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The expansion of the British Empire created employment opportunities in the colonies for single women who wished to leave their mother country with women's emigration societies supplying a limited means of emigration. This book looks at those who emigrated to Southern Africa between 1820 and 1939.

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The expansion of the British Empire created employment opportunities in the colonies for single women who wished to leave their mother country with women's emigration societies supplying a limited means of emigration. This book looks at those who emigrated to Southern Africa between 1820 and 1939.

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This book offers a series of critical discussions of how sociology is responding to the challenges of globalization, to local counter-reactions to them, to the many ways the global impacts our lives, and to the new questions about research this poses.

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"One of Africa's greatest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle) makes an impassioned plea for the resurrection of African language--and African culture itself

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Myron Weiner's study of the relationship between internal migration and ethnic conflict in India is exceptional for two reasons: it focuses on intercultural and interstate migration throughout the nation, rather than on merely local or provincial phenomena, and it examines both the social and the political consequences of India's interethnic migrat

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This book analyzes the phenomenon of international retirement migration, to trace the story of the migrants from their old to their new homes, and to examine the conceptual and policy contexts of this relatively new form of transnational mobility.

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This book analyzes the phenomenon of international retirement migration, to trace the story of the migrants from their old to their new homes, and to examine the conceptual and policy contexts of this form of transnational mobility.

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During the 1950s and 1960s increasing numbers of American citizens were stationed in foreign countries, and a generation of American children grew up abroad. This book examines the impact of overseas living on Americans who spent at least some of their formative years outside the USA.

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This study describes how leading magazines and the "New York Times" covered and interpreted US immigration policy, and public attitudes about the impact of immigrants on the American economy and social fabric. Print media coverage of the issue (mainly adverse) is examined from 1880 onwards.

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A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. -- .

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Based on ethnographic material and the life histories of indigenous women, the volume establishes a bridge between the classical anthropological studies on kinship and the contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution to the study of border territories.

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It provides comprehensive coverage of the recent Filipino American experience, from the pivotal Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, under which most Filipinos entered this country, to their values and customs, economic and political status, organizational affiliations, and contemporary issues and problems.

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This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manifested in the British Isles. -- .

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The Quetzal in Flight examines the motives for immigration of Guatemalan families to the United States, and explores the processes of psychological change and adaptation that take place within the families during the early period of resettlement.