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Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the Men and Women of Hong Kong's Sex Industry

by Yeeshan Yang

With glitzy nightclubs, saunas, karaoke lounges and brothels, Hong Kong's sex business is booming. But how do local prostitutes compete with an endless supply of girls from China? To find out, Yang spent a year...


Asian Medicine and Globalization

by Joseph S. Alter

As more and more Asian medical practices cross into Western culture through the popularity of yoga and herbalism, and as Western medicine finds its way east in the form of plastic surgery, these systems of meaning...


Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation: Ireland in Europe and the World

by Munck & Fanning

Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation takes Ireland as a paradigmatic case of social transformation, exploring the reasons for which emigration was so quickly replaced by immigration, along with...


The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands

by Margaret Regan

Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others

 

For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on...


Security, Insecurity and Migration in Europe

by Lazaridis

An interdisciplinary examination of the issues of security and insecurity raised by migration for states, their citizens and migrants themselves, this book will be of interest to scholars of politics, sociology...


Childhood and Migration in Europe: Portraits of Mobility, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland

by Ní Laoire & Carpena-Méndez

Challenging dominant adult-centric perspectives on contemporary global migration flows and presenting understandings of the lives of migrant children and young people from their own experiences, this book presents...


Experience and Representation: Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia

by Jacobs

Experience and Representation brings together influential theoretical perspectives and recent empirical material in the analysis of migration, race and contemporary Australian culture and politics. As such,...


Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective

by Hasmath

The management of ethnic diversity has become a topical and often controversial subject in recent times, with much debate surrounding multiculturalism as a systematic and comprehensive response for dealing with...


Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region

by Eide & Nikunen

Owing to increased migration from the 1990s, Nordic countries have gone through substantial cultural and social changes, resulting in increased debate surrounding the politics of multiculturalism. By drawing...


Local Lives: Migration and the Politics of Place

by Bönisch-Brednich & Trundle

Local Lives contests dominant trends in migration theory, demonstrating that many migrant identities have not become entirely diasporic or cosmopolitan, but remain equally focused on emplaced belonging and the...


Muslim Diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging

by Moghissi & Ghorashi

In view of the growing influence of religion in public life, Muslim Diaspora in the West offers a timely contribution to scholarly debates and concerns raised in the West about Islam and Muslims within diaspora....


Steadfast Movement around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration

by Lola Quan Bautista

Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of movement itself. Special consideration is made of movement...


The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work

by Miliann Kang

Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail...


The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

by Tyche Hendricks

Award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks has explored the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by car and by foot, on horseback, and in the back of a pickup truck. She has shared meals with border residents, listened to...


Forest Gate

by Peter Akinti

A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London -- beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth.

In a community where poverty is kept close and...


Mexifornia: A State of Becoming

by Victor D Hanson

Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California, Victor Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the...


Inclusion and Exclusion of Young Adult Migrants in Europe: Barriers and Bridges

by Fangen & Fossan

A carefully organized and comprehensive exploration of the exclusion and inclusion of young adult migrants in Europe, this volume will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, population change,...


Migrating Genders: Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine

by Schmidt

Drawing on rich empirical material, this book tells of both the diversity and the uniqueness of fa'afafine identities, aspects which fa'afafine have maintained in the face of Westernization, migration, and cultural...


Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations: Working Whiteness

by Leonard

Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations offers a timely and contemporary discussion of the role of organizations in maintaining or challenging structures and cultures based on racism and discrimination....


Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities

by Triandafyllidou

Irregular Migration in Europe contributes to our knowledge of the scale and nature of the much discussed but under-researched phenomenon of irregular migration in Europe. Presenting a comparative analysis of...