This edited volume interrogates the intersection between viral pandemics, transnational migration and the politics of belonging in South Africa during COVID-19.
In spite of South Africa,s progressive constitution, citizen,s intolerance of non-citizens, refugees and economic migrants has escalated in recent years.
No momento em que o Brasil atravessa um período conturbado na sua esfera social e política, Valmir Benício convida os leitores portugueses a uma importante reflexão sobre as diversas camadas que envolvem a realidade e a cultura do seu país.
Kulkul presents her ethnographic work with Turkish Muslim women in Berlin as evidence that community is not an entity but is produced by instrumentalizing specific forms of identification and boundary-making.
"Y sin embargo se mueve", habría murmurado Galileo Galilei tras pronunciar su discurso abjurando de la idea herética del movimiento de la Tierra alrededor del Sol.
En 1929 el obispo anglicano en la Argentina informaba entusiasmado que, al preguntarles a niños de las escuelas sostenidas por la Iglesia cuándo habían venido de Inglaterra, a menudo recibía la respuesta: "Jamás he estado en casa".
Poco se sabe respecto de los uruguayos en la Argentina, de ahí la necesidad de este libro donde, por un lado, se ofrece una reconstrucción del proceso inmigratorio a partir de los diferentes contextos en el país de origen y en el de destino, que determinaron las dinámicas de la inmigración uruguaya a lo largo de más de cien años y en las transformaciones en la composición de esa población inmigrante según la información sociodemográfica, haciendo hincapié en su inserción laboral.
En esta obra se indaga la sexualidad, los vínculos de pareja y la paternidad de varones de entre 25-45 años, con la firme convicción de que es necesario desarrollar estrategias grupales, sociales y políticas que contribuyan a la creación de nuevos códigos culturales y modelos viriles que favorezcan prácticas innovadoras de los varones, apuntando a la promoción del cambio masculino.
The rise of the economic power of the ethnic Chinese, known also as overseas Chinese, Chinese overseas or Chinese diaspora, was a late 20th century phenomenon.
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth.
This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asians living in the Far East.
This transdisciplinary edited book explores new developments and perspectives on global Vietnam, touching on aspects of history, identity, transnational mobilities, heritage, belonging, civil society, linguistics, education, ethnicity, and worship practices.
The twelve chapters included in this book address various issues related to Chinese migration, indigenization and exchange with special reference to the era of globalization.
This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia.
This edited volume focuses on how multiculturalism, as statecraft, has had both intended and unintended consequences on Singapore's various ethnic communities.
This book uses a post-modern approach to explore how Japanese returnee students (kikokushijo) and former returnees who work in Japanese industry, negotiate multiple identities.
The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation.
Fast-paced economic growth in Southeast Asia from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s brought increased attention to the overseas Chinese as an economically successful diaspora and their role in this economic growth.
This book critically discusses the multi-dimensional contemporary issues within the ambit of the driving forces, mechanisms, vulnerability, and opportunities of the intra-region human movement in South Asia.
This book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to understand the trends and issues of development, governance, and dynamics of gender in the South Asian region.
This transdisciplinary edited book explores new developments and perspectives on global Vietnam, touching on aspects of history, identity, transnational mobilities, heritage, belonging, civil society, linguistics, education, ethnicity, and worship practices.