Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by Adam DeSimone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Using the 1986 animated film "An American Tail" as a framing device, this work explores the immigrant experience of émigrés who lived in the United States during the Gilded Age. While the film itself celebrates the arrival of the furry, lovable, Mousekewitz family to the U.S., this essay...
The Sexuality of Migration
Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award in Latino Studies Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies Association
The Sexuality of Migration provides an innovative...
Border Watch
Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Questions over immigration and asylum face almost all Western countries. Should only economically useful immigrants be allowed? What should be done with unwanted or 'illegal' immigrants? In this bold and original intervention, Alexandra Hall shows that immigration detention centres offer a window...
Seeking a Better Future
The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.
Drawing...
Voyagers to the West
A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society
Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives...
Tracking a Diaspora
Émigrés from Russia and Eastern Europe in the Repositories
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Discover collections unused by other scholars!
Russian immigrants are one of the least studied of all the Slavic peoples because of meager collections development. Tracking a Diaspora: Émigrés from Russia and Eastern Europe in the Repositories offers librarians and archivists an abundance...
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...
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'...
After the Hector
The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America. The arrival of the Hector in 1773, with nearly 200 Scottish passengers, sparked a huge influx of Scots to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Thousands of...
The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855
Glengarry and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2005
Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to a growing tide of emigration that eventually engulfed all of...
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain’s own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and...
The Cultures of Italian Migration
Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective 'Italian' to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like 'home,' 'identity,' 'subjectivity,' and 'otherness'...
Temporary Migration, Transformation and Development
Evidence from Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly common phenomenon.
This volume presents a comprehensive picture of the transformative and development potential of temporary transnational migration...
Migrations
Ireland in a global world
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This edited collection explores Ireland’s complex relationship with migration in novel and innovative ways. The contributors – leading scholars of migration from the disciplines of anthropology, geography, history, media studies, sociology, sociolinguistics and women’s studies – draw on new...