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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A timely and powerful chronicle of a generation's great civil rights battle as witnessed through the experiences of five young undocumented immigrants fighting to become Americans. We often call them DREAMers: young people who were brought or sent to the United States as children. They attend our local schools; work jobs that contribute to our economy. Some apply to attend university here, only to discover their immigration status when the time comes...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A world model: economies, trade, migration, security and development aid. This bookprovides the analytical capability to understand and explore the dynamics of globalisation. It is anchored in economic input-output models of over 200 countries and their relationships through trade, migration, security and development aid. The tools of complexity science are brought to bear and mathematical and computer models are developed both for the elements and...
344) Teacup
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A boy travels across the sea in a rowboat in search of a new home, making a journey that is long and difficult--but also filled with beauty and hope"--
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Arab American Heritage Month - Children
Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Ezra Jack Keats Award and Honor Books
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Description
"An evocative picture book that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States"--
347) The turtle of Oman
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Arab American Book Award - Children / Young Adult
Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Arab American Heritage Month - Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
Description
When Aref, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Siddi, who takes Aref around the country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"La verdadera historia del asesinato de un inmigrante que transformó un acogedor pueblo de Long Island en la zona cero de la guerra contra la inmigración. En noviembre de 2008, Marcelo Lucero, un inmigrante Ecuatoriano de treinta y siete años, fue atacado y asesinado por un grupo de adolecentes cuando caminaba por las calles de Patchogue. Los atacantes iban a "cazar beaners"--término despectivo para Latinos-- algo que formaba parte de su diversión...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Between Everything and Nothing is an epic, nonfiction narrative based on Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal's true-life journey from the unjust political system of their homeland in Ghana through the chaos of the United States' failing immigration system. Before ever meeting, both men fled the inhumane social policies of modern-day Ghana, making the perilous odyssey through the jungles of South and Central America on their own, only to arrive at the United...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Spanish & Bilingual Kids
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People K-2 2023
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Tejas Star List 2023-24 (Spanish & bilingual Gr. K-5)
NCSS / CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People K-2 2023
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Tejas Star List 2023-24 (Spanish & bilingual Gr. K-5)
Description
"Before, the sun drenched the yard. Our neighbor's laughter danced in the streets. Now, the streets are quiet. Papa is gone, and we are no longer safe here. We are leaving, too. In this moving and stunningly-illustrated picture book, Noemi and Mama flee their home in Mexico, and head for the US border. There, they look for The Notebook Keeper-- the person in charge of a ledger for those waiting to cross, and they add their names to the book. As the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A startling work of historical sleuthing and synthesis, Of Fear and Strangers reveals the forgotten histories of xenophobia-and what they mean for us today. By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea's origins. To his astonishment, he discovered an unfolding series of never-told stories. While a fear...
355) Shooting Kabul
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the 60,000 years since people began colonizing the continents, a continuous feature of human civilization has been mobility. History is replete with seismic global events-pandemics and plagues, wars and genocides. Each time, after a great catastrophe, our innate impulse toward physical security compels us to move. The map of humanity isn't settled-not now, not ever. The filled-with-crises 21st century promises to contain the most dangerous and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Como tantas millones de personas, Nelson A. Castillo llé a los Estados Unidos de la mano de su familia, en busca de una mejor vida. Su experiencia y luego su formación como abogado de inmigración se han combinado en La Tarjeta Verde para brindar una fuente de información clara y accesible para los inmigrantes que quieren llegar a conseguir la residencia permanente en este pás.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
En esta obra, la discriminación hacia los mexicanos en Estados Unidos, la violencia del sistema carcelario y la deportación de indocumentados se enriquecen con recuerdos y reflexiones sobre la vida, el arte y la filosofía. El periodista y el expandillero se mezclan y se enredan en un viaje entre la crónica y la biografía que representa la vida de muchos emigrantes.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals--from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes, to the early Polynesian adventurers who sailed across the Pacific in double canoes, the Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines,...
360) We are not from here
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But, none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in and the dangers that surround them. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala...
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