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.
The concept of human dignity is already embedded in the constitutional architecture of the European Union and throughout the world, but it remains a slippery and elusive concept.
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.
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.
