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  • - From Rural Preachers to City Pastors
    by Jie Kang
    £71.49

    Whilst most studies are concerned with the opposition of church and state, this work, by contrast, shows that in Linyi there is no clear-cut distinction between the official TSPM church and house churches.

  • - Understanding Modes of Migration-Driven Differentiation in Urban Neighbourhoods
    by Matthias Kluckmann
    £93.99

  • - Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe
     
    £114.49

    Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities.

  • - Ethnographic Perspectives
     
    £30.49

    This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form.

  • - Everyday Identifications of Tamil Migrants in Britain
    by Demelza Jones
    £38.49 - 63.49

  • - Living with Difference in Casamance and Catalonia
    by Tilmann Heil
    £66.49 - 83.99

    In a world where difference is often seen as a threat or challenge, Comparing Conviviality explores how people actually live in diverse societies.

  • - Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital
    by Sonja Moghaddari
    £47.99 - 63.49

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    £62.49

    This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

  • - Then and Now
     
    £58.49

    This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

  • - Policy and Practice for a New Era
     
    £114.49

    This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory.

  • - Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
     
    £83.99

    This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It re-theorizes urban 'super-diversity' as a plurality of religious, ethnic, national and racial groups but also as the diverse processes through which religion produces urban space.

  • - Then and Now
     
    £82.49

    This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

  • - Mobility, Integration and Belonging
     
    £75.49

    This book draws renewed attention to migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. The authors ask how people's movements within the continent are forging novel forms of membership while catalysing social change within the communities and countries to which they move and which they have left behind.

  • - Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
    by Monika Palmberger
    £22.49

  • - Policy and Practice for a New Era
     
    £155.49

    This book sets out to explore the political and social potential of intercultural policy for cities by bringing together advances in the areas of urban planning and intercultural theory.

  • - The New Politics of Difference
    by Maria Schiller
    £47.99

  • - Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City
    by Laavanya Kathiravelu
    £83.99

    This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Dubai shows that even within highly restrictive mobility regimes, marginalized migrants find ways to cope with structural inequalities and quotidian modes of discrimination.

  • - North Korean Migrants' Evangelical Encounters
    by Jin-Heon Jung
    £78.99

    This book sheds light on North Korean migrants' Christian encounters and conversions throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on churches as primary contact zones, it highlights the ways in which the migrants and their evangelical counterparts both draw on and contest each others' envisioning of a reunified Christianized Korea.

  • - Migration Societies in Post-Multiculturalist Times
     
    £47.99

    This cross-disciplinary edited collection presents an integrated approach to critical diversity studies by gathering original scholarly research on ideational, technical and actual social dimensions of contemporary governance through diversity.

  • by Susanne Wessendorf
    £47.99

    Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of the daily doings and social relations among the residents and how they pragmatically negotiate difference in their everyday lives.

  • - Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg
     
    £68.49

    Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.

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    £90.49

    This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

  • - Immigration and Social Interaction in German Cities
    by Steven Vertovec, Thomas Schmitt, Dietlind Stolle, et al.
    £93.99

    This book analyzes how the socio-demographic and cultural diversity of societies affect the social interactions and attitudes of individuals and groups within them.

  • - Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore
    by Junjia Ye
    £73.49

    In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants.

  • - Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
     
    £114.49

    This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It re-theorizes urban 'super-diversity' as a plurality of religious, ethnic, national and racial groups but also as the diverse processes through which religion produces urban space.

  • - A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia
     
    £47.99

    Atheist Secularism and Its Discontents takes a comparative approach to understanding religion under communism, arguing that communism was integral to the global experience of secularism. Bringing together leading researchers whose work spans the Eurasian continent, it shows that appropriating religion was central to Communist political practices.

  • - Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg
     
    £47.99

    Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in neighbourhoods of New York, Singapore and Johannesburg are presented.

  • - Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian Refugees in Sweden
    by Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Vedran Omanovic & Andrea Spehar
    £53.49

    This book examines the integration experiences of refugees to Sweden from Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), and more recently from Syria (2014-2018) - two of the largest-scale refugee movements in Europe for the last thirty years.It focuses on refugeesΓÇÖ interactions with key institutions of integration including language training, civic orientation, validation of previous educational experience, organizations and multiple labour market initiatives targeting refugees. Drawing on interviews with the refugees themselves, it offers a nuanced analysis of how the institutions of integration operate on a daily basis, and the effects they have on the lives of those who take part in them. The authorsΓÇÖ comparative approach highlights the particularities of each refugee movement while also revealing developments and persistent issues within institutions of integration in the intervening years between the Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Syrian conflicts.Its conclusion, which situates the Swedish case within the broader European context, demonstrates the wider significance of this timely study. It will provide a valuable resource for policymakers in addition to students and scholars of migration studies, social policy, and public policy and business administration.

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