Emigration category: 2215 books

Cover of Ellis Island
by Barry Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2003

The United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island. Through Ellis Island's halls and corridors more than twelve million immigrants-of nearly every nationality and race-entered the country on their way to new...
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Lost Decency

The Untold Afghan Story

by Atta Arghandiwal
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016

Many memoirs written by exiles represent the country’s more privileged classes, those with the money and means. In Lost Decency, Atta Arghandiwal shares his and the Afghan people’s turbulent journey to escape their war-torn country. Every refugee’s story deserves to be heard, but Atta’s thrilling...
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From There to Here

16 True Tales of Immigration to Britain

by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007

We asked people from any background to send us their true personal accounts of immigration to Britain. The response was significant, and the range of entries overwhelming. Six judges - including Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty and the novelist Kate Mosse - selected the best, most illuminating...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010

I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing...
Cover of Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America
by Maria Laurino
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001

"One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco Chronicle Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity....
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Translating America

An Ethnic Press and Popular Culture, 1890-1920

by Peter Conolly-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution...
Cover of A Comprehensive Guide to the US Student Visa
by Dipak Kumar Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017

Do you want to study in America, but do not know the in and out of the US student visa procedure? Have you never faced a US visa interview or have been rejected at the visa interview? Are you tired paying a 100 USD for a half hour discussion with an Immigration Lawyer? Do...
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Manchester

The Mills and the Immigrant Experience

by Gary Samson
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000

This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were...
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Irish Blood, English Heart, Ulster Fry

Return Journeys to Ireland

by Annie Caulfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006

Annie Caulfield's early years were spent by the seaside in Ireland. However, the family shifted to Sixties London and soon she wasn't sure who she was - was she English, was she Irish, and if so, what kind of Irish? Watching the news of The Troubles, she was unable to recognise the country she'd left...
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Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling

Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution

by Paul Toohey
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

Winner of the 2014 Walkley Award for Feature Writing In That Sinking Feeling, Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance. Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats. With the help...
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Under the Same Sky

From Iran to Australia, an unforgettable story of seeking refuge, being torn apart by government detention and freed by love

by Milad Jafari, Mojgan Shamsalipoor, James Knight
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017

After fleeing their homeland, Australian refugee policies threaten to tear this young couple apart. An unforgettable story of love, hope and a quest for freedom. At seventeen, all Mojgan Shamsalipoor wanted was to be safe from physical and sexual abuse, go to school, and to eventually marry...
Cover of Confessions of a People-Smuggler
by Dawood Amiri
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

Dawood Amiri is an ethnic Hazara who, as a young man, made the fateful decision to flee the terror being inflicted on his people, and seek asylum in Australia. He arrived in Indonesia in 2010, but was eventually captured when he was about to board a boat headed for Christmas Island. After a long stint...
Cover of How the Irish Won the West
by Myles Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

From the Emerald Isle to the Wild West—true tales of the Irish who forged the American frontier in “a very enjoyable romp through the tumbleweed” (The Irish Story).   Everyone knows how the Irish came to America in the 1800s seeking a new life. But less known are the stories of the Irish immigrants...
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Miami

Turistas, colonos y aventureros en la última frontera de América Latina

by Hernán Iglesias Illa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2018

Hernán Iglesias Illa elude los lugares comunes que ubican a Miami entre la frivolidad y el anticastrismo, y brinda un retrato apasionante de una ciudad amoral y caótica en permanente metamorfosis. Palmeras, flamencos, centros comerciales y exiliados cubanos. Los lugares comunes sobre Miami...
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