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The Anthropology of Security
Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are transforming nation-states, their citizens and non-citizens in profound ways.
The book shows how contemporary Europe is now home to a vast security industry which uses biometric identification...
Building Trust
Doing Research to Understand Ethnic Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
This book studies five ethnic communities_South Asian Americans, African Americans, Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Somoan Americans_to understand how their members feel about being studied by researchers. American society has always had tension between and among ethnic groups, and yet...
Identity and the Second Generation
How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Most recently, Americans have become familiar with the term "second generation" as it's applied to children of immigrants who now find themselves citizens of a nation built on the notion of assimilation. This common, worldwide experience is the topic of study in Identity and the Second Generation....
Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families
Migrant Children with Similar Roots in Different Routes
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Mobile Childhoods in Filipino Transnational Families focuses on the lived experiences of '1.5-generation' migrants with similar 'roots' (the Philippines), traversing different 'routes' (receiving countries). By shedding light on the diversified paths of their migratory lives, it revisits the relationships between mobility, sociality and identity.
Transient Mobility and Middle Class Identity
Media and Migration in Australia and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media. It examines the role played by digital technologies and uncovers how the combined wider field of entertainment media (films, television shows and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist...
Race on the Move
Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for...
Migrants and Race in the US
Territorial Racism and the Alien/Outside
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book explains how migrants can be viewed as racial others, not just because they are nonwhite, but because they are racially "alien." This way of seeing makes it possible to distinguish migrants from a set of racial categories that are presumed to be indigenous to the nation. In the...
Slipping Away
Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region’s rural communities was devastating. This volume...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This Handbook offers a comprehensive collection of essays that cover essential features of geographical mobility, from internal migration, to international migration, to urbanization, to the adaptation of migrants in their destinations. Part I of the collection introduces the range of theoretical...
Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization
Social Movements and Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Development studies is in a state of flux. A new generation of scholars has come to reject what was once regarded as accepted wisdom, and increasingly regard development and globalization as part of a continuum with colonialism, premised on the same reductionist assumption that progress and growth...
Gridlock
Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors—but the reality is a far cry from this stereotype. In the Middle East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, however,...
Created Equal
Voices on Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The Palgrave Macmillan/Amnesty International series illuminates the greatest human rights issues facing the world today. From human trafficking to poverty, terrorism to freedom of expression, this dynamic and accessible series encourages debate about the situation today and, the path we took to get...
by Miriam Potocky
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized adaptations and applications of mainstream services and interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups...