Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by Ann Beaglehole
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Set in 1950s to 1970s New Zealand, this novel vividly brings the Jewish immigrant experience to life. Nazi persecution and oppression behind the Iron Curtain haunt the adults in this powerful novel as they struggle to adjust in a strange land. Their children, however, expand into the bright, open...
Transit States
Labour, Migration and Citizenship in the Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
There are vast swathes of people in economic migration across the Gulf states today. In total, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. This book studies the impact of this mass migration, and its effect...
by Mary Antin, Werner Sollors
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
An extraordinary popular success when it was first published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience. Mary Antin emigrated with her family from the
Eastern European town of Polotzk to Boston in 1894, when she was twelve years old. Preternaturally...
by Barry Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Burdened with bundles and baskets, a million or more immigrant children passed through the often grim halls of Ellis Island. Having left behind their homes in Europe and other parts of the world, they made the voyage to America by steamer. Some came with parents or guardians. A few came as stowaways....
by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore...
Local Lives
Migration and the Politics of Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the anxieties of being uprooted. By addressing the question of how migrants legally and symbolically...
America, As Seen on TV
How Television Shapes Immigrant Expectations around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The surprising effects of American TV on global viewers
As a dominant cultural export, American television is often the first exposure to American ideals and the English language for many people throughout the world. Yet, American television is flawed, and, it represents race, class, and gender...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration explores the interface between migration and architecture. Cities have been substantially affected by transnational migration but the physical manifestations of migration in architecture – and its effect on streetscape, neighbourhood and city –...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book explores the roles of religion in the current refugee crisis of Europe. Combining sociological, philosophical, and theological accounts of this crisis, renowned scholars from across Europe examine how religion has been employed to call either for eliminating or for enforcing the walls around...
Italoamericana
The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature...
North for the Harvest
Mexican Workers, Growers, and the Sugar Beet Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Examines the complex and often suprising relationships between the participants in the sugar beet industry.
Throughout most of the twentieth century, thousands of Mexicans traveled north to work the sugar beet fields of the Minnesota–North Dakota Red River Valley. North for the Harvest examines...
Ma Speaks Up
And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother’s Story tells the story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother.
Marianne Leone’s Ma is in many senses a larger-than-life character, one who might be capable, even from the afterlife, of shattering expectations....
Growing Up Transnational
Identity and Kinship in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the interconnectivity,...
Impossible Returns
Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical...