Immigration and migration : in context

Riggs, Thomas, 1963- (editor.). Edgar, Kathleen J., (editor.). Gale (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: This resource provides readers with key data to understand the roots of the issues that make contemporary migration and immigration so contentious around the globe. It explores the social, political, and cultural factors that impact, and are affected by, immigration and human migration, and includes such hot-button topics as undocumented immigration/unauthorized residents, asylum seekers, refugees, the refugee crisis in Europe, and more.

Record details

ISBN: 978-1-4103-3895-2
Physical Description: access
remote
1 online resource (2 volumes (li, 988 pages)) : illustrations (some color), maps
Publisher: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a Cengage Company, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	volume 1. Acculturation -- Activism -- Adoption -- Africa: Apartheid -- Amnesty -- Angel Island -- Anti-immigration Groups -- Anti-Semitism -- Arizona's Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act -- Assimilation and Integration -- Asylum -- Austerity Measures -- Australia and Oceania -- Bangladesh-India Immigration -- Berlin Conference -- Bilingual Education -- Birthright Citizenship -- Border Control -- Brain Circulation, Brain Drain, Brain Gain, and Brain Waste -- Canada-United States Immigration -- Caribbean: Migration Patterns and Consequences -- Chain Migration -- Child Labor -- China-United States Immigration -- Circular Migration -- Citizenship -- Citizenship Principles -- Civil Liberties -- Climate-Induced Migration -- Cuba-United States Immigration -- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred-- Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) -- Deportation -- Detention -- Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act -- Diaspora -- Discrimination -- Dual Citizenship -- Education -- Ellis Island -- Emigration -- Employment -- Entrepreneurism -- Entry Regulations and Documents -- Environmental Concerns -- Ethnic Cleansing -- Ethnic Enclaves -- Ethnicity -- European Union: Migration Patterns and Consequences -- Contents-- Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) -- Expatriation and Repatriation -- Exploitation -- Extradition -- Families -- Famine -- Food Culture -- Forced Migration -- Frontex -- Gender -- Genealogical Research -- Genocide -- Global Immigration and Migration Patterns: 20th and 21st Centuries -- Global Immigration and Migration Patterns: Past -- Globalization -- Hate Speech against Immigrants -- Health and Health Care -- Hometown Associations (HTAs) -- Housing -- Human Rights -- Human, Social, and Cultural Capital -- Human Trafficking and Human Smuggling -- Immigrant Gateways -- Immigrant Health Screenings -- Immigrants, Undocumented -- Immigration -- Immigration Act of 1965-- Immigration Fraud -- Immigration Point System -- Immigration Reform -- Immigration Selection Systems -- Immigration to the United States -- Indigenous Populations -- Industrialization -- Internal Migration -- Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) -- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All-- Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families -- International Organization for Migration (IOM) -- International Students -- Islamophobia -- Knowledge Workers--
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.