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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping...
Border Interrogations
Questioning Spanish Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions—subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past,...
A Long Dream of Home
The persecution, exile and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Twenty-five years ago, in the winter of 1990, about four hundred thousand Pandits of Kashmir were forced to leave Kashmir, their homeland, to save their lives when militancy erupted there. Even today, they continue to live as 'internally displaced migrants' in their own country. While most Kashmiri...
Shame and Pride in Narrative
Mexican Women's Language Experiences at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
This book analyzes personal experiences of language through the voices of Mexican immigrant women, in relation to the racialization discourses that frame the social life of Mexican immigrant communities in the United States. It reveals the power of narrative, understood as a social practice, to validate and give meaning to people's lives.
Migrant Communication Enterprises
Regimentation and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This unique critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores alternative migrant-regulated institutions of resistance and subversive communication technology: the locutorios or ethnic call shops. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid linguistic and communicative...
by Sheila Murugasu
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book is an exploration of the various types of transnational politics that the Chin and Acehnese people are engaged in, particularly in the Malaysian state. As with so many migrants elsewhere in the world who try to organize themselves transnationally, the Chin and Acehnese have needed to negotiate...
by Denis Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A Migrant Heart is about departures and arrivals, uprooting and attachment, resettling and returning. Denis Sampson left Ireland as a student, leaving behind the farming countryside of his childhood, the city of Dublin where he was educated, and the history and culture of his native country. He arrived...
The Newfoundland Diaspora
Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
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E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada
Jennifer Delisle
As the first literary figure of the Newfoundland diaspora, E.J. Pratt’s “authenticity” as a Newfoundlander has been the subject of much debate. Delisle analyzes receptions of Pratt’s work through the mid-twentieth...
Thinking Home
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to introduce new ways of thinking on home, from the individual...
The Cayman Islands in Transition
The Politics, History and Sociology of a Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
'Who is a Caymanian?' 'What should be the nature of the relationship between "established Caymanians" and “expatriate Caymanians" in arriving at a definition?'J.A. (Roy) Bodden argues that Caymanian society is based on a synergistic and symbiotic relationship between expatriates and...
War and Migration
Social Networks and Economic Strategies of the Hazaras of Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
Focusing on the case of the Hazaras, a population from central Afghanistan, this book shows how migration studies and transnationalism are at the heart of theoretical and methodological debates which animate anthropology.
Unpack
A Guide to Life as an Expat Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
As an expat spouse, how do you choose the right home for your family, transition your kids to a new country and school, adjust to a new culture, and build a whole new network of friends?
Expat spouses face many questions, and this book is designed to offer straightforward answers. Written by...
Being Human, Being Migrant
Senses of Self and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant’s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living “in between” or...
Titans are in Town
A Novella and Accompanying Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Titans are in Town consists of a novella and cultural essays by Dr. Tomislav Sunic. In the novella and his essays, Sunic discusses the state of Europeans in their postmodern wasteland. Confronted by endless interracial chaos, Europe longs for the return of Titans. Based on Friedrich Georg Jünger’s...