Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by Nicholas Beecroft
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Dr Nicholas Beecroft interviews William Nkata Masembe on his perspective on British Patriotism as a Ugandan who has come to live in London. He describes those things that he loves about Britain and the British and gives his observations on how multiculturalism is working. He loves the tolerance and...
by Armas K. E. Holmio
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Michigan's Upper Peninsula was a major destination for Finns during the peak years of migration in the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth century. Several Upper Peninsula communities had large Finnish populations and Finnish churches, lodges, cooperative stores, and temperance...
Resilience in South Sudanese Women
Hope for Daughters of the Nile
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Resilience in South Sudanese Women describes the historical injustices in Southern Sudan that led to the outbreak of civil wars. These injustices included socio-economic and political marginalization that denied the women basic needs. It gives firsthand life experiences of the Sudanese women during...
Tropical Renditions
Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identities, publics, and politics. To understand this dynamic, Balance advocates for a "disobedient...
Crossing the Gulf
Love and Family in Migrant Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately increase the challenges faced by migrants and their...
Downwardly Global
Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Downwardly Global Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward...
Migration Across Boundaries
Linking Research to Practice and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Bringing together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplinary backgrounds working in Europe, North and South America, South Asia and the Middle East, this volume explores the question of how to ensure that migration research feeds back into improving the lives of migrants. It emphasises...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ explores mediated debates about belonging in contemporary Australia by combining research that proposes conceptual and historical frameworks for understanding the concept in the Australian context. A range of themes and case studies make the book...
Transnational Childhoods
British Bangladeshis, Identities and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London. Exploring the array of international events, communities and forces which influence them, Zeitlyn examines the socialisation practices among British Bangladeshi families and how this shapes their childhood and identities.
Contested Belonging
Spaces, Practices, Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies contributions by well-known international scholars from different disciplines address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Belonging is viewed from the perspectives...
Secularism and Identity
Non-Islamiosity in the Iranian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Within western political, media and academic discourses, Muslim communities are predominantly seen through the prism of their Islamic religiosities, yet there exist within diasporic communities unique and complex secularisms. Drawing on detailed interview and ethnographic material gathered in the...
by Ami R. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Using James Truslow Adams’ definition of the American dream, this book investigates whether black African immigrants in Texas are achieving the American dream. Almost all of the study participants Moore interviewed considered America a land of opportunity. Additionally, most of the black African...
Cosmopolitan Anxieties
Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel explores Germany’s relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. Based on her two decades of ethnographic research in Berlin, she argues that Germany’s reactions to the postwar Turkish diaspora have...
by Alfred Döblin
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Destiny's Journey by Alfred Döblin (edited by Edgar Pässler, translated from the German by Edna McCown, introduction by Peter Demetz; 131,000 words)
Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information...