Migration, immigration and emigration

The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict.

In Restless Nation, James M.

The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging.

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico-one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world.

In 1921 and 1924, the United States passed laws to sharply reduce the influx of immigrants into the country.

"e;A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars.

"e;A revelation for digital researchers and a provocation for migration scholars.

The United States is now admitting nearly one million legal immigrants per year, while the flow of illegal aliens into the country continues to increase steadily.

With over 240 million migrants in the world, including over 65 million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself.

Behind the walls of a church, Liliana and her baby eat, sleep, and wait.

Today's world is aging at a great speed, and although increased longevity represents one of the greatest achievements of the last century, the extension of life expectancy does not necessarily correspond to an extension of healthy lives.

Today's world is aging at a great speed, and although increased longevity represents one of the greatest achievements of the last century, the extension of life expectancy does not necessarily correspond to an extension of healthy lives.

In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time.

This book offers reflections on a daunting and controversial ethical question: How should we treat the strangers who enter this country illegally?

In our globalized world, borders are back with a vengeance.

In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time.

Good Americans examines the participation of Italian and Jewish Americans, both on the home front and overseas, in the First World War.

Honorable Mention, Book Award in History of the Association for Asian American Studies.

In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States.

After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees.

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil.

Chicago is home to the third-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States, but scholarship on the city rarely accounts for their presence.

Why Walls Won't Work is a sweeping account of life along the United States-Mexico border zone, tracing the border's history of cultural interaction since the earliest Mesoamerican times to the present day.

This book offers reflections on a daunting and controversial ethical question: How should we treat the strangers who enter this country illegally?

Cosmopolitan Sex Workers is a groundbreaking look into the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia.

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "e;their"e; diasporas.

Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be.

Since the seventeenth century, millions of people from every continent have settled in America.

The explosive growth of the immigrant population since the 1960s has raised concerns about its impact on public life, but only recently have scholars begun to ask how religion affects the immigrant experience in our society.

Immigrating to the United States, Italians, like all others arriving on America's shores, were made to fill out a standardized immigration form.

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history.

Nearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil.

The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century.

After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth.

What does diaspora mean?

After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees.

As Senegal prepares to celebrate fifty years of independence from French colonial rule, academic and policy circles are engaged in a vigorous debate about its experience in nation building.

Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish?

Focusing on climate-induced migration from Africa to Europe, Climate Change and Migration shows how global warming's impact on international relations has been significant, enhancing the security regimes in not only the advanced economies of the North Atlantic, but in the states that serve as transit points between the most advanced and most desperate nations.

Since the work of Edward Said first appeared, countless studies have shown the ways in which Western writers--sometimes unwittingly--participate in the oversimplified East/West dichotomy of Orientalism.

Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "e;brokers,"e; ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada.

In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "e;their"e; diasporas.

Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "e;brokers,"e; ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada.

In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "e;proof of identity"e; was not a part of everyday life.

Twentieth-century Los Angeles has been the locus of one of the most profound and complex interactions between variant cultures in American history.

Europe's Angry Muslims traces the routes, expectations and destinies of immigrant parents and the plight of their children, transporting both the general reader and specialist from immigrants' ancestral villages to their new enclaves in Europe.

In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "e;proof of identity"e; was not a part of everyday life.

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America.

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time.

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time.