This book investigates the role and influence of non-state actors (NSAs) and local authorities in the process leading to the adoption of the 2018 Global Compact for Migration (GCM), the first intergovernmental negotiation of its kind at the UN.
Nurse Migration in Asia explores the ever-increasing need for a larger nursing and healthcare workforce in Asia, where countries are undergoing rapid transformation, given economic globalisation and commercial expansion.
Entre las décadas de los veinte y cuarenta del siglo XX, ciudadanos cubanos de diversas tendencias políticas llegaron a México al amparo de una política exterior que permitió el ingreso de quienes arribaron en calidad de perseguidos políticos huyendo, primero, de la represión del gobierno de Gerardo Machado y, posteriormente, de la difícil situación de un gobierno revolucionario compuesto por diferentes sectores que asumió al poder en 1933.
Rassistisches Wissen über »Ausländer« verschwand nicht in der »Stunde Null« 1945, sondern prägte die sich formierende Einwanderungsgesellschaft grundlegend.
Das Buch befasst sich mit den Modalitäten und den Herausforderungen der Distanzierungs- und Deradikalisierungsarbeit auf dem Gebiet des islamistischen Extremismus.
Inside the experiences of immigrants from Latin America and the CaribbeanLatino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.
Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State examines tensions between a push for clear boundaries defining nation-states and who "e;legitimately"e; belongs in them and a pull away from citizenship as capturing what membership in a political community looks like in the twenty-first century.
Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State examines tensions between a push for clear boundaries defining nation-states and who "e;legitimately"e; belongs in them and a pull away from citizenship as capturing what membership in a political community looks like in the twenty-first century.
This book draws upon case studies of the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US and an ethnography of religious urbanization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to explore the making of religious spaces and moral landscapes in an era of globalization.
This book draws upon case studies of the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US and an ethnography of religious urbanization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to explore the making of religious spaces and moral landscapes in an era of globalization.
Unexpected Routes chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II: Cuban-born Spanish writer Silvia Mistral, German-born Spanish writer Max Aub, German writer Anna Seghers, German author Ruth Rewald, Swiss-born political activist, photographer, and ethnographer Gertrude Duby, and Czech writer and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch.
At the start of the 1990s, there was great optimism that the end of the Cold War might also mean the end of the "e;refugee cycle"e; - both a breaking of the cycle of violence, persecution and flight, and the completion of the cycle for those able to return to their homes.
Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore.
The collapse of communism and the process of state building that ensued in the 1990s have highlighted the existence of significant minorities in many European states, particularly in Central Europe.
1945 to 1980 marks an extensive period of mass migration of students, refugees, ex-soldiers, and workers from an extraordinarily wide range of countries to West Germany.
Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task.
In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly.
Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with native women in the receiving countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved from Bulgaria and Hungary to Italy and the Netherlands.
An in-depth look at the motivations behind immigration to America from 1607 to 1914, including what attracted people to America, who was trying to attract them, and why.
As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical.
Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II.
Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states.
Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art.
Originally coined in 2001 in a report on racial tensions in the United Kingdom, the concept of parallel lives has become familiar in the European discourse on immigrant integration.
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.
