Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Bordered Lives
How Europe Fails Refugees and Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
• From the Orwell Prize-shortlisted author of Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour and Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants which won the Bread and Roses Award in 2013. • Hsiao-Hung Pai was shortlisted for EMMA’s Best Print Journalism in...
Global Talent
Skilled Labor as Social Capital in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi build on an emerging stream of research that...
The Chinese in Silicon Valley
Globalization, Social Networks, and Ethnic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
The Chinese in Silicon Valley examines the complex and ever-growing role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley. Globalization brings workers from many different countries and cultures together, impacting more than just their work environments. The Chinese who settle in Silicon...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years. The main inflows have been temporary workers from Southeast Asian countries and female spouses from Southeast Asia and China marrying Taiwanese husbands. The main outflow has been migration to China, as a result of increased economic...
Yokohama Yankee
My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Leslie D. Helm's decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family's 140 years in Japan, beginning with his great-grandfather, who worked as a military advisor in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family's poignant experiences of love...
Africa after Apartheid
South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A. Schroeder explores why South Africans have not always made themselves welcome guests abroad. By looking at investments in Tanzania, a frontline state in the fight for liberation, Schroeder...
Zimbabwean Communities in Britain
Imperial and Post-Colonial Identities and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book examines why Zimbabwean immigrants in Britain should be viewed as a product of ethno-racial identities and prejudices developed and nurtured during the colonial and post-colonial phases of Zimbabwe’s history. In the absence of shared historic socio-economic or cultural commonalities, the...
Memories on the Move
Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
‘Through a series of excellent essays this volume uses concrete ethnographic analyses of memory practices in different parts of the globe to offer theoretical reflections on how memory shapes and is shaped by mobility in time and space.’
- Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, USA
‘Memories...
Slovenians in Cleveland
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
The Newburgh, St. Clair and Collinwood neighborhoods formed the core of Greater Cleveland's enormous Slovenian population, still the largest in America. The city's Slovenian heritage is replete with gripping tales of World War II prison camp escapes and bizarre bank robbers who threatened the St....
So You Want to Move to Canada, Eh?
Stuff to Know Before You Go
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Laugh as you learn about America's friendly northern neighbor with this step-by-step guide to Canadian customs, pop culture, and slang -- perfect for anyone who's considered moving to (or just visiting) maple leaf country.
Written by New York Times bestselling author (and born-and-bred Canuck)...
Governing Refugees
Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Refugee camps are imbued in the public imagination with assumptions of anarchy, danger and refugee passivity. Governing Refugees: Justice, Order and Legal Pluralism challenges such assumptions, arguing that refugee camps should be recognized as spaces where social capital can not only survive, but...
Exile Identity, Agency and Belonging in South Africa
The Masupatsela Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book examines the experiences of 49 second-generation exiles from South Africa. Using “generation” as an analytical concept, it investigates the relational, temporal and embodied nature of their childhoods in terms of kinship relations, life cycle, cohort development and memory-making. It...
The Politics of Dependency
US Reliance on Mexican Oil and Farm Labor
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The United States and Mexico trade many commodities, the most important of which are indispensable sources of energy—crude oil and agricultural labor. Mexican oil and workers provide cheap and reliable energy for the United States, while US petro dollars and agricultural jobs supply much-needed income...
by Päivi Kannisto
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Presenting a ground-breaking study of the emerging phenomenon of location-independence, this book examines the way in which the practices of 'global nomads', who live on the road, without fixed abode, place of employment or localised circle of friends, question many of the unwritten norms and ideals...