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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography
Twenty Years at Hull House, by the acclaimed memoir of social
reformer Jane Addams, is presented here complete with all
sixty-three of the original illustrations and the biographical
notes. A landmark autobiography in terms of opening the eyes of
Americans to the plight of the industrial revolution, Twenty Years
at Hull House has been applauded for its unflinching descriptions
of the poverty and degradation of the era. Jane Addams also details
the grave ill-health she suffered during and after her childhood,
giving the reader insight into the adversity which she would
re-purpose into a drive to alleviate the suffering of others. The
process by which Addams founded Hull House in Chicago is detailed;
the sheer scale and severity of the poverty in the city she and
others witnessed, the search for the perfect location, and the
numerous difficulties she and her fellow activists encountered
while establishing and maintaining the house are detailed.
Through a transnational, comparative and multi-level approach to
the relationship between youth, migration, and music, the aesthetic
intersections between the local and the global, and between agency
and identity, are presented through case studies in this book.
Transglobal Sounds contemplates migrant youth and the impact of
music in diaspora settings and on the lives of individuals and
collectives, engaging with broader questions of how new modes of
identification are born out of the social, cultural, historical and
political interfaces between youth, migration and music. Thus,
through acts of mobility and environments lived in and in-between,
this volume seeks to articulate between musical transnationalism
and sense of place in exploring the complex relationship between
music and young migrants and migrant descendant's everyday lives.
Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted about 1 billion migrants (both
international and domestic) in a variety of ways, and this book
demonstrates how COVID-19 has widened the gaps between citizens,
non-migrant and migrant populations in terms of income, job
retention, freedom of movement, vaccine etc.While there is an
emerging literature studying the impacts of COVID-19 on migration,
the situation in Southeast Asia has not received much scholarly
attention. This book fills the literature gap by studying the
experiences of migrants and citizens in Brunei, Malaysia and
Singapore and highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated
inequalities between and within the groups. These three countries
are studied due to their high reliance of migrants in key economic
sectors. Findings in this volume are derived from a qualitative
approach, complemented by secondary data sources.This book is
appropriate for undergraduate and postgraduate students of
population studies, epidemiology, political science, public policy
and administration, international relations, anthropology,
psychology, sociology, and migration and refugee studies. Migration
and labour scholars benefit from the nuanced comprehension about
how a pandemic could cause a schism between migrants and the
population at large. Policymakers may consider the proposed
recommendations in the book to improve the migration situation.
The Who, What, and Where of America is designed to provide a
sampling of key demographic information. It covers the United
States, every state, each metropolitan statistical area, and all
the counties and cities with a population of 20,000 or more. Who:
Age, Race and Ethnicity, and Household Structure What: Education,
Employment, and Income Where: Migration, Housing, and
Transportation Each part is preceded by highlights and ranking
tables that show how areas diverge from the national norm. These
research aids are invaluable for understanding data from the ACS
and for highlighting what it tells us about who we are, what we do,
and where we live. Each topic is divided into four tables revealing
the results of the data collected from different types of
geographic areas in the United States, generally with populations
greater than 20,000. Table A. States Table B. Counties Table C.
Metropolitan Areas Table D. Cities In this edition, you will find
social and economic estimates on the ways American communities are
changing with regard to the following: Age and race Health care
coverage Marital history Education attainment Income and occupation
Commute time to work Employment status Home values and monthly
costs Veteran status Size of home or rental unit This title is the
latest in the County and City Extra Series of publications from
Bernan Press. Other titles include County and City Extra, County
and City Extra: Special Decennial Census Edition, and Places,
Towns, and Townships.
After a long time of neglect, migration has entered the arena of
international politics with a force. The 2018 Global Compact for
safe, orderly and regular migration (GCM) is the latest and most
comprehensive framework for global migration governance. Despite
these dynamics, migration is still predominantly framed as a
state-centric policy issue that needs to be managed in a top-down
manner. This book proposes a difference approach: A truly
multi-stakeholder, multi-level and rights-based governance with
meaningful participation of migrant civil society. Drawing on 15
years of participant observation on all levels of migration
governance, the book maps out the relevant actors, "invited" and
"invented" spaces for participation as well as alternative
discourses and framing strategies by migrant civil society. It thus
provides a comprehensive and timely overview on global migration
governance from below, starting with the first UN High Level
Dialogue in 2006, evolving around the Global Forum on Migration and
Development (GFMD) and leading up to the consultations for the
International Migration Review Forum in 2022.
Migration is now firmly embedded as a leading global policy issue
of the twenty-first century. Whilst not a new phenomenon, it has
altered significantly in recent decades, with changing
demographics, geopolitics, conflict, climate change and patterns of
global development shaping new types of migration. Against this
evolving backdrop, this Handbook offers an authoritative overview
of key debates underpinning migration and health in a contemporary
global context. The first major handbook in this field, this
Handbook of Migration and Health provides a comprehensive global
overview of issues relating to migration and health. The Handbook
is organised into six main sections: theories and models of
migration; rights and deservingness; vulnerability and precarity;
specific healthcare needs and priorities; healthcare provision; and
transnational and diasporic networks. Chapters focus on a wide
range of migrant groups including refugees, asylum seekers,
trafficked people, international students, healthcare workers, and
diasporic communities. Bringing together the contributions of 58
leading researchers and drawing on case studies and examples from
across the globe, the Handbook is intended as a scholarly, yet
accessible reference tool for researchers, students, and
practitioners interested in the field of migration and health.
Contributors include: S. Bacci, L. Baldassar, C. Bennouna, J.
Botfield, E. Chase, J. Cook, E. Duffell, R. Evans, J. Gideon, K.
Hall, A.-C. Hoyez, D. Ingleby, H. Jayaweera, M.-A. Karlsen, M.
Kilke, R. Labonte, Y. Lu, S. Mayell, L. Manderson, M. McKee, J.
McLaughlin, C. McMichael, L. Merla, S. Meyer, P. Mladovsky, L.
Newman, C. Newman, T. Noori, L. Nunez Carrasco, A. Odone, D. Oksen,
S. Oram, M. Ormond, G. Ottosdottir, C. Packer, A. Pharris, O.
Razum, B. Rechel, A. Reeske, A. Reid, V. Runnels, A. Sandgren, R.
Shadwick, D. Sime, J. Spallek, D.L. Spitzer, L. Stark, J.E. Suk, A.
Tianbo Zhang, T. Tillmann, F. Thomas, K. Vasey, J. Vearey, G.A.
Williams, R. Wilding, S.S. Willen, H. Zeeb, A. Zwi
This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African
skilled migrants in Australia. It explores research participants'
experiences of migration and how these experiences inform their
lives and the lives of their family. It provides theory-based
arguments examining how mainstream immigration attitudes in
Australia impact upon Black African migrants through the mediums of
mediatised moral panics about Black criminality and acts of
everyday racism that construct and enforce their 'strangerhood'.
The book presents theoretical writing on alternate African
diasporic experiences and identities and the changing nature of
such identities. The qualitative study employed semi-structured
interviews to investigate multiple aspects of the migrant
experience including employment, parenting, family dynamics and
overall sense of belonging. This book advances our understanding of
the resilience exercised by skilled Black African migrants as they
adjust to a new life in Australia, with particular implications for
social work, public health and community development practices.
The degradation of our life-enhancing planet Earth has resulted in
climate change, desertification, wild fires, livestock mortality,
microbial ecosystem alteration, floods, extreme weather conditions,
economic meltdown, poverty, resource conflicts, disease, death, and
desperate migration from the most vulnerable regions. Africa, the
world`s hottest continent, has deserts and drylands that cover
about 60 percent of its land surface area and remains the most
vulnerable continent to climate change. At the same time, Africa is
the world's second most populous continent and is projected soon to
be the most populous. Dr. Popoola's work highlights the uniqueness
of Africa and the extent of its vulnerability to global climate
change as well as its advantages and limitations in context of
current mitigation and adaptation strategies. Africa and Climate
Change is an indispensable guide to ensuring global food security,
sustainable livelihoods, and ecosystem survival, not only in
Africa, but in other less vulnerable continents.
This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars
from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European
identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions
with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role
played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of
governance, culture and development, considering the construction
of Europe as an ideological and politico-economic entity in the
process. Split up into three sections that investigate the
influence of colonialism on the shaping of post-WWII Europe, the
nature of co-operation, dependence and interdependence in the
region, and the impact of the Arab Spring, North Africa and the
Making of Europe investigates the Mediterranean space using a
transnational, interdisciplinary approach. This, in turn, allows
for historical analysis to be fruitfully put into conversation with
contemporary politics. The book also discusses such timely issues
such as the development of European institutions, the evolution of
legal frameworks in the name of antiterrorism, the rise of
Islamophobia, immigration, and political co-operation. Students and
scholars focusing on the development of postwar Europe or the EU's
current relationship with North Africa will benefit immensely from
this invaluable new study.
