Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing...
Postmortem Report
Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Along with his other published works, Tomislav Sunic is steadily turning his attention to a wide variety of topics affecting Europe’s cultural and political heritage, including such sacred and less sacred cows, as liberalism, the artistic legacy of the Third Reich, the religion of multiculturalism,...
Culture, Ethnicity and Migration After Communism
The Pontic Greeks
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book addresses the issue of emerging transnationalism in the conditions of post-socialism through focusing on migrants’ identity as a social construction resulting from their experience of the ‘transnational circuit of culture’ as well as from post-Soviet shifts in political and economic...
Self-Referentiality of Cognition and (De)Formation of Ethnic Boundaries
A Comparative Study on Korean Diaspora in Russia, China, the United States and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This book develops a new approach towards the formation of the ethnic boundary as a complex interrelation between cognitive operations and ethnic/national boundaries formation process. Korean diaspora in China, Russia, the United States, and Japan illustrate how this process correlates with the nationalism...
Tierra de todos
Nuestro momento para crear una nacion de iguales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Estados Unidos es un país que hoy tiene habitantes de primera y de segunda clase. Esto tiene que cambiar, y pronto. Hay 12 millones de indocumentados, pero también hay una esperanza: la promesa que Barack Obama le hizo a Jorge Ramos de que durante su primer año como presidente apoyaría una reforma...
Morir en el Intento
La Peor Tragedia de Immigrantes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 18, 2012
La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso... Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo y mejores oportunidades de vida. Pero para un grupo de inmigrantes que cruzó la frontera ilegalmente y se subió...
Post/humanitarian Border Politics between Mexico and the US
People, Places, Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The author assesses the politics of different humanitarian interventions in the Mexico-US border region developing a unique perspective on the significance of people, places and things to contemporary border struggles.
Diaspora of the City
Stories of Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
As the former capital of two great empires—Eastern Roman and Ottoman—Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism. The Greek-speaking Christian Orthodox community (Rum Polites) is among the oldest in the urban society, yet their leading status...
Away
The Indian Writer as an Expatriate
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.
Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a...
Education and Sustainability
Learning Across the Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Divide
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This book critically examines the impact of migration, education, development, and the spread of English on global bio-linguistic and cultural diversity. Derived from findings from a comparative eco-linguistic study of intergenerational language, culture, and education change in the Tibetan Diaspora,...
Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...
Desis Divided
The Political Lives of South Asian Americans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
For immigrants to America, from Europeans in the early twentieth century through later Latinos, Asians, and Caribbeans, gaining social and political ground has generally been considered an exercise in ethnic and racial solidarity. The experience of South Asian Americans, one of the fastest-growing immigrant...
The Welfare of Syrian Refugees
Evidence from Jordan and Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Syrian refugee crisis, which began in 2011, is one of the most pressing disasters in the world today, with its effects reverberating around the globe. By the end of 2015, more than 7.6 million of the country’s people had been internally displaced and 4.3 million were registered refugees. The number...
The Compatriots
The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with the mother country--be it antagonistic or far too chummy.
The history of Russian espionage is soaked in blood, from a spontaneous pistol shot...