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  • Racism, Nationalism and Citizenship

    Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany

    by Nicola Piper ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1998, this book is about the consequences of the permanent settlement of former labour migrants in contemporary Germany and Britain and the extent to which these ‘new’ minorities are regarded as citizens in both societies as well as citizens of the European Union. It is argued that a socio-historical link between processes of racialization and nationalism lead to an exclusionary ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration

    Edited by Claudia Mora, Nicola Piper ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook adopts a distinctively global and intersectional approach to gender and migration, as social class, race and ethnicity shape the process of migration in its multiple dimensions. A large range of topics exploring gender, sexuality and migration are presented, including feminist migration research, care, family, emotional labour, brain drain and gender, parenting, gendered geographies ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Transnational Activism in Asia

    Problems of Power and Democracy

    Edited by Nicola Piper, Anders Uhlin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    This book provides new perspectives on transnational activism with a specific regional focus on Asia. By offering an innovative approach, its theoretical chapters and empirical case studies examine macro as well as micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups are related to problems of democracy. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Wife or Worker?

    Asian Women and Migration

    Edited by Nicola Piper, Mina Roces ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Critical Perspectives on Global Governance

    Rights and Regulation in Governing Regimes

    by Jean Grugel, Nicola Piper ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    The first in-depth analysis of how global governance impacts on the lives of ordinary people. This new volume includes four detailed case studies on labour, migration, children and development that explore the actual nature of governance policies in the GPE.Jean Grugel and Nicola Piper clearly show how global governance, the creation of global norms and regimes to regulate polities, economic and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Women and Work in Globalizing Asia

    by Dong-Sook S. Gills, Nicola Piper ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    This book sheds light on the real experiences of women in different societies, exploring the impact of globalization through the changing nature of the labour of women. A comprehensive survey of women and work is provided by using case studies and empirical data collected from throughout Asia and also includes an analysis of Asian immigrants working in the US. This book is an invaluable resource, ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Understanding Global Social Policy

    by Meri Koivusalo, Ross Fergusson, Lutz Leisering, Susan L Robertson, Theo Papaioannou, Carolyn Snell, Roger Dale, Nicola Piper, Sophie Mackinder, Robert O'Brien, Kevin Farnsworth, Jeremy J Schmidt, Rianne Mahon, Eeva Ollila ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, social justice, climate, migration, gender, young people and water, energy and food. The original chapters ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Global Labor Migration

    New Directions

    by Eileen Boris, Heidi Gottfried, Julie Greene, Joo-Cheong Tham, Bridget Anderson, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Katie Bales0, Jenny Chan1, Penelope Ciancanelli2, Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos3, Charlie Fanning4, Judy Fudge5, Jorge L Giovannetti-Torres6, Justin Jackson7, Radhika Natarajan8, Pun Ngai9, Bastiaan Nugteren0, Nicola Piper1, Jessica R Pliley2, Devi Sacchetto3, Helen Sampson4, Yael Schacher5, Matt Withers6 ...
    Series series Studies of World Migrations
    Around the world, hundreds of millions of labor migrants endure exploitation, lack of basic rights, and institutionalized discrimination and marginalization. What dynamics and drivers have created a world in which such a huge--and rapidly growing--group toils as marginalized men and women, existing as a lower caste institutionally and juridically? In what ways did labor migrants shape their living ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • Highly-Skilled Migration: Between Settlement and Mobility

    IMISCOE Short Reader

    by Agnieszka Weinar, Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant category in political and public discourse. The common perception is that highly-skilled migrants are high ... Read more

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  • Global Social Policy and Governance

    by Bob Deacon ...
    `This primer on the global politics of social policy … is essential reading for students as well as others seriously interested in improving the human condition. Nuanced and critical, Deacon′s book offers a much needed and constructive guide to the complex supra-national debates over rights, regulation and redistribution impinging on social welfare all over the world′ - Jomo K.S., United Nations ... Read more

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  • Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice

    by Elaine Unterhalter ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government ... Read more

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  • Governing the World?

    Cases in Global Governance

    Edited by Sophie Harman, David Williams ...
    ‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question.Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global governance works in practice through a set of case studies on both classical issues of international relations ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD