Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Cuba Confidential
Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping...
The Beast
Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon...
by Tara Zahra
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs
Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out...
Paisanos
The Irish and the Liberation of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, thousands of volunteers left Ireland behind to join the fight for South American independence. Lured by the promise of adventure, fortune, and the opportunity to take a stand against colonialism, they braved the treacherous Atlantic crossing to join the ranks of the...
by Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Porter’s By Ox Team to California is a moving piece of social history which documents the struggles and hopes of ordinary Americans in the mid-nineteenth century.
When Germs Travel
Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like SARS make their way into the headlines, we are faced with vaccine shortages, and the threat of germ warfare has reemerged as a worldwide threat.
In this...
Maximum Canada
Toward a Country of 100 Million
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
To face the future, Canada needs more Canadians. But why and how many?
Canada’s population has always grown slowly, when it has grown at all. That wasn’t by accident. For centuries before Confederation and a century after, colonial economic policies and an inward-facing world view isolated...
A Cup of Water Under My Bed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life
In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and...
by Soledad O'Brien, Rose Marie Arce
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The definitive tie-in to the CNN documentary series Latino in America, from former top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien.
Following the smash-hit CNN documentary Black in America, Latino in America travels to small towns and big cities to illustrate how distinctly Latino...
Comes the Millennium: It's Still Tough to Be Jewish!
100 Years in the Life of an Immigrant Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2006
The stories begin over 100 years ago in Sokolka, Poland, when my father escaped via an underground route, from his forced conscription into the Czar's Russian Army. The stories continue through the ensuing decades after he immigrated to America. The anecdotes describe how the family coped with the...
As She Began
An Illustrated Introduction to Loyalist Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1981
As She Began, an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to tAhe most crucial period in Ontario's history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American Revolution streamed into the land between the lakes, giving Ontario its geographic shape and political...
The Last Christians
Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.
Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year Award
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award
Finalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book Award
Inside...
by Jeff Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Finally back in print after more than twelve years, this is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand – including lists of the waka, names of crew members and vessels, karakia and waiata, and maps. A must for lovers of history, students of Maori and nautical enthusiasts.
Sixty Miles of Border
An American Lawman Battles Drugs on the Mexican Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
*The border between the United States and Mexico is a no-man’s land. Drugs, guns, and human beings are the cargo of choice in a multi-billion dollar illegal empire dominated by powerful cartels, murderous street gangs, and corrupt government officials. *
Against them stand the Special Agents of...