This book provides a complex, socio-anthropological analysis of organized crime operating in the Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic, and its international implications.
This book - through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia - offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia.
This book presents Arab immigrant youths' voices through storytelling that reveals the challenges and achievements they experience at school and at home in a Canadian educational context.
This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization?
This book provides a critical analysis of the Rohingya refugees' identity building processes and how this is closely linked to the state-building process of Myanmar as well as issues of marginalization, statelessness, forced migration, exile life, and resistance of an ethnic minority.
This book examines how trauma is experienced and narrated differently across languages and cultures, drawing on rich ethnographic case studies and a novel cognitive-linguistic approach to analyse the variations of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) used in the narratives of West-African migrants and refugees in the course of intercultural encounters with Italian experts from domain-specific fields of discourse (including legal, medical, religious and cultural professionals).
As the former capital of two great empires-Eastern Roman and Ottoman-Istanbul has been home to many diverse populations, a condition often glossed as cosmopolitanism.
This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the eyes of migrants and their families.
This captivating story of the Jewish community in Johnstown, Pennsylvania reveals a pattern of adaptation to American life surprisingly different from that followed by Jewish immigrants to metropolitan areas.
This comprehensive survey systematically explores the dynamic historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary.
The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
The English System is a history of port health and immigration at a critical moment of transformation at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum.
This book analyses fifteen years of debate, media narrative, policy documents and artistic production to uncover the way sexual citizenship is reshaped by LGBT asylum.
The legacy of the historic mutual aid organizing by US Mexicans, with its emphasis on self-help and community solidarity, continues to inform Mexican American activism and subtly influence a number of major US social movements.
Aux Etats-Unis, dans le cadre des admissions à l'université, les politiques de discrimination positive en faveur des minorités ethno-raciales n'existent plus dans leur conception initiale, le principe même de l'affirmative action ayant été jugé anticonstitutionnel par la Cour suprême et certains Etats.
Ces approches de la pulsion articulée aux cultures témoignent dans leur différence d'une unité : celle de cerner les effets des mutations culturelles, notamment dans l'exil.
Cette étude tente de cerner les répercussions du passé de migrants des ancêtres des Indo-Antillais sur l'adaptation de leur descendance aux sociétés antillaise et analyse l'actualité des champs de leur économie sociale, religieuse et culturelle.
Cet ouvrage cherche à analyser les crises de légitimité qu'a pu vivre par le passé et vit encore la coopération internationale, entre les pays du "Nord" et du "Sud", de "l'Est" et de "l'Ouest".
Cet ouvrage analyse les migrations du Soudan-Mali vers la Côte d'Ivoire de 1903, début de la "pacification" de la Côte d'Ivoire, à 1980, fin de la période de prospérité économique amorcée à l'indépendance en 1960.
Ce livre peint l'histoire d'une quête identitaire, celle des migrants originaires du Levant, établis dans les pays du Cône Sud à la fin du XIXè siècle et au début du XXè siècle, alors que la géopolitique de leur "pays" d'origine était soumise à des transformations majeures.