Book Review

Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights

In the book Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights, Jasmin Lilian Diab as an editor, attempts to knit the expertise of academicians across disciplines with the motive to cover wide-ranging aspects related to migration. The editor is a professional in Migration Studies, currently positioned as Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University. She has […]

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Migration at Work

“Migration at Work: Aspirations, Imaginaries & Structures of Mobility” is a volume published in 2020 which offers a multidisciplinary approach towards migration. This book comprises empirical research in various fields providing valuable scholarship and evidence on current processes of migration and mobility. A wide range of geographical coverage can be seen in the book chapters.

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Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Unheard Voice of Kashmiri Pandit Migrants

Our Moon Has Blood Clots is a memoir about the lost home in Kashmir by Rahul Pandita, published in 2013. The author narrates the plight of Kashmiri Pandit’s migration to different parts of India in the 1990s. The book is divided into five parts which describe the different phases of the history of Kashmir, but

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Exploiting People For Profit: Trafficking in Human Beings

In their book Exploiting People for Profit: Trafficking in Human Beings, Simon Massey and Glynn Rankin provides a contemporary definition of human trafficking. Both authors are quite well-versed in the field of human trafficking. Massey, previously a consultant for the EU and UNDP, and now a senior lecturer at Coventry University, is profusely published in

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“The right to education: the most powerful weapon to change the world”

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Author: Malala Yousafzai, Christina LambPublisher: Weidenfeld & NicolsonReviewer: Fabrizio Parrilli Yousafzai, Malala. 2014. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN: 978-0-29787-091-3. PP.288 “I am Malala. My

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Alvanoudi, Angeliki (2018), Modern Greek in Diaspora: An Australian Perspective, Switzerland: Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-90898-4 ISBN 978-3-319-90899-1, pp:164

“Modern Greek in Diaspora: An Australian Perspective”(2018) is a narrative, descriptive and qualitative study conducted by Angeliki Alvanoudi. This book underscores the fact that migration is not just relocation or movement of people from a place of origin to a place of destination. But migration is also about the transfer, amalgamation, exchange of cultures and

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OF MYTHS AND MIGRATION: Illegal Immigration into South Africa [Hussein Solomon, 2003, South Africa: Unisa Press, ISBN: 1868882063, 9781868882069; 175 pages]

In ‘OF MYTHS AND MIGRATION: Illegal Immigration into South Africa’, Hussein Solomon explores the ‘global migration crisis’ focusing on the threats posed by international migration on host countries. The study specifically focuses on rampant clandestine immigration in South Africa. Hussein frames the study within the broader Southern African regional security framework. The book provides policy-relevant

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