Settlers

Settlers
Author: Jock Phillips
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1775581489

Analyzing everything from shipping records to death registers, this book takes an in-depth look at New Zealand's European ancestors, exploring the origins of the island's national identity. Using individual examples of immigrants and their families, it examines their geographical origins, their occupational and class backgrounds, and their religion and values to get a better understanding of the lives and motivations of New Zealand's first settlers.

Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History

Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History
Author: Mary Kelly
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442226080

Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new, concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished professor Mary Kelly’s book is the first synthesized volume to track Ireland’s Great Famine within America’s immigrant history, and to consider the impact of the Famine on Irish ethnic identity between the mid-1800s and the end of the twentieth century. Moving beyond traditional emphases on Irish-American cornerstones such as church, party, and education, the book maps the Famine’s legacy over a century and a half of settlement and assimilation. This is the first attempt to contextualize a painful memory that has endured fitfully, and unquestionably, throughout Irish-American historical experience.

Graphing Immigration

Graphing Immigration
Author: Andrew Solway
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781432926175

Discusses where immigrants come from, reasons to move, and what life is like once they arrive, and explains how to create and interpret the charts, tables, and graphs used to display different types of information about immigration.

The Irish Yearbook of International Law, Volumes 4-5, 2009-10

The Irish Yearbook of International Law, Volumes 4-5, 2009-10
Author: Fiona de Londras
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2012-05-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847319505

The Irish Yearbook of International Law is intended to stimulate further research into Ireland's practice in international affairs and foreign policy, filling a gap in existing legal scholarship and assisting in the dissemination of Irish thinking and practice on matters of international law. On an annual basis, the Yearbook presents peer-reviewed academic articles and book reviews on general issues of international law. Designated correspondents provide reports on international law developments in Ireland, Irish practice in international fora and the European Union, and the practice of joint North-South implementation bodies in Ireland. In addition, the Yearbook reproduces documents that reflect Irish practice on contemporary issues of international law. Publication of the Irish Yearbook of International Law makes Irish practice and opinio juris more readily available to Governments, academics and international bodies when determining the content of international law. In providing a forum for the documentation and analysis of North-South relations the Yearbook also make an important contribution to post-conflict and transitional justice studies internationally. As a matter of editorial policy, the Yearbook seeks to promote a multilateral approach to international affairs, reflecting and reinforcing Ireland's long-standing commitment to multilateralism as a core element of foreign policy.

Beyond Economic Migration

Beyond Economic Migration
Author: Min Zhou
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2023-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1479818534

"A collection of empirical studies, in which scholars critically examine economic migration and offer analyses of multisource and multimethod data from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering issues of U.S. immigration policy and visa system, labor market incorporation, employment precarity, identity and belonging, and transnationalism pertaining to both high- and low-skilled migrants, female migrants, student migrants, and temporary foreign workers"--

Encyclopedia of American Immigration: Paper sons

Encyclopedia of American Immigration: Paper sons
Author: Carl Leon Bankston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contains articles that address the diverse demographic, economic, legal, political, and social aspects of immigration in the United States, from the ancestors of Native Americans to the early twenty-first century, with entries arranged alphabetically from "Paper Sons" to "Zadvydas v. Davis"; includes appendixes and indexes.

Haiti After the Earthquake

Haiti After the Earthquake
Author: Paul Farmer
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1610392078

"Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times "The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp." -- Economist "A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our finest warriors for social justice." -- Adam Hochschild "His honest assessment of what the people trying to help Haiti did well -- and where they failed -- is important for anyone who cares about the country or international aid in general." -- Miami Herald

Refugees from Sicily

Refugees from Sicily
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1968
Genre: Emigration and immigration law
ISBN:

Village of Immigrants

Village of Immigrants
Author: Diana R. Gordon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2015-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0813575915

Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend—immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America has been revitalized by the arrival of these immigrants in Greenport, where she lives. Greenport today boasts a population that is one-third Hispanic. Gordon contends that these immigrants have effectively saved the town’s economy by taking low-skill jobs, increasing the tax base, filling local schools, and patronizing local businesses. Greenport’s seaside beauty still attracts summer tourists, but it is only with the support of the local Latino workforce that elegant restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts are able to serve these visitors. For Gordon the picture is complex, because the wave of immigrants also presents the town with challenges to its services and institutions. Gordon’s portraits of local immigrants capture the positive and the negative, with a cast of characters ranging from a Guatemalan mother of three, including one child who is profoundly disabled, to a Colombian house painter with a successful business who cannot become licensed because he remains undocumented. Village of Immigrants weaves together these people’s stories, fears, and dreams to reveal an environment plagued by threats of deportation, debts owed to coyotes, low wages, and the other bleak realities that shape the immigrant experience—even in the charming seaport town of Greenport. A timely contribution to the national dialogue on immigration, Gordon’s book shows the pivotal role the American small town plays in the ongoing American immigrant story—as well as how this booming population is shaping and reviving rural communities.