Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Undocumented
A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
An undocumented immigrant’s journey from a New York City homeless shelter to the top of his Princeton class
Dan-el Padilla Peralta has lived the American dream. As a boy, he came here legally with his family. Together they left Santo Domingo behind, but life in New York City was harder than...
Humanitarian Reason
A Moral History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In the face of the world’s disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration...
The Shadow Catcher
A U.S. Agent Infiltrates Mexico's Deadly Crime Cartels
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Living under an assumed identity and risking his life were all in a day’s work for U.S. Government Agent Hipolito Acosta. He worked regularly in high-stakes undercover operations infiltrating Mexico’s murderous immigrant smuggling rings and drug cartels.
Acosta’s investigations are legendary,...
The Land of Open Graves
Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as...
While Europe Slept
How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another “Weimar moment.” Will Europeans rise to the challenge...
Border Crosser
One Gringo's Illicit Passage from Mexico into America
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Johnny Rico is back. After risking his life as an Afghanistan stop-loss soldier, an experience he described in the cult phenomenonBlood Makes the Grass Grow Green*,* he now dares to embed himself on both sides of America’s most dangerous domestic conflict–the war for and against illegal immigration–in...
by Arlene Chan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
The Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life. The late Jean Lumb received the Order of Canada, among other awards, for her role in changing Canada’s immigration laws that separated Chinese families, and for her contribution...
I've Been Meaning to Tell You
A Letter To My Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat
For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy.
I can glimpse,...
by Hymie Zawatzky
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Australia, Living in Australia, Guide to living in Australia.Australia is a country superbly organised to assist new immigrants and overseas business people wanting to relocate their business and staff to Australia. Before taking that huge step you need to know what to look for and where to find it....
by Dawood Amiri
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Dawood Amiri is an ethnic Hazara who, as a young man, made the fateful decision to flee the terror being inflicted on his people, and seek asylum in Australia. He arrived in Indonesia in 2010, but was eventually captured when he was about to board a boat headed for Christmas Island. After a long stint...
Nine Irish Lives
The Thinkers, Fighters, and Artists Who Helped Build America
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**“These are not just nine Irish lives but nine extraordinary lives, their struggles universal, their causes never more important than today. As the saying goes, the best stories belong to those who can tell them. And these are well told, by some of our best storytellers.”
—Timothy Egan,...
by Barry Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Since 1776, millions of immigrants have landed at America�s shores. To this day, their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and the service trades. But within the great immigrant waves there also came plucky and talented individualists,...
Belonging
The Paradox of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for all societies. In this year’s Massey Lectures, Canada’s twenty-sixth Governor General and bestselling...
Menace in Europe
Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Old Europe’s new crisis.
Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even the police...