Migration Books

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21. Diversity, Intercultural Encounters, and Education

    Edited by Susana Gonçalves, Markus A. Carpenter

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This book concerns the challenges and tensions rising from mass migration flows, unbalanced north-south and east-west relations and the increasing multicultural nature of society. The scope of the book’s theme is global, addressing diversity and identity, intercultural encounters and conflict, and...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
22. Engaging with a Legacy: Nehemia Levtzion (1935-2003)

    Edited by E. Ann McDougall

    Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
23. Health Care and Immigration

    Understanding the Connections

    Edited by Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Alejandro Portes

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform. This volume sets out to answer the question: how do medical institutions...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
24. The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration

    Edited by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen

    Series: Global Institutions

    Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants’ desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transportation and labour...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
25. Gender, Migration and the Media

    Edited by Myria Georgiou

    Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

    This volume brings together a number of experts who explore conceptual and policy challenges, as well as empirical realities, associated with gender and migration in highly mediated societies. The need to more systematically address the gendered experience of migration, especially in relation to...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
26. African Minorities in the New World

    Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

    Series: African Studies

    This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
27. Cinema and Language Loss

    Displacement, Visuality and the Filmic Image

    By Tijana Mamula

    Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

    Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical implications. Combining insights from psychoanalysis, philosophy and film theory,...

    Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
28. The Multicultural Dilemma

    Migration, Ethnic Politics, and State Intermediation

    Edited by Michelle Williams

    This work seeks to explore the contemporary challenge of government in multicultural societies, drawing together a wide range of contributors to examine how ethnic difference could better understood and mediated by modern nation states. Divided into three sections, the book centres round the notion...

    Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
29. Are Human Rights for Migrants?

    Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States

    Edited by Marie-Benedicte Dembour, Tobias Kelly

    Human rights seemingly offer universal protection. However, irregular migrants have, at best, only problematic access to human rights. Whether understood as an ethical injunction or legally codified norm, the promised protection of human rights seems to break down when it comes to the lived...

    Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
30. Global Border Crossings

    Feminist Activists and Peace Workers Collaborating Across Cultures

    Edited by Kathryn Norsworthy, Ellyn Kaschak

    This book brings together a group of feminist activists, psychologists, and peace workers from countries on every continent who describe how they apply global/transnational feminism in their activist peace and justice projects in the cultures and countries in which they live and work. The...

    Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge