{"product_id":"immigrant-voices-new-lives-in-america-17732000-9780252038396","title":"Immigrant Voices  New Lives in America 17732000","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes chapters that offer a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the US - Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Clearly aimed at the undergraduate student and the general reader, \u003ci\u003eImmigrant Voices\u003c\/i\u003e provides immigrant accounts of their experiences. . . . The selections, which vary in form from letters, to memoirs, to diary entries, to oral histories, illustrate both the push factors of native lands as well as the pull factors of the United States. A reader vicariously feels the emotional cost of leaving home, the trials of steerage passage, the draw of American jobs and freedom, the sting of nativism, the clash between vision and reality, in short, the immigrant experience.\"--\u003ci\u003eLabor Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume will continue to provide students of American immigration with a rich repository of testimonies that reflect both of the commonalities among immigrant experiences, and the particularities produced by differences of race, class, gender, legal status, and historical context.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036824109399,"sku":"9780252038396","price":87.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252038396.jpg?v=1750932670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/immigrant-voices-new-lives-in-america-17732000-9780252038396","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}