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by Diana Caballero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Un breve ensayo sobre la memoria "Cuando era puertorriqueña" escrita y publicada por Esmeralda Santiago donde se relatan las vivencias de una adolescente que emigró de Puerto Rico a Nueva York.
Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Shaping Debates and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and sustainable development linkages from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles. Well-known scientists and practitioners present different perspectives regarding...
by Andrew Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Every year, tens of thousands of men and women from South Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world journey to Qatar and the other petroleum-rich states of the Arabian peninsula to work. As construction workers, drivers, servants, accountants, shopkeepers, custodians, general laborers, and countless...
Multiple Identities
Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups...
Dreamers
An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children—and now fighting to live here legally
Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary,...
The New America
New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The US is being transformed. Little follows millions of 21st-century pioneers to a new frontier in the West. In the sprawling new cities of the Sun Belt states, he chronicles the people and places which have turbo-charged…and redefined… the American dream. This new America will not be defined...
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
European Angst
A Conference on Populism, Extremism and Euroscepticism in Contemporary European Societies
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
What is ‘European Angst’? Is it the extension of ‘German Angst’ to a whole continent? The latter term is often used disparagingly to describe the German tendency to problematise, weigh up and hesitate, especially when reasons for this seem slight and insignificant. But European Angst has nothing...
The Nation's Tortured Body
Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh “Diaspora”
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence...
by Vincent Panella
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The Other Side is a sensitive, candid portrait of an immigrant culture from a third-generation perspective. Vincent Panella portrays his family in Italian villages and American neighborhoods, and what emerges is a critical but loving view of the Italian-American experience: its cloying love, intense...
The Strangers We Became
Lessons in Exile from One of Iraq's Last Jews
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This riveting and utterly unique memoir chronicles the coming of age of Cynthia Shamash, an Iraqi Jew born in Baghdad in 1963. When she was eight, her family tried to escape Iraq over the Iranian border, but they were captured and jailed for five weeks. Upon release, they were returned to their home...
Words of Passage
National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives...
Being a Man in a Transnational World
The Masculinity and Sexuality of Migration
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book explores the masculinity and sexuality of migration, analyzing the complex processes of becoming a man and the strategies used by men to reconcile paradoxes and contradictions that co-exist between multiple masculinities and contradictory models of being a man. Vasquez del Aguila offers...
Walls
Travels Along the Barricades
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
What does it mean to live against a wall? In this ambitious first person narrative, Marcello Di Cintio travels to the world’s most disputed edges to meet the people who live alongside the razor wire, concrete, and steel and how the structure of the walls has influenced their lives. Di Cintio shares...