Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
South Asian Diaspora Narratives
Roots and Routes
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in...
Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care
Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative...
Labour, Mobility and Temporary Migration
A Comparative Study of Polish Migration to Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Labour, Mobility and Temporary Migration delves into sociological research on Polish migrants who migrated to the lesser-explored South Wales region after Poland joined the European Union in 2004. At the time of enlargement, Polish migrants were characterised as being economically motivated, short-term...
by Janey Mac
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Every country has dark moments in its history. Some are the result of considered actions that only become dark in retrospect, when the morals of the time evolve; others are morally indefensible even at the time of commission. Here in Australia, we have seen the pre-1949 ‘White Australia’ policy...
Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families
Playing Out Identities Through Language Alternation
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say...
Rethinking Transit Migration
Precarity, Mobility, and Self-Making in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants' mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countries, Mexico, and the US.
Migration in the Age of Genocide
Law, Forgiveness and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book presents a novel proposal for establishing justice and social harmony in the aftermath of genocide. It argues that justice should be determined by the victims of genocide rather than a detached legal system, since such a form of justice is more consistent with a socially grounded ethics,...
Negotiating National Identity
Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite’s efforts to craft the nation’s identity in its own image—white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identity Jeffrey Lesser...
Trans-Border Studies
The Motivation and Integration of Immigrations in the Nigeria-Niger Border Area/ Transborder Movement and Trading. A Case Study of a Borderland in Southwestern
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
This report is a pilot study - a fuller picture will emerge after more data shall have been collected, analysed and explained. Borders are artificially constructed, geographic or astronomic lines that form the boundary of a nation. Within this delimited boundary, a nation exercises power and jurisdiction...
The Headscarf Debates
Conflicts of National Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The headscarf is an increasingly contentious symbol in countries across the world. Those who don the headscarf in Germany are referred to as "integration-refusers." In Turkey, support by and for headscarf-wearing women allowed a religious party to gain political power in a strictly secular...
by Bruno Vartuli
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
As a young man in Italy’s Southern Calabria, Bruno Vartuli dreamed of starting a new life in a new land. On his arrival in Australia in the 1950s Bruno struggled to understand the language and culture, but with tremendous strength and perseverance he overcame each adversity and achieved amazing results....
Britain's Anglo-Indians
The Invisibility of Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian subcontinent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948–62, under the terms of the British Nationality...
Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
Racializing Chineseness
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration,...