Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Place and Replace
Essays on Western Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Place and Replace is a collection of recent interdisciplinary research into Western Canada that calls attention to the multiple political, social, and cultural labours performed by the concept of “place.” The book continues a long-standing tradition of situating questions of place at the centre...
The Last Best Place?
Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed...
Transnational Borders, Transnational Lives
Academic Mobility at the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Migrating is a life-changing decision that academics might take because of career. But leaving a homeland is a lot more than a job issue. Many other factors and adjustment challenges are put in the line. This book tells the stories of a selected group of geographers who migrated to one side to another...
La Travesia de Enrique
La arriesgada odisea de un niño en busca de su madre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 25, 2009
Actualizada con un nuevo epílogo, reflexiones finales, fotos de Enrique y su familia, una entrevista con la autora y mucho más, esta es la versión definitiva de un clásico contemporáneo de los Estados Unidos.
Basada en la serie de Los Angeles Times ganadora de dos premios Pulitzer—al...
Saving Face
The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical Asian family have given rise to two versions of the Asian immigrant family myth. The first celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the “normal...
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine...
The Wherewithal of Life
Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men – a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston –...
Aftermath
Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin. While the rights of immigrants-with or without legal status--as well as the appropriate pathway to legal status are the subject of much debate,...
Translocal China
Linkages, Identities and the Reimagining of Space
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China’s reform era development within the concept of translocality.
A key element of spatial change in today’s China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs,...
Transnational Lives in China
Expatriates in a Globalizing City
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here, Angela Lehmann explores a second-tier city in China and uses sociological theory to understand the impact of global mobility on identity, community and belonging.
by Chan Kwok-bun, Chan Wai-wan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs draws extensively on the narratives of sixteen small-to-medium business owners, born on the mainland, who have immigrated to Hong Kong and returned to their ancestral hometowns in China to establish their enterprises. For these executives, business and social life alike...
The Expert Expat
Your Guide to Successful Relocation Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Expanded and updated edition!
Trusted by thousands of families and individuals, The Expert Expat is essential reading for anyone moving overseas. Personal stories - from the authors' dozens of years abroad as well as the experience of countless expats worldwide - help prepare people for the...
by Arthur Egbuniwe, Ayodele-Mike Uzama
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2003
Life in present day Austria (A Short History of Africans in Austria).
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States
Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four influential factors of ethnic identity: retention...