This title explores the experience of Britons in the colonial world outside the Dominions through a series of case studies of different communities spread across the world of British power.
"From the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S…
"In The cultural Communication of Emigration in Bulgaria, Sotirova examines Bulgarian emigration discourses as cultural currency through the frameworks of ethnography of communication and cultural discourse analysis. Such discourses enact larger cultural notions of being (Bulgar…
Between 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlements, and revolution. After 1918, the immense movement of people across Germany's eastern border posed a sharp challenge to the new Weimar Republic. Ethnic Germans flooded over the b…
"On the Right of Exclusion: Law, Ethics and Immigration Policy addresses Western immigration policies regarding so-called `normal migrants?, i.e. migrants without a legal right to admission. The book argues that if authorities cannot substantially justify the exclusion of a norm…
"Through a sensitive and profound analysis, the author reveals the reality of the displaced existence of immigrants and the harrowing contradictions that characterize it. Among these contradictions is the deep collective dishonesty through which immigration perpetuates itself, w…