Hakutulokset: Sarja Studies of World Migrations
yhteensä 13 hakutulosta
The Yankee Yorkshireman
Mary H. Blewett offers a textual and contextual appraisal of the writings of Yorkshire-born Hedley Smith (1909–94). Smith's depiction of the fictional mill village of Briardale, …
Hong Kong Movers and Stayers
Half a million Hong Kong residents fled their homeland during the thirteen years before Hong Kong's reversion to China in 1997. Nearly half of those returned within the next …
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in São Paulo
Syrian and Lebanese immigrants to Brazil chose to settle in urban areas, a marked contrast to many other migrant groups. In São Paulo, these newcomers embraced new lives as …
The Immigrant Threat
Starting in the 1980s, anti-immigrant discourse shifted away from the "color" of immigrants to their religion and culture. It focused in particular on newcomers from Muslim …
Russia in Motion
Since its rapid imperial expansion in the seventeenth century, Russia's politics, society, and culture have exerted a profound influence on movement throughout Eurasia. The …
Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment
Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ng?c Tr?n concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers …
Emotional Landscapes
Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power …
Reclaiming Diasporic Identity
The Hmong diaspora radiates from Southeast Asia to include far-flung nations like the United States, New Zealand, and Argentina. Sangmi Lee draws on the concept of diasporic …
Migration, Class and Transnational Identities
Val Colic-Peisker harnesses concepts and theories from sociology, anthropology, and political science to compare the vastly different experiences of two Croatian immigrant cohorts …
A Century of Transnationalism
This collection of articles by sociologically minded historians and historically minded sociologists highlights both the long-term persistence and the continuing instability of …
Africans in Europe
What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and …
Citizenship and Those Who Leave
Exit, like entry, has helped define citizenship over the last two centuries, yet little attention has been given to the politics of emigration. How have countries impeded or …