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Free Download Past Progress: Time and Politics at the Borders of China, Russia, and Korea by Ed Pulford
English | May 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1503639029 | 352 pages | MOBI | 9.09 Mb
While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded in the multiethnic frontier town of Hunchun at the triple border of China, Russia, and North Korea, Ed Pulford traces how several of global history’s most ambitiously totalizing progressive endeavors have ended in cataclysmic collapse here. From the Japanese empire which banished Qing, Tsarist, and Choson dynastic histories from the region, through Chinese, Soviet, and Korean socialisms, these borderlands have seen projections and disintegrations of forward-oriented ideas accumulate on a grand scale.

Free Download Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States By Timothy J. Henderson(auth.), Jurgen Buchenau(eds.)
2011 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1405194294 | PDF | 3 MB
Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States details the origins and evolution of the movement of people from Mexico into the United States from the first significant flow across the border at the turn of the twentieth century up to the present day. Considers the issues from the perspectives of both the United States and Mexico Offers a reasoned assessment of the factors that drive Mexican immigration, explains why so many of the policies enacted in Washington have only worsened the problem, and suggests what policy options might prove more effective Argues that the problem of Mexican immigration can only be solved if Mexico and the United States work together to reduce the disequilibrium that propels Mexican immigrants to the United States Content: Chapter 1 Beginnings: 1848?1920 (pages 8-33): Chapter 2 Restriction, Depression, and Deportation: The 1920s and 1930s (pages 34-57): Chapter 3 The Bracero Era: 1942?1964 (pages 58-89): Chapter 4 Illegal Immigration and Response: 1964?1990 (pages 90-117): Chapter 5 Free Trade and Homeland Security: 1990?Present (pages 118-149):

Free Download Matthew Zagor, "From Borders to Pathways: Innovations and Regressions in the Movement of People into Europe "
English | ISBN: 176046659X | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB, MOBI, PDF | 2 MB + 1109 KB + 2 MB
From Borders to Pathways: Innovations and Regressions in the Movement of People into Europe examines the evolution of European migration policy, offering a forward-looking analysis that extends beyond traditional border controls to innovative legal migration pathways. Contributors provide an in-depth exploration of the drivers shaping migration policies, including public opinion and the rise of populist discourses, the contrasting responses to various real and imagined migrant crises, and critiques of recent policy innovations such as refugee finance schemes, ‘safe legal pathways’, and migrant lotteries. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, the authors assess socio-political, legal, geo-political and cultural shifts to advocate for a more inclusive, humane and sustainable approach to migration. By challenging dominant narratives of deterrence, extraterritoriality and exclusion, this book advocates for policies that balance Europe’s myriad commitments, values and imperatives, highlighting the need for ethical frameworks that respect the dignity of migrants. Essential reading for policymakers, scholars and stakeholders,

Free Download Anaïs Angelo, "The Politics of Biography in Africa: Borders, Margins, and Alternative Histories of Power"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 036767940X, 0367544245 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 0.5 mb
Bringing together historians, political scientists, and literary analysts, this volume shows how biographical narratives can shed light on alternative, little known or under-researched aspects of state power in African politics.

Free Download Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen, Jamie Renell (Narrator), "Borders: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition"
English | ASIN: B0D7QLXW23 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~04:47:00 | 127 MB
First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two, including sudden surges in migrant and refugees flows; renewed emphasis on traditional border security and wall construction; growing tensions concerning maritime sovereignty; rapid advances in cybersecurity, surveillance, and biometrics; expanded detention and deportation infrastructures; proliferation of transborder organizations; revived populist and nationalist sentiments; and protectionist and integrationist trade practices, to name some prominent examples from recent headlines.
This revised edition accounts for recent developments including Brexit, the 2015 migration crisis across Europe, efforts to build a border wall between the United States and Mexico, growing isolationist and nativist sentiments, demands for indigenous homelands, transnational protest movements, Russian cross-border incursions, and insurgencies and rebellions across much of North Africa and Southwest Asia.
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Free Download A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
English | 2024 | ISBN: B0CJVM68BN | 9 hours and 49 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 236 Mb
‘Fascinating’ TOM HOLLAND
‘A delight from start to finish’ MIRANDA SAWYER
‘By turns surprising, funny, bleak, ridiculous, or all four of those at once’ GIDEON DEFOE

Free Download Ines Wagner, "Workers without Borders: Posted Work and Precarity in the EU"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1501729152 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.5 mb
How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, dissected in Ines Wagner’s Workers without Borders, about the troubling working conditions of migrant meat and construction workers, exposed a distressing dichotomy: how could a country with such strong employers’ associations and trade unions allow for the establishment and maintenance of such a precarious labor market segment?

Free Download Heide Castañeda, "Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1503607917, 1503607216 | PDF | pages: 280 | 2.9 mb
Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America―the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members’ access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin.

Free Download Sarah S. Stroup, "Borders among Activists: International NGOs in the United States, Britain, and France"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 080145073X | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.8 mb
In Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world―international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)―organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy, and deliver services.

Free Download Petra Danková University of Applied Sci, "Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management, and Resistance"
English | ISBN: 1666935875 | 2024 | 314 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance addresses the topics of social work and international migration, with specific focus on the consequences of EU border externalization policies. The increasingly authoritarian character of EU border management raises a number of issues related to the role of social work within a context that is heavily charged, both ideologically and politically. After theoretically and historically contextualizing externalization with explicit attention to (neo)colonial genealogies of the current migration regimes, this book examines the complex inter-relations of social workers with key actors, namely mobile people, policy makers or funders. Particular attention is paid to the socio-economic and political impacts of the global Covid-19 pandemic on social work with variously categorized people moving across borders or immobilized incamps. Finally, the book explores how social workers and refugees resist violent migration controls and increasing criminalization of cross-border movements. This volume brings together contributions located in the so-called countries of origin and transit targeted by EU externalization interventions, as well as EU countries, in which social workers deal with the effects of border externalization and internalization.