Migration, immigration and emigration Books
Oxford University Press International Migration
Book SynopsisIn recent years, global migration has transformed in terms of its numbers and reach, its political significance, and its impact. The rising rates of international migration have been matched by growing public and media interest around the world. Today, the political and media attention on migration and greater public interest and concern feed into an international debate that is all too often poorly informed and one-sided. This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration - both legal and illegal - and offers an objective stance on the topic, and its benefits and challenges. Khalid Koser reveals the opportunities migration presents that must be taken advantage of in the current economic climate, and debunks common myths to demonstrate that society, as we now know it, cannot function without migrants. Using interviews with migrants from around the world, Koser presents the human side of issues such as asylum, human trafficking, migrant smuggling, and the international labour force, inviting readers to come to their own conclusions on the international migration situation today.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of Contents1: Why migration matters 2: Who is a migrant? 3: Migration and globalization 4: Migration and development 5: Irregular migration 6: Refugees and asylum seekers 7: Migrants in society 8: The future of international migration Further reading Index
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Oxford University Press The Wealth of Refugees
Book SynopsisDisplacement is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity, and it will become more so in the coming years as climate change and the impact of the coronavirus increase the extent of forced migration. The author confronts this head on with a set of realistic policy recommendations.Trade ReviewAlexander Betts' book demonstrates his indefatigable commitment to addressing the predicaments of contemporary refugee protection... This work is as significant for the agenda it sets as for the results it reports. [He] makes a compelling case that interdisciplinary analysis of refugee economies has a central place in the future of refugee studies. * David Owen, Times Higher Education *[An] informative account of contemporary refugee policy. * Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs *A timely and thought-provoking contribution to refugee policy literature ... The Wealth of Refugees represents an important work by a leading scholar in the field and it will no doubt be highly influential in shaping the future of global refugee policy in coming years. * Maria O'Sullivan, Australian Book Review *A thoughtful contribution to the literature of humanitarian aid. * Kirkus *Alexander Betts grapples with one of the key dilemmas in global politics: how to sustainably protect refugees. Drawing upon extensive research in East Africa, this book provides fresh and powerful insights into the effectiveness of measures aimed at promoting 'self-reliance'. It is a must-read for anyone interested in remedies to the challenges of displacement. * Andrew Geddes, Chair in Migration Studies and Director of the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute *In this excellent book, Alexander Betts juxtaposes two ideas not usually connected — wealth and refugees. He shows how, with the right approach, refugees can sometimes thrive rather than merely survive. He challenges everyone interested in improving the lives of refugees to balance principle with pragmatism in navigating a complex political landscape. * Raouf Mazou, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, the UN Refugee Agency *An admirably lucid, evidence-based, and solution-oriented engagement with the economic lives of forced migrants. One does not have to agree with Betts to learn from his deep and broad expertise on one of the most critical social justice issues of our time. * Jacqueline Bhabba, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University *Works by political scientists often aspire to combine interdisciplinary sophistication, methodological pluralism, political realism, and cogent policy analysis. In this incisive analysis of policies for refugee self-reliance, Alexander Betts achieves all four objectives. * Robert O. Keohane, Emeritus Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University *People who migrate for safety also participate in the economy. They and their children toil, learn, create, and invest. The more policy is designed to unleash their potential contribution, the more material benefit they bring to the places they go. This book explains numerous specific experiences of how to do that, compellingly told by one of the world's foremost experts. * Michael Clemens, Director of Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarianism, and Senior Fellow, the Center for Global Development (CGD) *Table of Contents1. Introduction PART I: ETHICSDLWHAT IS RIGHT? 2. The Search for Sustainability PART II: ECONOMICSDLWHAT WORKS? 3. Refugee Economies 4. The Limits of Urbanization 5. Uganda: The Right to Work and Freedom of Movement 6. Kalobeyei: A Market-Based Settlement Model 7. Dollo Ado: The Private Sector and Border Development PART III: POLITICSDLWHAT PERSUADES? 8. The Politics of Refugee Rights 9. Uganda: A Political History of Refugee Self-Reliance 10. Kenya: How Turkana County Turned Refugees Into An Asset 11. Ethiopia: Conditionality and the Right to Work PART IV: POLICYDLWHAT NEXT? 12. Building Borderland Economies 13. Beyond Africa: The Syrian and Venezuelan Refugee Crises 14. Refugees, COVID-19, and Future Trends 15. Conclusion
£20.69
The University of Chicago Press The Voice of the Rural Music Poetry and
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a fascinating and entirely original piece of work. I know of no work in the field that deals in such depth with how critically important music from the home country is to the lives of migrant workers from the Middle East. Ciucci offers us a detailed and fascinating investigation of the multiple ways in which this musical tradition carries meaning for these migrants.” -- Ted Swedenburg, author of Memories of Revolt: The 1936-39 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past“Voicing the Rural is more than a book about North African migration to Europe. With one foot firmly in the vast, phosphate-rich plains region of central Morocco and the other planted in the “urbanized countryside” of central Italy, Alessandra Ciucci vividly explores how Moroccan migrant men use earthy fragments of sung colloquial poetry to open paths between the rural lives they have left in North Africa and the other kinds of rural lives they are creating in Europe.” -- Jonathan Glasser, author of The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa"By maintaining geography, nationalism, race, gender, class, labor exploitation, culture preservation, and loss of the music and voice traditions of the Moroccan old country within the frame, Ciucci paves a new way of understanding the anthropology of work as a distinct realm of scholarship. The book’s social and linguistic perspectives on the psychology of trauma and the persistent musical habits inherent to migration are novel lenses through which one can view agrarian labor anthropologically. Indeed, Ciucci describes for anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and migrant laborers a way to, together, hold knowledge and build understanding across cultures." * Society for the Anthropology of Work *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Names and Transliteration Introduction 1 The Engendering and the Othering of l-ʿarubi and l-ʿarubiya in Morocco 2 The Voyage: Voicing l-ʿarubiya in the Crossing 3 Spectral Guests, Marocchini, and “Real Men” 4 Longing (ḥnin), Intimacy (rasi rasək), and Belonging (intima): Voicing l-ʿarubiya Conclusion: Returns Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£58.50
The University of Chicago Press Argonauts of West Africa Unauthorized Migration
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is a sophisticated and detailed account of the social aspects of African migrants’ lives in precarious contexts. The stories of the different protagonists enable us to look anew at the meaning of kinship and its importance for personhood and social identity formation in contemporary Europe. They advance our understanding of the usefulness of theories on kinship, the family and friendship in the context of migration. As such, the book is a very valuable resource for students, researchers, and policymakers who are interested to learn about migration, kinship and social inequality." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“In this sophisticated, original, and wonderfully detailed ethnography of migrants’ lives, Andrikopoulos shows how the creative possibilities of kinship provide a highly flexible resource for migrants to ‘craft’ documented selves and settle in Europe. In so doing, he illuminates both the expansive and generative possibilities of kinship and its continued pertinence as a means of resisting state efforts to control migration and citizenship.” * Janet Carsten, University of Edinburgh *“A lively account of how undocumented migrants in Amsterdam use kinship as they seek to establish themselves in the context of the Dutch state’s efforts to control immigration and increasing migrant precarity. With its detailed narratives, fresh perspectives, and important research, Argonauts of West Africa will be of interest to scholars of Africa, Europe, and migration—and, of course, kinship.” * Jennifer Cole, coeditor of Affective Circuits: African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration *“This is a fascinating ethnography of West African nimble-footedness. It explores and explains ties and thirsts that defy the European logic and practice of containment of mobility and the incompleteness that fuels it.” * Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town *Table of Contents1 Navigating Kinship 2 Unauthorized Identity Craft 3 “Working with My Sister’s Papers” 4 Dying Relations? 5 Marriage, Love, and Inequality Conclusion Unpredictable Dynamics of Kinship Acknowledgments Appendix: Trust and Ethics Notes Bibliography Index
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McGill-Queen's University Press Documenting Displacement
Book SynopsisLegal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscure both the agency of displaced people and hierarchies of power between researchers and research participants. This project critically assesses the ways in which knowledge is co-created and reproduced through narratives in spaces of displacement, advancing a creative, collective, and interdisciplinary approach.Documenting Displacement explores the ethics and methods of research in diverse forced migration contexts and proposes new ways of thinking about and documenting displacement. Each chapter delves into specific ethical and methodological challenges, with particular attention to unequal power relations in the co-creation of knowledge, questions about representation and ownership, and the adaptation of methodological approaches to contexts of mobility. Contributors reflect honestly on what has worked and what has not, pTrade Review“Documenting Displacement advances and challenges our thinking and approach to conducting ethically sound research with people on the move. It effectively questions our more traditional research tools and approaches while providing guidance in how to explore alternatives.” Susan McGrath, York University
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Columbia University Press All the Nations Under Heaven Immigrants Migrants
Book SynopsisAll the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and culture of New York City. This updated edition of a classic text brings the story of the immigrant experience up to the present with vital new material on the city’s revival with deeply rooted racial and economic inequalities.Trade Review[A] briskly paced volume. * The Gotham Center for NYC History *A new cohort of students and readers more generally will now be made aware of a classic work, All the Nations Under Heaven, a profoundly humane and exciting panorama of the linked histories of New York City and immigrants. The flow of women and men from around the world has done no less than shape them, the city, the nation, and the world. This book sweeps across time, connecting past and present with scrupulous research, clear thinking, rich detail, and fine writing. -- Hasia Diner, New York UniversityUpdated throughout and extended to the present through the latest scholarship, this enduring classic demonstrates once again how central the growth of immigrant-origin communities has been to the neighborhoods, collective life, politics, and economy of New York City. All the Nations Under Heaven brings to life the great and ongoing saga of immigrants helping a great city to reinvent itself. -- John Mollenkopf, coeditor of Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant IntegrationAll the Nations Under Heaven reveals the powerful social, political, economic, and religious influence of immigrants on New York City since the colonial era. Expanding on current scholarship, the authors make immigration history and the broader history of New York City accessible for both students and scholars. -- Deborah Dash Moore, author of Jewish New York: The Remarkable Story of a City and a PeopleTable of ContentsPreface1. A Seaport in the Atlantic World: 1624–18202. Becoming a City of the World: 1820–18603. Progress and Poverty: 1861–19004. Slums, Sweatshops, and Reform: 1880–19175. New Times and New Neighborhoods: 1917–19286. Times of Trial: 1929–19457. City of Hope, City of Fear: 1945–19978. Immigrants in a City Reborn: 1980–presentAfterwordAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Pan Macmillan A Turn in the South
Book SynopsisV. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 20Trade ReviewNaipaul’s writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there’s the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things. * Sunday Times *Naipaul writes as if a modern oracle has chosen to speak through him. It is a tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear. * New York Times Review of Books *This is a journey below the Mason–Dixon line into a society riven by too many defeats; the broken cause of the old Confederacy, and the frustrated anger of Southern blacks whose power is circumscribed . . . It is the best thing outside fiction that I have read on the Old South pregnant with the new since W. J. Cash’s The Mind of the South published over fifty years ago. * Sunday Telegraph *
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Taylor & Francis Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian
Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and the development of civil society in East Asia.Providing a textured, critical reading of East Asia as an economically, socially, and politically dynamic region, this book also presents the region as one shaped simultaneously by progressive as well as regressive pulls. Attentive to prevailing issues as well as to statesâ and civil societiesâ responses to them, it focuses on changing societies and politics in East Asia, particularly on shifting notions of citizenship, nationhood, and peoplehood. The contributions feature new and timely conclusions drawn from multidisciplinary fields including law, public policy, sociology, Asian studies, gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies and include direct testimonies from citizens of East and Southeast Asia.Globalization and Civ
£37.99
University of California Press Illegality Inc.
