Migration, immigration and emigration Books
Random House USA Inc Outcasts United
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WW Norton & Co New York
Book SynopsisThe definitive pictorial history of the diverse peoples of the world who have made New York their home.
£42.74
WW Norton & Co Tears of Salt A Doctors Story of the Refugee
Book Synopsis"This is a personal, urgent, and universal book." —Gloria SteinemTrade Review"Tears of Salt is a tender personal memoir.… It is also a damning indictment of the broader, collective indifference of humankind to both the drowned and the saved." -- Philip Gourevitch"A work not to be missed.… [Bartolo] limns his narrative with great compassion and humanity." -- Marjorie Kehe - Christian Science Monitor"Heart-wrenching and relevant." -- Marion Winik - Minneapolis Star Tribune"Poignant." -- Uzodinma Iweala - New York Times Book Review"Through Dr. Bartolo we understand that it is impossible to do nothing in the face of such great human need." -- Vanity Fair"Equal parts memoir, celebration of [Lampedusa] and report from the front. Above all, though, it is a plea for compassion." -- Edward Morris - BookPage"At a time when our broken world seems to be encouraging, and lauding, the worst of humanity, along comes the remarkable Dr. Bartolo to show us what courage, integrity, and compassion look like. His life is a manual of what it means to be human." -- Rabih Alameddine"Tears of Salt…reveals the human side of suffering through the life of one man." -- Adele Annesi - Washington Independent Review of Books"Dr. Bartolo’s spare, poignant, angry account of his life as doctor to the refugees arriving on the shores of Italy is an unusual and important addition to the growing literature of migration. Anyone wanting to understand the disaster of what is happening around us should read this book." -- Caroline Moorehead
£12.99
Thames & Hudson Ltd The Irish Diaspora Tales of Emigration Exile and
Book SynopsisExplores the lives of over forty men and women – great and otherwise – whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history.Trade Review'This fascinating assortment of case histories, spread across 1,400 years and six continents, is an impressive feat of research. All of the chapters are based on a solid body of up-to-date historical writing. The summaries of often-complex historical background to the lives explored are models of lucid compression. The short biographies themselves are lively yet judicious, packed with vivid detail but willing, where necessary, to question or dismiss colourful legend. And the reader will come away with a new sense of the many ways in which Ireland has interacted with the world beyond its shores, and of some of the extraordinary careers that have resulted' - BBC HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction – Emerald Exodus • Columbanus & the Merovingian Kings • Virgilius of Salzburg • The Carolingian Irish • Brendan the Navigator & The Monks of Iceland • Helias of Cologne • Jacobo of Ireland & the Mongol Empire • Luke Wadding & The Vatican Elite • Don Guillén - The Original Zorro • Lord Bellomont's Piratical Venture • George Berkeley – The ‘Irish Plato’ & Bermuda College • Richard Brew - Slave Trader • The Abbé de Firmont • Hercules Mulligan - Washington's Spy • James Hoban - Architect of the White House • General Gough - Conqueror of the Punjab • Pat Watkins – Crusoe of the Galápagos • Chile's Irish Patriots • John Field – A Muscovy Nocturne • Frederick Young - Father of the Gurkhas • Dr James Barry - Caesarean Pioneer • The Texan Revolution • Sir George Gore - Buffalo Slayer • Margaret of New Orleans • Children of the Famine • Little Al Cashier • Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Father of The Canadian Confederation • The Railroad Men • Eliza Lynch - First Lady of Paraguay • John Philip Holland - Father of The Submarine • Nellie Cashman - The Angel of the Wild West • The Grace Brothers' Conquest of Peru • Annie Moore - The First Emigrant Through Ellis Island • Margaretta Eagar – The Last Tsar’s Governess • The Moore Brothers - Hollywood Stars • Louis Brennan - The Wizard of Oz • Violet Gibson – Killing Mussolini • Don Patricio O'Connell – Barça’s Saviour • Lord Haw-Haw - The Voice of Nazi Germany • Brendan Bracken - Churchill's Spin Doctor • Patrick Gallagher - Vietnam Hero • The Irish in the White House • Epilogue – Reflections on Irish Identity
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Random House USA Inc Call Me American A Memoir
Book SynopsisAbdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. Desperate to make a living, Abdi used his language skills to post secret dispatches, which found an audience of worldwide listeners. Eventually, though, Abdi was forced to flee to Kenya. In an amazing stroke of luck, Abdi won entrance to the U.S. in the annual visa lottery, though his route to America did not come easily. Parts of his story were first heard on the BBC World Service and This American Life. Now a
