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Moving Matters
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 21.95Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "home." The stories told here are both extraordinary and increasingly common. Serial migrants rarely travel freely—they must negotiate a world of territorial borders and legal restrictions—yet... more...
The immigrant war
The Policy Press 2012; US$ 18.00In this original, accessible book, Vittorio Longhi uses a global perspective to highlight the 'immigrant war and struggle for human rights, citizenship and equality', despite a policy vacuum towards immigration among governments of developed states. more...
Why Walls Won't Work
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 21.99Today, when one thinks of the border separating the United States from Mexico, what comes to mind is a war zone--with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an increasingly militarized network of barriers and surveillance systems on the other. But as the acclaimed urbanist and geographer Michael Dear reveals in this... more...
From Exile to Eden
Red Wheel Weiser 2012; US$ 16.99Combining history and hardship, battles and betrayal, miraculous escapes and death-defying encounters, From Exile to Eden chronicles one family?s journey from deportation in Siberia to safety and freedom in America. On February 10, 1940, the Szelazek family was deported as prisoners of war from Poland to a Soviet labor camp in Siberia, beginning... more...
Immigrant Adaptation in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other countries where doors are gradually opening to immigration,... more...
Spanish Seaborne Empire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 40.00The Spanish empire in America was the first of the great seaborne empires of western Europe; it was for long the richest and the most formidable, the focus of envy, fear, and hatred. Its haphazard beginning dates from 1492; it was to last more than three hundred years before breaking up in the early nineteenth century in civil wars between rival generals... more...
China's Internal and International Migration
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95One consequence of China?s economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese have migrated to other parts of the world, their remittances home often having a significant impact within China. Also, China?s increasing links... more...
On the Crofter's Trail
Birlinn 2013; US$ 10.14In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Some fled to Nova Scotia and beyond. David Craig sets out to discover how... more...
Translingual Identities
Boydell & Brewer 2013;This work explores the psychology of literary translingualism - writing in a language other than one's native tongue - by examining the works of two authors who, forced into exile by the rise of Nazism, chose English as their language of artistic expression. The author argues that translingualism leads to a psychic split and proposes these authors... more...
Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Through the concept of 'home' the book draws together and reflects on interconnections between integration in areas such as education or housing and experiences of social networks. Examining experiences of the asylum process and the manner in which they are interwoven within a wider narrative of home both within and beyond, Inhabiting Borders,... more...









