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

Tracking Tourists - Movement and Mobility (Hardcover): Anne Hardy Tracking Tourists - Movement and Mobility (Hardcover)
Anne Hardy
R3,136 Discovery Miles 31 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unlike previous texts that have focussed on migratory patterns of tourists and new mobilities in tourism, Tracking Tourists: Movement and mobility is the first text to address tourist movement in from a methodological angle in the post-digital era. It assesses how movement and migration has been recorded in the past, how it may be recorded and assessed now and the possibilities for exploring movement in the future. Using international case studies that are both current and historical, it explores the range of options that exist for assessing tourists' movement, along with the relative merits of each method. It will give a special focus to new technologies that facilitate our understanding of movement, such as the use of big data, hashtag scraping, Wi-Fi tracking, farming data from mobile phone towers and cutting-edge GPS tracking. It discusses the positive and negative consequences of the use of these new technologies and tackles issues such as ethical dilemmas and future trends and technology needs. Tracking Tourists: Movement and mobility: * Serves as the definitive guide for understanding the methods involved in understanding tourist movements and tourist migration patterns' * Uses international case studies from around the world, both current and historical to explore the range of options that exist. * Gives a special focus to new technologies that facilitate our understanding of movement.

Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA - Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments (Hardcover, 2014... Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA - Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Raymond Charles Rauscher, Salim Momtaz
R3,296 Discovery Miles 32 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries and up the 1960s. Chapter Two begins by tracing the steep decline of the community, which culminated in catastrophic fires and looting in the wake of New York s electrical blackout of 1977 and goes on to describe the beginnings of urban planning and renewal efforts which launched the recovery of Bushwick in the 1980s to early 2000s. Chapter Three steps back from the immediacy of the community to discuss urban change from a theoretical perspective. The authors outline advances in sustainable urban planning and describe how these apply to Bushwick and the wider Brooklyn community.

Chapter Four offers a detailed examination of the intent and function of New York s community board planning system, known as the Charter 197-a program. In Chapter Five the authors examine the 197-a planning process and its application in the areas of Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Northeast Brooklyn; Brooklyn Downtown and in Southeast Brooklyn including Coney Island.The following chapter examines a number of innovative Bushwick high schools that offer practical experience in urban planning. Drawing the urban planning experiences together, the book concludes with a look at future directions in city renewal. Emphasis here is placed on sustainable urban planning and the lessons to be learned from the experience of Bushwick and Brooklyn.

The specifics of urban planning and renewal are illustrated with tables and figures. The details of planning are informed by an overarching sense of history, beginning with the dedication of the book to the memory of six Universalist writers associated with New York: Henry Thoreau, Helena Blavatsky, Henry George, Henry Miller, Arthur Miller and Walt Whitman. A rich trove of historical materials, ranging from family sketches to school rosters to rarely seen photographs, helps to keep the survey and analysis of urban planning grounded in the lives of Bushwick s residents, past, present and future."

Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity - Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home' (Paperback): Anastasia... Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity - Second-Generation Greek-Americans Return 'Home' (Paperback)
Anastasia Christou
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christou explores the phenomenon of 'return migration' in Greece through the settlement and identification processes of second-generation Greek-American returning migrants. She examines the meanings attached to the experience of return migration. The concepts of 'home' and 'belonging' figure prominently in the return migratory project which entails relocation and displacement as well as adjustment and alienation of bodies and selves. Furthermore, Christou considers the multiple interactions (social, cultural, political) between the place of origin and the place of destination; network ties; historical and global forces in the shaping of return migrant behaviour; and expressions of identity. The human geography of return migration extends beyond geographic movement into a diasporic journey involving (re)constructions of homeness and belongingness in the ancestral homeland.

Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands (Hardcover): Pedro Iacobelli Postwar Emigration to South America from Japan and the Ryukyu Islands (Hardcover)
Pedro Iacobelli
R4,635 Discovery Miles 46 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Placing a distinct focus on the role of the sending state, this book examines the history of postwar Japan's migration policy, linking it to the larger question of statehood and nation-building in the postwar era. Pedro Iacobelli delves into the role of states in shaping migration flows by exploring the genesis of the state-led emigration from Japan and the US-administered Ryukyu Islands to South America in the mid-20th century. The study proposes an alternative political perspective on migration history to analyze the rationale and mechanisms behind the establishment of migration programs by the sending state. To develop this perspective, the book examines the state's emigration policies, their determinants and their execution for the Japanese and Okinawan migration programs to Bolivia in the 1950s. It argues that the post-war migration policies that established those migration flows were a result of the political cost-benefit calculations, rather than only economic factors, of the three governments involved. With its unique focus on the role of the sending state and the relationship between Japan, Okinawa and the United States, this is a valuable study for students and scholars of postwar Japan and migration history.

Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Viorela Ducu, Mihaela Nedelcu, Aron Telegdi Csetri Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Viorela Ducu, Mihaela Nedelcu, Aron Telegdi Csetri
R3,148 Discovery Miles 31 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families. Focus is put on children born abroad, brought up abroad, studying abroad, in vulnerable situations, and/or subject of trafficking. The book also provides insight into the delicate relationships that arise with parents, such as migrant parents who are parenting from a distance, elderly parents supporting migrant adult children, fathers left behind by migration, and Eastern-European parents in Nordic countries. It also touches upon life strategies developed in response to migration situations, such as the transfer of care, transnational (virtual) communication, common visits (to and from), and the co-presence of family members in each other's (distant) lives. As such this book provides a wealth of information for researchers, policy makers and all those working in the field of migration and with migrants. The chapter 'Afterword: Gender Practices in Transnational Families' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 1 - Innovations, Regional Growth and Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Randall Jackson,... Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 1 - Innovations, Regional Growth and Migration (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Randall Jackson, Peter Schaeffer
R4,434 Discovery Miles 44 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume focuses on frontiers in regional research and identifies trends and future developments in the areas of innovation, regional growth and migration. It also addresses topics such as mobility, regional forecasting, and regional policy, and includes expert contributions on disasters, resilience, and sustainability. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive policy-analysis experience, top international regional scientists identify and evaluate emerging new conceptual and methodological trends and directions in regional research. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from regional scientists and economists to geographers, quantitatively oriented regional planners and other related disciplines. It offers a source of relevant information for academic researchers and policy analysts in government, and is also suitable for advanced teaching courses on regional and spatial science, economics and political science.

Producing China in Southeast Asia - Knowledge, Identity, and Migrant Chineseness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Chih-Yu Shih Producing China in Southeast Asia - Knowledge, Identity, and Migrant Chineseness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Chih-Yu Shih
R2,959 Discovery Miles 29 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents studies on Chinese intellectuals in Southeast Asia and how they understand China and Chineseness in the 21st century. It posits, through analyses of works and oral histories of a number of Chinese scholars in the region, that the dominant but distinctive approaches adopted by them are those that are rooted in humanism and pragmatism. In doing so, the book explores the significant population, local conditions and strategy of survival among the Southeast Asian Chinese as factors that influence their views and perspectives. Studies presented in the book simultaneously implicate subjectivity, where authors and their readers position themselves among ethnic, national, and civilizational identities. It highlights that while national-level identity necessarily involves dangerous self-interrogation and, at times, politics that is often suppressive and confrontational, intellectual writings on China that stick to the ethnic and civilizational levels provide more sensible exits. With that, the book then goes on to make the argument that in Southeast Asian Chinese studies, the humanities usually prevail over the social sciences at these two alternative levels. Lastly, the book also shows how the humanities can be instrumental to Southeast Asian Chinese scholars' choice of identity strategy which makes pragmatism an important theme. The book will be of interest to students and researchers involved in Southeast Asian and Chinese studies.

