Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852
Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement,...
by Svetlana Boym
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities--St....
South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and...
City of Dreams
The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**"Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us." — Boston Globe
“A richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nation’s pinnacle immigrant city has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected...
World of Our Fathers
The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls...
The Immigrant Advantage
What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Do you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? How about someone to deliver a delicious, piping hot home-cooked meal, just like your mother’s, right to your front door after work? Do you know people you’d trust enough to give...
by Lucy Popescu
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
A Country of Refuge is a poignant, thought-provoking and timely anthology of writing on asylum seekers from some of Britain and Ireland’s most influential voices.
Compiled and edited by human rights activist and writer Lucy Popescu, this powerful collection of short fiction, memoir, poetry...
by Hirantha Nandasena
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
This book gives solutions to real life problems new immigrants face. It has a lot of information about many aspects of life. I am poised for semi-retirement in 2011 at the age of 33 and you can achieve great results by following the principles I have mentioned in the first chapter of the book and...
Land of Desire
Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.
by Sara Dawn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Thinking about moving to New Zealand?
The land of Lord of the Rings, sheep, mountains, lakes, milk and honey. New Zealand has friendly people, excellent education, and universal healthcare. It’s also a land of immigrants: people from all over the world migrate to make their home in New Zealand....
The Map of Me
True Tales of Mixed-Heritage Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
In today's Britain thousands of people have parents from different cultural backgrounds. In February 2008 we asked for people from any background to send us true stories which illuminate the complexities, challenges and joys of having a mixed heritage - those defining moments which seem to say it...
by Linda A Janssen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Living abroad offers enriching experiences of growth, broadened perspective, enhanced cultural understanding. Yet its transition-rich, change-driven, cross-cultural nature can place considerable demands, leaving us stressed, disconnected, our identity in flux. Building on existing literature and benefitting...
On the Border
Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Tom Miller’s On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays...
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
"Urgently required reading." —People
"Deeply affecting... Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative." —The New Yorker
"Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria...and her book is ultimately a story of hope." —Newsweek
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