Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Precarious Lives
Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed...
Globalisation and Migration
New Issues, New Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book critically examines the new issues and new politics regarding migration in the era of globalisation from a majority world perspective. It examines the current shifts in the global political economy and the effects it has, for example, in relation to rural displacement. When and how does...
Collective Terms
Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and second-generation immigrant teenagers against the police,...
Irregular Afghan Migration to Europe
At the Margins, Looking In
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book examines the issue of irregular transit migration to the EU by presenting the case of the Afghans. Focusing on the Afghans that arrive in and seek to move through Greece, it highlights the unique problems facing this distinctive migratory movement. Recognising that the migratory journey...
Why do Immigrants in the USA Speak with Foreign Accents?
SHORT STORY # 40. Nonfiction series # 1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Many people sometimes are asking me: “Why do you speak with accent?” Indeed, why do I ? My children, who come with me, do not speak with accent. No one ever thought that they are not Americans. Why even British, who lived in the USA for a long time, still speak with their British accent? Why they...
Refugee Economies
Forced Displacement and Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Refugees have rarely been studied by economists. Despite some pioneering research on the economic lives of refugees, there remains a lack of theory and empirical data through which to understand, and build upon, refugees' own engagement with markets. Yet, understanding these economic systems may hold...
Return Migration to Afghanistan
Moving Back or Moving Forward?
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration–development–peace-building nexus. Using the concept of multidimensional embeddedness, it provides an encompassing view of returnees’ identification...
Mainstreaming Integration Governance
New Trends in Migrant Integration Policies in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book provides a critical analysis of mainstreaming as one of the major contemporary trends in immigrant integration governance in Europe. Bringing together unique empirical material and theoretical insights on mainstreaming, it examines how, why and to what effect immigrant integration is mainstreamed....
The Long Road Ahead
Status Report on the Implementation of the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements on Professional Services
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Over the past decade, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) in seven occupations, all designed to facilitate professional mobility within the region. MRAs are not easy to operationalize, however. Despite progress in key areas, member states...
India Migration Report 2017
Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The India Migration Report 2017 examines forced migration caused by political conflicts, climate change, disasters (natural and man-made) and development projects. India accounts for large numbers of internally displaced people in the world. Apart from conflicts and disasters, over the years development...
Fields of Resistance
The Struggle of Florida's Farmworkers for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Written by a participant in an accessible narrative style
Divided Fates
The State, Race, and Korean Immigrants' Adaptation in Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book compares the Korean diasporic groups in Japan and the United States. It highlights the contrasting adaptation of Koreans in Japan and the United States, and illuminates how the destinies of immigrants who originally belonged to the same ethnic/national collectivity diverge depending upon...
Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix
The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
News & media coverage!
Book Launch of Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix - 3rd July 2013
Many books have been written about the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but very few, if any, are written specifically about the multi-ethnic descendants of Chinese immigrants. Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix...
by Samir Kumar Das
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern India which is fraught with violent...