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Los perfiladores policiales de migrantes son piezas clave para descubrir a personas que intentan salir ilegalmente de un país con documentos falsos o adulterados, sacar objetos, materiales y sustancias prohibidas, entre otros.Construyen identidades a partir de la experiencia adquirida en el trabajo de inteligencia que desarrollan que incluye entrevistas a los migrantes recopilando información que permite saber los motivos de su desplazamiento hacia...
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In recent years, Europeans have engaged in sharp debates about migrants and minority groups as social problems. The discussions usually neglect who these people are, how they live their lives, and how they identify themselves. Multiple Identities describes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple, identities, which alter with time and changing circumstances. The contributors consider minorities...
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The world has seen the rise of seven remarkable ancient civilizations over the last ten thousand years.Some of these have run their full course and fallen off by the wayside, some of them are still going strong in the modern world. Nonetheless, all of them have contributed much to the remarkable history of human civilization through the ages.And it all started with the human species of Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalsis, and Homo...
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Elsie Herberstein est originaire d'Autriche. En 2004, sa tante, Cécily Corti, a ouvert un foyer d'accueil pour les sans abri à Vienne. Le lieu intègre en 2013 un bâtiment conçu sur mesure, le Mittendrin.
Suite à la crise migratoire de ces dernières années, le foyer héberge une population désormais mélangée de SDF autrichiens et de migrants.
A l'occasion de plusieurs séjours en 2016 et 2017, Elsie s'immerge, crayon...
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How the mighty clipper ships transformed Australia from convict outpost to a nation.
More than one million Australians can trace their heritage to the migrant ships of the mid-to-late 19th century...
The story of the Clipper ships, and the tens of thousands of migrants they bought to the Australian colony of the nineteenth century, is one of the world's great migration stories. For anyone who travelled to Australia before 1850, it was a long...
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Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.
South Asia and Latin America represent two epicenters of migrant care work and the globalized reproductive market. Yet scholars and the media continue to examine them in geographical and conceptual isolation. South of the Future closes both these gaps. It investigates nannying, elder care, domestic work, and other forms of migrant labor...
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This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century's most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange's goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange's work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is the only career-spanning monograph of this major photographer's oeuvre in print, and features images ranging from her iconic Depression-era photograph Migrant...
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Shortlisted, 2018 Taste Canada Awards and 2018 Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction
Longlisted, 2018 RBC Taylor Prize
Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he...
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Firefighter paramedic Terry Flanagan saw her clinic for migrant farm workers as the perfect way to make a difference. But when Dr. Jacob Landsdowne was assigned to oversee her project, she wondered if her dreams would go up in smoke.
Two years ago a tragedy had touched both their lives and almost destroyed Jacob's career. Now he was intent on rebuilding his reputation, and Terry's clinic was an unwanted distraction. Yet, with the well-being of women...
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Senegalese Murid migrants have circulated cargo and currency through official and unofficial networks in Africa and the world. Muslim Families in Global Senegal focuses on trade and the transmission of enduring social value though cloth, videos of life-cycle rituals, and religious offerings. Highlighting women's participation in these networks and the financial strategies they rely on, Beth Buggenhagen reveals the deep connections between economic...
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In 1948 the former troop ship made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of Caribbean migrants in the UK, was the initial step in the formation of a new identity: the black Briton. Fifty years later, Mike and Trevor Phillips spoke to those on the itself, as well as those who followed, to tell the story of Britain in the second half of the twentieth century through the eyes of the...
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The twenty-eight-year-old mixed-race son of a Samoan immigrant, Paul Tusifale is desperate to find his place in an American culture that barely acknowledges his existence. Within the Silicon Valley landscape of grass-roots activists and dotcom headquarters, where the plight of migrant workers is ever-present, Paul drifts on and off the radar.
An unemployed drifter who defiantly-even violently-defends those in need, Paul soon discovers that life as...
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La memoria musical y sensible del carnaval de Esmeraldas resucita en Ainhoa, una niña de la isla de Limones, secretos familiares y episodios de violencia. En Fiebre de carnaval cobra vida el mundo que la rodea en cada palabra, en cada ritmo que se baila, se contagia y que puede oírse en estas páginas. Gracias a una serie de recuerdos se construye una novela en la que cronología es imperceptible, y que da forma al cuerpo de la niña-máquina...
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A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two controversial theses-that sentences are not truly meaningful in isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses are primarily indicators not of time but of the attitude of the speaker or writer-Tempus surveys a dazzling array of ancient and modern texts from famous...
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An intimate portrait of life in the world's richest nation ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup.
Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts.
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The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing "Made in Italy" labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industry, all the while adding new patterns to the social fabric of Italy's iconic industry.
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Pourquoi la mémoire d'Antoine Chevrier (1826-1879) demeure-t-elle vivante aujourd'hui ? Point tellement à cause de l'oeuvre qu'il a pu fonder, mais bien plus à cause de l'homme authentique qu'il a été, du « véritable disciple » de Jésus Christ qu'il a su être.
C'est à Noël 1856 que le père Chevrier a ressenti l'appel spécifique que Dieu lui adressait. Il était alors vicaire depuis six ans à la paroisse Saint-André de La Guillotière,...
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Este libro, que fue un bestseller la primera vez que fue publicado hace 35 años, cuenta la historia de la familia Sandoval, una familia que huye a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida. Héctor, el patriarca de los Sandoval trabaja en el campo y lucha por alimentar a su familia mientras se enfrenta a la discriminación y la injusticia que encuentra esta nueva sociedad. De sus hijos, sólo Pete logra alcanzar una existencia un tanto más cómoda,...