Filter by
Migration and discrimination :IMISCOE short reader
This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also present…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030672812
- Collation
- ix, 98p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 325.4 ROS m
The borders of violence:temporary migration and domestic and family violence
This book explores the structural harm of borders and non-citizenship, specifically temporary non-citizenship, in the perpetuation of domestic and family violence (DFV). It focuses on the stories and situations of over 300 women in Australia. The analysis foregrounds how the state and the migration system both sustain and enable violence against women. In doing so this book demonstrates how str…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003416159
- Collation
- xvii, 204 pages; illustration
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 362.82 SEG t
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean:: Encounters with Alterity in Birt…
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030565855
- Collation
- xii, 132 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.8 MIG V
The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes :Central Asian Migrant…
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration pol…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030992569
- Collation
- IX, 192 p ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327.111 POL
The impact of migration on Poland :EU mobility and social change
How has the international mobility of Polish citizens intertwined with other influences to shape society, culture, politics and economics in contemporary Poland? The Impact of Migration on Poland offers a new approach for understanding how migration affects sending countries, and provides a wide-ranging analysis of how Poland has changed, and continues to change, since EU accession in 2004. …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787350687
- Collation
- xi, 267 p. ill;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 325.438 IMP A
Migration and pandemics :spaces of solidarity and spaces of exception
This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia. The book addresses …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030812102
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 614.592414 MIG A
MATERIAL CULTURE AND (FORCED) MIGRATION :materializing the transient
Material Culture and (Forced) Migration argues that materiality is a fundamental dimension of migration. During journeys of migration, people take things with them, or they lose, find and engage things along the way. Movements themselves are framed by objects such as borders, passports, tents, camp infrastructures, boats and mobile phones. This volume brings together chapters that are based on …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800081604
- Collation
- xvii, 372 p. ill;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.8 MAT F
Migrants' Rights, Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe
Bringing together scholars of migration and constitutional law, this volume analyses the problematic relationship between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe. By offering both constructive and critical accounts, it creates a nuanced debate on the possibilities for and limitations of legal resilience against populist erosion of migrants' rights. …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009040396
- Collation
- xiii, 410 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 342.4082 MIG V
Migration Between Mexico and the United States
This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030778101
- Collation
- xxxiii; 233; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.873 MIG A
Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences :The Case of Post-1991 Albanian Mig…
This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced by the Albanian state. By illuminating the intersection of gender and migration, it shows how Albanian women are likely to embed themselves in …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030920920
- Collation
- x, 192 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.8094965 WOM E
Introduction to Migration Studies :An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on…
This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030923778
- Collation
- ix, 500 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.8 INT P
Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies
This OA book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but also the …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030812263
- Collation
- xvi; 262p; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.8 RES M
Diaspora, Food And Identity; Nigerian Migrants in Belgium
This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits. The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9782807602120
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Encoding race, encoding class :Indian IT workers in Berlin
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780822361176
- Collation
- ix, 280p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 331.6254043155 ENC a
Conviviality at the crossroads
Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a p…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030289799
- Collation
- xi; 290 pg; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306 CON c
European somalis' post-migration movements:mobility capital and the transnati…
Based on a qualitative study on migrants of Somali origin who have settled in Europe for at least a decade, this open access book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the idea of mobility, both empirically and theoretically. It draws a comprehensive typology of the varied “post-migration mobility practices” developed by these migrants from their country of residence after having settled …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319956602
- Collation
- ix, 208p. :
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.8 JOE e
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography