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Cover of Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities
by Jin-Heon Jung
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015

Building Noah's Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities examines religion within the framework of refugee studies as a public good, with the spiritual and material use of religion shedding new light on the agency of refugees in reconstructing their lives and positioning themselves in hostile environments.  
Cover of Global Mobility and Higher Learning
by Anatoly Oleksiyenko
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018

*Winner of the Best Book Award from Researchers and Students and Study Abroad Programmes at the CIES2019 conference 2019 This book examines learning-mobility tensions and ties caused by convergences and divergences of social, organizational and cognitive forces in global higher education. As...
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by Behzad Yaghmaian
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2005

An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-American Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has managed to...
Cover of How to Get a Green Card
by Shari Lavin
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2013

Applying for a green card isn't as complicated as it may at first appear. Our guide, How to Get a Green Card, will walk you through the steps to take if you wish to become a permanent resident of the United States. Scroll up... and click on "Buy Now" to deliver almost instantly to your Kobo or other reading device.
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Surviving Remnant

Memories of the Jewish Greenhorns in 1950s America

by Hanna Perlstein Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

How does a young girl search for a benevolent father figure and suitable husband for her single mother among a group of Holocaust survivors? Set in the deteriorating north end of Springfield, Massachusetts in the 1950s, Surviving Remnant is Hanna Perlstein Marcus' sequel to her award-winning memoir,...
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Oral History at the Crossroads

Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement

by Steven High
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members “shared authority”...
Cover of The Significance of Moths
by Shirley Camia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

There is a belief, in Filipino culture, that the recently deceased may return in the form of a moth. Though their bodies disintegrate, their spirits linger on. Fragile but insistent, these spirit-memories permeate Shirley Camia�s collection of poetry, The Significance of Moths. In her latest...
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Irish Migrants in New Communities

Seeking the Fair Land?

by Noémie Beck, Malcolm Campbell, Bridget Connelly
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014

Irish migrants in new communities: Seeking the Fair Land? comprises the second collection of essays by these editors exploring fresh aspects and perspectives on the subject of the Irish diaspora. This volume, edited by Máirtín Ó Catháin and Mícheál Ó hAodha, develops many of the oral history...
Cover of Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters explore...
Cover of Boston's Immigrants
by Michael Price, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000

Boston is a city rich in the history of residents from all walks of life, every country and every ethnicity imaginable. From 1840 to 1925, Boston's diversity created a city with a thriving nexus of people who wove together a community that reflected their own unique heritage. In this lavishly illustrated...
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AsiaTown Cleveland

From Tong Wars to Dim Sum

by Alan F. Dutka
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

For years, Cleveland's Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city. Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without English proficiency, prospects dimmed, and emigres often earned poor pay for long hours of strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an...
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Integration

Ein Protokoll des Scheiterns

by Hamed Abdel-Samad
Language: German
Release Date: April 10, 2018

Millionen Muslime sind in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten als Gastarbeiter überwiegend aus der Türkei, als Flüchtlinge aus Syrien und anderen Staaten des Nahen Ostens nach Deutschland gekommen. Hamed Abdel-Samad rechnet ab mit der Politik, die die Integration zu lange konterkariert und der Muslime,...
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Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity

Japanese, Ukrainians, and Scots, 1919-1971

by Aya Fujiwara
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012

Ethnic elites, the influential business owners, teachers, and newspaper editors within distinct ethnic communities, play an important role as self-appointed mediators between their communities and “mainstream” societies. In Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity, Aya Fujiwara examines the roles of...
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The Constructed Mennonite

History, Memory, and the Second World War

by Hans Werner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life.John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik...
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