Book SynopsisExplores how Europe's increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target - the clandestine migrant. This book examines the subterranean migration flow from Africa to Europe, and shifts the focus from the "illegal immigrants" themselves to the vast industry built around their movements.Trade Review"A wonderfully readable, extremely well searched, and immensely helpful contribution to migration scholarship. It is the rare author who can combine the writer's fluid prose with the scholar's deep analysis, but Andersson, a post-doctoral fellow at the London School of Economics, does just that." -- Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez crImmigration "[An] impressive work of outstanding scholarship ... highly recommended ... a brilliant ethnography." -- Paul Mutsaers Border Criminologies "Ruben Andersson embarks on a needed and timely pursuit... a novel and powerful argument about Europe's southern external border." -- Elena Popa Council for European Studies "[The book's] contribution lies in its relentless investigation into the workings of what the author refers to as the 'illegal migration industry' ... its rich empirical data and the thoroughness with which the author tackles the 'illegality industry' provide for a strong contribution to a wider body of literature that is concerned with narratives that lie behind popular images of the migrant." -- Lucy Hovil Migration Studies "A rich tapestry of oral testimony that not only makes the reading experience more enjoyable and human, but underpins an emotional and compelling argument... I would highly recommend this debut book." -- Jamie Hitchen Africa at LSE "A rich and lucid narrative ... accessible, creative, and highly informative." -- Thomas Kemp Social and Legal Studies "It's the inside story of the sort of thing you read about in the newspapers all the time... It validated for me this [kind of] ethnographic research, going there, being there, burrowing in." -- Adam Kuper, Professor of Anthropology at LSE 2015 BBC/British Sociological Association ethnography award jury "I was blown away by this book, it was stunning...once you have read it, you will not see migration the same way ever again." -- Beverley Skeggs, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, London 2015 BBC/British Sociological Association ethnography award jury "Best book of the year? With all the usual reservations about the virtues of each and all of everything I've dipped into in 2014, I'm going to go for Ruben Andersson's Illegality, Inc. ... he brings out the ways in which awareness of borders and the relationship which the various actors have with them brings out a set of predicable roles - the border cop, the humanitarian naval guard, the calculating NGO activist, the aggrieved, indignant migrant, the camp welfare officer, right the way through to the anti-globaliser 'no borders' protester." -- Don Flynn Migrants' Rights Network "Timely and beautifully written... Indeed, Illegality Inc. is a fascinating book, a must read not only for those interested in migration studies, but for anyone who dearly cares about the sanity of a European project - and about the way the world is governed." Allegra LabTable of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments Timeline Author's Note Selected Abbreviations Introduction Scene 1 PART ONE. BORDERLANDS 1 Mohammadou and the Migrant-Eaters 2 A Game of Risk 3 Hunter and Prey PART TWO. CROSSINGS Scene 2 4 The Border Spectacle PART THREE. CONFRONTATIONS 5 White Mother, Black Sons Scene 3 6 Stranded in Time Scene 4 7 Marchers without Borders Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Method Notes Selected Glossary Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration
Book SynopsisHow the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agencyand how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people are aware of a fundamental flaw in the system that has long pre-dated that administration: The immigration courts are not really courts but an office of the Department of Justicethe nation's law enforcement agency. Alison Peck's original and surprising account shows how paranoia sparked by World War II and the War on Terror drove the structure of the immigration courts. Focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Roosevelt and Bush administrations, the narrative laid out in this book divulges both the human tragedy of our current immigration court system and the human crises that led to its creation. Moving the reader from understanding to action, Alison Peck offers a lens through which to evaluate contemporary bills and proposTrade Review"An eye-opening look at how the history and structure of U.S. immigration courts contribute to present-day problems. . . . Supported with lucid legal analysis and incisive historical details, this is a persuasive call for change." * Publishers Weekly *"Sometimes there are books that leave you much better for the experience. This is one of them. . . . Alison Peck has filled a major gap, setting out a roadmap toward possible legislative alternatives to this unsatisfactory arrangement by offering the Title I Tax Court as a better option. If this is to happen, it will almost certainly have to be as a function of comprehensive immigration reform, a tantalizing oasis in the current political desert. If that happens, I will listen to her very carefully, as I did here." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Highly readable and informative. . . . A valuable lens through which to see the problems and politics of the US immigration system." * CHOICE *"Peck shows an excellent command of the sources and presents a solid argument. . . . academics will find the monograph valuable for its concise history, and it would be especially appropriate to assign in an upper division or graduate university course on the history of U.S. immigration policy." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part I. Crisis in the Immigration Courts 1. The Attorney General's Immigration Courts 2. Whittling Away at Asylum Law 3. Policing the Immigration Courts Part II. From World War II to 9/11: The Ghost of the Fifth Column 4. A New Type of Tough in the Department of Labor 5. Refusal 6. Invasion 7. The Welles Mission 8. Alien Enemies 9. Reckoning 10. Un Día de Fuego 11. President Bush's Department Part III. The Future of the Immigration Courts 12. Checks and Imbalances 13. Reforming the Immigration Courts Epilogue: Portrait of an American in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index
£18.75
Faber & Faber The Expats
Book SynopsisThe Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Edgar and Anthony Awards for Best First Novel ''Bristling with suspense and elegantly crafted'' Patricia Cornwell ''Smart, clever suspense, skilfully plotted, and a lot of fun to read'' John Grisham Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg, her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also guarding a secret - one so momentous it could destroy her neat little expat life - and she suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be; plus her husband is acting suspiciously. As she travels around Europe, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, terrified her past is catching up with her. As Kate begins to dig, to uncover the secrets of those around her, she finds herself
£8.99
Harvard University Press Threat of Dissent
Book SynopsisFrom the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.Trade ReviewSuspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. Anarchism gave way to communism; communism gave way to Islamic radicalism. -- Jennifer Szalai * New York Times *Excellent…Generate[s] important insights into…questions about the history of deportation and removal of foreign-born residents from and by the United States…A magisterial and well-written account…A gripping, expansive story that traces the consequences of suspicions of ‘un-American’ ideologies and loyalties in federal jurisprudence from the War of 1812 through the still-raging War on Terror. -- Rachel Ida Buff * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *[Kraut’s] careful archival work is impressive…This book is engaging and well suited for undergraduate or graduate legal history courses, immigration and ethnicity courses, or as selected readings for either US history survey. -- Erika Weidemann Bravo * Journal of American Ethnic History *Julia Rose Kraut, in Threat of Dissent, seeks to capture those dissenting and opposing voices in her excellent history of the ‘ideological exclusion’ of persons who held unorthodox beliefs…Her close analysis yields a superb study of gatekeeping in action. -- Lucy E. Salyer * Reviews in American History *Kraut is a gifted narrator…Threat of Dissent is highly recommended to all readers concerned with U.S. immigration policy and how it has and still relates to matters of free speech and free association. -- Olaf Stieglitz * American Studies *A must-read for those who care about immigration or the First Amendment. In clear and lively prose, Kraut charts how noncitizens are doubly vulnerable under American law: treated with suspicion as strangers, and subject to expulsion based on their political beliefs. Along the way, she forces us to reckon with a deeply troubling reality: freedom of speech has not been available for everyone. -- Robert L. Tsai, author of America’s Forgotten ConstitutionsI opened these pages skeptically, and then could not put them down. Threat of Dissent tells the rich and instructive history of efforts to protect America’s borders, first by legislation that excluded unwanted people, and then by legal and judicial challenges to those with unwelcome ideas and beliefs. An essential book for all concerned with US immigration policy and with the free expression of ideas inside and outside the nation. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian HellmanAn eye-opening and powerfully written book. Julia Rose Kraut demonstrates that though the methods and technologies used by the government to suppress political dissent in the United States have changed over the generations, the fear of radicals—and the association of foreigners with radicalism—has remained constant. Every politically engaged citizen will be riveted by this history of the architects of political suppression and the legal challenges launched by those who sought to protect core American values of freedom of speech and association. -- María Cristina García, author of The Refugee Challenge in Post–Cold War AmericaThis is an original, comprehensive history of one of the most pervasive and insidious forms of political repression in the United States—one few Americans know anything about. In a rich narrative spanning more than two centuries, gifted legal historian Julia Rose Kraut reveals how federal authorities routinely barred foreign dissidents who hoped to mingle freely with the public in the ‘land of the free.’ -- Michael Kazin, author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918
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Harvard University Press Strangers in Our Midst
