Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Laughing Without an Accent
Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “There’s such warmth to Dumas’ writing that it invites the reader to pull up a seat at her table and smile right along with her at the quirks of her family and Iranians and Americans in general.”—Booklist
In the *New York Times *bestselling memoir Funny...
Call Me American
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as...
by Rahela Nayebzadah
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Based on a true story, Jeegareh Ma is a testament to the power of love in the face of struggle and hardship. Ghulam and Firishta, a wealthy couple, move to Kabul, Afghanistan, to begin a new chapter in their lives. Firishta is diagnosed with meningitis and passes away, leaving their six young children...
by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Winner of the 2019 GLCA New Writers Award
An NPR Best Book of 2018
Lost Decency
The Untold Afghan Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Many memoirs written by exiles represent the country’s more privileged classes, those with the money and means. In Lost Decency, Atta Arghandiwal shares his and the Afghan people’s turbulent journey to escape their war-torn country. Every refugee’s story deserves to be heard, but Atta’s thrilling...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing...
by Maria Laurino
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
"One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco Chronicle
Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic identity....
Translating America
An Ethnic Press and Popular Culture, 1890-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution...
Manchester
The Mills and the Immigrant Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago, thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were...
Irish Blood, English Heart, Ulster Fry
Return Journeys to Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Annie Caulfield's early years were spent by the seaside in Ireland. However, the family shifted to Sixties London and soon she wasn't sure who she was - was she English, was she Irish, and if so, what kind of Irish? Watching the news of The Troubles, she was unable to recognise the country she'd left...
Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling
Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Winner of the 2014 Walkley Award for Feature Writing In That Sinking Feeling, Paul Toohey searches for the solution our politicians have been unwilling or unable to find, and asks whether, amid the diplomatic turmoil, we’ve now missed our chance. Tony Abbott promised to stop the boats. With the help...
Under the Same Sky
From Iran to Australia, an unforgettable story of seeking refuge, being torn apart by government detention and freed by love
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
After fleeing their homeland, Australian refugee policies threaten to tear this young couple apart. An unforgettable story of love, hope and a quest for freedom.
At seventeen, all Mojgan Shamsalipoor wanted was to be safe from physical and sexual abuse, go to school, and to eventually marry...
by Myles Dungan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From the Emerald Isle to the Wild West—true tales of the Irish who forged the American frontier in “a very enjoyable romp through the tumbleweed” (The Irish Story).
Everyone knows how the Irish came to America in the 1800s seeking a new life. But less known are the stories of the Irish immigrants...
Miami
Turistas, colonos y aventureros en la última frontera de América Latina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Hernán Iglesias Illa elude los lugares comunes que ubican a Miami entre la frivolidad y el anticastrismo, y brinda un retrato apasionante de una ciudad amoral y caótica en permanente metamorfosis.
Palmeras, flamencos, centros comerciales y exiliados cubanos. Los lugares comunes sobre Miami...