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San Tran Croucher’s earliest memories are of fleeing ethnic attacks in her Vietnamese village, only to be later tortured in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Katya Cengel met San when San was 75-years-old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer. But San’s family’s troubles didn’t end after their resettlement in California

In this audiobook, beautifully narrated by the author, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan reveals how Islamophobia not only lives under the skin of those who it marks, but is an international political project designed to divide people in the name of security, in order to materially benefit global stakeholders. It can only be truly uprooted when we focus not on what it is but what it does.

The history of the United States has been shaped by immigration. Historians Carl J. Bon Tempo and Hasia R. Diner provide a sweeping historical narrative told through the lives and words of the quite ordinary people who did nothing less than make the nation.

In this intimate and eye-opening book, Diya Abdo—daughter of refugees, U.S. immigrant, English professor, and activist—shares the stories of seven refugees. Coming from around the world, they’re welcomed by Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), an organization Diya founded to leverage existing resources at colleges to provide temporary shelter to refugee families.

The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of far-right militias terrorizing the border towns of southern Arizona. In one of the towns profiled, Arivaca, rogue militia members killed a man and his nine-year-old daughter in 2009. In response, the residents organized and spent two years trying to push the new militias out through boycotts and by urging local businesses to ban them.

Called a “chronicler of a world on the move” by The New York Review of Books, Anna Badkhen seeks what separates and binds us at a time when one in seven people has left their birthplace, while a pandemic dictates the direst season of rupture in humankind’s remembering. Her new essay collection, Bright Unbearable Reality, comprises 11 essays set on four continents—roving everywhere from Oklahoma to Azerbaijan—and united by a common thread of communion and longing.

We are told that love conquers all, but what happens when you don’t have the right passport? Love Across Borders takes listeners through contentious frontiers around the world, from Turkey to Iraq, Syria to Greece, Mexico to the United States, to reveal the wide-spread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk, in Istanbul, where they were both reporting on the Syrian civil war.

This audiobook will demonstrate how to process yourself or family member fast and easy through the process of asylum.

War, persecution, natural disasters, and climate change continue to drive millions around the world from their homes. In this “tender, intimate, and important book—a carefully reported rebuttal to the xenophobic narratives that define so much of modern American politics” (Sarah Stillman, staff writer, The New Yorker), journalist Susan Hartman follows 3 refugees over 8 years and tells the story of how they built new lives in the old manufacturing town of Utica, New York.

"Ich verrate Dir, wo ich herkomme, und vor allem, wo ich hinwill!" So beginnt ein packendes, tiefgründiges, witzig-ernstes Zwiegespräch mit "ihrem" Deutschland, das Souad Lamroubal als "problematisches" Gastarbeiterkind kennengelernt hat und dem sie heute als Integrationsbeamtin dient. Ein unwiderstehlicher Dialog über Freiheit und Herkunft, Verbotenes und Erlaubtes, über Heimat, Zukunft und die Frage, wer wir Deutschen sind und wann wir Deutsche sind.

In this third edition of Border Games, Peter Andreas charts the rise and transformation in policing the flow of drugs and migrants across the US-Mexico border. Recent border crackdowns and wall-building campaigns, he argues, are not unprecedented. Rather, they are the outcome of an escalatory dynamic already in motion—but now played out on a far bigger stage, with higher stakes, and in new security and political contexts. Focusing on the power of symbolic politics and policy feedback effects, Andreas traces the logic behind such buildup.

In earlier times immigrants were generally "like us". Now, many immigrants are often Muslims, who not only dress distinctively, but practice a different religious creed as well. Many fear that terrorists will enter our country under the guise of immigrants. Christians, however, belong to another kingdom, the kingdom of Jesus the Messiah. A Christian response to the needs of refugees and immigrants should reflect their commitment to Christ more than their fears or political allegiances.

Winner of the 2024 George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, given by the National Council of Teachers of English "Making Americans shines a light on the barriers that immigrant students in the US face—and shares some inspiring stories about...

This book is a "self-help" guide for immigrants written by an immigrant. It provides valuable insights, short stories, and lessons concerning the common errors and pitfalls immigrants sometimes make, especially when relocating to the United States of America. It covers the required preparation before permanent travel, relocating, settling, cross-cultural relationships and marriage overseas, returning to one's homeland after retirement, and suggestions for maintaining good health and balance as an immigrant.

Every human being is part of a bigger family, which is figuratively represented by the family tree. We have roots that extend beyond places and cultures of our current residences. This is particularly true for people in diaspora. Our roots still weigh a lot into our everyday living irrespective of geographical distance and time. Thus, would it not be beneficial to know and explore the advantages in our roots and avoid losing out, and losing deep? This is the main message of this book, Voices from Home: Wisdom from our Diasporic Roots.

Immigrants are important contributors to the success and growth of many countries. But they face challenges before they can fully attain social and economic balance. Each immigrant needs all the help that he or she can get. This book provides that, and much more. It's presented from an immigrant’s point of view, and with anecdotes from someone that has walked the path—someone who is keen to share lessons learned so that it will be more comfortable and more rewarding for others.

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a 28-year-old, Indian-born community organizer received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast “man camps,” surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to $20,000 each to apply for this “opportunity”.

Australia resident Ephraim Osaghae has taken the lid off several hot migration topics in his books. Migration and Family is one of his best works. Few matters in life go deep, wide, and have a lasting impact like family. Ignoring what happens to the family unit means treating symptoms without removing the source of illness or cutting the branches without touching the roots.

Migration is still top on the list of life-changing decisions anyone can make. Between complex immigration processes and successful settling in the new country is a chasm that swallows the unfortunate and the ignorant. So, while some migrants find green pastures, many are lost in the desert of “survival” jobs and trapped in the vicious cycle of frustration.

This book provides exclusive insights into Migrapreneurs (migrants + entrepreneurship): the who, what, why, and how. It will inform, inspire, and challenge listeners to courageously exploit the advantages of their diversity in the context of entrepreneurship and business. They can take charge of their destinies by creating robust options while depending less on the already challenged economic and social welfare systems in the new countries.