Migration, immigration and emigration

The welcome culture of 2015 in Germany has, not least due to the (re)definition of safe countries of origin, turned into a deportation policy.

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

This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity.

This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another.

Migration is, and has always been, a disruptive experience.

Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the micro-processes through which a group of Muslim immigrants from diverse backgrounds negotiate multiple identities while seeking to become part of American society in the years following 9/11.

This edited volume advances our understanding of climate relocation (or planned retreat), an emerging topic in the fields of climate adaptation and hazard risk, and provides a platform for alternative voices and views on the subject.

For over forty years, Cold War concerns about the threat of communism shaped the contours of refugee and asylum policy in the United States, and the majority of those admitted as refugees came from communist countries.

Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing demographers working in remote regions, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from peripheral regions in developed nations.

This book argues that although labour market needs have been an important element in the development of immigration policy, they have been filtered through a political process, the politics of immigration.

There are growing waves of 'desirable' migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in its largest metropolitan region Auckland.

The 2013 elections took place less than two years after the overwhelming wave of social protests of summer 2011.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century.

Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the anxieties of being uprooted.

This book analyses the changing face of work, gender equality and citizenship in Europe.

Population ageing and the globalisation of international migration are challenging the research agendas of social scientists around the world, and posing numerous challenges for policy makers and practitioners whose goal is to formulate and design high-quality and user-friendly policies and services.

“A sweeping chronicle of the immigrant rights movement.

This book examines the pilgrimages to China from Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and offers a wide-ranging account of urban planning statements, arguments about ritual propriety, and the material culture of pilgrimage.

Housing more than half of the global population, Asia is a region characterised by increasingly diverse forms of migration and mobility.

This book offers an ethnographically informed critique of the hyper-politicised debate on the facilitation of irregularised migration for people seeking asylum between Indonesia and Australia.

The Development of British Immigration Law (1986) examines the policies and laws of immigration law in the UK.

In Post-War Britain cultural interventions were a feature of fascist parties and movements, just as they were in Europe.

New formulations of globalisation have radically altered how people conceptualize the movement of people, ideas and capital throughout the globe, with questions of securitisation and transnational sentiment re-shaping long-standing Western concepts of asylum and human rights.

At a time when European unity is politically challenged by the question of immigration and integration, it is easy to overlook the fact that there are significant numbers of Europeans leaving the continent.

Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration-they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives.

This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia.

This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks - from colonial missionaries to aid worker activists - have played in mediating understandings of ethnic conflict in the country.

Populations of visible ethnic minorities have steadily increased over the past few decades in immigrant-receptive societies.

Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States.

Edited and with contributions by Liisa North and Alan Simmons, this collection explores the participation of the oppressed and marginalised Guatemalan refugees, most of them indigenous Mayas who fled from the army's razed-earth campaign of the early 1980s, in government negotiations regarding the conditions for return.

This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration through the social realities of leaving and living.

Awarded the 2023 "e;Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Edited Essay Collection"e; by the American Comparative Literature Association, Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with 20 innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives.

Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders.

This book provides a complex, socio-anthropological analysis of organized crime operating in the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic, and its international implications.

Analyzes migrants'' labor market and political integration outcomes.

This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War.

The internet has transformed the idea of home for Indians and Indian Americans.

There is an institutionalized dilemma in Europe that counteracts social cohesion and stability.

The uncomfortable contemporary realities of immigration, enmeshed as they are in economic, human rights, and national security issues, have once again propelled foreign immigration to the United States toward the top of the list of U.

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "e;police of the border"e;?

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris.

Migration, Family and the Welfare State explores understandings and practices of integration in the Scandinavian welfare societies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden through a comprehensive range of detailed ethnographic studies.

During the 2016 presidential campaign millions of voters, concerned about the economic impact of illegal immigration, rallied behind the notion of a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major topics and themes underlying American immigration history.

 This innovative volume introduces readers to a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches used to examine the intersections of religion and migration.

This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues.