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Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood: Naturalisations in Swiss…
Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded the right to decide who can become a Swiss citizen. This book aims at exploring naturalization processes from a comparative perspective and to explain why some municipalities …
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- IMISCoe Dissertations
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- 325.1 HEL p
Migration in Southern Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader
This open access Regional Reader proposes new ways of theorizing migration in Southern Africa by arguing that traditional western forms of theorizing do not adequately fit the South-South migration context. It explores the existing definitions of a ‘migrant’ with a view to conceptualise a definition which will speak to the complexities, envisioning a more inclusive Southern African region. …
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- 9783030921149, 9783031041051
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- 270
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- IMISCOE Research Series,
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- 325.1 MIG m
Psychosocial Experiences of African Migrants in Six European Countries: A Mix…
This open access book provides an empirical account of the psychological and social experiences of 3500 African migrants to 6 European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, France, and the UK. It discusses the psychosocial motivations for migration from Africa, who migrates where, and stressful pre- and post-migration factors affecting the social and psychological wellbeing of migr…
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- 237
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- Social Indicators Research Series, 81
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- 304.8 IDE p
Sans Papiers: The Social and Economic Lives of Young Undocumented Migrants
Undocumented migration is a huge global phenomenon, yet little is known about the reality of life for those involved. Sans Papiers combines a contemporary account of the theoretical and policy debates with an in-depth exploration of the lived experiences of undocumented migrants in the UK from Zimbabwe, China, Brazil, Ukraine and Turkish Kurdistan. Built around their voices, the book provides t…
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- 9781849649032
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Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe
This open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses the conceptual and policy issues raised, post-entry, by this particular section of the migrant population. Drawing on evidence from different parts of Europe, the book take…
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Fugitive Borders Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Ce…
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these te…
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- 9783839445020
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- American Culture Studies
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Passages Westward
"The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers, expatriates and specialists working abroad. But you don’t have to be born in Finland to be a Finn. The experiences of second-generation Finnish immigra…
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Arrival Cities : Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 2…
The impact of migrating artists on modern art Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice, and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revisin…
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- 9789461663245
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- 710 ARR
Violence against women’s health in international law
Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue— either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through ambiguous and dynamic laws. In case studies that analyze the legal barriers to citizenship rights in over twenty countries, the con…
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- 9781478091097
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- Melland Schill Studies in International Law
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- 340 DEV v
Protect, Serve, and Deport : The Rise of Policing as Immigration Enforcement
Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville’s local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified …
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- 9780520296305
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- 330 ARM p
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