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  • Detention Empire
    Kristina Shull
    The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration’s globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available government documents, Shull demonstra...
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    126,62 €

  • Pantalla Parade
    Laura Swart
    A small decision can set the world on fire.Inspired by the tumultuous events of the 2020s, Pantalla Parade delineates an issue central to our times: how small decisions made in the moment can set the world on fire. Delving into the lives of people from different countries, ethnicities, religions, and orientations, Pantalla Parade reflects on the metanarratives that are proffere...
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    21,59 €

  • From Fiji to America
    Jagjiwan Narayan
    I wrote this book as a memoir of my journey from Fiji to America. Shedding some light on the Indian indentured system, I aim to share not only the challenges faced in these trying times but also leave a piece of history to my current family and future generations to come.My mother Changi was a first-generation Fiji-Indian woman that married at the age of 13, had eight children,...
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    15,53 €

  • Language Learning and Forced Migration
    This study of language issues in the context of migration provides interdisciplinary insights into language as learned, used and lived by refugees in Norway. It offers an innovative contribution to the field of SLA by bringing together structural, cognitive, social and critical approaches to data collected among the same individuals. ...
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    169,67 €

  • Invisible Outsider
    Casey E Bales
    It’s not every day you meet a white, blond, Midwest American kid who speaks English with a Japanese accent.But this is no ordinary kid. At the age of three, he’d relocated from Indiana to the neon-lit metropolis of 1980s Tokyo. As the only foreigner or ’gaijin’ from Japanese kindergarten right through to high school in both Japan and the US, he’d battled to fit in. He’d fought ...
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    14,27 €

  • Thanet to Tasmania
    LucyAnn Curling
    If family history is about gathering as many ancestors as possible, this book fails: it focuses on just three generations of the author’s paternal side, between 1780 and 1826. At first nothing stirs the still waters of centuries of East Kent farming tradition. Men organize parish affairs, women follow domestic routines, boys attend a boarding school in Ramsgate, and only grandm...
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    42,64 €

  • International Students’ Multilingual Literacy Practices
    This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills. ...
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    48,25 €

  • International Students’ Multilingual Literacy Practices
    This book presents the results of research that focused on international students receiving writing instruction on a US university campus. It explores how the students developed their foreign-student identities and their own ways of grappling with the unique issues they encountered as they worked to improve their academic literacy skills. ...
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    169,85 €

  • Badass Abroad
    Claire Hauxwell
    Meet Dandelion, our author’s alter ego - a flailing spouse and dedicated mom of two who’s a decade into her expat life and doesn’t know who the hell she is anymore. Dandelion’s schtick is getting old. Dandelion’s feeling uncomfortable in her own skin. Dandelion’s longing for the days when there was more to life than wandering the aisles of another damn grocery store in expatlan...
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    17,34 €

  • Mirrors & Reflections
    Khulood Agha Khan
    This guidebook peeks into the lives of Muslim immigrant women in Canada from around the world. The book begins with a land acknowledgement in an immigrant style where we recognize the stolen land that is being forced to share. It mentions some systemic barriers and challenges faced by immigrant Muslim women in Canada in the form of their own stories. It captures the strategies ...
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    23,43 €

  • Seeing Like a Smuggler
    The word smuggler often unleashes a simplified, negative image painted by the media and the authorities. Such state-centric perspectives hide many social, political, and economic relations generated by smuggling. This book looks at the practice through the eyes of the smugglers, revealing how their work can be productive, subversive, and deeply sociopolitical. By tracing the il...
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    127,19 €

  • Refugee Talk
    Eva Rask Knudsen / Ulla Rahbek
    What does it mean to be a refugee? What political questions do they raise? Through what political rhetoric is their experiences parsed? The ongoing refugee crisis has sparked all these questions and more. Refugee Talk uses conversation as a research method and ethical practice to approach the representation of and the discourse about and by the refugee. Though refugees who cros...
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    127,07 €

  • Transnational Research in English Language Teaching
    The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across countries. It brings together language teachers, educators and researchers who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the shaping of their pedagogical and research practices. ...
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    60,23 €

  • Transnational Research in English Language Teaching
    The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across countries. It brings together language teachers, educators and researchers who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the shaping of their pedagogical and research practices. ...
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    181,83 €

  • Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship
    This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency. ...
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    47,90 €

  • Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship
    This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of linguistic citizenship. Each chapter illuminates how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency. ...
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    169,51 €

  • The Newcomer’s Dictionary
    Joyce Agee
    The Newcomer’s Dictionary is an A to Z of words that explore aspects of relocating. Whether you have moved or are considering a move, this dictionary will help to identify and describe the experience of being a newcomer. Filtered through Joyce Agee’s memories and illustrated by her sister, Ellen Agee, this book identifies the often hidden and complex feelings that can be experi...
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    15,51 €

  • Suffer the Little Children
    Anita Casavantes Bradford
    In this affecting and innovative global history—starting with the European children who fled the perils of World War II and ending with the Central American children who arrive every day at the U.S. southern border—Anita Casavantes Bradford traces the evolution of American policy toward unaccompanied children. At first a series of ad hoc Cold War–era initiatives, such policy gr...
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    134,64 €

  • Lives beyond Borders
    Ina C. Seethaler
    Examines how contemporary US migrant women’s life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities. ...
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    42,16 €

  • A Postcolonial Relationship
    Hee An Choi
    Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States. ...
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    42,32 €

  • Exploring the Economic Opportunities and Impacts of Migrant Entrepreneurship
    Meena Chavan / Sheba Nandkeolyar
    Migration is a key aspect of our modern world. Beyond fueling population growth, migrants bring with them much more than bags packed full of their belongings. They stimulate the economy, bring fresh new ideas and a unique perspective on business, and provide a huge variety of positive and intangible benefits from enhanced productivity to innovation. Exploring the Economic Oppor...
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    215,86 €

  • Migrant Workers in Singapore
    Initially upheld as a bastion of success in curbing the spread of COVID-19, Singapore eventually found itself home to the highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia. Over 90% of its cases in 2020 occurred among the 300,000 migrant construction workers primarily from Bangladesh, India, and China who live as part of a transient population in this city-state.This collec...
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    182,17 €

  • Transnational American Spaces
    As people migrate, they face the need to create a stable space within a disconcertingly unfamiliar environment. This experience of creating new spaces opens opportunities for positive transcultural connections; however, these opportunities can also serve as the disciplining of the migrant body. This text focuses on the movement of bodies in transnational communities and the for...
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    71,35 €

  • International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community
    Le Ha Phan / Osman Z. Barnawi / Osman Z. Barnawi / Phan Le Ha
    This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education. ...
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    60,30 €

  • International TESOL Teachers in a Multi-Englishes Community
    Le Ha Phan / Osman Z. Barnawi / Osman Z. Barnawi / Phan Le Ha
    This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education. ...
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    181,92 €

  • Transpacific Connections
    Maja Zawierzeniec
    Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the most renowned Mexican poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers...
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    180,76 €

  • Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women
    Naomi Thompson / Rabia Nasimi
    Arguing for a bottom-up approach that centres on needs as well as assets, Community Work with Migrant and Refugee Women highlights the importance of cultural relevance of services, and a holistic approach to integration that acknowledges the full range of needs and experiences migrant and refugee women face. ...
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    87,78 €

  • South African-Based African Migrants’ Responses to COVID-19
    This edited volume interrogates the intersection between viral pandemics, transnational migration and the politics of belonging in South Africa during COVID-19. The chapters draw on theoretical conceptions such as biopolitics, necropolitics, xenophobio/afrophobia and autochthonous citizenship to understand how South Africa has responded to the devastating effects of COVID-19 an...
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    52,41 €

  • Sehnsucht
    Lorraine Loewen
    In my early years, I felt sadness in my Grandpa Grisch; it seemed to cling to him. What feelings could not do, however, was give me greater understanding into his inner world. Unknown to me, family had stored close to one hundred letters for over thirty years and these would pass into my hands the summer of 2019. Once transcribed from German into English these letters exposed t...
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    50,09 €

  • Sehnsucht
    Lorraine Loewen
    In my early years, I felt sadness in my Grandpa Grisch; it seemed to cling to him. What feelings could not do, however, was give me greater understanding into his inner world. Unknown to me, family had stored close to one hundred letters for over thirty years and these would pass into my hands the summer of 2019. Once transcribed from German into English these letters exposed t...
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    26,08 €


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