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Eastern European Immigrant Families
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States has grown significantly in the last few decades. While Asian and Latin American immigrations have been central to the discourse of migration to the US, the rapid growth of Eastern European immigrants has received insufficient attention. Robila fills this gap by presenting key issues related to immigration... more...
The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia
BRILL 2009; US$ 159.00Based on the proceedings of an international conference convened by the Department of History and Civilisation, International Islamic University Malaysia, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Kuala Lumpur, from 26th to 28th August 2005, this title reviews twelve out of thirty-five papers presented at the conference. more...
My Name Is Not Natasha
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 62.50An account of how trafficked women experience and then overcome sexual slavery and trafficking without or in spite of the help offered by outside agencies. more...
Migration and Mobility in Europe
Edward Elgar Publishing 2009; US$ 40.00The enlargement of the European Union has had an enormous impact on migration within Europe. This book addresses the form of these effects, outlining the social, political and economic problems created by the free movement of people within the European Union. more...
Steadfast Movement around Micronesia
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 64.99Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of movement itself. Special consideration is made of movement on the atoll of Satowan in Chuuk State as intimately associated with clan, lineage, and locality, as well as the influence of a system of local... more...
Asylum, Migration and Community
The Policy Press 2010; US$ 39.95Rooted in more than two decades of scholarship, this book uses critical social theory and participatory, biographical and arts-based methods with asylum seekers, refugees and emerging communities to explore the dynamics of the asylum-migration-community nexus. more...
Thinking the Unthinkable
I.B.Tauris 2001; US$ 59.95There have been poor countries and rich countries since countries first began, but only in the 20th century - the century of nationalisms and ethnic cleansings - have controls been implemented to stop movement between them. The argument for immigration controls stems from the belief, inherently xenophobic, that richer countries will be "flooded",... more...
A Global Clan
I.B.Tauris 2006; US$ 100.00"A Global Clan" explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a new approach linking personal accounts to 'networks' of kin and social groups, this book taps into the expanding academic debate on migration linking imperial history and the European diaspora. Migration from the British 'Celtic fringe'... more...
British Untouchables
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95British Untouchables provides a major study on the issues facing the education of Dalit children and young people growing up in Britain. The book is based on extensive field work and uses a qualitative research methodology, including in-depth interviews with parents, teachers and children, and detailed observations in homes and schools. It offers a... more...
Leveraging Migration for Africa
World Bank Publications 2011; US$ 29.99A joint effort led by the African Development Bank and the World Bank, 'Leveraging Migration for Africa' is the first comprehensive publication on harnessing migration, remittances, and other diaspora resources for the development of Africa. It comes at a time when countries in Africa and elsewhere are grappling with difficult choices on how... more...









