Emigration category: 2215 books
Hard Line
Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become deadly as illegal immigration has shifted into some of the harshest territory on the continent,...
by Sam Quinones
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A cult classic of a book from Mexico’s vital margins – stories of drag queens and Oaxacan Indian basketball players, popsicle makers and telenovela stars, migrants, farm workers, a slum boss, and a doomed tough guy.Sam Quinones - one of the great contemporary reporters out of Mexico, the border,...
When I Wear My Alligator Boots
Narco-Culture in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
When I Wear My Alligator Boots examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narcotrafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border. In particular, the book explores a crucial tension at the heart of the "war on drugs": despite the violence and suffering brought...
Talk Pidgin; Speak English: Go Local; Go American
The Japanese Immigrant Experience in Spreckelsville, Maui
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Deeply traditional in their thinking but inherently pragmatic by nature, Japanese immigrants in Hawaii were driven by conviction to unite under the mantra, "For the Sake of the Children!" to commit to raising their island-born children as full-fledged Americans irrevocably committed to America's highest ideals.
His Panic
Why Americans Fear Hispanics in The U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
An account of the Hispanic population’s growth and the changing face of America from world-renowned journalist Geraldo Rivera—now updated with a new Foreword.
Since his infamous confrontation with Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor, Emmy® award winner Geraldo Rivera has examined...
A Country for All
An Immigrant Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
For decades, fixing the United States’ broken immigration system has been one of the most urgent challenges facing our country, and time and time again, politicians have passed the buck. With anti-immigrant sentiment rising around the country, and presidential elections on the horizon, it’s no...
Illegal People
How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin America and Asia, driving them to migrate. At the...
The Right to Stay Home
How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States
People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely...
Seeking Refuge
Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and...
Ex Mex
From Migrants to Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
From the massive nationwide rally in support of immigrant rights in May 2006 to protests against the increasingly frequent immigration raids across the country, the public debate on immigration reform has largely centered on Mexican immigrants. Yet, in the United States, we rarely hear the Mexican...
To Sin Against Hope
Life and Politics on the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Alfredo Gutierrez’s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown—the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is both a personal chronicle and...
The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars: Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security, 2nd Edition
Drugs, Immigration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
The U.S.-Mexico border remains a hot topic in the news—and a contentious one. This second edition of a popular work brings readers up to date on what is really going on at the U.S.-Mexico border and why. The book offers a detailed, history-based examination of the evolution of current conditions...
Living "Illegal"
The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A myth-busting account of the tragedies, trials, and successes of undocumented immigration in the United States.
For decades now, America’s polarizing debate over immigration revolved around a set of one-dimensional characters and unchallenged stereotypes. The resulting policies—from the...
The Making of a Dream
How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights—the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society’s attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America...