Globalisation, Migration and Socio-Economic Change in Contemporary Greece - Processes of Social Incorporation of Balkan... Globalisation, Migration and Socio-Economic Change in Contemporary Greece - Processes of Social Incorporation of Balkan Immigrants in Thessaloniki (Paperback)
Panos Hatziprokopiou
R1,534 Discovery Miles 15 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This empirical study examines issues surrounding the integration of immigrants in Greece, in particular in Thessaloniki, as well as looking at migrants in neighbouring countries, Albania and Bulgaria. The book suggests that immigrants' integration should be understood in relation to broader processes of social change, which are increasingly connected to global forces. The transformation of Greece into a multicultural society has taken place during a period of transition and of increasing exposure to the international environment. Within this context, Thessaloniki has become a new home for immigrants from the Balkans in search of new identities. Integration is seen as a multifaceted and dynamic process. The concept of incorporation is critically introduced, in order to analyse both the ways by which migrants organise their lives in the host society and their structural, institutional and cultural conditions. The analytical framework is built upon an interdisciplinary approach that takes into account different incorporation contexts: socio-political responses, the labour market, housing and social space. A number of additional factors are also considered, e.g. the composition of migrant populations, migratory patterns and dynamics, the role of social networks, immigrants' strategies. The book provides an empirical account of the immigrants' characteristics, explaining the patterns and typologies of immigrants' integration in Greece. "Immigrants" become a social category "constructed" by exclusionary mechanisms: restrictive immigration policy, labour market exploitation, xenophobia. However, they do make a living in Thessaloniki; their integration is subject to time. gradually, immigrants become organic elements of the host society, which shapes, but is also being shaped by migration.

Governing through Biometrics - The Biopolitics of Identity (Hardcover): B. Ajana Governing through Biometrics - The Biopolitics of Identity (Hardcover)
B. Ajana
R3,288 Discovery Miles 32 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Managing identity through biometric technology has become a routine and ubiquitous practice in recent years. From border control and asylum regulation to the management of social services and medical records, various fields are increasingly deploying biometric systems as a means of identity verification and authentication. The scope and nature of these systems are raising a host of concerns regarding the intensification of surveillance practices and the reduction of identity to a series of bio-data and algorithms.By analysing biometric systems as a biopolitical practice within the domain of borders, immigration and citizenship management, this book interrogates what is at stake in the merging of the body and technology for security and governance purposes. It draws on a number of critical theories, philosophies and empirical examples, offering a multi-level and timely analysis of the socio-political and ethical implications of biometric identity systems.

The Burden of White Supremacy - Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States (Hardcover): David C.... The Burden of White Supremacy - Containing Asian Migration in the British Empire and the United States (Hardcover)
David C. Atkinson
R2,696 Discovery Miles 26 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asianmigration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their positionof global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringentlegislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration.Historians of these efforts typically stress similarity and collaborationbetween these movements, but in this compelling study, David C. Atkinsonhighlights the differences in these campaigns and argues that the main factorunifying these otherwise distinctive drives was the constant tensions theycaused. Drawing on documentary evidence from the United States, GreatBritain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand, Atkinson traceshow these exclusionary regimes drew inspiration from similar racial, economic,and strategic anxieties, but nevertheless developed idiosyncraticallyin the first decades of the twentieth century. Arguing that the so-called white man's burden was often white supremacyitself, Atkinson demonstrates how the tenets of absolute exclusion-meant to foster white racial, political, and economic supremacy-onlyinflamed dangerous tensions that threatened to undermine the BritishEmpire, American foreign relations, and the new framework of internationalcooperation that followed the First World War.

Reunion - Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador (Hardcover): Elizabeth Barnert Reunion - Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Barnert; Foreword by Philippe Bourgois
R2,384 Discovery Miles 23 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This captivating ethnography reveals the immediate and persisting impact of forced family separations and the eventual reunifications in communities affected by El Salvador's civil war. In 2005, medical student Elizabeth Barnert traveled to El Salvador to build a DNA bank for reuniting families forcibly separated during the Salvadoran Civil War. Based on fifteen years of interviews and field notes, Reunion chronicles families' experiences with military attacks, child disappearances, family separations, joyful reunions, and arduous processes of reintegration. Barnert worked alongside Jesuit priest and Pro-Busqueda founder Father Jon Cortina, former guerrilla fighters, and reformed gang members. Told through the voices of activists and survivors, the book accompanies young adult children seeking biological kin, including a young woman returning to El Salvador twenty years after her adoption abroad to meet her mother and brother. This groundbreaking ethnography illuminates the cycles of poverty and violence driving immigration and ongoing separations around the world. Reunion includes a foreword by renowned anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and his firsthand account of fleeing a Salvadoran military "scorched-earth" operation, with never-before-published photos and children's drawings from the war. All book royalties of Reunion will be donated by the author to Pro-Busqueda and related causes.

The Housing Divide - How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market (Hardcover): Emily Rosenbaum,... The Housing Divide - How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market (Hardcover)
Emily Rosenbaum, Samantha Friedman
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.

aWell organized, tightly written and full of interesting and provocative information. The authors produced a very good piece of scholarship that is theoretically grounded and attentive to detail, especially concerning methodological issues including the potential limitations of their study.a
--Victoria Basolo, University of California, Irvine

aThis well written book makes a major contribution to urban sociology and race/ethnic studies.a--"Choice"

a[W]ill be fascinating for policy makers and scholars concerned with housing patterns and racial discrimination.a
--"Jewish Book World"

"An excellent and timely volume, very well written, clearly organized, and cogently argued."
--Douglas S. Massey, author of "Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration"

"The Housing Divide brilliantly transforms the Big Apple into a crystal ball for glimpsing the racial and ethnic future of 21st century America. The core finding--that, just as in the past, racial discrimination keeps Americans with African ancestry from taking advantage of opportunities used by the newest immigrants and their children to get ahead--portends a troubling future in which American society may cleave between blacks and non-blacks. This book is a wake-up call to America to finally address racial discrimination in housing."
--Richard Alba, co-author of "Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration"

"The Housing Divide takes a hard look at housing and neighborhood quality in the nation's largest and most diverse city. It exposes longstanding features that are found in most American cities, including the potential for upward mobility by some immigrant newcomers, the traps that others fall into, and the continuing reality of racial discrimination that limits progress for too many New Yorkers."
&3151;John R. Logan, editor of "The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform"

The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an understanding of the opportunities and discriminatory practices at work from one generation to the next. Through a careful read of such factors as home ownership, housing quality, and neighborhood rates of crime, welfare enrollment, teenage pregnancy, and educational achievement, Emily Rosenbaum and Samantha Friedman provide a detailed portrait of neighborhood life and socio-economic status for the immigrants of New York.

The book paints an important, if disturbing, picture. The authors argue that not only are Blacks--regardless of generation--disadvantaged relative to members of other racial/ethnic groups in their ability to obtain housing in high-quality neighborhoods, but that housing and neighborhood conditions actually decline over generations. Rosenbaum and Friedman's findings suggest that the future of racial inequality in this country will increasingly isolate Blacks from all other groups. In other words, the "color line" may be shifting from a line separating Blacks from Whites to one separating Blacks from all non-Blacks.

In a New Land - A Comparative View of Immigration (Hardcover): Nancy Foner In a New Land - A Comparative View of Immigration (Hardcover)
Nancy Foner
R2,876 Discovery Miles 28 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title!

"This book should be both a pleasure to read for both those who are immersed in the study of immigration and those less versed in the history and dynamics of these movements. For the latter, In a New Land will provide an excellent and thought provoking introduction. For the former . . . the book will stimulate thought about how to better understand this complex process."
--Douglas Gurak, "Anthropology and Education Quarterly"

a[A] highly valuable contribution to the field. Both historians and sociologists studying immigration will want to read this book.a
--Deirdre M. Moloney, George Mason University

