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Emigration & Immigration

  • From There to Hereby

    Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not Available

    In 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...

  • Megatrends in Global Interactionby Bertelsmann Foundation (ed.)

    Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 2012; US$ 27.17

    Hauptbeschreibung We inhabit an increasingly interconnected world, yet too often policymakers and advisors view each issue in a vacuum, focusing primarily on short-term impacts. All of us - policymakers, citizens, and local and global communities - must begin to consider how the major trends that shape our world are likely to develop, and how they... more...

  • Immigrationby STUART ANDERSON

    ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 55.00

    Immigration is a comprehensive examination of U.S. immigration policies and their impact on the nation, combining a historical overview and a guide to how immigration works in practice. In this one-volume compendium on the history, politics, culture, and contributions of immigrants to the United States, the author uses his experience in key immigration... more...

  • Outside Looking Inby KOFI APRAKU

    ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 129.00

    Mr. Apraku gives the reader an outsider's analysis of the good and bad elements that make up the U.S. The author, a Ghanian who has spent the last 18 years studying and teaching in the U.S., brings his personal experiences as an emigré to this examination of American capitalism and democracy. He looks at the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the... more...

  • The Lebanese Diasporaby Dalia Abdelhady

    NYU Press 2011; US$ 75.00

    The Lebanese are the largest group of Middle Eastern immigrants in the United States, and Lebanese immigrants are also prominent across Europe and the Americas. Based on over eighty interviews with first-generation Lebanese immigrants in the global cities of New York, Montreal and Paris, this book shows that the Lebanese diasporaolike all diasporasoconstructs... more...

  • Keeping Hope Aliveby Hawa Abdi

    Little, Brown Book Group 2013; US$ 27.17

    The truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people more...

  • Keeping Hope Aliveby Hawa Abdi

    Little, Brown Book Group 2013; Not Available

    The truly inspiring and moving story of a female doctor in war torn Somalia who refuses to leave her country and her people more...

  • Suffering in the Land of Sunshineby Emily Abel

    Rutgers University Press 2006; US$ 24.95

    The history of medicine is much more than the story of doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Seeking to understand the patient's perspective, historians scour the archives, searching for rare personal accounts. Bringing together a trove of more than 400 family letters by Charles Dwight Willard, Suffering in the Land of Sunshine provides a unique window... more...

  • Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusionby Emily K. Abel

    Rutgers University Press 2007; US$ 17.00

    Though notorious for its polluted air today, the city of Los Angeles once touted itself as a health resort. After the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1876, publicists launched a campaign to portray the city as the promised land, circulating countless stories of miraculous cures for the sick and debilitated. As more and more migrants poured... more...

  • The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asiaby Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk; Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim

    BRILL 2009; US$ 159.00

    Based 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...