Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Being-Here
Placemaking in a World of Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives. Through their experiences of displacement and placemaking, Being-Here...
Charcoal and Blood
Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Charcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada’s mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka, Nevada, five Italian charcoal...
Ausgewandert! Na und … (Serie II)
Das Reality-E-Book
Language: German
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Mein Australien-Tagebuch Unser Leben in Down Under
Mit 40 Jahren das Leben noch einmal völlig umkrempeln? Diese Frage haben wir uns wohl zig-tausendmal gestellt. Doch gewisse Umstände erleichterten uns die Entscheidung, noch einmal einen großen Schritt zu wagen und ein neues...
Esodo
Storia del nuovo millennio
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Questo libro è la cronaca dei viaggi fatti in compagnia dei migranti nei principali luoghi da cui partono, e in cui sostano o si riversano. In questo senso, è il racconto in presa diretta dell’Esodo che sta già mutando il mondo e la storia a venire. Una Grande Migrazione che ha inizio là dove...
Asia-Africa Development Divergence
A Question of Intent
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Why have South-East Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam been so successful in reducing levels of absolute poverty, while in African countries like Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, despite recent economic growth, most people are still almost as poor as they were half a century ago? This...
Survival and Regeneration
Detroit’s American Indian Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Survival and Regeneration captures the heritage of Detroit's colorful Indian community through printed sources and the personal life stories of many Native Americans. During a ten-year period, Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr. interviewed hundreds of Indians about their past and their needs and aspirations...
One Out of Three
Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City. Contributors show how nearly fifty years of massive inflows have transformed New York City's economic and cultural life...
Migrant Nation
Australian Culture, Society and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Focusing on particular historical blind spots by telling stories of individuals and groups that did not fit the favoured identity mould, the essays in 'Migrant Nation' work within the gap between Australian image and experience and offer fresh insights into the ‘other’ side of identity construction....
Beyond the Journey
Women's Stories of Settlement and Community Building in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Beyond the Journey features the voices of women who have experienced the challenge of living in Canadas immigrant communities. Some women were brought to Canada as children, while others immigrated as adults; yet others were born in Canada to immigrant parents. The women chronicle their journey of settlement...
Diversities Old and New
Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.
by Christian H. Kälin
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons. “The...
by Dr. Christian H. Kälin
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book is the quintessential guide for global citizens and their advisers, such as law firms, tax consultants, private banks and family offices. At the same time the handbook is also invaluable for business owners, entrepreneurs and investors who are interested in expanding their horizons. “The...
On the Move
Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better employment opportunities. This is the general view that most Americans...
Many Voices, One Nation
Material Culture Reflections on Race and Migration in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Many Voices, One Nation explores U.S. history through a powerful collection of artifacts and stories from America’s many peoples. Sixteen essays, composed by Smithsonian curators and affiliated scholars, offer distinctive insight into the peopling of the United States from the Europeans’ North...