Local Lives: Migration and the Politics of Place 140949277X, 9781409492771

New Immigrant Communities: Finding a Place in Local Politics 9781626373976

Compares new “destination communities” in the United States to discover what types of environments provide opportunities

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Education, Disadvantage and Place: Making the Local Matter 9781447311225

In England, as in countries across the world, shrinking public funding, growing localism, and increased school autonomy

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Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration 9780674919969

In the 1970s Mexico sent men across the border to take low-level work and return money to their communities back home. B

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Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region 9780812209976

This volume examines patterns of growth, government organization, and cultural representation that created a new region

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The politics of identity: Place, space and discourse 9781526110268

This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that dea

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The Culture of Migration: Politics, Aesthetics and Histories 9780755620166, 9781784533106

Migration has been a phenomenon throughout human history but today, as a result of economic hardship, conflict and globa

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International Organisations and the Politics of Migration 9781138860100, 9781317507963, 9781317507956

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Local Civil Society: Place, Time and Boundaries 9781447356516

Epdf and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on place-based field investigations and new empirica

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Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry 9780520976733

Few would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear

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The Pride of Place: Local Memories and Political Culture in Modern France 9781501724312

Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned

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