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Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before relocating from a Kenyan refugee camp to Atlanta in 2001.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvii, 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stories of remarkable American immigrants are brought to life in short, lyrical biographies written by Sara Nović and charming full-color illustrations by artist Alison Kolesar. Some of the names you'll find here are familiar: Founding father Alexander Hamilton was born and raised on the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis before coming to New York to pursue his education, and Yoko Ono's parents disapproved when she fell in with the bohemian art scene...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath"--
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English
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 236 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized people-- from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short story... Invisible People collects the best of Tizon's rich, empathetic accounts... Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the stories of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He gives a fascinating account of the Beltway...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
106 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of Ellis Island, a gateway for many immigrants coming to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and details the restoration of the landmark and its reopening as a museum.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"This novel in verse is a powerful first-person account of Misael MartÃnez, a Salvadoran boy whose family joins the caravan heading north to the United States. We learn all the different reasons why people feel the need to leave -- the hope that lies behind their decision, but also the terrible sadness of leaving home. We learn about how far and hard the trip is, but also about the kindness of those along the way. Finally, once the caravan arrives...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiii, 548 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian Peter Gatrell reminds us that the history of Europe has always been one of people on the move. The end of World War II left Europe in a state of confusion with many Europeans virtually stateless. Later, as former colonial states gained national independence,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.
93) Dominicana
Author
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything...
95) Heaven is high
Author
Series
Barbara Holloway novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Eugene, Oregon, attorney Barbara Holloway sets off to Belize to help a Haitian woman prove her identity. But what Holloway knows is only the tip of the iceberg in what turns out to be one of her most complex, compelling, and dangerous cases yet.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fusion of documentary and psychological thriller inspired by true events conceived and written over an eight-year period. Drawing on the Indigenous Australian concept of dreamtime, the novel explores a society's collective experience of war and conflict and is based on real events that the author, a war correspondent and photojournalist, witnessed during the war in eastern Ukraine and the migration crises in southern Europe over recent years"--...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities." But efforts to assist immigrants are not limited to large, politically liberal cities. Since the 1990s, many small to mid-sized cities and towns across the United States have implemented a range of informal practices that help immigrant populations integrate...
98) Nory Ryan's song
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book describes how immigrants left their homelands and came to the U.S. searching for a better life with their first stop being Ellis Island, a receiving station. The reader's choices reveal the perspectives of a Russian Jewish girl, a teenage Italian boy, and a German immigrant.
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