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a polished and carefully wrought argument—really, an extended series of arguments—on an urgent topic by one of the best political theorists in the world. -- Russell Muirhead, Dartmouth CollegeDavid Miller is one of the world’s leading political philosophers and an expert on immigration. Strangers in Our Midst is a lucid, succinct, and accessible statement of his views on this important topic. -- Joseph Carens, University of TorontoA cool dissection of some of the main moral issues surrounding immigration and worth reading for its introductory chapter alone. Moreover, unlike many progressive intellectuals, Miller gives due weight to the rights and preferences of existing citizens and does not believe an immigrant has an automatic right to enter a country…Full of balanced judgments and tragic dilemmas. -- David Goodhart * Evening Standard *[Miller’s] timely book Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration may not be the first treatise of its kind, but it aims to be the first to combine such an abstract approach to the topic with such a strong dose of realism. -- James Ryerson * New York Times Book Review *A lean and judicious defense of national interest…In Miller’s view, controlling immigration is one way for a country to control its public expenditures, and such control is essential to democracy. -- Kelefa Sanneh * New Yorker *Much like the title, this book proves to be provocative in its discussion of the philosophy of immigration. Miller provides a broad and deep inquiry into immigration issues found in the current political, social, and global culture that will likely stimulate thought and discourse around this important topic. Miller challenges readers to question the current systems that people are familiar with, examine values, and take a humanistic approach to the question of what is right. He then shepherds readers through analyzing such difficult questions as what is national identity, who should be allowed to leave, where should they be allowed to go, and under what conditions? Once they arrive, what are their rights, and how should they be treated? The author thoroughly examines these questions while thoughtfully considering legal theory, ethics, political philosophy, human rights issues, and economic considerations. Immigration, emigration, and refugee status continue to be hot topics in world news and national politics, and Miller’s book is successful in presenting differing views followed by careful analysis and thought-provoking arguments about immigration from a global perspective. -- P. Butler * Choice *Miller is generous about refugees but makes a strong case for limiting migrant numbers. It is clear to him that refusing migrants entry on the basis of race is immoral and illegal, but he stoutly denies that capping numbers is inherently unjust…One of the strengths of his extremely lucid book is that it manages to state a strong moral and philosophical case against maximal cosmopolitanism and open borders without using this as any kind of excuse to ignore humanitarian catastrophe. -- Rowan Williams * New Statesman *Strangers in Our Midst is not a handbook of political solutions, nor a roadmap to equitable immigration policies. Rather, it is a work of political and moral theory…Miller is most useful not in proposing answers to which everyone will subscribe, but in proposing questions in such a way and within such a context that there can be common moral ground among those who disagree on specifics, and thus an improved prospect of progress toward workable and effective solutions. -- Richard J. Hoskins * Christian Century *
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The History Press Ltd Who Am I
Book SynopsisA poignant look at the lives, experiences and identity of the asylum seekers and refugees that have come to Britain's shoresTrade ReviewThere should be more books like this out there as Tania has really unearthed something unique and amazing and vitally important – to remind us how precarious life can be ... We need stories like this in these days of greed and fear, as we have to dive into the lives of others to be able to understand who, what, when, where, why -- King Adz, author of THE STUFF YOU CAN'T BOTTLE
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) People Power Why We Need More Migrants
Book SynopsisGiles Merritt has reported on European affairs for half a century, as a Financial Times correspondent in Paris and Brussels, and as an op-ed writer for the International Herald Tribune. In 2010 the Financial Times named him as one of thirty influential 'Eurostars'. He is the founder of the Brussels think tank Friends of Europe and its policy journal, Europe's World. In 2016 his previous book Slippery Slope: Europe's Troubled Future was shortlisted for the European Book Prize.Trade ReviewHere is an authoritative counter-argument to those who oppose immigration from an author who knows his facts. Merritt presents a dispassionate analysis of People Power, a phenomenon which will continue to re-shape Europe's ageing societies. * Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times 2005-2020 *This is an important book for everyone thinking about immigration. Giles Merritt's timely myth-busting approach is fascinating and thought-provoking. * Amelia Gentleman,The Guardian journalist and author of 'The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment' *We urgently need a rational debate on migration, based on robust evidence which does not avoid complex and thorny issues. Giles Merritt's book is a useful and timely contribution at a crucial moment for the future of EU asylum and immigration policies. * Antonio Vitorino, Director-General, UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) *Europe has an existential problem: migration. It will get worse unless Europe wakes up and handles this problem thoughtfully and courageously. Merritt's book provides critical wisdom, It should be heeded immediately. * Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the National University of Singapore and author of 'Has China Won?' *Reforming migration policy requires detailed knowledge and good judgement. Giles Merritt navigates the reader through economics, demographics and politics to a list of policy proposals. His analysis also covers the coronavirus crisis, which is transforming how Europeans look upon migrants. * Laszlo Andor, Secretary-General, Foundation for European Progressive Studies and EU Social Affairs Commissioner 2010-2014 *Refugees and migrants make up almost a fifth of Jordan's population, posing major economic and social challenges. Giles Merritt's thought-provoking book engages the readers in the increasingly global debate on the mass displacement of people * HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, Honorary Chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council *Refugees, like migrants, can be strong, effective and courageous contributors to local communities and societies as a whole. This has been particularly apparent during the pandemic. Giles Merritt's book contributes to this important discussion. * Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees *People Power: Why We Need More Migrants is undoubtedly useful to politicians, bureaucrats, policymakers, economists, other scholars, and ordinary audiences. It is timely and provokes us to debate the importance of migrants to the economy at this current moment. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Exploding Migration's Ten Most Misleading Myths Chapter 2: Europe's "Migrant Crisis” is part of a Global Earthquake Chapter 3: More Migrants, Please! The Economic Case Chapter 4: Making True Europeans of the Migrant Millions Chapter 5: Brace for More Newcomers, and for Ageing Chapter 6: Only More Help for Africa Can Stabilise Migration Chapter 7: Jihadis, Gangsters and Nobel Laureates Chapter 8: Robots v Cheap Labour: Which Jobs will Migrants Do? Chapter 9: - The Mirage of a Common EU Migration Policy Chapter 10: Here's How to Tackle the Twin Threats of Migration and Ageing Conclusion Index
£56.25
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Migration and the Making of Global Christianity
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Southern Illinois University Press Germans in Illinois
Book SynopsisExplores the influence and experiences of German immigrants and their descendants from their arrival in the middle of the nineteenth century to their heritage identity today. Miranda Wilkerson and Heather Richmond examine the primary reasons that Germans came to Illinois and describe how they adapted to life and distinguished themselves.
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Duke University Press Across Oceans of Law
Book SynopsisRenisa Mawani charts the story of the Komagata Maru—a steamship that left Hong Kong for Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 Punjabi immigrants who were denied entry into Canada—to illustrate imperialism's racial, legal, spatial, and temporal dynamics and how oceans operate as sites of jurisdictional and colonial contest.Trade Review"Across Oceans of Law is complex, comprehensively researched, and engagingly presented. . . . Each of the four chapters presents a unique perspective on thinking about the diverse and significant themes found in the examination of the changing development of maritime jurisprudence and evolving interpretation of the freedom of the sea, changing definitions of the legal nature of a ship, the status of colonial subjects, anticolonial restrictions on immigration, and the career of Gurdit Singh. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- P. D. Thomas * Choice *"Renisa Mawani has written a beautifully conceived, deeply researched, and elegantly argued book that all of us should read." -- Fahad Bishara * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"Across Oceans of Law is much more than an account of yet another dark chapter in Canadian and British imperial history. . . . Fresh and compelling. . . . Straightforward in its ingenuity and genuinely convincing in its execution. Indeed, there is here an elegance in the delivery of the core idea." -- Jen Hendry * LSE Review of Books *"Across Oceans of Law follows a breathtaking scalar approach attentive to the hierarchies of race, time, and jurisdiction, while narrating a microhistorical story of Komagata Maru’s transoceanic travel to recover oceans as 'vibrant spaces of law, politics and poetics' (236). It is a beautifully written, richly documented, and theoretically sophisticated study that connects the dense imperial, legal, and maritime histories with global histories of time from the perspective of a ship steered by a colonial subject during the heyday of anticolonialism." -- Debjani Bhattacharyya * Law and History Review *"This impressively researched and theoretically sophisticated book will profoundly transform the ways in which scholars of migration, empire, and anticolonialism approach their work." -- Seema Sohi * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"What makes the book particularly valuable are the questions that it raises about freedom and movement, questions that are timely, especially given the manifold migration crises taking place around the globe today. Thus, for scholars who wish to better understand contemporary concerns around migration and race, Mawani's book is certainly a good resource." -- Alia Somani * The Historian *"It is…impossible not to appreciate the urgent contemporary relevance and resonance of the 'ocean as method' from the outset of Mawani's text." -- Honni Van Rijswik and Anthea Vogl * Law and Critique *"By requiring scholars to think thematically, narratively, connectedly, vertically, temporally, and non-foundationally, Across Oceans of Law provides stimulating conceptual tools for applications in contexts beyond the voyage of the Komagata Maru, and beyond the seas." -- Jennifer Hendry * Journal of Law and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Currents and Countercurrents of Law and Radicalism 1 1. The Free Sea: A Juridical Space 35 2. The Ship as Legal Person 73 3. Land, Sea, and Subjecthood 115 4. Anticolonial Vernaculars of Indigeneity 152 5. The Fugitive Sojourns of Gurdit Singh 188 Epilogue. Race, Jurisdiction, and the Free Sea Reconsidered 231 Notes 241 Bibliography 293 Index 319
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Duke University Press Migrants and CityMaking
