Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
This collection of essays engages with a central theme in scholarship on EU citizenship – the emancipation of certain citizens, the alienation of others – and seeks to expand its horizons to interrogate whether similar debates and trends can be identified in other fields of European integration....
Finding Fernanda
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud.
Over the past five years, over 100,000 children...
The New Cockney
New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London. Embedded in its social context, it focuses on the interaction and social practices within a single community and highlights some of the possible mechanisms for language change.
The Gift of Freedom
War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In The Gift of Freedom, Mimi Thi Nguyen develops a new understanding of contemporary United States empire and its self-interested claims to provide for others the advantage of human freedom. Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cartography of progress,...
X Does Not Mark My Spot
Voices from the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
A lively collection of stories, essays, and poems by writers of South Asian descent living in North America.‘Call Me Confused, Please’ requests one of the stories in this insightful and engaging collection from women of South Asian origin living in the United States and Canada. ‘Made in the USA?’...
Waiting for José
The Minutemen's Pursuit of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they have come to the U.S. / Mexico border to hunt for illegal immigrants. Who are the Minutemen?...
by Chatwara Suwannamai Duran
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis’. With a focus on language and literacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna), organised by Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which ** **was dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions...
Places of Pain
Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and...
by Calogero Giametta
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Today within neoliberal democracies, gender and sexuality provisions give people the opportunity of being granted social and legal protection. But how does the asylum system intervene within claimants’ understandings of themselves and in what ways does this affect their livelihoods in the country...
Children and Youth on the Front Line
Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
War leads not just to widespread death but also to extensive displacement, overwhelming fear, and economic devastation. It weakens social ties, threatens household survival and undermines the family's capacity to care for its most vulnerable members. Every year it kills and maims countless numbers...
Pockets of resistance
British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility. Offering a wide-ranging overview of the field of Asian migrations, this new handbook therefore seeks to examine and evaluate the flows of movement within Asia, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization,...