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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration

Theorising Integration and Assimilation (Hardcover): Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul Theorising Integration and Assimilation (Hardcover)
Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul
R4,360 Discovery Miles 43 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Theorising Integration and Assimilation discusses the current theories of integration and assimilation, particularly those focused on the native-born children of immigrants, the second generation. Using empirical research to challenge many of the dominant perspectives on the assimilation of immigrants and their children in the western world in political and media discourse, the book covers a wide range of topics including: transatlantic perspectives and a focus on the lessons to be mutually learnt from American and European approaches to integration and assimilation rich empirical data on the assimilation/integration of second generations in various contexts a new theoretical approach to integration processes in urban settings on both sides of the Atlantic This volume brings together leading scholars in Migration and Integration Studies to provide a summary of the central theories in this area. It will be an important introduction for scholars, researchers and students of Migration, Integration, and Ethnic Studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Transnational Research in English Language Teaching - Critical Practices and Identities (Paperback): Rashi Jain, Bedrettin... Transnational Research in English Language Teaching - Critical Practices and Identities (Paperback)
Rashi Jain, Bedrettin Yazan, Suresh Canagarajah
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume contributes to the creation of a comprehensive and a more inclusive understanding of an increasingly complex global ELT landscape across countries as well as across teaching and learning settings. The volume brings together inquiries from language teachers, educators and researchers from different backgrounds in the Global South and the Global North, who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the shaping of their pedagogical, research and professional practices across higher education settings. The chapters weave the personal, professional and theoretical in a seamless manner, examining transnational identities and pedagogical practices formed and informed by both communities - 'home' and 'host' - and include narratives that are not unidirectional. The contributing authors also use a variety of qualitative research methods, along with reflexive writing and exploration of the authors' own positionalities, to shed light on transnational identities and critique dominant pedagogical assumptions.

Nationalism and Multiculturalism in a World of Immigration (Hardcover): N. Holtug, K Lippert-Rasmussen, S. Laegaard Nationalism and Multiculturalism in a World of Immigration (Hardcover)
N. Holtug, K Lippert-Rasmussen, S. Laegaard
R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This anthology contributes to the still emerging theoretical debates in political theory and philosophy about multiculturalism, nationalism and immigration. It focuses on multiculturalism and nationalism as factual consequences of, and normative responses to, immigration and on the normative significance (or lack thereof) of the notion of culture.

The International Refugee Crisis - British and Canadian Responses (Hardcover): Vaughan Robinson The International Refugee Crisis - British and Canadian Responses (Hardcover)
Vaughan Robinson
R2,962 Discovery Miles 29 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There may be 20 million refugees around the world today. For many, their search for freedom ends in camps in countries of first asylum. There they wait for offers of permanent resettlement in the West. This book explores how two countries traditionally noted for their humanitarian treatment of refugees have responded to the refugee crisis of the 1980s and 90s, how they have recast their admission criteria, developed reception policies and constructed resettlement programmes.

Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers - Explorations in Global Care Chains (Hardcover): N. Yeates Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers - Explorations in Global Care Chains (Hardcover)
N. Yeates
R3,442 Discovery Miles 34 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Workers providing social and health care services lie at the heart of migration patterns underpinning current gobalization processes. Using a 'global care chains' perspective the author describes and analyses the experiences of migrant care workers, maps the extent, forms and governance of care services internationalisation and considers the policy implications in developed and developing countries. This multi-disciplinary analysis draws on original empirical research and advances a theoretical perspective that sheds new light on contemporary and historical dimensions of this migration.

Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples - Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Paperback): Dawn... Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples - Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Paperback)
Dawn Chatty, Marcus Colchester
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

" This volume] presents an admirable set of case studies on the effects of modern conservation projects on local peoples from across the globe. The great strength of the volume lies in the diversity of cases." - International Journal of African Historical Studies ." . . this book will be the source material for future generations of researchers . . . The many arguments in this book will challenge and hopefully bring forward vigorous debate about the aims and goals of sustainable development and conservation tools." - The Indigenous Nations Studies Journal Wildlife conservation and other environmental protection projects can have tremendous impact on the lives and livelihoods of the often mobile, difficult-to-reach, and marginal peoples who inhabit the same territory. The contributors to this collection of case studies, social scientists as well as natural scientists, are concerned with this human element in biodiversity. They examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities forced to move or to settle elsewhere in order to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case studies investigate successful and not so successful community-managed, as well as local participatory, conservation projects in Africa, the Middle East, South and South Eastern Asia, Australia and Latin America. There are lessons to be learned from recent efforts in community managed conservation and this volume significantly contributes to that discussion. Dawn Chatty is General Editor of Studies in Forced Migration and teaches at the Center for Refugee Studies of the University of Oxford. Marcus Colchester works for the Forest Peoples Programme.

