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A Passage To Africa by George Alagiah
RRP: $14.18$9.55'One of Britain's most respected television journalists, with a reputation built up over many years of covering world events' Guardian'Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and brilliant broadcaster - but George was the most decent,... -
Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality by Imogen Tyler
RRP: $18.05$14.41Stigma is a corrosive social force by which individuals and communities throughout history have been systematically dehumanised, scapegoated and oppressed. From the literal stigmatizing (tattooing) of criminals in ancient Greece, to modern day... -
The Pleasures of Exile by Mr George Lamming
RRP: $24.50$19.75'Migration in the 50s and 60s was formative for a whole generation of Caribbean writers, artists and intellectuals who, as Lamming himself says, became 'West Indian' in London. The Pleasures of Exile is simply the most poignant, eloquent, insightful and... -
Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour by Peter Tinti
RRP: $20.63$18.25Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour investigates one of the most under-examined aspects of the great migration crisis of our time. As millions seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflicts, repressive governments and poverty, their movements are... -
The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma-Jane Kirby
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing' The Times'The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him amid the human tragedy of hundreds of drowning migrants is a story that needed to be told' Fiona Wilson, The... -
Human Cargo: A Journey among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: $16.76$11.73A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisisHow can society cope with the diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between 'good' asylum seekers and 'bad' economic migrants? What... -
Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
RRP: $12.89$10.31This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.Book InformationISBN 9781583670255Author Aime... -
Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self by Julie Sedivy
RRP: $32.19$25.13From an award-winning writer and linguist, a scientific and personal meditation on the phenomenon of language loss and the possibility of renewal.As a child Julie Sedivy left Czechoslovakia for Canada, and English soon took over her life. By early... -
Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: $15.47$10.87Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a nation and a city. This is the tale of those who escaped a... -
Lost In Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
RRP: $14.18$10.02In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands... -
Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World by James Evans
RRP: $14.18$6.08'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they... -
Whitechapel Noise: Jewish Immigrant Life in Yiddish Song and Verse, London 1884-1914 by Vivi Lachs 9780814343555
RRP: $36.06$29.13New perspectives on Anglo-Jewish history via the poetry and song of Yiddish-speaking immigrants in London from 1884 to 1914. Archive material from the London Yiddish press, songbooks, and satirical writing offers a window into an untold cultural life of... -
Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration by Charlotte Grant 9781350242012
RRP: $25.79$21.34From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the... -
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang
RRP: $21.92$14.54BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.' In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is... -
Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration by Ayse Caglar
RRP: $30.95$26.33In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative... -
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History by Norman Davies
RRP: $24.50$17.56Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and ... -
The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Oscar J. Martinez
RRP: $14.18$9.35NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist & The Financial TimesOne day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken... -
Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe by Ruben Andersson 9780520282520
RRP: $32.25$24.74In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his... -
Migration: The Movement of Humankind from Prehistory to the Present by Robin Cohen
RRP: $25.80$17.74While recognizing that distinctions between categories are often fuzzy, Migration covers many types of migrants including explorers, slaves, pilgrims, mineworkers, labourers, exiles, refugees, sex workers, students, tourists, retirees and expatriates... -
Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany
RRP: $19.34$14.13(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the... -
The Clothesline Swing by Ahmad Danny Ramadan
RRP: $16.76$11.20A multi-award-winning tale of love and courage, picked by the Independent as one of the 30 Best Debut Novels of 2019. Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, Ahmad Danny Ramadan's innovative and poetic debut novel tells the story of two lovers... -
Why Borders Matter: Why Humanity Must Relearn the Art of Drawing Boundaries by Frank Furedi
RRP: $33.53$29.19Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely... -
From Gas Street to the Ganges: Exploring Birmingham's Historical Links with the Commonwealth by Simon Wilcox
RRP: $21.92$16.31If ever there was a regional UK city with the credentials to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham was always it. One in ten people in the city was born in an overseas Commonwealth country, and many more have family in member nations such as... -
Solito by Javier Zamora
RRP: $24.50$17.56A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Solito is my travel book of the year.' Telegraph 'Heartbreaking... A rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing.' Lea Ypi 'If there's any justice, Solito will someday be considered a... -
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $23.16$18.42"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."-Globe and Mail"At a time of growing national chauvinism, Martha Nussbaum's excellent restatement of the... -
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi
RRP: $16.76$14.78The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great success of the capital city London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has... -
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan
RRP: $20.63$19.17Economist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction. American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and... -
Who Are We Now?: Stories of Modern England by Jason Cowley
RRP: $14.18$9.69A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 'I can't tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn't have an axe to grind . . . an essential read.' - The Sunday TimesJason Cowley, editor-in-chief of the New... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley
RRP: $21.92$19.49'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
China's Second Continent by Howard W. French
RRP: $19.34$15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307946652Author Howard W. FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob 9781526631596
RRP: $21.92$16.67NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, TIME, BUZZFEED, ESQUIRE, LIBRARY JOURNAL AND KIRKUS REVIEWS LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD 'Hilarious and heart-rending' Celeste Ng 'Heartbreaking, but also infused... -
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice by Nasar Meer
RRP: $19.34$15.65What can we learn from successes and failures in the pursuit of racial justice in the UK and elsewhere in the Global North? A dominant view of racial justice in Britain has long been linked to a 'cruel optimism' which normalises social and political... -
Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy 9781838852665
RRP: $21.92$14.94THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022This book is about two unlikely friends. One born in 1970s Britain to Indian immigrant parents, the other arrived from Nazi Germany in 1939, fleeing persecution.This... -
Undocumented by Aviva Chomsky
RRP: $19.34$13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001677Author Aviva ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm -
In A Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung
RRP: $16.76$11.13Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment... -
Research Methodologies And Ethical Challenges In Digital Migration Studies: Caring For (Big) Data? by Marie Sandberg 9783030812287
RRP: $45.14$41.01This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: $24.50$17.56On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22 June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks,... -
Forced Migration and Global Politics by Alexander Betts 9781405180320
RRP: $39.93$35.41Using real-world examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics systematically applies International Relations theory to explore the international politics of forced migration. Provides an accessible and thought-provoking... -
Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home by Nikesh Shukla
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Brown Baby is a beautifully intimate and soul-searching memoir. It speaks to the heart and the mind and bears witness to our turbulent times.' - Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, OtherHow do you find hope and even joy in a world that is... -
The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855: Glengarry and Beyond by Lucille H. Campey 9781897045015
RRP: $25.79$25.57Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canadas opportunities, led to a growing tide of...