Migration Books

New and Published Books – Page 9

81. Small Town China

    Rural Labour and Social Inclusion

    By Beatriz Carrillo Garcia

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    While much has been written about rural migrant workers’ experiences in the big cities, population movements into China’s vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected. This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers experiences in a small town in a north China...

    Published April 12th 2011 by Routledge
82. Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal

    A Sociology of Rights

    By Lydia Morris

    Asylum, Welfare and the Cosmopolitan Ideal: A Sociology of Rights puts forward the argument that rights must be understood as part of a social process: a terrain for strategies of inclusion and exclusion but also of contestation and negotiation. Engaging debate about how ‘cosmopolitan’ principles...

    Published December 23rd 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish
83. The Migration of Indian Human Capital

    The Ebb and Flow of Indian Professionals in Southeast Asia

    By Faizal bin Yahya, Arunajeet Kaur

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

    In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor. One of the key sources of human capital to the global economy is India, and the main destinations for Indian professionals has been Western developed economies, the Middle East and...

    Published December 1st 2010 by Routledge
84. Sport and Migration

    Borders, Boundaries and Crossings

    Edited by Joseph Maguire, Mark Falcous

    From Major League Baseball to English soccer’s Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters. The international migration of sporting talent and labor, encouraged and...

    Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
85. Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present

    Edited by Lynn Schler, Louise Bethlehem, Galia Sabar

    This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers,...

    Published September 22nd 2010 by Routledge
86. Irish Identities in Victorian Britain

    Edited by Roger Swift, Sheridan Gilley

    Recent studies of the experiences of Irish migrants in Victorian Britain have emphasized the significance of the themes of change, continuity, resistance and accommodation in the creation of a rich and diverse migrant culture within which a variety of Irish identities co-existed and sometimes...

    Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
87. Mobility, Migration and the Chinese Scientific Research System

    By Koen Jonkers

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    China’s rise is having a large impact on the global science system. The internalisation of this system in the past two decades would not have been possible without the outbound and especially the return flows of overseas Chinese scientists. This book explores their impact combining macro-level...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
88. The Multiculturalism Backlash

    European Discourses, Policies and Practices

    Edited by Steven Vertovec, Susanne Wessendorf

    In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion ‘multicultural’ or other references to cultural diversity in their policy vocabularies. More and more politicians and public intellectuals have criticized a perceived shift towards ‘too much diversity’....

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
89. Immigration and American Democracy

    Subverting the Rule of Law

    By Robert Koulish

    While the idea of immigration embodies America’s rhetorical commitment to democracy, recent immigration control policies also showcase abysmal failures in democratic practice. Immigration and American Democracy examines these failures in terms of state sovereignty, neoliberalism, and...

    Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
90. Ethnic Politics in Burma

    States of Conflict

    By Ashley South

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    This book examines the ideas which have structured half a century of civil war in Burma, and the roles which political elites and foreign networks - from colonial missionaries to aid worker activists - have played in mediating understandings of ethnic conflict in the country. The book includes a...

    Published October 18th 2009 by Routledge