Emigration & Immigration

This volume presents a comprehensive, unbiased, and easily accessible review of U.S. immigration reform, and explains why reform efforts have resulted in the current state of political deadlock over the issue in the United States Congress. Comprising...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944977344Author Adrianne AronFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Sunshot PressPublisher Sunshot PressWeight(grams) 322g

The nature and configuration of borders, and the relationship between state borders and societies, have changed. In the 21st century, internationalism, transnationalism and super-diversity have further provoked anxieties around diminishing 'national'...

This book brings together ten original empirical works focusing on the influence of various types of spatial mobility - be it international or national- on partnership, family and work life. The contributions cover a range of important topics which focus...

This volume examines key aspects of the migration process that are particularly relevant in the Asian context. It looks into established concepts and theoretical propositions that have found application in other areas, particularly in the West and...

This edited contribution explores strategies and measures for leveraging the potential of skilled diasporas and for advancing knowledge-based evidence on return skilled migration and its impact on development. By taking the example of Indian skilled...

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration-development-peace-building nexus. Using the concept of multidimensional embeddedness, it provides an...

Remittances of Thai female married migrants have been one of the recognized conflicts among Thai-German spouses for a long time. However, the issue of remittance has only been partially debated and clarified as the economic support of Thai wives towards...

Luxembourg has an atypical, efficient migration. The recent Portuguese underclass themselves in the same way as their predecessors of the Salazar regime, despite higher educational attainment, while the citizens of the new member states move to the top...

This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South-South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore. Two principal questions in the South-South migration are addressed: Why and how individuals migrate for work; and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639112788Author Jean ChetkovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 381g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732554702Author Pj TempleFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Temple PressPublisher Temple PressWeight(grams) 172g

This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians. It combines social...

The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in this regard. According to the UN Refugee Agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920118709Author Jonathan CrushFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint IDASA PublishersPublisher IDASA PublishersWeight(grams) 112g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039108640Author Jan LucassenFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 720g

This open access book brings together different perspectives on migration and the city that are usually discussed separately, to show the special character of the urban context as a territorial and political space where people coexist, whether by choice...

This book describes the ethnic identity construction involved in ‘being’, ‘feeling’ and ‘doing’ Chinese for multi-generation Australian-born Chinese, who were born and raised in a different social environment. It demonstrates how Chineseness is...

An historical and contemporary account of migrant crime in Australia, this book explores a range of issues from mental health and victimology to immigration policy and legal analysis, arguing that it is birthplace, not race, which impacts upon crimes...

This book examines the migration of women as gendered subjects to and from Turkey, using feminist research practices to explore a range of diverse experiences of migrant women as refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented or documented migrants. The...

Ruth Achenbach develops a model of individual return migration decision making, which examines both the process and the decisive factors in return migration decision making of Chinese highly skilled workers and students in Japan. She proposes to answer a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783319766379Author Cris BeaucheminFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 730g

This book addresses the impact of migration on the formation and transformation of identity and its continuous negotiations. Its ground is the understanding of identity as a complex social phenomenon resulting from constant negotiations between personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920596323Author Jonathan CrushFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Southern African Migration ProgrammePublisher Southern African Migration...

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched. Falsely perceived as a one-dimensional function of static state power, it is here revealed that asylum...

This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced...

This book concerns various modes of being transnational among a diasporic population-Armenians in Germany-by drawing parallels between the first and second generation migrants. It puts forth the questions as to whether or not, and which kind of...

This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the eyes of migrants and their families. Firstly, there is the marked increase of Indian migrants, shifting from the earlier...

This volume examines migration between Africa and Europe, rather than just from Africa to Europe. Based on a unique socio-demographic survey carried out both in origin and destination countries (MAFE survey), it argues that return migration, circulation,...

Nils Witte explores Turkish migrants' destigmatization strategies and investigates their legal and symbolic motives for naturalisation. Using mixed methods and unique data the author shows that Turkish migrants' inclination to naturalise would be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801350129Author Burak Şakir ŞekerFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933779614Author Paul R EhrlichFormat PaperbackImprint Malor BooksPublisher Malor BooksWeight(grams) 680g

This book considers gender as a convenient tool for making new boundaries within the European Union. It offers a political analysis based on sociological surveys conveyed by the author in 2008–2021. It emphasises the utmost necessity of a proper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789173350372Author Cecilia Notini BurchFormat PaperbackImprint Santerus Academic PressPublisher Santerus Academic PressWeight(grams) 526g

This book gives a thorough introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of planning, conducting and analysing data from Respondent Driven Sampling surveys, drawing on the experiences of experts in the field as well as pioneers that have applied...

This book explores trends in migration from Bulgaria to Switzerland since Bulgaria joined the European Union (EU) in 2007. Due to several unique factors, this in-depth case study provides a basis for understanding transnational migration in a wider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920596293Author Abel ChikandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Southern African Migration ProgrammePublisher Southern African Migration...

This book explores the social participation, identification and transnational practices of Somalis living in Finland and the United States. Through a multifaceted collection of chapters which are based on data ranging from legislation and policy...

This collection of essays brings together leading experts in the study of exile and expatriation, whose historical and comparative perspectives enable readers to understand the phenomenon of forced displacement in the Americas. Political exile, a major...

The migrant has been designated the central or defining figure of the 20th and 21st centuries. For much of this period, research and theory have centred on adult men as representative, ignoring women's part in international migration. Similarly, in...