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Media, Diaspora and Conflict - Nationalism and Identity amongst Turkish and Kurdish Migrants in Europe (Hardcover): Janroj... Media, Diaspora and Conflict - Nationalism and Identity amongst Turkish and Kurdish Migrants in Europe (Hardcover)
Janroj Yilmaz Keles
R4,234 Discovery Miles 42 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For migrant communities residing outside of their home countries, various transnational media have played a key role in maintaining, reviving and transforming ethnic and religious identities. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent ethno-national conflict in the home country. Janroj Yilmaz Keles here examines how this plays out among Kurdish and Turkish communities in Europe. He offers an analysis of how Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe react to the myriad mediated narratives. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent the ethno-national conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish PKK.Janroj Yilmaz Keles here offers an examination of how Turkish and Kurdish migrants in Europe react to the myriad narratives that arise. Taking as his starting point an analysis of the nature of nationalisms in the modern age, Keles shows how language is often a central element in the struggle for hegemony within a state. The media has become a site for the clash of representations in both Turkish and Kurdish languages, especially for those based in the diaspora in Europe. These 'virtual communities', connected by television and the internet, in turn influence and are influenced by the way the conflict between the Turkish state and subaltern Kurds is played out, both in the media and on the ground.By looking at first, second and third generations of Turkish and Kurdish populations in Europe, Keles highlights the dynamics of migration, settlement and integration that often depend on the policies of each settlement country. Since these settlement states often see the proliferation of such media as an impediment to integration, Media, Diaspora and Conflict offers timely analysis concerning the nature of diasporas and the construction of identity.

York's Hidden Stories - Interviews in Applied Linguistics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Rachel Wicaksono, Dasha Zhurauskaya York's Hidden Stories - Interviews in Applied Linguistics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Rachel Wicaksono, Dasha Zhurauskaya
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the mechanics of storytelling within a study aimed at focusing on a 'hidden' population of migrants in the city of York, UK. Taking applied linguistics to mean the consideration of real-world 'problems' as identified by a 'client', in which the use of (and beliefs about) language is a significant component, the authors describe the benefits and challenges of working in a partnership with a community organisation. With project participants from Africa, Europe, Asia and South and Central America who had lived in York between two and fifty years, the study considers the co-construction of meaning in interviews from a range of practical and theoretical perspectives. The book will be of interest to students, academic researchers and community project leaders who are interested in migration stories and interviews as a method of data collection.

Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience (Hardcover): Plummer A. Jones Libraries, Immigrants, and the American Experience (Hardcover)
Plummer A. Jones
R3,245 Discovery Miles 32 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From 1876 to 1924--a period of free immigration--the mission of the American public library in its work with immigrants was to Americanize the immigrants by teaching them English and preparing them for citizenship. From 1924 to 1948--a period of restricted immigration--the mission of the American public library in its work with immigrants was to educate the adult immigrant and to internationalize the American community. Together, the public library and the immigrant community have shaped and perpetuated the national understanding of the value of ethnicity and internationalism to American society. The American public librarians took on the roles of advocates for immigrant rights, social workers, propagandists for the American way, and educators.

At the end of the twentieth century, as at the beginning, Americans are still debating the place of immigrants in American society. Public librarians are now as they were then, going about their duties and responsibilities of providing advice and materials to help immigrants, legal and illegal, cope with everyday life in America. The American public library has remained a sovereign alchemist, turning the base metal of immigrant potentialities into the gold of American realities.

Women in the World-System - The Impact on Status and Fertility (Hardcover): Katheryn Ward Women in the World-System - The Impact on Status and Fertility (Hardcover)
Katheryn Ward
R2,222 Discovery Miles 22 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using world systems theory, this volume examines women's status and fertility in the developing countries of the world. The author examines empirical data from over 90 countries--developed and less developed, with planned and market-oriented economies--to investigate the influence of investment and dependent development on women's share of education, of the labor force, and of economic sectors, and how these facotrs influence fertility.

Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities - What the Eye Cannot See (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Anna Pechurina Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities - What the Eye Cannot See (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Anna Pechurina
R2,417 R1,884 Discovery Miles 18 840 Save R533 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Focusing on the experiences of Russian migrants to the United Kingdom, this book explores the connection between migrations, homes and identities. It evaluates several approaches to studying them, and is structured around a series of case studies on attitudes to homemaking, food and cooking, and clothing.

Migration and the Construction of German Identities, 1949–2004 - “No Real Germans at All” (Hardcover): Bethany Erin Hicks Migration and the Construction of German Identities, 1949–2004 - “No Real Germans at All” (Hardcover)
Bethany Erin Hicks
R3,195 Discovery Miles 31 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Migration, in its many forms, has often been found at the center of public and private discourse surrounding German nationalism and identity, significantly influencing how both states construct conceptions of what it means to be "German" at any given place and time. The attempt at constructing an ethnically homogeneous Third Reich was shattered by the movement of refugees, expellees, and soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the contracting of foreign nationals as Gastarbeiter in the Federal Republic and Vertragsarbeiter in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s and 70s diversified the ethnic landscape of both Cold War German states during the latter half of the Cold War. Bethany Hicks shows how the regional migration of East Germans into the western federal states both during and after German unification challenged essential Cold War assumptions concerning the ability to integrate two very different German populations.

Social Dynamics in Swiss Society - Empirical Studies Based on the Swiss Household Panel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Robin... Social Dynamics in Swiss Society - Empirical Studies Based on the Swiss Household Panel (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Robin Tillmann, Marieke Voorpostel, Peter Farago
R1,669 Discovery Miles 16 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel to zoom in on continuity and change in the life course, this open access book describes how the lives of the Swiss population have changed in terms of health, family circumstances, work, political participation, and migration over the last sixteen years. What are the different trajectories in terms of mobility, health, wealth, and family constellations? What are the drivers behind all these changes over time and in the life course? And what are the implications for inequality in society and for social policy? The Swiss Household Panel is a unique ongoing longitudinal survey that has followed a large sample of Swiss households since 1999. The data provide the rare opportunity to go beyond a snapshot of contemporary Swiss society and give insight into the processes in people's lives and in society that lie behind recent developments.

Senior Citizens of India - Emerging Challenges and Concerns (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): S.Irudaya Rajan, Udaya S. Mishra Senior Citizens of India - Emerging Challenges and Concerns (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
S.Irudaya Rajan, Udaya S. Mishra
R2,900 Discovery Miles 29 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an overview of multiple facets of ageing and its evolving dynamics in various Indian states. It elaborates on key dimensions like health, dependence and disability, as well as living arrangements for the elderly. Drawing on information from National Sample Surveys to offer readers a broader and richer understanding of the evolving demographic reality in India, the book addresses a range of detailed policies and programmes for the elderly in India. Given its scope, the book is essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of sociology, demography, economics and development studies. It also offers a valuable reference guide for anyone engaged in planning and policy formulation for social security, welfare of the aged or mainstreaming ageing concerns.

Outsiders - Memories of Migration to and from North Korea (Hardcover): Markus Bell Outsiders - Memories of Migration to and from North Korea (Hardcover)
Markus Bell
R3,016 Discovery Miles 30 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world's most secretive state-North Korea. Through vivid ethnographic details and interviews with North Korean escapees, Outsiders: Memories of Migration to and from North Korea reveals the driving forces that propelled thousands of ordinary people to risk it all in Kim Il-Sung's "Worker's Paradise", only to escape back to Japan half a century later.

Spacing (in) Diaspora - Law, Literature and the Roma (Hardcover): Emma Patchett Spacing (in) Diaspora - Law, Literature and the Roma (Hardcover)
Emma Patchett
R3,479 Discovery Miles 34 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This work attempts to counteract the essentialism of originary thinking in the contemporary era by providing a new reading of a relatively understudied corpus of literature from a ambivalently stereotyped diasporic group, in order to rethink and problematise the concept of diaspora as a spatial concept. As work situated in the Law-in-Literature movement, beyond the disciplinary boundaries of scholarship, this book aims to construct a 'literary jurisprudence' of diaspora space, deconstructing space in order to question what it means to be 'settled' in literary refractions of the lawscape by drawing on refractions of case law in a corpus of texts by Romani authors. These texts are used as hermeutic framings to draw unique spatio-temporal landscapes through which the reader can explore the refractive, reflective, interpretative conditions of legality as a crucible in which to theorise law.The radical intent of this work, therefore, is to deconstruct jurisprudential spatial order in order to theorize diaspora space, in the context of the Roma Diaspora. This work will offer readers new possibilities to re-imagine diaspora through law and literature and provides an innovative critical interdisciplinary analysis of the shaping of space.

Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Gottfried Schweiger Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Gottfried Schweiger
R3,908 Discovery Miles 39 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book brings together philosophical, social-theoretical and empirically oriented contributions on the philosophical and socio-theoretical debate on migration and integration, using the instruments of recognition as a normative and social-scientific category. Furthermore, the theoretical and practical implications of recognition theory are reflected through the case of migration. Migration movements, refugees and the associated tensions are phenomena that have become the focus of scientific, political and public debate in recent years. Migrants, in particular refugees, face many injustices and are especially vulnerable, but the right-wing political discourse presents them as threats to social order and stability. This book shows what a critical theory of recognition can contribute to the debate. The book is suitable for researchers in philosophy, social theory and migration research. "A profound examination of how states and societies struggle to recognize migrants as fellow human beings in all their fullness. The contributions are exceptional for combining astute philosophy and social theory with a discussion of actual politics and real lives." Dr. Hugo Slim (Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and formerly Head of Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross) "This impressive and timely volume offers an innovative way of understanding the issues of migration and integration by using a critical theory of recognition. Recognition theory has rich potential for effectively responding to the issues of autonomy, identity, integration, and empowerment that are at the core of the current public debates on mass migration, displacement, and the refugee crisis. By examining the normative and policy implications of recognition as they apply to migration, the book offers a pathbreaking look at the human dimension of the debate." Dr. Helle Porsdam (Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights University of Copenhagen)

American Labor in the Era of World War II (Hardcover): Daniel Cornford American Labor in the Era of World War II (Hardcover)
Daniel Cornford
R2,776 Discovery Miles 27 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. Large migrations significantly changed the composition of the industrial work force while, simultaneously, the organized labor movement sought to consolidate its base. These essays examine topics including aspects of the institutional development of the labor movement at the national level, while west coast case studies explore the conflicts generated at the workplace and in communities by the increased presence of women and minority workers. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

Linguistic Rivalries - Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts (Hardcover): Sonia N. Das Linguistic Rivalries - Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts (Hardcover)
Sonia N. Das
R3,797 Discovery Miles 37 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montreal, Quebec in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In Montreal, a city with more trilingual speakers than in any other North American city, Tamil migrants draw on their multilingual repertoires to navigate longstanding linguistic rivalries between anglophone and francophone, and Indian and Sri Lankan nationalist leaders by arguing that Indians speak "Spoken Tamil " and Sri Lankans speak "Written Tamil " as their respective heritage languages. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and linguistic methods to compare and contrast the communicative practices and language ideologies of Tamil heritage language learning in Hindu temples, Catholic churches, public schools, and community centers, this book demonstrates how processes of sociolinguistic differentiation are mediated by ethnonational, religious, class, racial, and caste hierarchies. Indian Tamils showcase their use of the "cosmopolitan " sounds and scripts of colloquial varieties of Tamil to enhance their geographic and social mobilities, whereas Sri Lankan Tamils, dispossessed of their homes by civil war, instead emphasize the "primordialist " sounds and scripts of a pure "literary " Tamil to rebuild their homeland and launch a "global " critique of racism and environmental destruction from the diaspora. This book uses the ethnographic and archival study of Tamil mobility and immobility to expose the mutual constitution of elite and non-elite global modernities, defined as language ideological projects in which migrants objectify dimensions of time and space through scalar metaphors.

Population Growth and Environmental Issues (Hardcover, New): Shridath Ramphal, Steven W. Sinding Population Growth and Environmental Issues (Hardcover, New)
Shridath Ramphal, Steven W. Sinding
R2,769 Discovery Miles 27 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this work, scholars, political leaders and experts in international development issues offer their responses to the need for up-to-date information about the linkages between population growth and three significant environmental issues: global warming, land use, and natural resource management. Collectively, the chapters in this volume look at the demographic facts and their interpretations, and beyond these facts to theories about consumption, technological development, and collective behaviour. Of particular concern throughout are the issues of poverty and the implications for the health and welfare of the poor people whose very lives are at stake in the global discussion about population growth and environment.

Migrant Capital - Networks, Identities and Strategies (Hardcover): L. Ryan, U. Erel Migrant Capital - Networks, Identities and Strategies (Hardcover)
L. Ryan, U. Erel; Alessio D'Angelo
R3,874 Discovery Miles 38 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other.

