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America's Banquet of Cultures - Harnessing Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New):... America's Banquet of Cultures - Harnessing Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover, New)
Ronald Fernandez
R2,790 Discovery Miles 27 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The melting pot is a myth, according to Fernandez, who shows that the United States is and always has been a "banquet of cultures." As he argues, the best way to deal with the more than 20 million new immigrants since 1965 is to accept, recognize, and eagerly explore the differences among the American people.

Fernandez seeks to forge a positive national consensus based on two building blocks. First, the nation's many ethnic groups can be a powerful source of unprecedented economic, artistic, and scientific creativity. Secondly, the nation's many ethnic groups offer a way to erase the black/white dichotomy which, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native, and Latino Americans. This is a provocative analysis of how we arrived at our current ethnic and racial dilemmas and what can be done to move beyond them. Scholars and students of American immigration and social policy as well as concerned citizens will find the book equally rewarding.

The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present - Settlers and Sojourners (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): T. M Devine, Angela... The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present - Settlers and Sojourners (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
T. M Devine, Angela McCarthy
R3,931 Discovery Miles 39 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to other ethnicities? What was the pull of Asia for them? Did they really punch above their weight as some contemporaries thought, or was that just exaggerated rhetoric? If there was a distinctive 'Scottish effect' how is that to be explained?

Methodologies of Mobility - Ethnography and Experiment (Paperback): Alice Elliot, Roger Norum, Noel B. Salazar Methodologies of Mobility - Ethnography and Experiment (Paperback)
Alice Elliot, Roger Norum, Noel B. Salazar
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies of Mobility speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.

Migration - Immigration and Emigration in International Perspective (Hardcover, New): Leonore Loeb Adler, Uwe P. Gielen Migration - Immigration and Emigration in International Perspective (Hardcover, New)
Leonore Loeb Adler, Uwe P. Gielen
R2,825 Discovery Miles 28 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Adler and Gielen developed this volume to add the voices of a prominent international group of cross-culturally oriented psychologists to the worldwide debate on migration. Contributors to the book analyze worldwide configurations of migration, fundamental psychosocial factors involved in immigration and emigration, and patterns of migration from and to 16 nations and regions around the globe. The richly varied contributions focus on immigration to the United States from areas as varied as Mexico, the Caribbean, and Ireland, migrations in Colombia, immigrant families in Germany, Poland, and Norway, and migration from and into Japan, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Australia, and the Phillippines. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with migration, ethnic groups, and international psychology.

The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions (Paperback): David G. Anderson The 1926/27 Soviet Polar Census Expeditions (Paperback)
David G. Anderson
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil war. Due partly to the enthusiasm of local geographers and ethnographers, the Polar Census grew into a massive ethnological exercise, gathering not only basic demographic and economic data on every household but also a rich archive of photographs, maps, kinship charts, narrative transcripts and museum artifacts. To this day, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of a rural population anywhere. The contributors to this volume OCo all noted scholars in their region OCo have conducted long-term fieldwork with the descendants of the people surveyed in 1926/27. This volume is the culmination of eight yearsOCO work with the primary record cards and was supported by a number of national scholarly funding agencies in the UK, Canada and Norway. It is a unique historical, ethnographical analysis and of immense value to scholars familiar with these communitiesOCO contemporary cultural dynamics and legacy."

Ubuntu as Dance Pedagogy in Uganda - Individuality, Community, and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning of Indigenous Dances... Ubuntu as Dance Pedagogy in Uganda - Individuality, Community, and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning of Indigenous Dances (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Alfdaniels Mabingo
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book locates the philosophy of Ubuntu as the undergirding framework for indigenous dance pedagogies in local communities in Uganda. Through critical examination of the reflections and practices of selected local dance teachers, the volume reveals how issues of inclusion, belonging, and agency are negotiated through a creatively complex interplay between individuality and communality. The analysis frames pedagogies as sites where reflective thought and kinaesthetic practice converge to facilitate ever-evolving individual imagination and community innovations.