Book SynopsisAyşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how they live and work in their new cities in ways that require them to negotiate the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.Trade Review"Ayse Calgar and Nina Glick Schiller make a timely and compelling case for migrants as 'city-makers.' Departing from commonly portrayed dichotomies between migrants and non-migrants, they situate, contextualize, and embed them into complex “multi-scalar” processes of urban regeneration. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- G. R. Innes * Choice *"This fantastic book is a result of committed long-term research by Çaglar and Glick Schiller on migration and the regeneration of cities." -- Susanne Urban * Urban Studies *"A theoretically rich book that immerses us in the relationship between migration and localities that are not urban centers of global power. . . . Migrants and City-Making has a theoretically rich and engaging methodology, which will be useful for anyone teaching courses on transnational migration, urban studies, urban anthropology or urban sociology." -- Hulya Dogan * City & Society *"Its programmatic and didactic approach will make Migrants and City-Making a useful teaching tool for students of migration and urban theory. The argumentation is bold and restated at multiple points in the book." -- Madeleine Reeves * Laboratorium *"... Immigrants and City-Making is a thought-provoking and ambitious study that provides a compelling appraisal of migration, place making, and urban theory. ... A unique, innovative, and valuable contribution to our comparative understanding of migration, cities, and the manifestations of growing economic inequality on a global scale." -- Steven Gold * American Journal of Sociology *"Migrants and City-Making is a thought-provoking and ambitious study that provides a compelling appraisal of migration, place making, and urban theory…. The book is a unique, innovative, and valuable contribution to our comparative understanding of migration, cities, and the manifestations of growing economic inequality on a global scale.” -- Steven Gold * American Journal of Sociology *“The book provides fascinating and important insight into the experiences, challenges, and agency of migrants and nonmigrants in disempowered cities. . . . The book will particularly interest scholars and researchers in those fields and would serve as an excellent introduction to some key debates and developments for anthropologists and sociologists beginning to think about the longer-term effects of urban regeneration efforts and how to study them.” -- Sara Jean Tomczuk * Contemporary Sociology *“[Migrants and City-Making] challenges disciplinary divisions between migration studies and urban studies which limit our understanding of global processes of city-making.... I highly recommend this book especially for those who work at the intersections of migration and urban studies and want to go beyond the national and ethnic lens.” -- Pinar Ensari * Urban Geography *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Multiscalar City-Making and Emplacement: Processes, Concepts, and Methods 1 1. Introducing Three Cities: Similarities despite Difference 33 2. Welcoming Narratives: Small Migrant Businesses within Multiscalar Restructuring 95 3. They Are Us: Urban Sociabillites with Multiscalar Power 121 4. Social Citizenship of the Dispossessed: Embracing Global Christianity 147 5. "Searching Its Future in Its Past": The Multiscalar Emplacement of Returnees 177 Conclusion. Time, Space, and Agency 209 Notes 227 References 239 Index 275
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Cambridge University Press Global Health Worker Migration
Book SynopsisThis Element examines the complex processes that feed health worker migrants into global circulation, the losses and gains associated with such mobility and examples of good practices, where migrants, sending and destination communities experience the best possible outcomes.Table of Contents1. Introduction- the global mobility of health care workers; 2. Feminist political economy and global care chain perspectives on health worker migration; 3. Health worker global migration: patterns, processes and problems; 4. International policy responses to health worker mobilities; 5. Conclusion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intersections of Tourism Migration and Exile
Book SynopsisThis book challenges the classic and often tacit compartmentalization of tourism, migration, and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions, yet they often intertwine, overlap, and influence one another.Tourism, migration, and exile evoke widely varying policies, diverse popular reactions, and contrasting imagery. What are the ramifications of these siloed conceptions for people on the move? To what extent do gender, class, ethnic, and racial global inequalities shape moral discourses surrounding people's movements? This book presents 12 predominantly ethnographic case studies from around the world, and a pandemic-focused conclusion, that address these issues. In recounting and juxtaposing stories of refugees' and migrants' returns, marriage migrants, voluntourists, migrant retirees, migrant tourism workers and entrepreneurs, mobile investors and professiTrade Review"At long last! We finally have a scholarly volume of work that critically and efficaciously examines the multiple crossovers between tourism, migration and exile. This remarkable collection of chapters provides an endless buffet of theoretically rich and empirically inspiring insights into diverse human mobilities and their implications for tourism. Crucial concepts, including migration, belonging, identity, existential fluidity, imaginaries, exclusion and inclusion, and many others, are skillfully interpreted through the lenses of mobilities, diasporas, migrations, refugees, and exiles. I congratulate Natalia Bloch and Kathleen Adams for putting together this consequential tome, which is global in its reach and appeal. This masterpiece belongs on the desk of every social scientist who has interests in tourism, migration, exile and all other manifestations of human mobility."Dallen J. Timothy, Professor and Senior Sustainability Scientist, Arizona State University"One of the most important developments in the study of mobilities over the last quarter century has been a growing willingness by scholars to consider the intersections between different forms of (im)mobility. Kathleen Adams and Natalia Bloch’s edited volume constitutes a major contribution to this effort. This diverse collection of ethnographic case studies demonstrates the dynamic productiveness of addressing the overlaps and interplays between tourism, migration, and exile rather than treating these mobilities as investigative siloes. It will be a significant resource in both research and teaching."Vered Amit, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Concordia University Montreal, Canada"This collection constitutes an important step towards the integration of the study of mobilities. In a series of ethnographic case studies of tourists, migrants, exiles, refugees, returnees and volunteers, the volume provides a framework for the systematic study of the great variety of personal mobility phenomena in different parts of the contemporary world. The insights of the authors and editors constitute a step forward towards the formulation of a systematic comparative approach to mobilities."Erik Cohen, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem"Tourist, migrant, traveler, refugee: too often we take for granted what these terms mean and to whom they should be applied. This collection’s lucid, thought-provoking chapters trenchantly challenge such simplistic categorizations, using the fine-grained lens of ethnography to reveal how mobilities overlap, intersect, and blur in lived experience—despite deep-rooted systems of governance, finance, representation, and scholarship that keep them conceptually distinct. Addressing a dazzling range of geographical settings, populations, motivations, and outcomes, this wonderfully coherent yet notably interdisciplinary volume will be a landmark work, prompting serious reflection and debate."Dr Naomi Leite, Reader in Anthropology, SOAS, University of LondonTable of ContentsForeword- Mimi ShellerIntroduction: Problematizing Siloed Mobilities: Tourism, Migration, Exile.Kathleen M. Adams and Natalia BlochChapter 1. Temporality and the Intersection of Tourism and Migration: Mobilities between Cuba and Denmark. Nadine T. FernandezChapter 2. Migrant, Tourist, Cuban: Identification and Belonging in Return Visits to Cuba. Valerio SimoniChapter 3. Diasporic Im/mobilities: Migrants, Returnees, Deportees, Expats, Tourists and Beyond in the Vietnamese Homeland. Long T. BuiChapter 4. Student Migration as an Escape from Protracted Exile: The Case of Young Sahrawi Refugees. Rita ReisChapter 5. The Intersections between Tourism and Exile: Justice Tourism in Bethlehem, Palestine. Rami K. IsaacChapter 6. Crafting Activists from Tourists: Volunteer Engagement during the "Refugee Crisis" in Serbia. Robert RydzewskiChapter 7. Panama’s Temporary Migrants in the Tourism Era. Carla Guerrón MonteroChapter 8. Intersections of Tourism, Cross-border Marriage, and Retirement Migration in Thailand. Kosita Butratana, Alexander Trupp, Karl HusaChapter 9. The Tourist, the Migrant, and the Anthropologist: A Problematic Encounter within European Cities. Francesco ViettiChapter 10. In and Out of Brazil: Overlapping Mobilities in the Capoeira Archipelago.Lauren Miller GriffithChapter 11. Intersections of Professional Mobility and Tourism among Swedish Physicians and Researchers. Magnus Öhlander, Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Helena PetterssonChapter 12. Mobility through Investment: Economics, Tourism, or Lifestyle Migration? Narratives of Chinese and Brazilian Golden Visa Holders in Portugal. Maria de Fátima Amante, Irene RodriguesPandemic Postscript: Tourism, Migration, Exile. Stephanie Malia Hom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Paradox of Planetary Human Entanglements
Book SynopsisThe Paradox of Planetary Human Entanglements provides a nuanced understanding of the complexity of planetary human entanglements in this age of increased borderisation and territorialisation, racism and xenophobia, and inclusion and exclusion.One of the greatest paradoxes of the 21st century is that of increased planetary human entanglements enabled by globalisation on the one hand and by the rising tide of exclusionary right-wing politics of racism, xenophobia, and the building of walled states on the other. The characteristic feature of this paradox is the unrestrained move towards the detention and incarceration of those who attempt to migrate. This brings to the fore the issue of borders in terms of their materiality and symbolism and how this mediates belonging, citizenship, and the ethics (or lack thereof) and politics of living together. This book shows that at the core of border and migration restrictions is the desire to exclude certain categories of people,Table of Contents1. Introduction: Human Planetary Entanglements and Challenges of Living Together Part 1: Legacies of Westphalia and Berlin Conferences 2. The Westphalian and Berlin Borders in Comparative Perspective and the Logic of Colonial Conquest 3. Victims of the Westphalia and Berlin Conferences’ Decisions: Colonial Border Demarcation and Ndau People’s Loss of Land and Cross-border Migration into Mozambique Part 2: Migration, Othering and Xenophobia 4. Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration: Some Reflections 5. The Complexity and Asymmetrical Power Relations in European Union Border Externalisation in Africa 6. Europe-Africa Border Relations: A Reflection 7. They Steal Our Jobs and Our Women and Sell Drugs to Our Youth: Hybrid-Media Framing of South Africa’s ‘Criminal Non-nationals’ 8. #PutSouthAfricaFirst and Afrophobic Xenophobia Part 3: Nation, Belonging and Citizenship 9. Multiculturalism Discourses: Subterranean Fault Lines in the Rainbow Nation 10. The Covid-19 Moment: Pestilence as Amplifier of Age-long and Entrenched Structural Discrimination in International Migration Towards South Africa 11. Borders, Migration and Belonging in West Africa Part 4: Urbanism, Family Experiences and Transnational Solidarity 12. Living with the "Other": Contentious Politics and Belonging in the Urban Landscape of Northeast India 13. "We Will Meet at the Bridge": Alexander Bridge and Stories of a Zimbabwean Migrant Family in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970s–2019 14. Childhood Amidst Conflict: Graphic Novels Promoting Transnational Solidarity and Planetary Humanism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sport Forced Migration and the Refugee Crisis