Family Separation and the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis (Hardcover): Laurie Collier Hillstrom Family Separation and the U.S.-Mexico Border Crisis (Hardcover)
Laurie Collier Hillstrom
R1,347 Discovery Miles 13 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume provides an authoritative, evenhanded overview of the Trump administration's family separation and child detention policies at the U.S.-Mexico border-and the impact of those policies and actions on children, their parents, border security, and U.S. politics. The 21st Century Turning Points series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today. Each volume provides readers with a clear, authoritative, and unbiased understanding of a single issue or event that is driving national debate about our nation's leaders, institutions, values, and priorities. This particular volume is devoted to the issue of child migrant detention on the U.S.-Mexico border. It provides background information on the political, social, and economic forces driving undocumented immigration into America; explains the policies and records of both the Obama and Trump administrations on immigration, deportation, and border security; summarizes current laws and regulations governing U.S. border and immigration policies; recounts President Trump's rhetoric and record on both legal and "illegal" immigration, including his promise to build a "Border Wall" with funds from Mexico; surveys living conditions in the border detention centers operated by U.S. authorities; and discusses the impact of detention and family separation on children taken into custody. Entries devoted to specific events and milestones Biographical profiles of important activists and figures Essays that explore the lasting impact of child detention on migrant children, their families, immigration trends, and American politics and society Annotated bibliography of sources for further study

Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples - Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Hardcover): Dawn... Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples - Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
Dawn Chatty, Marcus Colchester
R3,258 Discovery Miles 32 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Wildlife conservation and other environmental protection projects can have tremendous impact on the lives and livelihoods of the often mobile, difficult-to-reach, and marginal peoples who inhabit the same territory. The contributors to this collection of case studies, social scientists as well as natural scientists, are concerned with this human element in biodiversity. They examine the interface between conservation and indigenous communities forced to move or to settle elsewhere in order to accommodate environmental policies and biodiversity concerns. The case studies investigate successful and not so successful community-managed, as well as local participatory, conservation projects in Africa, the Middle East, South and South Eastern Asia, Australia and Latin America. There are lessons to be learned from recent efforts in community managed conservation and this volume significantly contributes to that discussion.

The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan - Resilience and Survival (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Venkat Pulla The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan - Resilience and Survival (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Venkat Pulla
R3,418 Discovery Miles 34 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides insight into one of the world's quietest human rights abuses. The story of the Lhotsampa people of Bhutan describes their journey of coping and resilience, incorporating qualitative research undertaken in the refugee camps in Nepal and resettlement areas in Australia and elsewhere in the world.

Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror' (Hardcover): Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos,... Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror' (Hardcover)
Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer
R4,070 Discovery Miles 40 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent 'war on terror'. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much mainstream political and media debate since the attacks on America in 2001 and the London bombings in 2005, not least because liberal democratic governments in Europe and North America have invoked such attacks to justify the regulation of migration and the criminalisation of 'minority' groups. Responding to the consequent erosion of the liberal democratic rights of the individual, leading scholars assess the various ways in which literary texts support and/or interrogate the conflation of narratives of transnational migration and perceived terrorist threats to national security. This crucial debate is furthered by contrasting analyses of the manner in which novelists from the UK, North Africa, the US and Palestine have represented 9/11, exploring the event's contexts and ramifications. This path-breaking study complicates the simplistic narratives of revenge and wronged innocence commonly used to make sense of the attacks and to justify the US response. Each novel discussed seeks to interrogate and analyse a discourse typically dominated by consent, belligerence and paranoia. Together, the collected essays suggest the value of literature as an effective critical intervention in the very fraught political aftermath of the 'war on terror'. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Challenging Ethnic Citizenship - German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Daniel Levy,... Challenging Ethnic Citizenship - German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Daniel Levy, Yfaat Weiss
R2,945 Discovery Miles 29 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In contrast to most other countries, both Germany and Israel have descent-based concepts of nationhood and have granted members of their nation (ethnic Germans and Jews) who wish to immigrate automatic access to their respective citizenship privileges. Therefore these two countries lend themselves well to comparative analysis of the integration process of immigrant groups, who are formally part of the collective "self" but increasingly transformed into "others." The book examines the integration of these 'privileged' immigrants in relation to the experiences of other minority groups (e.g. labor migrants, Palestinians). This volume offers rich empirical and theoretical material involving historical developments, demographic changes, sociological problems, anthropological insights, and political implications. Focusing on the three dimensions of citizenship: sovereignty and control, the allocation of social and political rights, and questions of national self-understanding, the essays bring to light the elements that are distinctive for either society but also point to similarities that owe as much to nation-specific characteristics as to evolving patterns of global migration.

Country on the Move: Migration to and within Israel, 1948-1995 (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): Gabriel Lipshitz Country on the Move: Migration to and within Israel, 1948-1995 (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Gabriel Lipshitz
R3,033 Discovery Miles 30 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Country on the Move presents original research and a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of the spatial aspects of migration. It considers the spatial results of two diametrically opposed policies: planning from above to settle the North African and Asian newcomers in the 1950s, and planning by market forces for immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Unlike other books on immigration, Country on the Move also analyzes internal migration within Israel, which is an outcome of the regional disparities produced by immigration. Moreover, it compares the empirical findings in Israel with international trends, and its analysis can serve as a foundation for setting spatial immigration policy. Audience: Researchers specializing in population geography, migration, and regional development; university students on all levels who are taking courses in these subjects; and top officials in government ministries that deal with immigration.

Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women (Hardcover): Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women (Hardcover)
Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson
R4,082 Discovery Miles 40 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia, Christians, Muslims and Buddhists, who migrate to Asia, Europe and the Middle East to work as carers and maids, re-imagine and recreate themselves in moral and ethical terms in the diaspora. This timely collection shows how women international migrants, stereotypically represented as a nation of servants', reclaim sacralised spaces of sociality in their migration destinations, and actively transform themselves from mere workers into pilgrims and tourists on cosmopolitan journeys. Such women struggle for dignity and respect by re-defining themselves in terms of an ethics of care and sacrifice. As co-worshippers they recreate community through fiestas, feasts, protests, and shared conviviality, while subverting established normativities of gender, marriage and conjugality; they renegotiate their moral selfhood through religious conversion and activism. For migrants the place of the church or mosque becomes a gateway to new intellectual and experiential horizons as well as a locus for religious worship and a haven of humanitarian assistance in a strange land. This book was published as a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology.

Beyond Networks - Feedback in International Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Oliver Bakewell, Godfried Engbersen, Maria... Beyond Networks - Feedback in International Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Oliver Bakewell, Godfried Engbersen, Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Cindy Horst
R2,599 R1,918 Discovery Miles 19 180 Save R681 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume explores migration movements to Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Portugal from Brazil, Morocco and Ukraine, focusing on how the migration processes of yesterday influence those of today. The central analytical tool for this undertaking is the concept of feedback. This volume identifies various feedback mechanisms that initiate, perpetuate and reverse migration movements. It pays attention to the role of personal networks, but it also moves beyond networks by analysing the role of institutions, macro-level factors and forms of broadcast feedback operating through impersonal channels. Based on extensive surveys and in-depth interviews, it changes our understanding of how and why patterns of international migration change over time.

Migration and Economic Development (Hardcover, 1992 ed.): Klaus F. Zimmermann Migration and Economic Development (Hardcover, 1992 ed.)
Klaus F. Zimmermann
R4,480 Discovery Miles 44 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Klaus F. Zimmermann Migration has become a topic of substantial interest in Europe in recent years. Part of this interest is driven by the important political changes in East Europe and the potential threat of large East-West migration waves. However, due to the large differences in economic development a substantial migration pressure is also expected from the South of Europe as of other parts of the world. The global migration potential towards the higher developed areas has reached about 80 to 100 million people. Thereof, about 60 million would like to move permanently, 20 million temporarily and about 15 million are refugees and asylum seekers and approximately 30 million are iIIegals. The book consists of eight papers which are allocated to five parts: Theoretical Models (Part I), Performance of Migrants (Part 11), Migration Within Developing Countries (Part IV) and Immigration Policy (Part V)' Each paper begins with a brief summary of its content. Part I, Theoretical Models, contains first "A Microeconomic Zlmm.r-mann VI Model of Migration" by Siegfried Berninghaus and Hans-GUnther Seifert-Vogt. They study migration decision making under incomplete information and apply it to empirically relevant phenomena. The second paper by Gerhard Schmitt-Rink "Migration and International Factor Price Equalization" demonstrates that international migration tends to equalize national factor prices and factor shares even in the absence of international trade. In Part II, Performance of Migrants, Lucie Merkle and Klaus F.

