Author: Fitzgerald, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contrac...
Author: Martin, Susan F. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony la...
Author: Arthur, John A. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of thes...
Author: Dow, Mark Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Before September 11, 2001, few Americans had heard of immigration detention, but in fact a secret and repressive prison system run by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has existed in thi...
Author: Ankarlo, Darrell Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Not since the Civil War has America been so divided over such a seemingly unsolvable issue as U.S. immigration policy. The president and congress are at an impasse, while vigilante groups patrol our ...
Author: Doty, Roxanne Lynn Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book critically examines the various practises of anti-immigrantism in the US, the UK and France within the context of globalisation and questions our understanding of the 'state'.
Author: Alumkal, Antony, W. Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Alumkal examines the beliefs and life experiences of American-born/raised Asian American evangelicals in two congregations, one Chinese American and one Korean American, near New York City. He docume...
Author: Kenney, David Ngaruri / Schrag, Philip G. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native K...
Author: Bakalian, Anny / Bozorgmehr, Medhi Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For most Americans, September 11, 2001, symbolized the moment when their security was altered. For Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans, 9/11 also ushered in a backlash in the form of hate crimes, disc...
Author: Hart, Rona Publisher: Compass Publishing Ltd Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Read this... or prepare to be shocked! Did you know that MOVING ABROAD is considered as expensive as getting married, and as distressing as getting a divorce?? Moving abroad and adjusting to life...
Author: Ong, Aihwa Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""In this tour-de-force ethnography, acclaimed anthropologist Aihwa Ong trains her awesome ethnographic and theoretic talents on the brutal forces reconfiguring citizenship in a globalized world of wa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume explores the migration processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the processes and discourses that underlie research into it. The contributors reflect criti...
Author: Hing, Bill Ong Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the past three decades, images of undocumented immigrants pouring across the southern border have driven the immigration debate and policies have been implemented in response to those images. More ...
Author: Dufoix, Stephane Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers wo...
Author: Dreby, Joanna Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. W...
Author: N/A Publisher: Universal Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Proceeding is a direct product of the Center for Refugee Studies Annual Conference-- Documenting the Undocumented: Redefining Refugee Status, which took place on April 16-17, 2009 at York Univers...
Description: Due process protections are among the most important Constitutional protections in the United States, yet they do not apply to non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Due Process Denied describ...
Author: Golash-Boza, Tanya Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Due process protections are among the most important Constitutional protections in the United States, yet they do not apply to non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Due Process Denied describ...
Author: Gonzalez-Lopez, Gloria Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Erotic Journeys is a fascinating, revealing, and respectful examination of the romantic relationships and sex lives of the fastest-growing minority group in the nation. In a series of in-depth intervi...
Author: Jacobs, Keith Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume reflects and explores the impact of changing family norms and responsibilities and considers the extent to which the law should reflect them. By bringing together some of the most eminent ...
Author: Bedolla, Lisa Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This provocative study of the Latino political experience offers a nuanced, in-depth, and often surprising perspective on the factors affecting the political engagement of a segment of the population ...
Author: Neocosmos, Michael Publisher: Codesria Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Xenophobia is a political discourse. As such, its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of the practices and prescriptions that structure the fi...
Author: Neocosmos, Michael Publisher: Codesria Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The events of May 2008 in which 62 people were killed simply for being "foreign" and thousands were turned overnight into refugees shook the South African nation. This book is the first to attempt a c...
Author: Kofman, Eleonore Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This unique work introduces a gender dimension into theories of contemporary migrations and demonstrates how processes of globalization and change in states polices on employment and welfare have main...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring an...
Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarge...
Description: This original study applies post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture, combining political and cultural approaches, the study of literature and art, and the exam...
Author: Chen, Carolyn Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the U...
Author: Espiritu, Yen Le Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. B...
Author: Waldinger, Roger / Lichter, Michael I. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's eco...
Author: Egbuonu, George Publisher: Tres Dimension Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an excellent practical guide for all immigrants. It contains insights into what immigrants can do or should do in order to succeed before and after they migrate to a new country or region. It ...
Author: Ankarlo, Darrell Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Not since the Civil War has America been so divided over such a seemingly unsolvable issue as U.S. immigration policy. Phoenix has become the number 2 kidnap capital of the world, ranchers and police...
Author: Portes, Alejandro / Rumbaut, Rubén G. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other p...
Author: Givens, Terri Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines a broad range of issues in order to better understand if, how, and why immigration policies and practices have changed in the US, Western Europe, and Commonwealth countries in respo...
Author: Munoz, J., Mark Publisher: Gyldan Edge Publishing, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The autobiography of Dr. J. Mark Munoz, "In Transition", gives a detailed account of his migration from the Philippines to America, settling first in New Jersey and later in Illinois. He describes wel...
Author: Attanasio, Orazio P. Publisher: AEI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Studies of wage and income inequality among U.S. citizens over the past thirty years have engendered the common wisdom that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. But is it reall...
Author: Solimano, Andres Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The international mobility of people and elites is a main feature of the global economy of today. Immigration augments the labor force in receiving countries and provides many of the bodies and minds ...
Author: Khater, Akram Fouad Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry...