Book SynopsisDrawing on original research, this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes, patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the ''refugee crisis''.Adopting a systems theory framework and examining different sport disciplines, performance levels and settings, it represents a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the most urgent social issues facing the modern world. The book explores four key aspects of sport's intersection with forced migration. Firstly, it looks at how the media covers sport in relation to the ''refugee crisis'', specifically coverage of refugee elite athletes. Secondly, it examines the adaptation of sport organisations to the ''refugee crisis'', including the culture, programmes and structures that promote or obstruct sport for refugees. Thirdly, the book looks at sport in refugee sites, and how sport can be used as therapy, an escape or empowerment for refugees but also how it can reinforce the divisions between staf
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Routledge Immigration and Quality of Life in Ageing Societies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Planning and Designing the Absent City
Book SynopsisThis book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities. The market evolutions allow us to look at these structures as temporary settlements characterised by a low-density dwelling and a close connection with natural elements and the landscape.This new and different point of view is sustained by the tendency of outdoor tourism to go in the direction of temporary villages, and this tendency is directly related to time and landscape. The landscape is the reason why the campsite is settled. The time is linked to the holiday season timing. Today, both are greatly influenced by the introduction of the Maxi-Caravan. This removable living unit can be placed on the empty pitch, occupying the landscape without ruining the soil. By the settlement of Maxi-Caravans, the campsite is transformed from an empty landscape with tents to a temporary settlement, whose timing is divided between the seasonal timing of the campsite and the timing of the product, and whose landscape is org
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Taylor & Francis Untangling the Political Roots of Immigration and Inequality in the United States
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Taylor & Francis International Student Visibility
Book SynopsisThis book narrates the ubiquitous relationship that international students have with their destination community, asking why students are not part of these communities despite being visible actors not only as students but as neighbours and as workers in the service industries and the gig economy.This book examines international students living and working in Australia through a cultural and communications lens, bringing together almost a decade of interviews and online surveys. It provides insight into their transnational identities and social and cultural practices in real-world and digital spaces. Despite being an integral part of the ethnographic landscape of the places they occupy, this book argues that international students are often not an integrated part of the wider community. To remedy this, international students have found ways to explore and communicate their experiences as transient migrants in Australia. This book thus goes beyond canonical academic commentary
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Taylor & Francis Dark Anthropology Migrants and Others
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Palgrave MacMillan UK HighSkill Migration and Recession Gendered
Book SynopsisWomen migrants are doubly-disadvantaged by their sex and outsider status when moving to a new country. Highly skilled women are no exception to this rule. This book explores the complex relationship between gender and high-skill migration, with a special focus on the impact of the current economic crisis on highly skilled women-migrants in Europe.Trade Review" [...] this volume's incisive and wide-ranging analysis suggests that the implications for skilled migrants are far from positive, with widespread deskilling, especially among women. Isaakyan and Triandafyllidou have, for the first time, brought together a brilliant set of case studies from across Europe in a range of sectors to argue that the the gendered outcomes of the crisis for highly skilled migrants has been far from gender-neutral. This is a wonderful contribution to both the literature on the crisis and on skilled migration." - Parvati Raghuram, The Open University, UK "There is a lot of noise but not much research on high skill migration in Europe. Triandafyllidou and Isaakyan's edited book fills the void, providing first-hand data and adding an original interpretative angle to the general picture. With an admirable variety of sources and methods, the authors outline how the looming Euro-crisis further exacerbates gender-based differences in migration trajectories. As public debate on the effects of intra-EU mobility abounds, this volume is a healthy antidote to the all-too common, over-simplified contrast between low-skill and high-skill migrants." - Ettore Recchi, Sciences Po, France "Ever wondered who are these 'best and brightest' that countries try to attract with their policies on high skill migration? Ever wondered what the crisis did to these policies? This book shows the gender bias involved, and the indirect but powerful impact of the crisis on high skill female migrants, leaving female migrants mostly underpaid and overqualified. A brilliant contribution to migration, recession and gender scholarship!" - Mieke Verloo, Radboud University Nijmegen, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsPART I: FEMALE HIGH SKILL MIGRATION: CONCEPTS AND DYNAMICS 1. Introduction. Female High Skill Migration in the 21st Century: The Challenge of the Recession; Irina Isaakyan; Anna Triandafyllidou 2. European Policies to Attract Talent: The Crisis and Highly Skilled Migration Policy Changes; Lucie Cerna; Mathias Czaika 3. Female High Skilled Emigration from Southern Europe and Ireland After the Crisis; Anna Triandafyllidou; Carmen Gonzalez-Enriquez 4. Crisis and Beyond: Intra-EU Mobility of Polish and Spanish Migrants in a Comparative Perspective; Pawel Kaczmarczyk; Mikolaj Stanek PART II: FEMALE HIGH SKILL MIGRATION: A SECTOR-SPECIFIC APPROACH 5. Migration of Nurses and Doctors in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association; Gilles Dussault; James Buchan; Isabel Craveiro 6. Migration of Engineers and the Gender Dimension; Matthew Dixon 7. Southern European Highly Skilled Female Migrants in Male-Dominated Sectors in Times of Crisis: A Look into the IT and Engineering Sectors; Ruby Gropa; Laura Bartolini 8. International Students Mobility, Gender Dimension and Crisis; Marta Moskal 9. Exploring the Intersecting Impact of Gender and Citizenship on Spatial and Academic Career Mobility; Kyoko Shinozaki PART III: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS: TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE FEMALE HIGH-SKILL MIGRANT IN EUROPE 10. The Problem Of Skill Waste Among Highly Skilled Migrant Women In The UK Care Sector; Sondra Cuban 11. American Women in Southern Europe: A New Source of High Skill Workforce for the Eurocrisis Zone; Irina Isaakyan 12. Re-Thinking the Gender Dimension of High Skill Migration; Anna Triandafyllidou; Irina Isaakyan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Borderlands
Book SynopsisThe expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe but rather they have changed, become more varied and, in a certain sense, mobile, taking on an important role in the everyday lives of more people than ever before. Furthermore, it is now widely accepted that borders do not just hinder communication and the formation of relationships, but also channel and prefigure them in a positive way. Presenting a number of studies of everyday life in European borderlands, this book addresses the multifarious and complex ways in which borders function as both barriers and bridges. Focusing on established' Western European borderlands with the exception of three contrasting cases the book attempts a turn from conflict to harmony in the study of borderlands and thus examines the moTable of ContentsIntroduction: Living in European BorderlandsPart I. Border Crossings and Border Politics1. A Routine-Based Model of Everyday Mobility in Border Regions2. Dybbøl 2014 – Constructing Familiarity by Remembrance?3. Cross-Border Urbanism on the German-Polish Border – Between Spatial De-Boundarization and Social (Re-)FrontierizationPart II. Communities, Relationships and Identities in Borderlands4. What Makes a Place – Traces of the Border in Rural Villages Affected by Cross-Border Residential Migration5. Crossing Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries? Observations on the German and French Workforce in the Spa Town of Baden-Baden, c. 1840–18706. Crossing Borders – Politico-Geographical and Mental Borders in Contemporary German-Language Literature in Belgium7. The Impact of Commuting on Close Relations – Case Study of Estonian Men in Finland Part III. Living Across the Border8. Residential Cross-Border Mobility of People Working in Luxembourg – Developments and Impacts9. Dwelling in (Un)Familiarity – Examples from the Luxembourg-German Borderland10. The Residential and Symbolic Dimensions of Cross-Border Mobility – Looking at Members of the French Middle Class in the Agglomeration of Lille11. Asymmetries in the Formation of the Transnational Borderland in the Slovak-Hungarian Border Region
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cultures of London
