Migration, immigration and emigration Books

This book addresses key challenges and issues faced by South Asians in the diaspora, focusing on irregular migration, remittances, gender, identity, and citizenship, and how they are intertwined, particularly in the context of globalization.

"Cymru Newydd. Hanes Y Wladva Gymreig Tiriogaeth Chubut, Yn Y Weriniaeth Arianin, De Amerig, Gan L.j" tells the story of the Welsh settlement in the Chubut Province of Argentina. This historical account documents the experiences of Welsh emigrants who...

"Sichova Organizatsiia Ukraïntsiv v Zluch. Derzhavakh Ameryky" (Sich Organization of Ukrainians in the United States of America) provides insights into the historical context of Ukrainian immigration to the United States in the early 20th century. This...

This book researches the migration-development nexus in the foreign policies of the European Union. The author conceptualizes the nexus as a public policy framework situated at the intersection of home affairs and foreign affairs and studies it from the...

Am 21. Mai 2023 jährte sich zum 60. Mal der Abschluss des Gastarbeiteranwerbeabkommens zwischen Deutschland und Marokko. Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert ist seitdem vergangen, und heute leben schätzungsweise 4,5 bis 5 Millionen Menschen...

This book maps the concepts that capture changing alimentary practices, starting from the impact of migration on contemporary Europe. Our relationship with food, the members of our community with whom we share our meals, and the fertile earth,...

Politische Partizipation ist das Kernelement der Demokratie. Aufgrund der damit verbundenen Hürden können sich sozioökonomisch besser gestellte Gruppen der Gesellschaft häufiger und effektiver in den politischen Willensbildungsprozess...

This book explores why members of parliament (MPs) substantively represent minorities with invisible characteristics-those lacking outwardly recognizable features. This invisibility complicates the representational relationship, as minority members often...

The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of...

When the Premier League launched in 1992, English football was still deeply rooted in tradition-local heroes, muddy pitches, and a playing style built on grit over glamour. But within a generation, it became the world's most cosmopolitan league, an elite...

How can the Banaban people navigate the challenges of the modern era while preserving their cultural identity and striving for self-determination? This compelling study delves into the core of Banaban heritage, exploring the traditional law of Te Rii Ni...

Timely and topical, this edited volume looks at the relationship between immigration controls and welfare in historical and contemporary context, comparing the UK experience with that of France, Sweden and America.

This open access short reader provides a compelling introduction to research on migrant transnationalism. The short reader focuses on the significant area of remittances (in financial terms). However, attention is also paid to political, social, cultural...

This book examines how socialism and post-socialism influenced or determined (if at all) the adaptive behavior and entrepreneurial activities, both legal and illegal, of the Vietnamese in Central Europe (CE). It considers the circumstances that...

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of one of the defining characteristics of post-secular societies: religious diversity. Drawing from the sociology of religion, the sociology of migration, and related fields, it critically examines the...

Les origines de l'emigration polonaise en France, 1831-1832, by Micha Sokolnicki, explores the beginnings of Polish emigration to France in the wake of the failed November Uprising. This historical work examines the political and social circumstances...

Les canadien-français à New-York, by Jules Jehin de Prume, offers a historical account of the French-Canadian community in New York and the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Benevolent Society. Published in 1920, this book explores the experiences of...

Le conquérant, journal d'un "indésirable" au Maroc, by Émile Nolly, pseudonym, offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of a French expatriate in early 20th century Morocco. Written as a personal journal, the book recounts the...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution...

"Twenty-four Letters From Labourers in America to Their Friends in England" offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of early American immigrants. Collected and edited by Benjamin Smith, these letters provide firsthand accounts of the challenges and...

"Auswanderung und Auswanderungspolitik in Deutschland" by Eugen von Philippovich, originally published in 1892, examines the historical development and contemporary state of emigration from Germany. This detailed report covers the policies and conditions...

Das Westliche Nordamerika bietet eine detaillierte Betrachtung West-Nordamerikas im frühen 19. Jahrhundert, insbesondere im Hinblick auf die deutschen Einwanderer und ihre Erfahrungen. N. Hesse beleuchtet die landwirtschaftlichen, kommerziellen und...

"A Mexican Ranch; Or, Beauty for Ashes" is a compelling historical novel by Janie Prichard Duggan. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant Mexican landscape, the story follows characters facing challenges and transformations on a ranch. This ‘Prize...

This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western...

Dive into the captivating world of "Cultural Convergence's Curious Contexts," a groundbreaking exploration of the intricate tapestry of multicultural societies. This isn't just a book; it's a journey into the heart of integration, revealing the untold...

Almost everyone in America came from somewhere else, whether today or in generations past. Problem is, those who have laid a stake sometimes turn around and want to shut the door to newcomers. No one knows this better than David Roth, a billionaire, who...

The Journey That Never Leaves Me The unforgettable true story of one boy's escape from war, survival against the odds, and transformation across continents-from the jungles of Burma to a new life in America.From the moment he was born into the remote...

After Michelle emigrates to the U.S. from the tight-knit ethnic Chinese enclave in Incheon, South Korea, she must adapt quickly to survive. With a dominant, impulsive father in charge-who protects the family from everyone but himself-and a mother who...

More than 750,000 Russian Jews arrived in Israel between 1988 and 1996. However, this Great Immigration, as it has been called, has gone largely unnoticed in Israeli public life. Information about this significant event has been sketchy and largely...

The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been...

Foreign policies have always played an important role in the movements of migrants. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the United States and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx from the former...

In the 1800s, people from other nations started immigrating to the United States. Study the reasons for the immigration and the growth of big businesses on American society. Did you think the immigrants before had a positive experience in the United...

This book tends to the distinctive forms of Black life as they become situated within particular sociocultural networks, institutions, organizations and community establishments, conveying bearings generative of synergies in the quest of solidarity...

The contributors investigate the inter-relationships between migrant remittances and the family in Asia. They argue that, in the context of Asian transnational labour migration where remittances tend to become a primary currency of care, the making or...

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing policy makers in the twenty-first century. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century provides students with an in-depth introduction to the politics that have led to the development of...

This book examines some of the complex dynamic forces that have shaped, and continue to shape the new African diaspora in the United States.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Australia's migration intake turned rapidly towards recruiting business professionals, managers and entrepreneurs to support the country's entry into an economic system marked by global value chains. This book analyses the...

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of wars, natural disasters, religious strife, loss of...

This book investigates the politicisation and framing of immigration in the media and political arena in Central Europe, examining two countries - Czechia and Slovakia - in the period surrounding the "European migrant crisis". Following years of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

In the early twentieth century, historical imaginings of Japan contributed to the Argentine vision of "transpacific modernity." Intellectuals such as Eduardo Wilde and Manuel Domecq García celebrated Japanese customs and traditions as important values...