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  • Transnational Migration and Asia

    The Question of Return

    by Michiel Baas ...
    Series series Global Asia
    As our increasingly globalized world alters the dynamics of migration, the ideas that migrants have about returning to their home countries have evolved as well. This diverse collection examines the changes and complexities of migration patterns in a range of Asian countries and cities, exploring how globalization and transnationalism shape and give meaning to the migrant experience. From Japanese ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Asian Migrant's Body

    Emotion, Gender and Sexuality

    Edited by Michiel Baas ...
    Series series New Mobilities in Asia
    The Asian Migrant's Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, this edited volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities

    Edited by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Michiel Baas ...
    Series series Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
    Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world. Since the late 20th century, research on 'skilled' and 'highly skilled' migration has raised important questions about the value and ethics of skill-based labour mobility. More recent research has begun to question the concept of skill and skill categorisation in both government ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Migration Industry in Asia

    Brokerage, Gender and Precarity

    Edited by Michiel Baas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and building on empirical data gathered through interactions and interviews with brokers, agents and other facilitators of migration, it examines the increasing co-dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, industry and ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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    by Pawan Dhingra, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez ...
    Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a unique lens on the wider experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States, both historically and today. Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez’s acclaimed introduction to understanding this diverse group is here updated in a thoroughly revised new edition. Incorporating cutting-edge ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Feminisms in Development

    Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead ...
    This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies.Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Transnationalism

    by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    'Transnationalism' refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation-states.This book surveys the broader meanings of transnationalism within the study of globalization before concentrating on migrant transnational practices. Each chapter demonstrates ways in which new and contemporary transnational practices of migrants are fundamentally ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • International Development

    A Global Perspective on Theory and Practice

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Ravi K Roy ...
    How can we lay the foundation for a more just and peaceful world? How can we prevent communications from fracturing and societies from tearing themselves apart? How should we prioritise economic, social and cultural demands for resources and opportunities?This book answers these questions, and presents a view of development ‘in practice’. Written by experts in the field, the book covers a range of ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Empowerment

    Gender and Development in a Global/Local World

    Edited by Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai, Kathleen A. Staudt ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    Rethinking Empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and calls for a new approach to empowerment. An approach that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and em(power)ment, recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and global contexts, pays attention to institutional structures and politics and acknowledges that ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • International Management Ethics

    A Critical, Cross-cultural Perspective

    by Terence Jackson ...
    What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook, cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management ethics. To help the reader understand different approaches that global businesses can take to operate successfully and ethically, there are chapters focusing on specific countries and regions. As well as giving the wider ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Tangled Mobilities

    Places, Affects, and Personhood across Social Spheres in Asian Migration

    Edited by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot ...
    Series Book 12 - Worlds in Motion
    The emotional, social, and economic challenges faced by migrants and their families are interconnected through complex decisions related to mobility. Tangled Mobilities examines the different crisscrossing and intersecting mobilities in the lives of Asian migrants, their family members across Asia and Europe, and the social spaces connecting these regions. In exploring how the migratory process ... Read more

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  • Undoing Border Imperialism

    by Harsha Walia ...
    Series Book 6 - Anarchist Interventions
    Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”-Naomi Klein, author of The Shock DoctrineUndoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement ... Read more

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