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2062) The Turkish turn in contemporary German literature: towards a new critical grammar of migration
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
2063) Naming Liberty
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In parallel stories, a Ukrainian Jewish family prepares to emigrate to the United States in the late 1800s, and Frederic Auguste Bartholdi designs, raises funds for, and builds the Statue of Liberty in honor of the United States' centennial.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Before Kahlil Gibran became the world's third-best-selling poet of all time, he was Gibran Khalil Gibran, an immigrant child from Lebanon with a secret hope to bring people together despite their many differences. Kahlil's life highlights the turn of the twentieth century, from the religious conflicts that tore apart his homeland and sent a hundred thousand Arab people to America, to settling in Boston, where the wealthy clashed headlong with the...
2067) Desierto sonoro
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Un matrimonio en plena crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos pequeños desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: él está tras los rastros de la última banda apache; ella busca documentar la diáspora de niños que llega a la frontera del país en busca de asilo. Mientras el coche familiar atraviesa el vasto territorio norteamericano, los dos niños escuchan las conversaciones...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Focusing on Central America and the Caribbean, State of Disaster traces the development of U.S. refugee, humanitarian, and immigration policies in response to the 1995-2004 series of volcanic eruptions in Monserrat in the Leeward Islands, Hurricane Mitch in Honduras and Nicaragua in 1998, and the back-to-back Hurricanes Irma and Maria of 2017 that devastated the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The case of Irma and Maria reveal...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Overrun provides the first full account of the worst mass immigration border crisis ever to strike the United States, how and why the administration of President Joe Biden unleashed it, how it has forever altered the nation, and what voters and all future leaders need to comprehend in order to finally end it." --Publisher's website.
2075) No journey too far
Author
Series
McAlister family volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1909, Grace McAlister set sail for Canada as one of the thousands of British Home Children taken from their families and their homeland. Though she was fortunate enough to be adopted by wealthy parents, the secrets of her past were kept hidden for ten years until someone from her long-buried childhood arrives on her doorstep. With this new connection to her birth family, will she be brave enough to leave her sheltered life in Toronto and uncover...
2076) Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian women, immigration, and community in Monterey, California, 1915-99
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
2078) Undocumented
Author
Series
Northern triangle trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Laurie Cameron
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Ricky Hernandez is an undocumented immigrant from Honduras. Having escaped the gangs back home and made the perilous journey across Mexico to the safety of a barrio in South Tucson, he witnesses a murder. And recognizes the murderer's accomplice. His name is Chava, a ruthless plaza boss. Not long ago, this man stabbed Ricky's coyote to death. Authorities want Ricky's testimony. The narcos want to silence him. Navigating the rough...
2079) Networks of refugees from Nazi Germany: continuities, reorientations, and collaborations in exile
Series
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik volume Volume 87
Publisher
Brill Rodopi
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English