Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Living and Working in India
The complete practical guide to expatriate life in the sub continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
As well as being a fascinating country, with a rich and varied culture, India is emerging as a major world economy. More and more people are going there to live and work. The purpose of this book is to ease the transition between western and Indian cultures. If you are going to India to do business...
Broad Is My Native Land
Repertoires and Regimes of Migration in Russia's Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and...
Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States
Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Gain a better understanding of the past and cultures of Slavic and East European peoples with American archival collections!
Russian and East European Books and Manuscripts in the United States, the first collection of its kind, offers perspectives from leading Slavic librarians, archivists...
Nursing and Empire
Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British...
Transnational Crime and Human Rights
Responses to Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Transnational Crime and Human Rights offers an evaluation of the responses to the transnational crime of human trafficking and governance of the issue through a case study of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), which comprises Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Lao People's Democratic Republic,...
by Umberto Eco
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 28, 2019
“Eliminare il razzismo non vuol dire mostrare e convincersi che gli Altri non sono diversi da noi, ma comprendere e accettare la loro diversità.” Dopo Il fascismo eterno, una nuova illuminante riflessione civile, contro ogni pregiudizio e intolleranza.
The New Jewish Diaspora
Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration...
Women Migrants From East to West
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria...
Discipline and the Other Body
Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control...
by Emmy E. Werner
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the “Guardian of the Western Gate,” the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States....
by Abou Farman
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Migration stories, says Abou Farman, are often told through the personal struggles and travails of the migrant, ‘the great voyager figure of our most recent centuries, the harbinger of hybridity, the metaphor for risk, sacrifice, toil, abuse, inhumanity. And humanity.’ These are the stories (both...
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent...
The End of Tolerance
Racism in 21st Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism.*BR**BR*Exacerbated by the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Kundnani argues...
by John Sesay, Erika Celeste
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Young man sets out to immigrate to America from West Africa but encounters and overcomes corrupt government officials and ruthless criminals in Africa but eventually gets to America and falls into the hands of human traffickers. He finally succeeds in finding his way into the mainstream flow of society where he finds the freedom to develop his potential as a complete human being