Population and migration geography

Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts in small towns around India and the simultaneous evolution of the modern homophobia and lesbian NGOs.

Numerous studies explore immigration policies of individual receiving countries.

On the eve of the Pacific war (1941-45), there were 198,000 Japanese in Brazil, the largest expatriate body outside East Asia.

This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad.

This book examines convergent trends in asylum regimes around the world.

The prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world.

In the past few years, a considerable number of immigrants have established their own businesses.

Applied Demography is clearly evolving as its practitioners become involved in the emerging trends of the Twenty-First Century.

This book examines the migration of older persons to rural retirement destinations in the United States.

Working through Barriers deals with the role host countries' institutional characteristics play in the labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union.

The identity of Taiwan is a matter of intense local and international debate.

This book provides an intimate picture of Lebanon, exploring the impacts of the Arab uprisings of 2011 which are deeply affecting Lebanese politics and society.

This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization?

This book discusses the issues surrounding race, ethnicity, and immigrant status in U.

This volume traces the African ramifications of Europe's southern border.

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation.

This book examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labour markets and workplaces of western Europe.

One of the major features of the social landscape of the new states of Eastern Europe and the former USSR is migration, whether voluntary or coerced.

Recent migration in Europe has a whole range of characteristics which are said to distinguish it from earlier migration, and the description 'new migration' is often used.

The Chinese are among Europe's oldest immigrant communities, and are now, in several countries, among the biggest and, economically, the most powerful, drawing increasing interest from other ethnic minorities, governments, and researchers.

Dani, Joly brings together theoretical and empirical research on ethnic minorities in Eastern and Western Europe showing that their positions and the increased prejudices they encounter share many similarities throughout Europe.

Robin Haines has analysed the origins, occupations, literacy, and mobilization of emigrants recruited in the UK on behalf of colonial legislatures.

This book briefly delineates the history of the Haitian diaspora in the United States in the nineteenth century, but it primarily concerns itself with the contemporary period and more specifically with the diasporic enclave in New York City.

In recent years, the saliency of conflicts pitting different ethnic, racial and religious groups against one another has increased dramatically.

Naomi Carmon has brought together a group of distinguished scholars from post-industrial countries to discuss changes in immigration flows, their impact on the receiving countries, and alternative policy responses.

Citizenship, Europe and Change is about the implications of the evolution of the European Union and the emergence of European supra-citizenship for the people of Europe.

This edited collection of essays describes the main broad streams of Asian migration and their wide geographical spread, both in terms of migrants' origins and their destinations.

How many people have migrated from central and Eastern Europe since the 1989 revolutions?

Who is entitled to be a citizen?

Immigration and Ethnic Conflict reviews the experience of post-industrial countries that have experienced large-scale movements of population since the Second World War, creating ethnically diverse multicultural societies in a context of rapid economic, technological and social change.

An original discussion and analysis of the meaning and scope of citizenship.

Japan and the United States are under global and domestic pressures to simultaneously expand and to restrict immigration.

This book deals with the integration of thousands of survivors of the Holocaust into Israeli society in the early years of the new State's existence.

There may be 20 million refugees around the world today.

According to this study, Soviet policy toward Jewish emigration is ruled by domestic affairs rather than foreign.

This book - through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia - offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia.

This book explores migrant's global social remittances and their impacts on Europe.

Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide.

This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees' identity building processes and how this is closely linked to the state-building process of Myanmar as well as issues of marginalization, statelessness, forced migration, exile life, and resistance of an ethnic minority.

This book examines how trauma is experienced and narrated differently across languages and cultures, drawing on rich ethnographic case studies and a novel cognitive-linguistic approach to analyse the variations of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) used in the narratives of West-African migrants and refugees in the course of intercultural encounters with Italian experts from domain-specific fields of discourse (including legal, medical, religious and cultural professionals).

This book explores the impact of transnational migration on the views, feelings, and practices of home among migrants.

This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community - women.

This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis'.

This book is the first to analyze the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism.

This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it.

This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements.

This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them.