Responsibility in businesses and corporations around the world. Primarily based on real cases, it focuses on different approaches to CSR from a global perspective. It provides a critique of the “wrong” practices often...
by Marianne Howard, Bradley Harris, Joshua Ruff
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Nestled amidst a major commuter train line, a state highway, and picture-perfect views of the Long Island Sound and Nissequogue River, Kings Park balances its small-town feel with an excitingly diverse community vibrancy. Kings Park emerged in the late 19th century as the product of a utopian-inspired...
by Ukimac eBooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
This book highlights the various issues facing those who've overstayed in the UK.. It is directed at helping those already in that precarious position. It gives a general background on previous amnesties that have been granted or initiated by the Home Office and how useful these may be to a particular case.
Transnational Activities and Immigrant Integration in Germany
Concurrent or Competitive Processes?
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This book investigates both the causes and effects of transnational activities among immigrants in relation to their integration into the receiving society. It uses large scale, representative data about first and second generation immigrants in Germany. It develops a formal theoretical model, which...
Border Lives
Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters in Tijuana
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
In Border Lives, Sergio Chávez moves past Tijuana's notorious image as a hub of sex, drugs, and crime to tell the story of the diverse group of individuals who use both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border as a resource to construct their livelihoods. Based on ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews,...
Urban China in the New Era
Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental...
Southern Insurgency
The Coming of the Global Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The site of industrial struggle is shifting. The West needs to look further if it wants to understand how workers’ self-organisation is developing in countries it too often ignores. Across the Global South, peasant communities are forced off the land to live and work in harsh and impoverished conditions....
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship
Precarious Legal Status in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent....
Care, Migration and Human Rights
Law and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
The continuum of exploitation that has historically defined the everyday of domestic work - exclusion from employment and social security standards and precarious migration status – has frequently been neglected. It is primarily the moments of crisis, incidents of human trafficking, slavery or forced...
Arrival City
How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Look around: the largest migration in human history is under way. For the first time ever, more people are living in cities than in rural areas. Between 2007 and 2050, the world’s cities will have absorbed 3.1 billion people. Urbanization is the mass movement that will change our world during the...
by James Omolo
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The history of People of African Descent (PAD) is a complex story in itself, and lies at the centre of the history of humanity.
This book recounts the multiple realities People of African Descent experience in Poland. The process of migration of PAD had been voluntary and devoid of duress because...
by Christopher Deliso
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks marked the definitive moment when the migration crisis became associated with terrorism, stoking an increasingly heated debate over the perceived dangers of migration, Islam, and extremist politics in Europe. The sudden emergence of migration as the mobilizing...