Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Memories of Carolinian Immigrants
Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This is a book about identity and remembrance. This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries...
Chinese Migration to Europe
Prato, Italy, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this volume examines the most pressing migration and integration issues facing many societies today, from the political and policy-based challenges of managing increasingly diverse communities, to individual lived experiences of identity and belonging....
by Sue Methuen
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The year is 1913. Louisa and her husband Fred, along with their young daughter, leave the only place they have ever known to travel across the ocean to an unknown land. They leave because of hardships endured for so many years in England. Their hope for a better life in Canada gives them the courage...
I'll Stand by You
One Woman's Mission to Heal the Children of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
**"This may be the book that changes your life."—Siobhan Fallon, author of You Know When the Men Are Gone
“The saint of Staten Island” (People magazine) shares the inspirational story of how she’s changing the world, one child at a time.**
Over a decade ago, Elissa...
La Cacería
Una historia de inmigración y violencia en Estados Unidos (Hunting Season,Spanish)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2014
La verdadera historia del asesinato de un inmigrante que convirtió a un pueblo acogedor en Long Island, en la zona cero en la guerra contra la inmigración.
En noviembre del 2008, Marcelo Lucero, un inmigrante Ecuatoriano de treinta y siete años, fue atacado y asesinado por un grupo de adolecentes...
Migrant Returns
Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In Migrant Returns Eric J. Pido examines the complicated relationship among the Philippine economy, Manila’s urban development, and balikbayans—Filipino migrants visiting or returning to their homeland—to reconceptualize migration as a process of connectivity. Focusing on the experiences of...
In Spite of Oceans
Migrant Voices
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
The British-Asian population accounts for more than 7.5% of the population of Britain, or more than 5 million people. A number of books have been published on aspects of this culture, on music, sport, and business, but no book has yet looked at this experience in its totality. This book will attempt...
Weathering Katrina
Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese Americans
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The principal Vietnamese-American enclave was a remote, low-income area that flooded badly. Many residents arrived decades earlier as refugees from the Vietnam War and were marginally fluent in English. Yet, despite these poor odds of success, the...
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and...
Mobile Desires
The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book combines mobilities research with feminist and queer studies offering new perspectives on mobility justice. It foregrounds academic, activist, and artistic work revealing state-sponsored strategies for managing the mobility of people as mechanisms for aligning erotic and political desires with capitalist and nationalist interests.
by Hope and Life Press
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Migrants and refugees have long been considered vulnerable populations within Christianity, but many, Christians included, remain to this day insufficiently knowledgeable about the specificity of the Church's views on the matter. Addressing the way in which the Catholic Faith has regarded voluntary...
Sanctuary and Asylum
A Social and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The practice of sanctuary�giving refuge to the threatened, vulnerable stranger�may be universal among humans. From primate populations to ancient religious traditions to the modern legal institution of asylum, anthropologist Linda Rabben explores the long history of sanctuary and analyzes modern...
by Klemen Jaklic
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Where does the law and political power of any given territory come from? Until recently it was believed that it came from a single and hierarchical source of constitutional authority, a sovereign people and their constitution. However, how can this model account for the new Europe? Where state constitutions...
Indian Transnationalism Online
New Perspectives on Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This...