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From 1870 to 1900, over a half million Russian Jews came to the United States. Russian Jewish emigration had ceased by the 1920s due to the effects of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Quota Acts, but a century later, Jews from the former Soviet Union began to emigrate in large numbers.

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Nearly five million Muslims call France home, the vast majority from former French colonies in North Africa. While France has successfully integrated waves of immigrants in the past, this new influx poses a new variety of challenges much as it does in neighboring European countries.

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Agency sponsored intercountry adoption (ICA) first began with the end of World War II when European orphans were adopted by American families. It discusses each country's formal statutes on transracial and intercountry adoption, and describes the organizations and/or social movements advocating such adoptions as well as those opposing them.

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To understand why people migrate during periods of modernization, Barbara Anderson contends that one must study the place of origin, since the persons at the origin are the potential migrant population. Using data from the 1897 Imperial Russian Census, the author examines two types of migration: that to an already settled, relatively modern area, s

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Social and economic change can often be traced through the movement of population at the national level. This compilation of 21 case studies, each focusing on a different country, looks at the question of internal migration within countries such as Botswana, Guatemala and the Netherlands.

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This book analyzes the latest developments in international migration in the twenty-first century through an interdisciplinary perspective. The book uses sociological, economic, judicial, political, and geopolitical approaches to present the evolution of the contemporary international migration process.

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He lays out the long term aspirations of the immigrants within the context of the geo-political, economic, and social conditions in Africa.

Ultimately, Arthur explains why people leave Africa, what they encounter, their interactions with the host society, and their attitudes about American social institutions.

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This is the first field study of the kind of lives that the most recent Irish immigrants have in New York City today. Teachers, and students, readers interested in issues of identity and ethnicity, immigration trends and problems, and the history of the Irish in the United States will enjoy this easy-to-read, first-hand account.

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This edited volume analyzes the Korean diaspora across the world and traces the meaning and the performance of homeland. The contributors explore different types of discourses among Korean diaspora across the world, such as personal/familial narratives, oral/life histories, public discourses, and media discourses.

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This volume provides an overview of the history of Korean immigration to this countryfrom the first immigrants who arrived in Hawaii at the beginning of the century to the most recent waves of the 1980s and 1990sand a detailed analysis of the main problems Korean Americans face in adjusting to life in their adopted country.

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The Nicaraguan revolution of 1978 and the subsequent violence engulfing the Central American states, causes mass migration of Latin American persons seeking territorial asylum.

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Latinas Crossing Borders and Building Communities in Greater Washington addresses the strategies used by Latina/o immigrants to adapt to the Washington, D.C. area. Contributors focus on models of collaboration and interaction in community institutions providing opportunity for activities that contribute to cultural knowledge and action.

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This book explores the role of new media technology in transient migration in terms of mobility, national identity, and sense of home. Through 40 personal interviews with Korean migrants, Claire Shinhea Lee analyzes how homeland media in the transnational space helps migrants make, connect to, and complicate home.

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This comprehensive book, with the analysis of a large-scale survey and in-depth personal interviews through the lens of social theory, covers different aspects of Korean immigrants barriers to formal US healthcare and their distinctive healthcare behaviors to cope with these barriers.

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A book about restructuring homes and homelands in the context of the post-Soviet era.

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Among the issues explored are economic decision-making processes in migrant households, the implications of migration for family landholding, ties between migrants and family left behind, and kin, friendship, and neighborhood networks.

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This is the first book to explore the multiple country movement of migrants of the British diaspora since the 1960s. It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes, based largely on intimate life histories which connect migration to life experiences like love and marriage, radical lifestyle change and global identities.