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Vintage Espanol Stranger Spanish Edition Stranger The Challenge
Book Synopsis“Hay veces en que me siento como un extraño en el país donde he pasado más de la mitad de mi vida. No es por falta de oportunidades, ni una queja. Es, más bien, una especie de desilusión. Jamás me imaginé que después de 35 años en Estados Unidos iba a seguir siendo un stranger para muchos. Pero eso soy.” Jorge Ramos, periodista galardonado con premios Emmy, reconocido presentador del Noticiero Univisión y considerado “la voz de los sin voz” de la comunidad latina, fue expulsado de una rueda de prensa del candidato presidencial Donald Trump en Iowa en el año 2015 tras cuestionar sus planes sobre inmigración. En este manifiesto personal, Ramos explora qué significa ser un inmigrante latino, o simplemente un inmigrante, en los Estados Unidos de nuestros días. Mediante datos y estadísticas, su olfato para encontrar historias y su pro
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Random House USA Inc Stranger
Book Synopsis“There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many. But that’s how it is”. Jorge Ramos, an Emmy award-winning journalist, Univision’s longtime anchorman and widely considered the “voice of the voiceless” within the Latino community, was forcefully removed from an Iowa press conference in 2015 by then-candidate Donald Trump after trying to ask about his plans on immigration. In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current research and statistics, with a journalist’s nose for a story, and interweaving his own personal experience, Ramos shows us the changing face of America
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Random House USA Inc A Beginners Guide to America
Book SynopsisA stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of human beings endure when they uproot their lives to become Americans by choice (The Boston Globe).Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a guide for the newly arrived, and providing practical information and advice, Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as
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Vintage Espanol App Kid Spanish Edition
Book SynopsisEsta es la historia de Michael Sayman, quien a sus trece años creó una empresa de desarrollo de aplicaciones iOS que llamó la atención de Mark Zuckerberg. Desde entonces, ha trabajado para Facebook, Google y, actualmente, para Roblox, la conocida empresa de juegos virtuales. Emprendedor por naturaleza e hijo de inmigrantes hispanos, Michael luchó desde niño por encontrar su lugar en el mundo. En App Kid, nos cuenta cómo, a raíz del colapso del negocio familiar que llevaban sus padres, aprendió a programar por sí mismo, lanzando una aplicación para iPhone que llegó a recaudar miles de dólares al mes, lo suficiente para mantener a flote a su familia. Entrado en la adolescencia, nos comparte la increíble experiencia que vivió al pasar de la escuela secundaria directamente al mundo profesional, entrando a trabajar en Facebook como su empleado más joven
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Vintage Espanol Patrias Cuatro amigos dos países y el destino de
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Random House USA Inc HomeLand
Book SynopsisA moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land—this is a “winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of unknowns accrue into a life” (Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror).When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she’d given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself?In a deft mix of memoir and reportage, drawing on literature and
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Penguin Young Readers La cosecha del imperio. Historia de los latinos
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves One Family and
Book SynopsisOne of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the YearA remarkable book...indispensable.--The Boston GlobeA sweeping, deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and nuanced.--The New York TimesThis is epic reporting, nonfiction on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration written in a generation.--Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedThe definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the defining chronicle of a new age--the age of global migration. In a monumental
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Irish Academic Press Ltd Welcoming the Stranger Irish Migrant Welfare in
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Vintage Canada Maximum Canada Toward a Country of 100 Million
