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"In the years before the 1917 revolution, exiles who had fled the Russian empire created large and boisterous "Russian colonies" across Western and Central Europe. Centers of radical activity in the heart of bourgeois cities, these émigré settlements evolved into revolutionary s…
"During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by …
The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life.
The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is character…
The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life.
Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear Ch…
"The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. For centuries, untold numbers of men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate. All over the British Empire, The United States and elsewhere, T…
Describes the history of the brig "St. John," which sunk off the coast of Massachusetts in 1849 while carrying immigrants from Ireland hoping to escape the Great Famine, and describes the tragic crossing that claimed the lives of thousands.
Photography and migration
Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photography's long and complex relationship to human migration. While contemporary media images largely frame migration in terms of trauma, victimhood, and pity, so…
Historical study of the grammar and vocabulary of Spanish private letters from the 16th century, written by Spaniards who emigrated to the Latin American colonies, based on texts found in the collections of the Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla.
