Local communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries commonly addressed the needs of refugees, defined broadly during the Progressive Era to include internally displaced people and economic migrants. These communities' efforts to assist people in need created a type of informal pop-up welfare system of short-term assistance that ......
National Strategies for Human Resource Development Across Japan, Australia, China, and India
The Asia-Pacific region has seen extraordinary economic achievements. Japan's post-World War II transformation into an economic powerhouse challenging US dominance by the late 1980s was miraculous. China's rise as the world's second-largest economy is one of the 21st century's most stunning stories. India, now a top-five economy by GDP, is rapidly ......
National Strategies for Human Resource Development Across Japan, Australia, China, and India
The Asia-Pacific region has seen extraordinary economic achievements. Japan's post-World War II transformation into an economic powerhouse challenging US dominance by the late 1980s was miraculous. China's rise as the world's second-largest economy is one of the 21st century's most stunning stories. India, now a top-five economy by GDP, is rapidly ......
Vivid firsthand accounts reveal the lived experience of London's Jewish East End community. Through the words of twenty-six Yiddish writers, this book offers an unparalleled view into the life, labor, politics, and joys of London's historical Jewish East End community, from its heyday in the 1890s until the 1950s. Drawing from the light ......
Africa's growing youth population presents an untapped migration potential, but challenges like low economic growth, conflict, and climate change persist.
Essays on how to teach one of the most important issues of our time People migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A phenomenon that has real, lived effects on individuals and communities, migration also carries symbolic, ideological significance. Its depiction in ......
Essays on how to teach one of the most important issues of our time People migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A phenomenon that has real, lived effects on individuals and communities, migration also carries symbolic, ideological significance. Its depiction in ......
How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Third Edition
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Leo R. Chavez challenges the basic tenets of this assumption and other myths of the "Latino threat," providing a critical investigation into the fears and prejudices that are used ......
How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation, Third Edition
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Leo R. Chavez challenges the basic tenets of this assumption and other myths of the "Latino threat," providing a critical investigation into the fears and prejudices that are used ......
