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Emigration & Immigration eBooks

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  • Laws Harsh As Tigers

    Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law

    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Focusing primarily on the exclusion of the Chinese, Lucy Salyer analyzes the popular and legal debates surrounding immigration law and its enforcement during the height of nativist sentiment in the early twentieth century. She argues that the struggles between Chinese immigrants, U.S. government officials, and the lower federal courts that took place around the turn of the century established ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Fear in Bongoland

    Burundi Refugees in Urban Tanzania

    by Marc Sommers ...
    Series Book 8 - Forced Migration
    Spurred by wars and a drive to urbanize, Africans are crossing borders and overwhelming cities in unprecedented numbers. At the center of this development are young refugee men who migrate to urban areas.This volume, the first full-length study of urban refugees in hiding, tells the story of Burundi refugee youth who escaped from remote camps in central Tanzania to work in one of Africa's fastest ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • At America's Gates

    Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

    by Erika Lee ...
    With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.At America's Gates is the first book ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Immigration and Politics in the New Europe

    Reinventing Borders

    by Gallya Lahav ...
    Series series Themes in European Governance
    With almost a quarter of the world's migrants, Europe has been attempting to regulate migration and harmonize immigration policy at the European level. The central dilemma exposed is how liberal democracies can reconcile the need to control the movement of people with the desire to promote open borders, free markets and liberal standards. Gallya Lahav's book traces ten years of public opinion and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Alienated

    Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America

    Series Book 28 - Critical America
    Throughout American history, the government has used U.S. citizenship and immigration law to protect privileged groups from less privileged ones, using citizenship as a “legitimate” proxy for otherwise invidious, and often unconstitutional, discrimination on the basis of race. While racial discrimination is rarely legally acceptable today, profiling on the basis of citizenship is still largely ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Documenting Transnational Migration

    Jordanian Men Working and Studying in Europe, Asia and North America

    Series Book 25 - New Directions in Anthropology
    Most studies on transnational migration either stress assimilation, circulatory migration, or the negative impact of migration. This remarkable study, which covers migrants from one Jordanian village to 17 different countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, emphasizes the resiliency of transnational migrants after long periods of absence, social encapsulation, and stress, and their ability to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Storming the Court

    How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President--and Won

    The David vs. Goliath story of the unflagging Yale Law School students who in 1992 fought the U.S. Government all the way to the Supreme Court.In 1992, three hundred innocent Haitian men, women, and children who had qualified for political asylum in the United States were detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—and told they might never be freed. Charismatic democracy activist Yvonne Pascal and her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • U.S. Immigration Step by Step

    by Edwin Gania ...
    A step-by-step guide to visiting and immigrating to the United StatesVisiting and immigrating to the United States can be a complicated and confusing process. There are many rules and new procedures, and finding information you can trust that gets you the visa you need can seem overwhelming.Written by an immigration attorney, U.S. Immigration Step by Step walks you through the entire process, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Paper Families

    Identity, Immigration Administration, and Chinese Exclusion

    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made the Chinese the first immigrant group officially excluded from the United States. In Paper Families, Estelle T. Lau demonstrates how exclusion affected Chinese American communities and initiated the development of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and practices. Through the enforcement of the Exclusion Act and subsequent legislation, the U.S. immigration ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Become a U.S. Citizen

    Passing the U.S. citizenship examination is no easy task. However, the actual test is just one aspect of the entire process of becoming a U.S. citizen. Understanding the complete process, from start to finish, is the true key of achieving your dream. Become a U.S. Citizen can help turn that dream into a reality.Focusing on the many paths to citizenship, it guides you through the entire process and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Canadian In America

    ?Approximately 50,000 Canadians move to the U.S. every year. Already, there are hundreds of thousands of ex-Canadians living south of the border. The similarity in language, currency, culture, services, and products of these two countries can lead Canadians in the U.S. to mistakenly think that its laws and customs are also the same. It is these areas where The Canadian in America will be crucial ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Multicultural Odysseys : Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity

    Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity

    by Will Kymlicka ...
    We are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing international scrutiny regarding their treatment of ethnocultural groups, and are expected to meet evolving international standards regarding the rights of indigenous peoples, national minorities, and immigrants. This ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Americans in Waiting

    The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States

    Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Opening the Floodgates

    Why America Needs to Rethink its Borders and Immigration Laws

    Series Book 80 - Critical America
    Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, Opening the Floodgates makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the movement of people into this country.Open migration policies deserve fuller analysis, as evidenced by President Barack Obama’s pledge to make immigration reform a priority. Kevin R. Johnson offers an alternative vision ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Canadian Snowbird In America

    With thousands of Canadians heading south for the winter each year, many of these individuals, referred to as "snowbirds," face unique and challenging U.S. tax and financial planning considerations. Crossing the border, spending time in the U.S., and engaging in various financial transactions have legal and tax implications both in Canada and the U.S. The Canadian Snowbird in America covers the U ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Beyond Citizenship

    American Identity After Globalization

    American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship has mostly been about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for citizenship have worked to resolve the peculiar challenges of American identity. But globalization is detaching identity from location. What used to define American was rooted in American space. Now one ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Mandating Identity

    Citizenship, Kinship Laws and Plural Nationality in the European Union

    by Eniko Horvath ...
    In this original and insightful analysis, Eniko Horvath focuses on three processes of legal evolution in Europe that affect the meaning of membership and individual identity: the increasing salience of supranational 'culture' and rights; 'kinship' legislation privileging non-nationals with linguistic, cultural, and ethnic ties to a given state; and the emergence of plural nationality as an ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Illegal People

    How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants

    by David Bacon ...
    For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the same time, U.S. immigration policy makes the labor of those displaced people a crime in the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Citizen and the Alien

    Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership

    by Linda Bosniak ...
    Citizenship presents two faces. Within a political community it stands for inclusion and universalism, but to outsiders, citizenship means exclusion. Because these aspects of citizenship appear spatially and jurisdictionally separate, they are usually regarded as complementary. In fact, the inclusionary and exclusionary dimensions of citizenship dramatically collide within the territory of the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Americans at the Gate

    The United States and Refugees during the Cold War

    Series Book 57 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents who at times successfully slowed admissions. The first comprehensive historical exploration ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Immigration Crisis

    Nativism, Armed Vigilantism, and the Rise of a Countervailing Movement

    Immigration remains one of the most pressing and polarizing issues in the United States. In The Immigration Crisis, the political scientist and social activist Armando Navarro takes a hard look at 400 years of immigration into the territories that now form the United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which immigrants have been received. The book provides a political, historical, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A Nation by Design

    Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America

    According to the national mythology, the United States has long opened its doors to people from across the globe, providing a port in a storm and opportunity for any who seek it. Yet the history of immigration to the United States is far different. Even before the xenophobic reaction against European and Asian immigrants in the late nineteenth century, social and economic interest groups worked to ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Your U.S. Citizenship Guide: What You Need to Know to Pass Your U.S. Citizenship Test

    by Anita Biase ...
    Citizenship in the United States is the legal status given to a legal member of the country. It involves rights, duties, and privileges and is one of the most coveted gifts that the U.S. government can bestow on a person and the most important immigration benefit that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) can grant. The road map outlined in this new book will help foreign ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Getting Immigration Right

    Getting Immigration Right focuses on what is arguably the most important aspect of the current immigration debate: how best to understand and resolve illegal immigration from Mexico. The scale and character of illegal immigration is only one facet of the immigration problem currently before Congress and the president, but it is its most contentious and visible face. It is also the one part of the ... Read more

    $29.95 USD