This volume addresses the question of migration in Europe. It is
concerned with the extent to which racism and anti-immigration
discourse has been to some extent normalised and 'democratised' in
European and national political discourses. Mainstream political
parties are espousing increasingly coercive policies and frequently
attempting to legitimate such approaches via nationalist-populist
slogans and coded forms of racism. Identity, Belonging and
Migration shows that that liberalism is not enough to oppose the
disparate and diffuse xenophobia and racism faced by many migrants
today and calls for new conceptions of anti-racism within and
beyond the state. The book is divided into three parts and
organised around a theoretical framework for understanding
migration, belonging, and exclusion, which is subsequently
developed through discussions of state and structural
discrimination as well as a series of thematic case studies. In
drawing on a range of rich and original data, this timely volume
makes an important contribution to discussions on migration in
Europe.
The modern welfare state finds itself in the middle of two major
upheavals: the impact of technology and immigration. Having taken
in more refugees per capita than most other countries, the pillars
of the Swedish welfare state are being shaken, and digital
technologies are set to strengthen already existing trends towards
job and wage polarization. The development of skills to keep pace
with technology will enter into a critical period for the labor
market in which inadequate policy responses could result in further
inequality and polarization. In this regard, a platform-based labor
market could help by opening up a vast range of new work
opportunities. Marten Blix examines the implications of these
trends that drive change in developed economies and, in particular,
the impact that they have on Sweden and other European countries
with rigid labor markets and comprehensive tax-financed welfare
services. Increasing costs from immigration and rising inequality
could further reduce the willingness to pay high taxes and erode
support for redistribution. Failure to address challenges like this
one could herald much more drastic changes down the road. There are
already signs of economic and political tensions and there is a
risk that the social contract could crack. This new discussion on
the future of work and the welfare state will be of interest not
only to scholars but in policy circles and corresponding societies
in sociology, labor relations, political science and public
administration.
Thomas Mann arrived in Princeton in 1938, in exile from Nazi
Germany, and feted in his new country as "the greatest living man
of letters." This beautiful new book from literary critic Stanley
Corngold tells the little known story of Mann's early years in
America and his encounters with a group of highly gifted emigres in
Princeton, which came to be called the Kahler Circle, with Mann at
its center. The Circle included immensely creative, mostly
German-speaking exiles from Nazism, foremost Mann, Erich Kahler,
Hermann Broch, and Albert Einstein, all of whom, during the
Circle's nascent years in Princeton, were "stupendously"
productive. In clear, engaging prose, Corngold explores the traces
the Circle left behind during Mann's stay in Princeton, treating
literary works and political statements, anecdotes, contemporary
history, and the Circle's afterlife. Weimar in Princeton portrays a
fascinating scene of cultural production, at a critical juncture in
the 20th century, and the experiences of an extraordinary group of
writers and thinkers who gathered together to mourn a lost culture
and to reckon with the new world in which they had arrived.
Beginning in 1609, Jesuit missionaries established missions
(reductions) among sedentary and non-sedentary native populations
in the larger region defined as the Province of Paraguay (Rio de la
Plata region, eastern Bolivia). One consequence of resettlement on
the missions was exposure to highly contagious old world crowd
diseases such as smallpox and measles. Epidemics that occurred
about once a generation killed thousands. Despite severe mortality
crises such as epidemics, warfare, and famine, the native
populations living on the missions recovered. An analysis of the
effects of epidemics and demographic patterns shows that the native
populations living on the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions survived
and retained a unique ethnic identity. A comparative approach that
considers demographic patterns among other mission populations
place the case study of the Paraguay and Chiquitos missions into
context, and show how patterns on the Paraguay and Chiquitos
missions differed from other mission populations. The findings
challenge generally held assumptions about Native American
historical demography.
Initially upheld as a bastion of success in curbing the spread of
COVID-19, Singapore eventually found itself home to the highest
number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia. Over 90% of its
cases in 2020 occurred among the 300,000 migrant construction
workers primarily from Bangladesh, India, and China who live as
part of a transient population in this city-state.This collection
looks beyond the immediacy of heightened concerns surrounding the
migrant worker population in the time of the COVID-19 crisis. It
gives attention to broader questions of migrant lives and labour in
a city-state that has thrived on migration since its beginnings as
a colonial entrepot. Serving as a primer for the general and
academic reader interested in developing a richer understanding of
the structural conditions of migrant construction work, the book
draws together key studies on migrant construction work in
Singapore.The chapters in this volume, contributed by a range of
academic experts, spotlight the processes of unequal global
development, precarious work, and welfare exclusion that have
rendered low-waged labour migrants especially vulnerable to the
pandemic. They also highlight migrant men's social identities
beyond the sphere of work by attending to their experiences and
strategies as members of transnational families and social-cultural
communities. Accompanying the chapters are short reflections from
the authors that not only summarise the findings but also provide
updates on the research context in view of the recent situation.
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