Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Word Images
New Perspectives on Canícula and Other Works by Norma Elia Cantú
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This collection of critical essays unveils for the first time Norma Elia Cantú’s contribution as a folklorist, writer, scholar, and teacher. Word Images unites two valuable ways to view and use Cantú’s work: Part 1 comprises essays that individually examine Cantú’s oeuvre through critical...
Migrants' Participation in Exclusionary Contexts
From Subcultures to Radicalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This insightful book analyzes the political engagement and marginalization of three of Milan's migrant groups, Filipinos, Egyptians and Ecuadorians. Bringing together data relating to the civic and political engagement of individual migrants, and of migrant organizational networks, the result is an...
Fritz Marti
Immigrant, A Biographical Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Fritz Marti (1894–1991) came from Switzerland, where he had completed his doctorate in philosophy, to The University of Oregon, Eugene, in 1923. He was a serious, committed scholar in the tradition of German Idealism. The book is about his search for intellectual freedom in America.
He was...
Class Acts
Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range...
by Michael Allen Fox
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and...
by Neil Foley
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
America has always been a composite of racially blended peoples, never a purely white Anglo-Protestant nation. The Mexican American historian Neil Foley offers a sweeping view of the evolution of Mexican America, from a colonial outpost on Mexico’s northern frontier to a twenty-first-century people integral to the nation they have helped build.
Immigrants in Prairie Cities
Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that...
by Ellen Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
‘A fierce, big-hearted novel.’ Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air‘Pushes us to find our kinder selves.’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You‘A wonderful book.’ Maurice Wren, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council One of the Guardian’s Readers’ Books of the YearLong...
Girl, Undressed
On Stripping in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A young British woman-broke and out of luck-does battle with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, drugs, and the sex industry
Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge degree and a middle-class background who arrives in New York City with dreams of becoming a journalist. But...
by Diego Enrique Osorno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2017
En tiempos de Donald Trump, ésta es una defensa de la vida común y humilde entre Estados Unidos y México
Gerónimo González Garza cruzó la frontera de México con Estados Unidos por primera vez en 1969. Desde entonces y hasta principios de los noventa, cuando finalmente se asentó legalmente...
Korean, Asian, or American?
The Identity, Ethnicity, and Autobiography of Second-Generation Korean American Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The voices of second-generation Korean Americans echo throughout the pages of this book, which is a sensitive exploration of their struggles with minority, marginality, cultural ambiguity, and negative perceptions. Born in the United States, they are still viewed as foreigners because of their Korean...
Becoming Refugee American
The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees ”as opposed to willing immigrants ”profoundly influenced...
Gender and Rural Migration
Realities, Conflict and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change explores the intersection of gender, migration, and rurality in 21st-century Western and non-Western contexts. In a world where heightened globalization is making borders increasingly porous, rural communities form part of the migration nexus....