"This important and timely book encompasses a great deal. . . . Foner's definition of race in the 21st century is invaluable."
--"Choice," highly recommended

aExcellent reading for anyone interested in ethnicity, race, and immigration patterns and policies.a
--Bryan Thompson, "Journal of American History"

aFoner does social science a great service, revealing . . . how immigration functions in other contexts, past and present, and in so doing unveiling the peculiarities of the United States as an immigrant-receiving society.a
--Douglas Massey, "Contexts"

aImmensely readable and interesting. . . . Scholars and students of immigration will surely find this book to be interesting, instructive, and indispensable.a Maritsa Poros,
--"International Migration Review"

" In A New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration" uses historical and modern research to provide new insights into todayas immigrants and how they are affecting societies around the world.a
--TheMidwest Book Review

aIn a New Land is the exceptionally well-written and thoughtful work of one innovative comparativist.a
--Donna Gabaccia, "Journal of American Ethnic History"

"The author of a classic comparison of New York's current immigration and that of a century ago, "From Ellis Island to JFK," Nancy Foner has now extended her use of comparative analysis both topically and geographically. Besides looking further and deeper into New York's immigrants 'then and now, ' she makes insightful comparisons 'across space' between the experiences of West Indians in contemporary New York and London and those of a range of recent newcomers in New York and some other American cities. She concludes with a discussion of the differences and similarities in how immigration has been conceived and remembered in the United States and Europe. The book is full of fresh information and new interpretations. Most remarkable is her command of the vast social scientific and historical literature that bears on her subject. In a New Land sets a new standard for interdisciplinary comparative studies."
--George M. Fredrickson, author of "Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa"

"In a New Land is a luminous synthesis that, through astute comparisons, sheds a bright light on key questions about immigration. Foner has much to tell us about continuities and change over the course of a century, the contextual contingencies of race, and the uniqueness and universality of New York City. The book is utterly refreshing."
--Richard Alba, author of "Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration"

According to the2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies scholar, Nancy Foner, answers this question in her study of comparative immigration. Drawing on the rich history of American immigrants and current statistical and ethnographic data, In a New Land compares todayas new immigrants with the past influxes of Europeans to the United States and across cities and regions within the United States. Foner looks at immigration across nation-states, and over different periods of time, offering a comprehensive assessment and analysis.

This original approach to the study of recent U.S. immigration focuses on race and ethnicity, gender, and transnational connections. Centering her analysis on the groups that have come through and significantly shaped New York City, Foner compares today's Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean newcomers with eastern and southern European immigrants a century ago and with immigrants in other major U.S. cities. Looking beyond the United States, Foner compares West Indian immigrants in New York with those in London. And, more generally, the book views the process of immigrantsa integration in New York against other recent immigrant destinations in Europe.

Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research, and written in a clear and lively style, In a New Land provides fresh insights into the dynamics of immigration today and the implications for where we are headed in the future.

Sustaining Faith Traditions - Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (Hardcover,... Sustaining Faith Traditions - Race, Ethnicity, and Religion among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (Hardcover, New)
Carolyn Chen, Russell Jeung
R2,872 Discovery Miles 28 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Over fifty years ago, Will Herberg theorized that future immigrants to the United States would no longer identify themselves through their races or ethnicities, or through the languages and cultures of their home countries. Rather, modern immigrants would base their identities on their religions. The landscape of U.S. immigration has changed dramatically since Herberg first published his theory. Most of today's immigrants are Asian or Latino, and are thus unable to shed their racial and ethnic identities as rapidly as the Europeans about whom Herberg wrote. And rather than a flexible, labor-based economy hungry for more workers, today's immigrants find themselves in a post-industrial segmented economy that allows little in the way of class mobility. In this comprehensive anthology contributors draw on ethnography and in-depth interviews to examine the experiences of the new second generation: the children of Asian and Latino immigrants. Covering a diversity of second-generation religious communities including Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews, the contributors highlight the ways in which race, ethnicity, and religion intersect for new Americans. As the new second generation of Latinos and Asian Americans comes of age, they will not only shape American race relations, but also the face of American religion.

Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition - Acculturation, Identity, and Adaptation Across National Contexts (Hardcover): J.W.... Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition - Acculturation, Identity, and Adaptation Across National Contexts (Hardcover)
J.W. Berry, Jean S. Phinney, David L. Sam, Paul Vedder
R1,620 Discovery Miles 16 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this book, an international team of psychologists with interests in acculturation, identity, and development describe the experience and adaptation of immigrant youth, using data from over 7,000 immigrant youth from diverse cultural backgrounds living in 13 countries of settlement. "Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition" explores the way in which immigrant adolescents carry out their lives at the intersection of two cultures (those of their heritage group and the national society), and how well these youth are adapting to their intercultural experience.
Four distinct patterns are followed by youth during their acculturation:
*an integration pattern, in which youth orient themselves to, and identify with both cultures;
*an ethnic pattern, in which youth are oriented mainly to their own group;
*a national pattern, in which youth look primarily to the national society; and
*a diffuse pattern, in which youth are uncertain and confused about how to live interculturally.
The study shows the variation in both the "psychological adaptation" and the "sociocultural adaptation" among youth, with most adapting well.
This book is useful for professionals, researchers, graduate students, and public policy makers who have an interest in psychology, anthropology, sociology, demography, education, and psychiatry. It is also a valuable resource for public, governmental, and university libraries.

Latining America - Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (Hardcover, New): Claudia Milian Latining America - Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (Hardcover, New)
Claudia Milian
R2,592 Discovery Miles 25 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names "Latinities." Milian's innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed for brown Latino/a embodiment. Latining America keeps company with and challenges existent models of Latinidad, demanding a distinct paradigm that puts into question what is understood as Latino and Latina today. Milian conceptually considers how underexplored "Latin" participants--the southern, the black, the dark brown, the Central American-have ushered in a new world of "Latined" signification from the 1920s to the present. Examining not who but what constitutes the Latino and Latina, Milian's new critical Latinities disentangle the brown logic that marks "Latino/a" subjects. She expands on and deepens insights in transamerican discourses, narratives of passing, popular culture, and contemporary art. This daring and original project uncovers previously ignored and unremarked upon cultural connections and global crossings whereby African Americans and Latinos traverse and reconfigure their racialised classifications.

'Race', Culture and the Right to the City - Centres, Peripheries, Margins (Hardcover, New): Gareth Millington 'Race', Culture and the Right to the City - Centres, Peripheries, Margins (Hardcover, New)
Gareth Millington
R1,420 Discovery Miles 14 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples.

A Clash of Heroes - Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism (Hardcover): Ben Halpern A Clash of Heroes - Brandeis, Weizmann, and American Zionism (Hardcover)
Ben Halpern
R2,666 Discovery Miles 26 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Chaim Weizmann, steeped in the folk culture of the East European shtetl and the humanistic science of Central and Western Europe, was the ambassador of the Jewish people to the English-speaking world. Louis D. Brandeis, on the other hand, was known as the true exponent of Anglo-American civic culture who gave his leadership at a critical moment to the American and world Jewish community. A Clash of Heroes studies the conflict between these two dominant personalities, each of whom has been hailed by devoted followers as the hero of a crucial era in recent Jewish history. Halpern sets the meeting, collaboration, and sharp conflict between these two men against the shifting background of a world at war and the shaky travail of revolution and reconstruction in the early 20th century. Through a comparison of two exemplary figures in Jewish leadership, Halpern paints an enthralling portrait of 20th-century Zionism and illuminates the complex relationships between leaders and the public and between Jewish nationalism and its extended environment.

The Politics of Compassion - Immigration and Asylum Policy (Hardcover): Ala Sirriyeh The Politics of Compassion - Immigration and Asylum Policy (Hardcover)
Ala Sirriyeh
R2,535 Discovery Miles 25 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through case studies from Australia, Europe and the US, this book explores how emotion is central to understanding the formation of immigration policy. The author looks beyond the 'negative' emotions of fear and hostility to examine the politics of compassion in immigration and asylum policy discourse.

Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life - International Perspectives (Hardcover): Maria Kontos, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life - International Perspectives (Hardcover)
Maria Kontos, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
R2,912 R2,011 Discovery Miles 20 110 Save R901 (31%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S. - Political Activism of Ethnic Refugees (Hardcover): I Zake Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S. - Political Activism of Ethnic Refugees (Hardcover)
I Zake
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume takes a completely new look at two controversial topics: American anti-Communism and the Cold War. First, it reveals the little known history of anti-Communism in the US from the point of view of ethnic refugee/emigre groups, and also offers insight into the lives of minority groups that have hitherto not received scholarly attention, often due to their politically controversial position. The book consists of chapters dedicated to particular ethnic groups, as well as an introduction and conclusion. The discussed groups include Latvians, Ukrainians, Albanians, Bulgarians, Slovaks, Vietnamese, Hmong and Cubans, possibly also Hungarians or Romanians. The introduction provides the historical and sociological framework, and the conclusion undertakes a comparative analysis of ethnic anti-Communism and refugee politics.

Appalachian Odyssey - Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration (Hardcover, New): Phillip Obermiller, Thomas E. Wagner Appalachian Odyssey - Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration (Hardcover, New)
Phillip Obermiller, Thomas E. Wagner
R2,540 Discovery Miles 25 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the greatest internal migrations in American history has been the movement of the people of Appalachia to a variety of rural and urban destinations all over the country --- wherever economic opportunity beckoned, from the industrial Midwest to the timber empires of the Pacific Northwest. This movement (about five million in the 1950s alone) has taken place in several waves throughout the twentieth century, and continues to this day. "Appalachian Odyssey" provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the impact of this phenomenon on both the Appalachian region and the country as a whole.

Scholars from a variety of social science disciplines bring their perspectives to this volume in an examination of the historical, political, social, economic, and cultural impact of a talented group often derided as hillbillies. "Appalachian Odyssey" provides a much-needed corrective to this bias, and a deeper understanding of a people who have significantly influenced the American story.

Korean Diaspora across the World - Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality (Hardcover): Eun-Jeong Han, Min... Korean Diaspora across the World - Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality (Hardcover)
Eun-Jeong Han, Min Wha Han, JongHwa Lee; Contributions by Eun-Jeong Han, Irina Balitskaya, …
R3,027 Discovery Miles 30 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume analyzes the Korean diaspora across the world and traces the meaning and the performance of homeland. The contributors explore different types of discourses among Korean diaspora across the world, such as personal/familial narratives, oral/life histories, public discourses, and media discourses. They also examine the notion of "space" to diasporic experiences, arguing meanings of space/place for Korean diaspora are increasingly multifaceted.

African Women Immigrants in the United States - Crossing Transnational Borders (Hardcover): J. Arthur African Women Immigrants in the United States - Crossing Transnational Borders (Hardcover)
J. Arthur
R1,404 Discovery Miles 14 040 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"African Women Immigrants in the United States" depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration.

Children of International Migrants in Europe - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover): R. Penn, P Lambert Children of International Migrants in Europe - Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)
R. Penn, P Lambert
R1,398 Discovery Miles 13 980 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What is happening to young adults in contemporary Europe? How central is ethnic background to their prospects and lives? This book provides a comparative analysis of the situation of over 2500 children of international migrants in Europe. Focussing on Britain, France and Germany, it examines nine ethnic/nationality groups including Pakistanis and Indians in Britain, Magrebians in France and Turks in Germany. The book includes new empirical material on language use, educational experiences, labour market entry, political incorporation and cultural behaviour of young adults in these three countries based upon a unique comparative international survey. Roger Penn and Paul Lambert offer an antidote to the hysteria surrounding international migrants that has become increasingly evident in the media since 2001. Their findings indicate that there is a widespread process of assimilation underway in each of the three countries, alongside the maintenance of cultural and religious identities associated with parents' country of birth.

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