Book SynopsisTo face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many? Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. That wasn’t by accident. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated this country, attracting few of the people and building few of the institutions needed to sustain a sovereign nation. In fact, during most years before 1967, a greater number of people fled Canada than immigrated to it. Canada’s growth has faltered and left us underpopulated ever since. At Canada’s 150th anniversary, a more open, pluralist and international vision has largely overturned that colonial mindset and become consensus across the country and its major political parties. But that consensus is ever fragile. Our small population continues to hamper our competitive clout, our ability to act independently in a
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Arcadia Publishing German Settlers of South Bend Voices of America
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. Nothing But the Truth
Book SynopsisINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A critically acclaimed, intimate and no-holds-barred memoir by Canada’s top defence lawyer, Nothing But the Truth weaves Marie Henein’s personal story with her strongly held views on society’s most pressing issues.Marie Henein, arguably the most prominent lawyer in the country, has written a memoir that is at once raw, beautiful, and altogether unforgettable. Her story, as an immigrant from a tight-knit Egyptian-Lebanese family, demonstrates the value of strong role models—from her mother and grandmother, to her brilliant uncle Sami who died of AIDS. She learned the value of hard work, being true to herself and others, and unapologetically owning it all. Marie Henein shares here her unvarnished view on the ethical and practical implications of being a criminal lawyer, and how the job is misunderstood and even demonized. Ironically, her most successful cases
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Beacon Press Parenting with an Accent
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Sarton Award for NonfictionMerging real stories with research and on-the-ground reporting, an award-winning journalist and immigrant explores multicultural parenting and identity in the USThrough her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country.With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. Sh
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Beacon Press Parenting with an Accent
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Sarton Award for NonfictionMerging real stories with research and on-the-ground reporting, an award-winning journalist and immigrant explores multicultural parenting and identity in the USThrough her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country.With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. Sh
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Random House USA Inc Futureface
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£15.30
The University Press of Kentucky The Mentelles
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£34.80
The Catholic University of America Press Refuge in the Lord Catholics Presidents and the
Book SynopsisWhen Ronald Reagan became president in 1981, immigration and refugee policy was among the unresolved matters that he inherited from his predecessor, Jimmy Carter. Over three decades later, it remains largely unresolved, due not only to the men who would inhabit the White House, but to interest groups and members of Congress, many of them Catholic, on all sides of the issue.
£33.20
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. On a Collision Course The Dawn of Japanese
Book SynopsisIn five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective. This translated volume brings a transnational perspective to this critical chapter of early Japanese American history.Trade Review“Professor Sakata’s pioneering archival work and scholarship anticipated the transnational turn in United States immigration and ethnic history while also challenging perspectives in Japanese studies. In particular, his broad and deep knowledge of both English and Japanese language sources informs these original and important essays on early Japanese migration that will be of interest to a wide range of scholars across multiple fields and areas of study.” —David K. Yoo, vice provost and professor, UCLA“At last, On a Collision Course provides English-speaking readers with invaluable access to the scholarship of Yasuo Sakata, arguably one of the foremost trailblazers in Japanese American studies. Superbly translated, the volume highlights the contemporary relevance of Sakata’s works published in Japan over a quarter of a century ago. While based on impeccable empirical research, the selected essays offer an in-depth look at how the early Japanese immigrant experience unfolded in the intertwined contexts of US-Japan diplomacy and the local race politics of the American West. Still with ample power to inspire, Sakata’s studies represent migration history writing at its best and are a must-read for anyone interested in transpacific working-class migration and Japanese American history.” —Eiichiro Azuma, associate professor of history and Asian American