Emigration category: 2215 books
by Tracey Barnett
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
‘This eloquent and passionate work documents how we have strayed from a humane policy towards asylum seekers, following the same sad and discredited path as Australia.’ Joris de Bres, Race Relations Commissioner 2002-2013Why would a country that has never had a boatload of asylum arrivals in modern...
Quarantined
Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life. But for many, the sense of hope that had sustained them through rough sea voyages came to an abrupt halt as soon as they reached land. Quarantined is the heart-wrenching true story of the thousands...
Les Écossais
The Pioneer Scots of Lower Canada, 1763-1855
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2006
This is the first fully documented account, produced in modern times, of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada. Scots were in the forefront of the early influx of British settlers, which began in the late eighteenth century. John Nairne and Malcolm Fraser were two of the first Highlanders to make...
Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants
A Fish and Timber Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
First in a trilogy on Irish immigration to Canada
Debunks the popular opinion that the potato famine was the formative event in Irish settlement in North America
A definitive study, which includes all known passenger lists from the period
Extensively illustrated, with numerous maps revealing Irish settlement...
Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed
Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots They Carried to Canada, 1774-1855
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2002
The days when Aberdeen’s "fast sailing and copper-bottomed" ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are brought to life in this fascinating account of the northern Scotland exodus during the sailing ship era. Taking readers through new and little-used documentary sources, Lucille H. Campey...
The Famine Ships
The Irish Exodus to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Between 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people--the potato famine emigrants--sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among...
Orangutan
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Few people who have been slave to an addiction as vicious, as destructive, and as unrelenting as Colin Broderick's have lived to tell their tale. Fewer still have emerged from the darkest depths of alcoholism—from the perpetual fistfights and muggings, car crashes and blackouts—to tell the harrowing...
by David V.C Browne
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the immediate post Emancipation period, and continuing into the early twentieth century, there was little tolerance and outright opposition to any enfranchisement of the black and coloured working class population in Barbados. David Browne, in examining the struggles of the black working class...
Disturbed in Their Nests
A Journey from Sudan's Dinkaland to San Diego's City Heights
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Nineteen-year-old refugee Alephonsion Deng, from war-ravaged Sudan, had great expectations when he arrived in America three weeks before two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers. Money, he'd been told, was given to you in pillows. Machines did all the work. Education was free.
Suburban...
by Halina Ogonowska-Coates
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A piecing together of a Polish child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand.*'As a child I loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I wondered what...
Forest Gate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London -- beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth.
In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top...
by Steve Moxon
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Outlines the events that led to the decision that the author could no longer participate in a policy that appeared to be at odds with the intentions of Parliament. This book includes an analysis of the relevant scholarly literature in demography, economics and psychology.
The Chinese in America
A Narrative History
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success. She chronicles the many accomplishments...
Mexifornia
A State of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Victor Davis Hanson locates the cause of our immigration quagmire in the opportunistic coalition that stymies immigration reform and, even worse, stifles any honest discussion of the present crisis. Conservative corporations, contractors and agribusiness demand cheap wage labor from Mexico, whatever...