Emigration category: 2215 books
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence
Immigration to Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Steven Capsuto
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
WITH MORE THAN 50 VINTAGE PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
From the 1880s to 1920s, more than 2 million Jews immigrated to the United States. Most were fleeing poverty and persecution in Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire. As the U.S. Jewish population swelled from 250,000 to 4 million, they built...
by Gur Alroey
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Collects and analyzes letters from Jewish men and women in the early stages of migrating from Eastern Europe.
Adela Sloss-Vento
Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes...
The Deportation Regime
Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens but also the social discipline and labor subordination resulting from deportability,...
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
A Story of War and What Comes After
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not—could not—live in that tale.”**
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and...
Mafias on the Move
How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West.
As Federico Varese...
Dirty Work
Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Dirty Work explores the lives and work of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, and elsewhere to the southern Italian region of Sicily. Using extensive research, Cole and Booth focus on the experiences of foreigners employed in domestic service, prostitution, and agriculture. Investigation of these...
by Luis Urrea
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys...
The Passport in America
The History of a Document
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become...
by William Maley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond. What is a Refugee? puts these developments into historical context, injecting much-needed objectivity and nuance into contemporary debates over what is...
Threads
From the Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee drama
In the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new town, known as the Jungle, was home to thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow,...
They Never Come Back
A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience has changed significantly over the past two decades. In They Never Come Back, Frans J. Schryer draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation...
Cast Away
True Stories of Survival from Europes Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017
Galvanizing and deeply compassionate.”
-O Magazine
From Time magazine’s European Union correspondent, a powerful exploration of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, told through the stories of migrants who have...