Migration, immigration and emigration

The unprecedented arrival of more than a million refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants - plus the political, public, and policy reactions to it - is redefining Europe.

This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and addresses the overarching question of whether language can affect wellbeing.

An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women in the Dominican Republic.

Informed by theories pertaining to transnational mobility, ethnicity and race, gender, postcolonialism, as well as Japanese studies, Transnational Musicians explores the way Japanese musicians establish their transnational careers in the hierarchically structured classical music world.

This collection provides an overview of some of the most relevant concepts in the study of the language of inclusion and exclusion, specifically with a view to the functioning of nation-state categories.

Human rights seemingly offer universal protection.

This collection explores, from a variety of angles, the beliefs of citizens and noncitizens about the impact that contemporary migration to the USA is having on American culture and on national solidarity.

On October 17, 1994, The Nation ran the headline "e;The Immigration Wars"e; on its cover over an illustration showing the western border of the United States with a multitude of people marching toward it.

Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world's key regions for trafficking of illegal goods.

The influx of female migrants to Europe has posed challenges to established European feminist movements.

Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, terrorism, globalization, and nationalism.

This book demonstrates that mobility in Europe is not a synonym for European mobility, showing how certain mobile individuals are more likely to develop an explicitly European identity than others.

This book uses a controversial criminal immigration court procedure along the Mexico-U.

This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the United States which informed the development of these urban sites.

This work seeks to explore the contemporary challenge of government in multicultural societies, drawing together a wide range of contributors to examine how ethnic difference could better understood and mediated by modern nation states.

Overcoming state fragility is one of the most important international development objectives of the 21st century.

Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures?

How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas?

Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession.

As a rapidly aging continent, Europe increasingly depends on the successful integration of migrants.

How does an extended stay in Japan influence Indian migrants' sense of their identity as they adapt to a country very different from their own?

One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States.

Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan.

Chinese students are the largest international student population in the world, and Japan attracts more of them than any other country.

Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation.

Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador.

Going beyond a discussion of political architecture, Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the "e;migration crisis"e;, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015.

Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies.

In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as "e;colonial invaders.

Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite's efforts to craft the nation's identity in its own image-white, Christian, and European.

This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.

This book explores the lives, experiences and the formation of higher educational aspirations among marginalised migrant youth in South Africa.

Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left.

This volume focuses on the process of return migration, from a holistic and policy-oriented perspective.

European Immigration Policy is devoted to the problems of minorities and immigrants within the European Community.

This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal).

Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades.

A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU Member States.

A massive shift has taken place in Canadian immigration policy since the 1970s: the majority of migrants no longer enter as permanent residents but as temporary migrant workers.

Recent years have witnessed growing interest in a series of issues related to migration, including identity formation and change, the role of social capital and social networks, ethnic discrimination, racism and xenophobia, socio-political participation and mobilisation and the complex nature of the causal mechanisms linked to migration - issues that are better highlighted and investigated using qualitative methods.

The resulting cultural differences can often create problems and conflict.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"e;The seminal book on the child-separation policy.

Among Eastern Europe's postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe's liberal democracies.

The transnational migration of health care practitioners has become a critical issue in global health policy and ethics.

This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy.

If the frontier, in all its boundless possibility, was a central organizing metaphor for much of U.

The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration.