Emigration category: 2215 books
Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist
A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An absorbing and touching read, this collection of true stories is the first book by a Canadian doctor on the topic of refugee health.
Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees.
An...
Flight and Freedom
Stories of Escape to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a safe haven for refugees or a closed door?
In Flight and...
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
Korean Military Brides in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association...
Americans at the Gate
The United States and Refugees during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents...
by Kooshyar Karimi
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an award-winning translator. Until he was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service.
Behind his professional success, Kooshyar was a rebel on several fronts. Marginalised since boyhood as a Jew in a fundamentalist Islamic state,...
Americans in Waiting
The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over...
by Craig David
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Some fled to Nova Scotia...
Storming the Wall
Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Immigration and borders continues to be a major issue in the national and international news cycle and Todd Miller's print history ranging from his feature in the New York Times Magazine to Border Patrol Nation position him to address this. As people are displaced from the coast, they being to "challenge"...
Becoming Dr. Q
My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir,...
by Alistair Moffat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland...
by Andrew Fiu
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
An affecting, insightful and warm memoir of growing up Samoan in New Zealand - and of coping with heart disease. Andrew Fiu came to Ponsonby, Auckland as a three-year-old, part of the wave of immigration from Samoa that turned Auckland's inner city suburbs into a vibrant cultural melting pot. At 14...
Dying to Cross
The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
On May 14, 2003, a familiar risk-filled journey, taken by hopeful Mexican immigrants attempting to illegally cross into the United States, took a tragic turn. Inside a sweltering truck abandoned in Texas, authorities found at least 74 people packed into a "human heap of desperation." After...
by Christopher McNary, Maria Paniagua
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
What were talking about here isnt seen much in tourist zones like Puerto Vallarta or Cancun. Its not what youd expect in Mexico City either, where gay marriage and adoption were sanctioned in 2010. But theses two stories are all too real and common, adapted from asylum testimonies given by men born and...
The Southern Diaspora
How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white migrants, James Gregory traces their paths and experiences in a comprehensive new study that demonstrates how this regional diaspora reshaped America...