Migration, Immigration & Emigration

Among the thousands of political refugees who flooded into the United States during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, none had a ...

This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the ...

Over recent years, tabloid readers have become familiar with the concept of the white working class, those thought to have been left behind by glob...

Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the c...

In Sudan Media Makers: Writings from the Diaspora, Mohamed A. Satti identifies and interviews six prominent Sudanese media personalities in the dia...

While Vili has neither the multi-generational sweep nor the moral gravitas of Singer’s family sagas, its themes are nonetheless timeless, its strug...

This book explores the arrival and development of Muslim immigrant communities in Britain and Germany during the post-1945 period through the case ...

The fourth edition of this classic work provides a systematic, comparative assessment of the efforts of major immigrant-receiving countries and the...

Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit...

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.   In December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused ...

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States.   In December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused ...

The popularity and globalization of sport have led to an ever-increasing migration of Black athletes from the global South to the United States and...

Since the early 2000s, Turkey has shown an unprecedented interest in its diaspora. This book provides the first in-depth examination of the institu...

Documenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experienc...

Unmaking Migrants engages critical questions about preventing trafficking by preventing migration through a study of a shelter for trafficking vict...

In Vietnam, international remittances from the Vietnamese diaspora are quantitatively significant and contribute important economic inputs. Yet bey...

Understanding Green Card Marriage Fraud explores personal accounts of participation in Green Card marriage fraud (GCMF), also known as ‘cash-for-vo...

Documenting Impossible Realities explores the limitations of conventional accounts through which belonging is documented, focusing on the experienc...

Why did very large numbers of people begin to depart the British Isles for the New Worlds after about 1770? They were the vanguard of mass economi...

Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global mi...

Turkish immigration, art and narratives of home in France argues for a cultural, rather than a sociological or economic, approach to understanding ...

Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands examines how a wide range of immigrant groups who settled in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern I...

Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of immigrants. Whi...

Unmaking Migrants engages critical questions about preventing trafficking by preventing migration through a study of a shelter for trafficking vict...

After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refuge...

Anthropologist Michael Jackson predicates his intellectual autobiography, Worlds Within and Worlds Without, on the view that works and lives are in...

Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role ...

In Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Phili...

The purpose of this book is to give a voice to nameless and countless stories that represent the personal lived experiences of sub-Saharan African ...

Winner, 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award A thorough and captivating exploration of how mass incarceration and law and order policies of the pas...

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the “end of history” with capitalism and liberal democ...

The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was supposed to bring about the “end of history” with capitalism and liberal democ...

Radical Hospitality: American Policy, Media, and Immigration re-imagines the ethical relationship of host societies towards newcomers by applying t...

Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, ...

Winner, 2024 Global Sociology Book Award, given by the Canadian Sociological Association Winner of the 2024 Silver Medal for the Canada West Non-F...