Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
In a Day’s Work
The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Over 17,000 women are sexually assaulted at work a year, according to the Justice Department
Almost two-thirds--60%--of those raped or sexually assaulted at work don’t report the incident to the police--the highest percentage of serious violent crimes in the workplace that go unreported.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
This volume considers 'global mobility' as an alternative concept to 'international migration' in order to gain insights into international cooperation on movements of people across international borders.
Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500-1930s
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging...
No Refuge for Women
The Tragic Fate of Syrian Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Interest in the plight of refugees is at an all-time high as US borders are closing to those most in need of refuge
The UN Refugee Agency reported that in 2015, only 18 percent women of refugees and migrants reaching Europe were women, compared to adult men at 54 percent.
Western media...
Voices from the 'Jungle'
Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Often called the 'Jungle', the refugee camp near Calais in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty and violence which characterises the situation of refugees in Europe today. But the media soundbites we hear ignore the voices of the people who lived there - people who have travelled...
by Hermann Lischer
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
We ventured abroad in 1984, and I managed companies as the country CEO in Indonesia, Malaysia, Greece, India, and the Philippines. Margrit, my wife, shared with me the years abroad, and both of us returned to our country of origin, Switzerland, in 2003. I moved again to Indonesia in 2004, where we...
Migrants as Agents of Change
Social Remittances in an Enlarged European Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book offers a unique and innovative way of looking at the paradoxical consequences of human mobility. Based on a three-year transnational multi-sited longitudinal research project, it demonstrates that not all migrants acquire, transfer and implement social remittances in the same way. Whilst...
Cuba's Baseball Defectors
The Inside Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The stellar play and fascinating backstories of exiled Cuban sluggers and hurlers in Major League Baseball (MLB) has become one of the biggest headlines in America's national pastime. On-field exploits by colorful Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, American League rookie-of-the-year José Abreu, home...
Latino Stars in Major League Baseball
From Bobby Abreu to Carlos Zambrano
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Some of the best players in Major League Baseball were born outside the United States, with Latino players representing one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the league. Current and former stars such as Albert Pujols, Rod Carew, and Miguel Cabrera all found incredible success in MLB. They have...
Transnational Aging
Current Insights and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively...
Migrant Citizenship from Below
Family, Domestic Work, and Social Activism in Irregular Migration
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schönberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is produced by complex interactions between Germany's...
Governing Mobility Beyond the State
Centre, Periphery and the EU's External Borders
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
This book explores the structural tensions and conflicts that arise with the abolition of border controls between the EU's member states and how this conflict ridden relationship affects and is affected by the institutional shape of the EU's external borders.
Educating Refugee-background Students
Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and voices, and reflect a high degree of awareness...
From California's Gold Fields to the Mendocino Coast
A Settlement History Across Time and Place
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
California’s history is rich and diverse, with numerous fascinating stories hidden in its past. Before the discovery of gold in the Sierras, San Francisco (Yerba Buena) and its surroundings comprised a sparsely populated frontier on the edge of the old Spanish realm. After 1848, the area rapidly...