Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Migration and the Search for Home
Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants. Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life, yet migrants’ experience tells a different story: what happens to the notion of home, once migrants...
Baseball beyond Borders
From Distant Lands to the Major Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
In 1973, Roberto Clemente was honored as the first baseball player born outside the continental U.S. to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the former Pittsburgh Pirate amassed 3,000 career hits and 240 home runs. Since then, eight more international players of Major...
Outsourcing Border Control
Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
This book explores the everyday practices of border control and implementation of mobility policy in the European Schengen area by analyzing consular visas services on the edges of the territory. Using an original case study, private contractors that implement EU visa policy on governments’ behalf,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Helena Lindholm Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2005
From the refugee camps of the Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and keep...
by T. Aechtner
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This book investigates an African diaspora Christian community in Calgary, Alberta, and explores the ways in which the church's beliefs and practices impact the lives of its migrant congregation. In particular, it reveals the church's pronounced concern with the utility of the Prosperity Gospel and Holy Spirit Power.
by Edgar Holden
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2011
The tale of a voyage from Macao to Havana of a shipment of Mutinous Chinese Coolies. Written at a time (1864) when the Chinese were being considered as replacements for the soon to be freed American Slaves.
History, Memory and Migration
Perceptions of the Past and the Politics of Incorporation
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
By conversing with the main bodies of relevant literature from Migration Studies and Memory Studies, this overview highlights how analysing memories can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migrant incorporation. The chapters consider international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.
Changing communities
Stories of migration, displacement and solidarities
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Issues of displacement and dispossession have become defining characteristics of a globalised 21st century. People are moving within and across national borders, whether displaced, relocated or moving in search of better livelihoods. This book brings theoretical understandings of migration and displacement...
Makeshift Migrants and Law
Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant. It critiques the postcolonial perspective on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural, and familial norms on which law is based as well as the historical backdrop of...
Race, Place and Globalization
Youth Cultures in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
What does it mean to be young in a changing world? How are migration, settlement and new urban cultures shaping young lives? And in particular, are race, place and class still meaningful to contemporary youth cultures? This path-breaking book shows how young people are responding differently to recent...
by Huang Ping, Genevieve Domenach-Chich
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Urban Poverty Reduction Among Migrants in China is the result of a large-scale research project conducted across China from 2002 to 2010. Packed full of original material, academic analysis, expert knowledge and practical policy suggestions, it paints a detailed picture of the consequences of Chinas...
Decolonial Daughter
Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, identity, nationhood and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples.
Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualise her and...