Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
The Story That Brought Me Here
To Alberta From Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers.
What pulls them to Canada? What happens to them on the journey? What experiences have they deliberately left behind? What treasures do they bring? How do they...
The Borders of "Europe"
Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis. The contributors to The Borders of "Europe" see this crisis less as an incursion into Europe by external conflicts than as the result of migrants exercising their freedom...
Migration in China and Asia
Experience and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book will enlarge our grasp of global migration phenomena, offering insights into the fascinating, at times startling, realities of human migration in Asia. The chapters presented in this volume offer variety in not only theme but in approach to migration in Southeast and East Asia. Particularly...
Planning Your Gap Year
Hundreds of Opportunities for Employment, Study, Volunteer Work and Independent Travel
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The diversity of gap year opportunities on offer is such that it is only limited by your imagination or your ambition. Packed with ideas on where to go and what to do, this guidebook will make your planning easier. OVER 220 CONTACT ORGANISATIONS VALUABLE ADVICE ON HEALTH AND SAFETY USING THE INTERNET...
by David Scott FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Culling the Masses questions the view that democracy and racism cannot coexist. Based on records from 22 countries 1790-2010, it offers a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemisphere, showing that democracies were first to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states first to outlaw discrimination.
by Richard Bowen, David Finch, Geoffrey Wingard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The late 19th century saw a dynamic growth of contacts between Western countries and the Far East. Along with the increase in travel came a wave of educational opportunities for Americans and Europeans to gain first-hand experience of living in countries such as China, India, and Japan. Likewise,...
by Ron Sunquest
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
How to get new friends and job? Our position and progress in life depends on how we interact with other people. Many well-educated professional people cannot even find a job because of a lack of proper manners. This book gives a concise review of typical behavior of people living in Australia, Canada,...
The Citizen and the Alien
Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Citizenship presents two faces. Within a political community it stands for inclusion and universalism, but to outsiders, citizenship means exclusion. Because these aspects of citizenship appear spatially and jurisdictionally separate, they are usually regarded as complementary. In fact, the inclusionary...
Xaripu Community across Borders, The
Labor Migration, Community, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
During the past three decades there have been many studies of transnational migration. Most of the scholarship has focused on one side of the border, one area of labor incorporation, one generation of migrants, and one gender. In this path-breaking book, Manuel Barajas presents the first cross-national,...
Citizenship, Alienage, and the Modern Constitutional State
A Gendered History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
To have a nationality is a human right. But between the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, virtually every country in the world adopted laws that stripped citizenship from women who married foreign men. Despite the resulting hardships and even statelessness experienced by married women, it took...
Why Walls Won't Work
Repairing the US-Mexico Divide
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
When thinking about the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind is an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. It was not...
Captivity Beyond Prisons
Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full-length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization...
by Claudia Haake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to determine...
North Korean Defectors in a New and Competitive Society
Issues and Challenges in Resettlement, Adjustment, and the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Ongoing ideological or political conflicts in the modern world have led to appalling human rights violations against North Korean defectors who attempt to escape from their repressive country and seek freedom. Although some North Korean defectors have survived the life-threatening escape journey and...