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The story of early Asian immigration to the United States is also one about race legislation and discrimination at a time when global populations were moving with more frequency and merging ahead of their ability to practically assimilate. The greatest involuntary migration in history took place as some 12.5 million Black African crossed the Atlantic as slaves.

Refugee High is a riveting chronicle of the 2017-18 school year at Sullivan High, a time when anti-immigrant rhetoric was at its height in the White House. Even as we follow teachers and administrators grappling with the everyday challenges facing many urban schools, we witness the complicated circumstances and unique education needs of refugee and immigrant children: Alejandro may be deported just days before he is scheduled to graduate; Shahina narrowly escapes an arranged marriage; and Esengo is shot at the beginning of the school year.

If you are facing a move across the country or across the globe and you are concerned about making friends or fitting in to a new culture, then keep reading. As a cultural nomad who has re-planted and re-started life in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, North America, and Europe, the author has navigated this process many times. She identifies the challenges of shifting between cultures and has developed a set of tools that can make the process easier for you. In Cultural Chameleon, T.A. Robbie helps to ease your adventure crossing cultures.

Tracing the survival strategies of migrants during the journey to the North, The Migrant Passage shows how their mobility reshapes the social landscape of Mexico, and the book explores the implications for the future of sovereignty and the nation-state. To trace the continuous renewal of the transit corridor, Noelle Brigden draws upon over two years of in-depth, multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork along human smuggling routes from Central America across Mexico and into the United States.

In the most impoverished neighborhood in New York City, the South Bronx, I help students that dropped out of high school achieve their goal and receive a high school diploma. The reason that I feel like I am in the right place for my job is because just like these "lost" students, I was going through a tough transition myself as I left my impoverished third-world country for a better opportunity. The toughest students are sometimes the best ones. I decided to publish this book to show that in each of one there is hope for a better future.

Hands up! Who wants to be a refugee? I certainly did not! My mother had other ideas. For a fateful moment, the iron fist of oppression eased its grip. This was all she needed. We crossed two borders. The physical barrier was easy. The culture gap was harder to bridge. This story is about human foolishness, selfishness, and frailty. Yet, above all, the enduring courage of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times.

Emigrar a los Estados Unidos y convertirse en un residente permanente puede ser confuso y puede demandar mucho tiempo. Y para víctimas de maltrato en particular, esto puede parecer un sueño imposible de alcanzar. Sin embargo, existe una esperanza para los inmigrantes: una Visa Humanitaria. En el libro Inmigración Honestamente, la abogada de inmigración Erika Cisneros comparte historias de personas que, al igual que tú, no sabían que el maltrato personal y laboral que recibían cumplía con los requisitos necesarios para obtener una Visa Humanitaria.

Cuando Helena Maleno llegó a Marruecos en 2002 con su hijo, dos maletas y un proyecto laboral de tres meses no podía imaginar hasta qué punto aquel país y la lucha por los derechos de las poblaciones migrantes que lo atravesaban transformarían su vida para siempre. Ya instalada en Tánger de forma definitiva, Helena se adentró en los asentamientos provisionales de los bosques que rodean Ceuta y Melilla y empezó a denunciar sin descanso las violaciones de derechos de aquellos que buscan cruzar, por tierra o por mar, una frontera que les permita alcanzar Europa.

Out of all the issues we face in the United States, there are few as divisive as illegal immigration. This topic has intimidated politicians, created racial rifts among our communities, and has left us just as divided as we were during the Civil War. And that divide is growing. This collection of short but true stories illuminates the horrors faced along the border. As a former border patrol agent in Nogales, Arizona, and a missionary in Mexico, Marcus T. Livy has literally lived on both sides of the fence and on the topic of immigration.

Losing Control is a vivid history of the past half century of immigration politics and policy. It is also a dramatic ground-level account of how the story took shape. Kammer describes the economic and cultural forces that both pushed millions of migrants from home communities in Latin America and pulled them northward to the US. He shows how the backlash gradually emerged from the frustrations of American workers and communities who felt overwhelmed by the influx and betrayed by their government.

¿A que venimos los latinos a estados unidos? A tener una mejor vida y mejores oportunidades que en nuestros países de origen, solo que a veces no sabemos cómo continuar, cómo dar el siguiente paso.

Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through the gate. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces created to police the borders are now being used, in an increasingly militarized fashion, to survey and monitor the whole of American society. In fast-paced prose, Todd Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles the changing landscape.

As global warming accelerates, droughts last longer, floods rise higher, and super-storms become more frequent. With increasing numbers of people on the move as a result, the business of containing them - border fortification - is booming. In Storming the Wall, Todd Miller travels around the world to connect the dots between climate-ravaged communities, the corporations cashing in on border militarization, and emerging movements for environmental justice and sustainability.

Marjory Harper explores the motives and experiences of migrants, settlers, and returners by focusing on the personal testimonies of the two million men, women and children who left Scotland in the 20th century.

A story of migration, I Belong tells the journey of Magdalena who left Uruguay in 2006 at the age of 18 to go study in Europe, and finds herself working in refugee camps in West and Central Africa 10 years later. In one of her trips back to her birth country, Magdalena finds out that her mother's childhood friend was taken to Sweden as a refugee during the Uruguayan dictatorship four decades before. Magdalena seeks to reunite them while at the same time facing an inner conflict of having to choose between either remaining abroad for good or going back home.

Written for all ages and cultural backgrounds, this extraordinary story takes less than three hours of listening time, but the insights can last a lifetime, with knowledge you can hand down to future generations. This book reveals hard and unknown truths about relocation, change, and integration. It focuses on crucial tactics to adopt and adapt to achieve your goals for the big move.

Deportation covers the uncertain beginnings of American deportation policy and recounts the halting and uncoordinated steps that were taken as it emerged from piecemeal actions in Congress and courtrooms across the country to become an established national policy by the 1920s. Usually viewed from within the nation, deportation policy also plays a part in geopolitics; deportees, after all, have to be sent somewhere.

How to Live Abroad and Thrive with Passive Income will completely empower you, giving you all of the knowledge you need (and more) to move to a foreign country with utmost confidence, and collect monthly passive income from several sources so you never have to worry about money again....

Author Stephen Birmingham, who chronicled the rise of Jewish immigrants to extraordinary wealth and success in Our Crowd, now turns his attention to the Irish. Real Lace tells the colorful and fascinating true stories of America’s most renowned Irish-Catholic families. Scions of courageous, driven, and resilient men and women who escaped starvation during Ireland’s terrible potato famine in the mid-19th century, they battled their way out of the slums of Boston and New York, overcoming prejudice and poverty to achieve great wealth, fame, and political power.

The Bad Monkey 2: No Filter is a memoir based on a conversation Andrew wished he’d been able to have with his mother before her death. It’s a celebration of one man’s flawed life. This unfiltered, funny, sad, joyful, and heartwarming memoir explores a life that emerged from the memories of an aging spirit still hanging on. Included are aspects of his family’s escape from occupied Hungary, their life in a refugee camp, and attempts at assimilation into Australian culture. Andrew further shares the effects of his sexual abuse and being a homeless adolescent.