Emigration category: 2215 books
Maximum Canada
Toward a Country of 100 Million
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
To 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...
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life
In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and...
by Soledad O'Brien, Rose Marie Arce
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The definitive tie-in to the CNN documentary series Latino in America, from former top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien.
Following the smash-hit CNN documentary Black in America, Latino in America travels to small towns and big cities to illustrate how distinctly Latino...
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860
Reading the Stranger
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how, in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and...
Comes the Millennium: It's Still Tough to Be Jewish!
100 Years in the Life of an Immigrant Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
The stories begin over 100 years ago in Sokolka, Poland, when my father escaped via an underground route, from his forced conscription into the Czar's Russian Army. The stories continue through the ensuing decades after he immigrated to America. The anecdotes describe how the family coped with the...
As She Began
An Illustrated Introduction to Loyalist Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
As She Began, an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to tAhe most crucial period in Ontario's history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American Revolution streamed into the land between the lakes, giving Ontario its geographic shape and political...
The Myth of the Muslim Tide
Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values.
Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society and...
The Last Christians
Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.
Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year Award
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award
Finalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book Award
Inside...
by Jeff Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Finally back in print after more than twelve years, this is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand – including lists of the waka, names of crew members and vessels, karakia and waiata, and maps. A must for lovers of history, students of Maori and nautical enthusiasts.
Sixty Miles of Border
An American Lawman Battles Drugs on the Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
*The border between the United States and Mexico is a no-man’s land. Drugs, guns, and human beings are the cargo of choice in a multi-billion dollar illegal empire dominated by powerful cartels, murderous street gangs, and corrupt government officials. *
Against them stand the Special Agents of...
Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians
History, Politics, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians in their day-to-day roles as writers, intellectuals,...
The Lucky Ones
One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a “terrifically readable, compelling” look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience (Publishers Weekly).
In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself...
Chow Chop Suey
Food and the Chinese American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white...
Great Fortune Dream
The Struggles and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-19966
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
In 1858, gold was discovered in the Fraser River. News of this discovery travelled to the Pearl River Delta, where, in the aftermath of the Opium Wars, many Chinese sought to escape the poverty, overcrowding, political unrest and even slavery—invaders from western Asia captured and shipped many...