studies, University of Pennsylvania“Yasuo Sakata in On a Collision Course lays out the challenges of researching the Japanese American history: the massive loss of historical archives during the 1906 San Francisco Great Fire and the 1942–5 internment; and the commonplace practice of secondhand citations and historical distortions in the Nikkei communities’ publications in early decades. How could one overcome these problems, if at all? This is a must-read text for those who seek an answer to this question.” —Yuma Totani, professor of history, University of Hawaii, and author of The Tokyo War Crimes Trial “This is an exceptionally erudite and timely publication of Yasuo Sakata’s historical studies of migration between Japan and the United States during the Meiji era. Sakata’s research amounts to essential reading on the place of Issei labor and patterns of mobility caught between the expansionist and exclusionist policies of two rising world powers. Appearing for the first time in English translation, with a preface by Kaoru Ueda and critical introduction by Masako Iino, it provides nuanced, multilayered analyses of the archives on both sides of the Pacific instrumental for restoring this vital transnational history.” —Seth Jacobowitz, assistant professor of East Asian languages and literatures, Yale University, and author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan“Yasuo Sakata was a pioneer, approaching early Japanese American studies as a field deserving of scholarly attention from both sides of the Pacific. His insistence on the need for bilingual facility and reliance on trustworthy historical documents and archives was only rarely possible, but it will continue to be a beacon and vision for aspiring scholars in the field. This translated volume is most welcome; it is a major contribution.” —Franklin Odo, John J McCloy Visiting Professor of American Institutions and International Diplomacy, Amherst College“Revisiting pioneers’ works always results in ‘new’ findings, perspectives, and surprises. This translated collection of essays written by a pioneer scholar of Japanese American history, Yasuo Sakata, shows us the significance of how historians decipher primary sources, master the languages of research, and pay attention to both micro- and macroperspectives. Scholars who are interested in US-Japan history, immigration history, and Japanese American studies will benefit from reading his valuable essays for better understanding the development of historical research on Japanese immigrants and their descendants in the United States.” —Mariko Iijima, Associate Professor, Sophia University
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Mexicans in Wisconsin People of Wisconsin
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Georgetown University Press Public Opinion and the Political Future of the
Book SynopsisExamines the opinions of average Americans about Washington, DC, in order to understand how many Americans are likely to approach the question of what reforms are needed. This book explores the political, economic, and social conditions of the District, providing an informed context for understanding and evaluating its political options.
£48.00
Academy Chicago Publishers When the Diamonds Were Gone
Book SynopsisAfter a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian's beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to write a memoir and regain her former social position. Julian just wants to fit his war-damaged psyche into the American way of life.
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Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, Subs of University of California - San Diego Four Generations of Nortenos New Research from
Book SynopsisDrawing on decades of fieldwork in a high-emigration town in central Mexico, as well as nearly a thousand interviews, this title investigates who migrates, how people-smuggling operates, whether border enforcement affects decisions to migrate, and migration's impact on family, health, and hometown economy.Table of ContentsThe Dynamics of Migration: Who Migrates? Who Stays? Who Settles Abroad? - J. Jarvis, A. Ponce, S. Rodriguez, and L. Cajigal Garcia. Is US Border Enforcement Working? - J. Sisco and J. Hicken. Coyotaje: The Structure and Functioning of the People-Smuggling Industry - J. Fuentes and O. Garcia. Jumping the Legal Hurdles: Getting Visas, Green Cards, and U.S. Citizenship - L. Vazquez, M. Luna Gomez, E. Law, and K. Valentine. Development in a Remittance Economy: What Options Are Viable? - P. Nichols, A. Macias Macias, E. Diaz, and A. Frenkel. Outsiders in Their Own Hometown? The Process of Dissimilation - J. Serrano, K. Dodge, G. Hernandez, and E. Valencia. Families in Transition: Migration and Gender Dynamics in Sending and Receiving Communities - L. Muse-Orlinoff, J. Cordova, L. Angulo, M. Kanungo, and R. Rodriguez. The Migrant Health Paradox Revisited - E. Oristian, P. Sweeney, V. Puentes, J. Jimenez, and M. Ruiz.