Minor Feelings - A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition (Paperback): Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings - A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition (Paperback)
Cathy Park Hong
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What happens when an immigrant believes the lies they're told about their own racial identity?

For Cathy Park Hong, they experience the shame and difficulty of "minor feelings".

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up in America steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these "minor feelings" occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality. With sly humour and a poet's searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and artmaking, and to family and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche - and of a writer's search to both uncover and speak the truth.

Cultural Globalization and Music - African Artists in Transnational Networks (Hardcover): Nadia Kiwan, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof Cultural Globalization and Music - African Artists in Transnational Networks (Hardcover)
Nadia Kiwan, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
R2,933 Discovery Miles 29 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies.

Global Migrants, Global Refugees - Problems and Solutions (Paperback): Aristide R. Zolberg, Peter M. Benda Global Migrants, Global Refugees - Problems and Solutions (Paperback)
Aristide R. Zolberg, Peter M. Benda
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In recent years, several influential commentators have stated or strongly implied that the advanced industrial democracies are today being overwhelmed by a host of problems - including rapid population growth, the breakup of multi-ethnic states, environmental degredation, and increasing economic differentials between the "developing" and "developed" worlds - for which no effective solutions are at hand. The migration-inducing potential of these post-Cold War developments has been a particular source of concern. This volume provides a counter-catastrophic view of developments and a more sober and balanced assessment of the challenges the United States and other industrial democracies face in the sphere of international migration than that offered in recent years. The first part is devoted to a diagnosis of the problem, revalution of the notion of a "migration crisis" by examining the likely consequences of population growth, environmental degredation, and political conflict in the developing and post-communist worlds. Special attention is also given to the manifestations of these forces in the western hemisphere where they may have direct consequences for immigration to the United States. In the second part the implications for U.S. policy are considered, ranging from promotion of democracy and development of strategies for minimizing international migrations and refugee flows to the intricacies of humanitarian relief and intervention when preventive measures prove ineffective. Aristide R. Zolberg Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship at the Graduate Faculty, New School University, New York. Peter M. Benda is Associate Director of the Center on Policy Attitudes and the Program on International Policy Attitudes, Washington D.C.

India Migration Report 2011 - Migration, Identity and Conflict (Hardcover): S.Irudaya Rajan India Migration Report 2011 - Migration, Identity and Conflict (Hardcover)
S.Irudaya Rajan
R4,095 Discovery Miles 40 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines identities, violence and conflict in the context of internal migration within India. As India prepares to count its citizens for Census 2011 with a proposal for a National Population Register and a unique identity card for every Indian citizen, the debate on internal and cross-border migration is significant. The second volume in this annual series, India Migration Report 2011 focuses on the implications of internal migration, livelihood strategies, recruitment processes, and development and policy concerns in critically reviewing the existing institutional framework.

The essays provide a district-level analysis of the various facets of migration with a focus on employment networks, gender dimensions and migration?development linkages, with concrete policy suggestions to improve living and working conditions of vulnerable migrant workers who are a lifeline to the growth of Indian economy. This will be an invaluable resource for those in the fields of demography, economics, sociology, public policy and administration.

Europe in Black and White - Immigration, Race, and Identity in the 'Old Continent' (Paperback): Manuela Ribeiro... Europe in Black and White - Immigration, Race, and Identity in the 'Old Continent' (Paperback)
Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Fernando Clara, Joao Ferreira Duarte, Leonor Pires Martins
R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The essays in "Europe in Black and White "offer new critical perspectives on race, immigration, and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference, such as multiculturalism and hybridity, the contributors address a number of issues, including the cartography of postcolonial Europe, its relation to the production of "difference" and "race," and national and identity politics and their dependence on linguistic practices inherited from imperial times. Featuring scholars from a wide variety of nationalities and disciplinary areas, this collection will speak to an equally wide readership.

