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Black British Culture and Societyby Kwesi Owusu
Routledge 1999; US$ 44.95From the Windrush immigration of the 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain, Black British Culture and Society examines the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in post-war Britain. more...
Immigrant Life in the USby Donna R. Gabaccia; Colin Wayne Leach
Routledge 2003; US$ 178.00Contributors from the fields of sociology, anthropology, history and women's studies focus on the everyday social interactions that makeschools, workplaces and neighbourhoods sites of cultural creativity, transformation and resistance. more...
Age, Narrative and Migrationby Katy Gardner
Berg Publishers 2002; US$ 109.95Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describe s how many of these elders face the processes of ageing, sickness and finally death, in a country where they did not expect to stay and where they do not necessarily feel they belong. The ways in which they talk about and deal with this, and in par ticular, their ambivalence towards Britain and Bangladesh lies at the heart of the book. Centrally, the book is based around the men and womens life stories. In her analysis of these, Gardner shows how narratives play an important role in the for... more...
British Emigration, 1603-1914by Alex Murdoch
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 100.00In 'British Emgiration 1603-1914' Alex Murdoch argues that British emigration history cannot be written without reference to sectarian and political developments in Britain and Ireland. more...
Social Work with Unaccompanied Asylum Seekingby Ravi Kohli
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006; US$ 125.00Offers a comprehensive overview of what is known about the resettlement of young asylum-seekers, answering social work practitioners' need for a fuller understanding of this under-researched area of work. This text reviews existing theoretical frameworks and research evidence, and establishes a detailed picture of resettlement practice. more...
Social Work, Immigration and Asylumby Beth Humphries; Debra Hayes; Steve Cohen
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2004; US$ 36.95The practical and ethical challenges facing human service professionals working with refugees, asylum seekers and other people subject to immigration controls are discussed in this much-needed book. The contributors explore the tensions that exist between traditional anti-oppressive values and the role professionals increasingly play as 'gate keepers' to services. Drawing from the experience of practitioners working in child protection and family support, disability, the criminal justice system, asylum teams and immigration tribunals, Immigration and Asylum will prepare professionals working in these and related fields to deal with the complex situations of people subject to immigration control and to develop interventions appropriate to their... more...
Korean American Womenby Jenny Hyun Pak
CRC Press 2006; US$ 70.00Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels, ethnic community and religious involvements, family functioning, and social support, to name a few, all have an impact in the process of cultural adaptation. This book examines Korean American women's dual-cultural identity. By utilizing multiple case studies, the book highlights: (1) the complexity of issues involved as individuals go through different levels of culture change, and (2) the multiplicity of people negotiating their lives in the dual-cultural... more...
Germania, USAby Noel Iverson
University of Minnesota Press 1967; US$ 67.50An unusual community in southern Minnesota, New Ulm, a town of about 12,000 inhabitants, is the subject of this sociological study. New Ulm was founded in 1856 by a group of German immigrants who came to the United States as refugees from the revolution o more...
Aftermathsby Marcus Bullock; Peter Y. Paik
Rutgers University Press 2008; US$ 24.95Aftermaths is a collection of essays offering compelling new ideas on exile, migration, and diaspora that have emerged in the global age. In seeking fresh perspectives on the movement of people and ideas, the essays included here look to the power of the aesthetic experience, especially in literature and film, to unsettle existing theoretical paradigms and enable the rethinking of conventionalized approaches. more...
The Cultures of Economic Migrationby Suman Gupta; Tope Omoniyi
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 114.95This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. The contributors reflect critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it. more...









