Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by Henley & Partners
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Global Residence and Citizenship Programs 2016 provides a comprehensive, systematic analysis and benchmarking of the world’s most relevant investor immigration and citizenship-by-investment programs. A distinguished panel of independent experts – immigration and citizenship lawyers, economists, country...
The World in Brooklyn
Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to...
The Men and Women We Want
Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the...
Raza Sí, Migra No
Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the...
Violence Against Latina Immigrants
Citizenship, Inequality, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been...
Reinventing the Republic
Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families had taken refuge in the church under threat of deportation due to the French state's increasingly restrictive immigration policies. Rather than disperse...
by Robert Vineberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
While much has been written about Canada’s modern settlement program and there is a growing body of research and analysis of the settlement and integration successes and challenges of recent years, there is virtually no literature that has addressed the history of settlement services since the beginning...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
"This groundbreaking study examines the connection between what are arguably the two most distinguishing phenomena of the modern world: the unprecedented surges in global mobility and in the creation of politically bounded spaces and identities."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers...
The Health of Newcomers
Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Immigration and health care are hotly debated and contentious issues. Policies that relate to both issues—to the health of newcomers—often reflect misimpressions about immigrants, and their impact on health care systems. Despite the fact that immigrants are typically younger and healthier than...
American Karma
Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors.
American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth...
Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue
New Conversations in Public Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and...
Special Issue: Who Belongs?
Immigration, Citizenship, and the Constitution of Legality
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
The 60th volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society edited by Austin Sarat, is an essential text for legal scholars with a unique focus on the disciplines of sociology, politics and the humanities. This special issue interrogates how law defines identity. It addresses the key themes of immigration...
Immigrant America
A Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume.
Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political,...
Protecting Immigrant Rights in Mexico
Understanding the State-Civil Society Nexus
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The state-civil society relationship to migration policy is an area both largely unexplored and little understood in current scholarly literature. Laura González-Murphy offers a timely analysis of the changing role played by civil society in the formulation and implementation of government policies...