Catálogo de libros: Migración, inmigración y emigración

1905 Catálogo de libros: Migración, inmigración y emigración

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  • Suffer the Little Children
    Anita Casavantes Bradford
    In this affecting and innovative global history—starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border—Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children. At first a series of ad hoc Cold War–era initiatives, such policy gr...
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    134,64 €

  • Lives beyond Borders
    Ina C. Seethaler
    Examines how contemporary US migrant women’s life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities. ...
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    42,16 €

  • A Postcolonial Relationship
    Hee An Choi
    Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States. ...
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    42,32 €

  • Exploring the Economic Opportunities and Impacts of Migrant Entrepreneurship
    Meena Chavan / Sheba Nandkeolyar
    Migration is a key aspect of our modern world. Beyond fueling population growth, migrants bring with them much more than bags packed full of their belongings. They stimulate the economy, bring fresh new ideas and a unique perspective on business, and provide a huge variety of positive and intangible benefits from enhanced productivity to innovation. Exploring the Economic Oppor...
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    281,70 €

  • Exploring the Economic Opportunities and Impacts of Migrant Entrepreneurship
    Meena Chavan / Sheba Nandkeolyar
    Migration is a key aspect of our modern world. Beyond fueling population growth, migrants bring with them much more than bags packed full of their belongings. They stimulate the economy, bring fresh new ideas and a unique perspective on business, and provide a huge variety of positive and intangible benefits from enhanced productivity to innovation. Exploring the Economic Oppor...
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    215,86 €

  • Transnational American Spaces
    As people migrate, they face the need to create a stable space within a disconcertingly unfamiliar environment. This experience of creating new spaces opens opportunities for positive transcultural connections; however, these opportunities can also serve as the disciplining of the migrant body. This text focuses on the movement of bodies in transnational communities and the for...
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    71,35 €

  • International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community
    Le Ha Phan / Osman Z. Barnawi / Osman Z. Barnawi / Phan Le Ha
    This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education. ...
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    60,30 €

  • International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community
    Le Ha Phan / Osman Z. Barnawi / Osman Z. Barnawi / Phan Le Ha
    This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education. ...
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    181,92 €

  • Transpacific Connections
    Maja Zawierzeniec
    Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the most renowned Mexican poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers...
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    180,76 €

  • Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women
    Naomi Thompson / Rabia Nasimi
    Arguing for a bottom-up approach that centres on needs as well as assets, Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women highlights the importance of cultural relevance of services, and a holistic approach to integration that acknowledges the full range of needs and experiences migrant and refugee women face. ...
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    87,78 €

  • South African-Based African Migrants’ Responses to COVID-19
    This edited volume interrogates the intersection between viral pandemics, transnational migration and the politics of belonging in South Africa during COVID-19. The chapters draw on theoretical conceptions such as biopolitics, necropolitics, xenophobio/afrophobia and autochthonous citizenship to understand how South Africa has responded to the devastating effects of COVID-19 an...
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    52,41 €

  • Sehnsucht
    Lorraine Loewen
    In my early years, I felt sadness in my Grandpa Grisch; it seemed to cling to him. What feelings could not do, however, was give me greater understanding into his inner world. Unknown to me, family had stored close to one hundred letters for over thirty years and these would pass into my hands the summer of 2019. Once transcribed from German into English these letters exposed t...
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    50,09 €

  • Sehnsucht
    Lorraine Loewen
    In my early years, I felt sadness in my Grandpa Grisch; it seemed to cling to him. What feelings could not do, however, was give me greater understanding into his inner world. Unknown to me, family had stored close to one hundred letters for over thirty years and these would pass into my hands the summer of 2019. Once transcribed from German into English these letters exposed t...
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    26,08 €

  • Life history and the Irish migrant experience in post-war England
    Barry Hazley
    This book makes innovative use of migrant life histories to further understanding the role of memory in the production of migrant identities. Offering a fresh perspective on the post-war Irish experience in England, it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants’ ’recompose’ the self in response to the emotional challenges migration ...
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    44,20 €

  • Systems of Suffering
    Jonathan Darling
    Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in popular consciousness. But there is a third practice, perpetrating a slower violence, that remains hidden: dispersal. Jonathan Darling provides the first detailed account of how dispersal - the system of accommodation and support for asylum seekers a...
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    126,99 €

  • Becoming Home
    'Becoming Home: Diaspora and the Anglophone Transnational' is a collection of essays exploring national identity, migration, exile, colonialism, postcolonialism, slavery, race, and gender in the literature of the Anglophone world. The volume focuses on the dispersion or scattering of people in exile, and how those with an existing homeland and those displaced, without a politic...
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    69,43 €

  • Posthumanist Nomadisms across non-Oedipal Spatiality
    As an epistemological perspective, ’nomadism’ is an emerging field of scholarship, offering intersectionality with eco-criticism, feminism, post-colonialism, migration studies, and translation. Much of the scholarship that uses the precepts of nomadism to read cultural texts and phenomena is scattered as separate articles in academic journals or as single chapters in books wher...
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    60,11 €

  • Antonio, We Know You
    Antonio Salazar-Hobson
    ANTONIO, WE KNOW YOU follows the life of a migrant farmworker kidnapped at age four, trafficked through age ten at a famous California Ranch, until being saved from an attempted suicide and taken under Cesar Chavez’s wing. Antonio eventually graduated from law school and found the strength and resilience to be reunited with his long-lost family after 24 years. In telling his st...
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    28,76 €

  • Antonio, We Know You
    Antonio Salazar-Hobson
    ANTONIO, WE KNOW YOU follows the life of a migrant farmworker kidnapped at age four, trafficked through age ten at a famous California Ranch, until being saved from an attempted suicide and taken under Cesar Chavez’s wing. Antonio eventually graduated from law school, become a labor lawyer, and found the strength and resilience to be reunited with his long-lost family after 24 ...
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    20,88 €

  • Up Against the Wall
    Peter Laufer
    The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north. ...
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    39,60 €

  • Three Mothers
    Matilda Velevitch
    • Deals with issues such as enforced migration and refugees• Won the IOM Arts Council Prize in 2017Three women, two children, one story...Set in present day Senegal, Bavaria and post WW2 Sudentenland, Three Mothersimmerses the audience in the personal lives and the dilemmas facing its threefemale characters. The story follows their lives as they attempt to make difficultdecisio...
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    15,09 €

  • Bordering intimacy
    Joe Turner
    Bordering intimacy explores how borders are used to police who can be ’family’ and how ’family’ is used to legitimate, justify and naturalise state borders. Family and borders were central to the architecture of European colonialism and imperialism, and they continue to organise the racialisation and dispossession of people today. ...
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    44,04 €

  • Uncertain citizenship
    Anne-Marie Fortier
    This book investigates uncertainty as a governing practice from the unique vantage point of ’citizenisation’ - twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in the waiting room of citizenship. ...
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    35,62 €

  • Understanding Success and Failure in Adult ESL
    Taewoong Kim
    This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular. ...
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    48,40 €

  • Understanding Success and Failure in Adult ESL
    Taewoong Kim
    This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or curricular. ...
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    170,01 €

  • Preston Street • Corso Italia
    Franco Ricci
    A written monument to the Italian Canadian community of Ottawa before that memory forever dissipates into the realm of youthful forgetfulness and disregard, this study explores the history of Preston Street along with its social groups, landmarks, and the evolution of its identity. ...
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    22,79 €

  • Refuge
    Heba Gowayed
    How states deny the full potential of refugees as people and perpetuate social inequalityAs the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, with the assumption that this will restore their prospects for a bright future. Refuge follows Syrians who fled a brutal war in their homeland ...
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    40,65 €

  • Causes and Consequences of Global Migration
    Joakim Ruist
    The book summarizes scholarly knowledge on why people migrate to western countries, and how this impacts on the receiving economies and societies. ...
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    57,58 €

  • A Rubric for Transition Among Cultures
    Rachel E. Timmons
    We are all shaped and written upon by our surrounding culture. When we move between different cultures, it can take real effort to fit in and reacculturate ourselves, whether it’s studying a new language, forming friendships, joining new groups, or simply finding a sense of ’place’ in a new community. International moves, repatriation, transitions from military service to civil...
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    18,97 €

  • Identity Politics Past and Present
    Markus Rheindorf / Ruth Wodak
    Using a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, collective memory and commemoration, this book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 1995 and 2015. ...
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    136,20 €


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