Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Migrant Sites
America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In Migrant Sites, Dalia Kandiyoti presents a compelling corrective to the traditional immigrant and melting pot story. This original and wide-ranging study embraces Jewish, European, and Chicana/o and Puerto Rican literatures of migration and diasporization through the literary works of Abraham Cahan,...
American Sanctuary
Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
From “one of the most wide-ranging and imaginative historians in America today; there is no one else quite like him in the profession” (Gordon S. Wood)—a dazzling and original work of history.
A. Roger Ekirch’s American Sanctuary begins in 1797 with the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered...
The Cosmopolites
The Coming of the Global Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The cosmopolites are literally "citizens of the world," from the Greek word kosmos, meaning "world," and polites, or "citizen." Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
Modern businesses and organizations understand that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an important factor for sustainable success. At the same time CSR has established itself as a widely accepted element of courses in managerial training and education. This book, designed to support...
International Migration Research
Constructions, Omissions and the Promises of Interdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The centrality of international migration as a process articulating major transformations of contemporary societies offers an opportunity to make it the shared component of the theoretical and research agendas of the social science disciplines. In this volume a multidisciplinary team of authors presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or breaking of the family unit is mainly contingent on how individuals handle remittance processes.
Deterritorialized Youth
Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development....
Garden of the World
Asian Immigrants and the Making of Agriculture in California's Santa Clara Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. In Garden of the World, Cecilia Tsu tells the overlooked, intertwined histories of the Santa Clara Valley's agricultural...
by E. Kofman, P. Raghuram
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration. They highlight the range of sites, sectors, and skills in which migrants are employed and how migration is both a cause and an outcome of depletion in social reproduction.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship's inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights. Established and emerging scholars explore the exclusion of migrants, welfare claimants, women, children and others.
Population and Development
The Demographic Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy. When discussed in relation to the global south and the modern project of development, the questions and answers become more problematic. Population and Development...
by R. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My interest in the 'refugee question' of the 1930s stemmed initially from time spent as an undergraduate at Manchester University, an interest which has been expanded, via a doctoral thesis, to the writing of this book. In wri ting about the German and Austrian refugees who fled to the Netherlands...
by McLinden Gerard; Fanta Enrique; Widdowson David; Doyle Tom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Border clearance processes by customs and other agencies are among the most important and problematic links in the global supply chain. It takes three times as many days nearly twice as many documents and six times as many signatures to import goods in poor countries than it does in rich ones. Delays...
by Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2009
Informative and enlightening April 25, 2007
By Reader Views
Format:Paperback
Reviewed by William Phenn for Reader Views (3/07)
Ian Moore is a well-traveled and exceptional individual. Born in London, England to Jamaican and English parents; Ian received his own culture shock as a young man....