Migrant families and transcultural dynamics

Migration processes affect migrants' families and family relations – in complex and diverse ways. Family fragmentation lasting for years or even decades, access to citizenship and welfare state resources change concepts of parenting and care as well as gender relations.In this volume, authors fro...

Migrant friendships in a super-diverse city

This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations. It explores the informal relationships of migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of their social ties function as a pa...

Migrant hearts and the atlantic return

Through the rendering of Catholic Church migration’s debates this book shows how Latin American lay and religious migration in Rome is an Atlantic Return from the Americas challenging an Euro-centric Catholic identity and how multiple forms of being Catholic inform gender, labor and sexuality at ...

Migrant integration in a changing europe

Barbulescu examines Italy’s and Spain’s strategies and policy making as case studies toward a better understanding of state interventionism in immigrant integration in contemporary Europe.

Migrant workers and the city

Awarded the Excellent Copyright Output Award by the Chinese Publishers Association.Fascinating…a must-read for academics, students and a general public interested in the situation of rural migrants in China. - Raúl Delgado WiseToday China has the second largest economy in the world. The largest h...

Migranthood

Migranthood chronicles deportation from the perspectives of Indigenous youth who migrate unaccompanied from Guatemala to Mexico and the United States. In communities of origin in Guatemala, zones of transit in Mexico, detention centers for children in the U.S., government facilities receiving ret...

Migrants and machine politics

How poor migrants shape city politics during urbanizationAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants ...

Migrants in the digital periphery

As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered b...

Migrants in translation

Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural, multiracial Euro...

Migrating into financial markets

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. We understand very little about the billions of dollars that flow throughout the world from migrants back to ...

Migrating tales

Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. In this nu...

Migrating through the web

Nicole Braida digs into the structures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps, and data visualizations, in which refugees and migrants become the subject of humanitarian discourse. They distinguish who is vulnerable and who is not and are a symptom of a deeper crisis of t...

Migrating to prison

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new epilogue by the author“Argues compellingly that immigrant advocates shouldn’t content themselves with debates about how many thous...

Migrating to the movies

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illumi...

Migration

Winner of the National Book Award, Migration is the definitive Merwin volume. Now in paperback.

Migration

This volume gathers authors from academic institutions throughout Europe addressing the growing importance of migration policy making and the refugee crisis that European Union member states and other countries are currently facing. They provide a critical overview of the politicization, securiti...

Migration and (im)mobility

In her endeavour to overcome the established methodological, conceptual, and empirical dualism of mobility and migration, Anna Xymena Wieczorek develops a "mobilities perspective" by combining migration studies theories with approaches of the mobility studies. With the help of rich empirical data...

Migration and democracy

How remittances—money sent by workers back to their home countries—support democratic expansionIn the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration. Migration and Democracy focuses on the effects of worker remittances—money sent by migrants back to ...

Migration and health

The study of migrant populations poses unique challenges owing to the mobility of these groups, which may be further complicated by cultural, educational, and linguistic diversity as well as the legal status of their members. These barriers limit the usefulness of both traditional survey samplin...

Migration and hybrid political regimes

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. While migration has become an all-important topic of discussion around the globe, mainstream literature on migrants' legal adaptation and integration has focused on case studies of immigrant communities in We...

Migration and refugee policies in germany

International migration is one of the most controversial political topics today which demands innovative approaches of global and regional governance. The book provides a fresh theoretical framework to understand European responses to the international migration of people and explains the dynamic...

Migration and social pathways

The landscape of European migration has changed considerably over the past decades, in particular after the fall of the iron curtain and again after the EU enlargement to the east. The author researches the phenomenon of highly qualified migration using the example of migration between the Czech ...

Migration as a (geo-)political challenge in the post-soviet space

Migration management in post-Soviet states has become a tool for staking out zones of influence, a winning slogan for election campaigns, and a handle on the domestic population. This volume explains why shifts in migration management are both causes for and consequences of political changes that...

Migration by boat

The only edited volume to date to focus specifically on forced sea migrations and their memorializations. Covers a wide international (geographic) berth in terms of case studies, and therefore has international appeal. An excellent example of engaged social sciences regarding current...

