Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Governing Irregular Migration
Bordering Culture, Labour, and Security in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe’s southern borders. David Moffette analyzes Spain’s processes of immigration governance and reveals the complicated series of legal obstacles facing many migrants.
Differential...
The Economics of Immigration
Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
The inspiration for this book came from a collaborative research project on immigration, begun in 2001, when we were colleagues at University of Nebraska- Lincoln (Bodvarsson was a Visiting Professor there in 2001–05). Our project dealt with the application of Say’s Law to the supply of immigrant...
by Julie Ham
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Public discourses around migrant sex workers are often more confident about what migrant sex workers signify morally but are less clear about who the ‘migrant’ is. Based on interviews with immigrant, migrant and racialized sex workers in Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia, Sex Work, Immigration...
The Other Side of Assimilation
How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations?
The Other Side of Assimilation...
Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief
Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched. Falsely perceived as a one-dimensional function of static state power, it is here revealed that asylum decisions at borders respond to a complex cultural...
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
One Family and Migration in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
**"No matter your politics or home country this will change how you think about the movement of people between poor and rich countries...one of the best books on immigration written in a generation." --Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted
The definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration,...
Migrants and Cities
The Accommodation of Migrant Organizations in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Migrants have organized at all times and in all cities and places. The processes of their accommodation, however, differ, with local authorities and other state institutions playing an important role in these processes. Offering comprehensive empirical insights both from recent sites of immigration...
by Orlando J. Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Every ten years political representation in the U.S.House of Representatives is redistributed (reapportioned) among the fifty states.The process began anew with the 2010 census, which is counting the nation's population as the basis for reapportionment.The decennial census has a history wrought with...
Migrants and Citizens
Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In all the noisy rhetoric currently surrounding immigration, one important question is rarely asked: What ethical responsibilities do immigrants and citizens have to each other? In this book Tisha Rajendra reframes the confused and often heated debate over immigration around the world, proposes a...
Immigration and Categorical Inequality
Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Immigration and Categorical Inequality explains the general processes of migration, the categorization of newcomers in urban areas as racial or ethnic others, and the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality among groups. Inspired by the pioneering work of Charles Tilly on chain migration, transnational...
All the Nations Under Heaven
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
First published in 1996, All the Nations Under Heaven has earned praise and a wide readership for its unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience...
by Speedy Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
When moving across boarders, being aware of immigration law is a must. Use this quick study guide to understand the US VISA policy as well the major historical highlights that you need to know. Equipped with the knowledge from this speedy guide, you will know what to expect and what to do to get what you expect. Get a copy today!
by Annedith Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Turkish immigration, art and narratives of home in France argues for a cultural, rather than a sociological or economic, approach to understanding how immigrants become part of their new country. In contrast to the language of integration or assimilation which evaluates an immigrant's success in relation...
Forgotten Citizens
Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the law. But in today's America, the US-born children of undocumented immigrants--over four million of them--do not enjoy fully the benefits of citizenship or of feeling that they belong....