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Baraka Books SaintLaurent Montreals Main
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St Martin's Press You Sound Like a White Girl
Book SynopsisAN INDIE BESTSELLERMost Anticipated by ELLE Bustle Bloomberg Kirkus HipLatina SheReads BookPage The Millions The Mujerista Ms. Magazine and moreUnflinching Ms. Magazine Phenomenal BookRiot An essential read Kirkus, starred review Necessary Library Journal Powerful Joaquin Castro Illuminating Reyna Grande A love letter to our people José Olivarez I have been waiting for this book all my life Paul OrtizBestselling author Julissa Arce calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans in this powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants.You sound like a white girl. These were the woTrade Review"Now, Arce has come out with another volume that examines the costs of that success. In a careful, forcefully argued polemic, she picks apart the myth of American assimilation. No matter how much she effaced her Mexican background, Arce argues, she still didn't have a White person's privileges ." --Bloomberg "This is an important book that challenges the idea of American exceptionalism with equal parts passion, fury, intimacy, and ignored history. Arce celebrates the Mexican American immigrant experience in all its vibrancy and nuance while fearlessly naming the pain inflicted by American racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia. An essential read to better understand America and its immigrant stories." --Kirkus, starred review "With bold, clear writing, Arce calls for immigrants and communities of color to reject assimilation, turn away from the white gaze and embrace their unique cultures, histories and identities, which deserve celebration. This book is a confident step forward for Arce as a writer and public thinker." --BookPage, "2022 Preview: Most Anticipated Nonfiction" "I'm so glad Arce wrote about this important topic, and how we should resist the insidious ways colonialism affects the world." --Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, The Meteor "A necessary counterpoint to the narrative of the American dream." --Library Journal "Examines the damage caused by America's push for assimilation, breaking down the myth that newcomers must abandon their culture to achieve a sense of belonging." --ELLE "In this unflinching book, Julissa Arce guts the idea that to live in America means immigrants must abandon their own histories, cultures and languages and assimilate to dominant norms." --Ms. Magazine "You should read You Sound Like a White Girl by Julissa Arce...In this phenomenal book, Arce argues against pressures for Latine people and other BIPOC to assimilate into white culture." --BookRiot "A narrative that questions and dismantles the idea that assimilation will lead to belonging, success, and acceptance in America for citizens of color (and specifically immigrants)" --The Millions "By centering Latinx history and culture, memoirist and cultural critic Julissa Arce boldly challenges narrow notions of American identity." --Kelly Blewett, BookPage "Rather than attempt to become unaccented, English-speaking Americans, Arce argues, Latinx immigrants should endeavor to maintain their language, culture, food, and other traditions on U.S. soil." --Bustle, The Most Anticipated Books of March 2022 "Arce unapologetically challenges the age-old notion that America is stronger when it's newest immigrants relinquish their culture, language and identity by merging to whiteness. This book spares no one and nothing in uncovering the cultural and societal forces that convince many young people longing for acceptance in America that their skin is too dark to be beautiful, their English too accented and their customs too ethnic to be truly American. Ultimately, You Sound Like A White Girl is a powerful call for and celebration of self-acceptance. If you could take Rodolfo Gonzales epic poem 'I Am Joaquin' and explain it through compelling, personal narrative in twenty-first century America, You Sound Like A White Girl would be it." -- Joaquin Castro "Illuminating. You Sound Like a White Girl debunks age-old historical myths and instead offers us forgotten truths that will help us make sense of our country today. You will not think the same after reading this book." -- Reyna Grande, award-winning author of The Distance Between Us "A love letter to our people--full of fury and passion. You Sound Like a White Girl tells us about who we are, where we came from, and most importantly, helps us imagine a future where we can live in all our beauty and power." -- Jose Olivarez, award-winning poet and author of Citizen Illegal "I have been waiting for this book all my life. Julissa Arce brilliantly dismantles the idea that we must reject our languages, our histories, and the teachings of our elders to fit into a flawed society. Arce asks us to draw on our ancestors' wisdom as well as our own experiences to rebuild this society on the foundations of self-respect, mutuality, and care for others. She convincingly demonstrates that a nation humbled by the global pandemic can be reinvigorated by the courage and compassion of immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean." -- Paul Ortiz, award-winning author of An African American and Latinx History of the United States "To so many immigrants throughout history, including many in my own Mexican American community, assimilation has meant repressing or abandoning their languages and cultures to fit in. In You Sound Like a White Girl, Julissa Arce challenges that notion with a clear eye and exacting rebuke, urging us to recognize and cherish the traditions and cultures that immigrants have contributed to our nation." -- Julian Castro, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary
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Nolo U.S. Immigration Made Easy
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£40.49
Heinemann Library, Div of Reed Elsevier Hot Topics Immigration
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£10.40
Guilford Publications The Age of Migration International Population
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£56.05
Arcadia Publishing Kings Park Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Chaldean Iraqi American Association of Michigan
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing Mexican Americans in Torrance Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Around Bethany Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing Irish Iowa
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History Press On a Wisconsin Family Farm
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£20.39
History Press Irish Immigrants in Michigan A History in Stories
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History Press Italians of the North End
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£21.24
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Detention Empire Reagans War on Immigrants and
Book SynopsisUsing newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurgency at the intersections of US war-making and domestic carceral trends. Drawing on refugee studies, community archives, protest artifacts, and oral histories, this book also shows how migrants resisted state repression.
£25.46
Bloomsbury Continuum The Strange Death of Europe
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Cornell University Press Voices from the Soviet Edge
Book SynopsisJeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and others who arrived toward the end of the Soviet era, seeking opportunity at the privileged heart of the USSR. Through the extensive oral histories Sahadeo has collected, he shows how the energy of these migrants, denigrated as Blacks by some Russians, transformed their families'' lives and created inter-republican networks, altering society and community in both the center and the periphery of life in the two capitals.Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities. In examining Soviet concepts such as friendship of peoples alongside ethnic and national differences, Sahadeo shows how those ideas became racialized but could also be deployed to advance migranTrade ReviewThe study is well documented and includes an appendix of the interviews. The book is recommended for all university levels. * Choice *Jeff Sahadeo's critically important study brings to life the experiences of a diverse array of migrants to Moscow and Leningrad from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Asian Russia that challenge us to rethink late Soviet society as a society on the move. -- Meredith L. Roman, The College at Brockport (SUNY) * H-Russia *Jeff Sahadeo's critically important study brings to life the experiences of a diverse array of migrants to Moscow and Leningrad from the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Asian Russia that challenge us to rethink late Soviet society as a society on the move...Sahadeo however rightfully cautions us against dismissing these memories simply as the products of nostalgia. He highlights how the consistent themes that migrants raised in their life narratives—many of which he beautifully weaves throughout the book's seven chapters—provide a window into complex late Soviet realities. -- Meredith L. Roman, The College at Brockport (SUNY) * H- Net (H-Diplo) *Jeff Sahadeo's book Voices from the Soviet Edge provides a remarkable and empathic portrait of migrant life stories in the late Soviet Union and illustrates the highly mobile nature of the Soviet Union... the book is not only a profound contribution to historical scholarship that challenges the interpretation of the late Soviet era as purely stagnating by highlighting societal dynamism. It is also an insightful work for migration scholars that focus on the post-Soviet migration regime, providing them with a rich historical context of contemporary mobility flows. * Eurasian Geography & Economics *In virtually every chapter of the book, Sahadeo engages with theoretical and comparative literature on postcolonial migration and race. In addition, Sahadeo's oral history methodology offers a welcome corrective to state-centered views of Soviet society. Exploring these crucial themes through individuals' stories, Voices from the Soviet Edge should find a wide readership among historians, anthropologists, and other students of Soviet and post-Soviet societies. * Journal of Modern History *Voices from the Soviet Edge is carefully organized to balance the goals of providing historical and comparative context and allowing the migrants' voices to be heard. It is well-written throughout. I highly recommend Voices from the Soviet Edge for all who are interested in the Soviet Union. It is indeed a major contribution to rethinking the "nature" of that simultaneously familiar and strange world. * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *
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Fulcrum Inc.,US Boxing for Cuba: An Immigrant's Story
Book SynopsisIn 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.Trade Review"I really enjoyed it." —President Bill Clinton "The book is lovely, beautifully written and so evocative of a time and place." —Anna Quindlen "Growing up in a wealthy, privileged family in Havana in the 1950s, Guillermo seemed to lead an idyllic life, but, in fact, he and his brothers lay awake for hours as their parents raged at each other long into the night. Then Castro came to power, and, in 1961, Guillermo's parents sent the boys to the U.S. with more than 14,000 other Cuban children on Operation Peter Pan. When relatives in Miami failed to meet the Vidal brothers, they found themselves in an orphanage in Denver, where they suffered brutal abuse. After many years, their parents joined them; Vidal grew up to be mayor of Denver, and today he is a Hispanic business leader. Cuban Americans will certainly take pride in the successful immigrant story here, but the candor of the personal drama at home gives the book added depth and resonance. Paralleling the broader context of political uproar in Cuba and the missile crisis are the raging battles between the parents, from which there wasno escape." --Booklist
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Orbis Books (USA) Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on
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University of New Orleans Press Towards the American Century: Austrians in the
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£31.46
University of New Orleans Press Coping with Discrimination and Exclusion:
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