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October 2023

From India to Germany:What My Father's Journey Tells Usabout Migration and the Kindness ofStrangers

by Sunita Sukhana

— An extraordinary story of migration — Contemporary history of the 70s and backgrounds to India, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany He was the son of the Sikh priest, a successful 400-meter runner and, eventually, a migrant. In 1979, Bagicha Singh turned his back on his homeland and set off with a head full of dreams on the long, turbulent overland journey from India to Germany. It was the year the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the Islamic Revolution raged in Iran. A year whose aftermath continues to shape the world to this day. More than 40 years later, his daughter tells the story of Bagicha's adventurous journey. The result is a touching document on origin, contemporary history, and the meaning of migration.

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Medicine

November 2019

Migrant architects of the NHS

South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)

by Julian Simpson, Keir Waddington

Migrant architects of the NHS draws on forty-five oral history interviews and extensive archival research to offer a radical reappraisal of how the National Health Service was made. It tells the story of migrant South Asian doctors who became general practitioners in the NHS. Imperial legacies, professional discrimination and an exodus of UK-trained doctors combined to direct these doctors towards work as GPs in some of the most deprived parts of the UK. In some areas, they made up over half of the general practitioner workforce. The NHS was structurally dependent on them and they shaped British society and medicine through their agency. Aimed at students and academics with interests in the history of immigration, immigration studies, the history of medicine, South Asian studies and oral history. It will also be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about how Empire and migration have contributed to making Britain what it is today.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2008

Immigration and European integration

Towards fortress Europe

by Andrew Geddes, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys

Migration is at the heart of the contemporary European Union. This new edition addresses three key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy. First, what role does the EU play in the regulation of migration? Second, how and why have EU measures developed to promote the integration of migrants and their descendants? Third, what impact do EU measures on migration and asylum have on new member states and non member states? The updated edition covers important recent developments, addressing new migration flows and the external dimension of EU action on migration and asylum and placing in all these in the context of a 'wider' Europe. Andrew Geddes provides comprehensive analysis of the EU's free movement framework, of the development of co-operation on immigration and asylum policy, of the mobilisation by groups seeking to represent migrant's interests in EU decision-making, the interface between migration, welfare and the EU's social dimension, and the impact of enlargement on migration and asylum. This innovative and original analysis of the European dimension of immigration policy is essential reading for scholars of European integration, the politics of immigration and the prospects for new patterns of migrant inclusion at member state and EU level. ;

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The Arts

June 2021

Art and migration

by Bénédicte Miyamoto, Marie Ruiz, Amelia Jones

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Political science & theory

July 2015

Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century

by Mary Gilmartin

Migration is one of the key issues in Ireland today. This book provides a new and original approach to understanding contemporary Irish migration and immigration, showing that they are processes that need to be understood together rather than separately. It uses a wide range of data - from statistical reports to in-depth qualitative studies - to show these connections. The book focuses on four key themes - work, social connections, culture and belonging - that are common to the experiences of immigrants, emigrants and internal migrants. It includes a wide selection of case studies, such as the global GAA, the campaign for emigrant voting, and the effects of migration on families. Clearly written and accessible, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Irish migration. It also has broader relevance, as it suggests a new approach to the study of migration nationally and internationally.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Migrant races

Empire,Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji

by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Satadru Sen

This book is a study of mobility, image and identity in colonial India and imperial Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a model for studies of migrant figures like K.S. Ranjitsinhji who emerged during the imperial period. Ranjitsinhji is an important figure in the history of modern India and the British empire because he was recognized as a great athlete and described as such. The book focuses on four aspects of Ranjitsinhji's life as a colonial subject: race, money, loyalty and gender. It touches upon Ranjitsinhji's career as a cricketer in the race section. The issue of money gave Indian critics of Ranjitsinhji's regime the language they needed to condemn his personal and administrative priorities, and to portray him as self-indulgent. Ranjitsinhji lived his life as a player of multiple gender roles: sometimes serially, and on occasion simultaneously. His status as a "prince" - while not entirely fake - was fragile enough to be unreliable, and he worked hard to reinforce it even as he constructed his Englishness. Any Indian attempt to transcend race, culture, climate and political place by imitating an English institution and its product must be an unnatural act of insurgency. The disdain for colonial politics that was manifest in the "small rebellions" at the end of the world war converged with the colonized/Indian identity that was evident at the League of Nations. Between the war and his death, it is clear, Ranjitsinhji moved to maximize his autonomy in Nawanagar.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2024

Migration diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa

by Gerasimos Tsourapas

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Migration

by Haas, Hein de (Autor) / Neubauer, Jürgen (Übersetzung)

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2018

Race and the Yugoslav region

Postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?

by Catherine Baker, Gurminder Bhambra

This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of 'race in translation' and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.

