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Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
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Doug Saunders · 368 pages
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer · 544 pages
Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition
Silky Shah · 280 pages
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
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
The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis
Patrick Kingsley · 368 pages
"In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis, "--Amazon.com. "On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe--at least for the time being--in Egypt, where they had only just settled after fleeing their
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.
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Mae M. Ngai · 400 pages
My Life
Golda Meir · 469 pages
My Life by Golda Meir is a compelling autobiography, which tells the life of this influential woman, from her early poverty-stricken childhood in Kiev, to her tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, from 1969 to 1974. This is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russi
The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands
Margaret Regan · 221 pages
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
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
Joshua Davis · 240 pages
Home of the Brave
Edited by Dave Isay; adapted by Sarah Thomson; illustrated by Sharon De La Cruz;introduction by Jason Reynolds
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.
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.
The People Smuggler: The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi, The 'Oskar Schindler Of Asia'
Robin De Crespigny · 351 pages
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir
John Bul Dau, Michael S. Sweeney · 295 pages
"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau's harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicled in this inspiring memoir and featured in an award-winning documentary film of the same name. Movingly written, the book traces Dau's journey through hunger, exhaustion, terror, and violence as he fled his homeland, dodging ambushes, massacres
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich · 240 pages
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford · 257 pages
"Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported to Colombia while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a
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."--
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David von Drehle · 352 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
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