Migration into art

Provides close readings of works by internationally renowned artists, including Rina Banerjee, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Pat Ward Williams and Bharti Kher

Migration practice as creative practice

Migration Practice as Creative Practice presents an in-depth evaluation of the contributions made by migrants to modern socio-economic structures. The book also discusses the creative energies that migrant inject in the economic structures in both private and public spheres.

Migration, health, and inequalities

Drawing from an activist research project spanning Loja, Santo Domingo, New York, New Jersey, and Barcelona, this book offers a feminist intersectional analysis of the impact of migration on health and well-being. It assesses how social inequalities and migration and health policies, in Ecuador...

Migration, memory, and diversity

Explores the complex history of migration and diversity in Germany from 1945 to today. Shows how conceptions of “otherness” developed while memories of the Nazi era were still fresh. Identifies the continuities and transformations they exhibited through the Cold War and reunification...

Migration, reproduction and society

This volume theorises the contradiction between the need of many societies in the Global North for large scale migration and the rejection of this change through racism and xenophobia

Migration, settlement and belonging in europe, 1500–1930s

Offers a new model of the way in which migrants in the past claimed rights and the obstacles placed in their way by communities and the State. Focus makes it ideal reading for those with interests in migrant rights and state obligations in the ever-expanding EU. Wide coverage of Euro...

Migrations and diasporas

Advocating for a more welcoming world involves respecting the human dignity and fundamental rights of all individuals, regardless of their place of origin or immigration status. This perspective offers a powerful insight into the dynamics of social justice across borders.

Migrations in the german lands, 1500-2000

A collection of essays reconstructing the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants to, from and within German-speaking lands during the last five hundred years. The volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also plac...

Migrations: new short fiction from africa

Short Story Day Africa has assembled 21 of the best new short stories, this year on the theme of migration.

Mika ninagawa: into fiction / reality

This fascinating photography collection contains carefully selected pieces from four of Ninagawa’s photography collections, such as Everlasting flowers, Portraits of the time, The days were beautiful, and trans-kyoto.Her stunning works are categorized in 8 themes; which are Sakura, Everlasting Fl...

Mike henderson

The first major exhibition and catalog dedicated to the work of groundbreaking painter and filmmaker Mike Henderson.   Mike Henderson (b. 1944) is a painter, filmmaker, and professor emeritus at University of California, Davis. Published to accompany his first museum retrospective, this catalog s...

Mikhail and margarita

Milena, or the most beautiful femur in the world

Winner of the Premio Planeta—the Spanish-speaking world’s richest literary prize“The spirit of Stieg Larsson visits Mexico City" (Kirkus): Milena, or The Most Beautiful Femur in the World is a pulse-pounding international political thriller about sex, power, and information—and the extreme length...

Milieu

In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in the novel as a form, and showing how literary style makes knowable our imperiled multispecies worlds...

Militant and triumphant

Militant and Triumphant fills a major gap in the historical record of American Catholicism by presenting a vivid, objective portrait of Cardinal William Henry O’Connell and his significance in the church and his times. Focusing on both the triumphs and controversies of O’Connell’s career, James M...

Militant around the clock?

This book is the first study of the impact of left-wing political activism on the leisure pursuits and sexual behavior of Greek youth in the 1970s. Aanalyzes the cultural politics of left-wing organizations alongside the actual practices of their members. Demonstrates that left-wing ...

Militant lactivism?

First in-depth academic study of attachment parenting and long-term breastfeeding in the UK or France A contribution to the nascent field of "Parenting Culture Studies" A theoretical focus on accountability and "identity-work", as part of a sociology of modernity A critique of co...

Militarized maternity

The rights of pregnant workers as well as (the lack of) paid maternity leave have increasingly become topics of a major policy debate in the United States. Yet, few discussions have focused on the U.S. military, where many of the latest policy changes focus on these very issues. Despite the armed...

Militarizing the nation

Zeinab Abul-Magd examines both the visible and often invisible efforts by Egypt’s semi-autonomous military to hegemonize the country’s politics, economy, and society over the past six decades to show how it gains and maintains control.

Military adaptation in afghanistan

When NATO took charge of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan in 2003, ISAF conceptualized its mission largely as a stabilization and reconstruction deployment. However, as the campaign has evolved and the insurgency has proved to more resistant and capable, key oper...