Product Description: Governments at both ends of the migration cycle increasingly recognize the value of diasporas spontaneous engagements with their countries of origin and are seeking ways to cooperate with them. Beyond the remittances they send back to their homelands (more than USD 400 billion in 2010), diasporas are major direct investors in critical and emerging industries, known patrons of nascent tourism initiatives, and generous philanthropists...read more

Product Description: Kathleen Newland argues that the United States must abandon the Cold War underpinnings of its refugee policies and programs in favor of policies that strive to minimize the need for protection--through a policy of prevention and repatriation...read more

Product Description: Details what one of this century’s most forward-looking global thinkers foresaw with startling accuracy, including the explosion of worldwide nationalism and ethnic conflict.

Product Description: Japan's emergence as an economic superpower has cast a spotlight on its political and financial relations with the rest of the world. In this book nine scholars from Britain, the US and Japan examine aspects of Japan's international role, ranging from its bilateral relations with China and the Soviet Union, through its direct investment in the American market, to the evolution of its aid to the Third World...read more

Product Description: Book by Newland, Kathleen

Enumerating many of the forces that are dramatically altering the conditions that have traditionally determined women's destinies, Newland predicts a major departure for women from the restrictive patterns of the past