Emigration category: 2215 books
The Barbarous Years
The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**
The immigrants...
Weapons of Mass Migration
Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common....
A Chinaman's Chance
One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed...
The Morality of China in Africa
The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa. The book starts with an excellent introductory essay from Stephen Chan, written in his usual elegant...
The Butterfly's Way
Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future—the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Their dyaspora, much like a butterfly's fluctuating path, is a shifting landscape in...
God Grew Tired of Us
The Heartbreaking, Inspiring Story of a Lost Boy of Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau’s harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in an award-winning documentary film of the same name. Movingly written, the book traces Dau’s...
The Lost Boys of Sudan
An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravaged Sudan...
by Kimball Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
For readers of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross.
It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across...
The Dangerous Divide
Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How do we balance border security and America’s need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America’s legendary Southwest into a frontier...
The Happiness of Blond People
A Personal Meditation on the Dangers of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Elif Shafak's examination of national identity.
"You know, I never understand. How come their children are so quiet and well disciplined?"
"Yeah,"...
The Far Away Brothers
Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California—fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.
“Impeccably timed, intimately reported, and beautifully expressed.”—The New York Times
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST...
America Classifies the Immigrants
From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet consequential—were...
Just Like Us
The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just Like Us is their story.
A stunning work of in-depth journalism in the tradition of...
by Jimmy Breslin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez is a towering achievement by one of America’s most respected journalists. A work of conscience that travels from San Matías Cuatchatyotla, a small, dusty town in central Mexico, to the cold and wet streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this searing exposé...