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  • Code of the West
    Sahar Mustafah
    Short story collection by Sahar Mustafah, David Friedman Award for Best Fiction. 2016 Grand Prize Winner for Prose, Willow Books Literature Awards. “The native and immigrant Palestinians in Sahar Mustafah’s Code of the West live in a world where the threat of violence is part of their existence. Some of these characters exist within their own ethnic enclave, while others travel...
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    15,33 €

  • Consequences
    Susan Popoola
    The August riots of 2011 started off in London and spread across different parts of the country. People questioned whether or not the riots were really about the shooting of a young black man by the police. That is open to debate. What is, however, unquestionable is that there are segments of society that are disengaged from the mainstream. While some may believe that this was ...
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    11,51 €

  • The Emotionally Resilient Expat - Engage, Adapt and Thrive Across Cultures
    Linda a. Janssen / Linda aJanssen
    Living abroad offers enriching experiences of growth, broadened perspective, enhanced cultural understanding. Yet its transition-rich, change-driven, cross-cultural nature can place considerable demands, leaving us stressed, disconnected, our identity in flux. Building on existing literature and benefitting from recent developments in psychology and brain-body connections, The ...
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    19,08 €

  • Aging In and Out of Place
    Christina Clark-Kazak / Laura Hammond / T. Alexander Aleinikof
    How does aging intersect with migration in lived experiences of displacement?Tracing the lived experiences of childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age in forced migration contexts, Aging In and Out of Place explores how social age as an identity marker changes over time, space and place.By centring stories of displacement in Canada, the US, the UK, Germany and Australia, Christ...
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    22,48 €

  • En Estados Unidos no lo hagas
    Leonel Peña
    Este libro es una guía esencial para inmigrantes y viajeros hispanohablantes que desean vivir o visitar Estados Unidos, evitando errores que podrían complicar su vida en el país. Leonel Peña, un periodista y empresario con décadas de experiencia en los medios de comunicación, comparte historias personales y lecciones clave basadas en su propia trayectoria y la de otros inmigran...
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    9,36 €

  • Worlds Apart?
    This book explores the crucial political and diplomatic issue of migration. It discusses the diverse perspectives of African and European actors on migration and presents a more just and sustainable migration governance agenda. ...
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    239,63 €

  • Voices in the Dark
    Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
    Humanitarianism is in crisis: refugee numbers increase every year and humanitarian agencies are struggling to meet the needs of displaced people. In refugee camps all over the world, refugees are forced to secure their own access to energy and are provided with limited cooking resources and minimal electricity. Voices in the Dark draws upon a decade of original research to prov...
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    184,50 €

  • Rag Fair
    Ole Münch / Angela Davies
    In the early Victorian age, the streets of East London were home to migrants from different regions and religions. In the midst of this area lay the famous Rag Fair street market, sustained by trade routes stretching across the globe. The market’s history demonstrates that it was not only a place of economic exchange, but also an intercultural contact zone where Jewish and Iris...
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    197,71 €

  • Sanctuary Everywhere
    Barbara Andrea Sostaita
    In Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls...
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    128,41 €

  • Sanctuary Everywhere
    Barbara Andrea Sostaita
    In Sanctuary Everywhere, Barbara Andrea Sostaita reimagines practices of sanctuary along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to explore the possibilities for radical fugitivity in the face of militarized border enforcement. After the 2016 presidential election, churches, universities, cities, and even states began declaring themselves sanctuaries. Sostaita proposes that these calls...
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    33,08 €

  • Unexpected Encounters
    Francesco Vietti
    Exploring different dimensions of the intersection of migration and tourism in the Mediterranean, this book is the result of extensive ethnographic research carried out over a decade in the Mediterranean region. It focuses on three main themes: the impact of migrants visiting their country of origin for holidays, called roots tourism; the dynamics of the 'border encounters' bet...
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    197,79 €

  • We are All Africans Here
    Kristín Loftsdóttir
    Europe is often described as 'flooded' by migrants or by Muslim 'others,' with Western African men especially portrayed as a security risk. At the same time the intensified mobility of privileged people in the Global North is celebrated as creating an increasingly cosmopolitan world. This book looks critically at racialization of mobility in Europe, anchoring the discussion in ...
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    40,61 €

  • Southeast Asia in Pre- and Post-COVID-19
    AKM Ahsan Ullah / Noor Hasharina Hassan / Shirley Chin Wei Lee
    Ullah, Chin and Hassan provide a comprehensive examination of the transformative impact of the COVID -19 pandemic on Southeast Asia, examining its effects on the region’s economy, social dynamics, mobility patterns and religious practices. Essential for academics, researchers, and policy makers’ understanding of SEA’s response to COVID-19. ...
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    241,39 €

  • The Effects of Illegal Immigration in the United States
    Paul Daniels
    This book provides an objective analysis of the negative impacts of illegal immigration in the United States. It delves into the economic, social, and political consequences of illegal immigration, shedding light on the strain it puts on public resources, the challenges it poses to national security, and the potential for exploitation of undocumented workers. The author present...
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    17,88 €

  • Governing Migration Through Paperwork
    To better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil servants tasked with enforcing state laws and policies, it is important to focus on documents, which are core artefacts of bureaucratic work. These can include certificates, letters, reports, case files, decisions, internal guidelines and judgements, in both digital and paper form. Based on eth...
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    163,85 €

  • Stories They Never Told Us
    Janette Silverman
    Most American families were immigrants, leaving behind their ancestral homes in search of a better life somewhere else. What did a better life mean? Perhaps more economic opportunities or upward mobility. Maybe your ancestors left their homes to escape poverty, warfare, pogroms, or genocide. What did they do when they arrived in their new home? How did they integrate into a new...
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    25,73 €

  • Migration diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa
    Gerasimos Tsourapas
    The first major examination of the interplay between migration and foreign policy in the Middle East, this study analyses how key Arab and non-Arab states instrumentalised cross-border mobility from the mid-1950s until today, and shows how migrants, refugees and diasporas have been subject to power politics considerations across the Global South. ...
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    35,98 €

  • Affective bordering
    Billy Holzberg
    Affective bordering is a powerful exploration of the emotional politics of borders that demonstrates how racial and national boundaries are secured through the political mobilisation and unequal distribution of affect. ...
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    157,64 €

  • How toMove to Monaco
    William Jones
    Are you dreaming of the luxurious lifestyle of Monaco? 'How to Move to Monaco: A Comprehensive Guide' by William Jones is your definitive roadmap to making that dream a reality. This engaging and informative guide is tailored for adult travelers looking to navigate the intricacies of relocating to one of the world’s most glamorous and exclusive destinations.Inside this comprehe...
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    15,72 €

  • Finding America’s Farmworkers
    Michael Durbin
    Imagine you are a fit young man with a wife and child and a job that pays just enough to keep your family from going hungry. Then you learn of a job that pays a remarkable ten to twenty times as much. The catch? You must leave your family for most of every year for the rest of your working life. Hundreds of thousands of Mexican men make this sacrifice to plant, cultivate, and h...
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    20,69 €

  • Crossing the Line
    Sarah Towle
    Do we want to be a people that denies humanity to others in need through deliberate cruelty, in violation of basic human rights? Sarah Towle doesn’t think so. Join her journey to the borderlands to meet the unsung heroes flying the tattered flag of US-American values as they model a better way to respond to today’s crisis in global migration-and attempt to tear down the walls t...
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    15,81 €

  • Thongs or Flip Flops?
    Kath Williams / Tanya Crossman
    There are about one million Australian citizens living outside Australia, including families with children. Some are sent abroad for work - with DFAT, the ADF, NGOs, multinational companies, or missionary organisations. Others take jobs in their fields outside Australia, and still others move to be near family in other parts of the world. Australian kids growing up outside Aust...
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    19,74 €

  • Living across connectivity
    This volume looks at the role of digital media platforms in shaping migrants’ practices of connectivity and mobility. Focusing on migration within and beyond East Asia, it explores the pervasive use of smartphones as an everyday reality for intimacy, entrepreneurship, and care for East Asian migrants, advocating the necessity of understanding how they live their lives both onli...
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    158,45 €

  • What Side Are You On?
    José Antonio Lucero / Michael Steven Wilson
    Renowned human rights activist Michael 'Mike' Wilson has borne witness to the profound human costs of poverty, racism, border policing, and the legacies of colonialism. From a childhood in the mining town of Ajo, Arizona, Wilson’s life journey led him to US military service in Central America, seminary education, and religious and human rights activism against the abuses of US ...
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    31,79 €

  • What Side Are You On?
    José Antonio Lucero / Michael Steven Wilson
    Renowned human rights activist Michael 'Mike' Wilson has borne witness to the profound human costs of poverty, racism, border policing, and the legacies of colonialism. From a childhood in the mining town of Ajo, Arizona, Wilson’s life journey led him to US military service in Central America, seminary education, and religious and human rights activism against the abuses of US ...
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    127,17 €

  • Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge
    Developing the concept of disobedient knowledge, this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and borders. Drawing on empirical research in distinct European contexts, the chapters highlight the intertwined nature of racism and bordering, and the role of epistemic disobedience in challenging these. ...
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    157,29 €

  • EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century
    Sue Edney
    Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting. ...
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    35,77 €

  • Land and labour
    Martin Crawford
    This book is a history of the Potters’ Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early 1851. The Society, which became a national organisation after 1848, sought to solve the problems of surplus labour by turning workers into frontier farmers. It was the most significant industrial emigration scheme of its period. ...
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    157,28 €

  • Icelanders Arrive and Strive - A Manitoba Story
    Robert C. A. Frederickson
    Since the Viking era, Icelandic emigrants have been forging new paths and communities. Icelanders Arrive and Strive - A Manitoba Story shares, through the journey of one family, the story of how Icelandic immigrants settled in Canada and shaped the country’s history.Author Robert C. A. Frederickson connects a personal history-full of memorable characters at momentous moments-to...
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    40,16 €

  • Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health, and Language
    Fernanda Carra-Salsberg
    This timely book focuses on migration and the socio-affective significance of language. It examines how this influences children’s and adolescents’ development, subjectivity, identifications, and identity formations. ...
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    135,73 €