First Migrants

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing arch...

This book focuses on the analysis of documentaries and fiction films representing migrants in Spain in the first decade of the twenty-first century...

Migrants' minority and majority identity are controversial political topics, offering insights into challenges of integration and social cohesion. ...

A monumental account of one migrant community's everyday lives, struggles, and aspirations Forty years of continuous war and conflict have made Afg...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James N. GregoryBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the fi...

Reducere. Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a "fix" for the regulation ...

This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, r...

This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of 'citizenisation' - twenty-first-century integration and...

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...

Islam in "Liberal" Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. I...

DescriptionThis report assesses and maps 184 peer-reviewed, empirical research articles selected for their focus on linkages between water stress a...

PROSEThroughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, ...

The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descenda...

This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing...

This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of 'citizenisation' - twenty-first-century integration and...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Engaging with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, this ground ...

This is the first book to examine "migrant-soldiers' in the British army and places the phenomenon of Britain's multicultural army in relation to B...

Contributor(s): Author: Trevor PhillipsAuthor: Mike PhillipsBroadcaster Trevor Phillips and his novelist brother Mike retell the very human story o...

DescriptionThe first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Wa...

Reducere. 170, 000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration min...

Reducere. In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--d...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-sevente...

A fresh and revealing history of one of the most seminal events in American history as seen through fourteen diverse and dynamic figures. Martyn Wh...

Reducere. The twenty-first century is marked by mass migration. Massive population movements of the last century have radically challenged our study and prac...

Contributor(s): Author: Antonio OrtunoIn order to repatriate the victims of a massacre, a young officer is sent to a lost village in the southeast ...

Reducere. Description"Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man." -- From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize-winning author Rich...

DescriptionCollecting the diverse perspectives of scholars, labor organizers, and human-rights advocates, Accountability across Borders is the firs...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Blood Relations, Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during t...

Reducere. In this remarkable collection--the first of its kind--poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of ...

Reducere. In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of be...

Reducere. Christianity in the UK today is faced with growing cultural and religious diversity. Christian migrants bring with them new ways of doing theology,...

African Americans in Mercer County have a legacy spanning two centuries of progress. Runaway slaves secreted along stations of the Underground Rail...

Reducere. The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their home...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Karina Oliva AlvaradoEditor: Alicia Ivonne EstradaEditor: Ester E. HernandezIn summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child ...

Reducere. Central Asia--a vast and remote area of steppe, semi-desert, and mountains separating Europe from eastern Asia--is home to a diversity of birds. Bi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul LendvaiA no-holds-barred biography of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb n, who has become a pivotal figure in Europe...

Reducere. This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in reco...

Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians--merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers--left their homelan...

Making the Chinese Mexican is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on imm...

DescriptionWith the development of the first skyscrapers in the 1880s, urban built environments could expand vertically as well as horizontally. Ta...

Reducere. Latinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequentl...

Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's...

The Kuwaiti population includes around 100, 000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often...

Reducere. Where Black people live has long been an important determinant of their ability to participate in political processes. The Great Migration signific...

Reducere. - The first photographic field guide for the birds of Cuba- Includes all 378 recorded species- Updated status and distribution taxonomyCuba is home...

Reducere. Discover the fascinating Philippines in this captivating book on its history, from the origins of the archipelago's first peoples until modern time...

Reducere. A one-way ticket to Australia...two months of travel...and a shoestring budget.In Red Earth Diaries we meet Jason and Ambika, a newlywed couple who...

DescriptionA groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America o...

Reducere. "Beautifully written and important...Martinez shows us how 'America' is being reimagined by its uninvited, its disrespected, its invisible, and he ...

Reducere. In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-wo...

Reducere. Los Angeles is well-known as a temperate paradise with expansive beaches and mountain vistas, a booming luxury housing market, and the home of glam...

Reducere. The first ever collection of short stories by Jaime Cortez, Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. A you...

This lyrical and extremely timely picture book illuminates the many different migrants who have made their homes in North America through the centu...

DescriptionThe Murders of Boysie Singh, first published in 1962, is a classic for several reasons. It tells the true but almost unbelievable story ...