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Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a distance family? This audiobook tells the candid story of how distance parents and distance grandparents struggle - and succeed - to adapt to their new reality. This isn’t family life as they had imagined it. If you are a distance parent or distance grandparent, all those how, why, and what-if questions will find answers in these sections. You’ll realise, perhaps for the first time, that you’re not alone on your journey.

In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them. Ali Noorani takes listeners on a journey to Honduras, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and Texas, meeting migrants and the organizations and people that help them on both sides of the border.

Dr. Umes ist Herzchirurg, erfolgreicher Autor, engagiertes Mitglied der deutschen Gesellschaft - und dunkelhäutig. Wie viele andere farbige Menschen erlebt er immer wieder diskriminierendes Verhalten seiner Umwelt. Mal ist es nur eine dumme Bemerkung, mal ein gravierender Verstoß gegen seine Würde als Mensch. Gleichzeitig gibt es eine Debatte darüber, was man "eigentlich noch sagen darf", ohne in die rechte Ecke gestellt zu werden. Umes klagt nicht an, sondern klärt auf. Anhand seiner Biografie beschreibt er pointiert, mit welchen Schwierigkeiten farbige Menschen zu kämpfen haben.

An unlikely friendship, a four-thousand-mile voyage, and an impenetrable frontier—this dramatic odyssey reveals the chaos and cruelty US immigration policies have unleashed beyond our borders. Axel Kirschner was a lifelong New Yorker, all Queens hustle and bravado. But he was also undocumented...

"Non possiamo aiutarli a casa loro?", "Se sono così poveri, dove li prendono i soldi per il viaggio?", "Ci rubano il lavoro", "Alla fine tutti o quasi commettono dei crimini". Sono tutte frasi che abbiamo sentito pronunciare o abbiamo pronunciato noi stessi parlando di uno dei problemi più grandi del mondo contemporaneo: i rifugiati, il flusso umano che arriva da paesi in cui la situazione politica e sociale è stata dichiarata invivibile.

Seenotrettung hautnah - an der tödlichsten Meeresgrenze der Welt. Im Frühsommer 2021 half Tobias Schlegl für mehrere Wochen als Notfallsanitäter bei der Seenotrettung Geflüchteter vor der Küste Libyens - und es wurden dramatische Wochen für die Crew und ihn. Erst Schwierigkeiten bei Übungseinsätzen und das bange Warten auf den ersten Einsatz, dann: Notrufe, Verfolgungsjagden mit der libyschen "Küstenwache", Menschen im Wasser, Menschen, die an Bord bewusstlos zusammenbrechen. Schließlich die quälende Suche nach einem sicheren Hafen für die mehr als 400 Geretteten.

America was built by immigrants, yet there has long been strong political opposition to immigration. In recent years, the hostility toward immigration has reached a tipping point. While partisan fighting and confusion over basic policy dominate a broken conversation, we often overlook a fundamental American truth: immigration makes America great.

The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched book by one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.

Gerónimo González Garza cruzó la frontera de México con Estados Unidos por primera vez en 1969. Desde entonces y hasta principios de los noventa, cuando finalmente se asentó legalmente en Texas, con su esposa e hijos, llevó una vida nómada. En Estados Unidos encontró oportunidades que nunca tuvo en su país. También encontró su voz. Como un sordomudo que no ha aprendido el lenguaje de señas, la frontera noreste del país carece de un lenguaje propio en estos tiempos de guerra. Y sin lenguaje, el pensamiento y la libertad se desvanecen.

Brought to you by Penguin. A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time 'When I stepped off the plane in Asmara, I had no idea what lay ahead, or how those events would change me...

世界各国で検疫や国境の閉鎖、日本国内でも耳が痛くなるほど「自粛」という言葉を聞くようになり、新型コロナウイルスは旅行者に致命的な打撃を与えたかのように見えます。

Isoke è arrivata in Italia a vent'anni: le avevno promesso un lavoro di commessa, si è ritrovata a vivere in schiavitù. Oggi, finalmente libera, racconta la vita, la tratta, i clienti, i sogni delle ragazze da marciapiede. I diritti di questo libro contribuiranno a sostenere le campagne e le iniziative del progetto "La ragazza di Benin City".

One hundred fifty years after the end of slavery and nearly 60 years after the passage of the civil rights laws of the 1960s, average Black household wealth in the 21st century remains a fraction of the median assets of other racial, ethnic, and immigrant populations. There are many reasons, but this book is about one: two centuries of governmental encouragement of periodic sustained surges in immigration. Governmental policies and actions have enabled employers to depress Black wages and to avoid hiring African Americans altogether.

Scopri chi sei e chi vuoi diventare. Prendi i tuoi sogni sul serio. Fai volare l'aquilone. Sii libero, Hammudi. Continua a brillare. "Mi chiamo Nicolò. E tu?" "Hammudi" dice, indicandosi. "Siria." È sfuggito alla guerra, è sopravvissuto al mare, ma il suo sorriso è enorme. Nicolò sente che rischierebbe tutto, per non spegnere quel sorriso. Intorno a loro si estende l'hotspot di Samos, un posto che assomiglia all'inferno, in cui i profughi vivono ammassati nelle tende, senza acqua né luce, tra cumuli di immondizia.

Diane Guerrero, la actriz de televisión del popular programa Orange is the New Black y de Jane the Virgin, contaba con sólo catorce años cuando un día sus padres y su hermano fueron arrestados y deportados mientras ella estaba en la escuela. Como había nacido en Estados Unidos, Guerrero pudo permanecer en el país y seguir estudiando gracias a la bondad de amigos de la familia, quienes se hicieron cargo de ella y la ayudaron a construir su propio camino y a que se convirtiera en una exitosa actriz de carrera sin tener la red de apoyo de su familia.

A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2022 'I can’t tell you how refreshing it is in these polarised times to read a book on politics that doesn’t have an axe to grind . . . an essential read.' The Sunday Times 'Subtle, sophisticated . . . compellingly told . . . This is a gentle and...

Una colección de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y soñadores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de vivir sin documentos. Durante este tiempo de inestabilidad política e incertidumbre, esta...

Born in 1960, Jesus Ruiz Henao grew up poor, but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombia’s Valle of the Cauca. To realize his ambition, Ruiz Henao moved to London, United Kingdom, in 1985. There, he and his wife settled in the quiet suburb of Hendon, where he held down mundane but respectable cleaning and bus driving jobs. At least to outward appearances....

A historical and cultural exploration of the devastating consequences of undervaluing those who conduct the “women’s work” of childcare and housekeeping In taking up the mothercoin—the work of mothering, divorced from family and exchanged in a global market—immigrant nannies embody a...

The audiobook argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north. Up Against the Wall provides the background to understanding how the border has become a fraud, resulting in nothing more than the criminalization of Mexican and other migrants, the bloating of the mismanaged US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the deterioration of living standards along the frontier, and the enrichment of American employers.