Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by Danny Méndez
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...
by Laura Westra, Satvinder Juss
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and...
Waiting for Elijah
Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the...
by Polly Courtney
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
“You’re lucky, being a girl. You can always get au pair work or a job in a Polish bakery. Apparently they’re springing up all over the country.”
Marta grits her teeth and nods. She is used to the assumption that she moved to England to change nappies and mop floors. It couldn't be...
The Tejano Diaspora
Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they...
The Next Wave
On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
TERROR WALKS AMONG US. Born here, raised here, plotting here, the terrorists of al Qaeda 2.0 aim to kill Americans. And our government helps.
Who are the recruits for the next wave? They live next door.
A radicalized army major guns down forty-five, killing twelve soldiers and one civilian;...
the immigrant suite
hey xenophobe! Who you calling foreigner?
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Writing from the upper west side of Manhattan, where Harlem intersects with waves of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Korea, Cambodia, Ivory Coast, India, Native America, and from all over the globe, hattie gossett vividly invokes her neighborhood experience. With wit and...
by Besa Nuhi Mone
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 13, 2011
Una bambina albanese deve lasciare una terra deprivata dei diritti umani, diventata “un mare di lacrime” (Ardit Gjebrea). Arrivata in Italia, fa i conti con un’altra lingua, con un sistema scolastico solo in parte preparato per l’accoglienza, con numerosi pregiudizi.
Ad aiutarla in...
Becoming a U.S. Citizen
A Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
AUDIENCE: U.S. lawful permanent residents (green card holders) planning to take the next step and apply for naturalized U.S. citizenship; and the legal assistants or staff at community-based organizations who seek to help them. ------------------------------- • Nearly 773,000 people applied for...
Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes
Chronicles of Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic...
The New Kids
Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. Others flew in on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won’t say how they got here.
These are “the new kids”: new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days...
Migrant Professionals in the City
Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The migration of professionals is widely seen as a paradigmatic representation and a driver of globalization. The global elite of highly qualified migrants—managers and scientists, for example—are partly defined by their lives’ mobility. But their everyday lives are based and take place in specific...
Barrios to Burbs
The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the...
Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun
Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. In more recent times, China was the more powerful until the late nineteenth century, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it even as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating...