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Lost In Translation
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. Her autobiography is profoundly personal but also tells one of the... more...
Rising India and Indian Communities in East Asia
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2008; US$ 134.90This edited volume containing thirty-five chapters focuses on three main contemporary issues: the phenomenon of "new Indians" in the past five decades, the impact of rising India on settled Indian communities, and the recent migrants. By examining these interrelated aspects, this study seeks to address questions like: what does "Rising... more...
International Migration in Southeast Asia
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2004; US$ 67.50Population mobility increases with economic development and globalization. The migration of people affects countries in many ways -- socially, economically and politically. However, there are fundamental tensions in efforts to manage international migration in a globalizing world. On the one hand, business is transnational as it necessitates the unrestricted... more...
Framing Immigrant Integration
Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 59.50Debates on immigrant integration are often caught up in what academics and politicians like to call 'national models of integration'. Researchers and policymakers long for common ground. In the Netherlands, their symbiosis is fed by multiculturalism, something for which Dutch society has long been seen as exemplary. Still, the incorporation... more...
Migration, Remittances and Development in South Asia
SAGE India 2011; US$ 49.95Migration, Remittances and Development in South Asia explores the impact of migration on development in South Asian countries, compiling extensive information on the migration flows and trends, migrant remittances and migration policies. It discusses a number of proposals for effective cooperation on protection of migrant rights and promotion of migration... more...
Immigration and the Financial Crisis
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00Structural needs for immigrant labour in health care, restaurant, tourism, agricultural and other economic sectors, together with harsher economic circumstances in most sending countries, almost certainly ensure the continuation of large-scale immigration to the US and Australia. But in harder times, especially in the US, sustaining this immigration... more...
From There to Here
Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableIn February 2007, we asked people from any background to send us their true personal accounts of immigration to Britain. The response was significant, and the range of entries overwhelming. Six judges ; including Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty and the novelist Kate Mosse ; selected the best, most illuminating and most powerful entries to be published... more...
Bageye at the Wheel
Random House 2012; US$ 22.66To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight's, he is always known as Bageye. There aren't very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather at Mrs Knight's - Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots - each has his nickname. Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his... more...
Transnationale Altersmigration in Europa
Springer Fachmedien 2011; US$ 47.99Während die transnationale Migrationsforschung sich vor allem mit erwerbstätigen MigrantInnen und den Logiken der Arbeitswelt befasst, wird immer deutlicher, dass sich auch ältere Menschen an saisonalen grenzüberschreitenden Ortswechseln beteiligen. Berufliche Entpflichtung, eine gestiegene Lebenserwartung, materielle Sicherheit,... more...
The Road to Home
Simon & Schuster 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...









