Emigration category: 2215 books
Invisible Immigrants
The English in Canada since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last major...
Mexico-U.S. Migration Management
A Binational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
The need to understand the migration between the United States and Mexico is greater today than at any time in its century long history. Its volume and complexity are greater than most observers might have imagined even a decade ago; and it operates in a context charged with serious human, political,...
Diaspora, Development, and Democracy
The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on...
Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship
Mobility, Community and Identity Between China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and upper-classes'...
The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism
Dominican Migration to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2002
What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from...
The End of Hidden Ireland
Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1995
Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the worst year of the famine, is notorious, but the...
California Calling
A Self-Interrogation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This book split my heart open and reminded me how much immigrants matter, how much we all carry the traces of other worlds. LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, The Chronology of Water
California Calling is a lyrical self-interrogation of obsession, emigration, and identity. Natalie Singer’s story opens in...
by Badri Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book studies how the act of migration is a motivating constituent in the production of popular culture in both the homeland and the destination. It looks at the formations of cultures in the process of identity-making of approximately 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial...
Banished to the Homeland
Dominican Deportees and Their Stories of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The 1996 U.S. Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act has led to the forcible deportation of tens of thousands of Dominicans from the United States. Following thousands of these individuals over a seven-year period, David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios use a unique combination of sociological and...
by Steve Horrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book is an indispensible guide to the roller coaster ride that is the emigration process. It covers all the topics and issues that anyone thinking of emigrating to New Zealand will need to know about, from the discussion phase through to making friends when you're there. - Deciding to go - Applying...
Imperial Immigrants
The Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815–1840
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants.
Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa...
Old Lives and New
Soviet Immigrants in Israel and America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This is the moving story of a number of individuals who made the difficult and sometimes hazardous decision to leave their home, family, and friends and start new lives in Israel and the United States. Edith Rogovin Frankel interviews them twice: shortly after they leave the Soviet Union in the late...
Migrants of the British diaspora since the 1960s
Stories from modern nomads
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This is the first social history to explore experiences of British emigrants from the peak years of the 1960s to the emigration resurgence of the turn of the twentieth century. It explores migrant experiences in Australia, Canada and New Zealand alongside other countries. The book charts the gradual...
by James L. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan’s hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for...