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June 2024

At the Very Bottom of the System

How migrant workers ensure prosperity for us

by Sascha Lübbe

The author reveals structural problems and offers solutions – an urgently necessary book, not least with a view to the acute shortage of skilled workers 450,000 migrant workers toll on German construction sites, work in sometimes inhumane conditions in meat factories or as truck drivers, and let’s not forget the hordes of cleaners in German hotels and companies. They are systematically exploited and cheated out of their wages. Sascha Lübbe exposes the octopus-like network of partly criminal companies in a shadowy world where the boundary between the legal and the illegal is blurred. In his evocative book with interviews with those aff ected, he reveals how a parallel system has established itself in the German working world, but also how those affected resist.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2025

Expatriate

Following a migration category

by Sarah Kunz

Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate interrogates the contested category of 'the expatriate' to explore its history and politics, its making and lived experience. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, the book offers a critical reading of International Human Resource Management literature, explores the work and history of the Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague, and studies the usage and significance of the category in Kenyan history and present-day 'expat Nairobi'. Doing so, the book traces the figure of the expatriate from the mid-twentieth-century era of decolonisation to today's heated debates about migration.

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September 2021

Mutter Vater Land

by Akın Emanuel Şipal

Hundert Jahre Familiengeschichte zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei.Der Autor lässt vier Generationen und ihre Anekdoten, Tiraden, Träume, Rachefantasien aufeinanderprallen, darin verstrickt die Erzählerfigur selbst, Alter Ego. Das Erinnern findet seine formale Struktur in a-chronologisch springenden Jahreszahlen, die blitzlichtartig Familienszenen vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche der Vergangenheit, der Gegenwart und der Zukunft verhandeln. Dabei wiederholt sich die generationenübergreifende Erfahrung, auf von Außen zugeschriebene Bilder festgelegt zu werden. Akın Emanuel Şipal sprengt diese Zuschreibungen sprachlich und gedanklich auf und lotet die Grenzen von Fiktion und Autobiografie dialogisch neu aus. »OMA: Ich schwöre, dass es Türken waren ALTER EGO: Was hättest du davon, wenn es Türken gewesen wären?«

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2019

The genesis of international mass migration

by Eric Richards

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2023

African football migration

by Paul Darby, James Esson, Christian Ungruhe

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The Arts

December 2017

Migration into art

by Anne Ring Petersen, Marsha Meskimmon

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March 2017

Migration und Integration.

Die Migrationskrise als Herausforderung des Rechts.

by Herausgegeben von Uhle, Arnd

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April 2017

Migration and Faith

The Migrations of the Schwenkfelders from Germany to America – Risks and Opportunities

by Weigelt, Horst, Übersetzt von Viehmeyer, L. Allen

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January 1999

Migration und Grenze

by Herausgegeben von Gestrich, Andreas; Herausgegeben von Krauss, Marita

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March 2001

Frauen und Migration

by Herausgegeben von Krauss, Marita; Herausgegeben von Sonnabend, Holger

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January 1997

Migration und Integration

Aufnahme und Eingliederung im historischen Wandel

by Herausgegeben von Beer, Mathias; Herausgegeben von Kintzinger, Martin; Herausgegeben von Krauss, Marita

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by Sunita Sukhana

South Asian doctors and the reinvention of British general practice (1940s-1980s)

by Julian Simpson, Keir Waddington

Towards fortress Europe

by Andrew Geddes, Dimitris Papadimitriou, Simon Bulmer, Andrew Geddes, Peter Humphreys

by Bénédicte Miyamoto, Marie Ruiz, Amelia Jones

by Mary Gilmartin

Empire,Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji

by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Satadru Sen

by Gerasimos Tsourapas

by Haas, Hein de (Autor) / Neubauer, Jürgen (Übersetzung)

Postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?

by Catherine Baker, Gurminder Bhambra

How migrant workers ensure prosperity for us

by Sascha Lübbe

Following a migration category

by Sarah Kunz

by Akın Emanuel Şipal

by Eric Richards

by Paul Darby, James Esson, Christian Ungruhe

by Anne Ring Petersen, Marsha Meskimmon

Die Migrationskrise als Herausforderung des Rechts.

by Herausgegeben von Uhle, Arnd

The Migrations of the Schwenkfelders from Germany to America – Risks and Opportunities

by Weigelt, Horst, Übersetzt von Viehmeyer, L. Allen

by Herausgegeben von Gestrich, Andreas; Herausgegeben von Krauss, Marita

by Herausgegeben von Krauss, Marita; Herausgegeben von Sonnabend, Holger

Aufnahme und Eingliederung im historischen Wandel

by Herausgegeben von Beer, Mathias; Herausgegeben von Kintzinger, Martin; Herausgegeben von Krauss, Marita

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