Emigration & Immigration

The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimately...

A rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil...

In the space of around ten years Ireland went from being a traditional labour exporter to a leading European economy, and thus an attractive destination for immigrants from Eastern Europe and further afield. This produced a singular social laboratory,...

In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the armies of migrant...

After the introduction of the "long-term resident" visa, the mass-migration of Nikkeis (Japanese Brazilians) has led to roughly 190,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan. While the ancestry-based visa confers Nikkeis' right to settlement virtually as a...

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It has been half a century since the Geneva Refugee Convention came into place, but there is still no comparable international regime which provides for the increasing phenomenon of mobile economic migrants. At a time of global mobility, when migration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798617661769Author James R McFaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 254g

What does it mean to be a refugee? What political questions do they raise? Through what political rhetoric are their experiences parsed? The ongoing refugee crisis has sparked all these questions and more. Refugee Talk uses conversation as a research...

More children than ever are crossing international borders alone to seek asylum worldwide. In the past decade, over a half million children have fled from Central America to the United States, seeking safety and a chance to continue lives halted by...

Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from the Caribbean. In the aftermath of the 2018 Windrush Scandal, the story of the Windrush Generation is more...

The current politicized climate around immigration includes heated debate over the potential costs of continued immigration for the health and well-being of the nation. Amid the controversy one pattern that has escaped significant notice is that...

In Contested Belonging: Spaces, Practices, Biographies contributions by well-known international scholars from different disciplines address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and...

Migration, Education and Family Relations between China and the UK: The Transnational One-Child Generation provides a fresh perspective on the understanding of transnational families, examining the one-child generation of Chinese migrants who came to the...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU immigration, asylum, race and security policies. Liz Fekete argues that at the same time as the EU introduces selective migration policies, it closes its borders against asylum seekers who were the first...

The Chinese in Silicon Valley examines the complex and ever-growing role of Chinese American scientists and engineers in Silicon Valley. Globalization brings workers from many different countries and cultures together, impacting more than just their work...

Migration Practice as Creative Practice: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Migration presents an in-depth evaluation of migrants' contributions to modern socio-economic structures. Leading with a discussion of the historical construction of migration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013272202Author Reinhard SchweitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Migrants have organized at all times and in all cities and places. The processes of their accommodation, however, differ, with local authorities and other state institutions playing an important role in these processes. Offering comprehensive empirical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871542441Author Charles HirschmanFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage FoundationWeight(grams) 1162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871547996Author Joseph TobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage Foundation

Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada by Poor Law authorities and voluntary bodies during the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about? What were the motives and...

Gender, Religion and Migration is the first multidisciplinary collection on the intersection of gender and religion in the integration of different groups of immigrants, migrant workers, youths, and students in host societies in Asia-Pacific, Europe,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910781319Author Oksana KoshulkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025806Author Linda Gray SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 147mm *...