Book SynopsisFrom its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters.It is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many huTrade ReviewThis pathbreaking and extensive volume brings together a wide range of authors from academia and beyond to investigate the role and lives of migrants throughout the history and geographical extent of London. * Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, De Montfort University, UK *Table of ContentsFrontmatter Author Biographies Introduction, Charlotte Grant and Alistair Robinson CENTRAL 1. St. Erkenwald and the Hidden Histories of St Paul’s Cathedral, Alastair Bennett 2. Ignatius Sancho: Musician, Man of Letters, Grocer, Markman Ellis 3. The ‘Black-birds’ of St. Giles: Community and Place in Eighteenth-century London, Nicole N. Aljoe and Savita Maharaj 4. Styling the Other: Hazlitt’s ‘The Indian Jugglers’, Uttara Natarajan 5. Begging Places: Poverty, Race, and Visibility on Ludgate Hill, c. 1815, David Hitchcock 6. 13 Red-Lion Square: The Mendicity Society, 1818–76, Oskar Cox Jensen 7. The Chinese Aesthetics of the Admonitions Scroll at the British Museum, Kent Su 8. ‘A terrain on its own’: Elizabeth Bowen and Regent’s Park, Heather Ingman INFRASTRUCTURE: WATER 9. London’s Water: City Comedy, Migration and Middletons, Susan J. Wiseman EAST 10. Shakespeare in Shoreditch, Daniel Swift 11. Hostile Environments: Disinterring a Lascar Barracks in Nineteenth-Century Shadwell, Eliza Cubitt 12. 19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields: A Case Study in the Architecture of Migration and Diversity, Dan Cruikshank 13. The Slot-Meter and the East End Avant-Garde, Alex Grafen INFRASTRUCTURE: WASTE 14. Blockage and Recuperation: Sewer-Hunters in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor, Naomi Hinds SOUTH 15. Culture and Horticulture in Lambeth from ‘Tradescant’s Ark’ to Vauxhall Gardens, Charlotte Grant 16. The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg, Catherine Brown 17. 87 Hackford Road: The London of Vincent Van Gogh, Livia Wang 18. Writing London: Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia, Ruvani Ranasinha INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT I 19. Existing Triply: Race, Space and the London Transport Network, 1950s–70s, Rob Waters WEST 20. Scotch Hornpipes and African Elephants: The May Fair in 1700, Alistair Robinson 21. Feathered People in Enlightenment London: Queen of the Bluestockings meets Cherokee King, Elizabeth Eger 22. Prince Eugen in Kensington: Anglo-Scandinavian Artistic, Networks and the Stockholm Exhibition of 1897, Eva-Charlotta Mebius 23. ‘What a relief to be back in London’: The Silences of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Edmund de Waal 24. Tricksters of the Water: Sam Selvon's West London and the Migrant Experience, Peter Maber and Karishma Patel 25. Arabian Nights on the Edgware Road: Hanan al-Shaykh’s Only in London, Susie Thomas 26. The Grand Prince of Kyiv in Holland Park: The Statue of Saint Volodymyr, Sasha Dovzhyk 27. ‘Is real mas outside’: Community, Resistance and Notting Hill Carnival, Leighan Renaud 28. ‘Where the City Dissolves’: Suburban Diasporas, Psychosis and Reparative Writing, Martin Dines INFRASTRUCTURE: TRANSPORT II 29. A Bus for Everyone: The Role of the London Omnibus in Enabling Access to the City, Joe Kerr NORTH 30. John Keats and London: Nature, the City and the Suburbs, Flora Lisica 31. The Battle for an African Space in London: WASU Hostel and Aggrey House, William Whitworth 32. Northview: A Snapshot of Multiracial London during the Second World War, Oliver Ayers 33. Exiles of NW3: The ‘Free German League of Culture’ in Upper Park Road, David Anderson Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Academic East African Queer and Trans Displacements
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John Murray Press Mercury Pictures Presents
Book SynopsisChosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times, Stylist and Observer''A multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and moving'' Sunday Times, Book of the Year''In Mercury Pictures Presents . . . the story moves between the real war and the better version Hollywood is busy creating. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious'' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Observer, Books of the Year''Its prose pulses with humour, wit and affection'' Mail on SundayThe epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini''s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father Trade ReviewA smart satiric novel about Hollywood in the 1940s, war, fascism and personal drama -- ISABEL ALLENDE * Daily Mail, Best Reads of 2022 *Crackling with wit and suffused with insight, Anthony Marra's new novel is as epic in sweep as a movie set yet delineates the inner workings of the human heart with a miniaturist's precision. Mercury Pictures Presents explores the endless give-and-take between life and art, the cost of integrity, and the ways we must make peace with the past in order to move forward toward the future . . . A genuinely moving and life-affirming novel that's a true joy to read -- CELESTE NGSmart, heartfelt, and sneaky funny, Mercury Pictures Presents has all the breadth and power of an epic, and the attention to detail of an intimate conversation. I read it in a state of admiration for the beauty Anthony Marra has wrung from the English language -- SARA NOVIC, author of GIRL AT WAR and TRUE BIZA novel so rich and wondrous, written with such grace and wit, that there's only one word for Anthony Marra: a genius -- SALLY MANN, author of HOLD STILL, finalist for the National Book AwardAchingly beautiful . . . You laugh, then you sigh, then you weep. Extraordinary -- LUIS URREA, bestselling author THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY and THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTERMercury Pictures Presents is a wonder - intimate and sweeping, heartfelt and satirical, one of the funniest and most moving novels I've read in a long time. A novel of fascism, war, and refugees finding freedom through art and storytelling, it's both a joy to read and highly relevant to our times -- JESS WALTER, #1 New York Times bestselling author of BEAUTIFUL RUINS and THE ANGEL OF ROMEMarra brings his considerable gifts for scope and scene to early Hollywood, animating, as he does so thrillingly, the city, the players, the war, and the repercussions of small and huge actions on families, fates, countries, and film. And: this fully-realized world is also really funny! I laughed aloud many times, even as I marveled -- AIMEE BENDER, author of THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKEAnthony Marra is a writer of boundless talent: he is a top-notch historian, a razor-sharp social critic, a deeply sensitive psychologist, and an exuberant satirist - all at the same time . . . A singularly pleasurable read - smart, sad, hilarious, and always full of heart -- NATHAN HILL, bestselling author of THE NIXIt is impossible to do justice to Marra's smooth, sweeping style in bits - viewed in isolation, such descriptions could easily seem overwrought and clumsy - but knit together, these pieces have striking command and authority * International New York Times *The author's fans will recognize his elegant resolution of tangled disasters, his heartbreaking poignancy, his eye for historical curiosities that exceed the parameters of fiction... Marra unspools this period comedy with so much old-time snappy wit that Mercury Pictures Presents should come with popcorn and a 78-ounce Coke * Washington Post *You'll laugh, you'll cry in the marvelous 'Mercury Pictures Presents' about 1940s Hollywood * San Francisco Chronicle *Summer is a time for blockbusters and Anthony Marra has delivered the goods with Mercury Pictures Presents, a sweeping book about 1940s Hollywood, Mussolini's Italy and America's entry into the second world war . . . a deft and convincing writer with a sharp turn of phrase and a dark sense of humour that ignites every page... [It] will win him committed new fans and, if there is any literary justice, prizes * Spectator *Its inventive prose pulses with humour, wit and affection * Mail on Sunday *Marra's glowing prose brings the intricate story to life, and his chapter-and-verse world-building will thrill Golden Age devotees * Sight and Sound *A bravura work and a real thrill-ride * The Crack Magazine *Funny, verbally inventive and, ultimately, very moving, Mercury Pictures Presents is a wonderful novel * Sunday Times, Historical Fiction Book of the Month *An excellent holiday read -- TOM SUTCLIFFE * BBC Radio 4 Front Row *The success of Mercury Pictures Presents, both the novel and the Hollywood entity it depicts, is evanescent and ambiguous, enduring and clear all at once. Whether Artie, the showman, and Maria, the book's historical anchor and ethical conscience, will survive is one question, but the ideas posed by Marra's novel assuredly do, and they resonate all the more strongly through our own contemporary, distressingly fascist-adjacent, moment * New York Times *The story moves between the real war and the better version Hollywood is busy creating. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious -- Karen Joy Fowler * Observer *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Immigration History of Britain
Book SynopsisImmigration, ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism have become part of daily discourse in Britain in recent decades yet, far from being new, these phenomena have characterised British life since the 19th century. While the numbers of immigrants increased after the Second World War, groups such as the Irish, Germans and East European Jews have been arriving, settling and impacting on British society from the Victorian period onwards. In this comprehensive and fascinating account, Panikos Panayi examines immigration as an ongoing process in which ethnic communities evolve as individuals choose whether to retain their ethnic identities and customs or to integrate and assimilate into wider British norms. Consequently, he tackles the contradictions in the history of immigration over the past two centuries: migration versus government control; migrant poverty versus social mobility; ethnic identity versus increasing Anglicisation; and, above all, racism versus mTrade Review“This timely and engaging book, written by a leading authority on the subject, is a must-read for anyone who wants to find out how British society has been transformed by immigration in the period since 1800.” Professor John Solomos, author of Race and Racism in Britain“This is a brave and wide-ranging book that will challenge the reader to think about the nature of British society.” Professor Tony Kushner, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsPreface. List of illustrations. 1. A Country of Immigration? 2. Migration to Britain 3. Three Paths to Integration? Geography, Demography and Economics 4. Ethnicity, Identity and Britishness 5. Xenophobia and Racism 6. The Evolution of Multiculturalism 7. Conclusions, Contradictions and Continuities Bibliography. Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hinterland
Book Synopsis____________________''An illuminating and timely story that highlights the plight of refugees A book that haunts and shames in equal measure'' - Guardian''This short but heart-wrenching book ... brings home the terrible human consequences of war. Caroline Brothers' stark, unsentimental novel is one everyone should read'' - Daily Mail''Intensely evocative The emotional as well as geographical borderlands are sensitively delineated in this visceral and moving debut'' - Independent____________________The inspiration for Flight, the stunning play coming to the Bridge Theatre, from the creatives behind Harry Potter and the Cursed Child____________________Two young boys cross a river in the middle of the night. The river is also a border, and their lives depend on this journey. With nothing but the clothes on their backs, Aryan and his little broTrade ReviewAn illuminating and timely story that highlights the plight of refugees … A book that haunts and shames in equal measure * Guardian *This short but heart-wrenching book presents us with the tragic reality behind the words “refugee” and “asylum-seeker” and brings home the terrible human consequences of war. Caroline Brothers’ stark, unsentimental novel is one everyone should read * Daily Mail *Intensely evocative … Hinterland harrowingly exposes the hidden world of migrants … The emotional as well as geographical borderlands are sensitively delineated in this visceral and moving debut * Independent *A forceful account of two prototypical lost boys as they hazard ‘the great lottery’ of a journey across Europe. Brothers has the seasoned journalist’s eye for idiosyncratic detail and a sense for the riveting turnabouts that keep readers as off balance as her characters * New York Times Book Review *
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BUP - Policy Press Migration and Social Work
Book SynopsisWith cross-cultural perspectives from eight European countries, this book provides much-needed research on migration and social work. Focusing on the experiences and integration of refugees and asylum seekers, the text considers the impact of EU policies on borders and integration, and the rise of racism across European societies.
