Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians
History, Politics, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The essays in this collection challenge this stereotype by examining the varied experiences of Ukrainian-Canadians in their day-to-day roles as writers, intellectuals,...
Never Look Back
The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once...
by Andrew S. Grove
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Elegant and concise, this childhood memoir of Andy Grove, one of the pioneers of Silicon Valley, begins in Budapest, Hungary where the author was born into a secular Jewish family in 1936. As a small child, Andris Grof was told, “Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all of the...
Lovers and Strangers
An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018
TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017
'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian
'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand...
Fresh Off the Boat
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
NOW AN ORIGINAL SERIES ON ABC • “Just may be the best new comedy of [the year] . . . based on restaurateur Eddie Huang’s memoir of the same name . . . [a] classic fresh-out-of-water comedy.”—People
“Bawdy and frequently hilarious . . . a surprisingly sophisticated memoir about race...
To Hell or Barbados
The ethnic cleansing of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A vivid account of the Irish slave trade: the previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia.
by Jacob A. Riis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
First published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading...
by Earl Shorris
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
"Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."—Laurence Gonzales, Chicago Tribune
They are sometimes called the people who died twice, once at the hands of the Spaniards and their brutal process of civilization, then at the...
Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders
Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"The authors have done a commendable and impressive job of addressing a topic of long-lasting and increasing significance in U.S. politics."
---F. Chris Garcia, University of New Mexico
"This is a path-breaking book that will be read across disciplines beyond political science."
---James...
Exiled In Paradise
German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Exiled In Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present by Anthony Heilbut (Second, 1997 revised edition; 173,000 words)
The fascinating story of émigré intellectuals, writers, artists, scientists, movie directors, and scholars — including Bertolt...
China's Second Continent
How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A New York Times Notable Book
Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China,...
Patriot Number One
American Dreams in Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY
New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews
Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle
Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
The deeply reported...
The Barbarous Years
The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**
The immigrants...
Weapons of Mass Migration
Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common....