Emigration & Immigration

This cross-disciplinary edited collection presents an integrated approach to critical diversity studies by gathering original scholarly research on ideational, technical and actual social dimensions of contemporary governance through diversity.Book...

America's approach to terrorism has focused on traditional national security methods; Europe's response has been to rely on police procedures. This compares these two strategies and considers that both may have engendered greater radicalization and a...

A collection of new studies of the role of discourse in communication in business and other professional fields, offering a multidisciplinary approach and providing a number of representative perspectives to the different theoretical and methodological...

The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care - as domestic workers, nannies, care assistants and nurses. This international volume examines the global...

This book explores migrant's global social remittances and their impacts on Europe. Exploring the topic from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, geography and political science, the authors present empirical analyses covering a wide...

This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine the cultural, socioeconomic, structural, and political adaptation of Eastern European immigrants after 1991. Also, the book engages in a...

This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the Southern African Indian Ocean region from the end of the 19th Century to today...

African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race? examines recent trends and implications of the growth of African immigration to the United States. Mamadi Corra highlights several resulting sociodemographic processes underway,...

The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the...

Osterhammel's book represents a new approach to the subject. The concise but sweeping study encompasses the process of colonization and decolonization from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Virtually all other studies to date have looked...

Immigration and Society: A Historical and Sociological Approach is a succinct and handy textbook that covers the critical information a student needs to understand the laws themselves from the Treaty of Paris in 1793 to the present laws. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916742123Author Peigin DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wordwell BooksPublisher Wordwell Books

Immigration, Crime, and the Administration of Justice: Contemporary Readings provides students with a concise, scholarly overview of contemporary immigration issues related to policy, policing, and corrections. The carefully selected readings in this...

How a largely Latino/a workforce of immigration agents reconciles the moral ambiguities of its workImmigration agents have a frontline view of the racial, economic, and legal inequalities that undocumented migration reflects—and yet most agents do not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919613338Author Joyce AgeeFormat PaperbackImprint Springtime BooksPublisher Springtime Books

Opening Pathways, Building Bridges explores contemporary skilled migration and the brain drain using a bottom-up approach, based on a case study of Mexican scientists and engineers-or the Brains, as coined by the author-working in the UK. It provides an...

Drawing on recent research perspectives, the book discusses how social investment policies could be responsive to territorial inequalities in terms of better policy coordination, capacities, and institutional infrastructures' adaptability to territorial...

Despite deep divisions on the issue of immigration, this book shows that immigration promotes economic innovation, expands the job market, and contributes to diversity and creativity in the United States.Immigration, as a conduit for bringing new talent,...

A growing number of nonprofit organizations have been created by immigrants and refugees to serve their communities in North America. These immigrant- and refugee-led organizations (IRLOs) work to provide services and meet a variety of needs, while at...

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Based on an ethnographic study on the Andean Tri-border (between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia), this volume addresses the experience of Aymara cross-border women from Bolivia employed in the rural valleys on the outskirts of Arica (Chile’s northernmost city)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984858804Format PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint MCC Refugee ServicesPublisher MCC Refugee ServicesWeight(grams) 295g

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Dubai shows that even within highly restrictive mobility regimes, marginalized migrants find ways to cope...

This volume provides an authoritative, evenhanded overview of the Trump administration's family separation and child detention policies at the U.S.-Mexico border-and the impact of those policies and actions on children, their parents, border security,...

This book brings small places to the main stage in an exploration of the nature of immigration in rural areas and small towns in Europe. Extending recent efforts to study migration at a sub-national scale, the authors focus their analysis on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480874329Author Vivian SalamaFormat HardbackPage Count 46Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 445g

Immigration has always caused immense public concern, especially when the perception is that immigrants are not assimilating into society they way they should, or perhaps the way they once did. Americans are frustrated as they try to order food, hire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554887569Author Michael E. VanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Natural Heritage BooksPublisher Natural Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 418g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226831664Author Sharon M. QuinsaatFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work, Ivana...

From the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros and the United States, the slogan 'No borders!' is a thread connecting a multitude of different struggles for the freedom to move and to stay. But what does it mean to make this slogan a...

This book examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonization in the 1960s and 70s ? the so-called era of Modern Imperialism - in post-war history textbooks from across the world. The aim of the book...

This book explores the attitudes of Polish migrants towards the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union and considers possible return migration trajectories that may result. Based on quantitative sociological research conducted in Britain, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816528318Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

How can biography and reflexivity become integral processes of an inquiry? How do we apply these processes to our research and to our accounts of ourselves? Presenting studies by migration scholars who are migrants themselves, Migrant Scholars...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783300933360Author Viggo HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Harrier PublishingPublisher Harrier PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732921061Author Benjamin LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Tyro PressPublisher Tyro PressWeight(grams) 376g

Migrant Representations pairs twenty-four carefully selected histories in order to compare how migrants themselves – Irish labourer, Lithuanian refugee or Indian doctor – and their social investigators capture in words and images defining private and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639372409Author Douglas W LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 689g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920409098Author Jonathan CrushFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint IDASA PublishersPublisher IDASA (Institute for Democracy in South...