Emigration & Immigration

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910146866Author Roxana CazanFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Solis PressPublisher Solis PressWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781965413210Author Jeffery JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint American Book PublisherPublisher American Book PublisherWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949845273Author Elżbieta M GoździakFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Tibidabo Publishing, Inc.Publisher Tibidabo Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration. They highlight the range of sites, sectors, and skills in which migrants are employed...

This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households' decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration...

This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this transcontinental perspective, the book makes a new contribution to the literature...

This edited book examines the social realities of migrant traders in the informal economy in South Africa. It draws on original research conducted with migrant traders in order to understand their lived experiences in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. With...

This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France's migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030613891Author Lore Van PraagFormat HardbackImprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 155g

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...

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China's domestic and international migration. Restructuring economic development requires large numbers of educated and skilled talents, but this effort comes at a time when the size of...

This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years. It focuses on...

In the last fifty years Spain has experienced major changes regarding population movements and the perception the Spanish have concerning emigration and immigration as well as emigrants and immigrants. In short, in a few years it has gone from emigrating...