Emigration category: 2215 books
Years of Conflict
Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Recent years have witnessed a significant growth of interest in the consequences of political violence and displacement for the young. However, when speaking of “children” commentators have often taken the situation of those in early and middle childhood as representative of all young people under...
Administrative Justice and Asylum Appeals
A Study of Tribunal Adjudication
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
FIRST PRIZE WINNER OF THE SLS BIRKS PRIZE FOR OUTSTANDING LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP 2011
How are we to assess and evaluate the quality of the tribunal systems that do the day-to-day work of adjudicating upon the disputes individuals have with government? This book examines how the idea of adjudicative...
Revoking Citizenship
Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Reveals America’s long history of making both naturalized immigrants and native-born citizens un-American after stripping away their citizenship
Expatriation, or the stripping away citizenship and all the rights that come with it, is usually associated with despotic and totalitarian regimes....
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The term immigration law has come up many times in the news during the past few years. What is immigration law? Immigration law is the law that a country uses to determine the status of the people coming into their country. These laws differ from land to land. Having a reference guide about immigration...
by Hiroshi Motomura
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
In 1975, Texas adopted a law allowing school districts to bar children from public schools if they were in the United States unlawfully. The US Supreme Court responded in 1982 with a landmark decision, Plyler v. Doe, that kept open the schoolhouse doors, allowing these children to get the education...
Social Transformation and Migration
National and Local Experiences in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with vastly different historical and cultural characteristics: South Korea, Australia, Turkey and Mexico.
Communication and Economic Theory
How to deal with rationality in a communicational environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
This book analyzes the different topics which highlight the relevance of communication within markets. In using and reformulating concepts of Arrow, Commons, Williamson, North, Becker and others, the author shows the hidden implications of these authors for a new approach in economics: communication...
by G. Liebscher, J. Dailey-O'Cain
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this transcontinental perspective, the book makes a new contribution to the literature on both language and identity and language and globalization.
Childhood, Youth and Migration
Connecting Global and Local Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth. Furthermore, it highlights that childhood, youth and migration as well as local and global perspectives need to be thought and analyzed together, to address the significant dimensions...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past decades, it is important to understand the capacity...
Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies
Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the two countries. Individuals’...
Care & Advocacy
Narratives from a School for Immigrant Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This is a book of oral narratives, collected from participants at a school created for firstgeneration, immigrant youth. The narrations from the students, teachers, administration, professional staff, and support personnel document the power of caring relationships in an educational setting. The narratives...
Illegality, Inc.
Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants, Andersson explores, viscerally and emphatically,...
Contemporary Violence
Postmodern war in Kosovo and Chechnya
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The book unravels the story of the insurgencies in Kosovo and Chechnya, shedding new light on the social networks and narratives, the rifts, tensions and movements involved in the road to war in 1999.