Millennials in America 2017 (Hardcover, Second Edition): Robert L. Scardamalia Millennials in America 2017 (Hardcover, Second Edition)
Robert L. Scardamalia
R2,702 Discovery Miles 27 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This publication provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and economic status of the Millennial generation. While the Baby Boom generation occupies much of our social and political dialogue, the Millennial generation is actually a larger generation. As the Boomers age, their numbers will decrease while the Millennials will be the driving social and political force in the coming decades. Millennials in America focuses on the those born between 1982-2001. Millennials in America is an invaluable source for helping people understand what the census data tells us about who we are, what we do, and where we live. Benefits of this publication include: *It will fill an information gap due to the difficulty in extracting comparative data from the Census Bureau's American FactFinder dissemination system. *Users will have comparative data in a single reference volume. *It will eliminate the need for the data user to understand and manipulate detailed census data files and consolidate disparate tables in AFF. *This publication utilizes the PUMS data which is the ONLY source of data that can be used to define precise age ranges for the Millennial generation. The age detail available for census summary data simply aren't adequate for defining the Millennials and therefore prohibit compilation of characteristics specific to this important generation. Features of this publication include: *Detailed data on 11 subject areas including race, educational attainment, field of study, income, mobility status, employment status, housing, and more *Each subject area includes data for the United States, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, 622 counties, 331 cities, 381 metropolitan areas and 34 micropolitan areas. *Each part is preceded by highlights, maps, and figures illustrating how areas diverge from the national norm as well as differences among areas.

The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe (Hardcover, New): U. Korkut, G. Bucken-Knapp, A. Mcgarry, J. Hinnfors, H... The Discourses and Politics of Migration in Europe (Hardcover, New)
U. Korkut, G. Bucken-Knapp, A. Mcgarry, J. Hinnfors, H Drake
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book engages with politics and political discourse that relate to and qualify immigration in Europe. It brings together empirical analysis of immigration both topically and contextually, and interprets such empirical evidence with the use of policy and discursive analyses as methodological tools. Thematically, this volume focuses on how discourse and politics operate in issue areas as varied as immigrant integration and multilevel governance, Roma immigration and their respective securitization, the uses of language in determination of asylum applications, gendered immigrants in informal economy, perceptions of integration by the migrants, economic interests and economic nationalism stimulating immigration choices, ideology and entry policies, and asylum processes and the institutional evolution of immigration systems. These issues are analyzed with empirical evidence investigating the discursive formulation of immigration systems in political contexts such as the Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland, Scandinavian states, and Finland.

Women Remembered - A Guide to Landmarks of Women's History in the United States (Hardcover): Marion Tinling Women Remembered - A Guide to Landmarks of Women's History in the United States (Hardcover)
Marion Tinling
R3,314 Discovery Miles 33 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This was obviously a labor of love for the author. Libraries large and small will find it a major ready-reference source on historic women in America." Library Journal

Borders Revisited - Discourses on the UK Border (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Bastian A. Vollmer Borders Revisited - Discourses on the UK Border (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Bastian A. Vollmer
R1,867 Discovery Miles 18 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The nature and configuration of borders, and the relationship between state borders and societies, have changed. In the 21st century, internationalism, transnationalism, and super-diversity have further provoked complexities and anxieties. It seems that as border and migration regimes undergo dramatic transformations, their public profile increases. This book revisits borders, bordering practices, and meanings, with a particular focus on the United Kingdom as a case study. Bastian A. Vollmer examines not only the theoretical and historical dimensions of borders but also various empirical data, including extensive text corpora and dozens of in-depth interviews. Expanding on the concept of vernacular security-that is, an everyday understanding of security-he argues that the existential value of borders is not merely physical, but extends into the order and future construction of states and societies. This book demonstrates decisively that the concept of the border has not left the centre stage of philosophy, political theory, and political sociology, but has instead emerged as a focal point for multidisciplinary engagements. It further demonstrates how attention to a vernacular perspective can inform those engagements, yielding vital insights. As such, it should appeal to students and scholars across disciplines interested in the contemporary development and relevance of borders and their discursive cultures.

Soap Operas, Gender and the Sri Lankan Diaspora - A Transnational Ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Soap Operas, Gender and the Sri Lankan Diaspora - A Transnational Ethnography in Australia and Sri Lanka (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Shashini Gamage
R1,622 Discovery Miles 16 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a transnational ethnographic study of Sri Lankan women's television soap opera cultures in Australia and Sri Lanka. Both Sri Lankan migrant women's soap opera clubs in Melbourne, Australia, and female friendship groups watching soap operas in Colombo, Sri Lanka, are examined. Conducted in the sociopolitical backdrop of post-civil war Sri Lanka, this study examines how nationalist ideologies of womanhood shape meanings in Sri Lankan television soap operas that predominantly cater to female audiences. How women interpret, resist, deconstruct, and reconstruct good-bad binaries of women's bodies, freedoms, and rights as represented in the soap operas are mapped, providing an ethnographic examination of how nationalist meanings translate into cultural capital in spaces of television production and reception, in national and diasporic everyday lives.

