Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World

Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

Seth Holmes · 264 pages

"Based on five years of research in the field (including berry-picking and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, uncovers how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care."--

Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West

Christopher Caldwell · 384 pages

Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has tra

Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Silky Shah · 280 pages

Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

Ronald Takaki · 570 pages

Ronald Takaki, an expert in Asian American history and a former Ethnic Studies professor at Berkeley, tells the story of immigrants from Asia from the spike of immigration in the mid 1800s to the restrictions placed in the late 1800s to modern day immigration. An engaging and vital overview of the field.

Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century

Paul Collier · 318 pages

In Exodus, Paul Collier, the world-renowned economist and bestselling author of The Bottom Billion, clearly and concisely lays out the effects of encouraging or restricting migration. Drawing on original research and case studies, he explores this volatile issue from three perspectives: that of the migrants tmeselves, that of the people they leave behind, and that of the host societies where they

Ethnic America: A History

Thomas Sowell · 368 pages

'Tis A Memoir

Frank McCourt · 512 pages

How the Other Half Lives

Jacob A. Riis · 246 pages

A photographic collection exposing social conditions and daily life in the slums of late 19th century New York City. The title of the book is a reference to a sentence by French writer and philosopher François Rabelais, who famously wrote in his Pantagruel : "one half of the world does not know how the other half lives" ("la moitié du monde ne sait pas comment l'autre vit").

Mexifornia: A State of Becoming

Victor Davis Hanson · 150 pages

Massive illegal immigration from Mexico into California, Victor Davis Hanson writes, "coupled with a loss of confidence in the old melting pot model of transforming newcomers into Americans, is changing the very nature of state. Yet we Californians have been inadequate in meeting this challenge, both failing to control our borders with Mexico and to integrate the new alien population into our main

How the Irish Became White

Noel Ignatiev · 274 pages

How the Irish Became White explodes a number of myths surrounding race in our society. Focusing on how the Irish were assimilated as "whites" in America, Noel Ignatiev uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish Americans and African Americans and draws a powerful connection between Irish "success" in nineteenth-century American society and their embrace of white supremacy. - Jacket flap.

Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream

Joshua Davis · 240 pages

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell · 320 pages

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their

This is London: Life and Death in the World City

Ben Judah · 390 pages

London is a global city. More than half of those who live in the UK's capital came from somewhere else - and most arrived in the last ten years. Migration is transforming London, for better and for worse. Ben Judah turns his reporter's eye on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of the city's immigrants - from the richest to the poorest - to discover the complex and varied individuals who a

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair · 342 pages

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled for their share of the American dream. Denounced by the conservative press as an un-American libel on the meatpacking industry, the book was c

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer · 544 pages

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

Mae M. Ngai · 400 pages

The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands

Margaret Regan · 221 pages

Home of the Brave

Edited by Dave Isay; adapted by Sarah Thomson; illustrated by Sharon De La Cruz;introduction by Jason Reynolds

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

Juan Gonzalez · 369 pages

Includes chapters on Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans in general, Colombians, and Panamanians.

Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America

Helen Thorpe · 387 pages

"Just Like Us" offers a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver--two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don't--and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream.

Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race

Matthew Frye Jacobson · 345 pages

America's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new

The People Smuggler: The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi, The 'Oskar Schindler Of Asia'

Robin De Crespigny · 351 pages

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

Douglas Murray · 363 pages

This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities in Europe, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them.

American Passage: The History of Ellis Island

Vincent J. Cannato · 487 pages

For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world