Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
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...
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...
Uncle Swami
South Asians in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Within hours of the attacks on the World Trade Center, misdirected assaults on Sikhs and other South Asians flared on streets across the nation, serving as harbingers of a more suspicious, less discerning, and increasingly fearful world view that would drastically change ideas of belonging and acceptance...
Canada
A Nation in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Canada a Nation in Motion is a bold look at issues facing Canada today from the perspective of a Canadian who truly understands the issues. In his special blend of analysis, humor and wit, Samy Appadurai offers up an intelligent discussion of issues ranging from the history of immigration in Canada,...
Border Patrol Nation
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
The New York Times recently observed that with the massive influx of undocumented immigrants from Latin America, every town in the US has become a border town, and with it, the whole of the nation is increasingly influenced by the armed authoritarianism of the US Border Patrol, characterized not by...
Illegals
The Unacceptable Cost of America's Failure to Control Its Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
AMERICA’S MELTING POT IS BOILING OVER.
Millions of illegals strain an overburdened system. Crime rates skyrocket. From the Valley of the Sun to the halls of Congress, debate rages. All the while, murder and mayhem reign along the U.S.-Mexico border. Speaking into the fray at a timely juncture,...
Undocumented
How Immigration Became Illegal
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic and historical context
In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are concepts that were created to exclude and exploit. With a focus on US policy,...
by Lionel Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
If you live in a developing country with few opportunities for advancement, it is natural to develop a strong desire to move to a new country with more opportunities in order to make your life and those of your family members better. What's more, it is your right to act on this desire so that you...
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...
In Their Own Words
Letters from Norwegian Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters...
Letters From The Promised Land
Swedes in America, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
Swedish immigrants tell their own stories in this collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs—a perfect book for those interested in history, immigration, or just the daily lives of early Swedish-American settlers.
The Mayans Among Us
Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig, a Spanish instructor, and Martha Florinda González, a Mayan community leader living in Nebraska,...
Closing the Gate
Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred practically all
Chinese from American shores for ten years, was the first federal
law that banned a group of immigrants solely on the basis of race
or nationality. By changing America's traditional policy of open
immigration, this landmark legislation...
The Irish Way
Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city.
In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban...