Migration, immigration and emigration

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality.

For many refugees, economic survival in refugee camps is extraordinarily difficult.

Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date.

Do you have a plan, a real plan, for raising your sons to be men of God?

The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales.

For the first time in over 30 years, a new ethnographic study emerges on the Bugkalot tribe, more widely known as the Ilongot of the northern Philippines.

The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different.

Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries.

Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research, this volume considers competing forms of power at micro- and macro-levels in Guyana, where the local is marked by extensive migration, corruption, and differing levels of violence.

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

As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital.

Using an entirely new conceptual vocabulary through which to understand men s experiences and expectations at the dawn of the twenty-first century, this path-breaking volume focuses on fatherhood around the globe, including transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life.

Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe s newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations.

Cultural diversity the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization.

Where lived experience of surroundings is shifting, visceral, and immersive, interpretation of social spaces tends to be static and remote.

This volume provides intimate anthropological accounts of Muslim men s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the West.

Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people s everyday lives.

How does the need to obtain and deliver health services engender particular (im)mobility forms?

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people s mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men.

Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent disciplining mechanisms of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp.

The Sahrawi and Afghan refugee youth in the Middle East have been stereotyped regionally and internationally: some have been objectified as passive victims; others have become the beneficiaries of numerous humanitarian aid packages which presume the primacy of the Western model of child development.

German migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges.

During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market.

The Hadramis of South Yemen and the emergence of their diasporic communities throughout the Indian Ocean region are an intriguing facet of the history of this region s migratory patterns.

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia.

Prevailing scholarship on migration tends to present migrants as the objects of history, subjected to abstract global forces or to concrete forms of regulation imposed by state and supra state organizations.

A new anthology edited by America's most outrageous queer theorist!

Exporting Japan examines the domestic origins of the Japanese government's policies to promote the emigration of approximately three hundred thousand native Japanese citizens to Latin America between the 1890s and the 1960s.

In the early 1900s, workers from new U.

The study of migrant populations poses unique challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members.

Best Food Book of 2014 by The Atlantic Looking at the historic Italian American community of East Harlem in the 1920s and 30s, Simone Cinotto recreates the bustling world of Italian life in New York City and demonstrates how food was at the center of the lives of immigrants and their children.

Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city.

Structured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico.

LivesinTransitchronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants intransitthrough Mexico.

An "e;excellent"e; ethnography that "e;reveal[s] the global implications of the US morality on international policies and migrant workers"e; (Cristina Firpo, International Review of Modern Sociology).

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union.

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.

Return to Sender is an anthropological account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities.

Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States.

Bringing nuance, complexity, and clarity to a subject often seen in black and white, Writing Immigration presents a unique interplay of leading scholars and journalists working on the contentious topic of immigration.

In 1993, Jose Medelln, an eighteen-year-old Mexican national who lived most of his life in the United States, was arrested for his participation in the gang rape and murder of two girls in Houston, Texas.

In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States.

Although there are legal norms to secure the uniform treatment of asylum claims in the United States, anecdotal and empirical evidence suggest that strategic and economic interests also influence asylum outcomes.

Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure.

How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand.

InBeyond Expectations,OnosoImoagenedelves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain.

First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.