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Alternative Health Care
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 29.95In November of 1998 The Journal of the American Medical Association devoted an entire issue to alternative medicine for the first time in its publishing history. According to survey results reported in the journal, 83 million Americans used some form of alternative medicine to preserve and maintain their health in 1997, a sharp increase from the... more...
Americans at the Gate
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 42.00Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents who at times successfully slowed admissions.... more...
Are Human Rights for Migrants?
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 135.00Human rights seemingly offer universal protection. However, irregular migrants have, at best, only problematic access to human rights. Whether understood as an ethical injunction or legally codified norm, the promised protection of human rights seems to break down when it comes to the lived experience of irregular migrants. This book therefore asks... more...
Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 135.00Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation. Engaging debate about how ?cosmopolitan? principles and practices may be transforming national sovereignty,... more...
Asylum Denied
University of California Press 2008; US$ 24.95Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently arrested and taken into the forest to be executed.... more...
At America's Gates
The University of North Carolina Press 2003; US$ 28.95With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of... more...
Become a U.S. Citizen
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007; US$ 11.95This important resource gives you everything you need to successfully understand each of the steps toward achieving citizenship. more...
Becoming a U.S. Citizen
NOLO 2012; US$ 29.99Seeking citizenship? Here's everything you need to know! The path from green card to U.S. citizenship can be a long and winding one -- and bureaucratic hassles are inevitable. But with Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can shave months or years off the time it takes to become a citizen. Find out how to: . determine your eligibility . make sure you won?t... more...
Children & Immigration
Taylor and Francis 1997; US$ 162.00Bringing together family law and immigration law, this work promotes such areas as: how families and children settle in the UK; applications of parents and children for indefinite leave to enter, or remain, with a view to settlement in the UK; and how such applications affect or assist children. more...