Creating Welcoming Learning Environments - Using Creative Arts Methods in Language Classrooms (Paperback): Jane Andrews, Maryam... Creating Welcoming Learning Environments - Using Creative Arts Methods in Language Classrooms (Paperback)
Jane Andrews, Maryam Almohammad
R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a world where migration is a daily reality, the ways in which affirming educational experiences can be provided for all children remain high on the agendas of schools, colleges and teachers. This book provides practical ideas for how children, young people and parents can feel welcomed and affirmed in their multilingual identities and all learners can feel intrigued and excited by the linguistic diversity of the world's people. The book will be an invaluable resource for educational practitioners, researchers, trainee teachers, teacher educators and all who are passionate about bringing together creative arts approaches with language learning and teaching. By blending academic theory with tried-and-tested classroom practice the authors will inspire readers to adapt the featured activities for their own contexts and learners.

Amnesty (Hardcover): Aravind Adiga Amnesty (Hardcover)
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R511 R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Save R85 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A Guardian, Financial Times, The Millions, Vulture, and Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated of 2020 'An immigrant's view conveyed with authority and wit . . . Adiga is a startlingly fine observer, and a complicator, in the manner of V.S. Naipaul.' New York Times From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma. Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal Australian life. But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. When Danny recognizes a jacket left at the murder scene, he believes it belongs to another of his clients - a doctor with whom he knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported, or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities. Suspenseful, propulsive, and full of Aravind Adiga's signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.

Europe in Exile - European Exile Communities in Britain 1940-45 (Paperback): Martin Conway, Jose Gotovitch Europe in Exile - European Exile Communities in Britain 1940-45 (Paperback)
Martin Conway, Jose Gotovitch
R850 Discovery Miles 8 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During World War II, London was transformed into a European city, as it unexpectedly became a place of refuge for many thousands of European citizens who through choice or the accidents of war found themselves seeking refuge in Britain from the military campaigns on the Continent of Europe. In this volume, an international team of historians consider the exile groups from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway and Czechoslovakia, analysing not merely the relations between the plethora of exile regimes and the British government in terms of its military and social dimensions but also the legacy of this period of exile for the politics of post-war Europe. Particular attention is paid to the Belgian exiles, the most numerous exile population in Britain during World War II.

Remembering Child Migration - Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity (Hardcover): Gordon Lynch Remembering Child Migration - Faith, Nation-Building and the Wounds of Charity (Hardcover)
Gordon Lynch
R4,130 Discovery Miles 41 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 1850 and 1970, around three hundred thousand children were sent to new homes through child migration programmes run by churches, charities and religious orders in the United States and the United Kingdom. Intended as humanitarian initiatives to save children from social and moral harm and to build them up as national and imperial citizens, these schemes have in many cases since become the focus of public censure, apology and sometimes financial redress. Remembering Child Migration is the first book to examine both the American 'orphan train' programmes and Britain's child migration schemes to its imperial colonies. Setting their work in historical context, it discusses their assumptions, methods and effects on the lives of those they claimed to help. Rather than seeing them as reflecting conventional child-care practice of their time, the book demonstrates that they were subject to criticism for much of the period in which they operated. Noting similarities between the American 'orphan trains' and early British migration schemes to Canada, it also shows how later British child migration schemes to Australia constituted a reversal of what had been understood to be good practice in the late Victorian period. At its heart, the book considers how welfare interventions motivated by humanitarian piety came to have such harmful effects in the lives of many child migrants. By examining how strong moral motivations can deflect critical reflection, legitimise power and build unwarranted bonds of trust, it explores the promise and risks of humanitarian sentiment.

Fringe Voices - Texts by and about Minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany (Hardcover): Antje Harnisch, Anne Marie... Fringe Voices - Texts by and about Minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany (Hardcover)
Antje Harnisch, Anne Marie Stokes, Friedemann Weidauer
R4,467 Discovery Miles 44 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since German unification, there have been many reports about xenophobia in Germany and the government has attempted to stem the new wave of racism. In contrast, the voices of the victims of racism -- refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants -- are seldom heard.
This first anthology of essays by significant writers from minority groups in Germany -- Turks, Afro-Germans, German Jews, Eastern Europeans and others -- sheds new light on the diverse experiences of minority groups living in Germany today. It also introduces to English-speaking audiences innovative literary talents whose contribution to German culture has not yet received the attention it deserves.
Students of contemporary German culture who wish to increase their understanding of the changing nature of German society will find this book invaluable. It will also be of interest to anyone following the rise of xenophobia in Germany, its possible causes, and the changing politics of immigration.

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