Emigration Immigration category: 2215 books
The Myth of the Muslim Tide
Do Immigrants Threaten the West?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values.
Since September 11, 2001, a growing chorus has warned that Western society and...
The Lucky Ones
One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a “terrifically readable, compelling” look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience (Publishers Weekly).
In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself...
Chow Chop Suey
Food and the Chinese American Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white...
by Harsha Walia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
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 tremendous gift to us all.”-Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Undoing...
We Too Sing America
South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Critical reception for the hardcover: The hardcover received reviews in the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and Hyphen Magazine.
Speaking tour: Iyer will continue to travel extensively to promote the paperback.
Platform: Iyer is the former executive director of South Asian Americans...
by Kimball Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
For readers of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote's Bicycle brings to life a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, and the human drama of those who would cross.
It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt roads and farmland just across...
The Dangerous Divide
Peril and Promise on the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
How do we balance border security and America’s need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the U.S.-Mexico border, transforming America’s legendary Southwest into a frontier...
Hard Line
Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
The Southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, a region of rugged beauty and small communities that coexist across the international line. In the past decade, the area has also become deadly as illegal immigration has shifted into some of the harshest territory on the continent,...
The Right to Stay Home
How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The story of the growing resistance of Mexican communities to the poverty that forces people to migrate to the United States
People across Mexico are being forced into migration, and while 11 percent of that country’s population lives north of the US border, the decision to migrate is rarely...
Seeking Refuge
Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
The political upheaval in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala had a devastating human toll at the end of the twentieth century. A quarter of a million people died during the period 1974-1996. Many of those who survived the wars chose temporary refuge in neighboring countries such as Honduras and...
To Sin Against Hope
Life and Politics on the Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Alfredo Gutierrez’s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown—the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is both a personal chronicle and...
A Nation of Immigrants
Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1998
This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.
The...
by Mary Jo Leddy
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Our Friendly Local Terrorist tells the story of the fourteen-year struggle of Suleyman Goven, a Kurd accused by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service of being a terrorist. Mary Jo Leddy was “accidentally” present at Suleyman’s first interview with CSIS. During that eight-hour ordeal he...
Mafias on the Move
How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will. That at least is the fear, inspired by stories of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese triads in London, and Italian mafias throughout the West.
As Federico Varese...