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1 online resource (655 pages) |
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Routledge International Handbooks Ser |
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Routledge International Handbooks Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on the contributors; Introduction to the second edition; Reference; Introduction to the first edition; Central themes; A conceptual focus; The book's organization; References; PART I: Theories and histories of international migration; Economic and psychological overview chapters; Economic approaches; Psychological approaches; Historical approaches by world region; Reference; Chapter 1: Economic perspectives on migration; Introduction |
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Theories of the initiating forces of migration?Theories about the self-perpetuating mechanisms of migration; An alternative economic perspective on the empirical literature: an example of migrant remittances; Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Psychological acculturation: perspectives, principles, processes, and prospects; Introduction; Acculturation: a group and individual phenomenon; Psychological acculturation; Processes in psychological acculturation; Risks and rewards in psychological acculturation; Policy implications of psychological acculturation |
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Future directions in psychological acculturation researchConclusions; References; Chapter 3: European migration history; Introduction; The mobility transition; Seasonal migrants; Colonization; Moves to the city; Soldiers; Settlement processes; Further reading; Chapter 4: Migration history in the Americas; The peopling of the Americas; Conquest, coercion, and colonization: early modern histories of Atlantic empire-building, 1492-1776; To populate is to govern: nation states confront settlers and labor migrants from Europe and Asia, 1776-1940 |
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Refugees, exiles, and job-seekers in the contemporary AmericasFurther reading; Chapter 5: Asian migration in the longue durée; Early human movement; States, agriculture and armies; Eurasian exchange; Early modern mobility; The creation of Asia, 1840-1940; Into the present; References; Chapter 6: A brief history of African migration; The beginnings of migration in Africa; Trans-Saharan movement; Trading networks within and outside of Africa; Forced migration within and outside of Africa; Other pre-colonial movement; Colonial migration; Colonial migration into Africa |
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Migration within Africa since independenceMigration out of Africa; Conclusion; Further reading; PART II: Displacement, refugees and forced migration; References; Chapter 7: Forced migrants: exclusion, incorporation and a moral economy of deservingness; Introduction; Theoretical orientations; Toward an integrated theoretical orientation; Forced migration, deservingness and the limits of compassion; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Refugees and geopolitical conflicts; Disaster, flight, and refuge; Expulsion; Displacement; Flight; Considerations; Notes; References |
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Chapter 9: Country of first asylum |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration.
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Emigration and immigration -- History
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Immigrants -- Economic conditions
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Emigration and immigration -- Research
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nawyn, Stephanie J
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| ISBN |
9781315458281 |
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1315458284 |
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