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Edinburgh University Press New Scots
Book SynopsisThis is the first wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary overview of immigration to Scotland in recent history and its impact on both the newcomers and the host society. It examines key themes relating to postwar migration by showcasing the experiences of many of Scotland's most striking immigrant communities.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Gold Rush Societies Environments and Migrant
Book SynopsisInvestigates the role of memory in forming ethnic and national identities in the early twentieth-century Tasman WorldTrade Review"Very well researched, and always alert both to the trends of current scholarship and to the nuances of the evidence. It is impressively but unobtrusively documented and written in a clear and engaging fashion." -Professor David Goodman, Professor of History, Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne
£24.69
University of Texas Press Accountability Across Borders
Book SynopsisA timely, transnational examination of the institutions in Mexico, Canada, and the United States that engage migrant populations in becoming agents of change for immigrant rights while holding government authorities accountable.Trade ReviewAccountability Across Borders offers a rich set of contributions that are needed to conceptualize American 'ethnic' history beyond the borders of the United States, toward one that is transnational, multiply defined, and takes seriously the question of migration, rights, and social movements. This anthology offers up a nuanced regional perspective on immigration that is a must-read for transnational advocates, non-governmental organizations, governmental organizations, immigration scholars, and any person who is interested in taking up immigration theory, policy, and practice. * Journal of American Ethnic History *This multidisciplinary essay collection adopts a transnational lens to examine the effects of migrant civil society, migration law, and enforcement agencies on migrants’ rights on both sides of the border in areas like employment, health, and education. The essays demonstrate that civic spaces are important not only to advocate for migrant rights in destination countries, but also to hold the governments of origin countries accountable to their nationals living abroad...With their wide-ranging approach to the study of migrant advocacy, these essays highlight the importance of examining both sides of the border. * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Introduction: Enforcing Rights across Borders (Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada ) Chapter 1. Mexican Migrant Civil Society: Propositions for Discussion (Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado ) Part I: North America Chapter 2. Global Governance and the Protection of Migrant Workers’ Rights in North America: In Search of a Theoretical Framework (José Ma. Serna de la Garza ) Chapter 3. The North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation and the Challenges to Protecting Low-Wage Migrant Workers (Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson ) Part II. Mexico Chapter 4. Mexican Migrant Federalism and Transnational Rights Advocacy (Adriana Sletza Ortega Ramírez ) Chapter 5. Rebuilding Justice We Can All Trust: The Plight of Migrant Victims (Ana Lorena Delgadillo, Alma García, and Rodolfo Córdova Alcaraz ) Chapter 6. With Dual Citizenship Comes Double Exclusion: US-Mexican Children and Their Struggle to Access Rights in Mexico (Mónica Jacobo-Suárez ) Part III. Canada Chapter 7. Transnational Labor Solidarity versus State-Managed Coercion: UFCW Canada, Mexico, and the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (Andrea Galvez, Pablo Godoy, and Paul Meinema ) Chapter 8. Assembling Noncitizen Access to Education in a Sanctuary City: The Place of Public School Administrator Bordering Practices (Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring ) Part IV. United States Chapter 9. Indigenous Maya Families from Yucatán in San Francisco: Hemispheric Mobility and Pedagogies of Diaspora (Patricia Baquedano-López ) Chapter 10. Binational Health Week: A Social Mobilization Program to Improve Latino Migrant Health (Liliana Osorio, Hilda Dávila, and Xóchitl Castañeda ) Chapter 11. “American in Every Way, Except for Their Papers”: How Mexico Supports Migrants’ Access to Membership in the United States (Alexandra Délano Alonso ) Epilogue: Theorizing State-Society Relations in a Multiscalar Context (Shannon Gleeson and Xóchitl Bada ) Editors and Contributors Index
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New York University Press The Coffin Ship
Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2022Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland's Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself.Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called coffin ships they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences Trade ReviewA richly detailed and deeply humane book, the first full-length scholarly study of the Atlantic and Pacific crossings between 1845 and 1855 ... The Coffin Ship is a beautifully executed and highly readable work of social history that critically redraws a central icon of the Famine. McMahon not only sensitively describes tragedies and terrors, but grants his characters individuality, voice and a sense of agency. He also reminds us that the experiences of these Famine refugees should make us more sympathetic towards the plight of today’s refugees. * The Irish Times *In this highly readable book, Cian T. McMahon shows how the ‘flash flood’ of emigration helped survivors at home and abroad to rebuild their lives after the Famine. The Coffin Ship, of course, has things to say about coffin ships; but its true originality lies in its steady focus on the resilience of those who braved the ocean, on how they experienced the voyage, and on how they coped with the alien world that awaited them. -- Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future and Famine: A Short HistoryYears ago the great writer Toni Morrison asked me if there were any books about immigrant ships that told their story of the ‘middle passage.’ I wish I could have given her a copy of Cian T. McMahon’s brilliant study, The Coffin Ship. -- Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human HistoryThe Coffin Ship is a meticulously researched, groundbreaking work of history that replaces myth and legend with the voices of those who endured the mass flight set in motion by the Great Famine. McMahon’s in-depth account makes clear that rather than being an incidental part of the trans-oceanic passage, the migrants’ shipboard experience played a central role in the formation of the Irish diaspora. The Coffin Ship enriches and enlightens our understanding of the suffering and resilience of the dispossessed down to the present day. It is an enduring achievement. -- Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New YorkA fascinating, original, and beautifully written study of the process by which more than a million Irish famine refugees made their way to North America and Australia in the 1840s and ’50s. Few authors have done a better job than Cian T. McMahon in recapturing these emigrants’ unimaginable traumas and triumphs. -- Tyler Anbinder, author of Five Points and City of DreamsThe fount of primary material used here, including emigrant correspondence, ship-company administrative and medical records, and Parliamentary papers lends this book a luminous quality, while the emigrant voices populating its pages enhance The Coffin Ship's scholarly solidity with compelling readability. This welcome contribution to Famine history deserves a wide readership. * Irish Literary Supplement *Through the use of poetry and quotations from primary documents, he breathes life anew into these individuals so that readers experience their emotions, joys, and sufferings ... Even though his study focuses on the Irish diaspora, he connects it to current issues concerning refugees. This is an invaluable addition for any collection dealing with the Great Famine, the Irish diaspora, and the refugee experience. * Pirates and Privateers *McMahon has given us a colorful and insightful social and cultural history of the emigrant experience that expands our understanding of an iconic image of Irish popular history. * Irish Historical Studies *In its critical approach to Famine emigrants as part of a victim diaspora, McMahon’s study breaks new ground... McMahon’s study rightfully nuances the idea of the coffin ship from a historical perspective and on the basis of the wide array of sources. As such, The Coffin Ship is a significant new contribution to the field of Irish Famine research. * American Historical Review *The Coffin Ship is an exemplary social history. The care and nuance McMahon brings to his analysis of the firsthand accounts that migrants leaving Ireland between 1845 and 1855 produced is evident on every page. Guilt, a social concept that historians rarely address, is foregrounded here as one of the tools that impoverished Irish tenant farmers had at their disposal. * The Journal of American History *The Coffin Ship is an exemplary social history. The care and nuance McMahon brings to his analysis of the firsthand accounts that migrants leaving Ireland between 1845 and 1855 produced is evident on every page. * Journal of American History *
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University Press of Mississippi Caribbean Masala Indian Identity in Guyana and
Book SynopsisIn 1833, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire led to the import of exploited South Asian indentured workers in the Caribbean under extreme oppression. Dave Ramsaran and Linden Lewis concentrate on the Indian descendants' processes of assimilating and adapting while trying to hold on to that which marks a group of people as distinct.
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Stanford University Press Understanding Global Migration
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Global Migration offers scholars a groundbreaking account of emerging migration states around the globe, especially in the Global South. Leading scholars of migration have collaborated to provide a birds-eye view of migration interdependence. Understanding Global Migration proposes a new typology of migration states, identifying multiple ideal types beyond the classical liberal type. Much of the world's migration has been to countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. The authors assembled here account for diverse histories of colonialism, development, and identity in shaping migration policy. This book provides a truly global look at the dilemmas of migration governance: Will migration be destabilizing, or will it lead to greater openness and human development? The answer depends on the capacity of states to manage migration, especially their willingness to respect the rights of the ever-growing portion of the world's population that is on the move.Trade Review"All nations today must balance tradeoffs between markets, rights, security, and culture to manage the international mobility of people successfully. Understanding Global Migration gathers together leading scholars to explain how these tradeoffs differ from nation to nation and why getting the balance right is essential for maintaining peace and prosperity."—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University"The contributors to Understanding Global Migration have been at the forefront of expanding our understanding of the role migration plays in the international system. This is a welcome addition to the field of migration studies."—Terri E. Givens, McGill University"Written by leading scholars in the field, this book provides a huge breakthrough. It is unique in providing a genuinely global view of how states—liberal and illiberal, Western and non-Western—deal with migration. Understanding Global Migration is essential reading for anyone desiring a fundamental understanding of migration politics."—Hein de Haas, Amsterdam University"This multidisciplinary collection of essays broadens the analysis of migration from the handful of cases that dominate popular discussion and scholarly literature—typically to do with migration to Europe from the Middle East and Africa and migration to the United States from Latin America. It adopts a global perspective, describing how countries in both the global North and the global South deal with migration."—Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs"[James] Hollifield and Neil Foley have brought together prominent migration scholars who contribute their expertise on various countries and regions.... This book will undoubtedly receive a wide audience because of its ambition and the incisive analyses of migration policy on a global scale."—Jeannette Money, International Affairs"Theoretically rich chapters are matched by accessible empirical data. The authors are delightfully candid in evaluating migration governance and holes in understanding. Highly recommended."—R. A. Harper, CHOICE"[Understanding Global Migration] promises to generate a vibrant discussion which will engage scholars of migration for generations to come. The rich details of individual cases coupled with an accessible theoretical framework makes this co-edited volume a uniquely valuable resource for political scientists and IR specialists, whose agenda Tsourapas perceptively notes, has been long neglected. But it is an indispensable read for all students of migration and human mobility, as well as for those interested in the nature of the state in a global order."—Gallya Lahav, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of Contents1. "Migration Interdependence and the State" —James F. Hollifield and Neil Foley 2. "The Southern African Migration System" —Audie Klotz 3. "Illiberal Migration Governance in the Arab Gulf" —Hélène Thiollet 4. "The Illiberal Paradox and the Politics of Migration in the Middle East" —Gerasimos Tsourapas 5. "Migration and Development in North and West Africa" —Yves Charbit 6. "The Developmental Migration State in East Asia" —Erin Aeran Chung 7. "International Migration and Development in Southeast Asia, 1990–2010" —Charles Hirschman 8. "The Indian Migration State" —Kamal Sadiq 9. "The Development of the US Migration State: Nativism, Liberalism, and Durable Structures of Exclusion" —Daniel Tichenor 10. "Who Belongs? Politics of Immigration, Nativism, and Illiberal Democracy in Postwar America" —Neil Foley 11. "Canada: The Quintessential Migration State?" —Phil Triadafilopoulos and Zack Taylor 12. "Migration and Economic Development: North American Experience" —Philip L. Martin 13. "International Migration and Refugee Movements in Latin America" —Miryam Hazán 14. "The Migration State in South America" —Charles P. Gomes 15. "Migration Governance in Turkey" —Fiona Adamson 16. "Beyond the Migration State: Western Europe since World War II" —Leo Lucassen 17. "Migration and the Liberal Paradox in Europe" —James F. Hollifield 18. "How Immigrants Fare in European Labor Markets" —Pieter Bevelander 19. "The European Union: Shaping Migration Governance in Europe and Beyond" —Andrew Geddes
