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Iraqi Migrants in Syria
The Crisis before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
During the decade that preceded Syria’s 2011 uprising and descent into violence, the country was in the midst of another crisis: the mass arrival of Iraqi migrants and a flood of humanitarian aid to handle the refugee emergency. International aid organizations, the media, and diplomats alike praised...
EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security
Technology, Externalization and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management. In light of the refugee crises in the Mediterranean and the responses on the part of EU member states, this volume presents an in-depth reflection on European border practices and their political, social and economic consequences....
The Refugee Crisis and Religion
Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The current refugee crisis sweeping Europe, and much of the world, closely intersects with largely neglected questions of religion. Moving beyond discussions of religious differences, what can we learn about the interaction between religion and migration? Do faith-based organisations play a role within...
Understanding Cuba as a Nation
From European Settlement to Global Revolutionary Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Since 1959, the government of the Caribbean island of Cuba, 90 miles away from the United States of America, has defied its powerful neighbor. The story of the improbable survival of the Cuban Revolutionary Government in its struggle against the most powerful country in the world has kept international...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is one of the first books to explore Nepali diaspora in a global context, across India and other parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Australia. It discusses the social, political and economic status and aspirations of the Nepali community worldwide. The essays in the volume cover...
by Stanley A. Renshon
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Continuing large-scale migration to the United States raises the question of how best to integrate new immigrants into the American national community. Traditionally, one successful answer has been to encourage immigrants to learn our language, culture, history, and civic traditions. New immigrants...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book focuses on the experiences of temporary movements between Asia and Europe from the perspective of migrants and mobile people. It raises important questions such as: Why do people migrate on a temporary basis and what does this actually mean? How are these trajectories shaped? What are the...
The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause
Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine’s struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian...
by Neha Ahmed, Angie Y. Chung, Miliann Kang
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada, Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh have compiled a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. As the chapters demonstrate, comparing younger-generation Koreans with first-generation...
Engaging the Diaspora
Migration and African Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Considering the intensifying wave of migration across the globe, Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families is a timely endeavor. It engages the scholar and facilitates critical re-assessment of African immigrants, as well as their transnational challenges. This book will be of interest...
Making Diaspora in a Global City
South Asian Youth Cultures in London
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis of urban...
by Debora Cordeiro Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
The Jewish presence in Latin America is a recent chapter in Jewish history that has produced a remarkable body of literature that gives voice to the fascinating experience of Jews in Latin American lands. This book explores the complexity of Jewish identity in Latin America through the fictional Jewish...
Trans-Atlantic Migration
The Paradoxes of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed...
Global Africans
Race, Ethnicity and Shifting Identities
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
"Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to...