Migration, immigration and emigration

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

The 20th century witnessed the large-scale displacement and dispersal of populations across the world because of major political upheavals, among them the two European wars, decolonization and the Cold War.

In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida Lopez explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents.

Analyzing neighbourly relations in multicultural societies, this book develops a concept of good neighbourhood and argues that cultural capital in various forms is the determining variable in building good-neighbourly relations.

The Government has named the 'fundamental British values' (FBV) as democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths.

This book brings readers the first scientific publication, using a mixed-method approach, on the internal migration dynamics regarding disease ecologies of informality and the interactions between social capital, lifestyles, health literacy, and health outcomes in the context of informal settlements in two developing countries - Ghana and Uganda.

First published in 1999, this book gives an inventory of factors contributing to ethnic prejudice in seven countries and the role of formal education among them on the basis of national surveys.

Harpelle focuses on Caribbean migrants and their adaptation to life in a Hispanic society, particularly in Limon, where cultures and economies often clashed.

They arrive from around the world for countless reasons.

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

Current demographic trends raise new questions, challenges and controversies.

Free Soil in the Atlantic World examines the principle that slaves who crossed particular territorial frontiers- from European medieval cities to the Atlantic nation states of the nineteenth century- achieved their freedom.

An assessment of the experiences of irregular migrants and stateless people living in ''Fortress Europe''.

The Sikh community is one of the largest groups of Indians abroad and many studies of these migrants have been conducted.

Migration has transformed Taiwanese society in the last 20 years.

Based on culture-related themes derived from the author's psychotherapeutic work with young Chinese-American professionals, this important book relates personal problems and conditions to specific sources in Chinese and American cultures and the immigration experience.

A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people.

This is the only comprehensive political history of national ID card proposals and identity policing developments in the United States.

Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Syrian refugee children have withstood violence, uncertainty, fear, trauma and loss.

This book examines the recent evolution of the Mediterranean Welfare regime, and how the economic crisis may be contributing to redefine its basic traits.

This book tells the story of how families separated across borders write--and learn new ways of writing--in pursuit of love and money.

The widely recognized "e;Dreamer narrative"e; celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship.

Twenty years after the post-apartheid Government took office, this timely text interrogates the extent to which the attitudes, identities and everyday lives of British people have changed in accordance with the 'new' South Africa.

Eight interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars and public figures discuss the timely theme of migration in a range of contexts.

Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants.

This book explores what it takes to create a sense of home while in exile, drawing on ethnographic research conducted in German asylum reception facilities from 2016-2020.

This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century.

Migrating Borders explores the relationship between territory and citizenship at a time when the very boundaries of the political community come into question.

This book explores European student migration from the perspectives of Eastern European students moving to Western Europe for study.

New immigrants-those arriving since the Immigration Reform Act of 1965-have forever altered American culture and have been profoundly altered in turn.

This title was first published in 2000.

One of the most important consequences of EU enlargement in May 2004 was to extend the principle of the free movement of labour to the citizens of the central and eastern European new member states.

This volume is about migration across South Asia and the complex negotiation of borders by people and the states in the process.

In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality.

Liberating Temporariness?

The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

This book compares the postcolonial populations of Britain and France, examining the ways in which they are redefining citizenship.

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don t develop into large and sustained mobilizations.

Since 2014, more than 60 million people have been displaced from their homes across the Middle East and Africa.

It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies.

Contesting stereotypical and deterministic accounts of British South Asian Muslims (BrAsians), which have largely contributed towards the perpetuation of Islamophobia, this book analyses how the influence of parents, extended family, and community support and constrain the lives of a younger generation of amateur and professional boxers.

Valuable teaching moments and life lessons are illustrated in a personal and colorful story told by a successful immigrant parent.

Together with a new political, social, and cultural order, the Bolshevik Revolution also brought about a spatial revolution.

This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice.

Illuminating the experiences of immigrants to Australia in the late twentieth century, this book uses oral history to explore how identity and belonging are shaped through migration.

Forced migration is both as ancient as human life on earth and a relatively new subject of interest for human rights scholars.