Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided, immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one hundred years.
In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by “roughing it” in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context.
This book explores key issues on the relational and operational dimension of the professional actions aimed at ensuring the well-being and inclusion of migrants in the reception system.
In 2016, a newspaper published an article about four children due to be sent to an orphanage after their parents were punished for attempting to flee Vietnam.
Quatre-vingt-cinq ans après la défaite de leur camp dans la guerre civile (1936-1939) et l’exode ou la Retirada, que savent de leur histoire celles et ceux qui descendent des plus de cent mille républicains espagnols qui ont (re)construit leur vie en France ?
Managing Migration in Italy and the United States shows how the development of gatekeeping in the United States and Italy laid the groundwork for immigration restriction worldwide at the turn of the twentieth century.
Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence.
In the wake of World War I, a diverse group of women emigrated from Europe to the United States under austere conditions and adapted in different ways to life in the new country.
Pendant les decennies 60, 70, 80, la France a deporte des enfants de la Reunion pour repeupler les departements ruraux de l'hexagone abandonnes par leurs habitants.
The major objective of the research is to produce evidence-based knowledge on the social and economic impacts of labour migration by looking at the challenges and opportunities of Ethiopian labour migration to the Gulf and South Africa.
Migration has assumed growing significance in the global development agenda as its potential for economic and social development is increasingly acknowledged.
Since the discovery and exploitation of minerals like gold, diamond and copper in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Malawi has played the role of a labour supplier.
The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity.
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.
