Social Science - Emigration & Immigration

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic St...

Isabel Wilkerson

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for norther...

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Published: Oct 2011

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: On...

Melissa Fleming

The stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit.Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight―just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around―nineteen-year-old Doaa...

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Published: Jan 2018

The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the G...

Atossa Abrahamian

The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawye...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Penguin Book of Migration Literat...

Dohra Ahmad

The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything InsideA Penguin ClassicEvery...

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Published: Sep 2019

Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant S...

Cristina Beltrán

Why are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives? More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was alre...

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Published: Oct 2020

A Land of Hard Edges

Peg Bowden

A Land of Hard Edges: Serving the Front Lines of the Border is a series of true stories and personal reflections by Peg Bowden, a retired nurse, who volunteers at a migrant shelter on the Mexico border. The author lives in the Arizona...

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Published: Jun 2014

"They Take Our Jobs!" REV: And 20 Oth...

Aviva Chomsky

Revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book which demystifies twenty-one of the most widespread myths and beliefs about immigrants and immigrations.Aviva Chomsky dismantles twenty-one of the most widespread and pernicious ...

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Published: Apr 2018

Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our...

Paul Collier

It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time -- vehemently debated, steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not? What are the arguments for and against limiting t...

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Published: May 2015

Out of Many, One: Portraits of Americ...

Crown

In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation.   ...

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Published: Nov 2020

From the Dissident Right II: Essays 2...

John Derbyshire

This book is mainly a collection of speeches made and essays published in 2013. Most of the material appeared on VDARE.com, an online magazine dedicated to frank discussion of the National Question, which embraces issues of immigratio...

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Published: Jan 2015

Home: A Very Short Introduction

Michael Allen Fox

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internat...

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Published: Feb 2017

American Immigration: A Very Short In...

David A. Gerber

Americans have come from every corner of the globe, and they have been brought together by a variety of historical processes--conquest, colonialism, the slave trade, territorial acquisition, and voluntary immigration. A thoughtful loo...

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Published: Jun 2011

After the Last Border: Two Families a...

Jessica Goudeau

The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries—yet Am...

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Published: Aug 2021

A Beginner's Guide to America: For th...

Roya Hakakian

A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of huma...

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Published: Jan 2022

Shelter: Notes from a Detained Migran...

Arturo Hernandez-Sametier

In this rare account from within ICE detention facilities, fourteen children are followed from their arrest by U.S. Border Patrol to the day they exit facilities for unaccompanied minors. Preschoolers and teenagers, the kids offer a r...

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Published: Apr 2020

We Too Sing America: South Asian, Ara...

Deepa Iyer

"Powerful…Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back. [She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience." —The Washington PostThe ...

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Published: Mar 2017

Decolonization: A Very Short Introduc...

Dane Keith Kennedy

Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independe...

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Published: Apr 2016

A Nation of Immigrants

John F. Kennedy

"In this book, President Kennedy tells us what immigrants have done for America, and what America has done for its immigrants. It is one of the dramatic success stories of world history.... It can stand as a testament to a cause ...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can ...

Claudia Kolker

Do you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? How about someone to deliver a delicious, piping hot home-cooked meal, just like your mother's, right to your front d...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Beast: Riding The Rails And Dodgi...

Oscar Martinez

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...

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Published: Jun 2014

Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey t...

Todd Miller

Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival?Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision—and work tow...

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Published: Feb 2021

We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of ...

Agus Morales

Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home—more than 65 million globally. Unsparing, outspoken, vital, We Are Not Refugees tells the stories of many of these displaced, who have n...

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Published: Mar 2019

There Goes the Neighborhood: How Comm...

Ali Noorani

A leading advocate for immigration reform interviews a wide range of citizens from communities throughout the nation to gauge the level of acceptance of new immigrants.This compelling approach to the immigration debate takes the reade...

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Published: May 2019

Citizen Illegal (BreakBeat Poets)

Jose Olivarez

"Citizen Illegal is right on time, bringing both empathy and searing critique to the fore as a nation debates the very humanity of the people who built it." ―Eve Ewing, author of Electric ArchesIn this stunning debut, poet...

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Published: Sep 2018

Detained and Deported: Stories of Imm...

Margaret Regan

An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration...

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Published: Mar 2016

The Death of Josseline: Immigration S...

Margaret Regan

Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along t...

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Published: Oct 2010

Arrival City: How the Largest Migrati...

Doug Saunders

A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today. For the fi...

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Published: Apr 2012

How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Sto...

Eileen Truax

In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population.Dreamers and their allies, thos...

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Published: Sep 2018

Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist...

Harsha Walia

"Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America's most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tr...

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Published: Apr 2013

Somewhere in the Unknown World

Kao Kalia Yang

From “an exceptional storyteller,” Somewhere in the Unknown World is a collection of powerful stories of refugees who have found new lives in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, told by the award-winning author of The Latehomec...

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Published: Feb 2020
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