Emigration & Immigration

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639895175Author Lily KenneyFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint States Academic PressPublisher States Academic PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm)...

Over the past several decades, researchers as well as social policymakers and educators have acknowledged the importance that fathers play in their children's lives. A good deal of research on fathering has been conducted among Euro-American families in...

Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, compiles twelve articles on the migration phenomenon from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the United States. The...

Since their early beginning in Africa as foragers, hunters and gatherers, humans have been on the move. In modern times, their movements have been compelled by geographical, economic, political, cultural, social and personal reasons. However, beginning...

This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century. Gerhard Falk focuses on refugees who fled from Nazi tyranny in the 1930s,...

In this book, Ethel Kosminsky studies the Japanese emigration to the planned colony of Bastos in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the early twentieth century. She explores the stories of Japanese immigrants who replaced the labor of recently-freed slaves on coffee...

Scottish Migration since 1750: Reasons and Results begins a fresh chapter in migration studies using new methods and unpublished sources to map the course of Scottish migration between 1750 and 1990. It explains why the Scottish population grew after...

In 1965, the United States invaded the Dominican Republic for the third time. The invasion spurred waves of emigration and brought a million and a half Dominicans and their uniquely complex ideas about ethnic cultural identity to the United States...

In 1965, the United States invaded the Dominican Republic for the third time. The invasion spurred waves of emigration and brought a million and a half Dominicans and their uniquely complex ideas about ethnic cultural identity to the United States...

Four overarching themes underscore the essays in this book. These are the creation of African diaspora community and institutional structures; the structured and shared relationships among African immigrants, host, and homeland societies; the...

The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context,...

Although Cameroon's image as a stable nation with a strong economy may have mitigated against any large-scale migration by Cameroonians following independence, the economic collapse beginning in the mid-1980s and the coerced implementation of democratic...

The recent containment policies aimed at regulating immigration flows towards Europe have profoundly altered the dynamics of migration in Africa. The impact of these policies is apparent in the redefinitions of the routes, itineraries and actors of...

In recent years, a large number of young Japanese have been migrating to New York and London for the purpose of engaging in cultural production in areas such as dance, fashion, DJing, film, and pop arts in the hope of "making it" as artists. In the past,...

Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research, Cole and Booth focus on the experiences of foreigners employed in domestic service,...

Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research, Cole and Booth focus on the experiences of foreigners employed in domestic service,...

Despite recent large numbers of African immigrants to the United States facilitated by the emergence of globalized labor markets, African immigration to the United States remains an understudied phenomenon. This book provides an intensive study of the...

From Columbus's first voyage to "the Indies" in 1492, Basques participated in Spain's American enterprise. Supported by centuries of experience as mariners, shipbuilders, traders, miners, and ironworkers; encouraged toward emigration by restrictive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551307145Author Harald BauderFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Brown Bear PressPublisher Brown Bear PressWeight(grams) 734gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816532520Author Raquel Rubio-GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

This book and accompanying compact disc provide a rare excursion in the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants to South Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial connections. It demonstrates how religion, ritual, and aesthetic...

In the Land of Mirrors is a journey through the politics of Cuban exiles since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. It explores the development of Cuban exile politics and identity within a context of U.S. and Cuban realities, as well as within the broader inquiry...

The year 2013 is the 40th anniversary of the end of the 'White Australia policy'. In these four decades Australia's immigration policy has shifted from a primary concern with cultural homogeneity or Britishness to a focus on demand-based skills through...

Examination of the dynamics of the Palestinian diaspora in HondurasBook InformationISBN 9780472064946Author Nancie L. GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Globalisation and social transformation theorists have paid significantly less attention to the movement of people than they have to the movement of capital. This book redresses the balance and provides timely insights into recent developments in...

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Soaring immigration to the United States in the past few decades has reawakened both popular and scholarly interest in this important issue. American Arrivals highlights the important insights of anthropology for the field of migration studies. The...

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599542041Author Giovanni SchiavoFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599542034Author Guido BaggioFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In/Visibility is unequally distributed in society and closely related to the distribution of power and privilege. Using images and narratives to mobilize is part of political strategies. The relationship of in/visibility and migration is the guiding...

In post-migrant societies, belonging, identity and transnationality go far beyond inclusion and exclusion. Intersecting elements behind circulating conflicts and political narratives shape "the good, bad and challenging migrant". Fatma Haron scrutinizes...

This volume examines the socio-cultural aspects of transnational mobility of the Korean diaspora across the globe, spanning countries such as Japan, the Philippines, Germany, the US, and the UK. The contributors explore gendered migration, social...

International migration has been subject to many studies, conducted by academics, students, policy makers, and in civil society. As the migration flows continue to increase amongst countries, new dynamics shape international politics, economy, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541884Author Antonio VittiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540726Author Peter CarravettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541693Author Amerigo RuggieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540146Author Piero BassettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541648Author Luisa del GiudiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...