After Deportation - Ethnographic Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Shahram Khosravi After Deportation - Ethnographic Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Shahram Khosravi
R4,112 Discovery Miles 41 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses post-deportation outcomes and focuses on what happens to migrants and failed asylum seekers after deportation. Although there is a growing literature on detention and deportation, academic research on post-deportation is scarce. The book produces knowledge about the consequences of forced removal for deportee's adjustment and "reintegration" in so-called "home" country. As the pattern of migration changes, new research approaches are needed. This book contributes to establish a more multifaceted picture of criminalization of migration and adds novel aspects and approaches, both theoretically and empirically, to the field of migration research.

Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders (Hardcover): A Amilhat-Szary, F. Giraut Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders (Hardcover)
A Amilhat-Szary, F. Giraut
R4,248 Discovery Miles 42 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the epistemological and political questions that they raise. The 'borderities' approach illuminates the question of how borders can be the site of both power and counter-power.

Promises in the Promised Land - Mobility and Inequality in Israel (Hardcover, New): Vered Kraus, Robert W. Hodge Promises in the Promised Land - Mobility and Inequality in Israel (Hardcover, New)
Vered Kraus, Robert W. Hodge
R2,771 Discovery Miles 27 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From its beginning as an independent state, Israel has been beset by the divisions and tensions that characterize most ethnically mixed societies. Kraus and Hodge investigate the process of stratification in Israel and document what happened to Arabs as well as to Jewish immigrants and their children in the Promised Land by tracing not just the socioeconomic locations, but also the proximate social determinants of the locations of significant ethnic, cultural, gender, and religious groups. The first extensively detailed analysis to account for status attainment in Israel, this work contributes to a general understanding of the status-attainment process in ethnically heterogeneous societies by focusing on the experience of immigrants as they carved out careers in their homeland. By generalizing the results for Israel, the authors contend, the study illustrates processes that occurred during periods of sustained immigration in the United States and other ethnically and religiously heterogeneous populations for which relevant data can no longer be collected. Many of the research findings about Israeli society have significant implications for social policy in Israel and elsewhere. The investigation begins with a brief review of relevant recurring themes in the sociological literature with particular reference to the functional theory of stratification to provide a theoretical background for the study--the authors' novel analyses have not been reported elsewhere. Chapter 2 provides the social context by presenting a picture of Israeli society and its development. The extension of the scope of functional theory is worked out in chapter 3 which develops a basic model of the status-attainment process in Israeli society. Chapters 4 through 6 propose two alternative hypotheses for ethnic stratification in Israel and test them by examining the attainment process in the two main Jewish ethnic groups. Chapter 7 discusses the two hypotheses by distinguishing between Arabs and Jewish ethnic groups. In chapter 8 the attainment processes of ethnic and gender groups are examined. Kraus and Hodge conclude with an overview of findings and places the Israeli case in comparative perspective. Promises in the Promised Land will be of interest to students of Israeli society and to scholars concerned with issues of racial and ethnic stratification, immigration, and status-attainment processes. Informal Israel watchers of all backgrounds and persuasions as well as policy-makers, especially those working in multiethnic societies where national policy can impact profoundly on sociocultural integration, will find the insights offered here of particular value.

Low and Lower Fertility - Variations across Developed Countries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe Low and Lower Fertility - Variations across Developed Countries (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Ronald R. Rindfuss, Minja Kim Choe
R3,282 R1,950 Discovery Miles 19 500 Save R1,332 (41%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume examines two distinct low fertility scenarios that have emerged in economically advanced countries since the turn of the 20th century: one in which fertility is at or near replacement-level and the other where fertility is well below replacement. It explores the way various institutions, histories and cultures influence fertility in a diverse range of countries in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. The book features invited papers from the Conference on Low Fertility, Population Aging and Population Policy, held December 2013 and co-sponsored by the East-West Center and the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA). It first presents an overview of the demographic and policy implications of the two low fertility scenarios. Next, the book explores five countries currently experiencing low fertility rates: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. It then examines three countries that have close to replacement-level fertility: Australia, the Netherlands and the United States. Each country is featured in a separate chapter written by a demographer with expert knowledge in the area. Very low fertility is linked to a number of conditions countries face, including a declining population size. At the same time, low fertility and its effect on the age structure, threatens social welfare policies. This book goes beyond the technical to examine the core institutional, policy and cultural factors behind this increasingly important issue. It helps readers to make cross-country comparisons and gain insight into how diverse institutions, policies and culture shape fertility levels and patterns.

Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families - Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service (Hardcover):... Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families - Implications for Research, Education, Policy, and Service (Hardcover)
Rochelle L. Dalla, John DeFrain, Julie M. Johnson, Douglas A Abbott; Contributions by Sayali S. Amarapurkar, …
R3,895 R3,493 Discovery Miles 34 930 Save R402 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals and families to our country, and how these contribute to the agency, growth, and vitality of America. This book was intended to move the discussion of immigration, generally speaking, and of immigrant families specifically, to include how and in what ways new immigrants to America (those arriving within the past thirty years) have changed the social and geocultural landscape of this country in positive, beneficial, and valuable ways. The book is comprised of nineteen chapters written by scholars with expertise on immigrant families representing every corner of the globe from Africa and India to Europe and Central America. In each chapter, the unique factors, processes, and worldviews which help shape and mold the immigrant experience are articulated, as are the strengths immigrant newcomers bring to America. In addition, beyond explicating the strengths of immigrant families, each of the nineteen contributing chapters focuses on the implications of these strengths for families, communities, and the culture. Thus, the book provides a springboard from which to answer the application and "what now" questions for those who work with immigrant families in a variety of capacities from academicians and researchers to educators and human-service providers."

Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration - Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Institutions and Organizations of Refugee Integration - Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanovic, Andrea 'Spehar
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years. It focuses on refugees' interactions with key institutions of integration including language training, civic orientation, validation of previous educational experience, organizations and multiple labour market initiatives targeting refugees. Drawing on interviews with the refugees themselves, it offers a nuanced analysis of how the institutions of integration operate on a daily basis, and the effects they have on the lives of those who take part in them. The authors' comparative approach highlights the particularities of each refugee movement while also revealing developments and persistent issues within institutions of integration in the intervening years between the Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian conflicts. Its conclusion, which situates the Swedish case within the broader European context, demonstrates the wider significance of this timely study. It will provide a valuable resource for policymakers in addition to students and scholars of migration studies, social policy, and public policy and business administration.

Global Population in Transition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jo M. Martins, Fei Guo, David A. Swanson Global Population in Transition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jo M. Martins, Fei Guo, David A. Swanson
R3,422 Discovery Miles 34 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book deals with macro and micro aspects of population change and their inter-face with socio-economic factors and impact. It examines theoretical notions and pursues their empirical manifestations and uses multidisciplinary approaches to population change and diversity. It investigates the organic nature of the relationships between socio-economic factors and population change and the feedback loops that affect socio-economic organisation and behaviour. The book brings together material often scattered in a number of sources and disciplines that helps to understand population change and their socio-economic aspects. In addition to dealing with the more conventional factors in population dynamics in the form of fertility, mortality and migration, the book examines socio-economic forces that influence them. It discusses population evolving attributes that affect population characteristics and social and behaviour and impact on the environment. Further, it deals with social organisation and pathways that lead to different social and economic development and standards of living of diverse populations.

What's New about the "New" Immigration? - Traditions and Transformations in the United States since 1965 (Hardcover):... What's New about the "New" Immigration? - Traditions and Transformations in the United States since 1965 (Hardcover)
Marilyn Halter, Marilynn S. Johnson, Katheryn P. Viens, Conrad Edick Wright; Edited by Zoltan D Barany, …
R2,403 R2,014 Discovery Miles 20 140 Save R389 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period.

American Karma - Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora (Hardcover): Sunil Bhatia American Karma - Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora (Hardcover)
Sunil Bhatia
R3,128 Discovery Miles 31 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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aOffers a new framework to examine selfhood and self identity in the context of immigration.a
--"India New England"

"Effectively blends identity theory and ethnography to examine the immigrant experience of first-generation, professional Indians. Provoking reflection on the racial dynamics and identity politics of American society, this work goes a long way towards humanizing what it means to be an immigrant in the United States."
--Cynthia Lightfoot, Penn State University Delaware County

The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors.

American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into "people of color." Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these transnational immigrants themselves come to understand and negotiate their identities.

Bhatia forcefully contends that to fully understand migrant identity and cultural formation it is essential that psychologists and others think of selfhood as firmly intertwined with socio-cultural factors such as colonialism, gender, language, immigration, and race-based immigration laws.

American Karma offers a new framework for thinking about the construction of selfhood and identity in the context of immigration. This innovative approach advances the field of psychology byincorporating critical issues related to the concept of culture, including race, power, and conflict, and will also provide key insights to those in anthropology, sociology, human development, and migrant studies.

Bibliography of American Demographic History - The Literature from 1984 to 1994 (Hardcover, New): David R. Gerhan Bibliography of American Demographic History - The Literature from 1984 to 1994 (Hardcover, New)
David R. Gerhan
R2,482 Discovery Miles 24 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A companion to the ALA-award-winning Retrospective Bibliography of American Demographic History (1989), this volume includes literature on American demographic history published from 1984 to 1994. It covers such topics as marriage and fertility; health, sickness, and mortality; immigration, settlement, and cultural patterns; and family and its structures, roles and values (including both gender and sexuality issues). It also cites works showing the broad intersections between population matters and such economic, political, and social phenomena as war, oppression, government policy, elections, labor stereotype, discrimination, and cross-cultural contact or relations. The bibliography organizes and describes citations to the rich historical literature on the ordinary life experiences of Americans, such as marriage, childbearing, health, migration, and ethnicity, and how these fundamental phenomena have been interconnected with the events of headline history. The book provides multiple points of access, through the detailed contents and through indexes of place, ethnicity, and topic.

Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation - Perspectives from Forensic Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Krista E.... Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation - Perspectives from Forensic Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Krista E. Latham, Alyson J. O'daniel
R3,382 Discovery Miles 33 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands. The proposed volume builds on this tradition of situating migration and migrant death within broad, systems-level frameworks of analysis, but contends that there is another, perhaps somewhat less tidy, but no less important sociopolitical story to be told here. Through examination of how forensic scientists define, navigate, and enact their work at the frontiers of US policy and economics, this book joins a robust body of literature dedicated to bridging social theory with bioarchaeological applications to modern day problems. This volume is based on deeply and critically reflective analyses, submitted by individual scholars, wherein they navigate and position themselves as social actors embedded within and, perhaps partially constituted by, relations of power, cultural ideologies, and the social structures characterizing this moment in history. Each contribution addresses a different variation on themes of power relations, production of knowledge, and reflexivity in practice. In sum, however, the chapters of this book trace relationships between institutions, entities, and individuals comprising the landscapes of migrant death and repatriation and considers their articulation with sociopolitical dynamics of the neoliberal state.

Feminist Narrative Research - Opportunities and Challenges (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Jo Woodiwiss, Kate Smith, Kelly Lockwood Feminist Narrative Research - Opportunities and Challenges (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Jo Woodiwiss, Kate Smith, Kelly Lockwood
R4,184 Discovery Miles 41 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the rich, diverse opportunities and challenges afforded by research that analyses the stories told by, for and about women. Bringing together feminist scholarship and narrative approaches, it draws on empirical material, social theory and methodological insights to provide examples of feminist narrative studies that make explicit the links between theory and practice. Examining the story as told and using examples of narratives told about childhood sexual abuse, domestic/relationship abuse, motherhood, and seeking asylum, it raises wider issues regarding the role of storytelling for understanding and making sense of women's lives. This thought-provoking work will appeal to students and scholars of women's studies, feminist and narrative researchers, social policy and practice, sociology, and research methods.

Intimate Mobilities - Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (Hardcover): Christian Groes, Nadine T... Intimate Mobilities - Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (Hardcover)
Christian Groes, Nadine T Fernandez
R3,017 Discovery Miles 30 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As globalization and transnational encounters intensify, people's mobility is increasingly conditioned by intimacy, ranging from love, desire, and sexual liaisons to broader family, kinship, and conjugal matters. This book explores the entanglement of mobility and intimacy in various configurations throughout the world. It argues that rather than being distinct and unrelated phenomena, intimacy-related mobilities constitute variations of cross-border movements shaped by and deeply entwined with issues of gender, kinship, race, and sexuality, as well as local and global powers and border restrictions in a disparate world.

Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws - Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion (Hardcover, New): Kenneth Lee Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws - Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion (Hardcover, New)
Kenneth Lee
R2,224 Discovery Miles 22 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1997 the United States accepted more legal immigrants than all other countries combined. This large influx of newcomers, however, has alarmed many Americans. Immigration is a controversial issue because it intersects with the most contentious issues of our time: multiculturalism, bilingualism, unemployment, crime, etc. Opinion polls since 1965 show that a strong majority want to reduce immigration. Yet our government has refused to respond to the public's wish. In 1996, Congress scuttled a proposal to reduce immigration by a third. (Earlier, in 1990, Congress voted to increase immigration by a whopping 40 percent.) This is all the more surprising because the United States has had no qualms about severely restricting immigration in the past. Kenneth Lee explains why recent immigration policy has failed to reflect the public opinion by approaching the question from a broad, historical outlook, and from a focused, contemporary perspective. He traces several momentous historical changes that have abetted the pro-immigration block and weakened the restrictionists' clout (mainly, the rise of conservative economics in the 1970s and the growing racial liberalism in America). He also examines immigration policy on a micro-level: detailing the intense lobbying that went on for the 1990 and 1996 immigration bills, and he also shows how unlikely players as, for example, Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed, helped defeat the restrictionist bill in 1996.

Brain Drain and Gender Inequality in Turkey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Adem Yavuz Elveren Brain Drain and Gender Inequality in Turkey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Adem Yavuz Elveren
R1,646 Discovery Miles 16 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the brain drain from Turkey, with particular focus on its gender dimension. The author presents a review of brain drain literature, as well as analyzing the brain drain from Turkey using original survey data. Presenting an account of state changes in Turkey, and using a range of empirical methods, the book argues that women have a higher tendency not to return to the country due to increasing gender inequality, borne out of a shift towards a more authoritarian regime over the last decade. Brain Drain and Gender Inequality in Turkey will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including migration studies, social policy, and gender studies.

Migration Policy and Practice - Interventions and Solutions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Harald Bauder, Christian Matheis Migration Policy and Practice - Interventions and Solutions (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Harald Bauder, Christian Matheis
R1,911 Discovery Miles 19 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Building on contemporary efforts to theorize conflicts related to borders, migration, and belonging, this book transforms existing analyses in order to propose critical interventions. The chapters are written from multiple disciplinary perspectives and present rigorous empirical and theoretical analyses to advocate progressive transformation.

Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh - Demographic, Health and Developmental Issues (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020):... Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh - Demographic, Health and Developmental Issues (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Aparajita Chattopadhyay, Saswata Ghosh
R2,962 Discovery Miles 29 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights historical and current perspectives on population issues in the Bengali-speaking states of India (i.e., West Bengal, Tripura, Assam) and Bangladesh and explores three core population dynamics: fertility, mortality-morbidity and development. Furthermore, it presents a selection of revealing cases from area-specific micro-studies, mainly conducted in West Bengal and Bangladesh. The book covers various demographic and health issues in these two regions, which are similar in terms of several sociocultural aspects, yet dissimilar in terms of their policies and programs. Adopting an integrated approach that combines various disciplines and perspectives, it explores highly topical issues such as social inequality, religious difference and mental health. The book is intended for a broad readership interested in population studies, sociology and development, including academics, researchers, planners and policymakers.

Open Borders - A Guide for Immigrating in the 21st Century (Hardcover): Andy Storm Open Borders - A Guide for Immigrating in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Andy Storm
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

If you are thinking about immigrating to another country, this comprehensive guide is a must read. Includes helpful tips on planning the move, finding employment, adapting to the new environment, and much more.

Transnational Families In Africa - Migrants And The Role Of Information Communication Technologies (Paperback): Maria C... Transnational Families In Africa - Migrants And The Role Of Information Communication Technologies (Paperback)
Maria C Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz, Loretta Baldassar; Foreword by Gonzalo Bacigalupe
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This is the first book to capture the poignant stories of transnational African families and their use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in mediating their experiences of migration and caring across distance.

Transnational Families in Africa analyses the highs and lows of family separation as a result of migration in three contexts: migration within South Africa from rural to urban areas; migration from other African countries into South Africa; and middle-class South Africans emigrating to non-African countries. The book foregrounds the importance of kinship and support from extended family as well as both the responsibilities migatory family members feel and the experience of loss by those left behind.

Across the diverse circumstances explored in the book are similarities in migrants' strategies for keeping in touch, but also large differences in relation to access to ICTs and ease-of-use that highlight the digital divide and generational gaps. As elsewhere in the world, and in spite of the varied experiences in these kinship circles, the phenomenon that is the transnational family is showing no signs of receding.

This book provides a groundbreaking contribution to global debates on migration from the Global South.

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