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Stanford University Press Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right
Book SynopsisTens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth. By 1936, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians lived outside geographic Palestine. Transnational Palestine is the first book to explore the history of Palestinian immigration to Latin America, the struggles Palestinian migrants faced to secure Palestinian citizenship in the interwar period, and the ways in which these challenges contributed to the formation of a Palestinian diaspora and to the emergence of Palestinian national consciousness. Nadim Bawalsa considers the migrants' strategies for economic success in the diaspora, for preserving their heritage, and for resisting British mandate legislation, including citizenship rejections meted out to thousands of Palestinian migrants. They did this in newspapers, social and cultural clubs and associations, political organizations and committees, and in hundreds of petitions and pleas delivered to local and international governing bodies demanding justice for Palestinian migrants barred from Palestinian citizenship. As this book shows, Palestinian political consciousness developed as a thoroughly transnational process in the first half of the twentieth century—and the first articulation of a Palestinian right of return emerged well before 1948.Trade Review"A significant contribution to the history of Palestinian transnational activism. Anchoring his story in the lives of Palestinians in Latin America, Nadim Bawalsa amplifies the diasporic dimension of the 'right of return.' A must read for scholar-activists of the modern Middle East, inter-war politics, and national liberation struggles."—Sarah M.A. Gualtieri, author of Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California"Transnational Palestine is an extensive and original investigation into the lives of early Palestinian migrants in Latin America. Nadim Bawalsa has an uncanny ability to evoke from submerged archival sources and diaspora presses the adventures and tribulations of those pioneering travelers."—Salim Tamari, author of The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine"Bawalsa succeeds in widening the reader's temporal and geographical horizons when thinking about the right of return, and in doing so, he helps us to better understand the Palestinians history of dispossession."—Marc Martorell Junyent, Mondoweiss"Transnational Palestine tells of the painful struggle of loyal sons and daughters of Palestine against Britain's theft of their national identity, decades before 1948, the first group of marooned, stateless, Palestinian exiles. It's a story of British perfidy and Palestinian persistence, which Bawalsa says no previous book has told. Moreover, he shows how the dogged and sophisticated resistance campaign of these Palestinians contributed to their nation's political organization and identity formation during the British Mandate period."—Steve France, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs"Nadim Bawalsa's Transnational Palestine is a significant contribution to the history of Mandate Palestine, and illuminates the role of British citizenship laws in the dispossession of Palestinians. By exposing the ways Palestinians living abroad (referred to as the mahjar) were denied citizenship by the British Empire during their mandate over Palestine, Bawalsa effectively reframes the fight for right of return of Palestinians both historically and geographically, and reveals its emergence as a response to British imperial governance Transnational Palestine underscores citizenship as a tool in settler colonial projects where relationship to land does not guarantee rights within it or to it."—Randa Tawil, International Journal of Middle East Studies"Through a treasure trove of documents, including applications, appeals, protests and personal correspondence, Bawalsa reveals the relentless struggle of overseas Palestinians, who were torn between their new-found prosperity and peace in the Americas, and their roots in a homeland on the cusp of slipping away."—Omar Ahmed, Middle East Monitor
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Strangers at Our Door
Book SynopsisRefugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an extreme form of this historical dynamic, as our TV screens and newspapers are filled with accounts of a 'migration crisis', ostensibly overwhelming Europe and portending the collapse of our way of life. This anxious debate has given rise to a veritable 'moral panic' - a feeling of fear spreading among a large number of people that some evil threatens the well-being of society. In this short book Zygmunt Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of this moral panic - he dissects, in short, the present-day migration panic. He shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread, especially among those who have already lost so much - the disinherited and the poor. But he argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided. It may bring some short-term reassurance but it is doomed to fail in the long run. We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.Trade Review"Strangers at Our Door puts forward an alternative narrative, one that is humanitarian, about refugees and migrants. It succeeds in combating the racist propaganda churned out by the media and our politicians." Socialist ReviewTable of Contents1. Migration Panic and its (Mis)uses 2. Floating Insecurity in Search of an Anchor 3. On Strongmen's (and Strongwomen's) Trail 4. Together and Crowded 5. Troublesome, Annoying, Unwanted: Inadmissible... 6. Anthropological vs. Time-bound Roots of Hatred
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Kindertransport: What Really Happened
Book SynopsisIn 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a complex visa waiver scheme, and its organizers did not necessarily act with altruism. The British government required a guarantee to indemnify itself against any expenses, and refused to admit the child refugees’ parents. The selection criteria prioritized those who were likely to make the best contribution to society, rather than the most urgent cases. And some children and young people were placed in unsuitable homes, where many arrangements irrevocably broke down. Written with striking empathy and insight, Andrea Hammel’s expert analysis casts new light on what really happened during the Kindertransport. Revelatory and impassioned, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of migration and refugees, and offers thought-provoking lessons for how we might make life easier for children fleeing conflict today.Trade Review‘Andrea Hammel’s overview of the Kindertransport is a remarkable achievement. With compassion and sensitivity, the author has managed to convey the full complexities of the scheme and has put at the forefront the experiences of these Jewish refugee children which ranged from love and understanding to economic and sexual abuse.’Tony Kushner, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton‘An impressively well researched account that is at once fascinating and deeply moving. Hammel skilfully balances compassion and insight to lay bare the detail of the Kindertransport in a remarkably detailed and nuanced way. It is sure to become a definitive text on the subject.’James Bulgin, Head of Public History, Imperial War Museums‘The Kindertransport…has always been regarded as a symbol of British generosity towards those in peril and seeking asylum. But it was all rather more complicated, as Andrea Hammel sets out to show.’The Spectator‘Andrea Hammel aims to dig deeper and remind the world that the story does not quite sparkle as brightly as some, particularly successive British governments, have wished to portray.’The Irish Times‘a model for good history writing... Hammel takes nothing for granted but examines all aspects with relentless precision. She gives us a welcome guide to critical thinking along with a compelling story.’New York Journal of BooksTable of Contents1. Myth 2. Persecution 3. Escape 4. Organisation 5. Placements 6. War 7. Death 8. Together/Apart 9. Life 10. Memory
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Migration as Economic Imperialism: How
Book SynopsisFor several decades, wealthy states, international development agencies and multinational corporations have encouraged labour migration from the Global South to the Global North. As well as providing essential workers to support the transformation of advanced economies, the remittances that migrants send home have been touted as the most promising means of national development for poor and undeveloped countries. As Immanuel Ness argues in this sharp corrective to conventional wisdom, temporary labour migration represents the most recent form of economic imperialism and global domination. A closer look at the economic and social evidence demonstrates that remittances deepen economic exploitation, unravel societal stability and significantly expand economic inequality between poor and rich societies. The book exposes the damaging political, economic and social effects of migration on origin countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and how border and security mechanisms control and marginalize low-wage migrant workers, especially women and youth. Ness asserts that remittances do not bring growth to poor countries but extend national dependence on the export of migrant workers, leading to warped and unequal development on the global periphery. This expert take will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of migration and development across the social sciences.Trade Review‘Whether named colonialism, neocolonialism or globalization, imperialism still organizes much of the world economy. This book systematically locates labour migration within the capitalist imperialism that overdetermines it . . . thereby adding an overdue critical perspective to the study of labour migration.’Richard D. Wolff, The New School, New York‘In this insightful critique of the migration‒development nexus, Ness argues for rethinking migration as a benefit to sending countries. Through a global economic imperialism lens, he proposes that labor migration is one more peg in the extractive history of wealthy countries, further disempowering poorer sending countries. This meaningful intervention in debates about labour migration will be of great interest and will be read widely.’Cecilia Menjívar, University of California, Los Angeles‘Manny Ness is a tireless labor historian whose many works occupy significant space on any well-stocked bookshelf. His latest release […] shows that there is an urgent need to tie [migration and imperialism] together.’LeftTwoThree‘In this well researched and informative book, Ness digs into multiple facets of the global economy of migration. […] The essential role of migrant labor in global capitalism tends to be underappreciated, and Ness performs a valuable service in exposing the widespread and destabilizing dynamics of that process.’CounterpunchTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 Neoliberal Capitalism, Imperialism, and Labour MigrationChapter 2 Underdevelopment and Labour Migration as Economic ImperialismChapter 3 Labour Migration and Origin CountriesChapter 4 Labour Migration and Destination StatesChapter 5 The Damage of BordersConclusion: Dismantling the Migration–Development Nexus
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Manchester University Press Migrating Borders and Moving Times: Temporality
Book SynopsisMigrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalities. This book provides both a single interpretative frame and a novel approach to border crossing: an analysis of the reconfiguration of memory, personal and group time that follows the migrants' renegotiation of cross-border space and recalibrations of temporality.Trade Review‘A superb collection of contemporary excursions into little explored European worlds and from the vantage point of migrants themselves.’Brad Blitz, Middlesex University, EuropeNow Issue 25 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crossing borders, changing timesMadeleine Hurd, Hastings Donnan and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits1 EU cross-border Passagenwerk Olivier Thomas Kramsch2 Negotiating 'neighbourliness' in Sarajevo apartment blocks Zaira Lofranco3 Border crossings, shame and (re-)narrating the past in the Ukrainian-Romanian borderlandsKathryn Cassidy4 Travelling genealogies: tracing relatedness and diversity in the Albanian-Montenegrin borderlandJelena Tosic5 Living on borrowed time: borders, ticking clocks and timelessness among temporary labour migrants in Israel Robin A. Harper and Hani Zubida6 New pasts, presents and futures: time and space in family migrant networks between Kosovo and western Europe Carolin Leutloff-Grandits7 Silenced border crossings and gendered material flows in southern AlbaniaNataša Gregoric Bon8 Missing migrants: deaths at sea and unidentified bodies in Lesbos Iosif Kovras and Simon Robins
£17.85
Manchester University Press Migration into Art: Transcultural Identities and
Book SynopsisThis book addresses a topic of increasing importance to artists, art historians and scholars of cultural studies, migration studies and international relations: migration as a profoundly transforming force that has remodelled artistic and art institutional practices across the world. It explores contemporary art’s critical engagement with migration and globalisation as a key source for improving our understanding of how these processes transform identities, cultures, institutions and geopolitics. The author explores three interwoven issues of enduring interest: identity and belonging, institutional visibility and recognition of migrant artists, and the interrelations between aesthetics and politics, including the balancing of aesthetics, politics and ethics in representations of forced migration.Trade Review‘[…] an interesting view on the phenomenon of migration, which is not examined primarily through the prism of its current economic, social, political or security implications, but with regards to contemporary art. Despite this, the issue is embedded in a broader historical and theoretical framework – Petersen points out the so-called “mobility turn”, for instance. In the clarification of the concept of migration, she primarily refers to the book by T. J. Demos – The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (2013), containing the definitions of the main types of migration (diaspora, refugees, nomadism), which she further specifies (circular migration). Regarding the analysis of specific works, she deals with the concept of “migratory aesthetics”, referring to Mieke Bal and Griselda Pollock and, to the correlations of aesthetics, politics and ethics.’Jana Geržová, Profile / Contemporary Art Magazine, No. 4 (2018) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Globalisation-from-above and globalisation-from-below2 The politics of identity and recognition in the 'global art world'3 The artist as migrant worker4 Mining the museum in an age of migration5 Identification, disidentification and the imaginative reconfiguration of identity6 Migrant geographies and European politics of irregular migrationConclusionIndex
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