The United States Labor Force - A Descriptive Analysis (Hardcover): Ruth Prywes The United States Labor Force - A Descriptive Analysis (Hardcover)
Ruth Prywes
R2,827 Discovery Miles 28 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The United States labor force is examined in detail in this comprehensive study. The history and current makeup of the workforce is revealed and issues and trends are investigated. Theory and analysis are blended with demographics to provide the reader with a solid overview of the current state of the American worker and his or her environment. Competing views are offered on diverse issues such as unions, welfare, and health care. Where helpful, economic and labor theory is explained and applied to give the book scholarly rigor along with readability and practical information. The viewpoint remains focused on a broad view of manpower. As such, emphasis is not on theoretical analysis but on description, historical trends, statistics on present conditions, and explanations.

The book begins with a discussion of the development of the workforce, the impact of immigration, the rise of nontraditional work arrangements, the underground economy, and demographics. Basic vocabulary and concepts are presented and explained to give the reader the tools necessary to analyze the topics presented in the latter parts of the book. Education is examined in part two. Competing views on the U.S. educational system and the value of education in an economic sense are discussed as are the choices open to non-college graduates. Career choices, unions, wage determination, and women and minority issues are considered in later chapters. Aspects of unemployment are explored in part seven. The book concludes with a look at the government's role in the workforce, including welfare, social insurance, and health care and shows how these programs impact both employer and worker behavior. This book is a great resource for executives, human resource professionals, researchers, policy makers, and students.

Latino City - Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (Hardcover): Llana Barber Latino City - Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (Hardcover)
Llana Barber
R2,922 Discovery Miles 29 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By 2000, Lawrence, Massachusetts, became New England's first Latino-majority city, and Latinos-mainly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans-currently make up nearly three-quarters of its population. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. Latino immigration in the late twentieth century brought new life to the struggling city, but settling in Lawrence was fraught with challenges. Facing hostility from their neighbors, exclusion from local governance, inadequate city services, and limited job prospects, Latinos fought and organized for the right to make a home in the city. In this book, Llana Barber interweaves the histories of U.S. urban crisis and imperial migration from Latin America. Pushed to migrate by political and economic circumstances shaped by the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America, poor and working-class Latinos then had to reckon with the segregation, joblessness, disinvestment, and profound stigma that plagued cities during the crisis era, particularly in the Rust Belt. For many Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, there was no ""American Dream"" awaiting them in Lawrence; instead, Latinos struggled to build lives for themselves in the ruins of industrial America.

We are All Africans Here - Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe (Hardcover): Kristin Loftsdottir We are All Africans Here - Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe (Hardcover)
Kristin Loftsdottir
R2,670 Discovery Miles 26 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Europe is often described as "flooded" by migrants or by Muslim "others," with Western African men especially portrayed as a security risk. At the same time the intensified mobility of privileged people in the Global North is celebrated as creating an increasingly cosmopolitan world. This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in the aspiration of precarious migrants from Niger in Belgium and Italy. The book contextualizes their experiences within the ongoing securitization of mobility in their home country and the persistent denial of racism and colonialism that seeks to portray the innocence of Europe.

Illegal, Legal Immigration (Hardcover): Kofi Quaye Illegal, Legal Immigration (Hardcover)
Kofi Quaye
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Immigration - Examining the Facts (Hardcover): Cari Lee Skogberg Eastman Immigration - Examining the Facts (Hardcover)
Cari Lee Skogberg Eastman
R2,122 Discovery Miles 21 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What are the myths and truths regarding immigration in the United States? This book provides readers with an impartial understanding of the true state of immigration and immigration policy in the United States by refuting falsehoods, misinformation, and exaggerations surrounding this topic-and confirming the validity of other assertions. Immigration: Examining the Facts provides a one-stop resource for straight answers on the impact-both positive and negative-of immigration trends on the United States. Its coverage of key issues serves students as well as members of the general public who want to better understand immigration trends and their effect on various aspects of American society. By utilizing quantifiable information from objective, authoritative sources, readers will be able to make informed judgments about immigration claims made by both liberals and conservatives. The book analyzes specific claims about immigration that are perpetuated through media or public discourse, identifies the origins of these claims, and then offers empirical data from impartial research sources to consider the veracity of those claims. Organized into subject chapters, each of which addresses assertions about specific immigration topics, this resource gives students and other users the tools to gain a more accurate understanding of the issue, improve their critical thinking skills, and increase their awareness of the views and strategies of political parties, lawmakers, news organizations, and advocacy groups on this important subject. Addresses contemporary rhetoric about immigration with factual information based on reliable, objective empirical data Presents immigration-related statistics in an easy-to-read format that allows readers to quickly find answers to specific questions Fosters a more accurate understanding of the immigration issue and provides readers with opportunities to apply critical thinking skills

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