Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
by Jessica Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Human trafficking is consistently featured on the global political agenda. This book examines the trafficking of adult female victims for sexual exploitation, and specifically the understanding of consent and its influence in the identification and treatment of trafficking victims.
Jessica...
Migra!
A History of the U.S. Border Patrol
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
This is the untold history of the United States Border Patrol from its beginnings in 1924 as a small peripheral outfit to its emergence as a large professional police force. To tell this story, Kelly Lytle Hernández dug through a gold mine of lost and unseen records stored in garages, closets, an...
One Nation, One Standard
An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups.
As the nation’s first Puerto Rican–born U.S....
No Undocumented Child Left Behind
Plyler v. Doe and the Education of Undocumented Schoolchildren
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The 1982 U. S. Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe, which made it possible for undocumented children to enroll in Texas public schools, was a watershed moment for immigrant rights in the United States. The Court struck down both a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented children...
by Alfonso Borello
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
HOW DETRIMENTAL IS living in fear, segregated, trodden, almost discarded by society? I shouldn't use such terrible words; well, guess what? I've learned to live with it for the past year, more or less; I'm no longer keeping track of time. I could blame the ones who degraded me, with or without intentions,...
Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist
A Doctor Reflects on Ten Years at a Refugee Clinic
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An absorbing and touching read, this collection of true stories is the first book by a Canadian doctor on the topic of refugee health.
Your Heart Is the Size of Your Fist draws readers into the complicated, poignant, and often-overlooked daily happenings of a busy urban medical clinic for refugees.
An...
Flight and Freedom
Stories of Escape to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The global number of people currently displaced from their home country—more than 50 million—is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a safe haven for refugees or a closed door?
In Flight and...
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
Korean Military Brides in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Since the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, nearly 100,000 Korean women have immigrated to the United States as the wives of American soldiers. Based on extensive oral interviews and archival research, Beyond the Shadow of the Camptowns tells the stories of these women, from their presumed association...
Americans at the Gate
The United States and Refugees during the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War. This dramatic reversal gave rise to intense political and cultural battles, pitting refugee advocates against determined opponents...
by Kooshyar Karimi
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Kooshyar Karimi had two careers in Iran, one as a doctor and one as an award-winning translator. Until he was kidnapped by the Intelligence Service.
Behind his professional success, Kooshyar was a rebel on several fronts. Marginalised since boyhood as a Jew in a fundamentalist Islamic state,...
by Craig David
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Some fled to Nova Scotia...
Becoming Dr. Q
My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir,...
by Alistair Moffat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland...
by Christopher McNary, Maria Paniagua
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
What were talking about here isnt seen much in tourist zones like Puerto Vallarta or Cancun. Its not what youd expect in Mexico City either, where gay marriage and adoption were sanctioned in 2010. But theses two stories are all too real and common, adapted from asylum testimonies given by men born and...