Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Human Cargo
A Journey Among Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An arresting portrait of the lives of today's refugees and a searching look into their future
The word refugee is more often used to invoke a problem than it is to describe a population of millions of people forced to abandon their homes, possessions, and families in order to find a place where...
Amerikanuak
Basques In The New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
This work, by William Douglass (who helped initiate the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno) and Jon Bilbao (author of several Basque reference works), is the most accessible overview of the Basque diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. Amerikanuak is a pioneering study of one of...
by Stephane Dufoix
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers working abroad. This concise book provides a critical introduction to the concept of diaspora, bringing...
The Mentelles
Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, and the Immigrant Family Who Educated Antebellum Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Though they were not, as Charlotte claimed, refugees from the French Revolution, Augustus Waldemar and Charlotte Victoire Mentelle undoubtedly felt like exiles in their adopted hometown of Lexington, Kentucky -- a settlement that was still a frontier town when they arrived in 1798. Through the years,...
by Claire L. Adida
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Amid fears of Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies explores this question and concludes that both Muslim and non-Muslim French must share responsibility for the slow progress of integration.
Moving Matters
Paths of Serial Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "home." The stories told here are both extraordinary and increasingly common. Serial migrants rarely travel freely—they must negotiate a world...
The Places We Share
Migration, Subjectivity, and Global Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
While some people study globalization, others live their lives as global experiments. This book brings together people who do both. The authors or subjects of these studies are of diverse national, religious, and ethnic backgrounds. What they have in common is a connection to Morocco. It is from this...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Climate change will increase the frequency of extreme weather events, making more geographic places inhospitable to human habitation and secure livelihoods. This report presents a detailed picture of the potential impacts of climate change on migration in Asia and the Pacific. It draws upon a wealth...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ‘Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability’ (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions...
Diaspora as Cultures of Cooperation
Global and Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book examines the dynamic processes by which communities establish distinct notions of 'home' and 'belonging'. Focusing on the agency of diasporic groups, rather than (forced or voluntary) dispersion and a continued longing for the country of origin, it analyses how a diaspora presence impacts...
Migration and Transformation:
Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2012
People’s transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today’s world. The focus of this book lies in the complex and multi-level processes of migrant transnationalism in four transnational spaces: India-UK, Morocco-France and Turkey-Germany and Estonia-Finland....
Young Migrants
Exclusion and Belonging in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
This collection is the first to examine the life experiences of young adult immigrants in Europe, as transmitted by the young adults themselves, and together with the analytical framework, seeks to uncover mechanisms at work in these individuals' lives.
by Gabriella Lazaridis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Having often been framed in terms of security concerns, migration issues have simultaneously given rise to issues of insecurity: on the one hand, security of borders, political, societal and economic security/insecurity in the host country; on the other, social, legal and economic concerns about human...
India Migration Report 2014
Diaspora and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
India Migration Report 2014 is one of the first systematic studies on contribution of diasporas in development, in countries of origin as well as destination. This volume:
examines how diasporic human and financial resources can be utilized for economic growth and sustainable development, especially...