This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of "e;local liabilities"e;, drawing on close analysis of the case of Chinese migrants and the Italian industrial district of Prato in order to elucidate the problems, or liabilities, that derive from the separation between natives and immigrants in local systems of people and firms.
Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought the communities of their youth to life on the page.
This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces.
This book provides essential background information on the protracted displacement of several ethnic groups along the Thai-Myanmar border before turning to an examination of whether Myanmar has now shifted into a post-conflict society, the expected challenges involved in reintegrating returnees to Myanmar, and the possibility of voluntary and sustainable repatriation.
This book fills a significant lacuna in our understanding of the refugee crisis by analyzing the dynamics that lie behind fifteen years of asylum policies in the European Union.
Duecks anregende und provozierende Analyse des Menschen, seiner Wege und Ziele und der Bedingungen, unter denen er sein Leben lebt, hat große Resonanz ausgelöst.
In the light of mass migration, the rise of nationalism and the resurgence of global terrorism, this timely volume brings the debate on border protection, security and control to the centre stage of international relations research.
This book explores the quality of life among Badagas, an ethnic minority group in South India, as they navigate a society in flux, with specific reference to rural-to-urban migration and new media.
This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine the cultural, socioeconomic, structural, and political adaptation of Eastern European immigrants after 1991.
This easy-to read book looks at the many ways in which diffusion bears on processes that involve dispersion, starting from the Brownian motion of molecules, covering the invasion of exotic plants, migration of populations, epidemics, and extending to the spreading of languages and ideas.
Das essential erforscht subjektive Diskriminierungserfahrungen von muslimischen Menschen in Deutschland und berücksichtigt dabei auch Menschen, welche sich selbst nicht dem Islam zugehörig fühlen, aber aufgrund einer vermeintlichen Zugehörigkeit zum Islam diskriminiert werden.
Der Band untersucht den Salafismus als Phänomen einer spezifischen Jugendkultur - die nicht nur auf Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund zielt und befasst sich mit ihrer Attraktivität sowie ihrer medialen und subkulturellen Mustern.
This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration.
Um eine vorurteilsbewusste Bildungslandschaft aktiv mitzugestalten, sind bundesdeutsche Entwicklungen bezüglich Neuzuwanderung, Sprachen und Gender global einzuordnen und zu vergleichen.
Vor dem Hintergrund steigender rechtsextremer Gewalt widmet sich dieses essential der Frage, welche Erklärungsansätze die Rechtsextremismusforschung für die rechte Gewaltkriminalität erarbeitet hat.
Based on content analyses of three international organizations' policy reports and interviews with Somali refugees and refugee organizations, Dilek Karal examines the construction of ethico-political paradigm for immigration and asylum policies in Ethiopia.
This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbahce and Galatasaray football fans in Vienna, Austria.
Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today's world of civil and internal warfare.
This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art portrait of entrepreneurship and small business management issues in Iran, and among the Iranian Diaspora.
In der Studie wird die Mehrdimensionalität der Wanderungsbewegungen in einem transnationalen Raum analysiert, die Ursachen dieser Bewegungen ausfindig gemacht und sozialwissenschaftlich typologisiert.
This book explores the transformative impact that the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Germany had on Jewish communities from 1990 to 2005.
Nach wie vor sind praktikable Vorschläge für den Umgang mit Flucht und Vertreibung aufgrund von Gewalt, das Management von globalen Wanderungsbewegungen und die Integration von Flüchtlingen und Migranten rar.
This book explores the legitimacy of political asylum applications in the US and UK through an examination of the varieties of evidence, narratives, and documentation with which they are assessed.
This topical volume deals with the major challenges of migration in the Global South and their governance, which are traditionally much less considered than migration to industrialized countries and its consequences.
This book identifies and examines the meanings of integration from the perspective of Australian Muslims, through analysis of focus group discussions and in-depth interviews in the South East Queensland region.
Immigration has become one of the central issues dominating the agenda of political parties, and has also played a crucial role in the rise of right-wing populism in Western Europe.
This contributed volume focuses on diasporans, their characteristics, networks, resources and activities in relation to international business and entrepreneurship.
This book is the empirical part of a broad research project on society in a global context, complementing the first, theoretical book, Theorizing Society in a Global Context.
This book explores the history of Syria's borders and boundaries, from their creation (1920) until the civil war (2011) and their contestation by the Islamic State or the Kurdish movement.
'One in four people in Germany today have a so-called migration background, however, the relationship between theatre and migration there has only recently begun to take centre stage.
This book explains the unexpected mobilization of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in recent decades through an exploration of the exile experiences of the Crimean Tatars in Central Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North America.
