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Book The Immigrant s Refrigerator

Download or read book The Immigrant s Refrigerator written by Elena Georgiou and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. If luck is on an author's side, a book reaches its audience at the right time. Elena Georgiou's THE IMMIGRANT'S REFRIGERATOR can confidently make this claim. Populated with a cast of characters that shine the light on what it means to be an outsider in the early part of the 21st century, this story collection takes its reader into the private lives of those who have entered a country legally, others who were forced to enter illegally, and the rest who call a country home as a result of birth; characters searching for what they need to sustain them on their journeys towards a future that will not only be a place of refuge, but also one of hope. "Quiet, yet powerful stories...Shows characters' shared humanity and the compassion and kindness that can help overcome differences. Georgiou's timely collection will appeal to any reader interested in immigration issues."--Booklist "Exquisite...At a moment when America's political response to The Other is triggering a national crisis of conscience, these poignant stories remind us of the vital role that human compassion plays in bridging ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic divides. Sustenance acquires profound meaning in these tales of endurance, hope, and the abiding power of quiet generosity."--Aimee Liu "Devastating...and still, it is a celebration of life in all of its scars and joys, chance and invention, awe and longing to be seen, and, over and over, a testament to the tender, transformative power of acceptance and love."--Rahna Reiko Rizzuto "Dazzlingly good...I loved this collection."--John McManus

Book Reports of the Immigration Commission  Immigrants in industries  in twenty five parts

Download or read book Reports of the Immigration Commission Immigrants in industries in twenty five parts written by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Food   Material Culture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark McWilliams
  • Publisher : Oxford Symposium
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 1909248401
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book Food Material Culture written by Mark McWilliams and published by Oxford Symposium. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays on food and material culture presented at the 2013 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

Book Sonny  the Immigrants  Son

Download or read book Sonny the Immigrants Son written by Nickolas Bay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Depression in the early thirties created hardships for most families in the United States, but none greater than those experienced by its new immigrants. Sonny, an immigrantsa son, is returning to the United States on the troopship General Richardson, which sailed from Le Harve, France, on October of 1946. Sonnyas memories of his childhood are triggered by the sight of the Statue of Liberty as he stands at the shipas rail with a colored sergeant who, unbelievably, lived in one of the neighborhoods where Sonny fought for his daily survival. They share war experiences and memories of the old neighborhood. Serious episodes including an encounter with a pedophile at the age of fivea]humorous ones like hiding under Old Glory from his mother, thinking he was being drowned in a baptismal tank, and why his father called him the horse manure king. Sonny left as a boy and returned from the service a man: Sergeant Nickolas Bay, a nineteen- year-old veteran of the Second World War.

Book Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel

Download or read book Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Israel written by Tanya Schwarz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ethnographic study of Ethiopian Jews, or Beta Israel, a few years after their migration from rural Ethiopia to urban Israel. For the Beta Israel, the most significant issue is not, as is commonly assumed, adaptation to modern society, but rather 'belonging' in their new homeland, and the loss of control they are experiencing over their lives and those of their children. Ethiopian Jewish immigrants resist those aspects of the dominant society which they dislike: they reject normative Jewish practices and uphold Beta Israel religious and cultural ones, ideologically counteract disparaging Israeli attitudes, develop strong ethnic bonds and engage in overt forms of resistance. The difficulties of the present are also overcome by creating a perfect past and an ideal future: in what the author calls 'the homeland postponed', all Jews will be united in a colour-blind world of material plenty and purity.

Book Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants

Download or read book Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants written by Elena Georgiou and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Elena Georgiou's second collection, RHAPSODY OF THE NAKED IMMIGRANTS, prompts us beyond the question "Where are you from?" to more complicated questions regarding multiple migrations, invasions, post-colonial freedom, and the ability to board international flights. "Elena Georgiou has the unbordered tongue of an immigrant. Her poems travel through the public and private geographies of citizenship, building homes made of bodies and language. Her work is an alphabet, a Greek chorus, a praise poem for the English language and its many tongues. It is your visa to the poetry of immigration"--Lisa Birman. "She reminds us, through the eyes of 'immigrant' experiences, that we too must be our own `Expatriate Cartographer' if we are to navigate and survive the losses and gains of living through change and eruption.... Remarkably brave"--Jenny Boully. "Immigrant questions become questions of how to love, how to adhere to an `earth ... cut in half.' Elena Georgiou's beautiful book of poems is ... a `map ... of silk countries,' folded and unfolding"--Bhanu Kapil. A choreography of names, places, and the forbidden worn by figures over a shared landscape--urban, rural, in between.

Book Where We Come From

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oscar Cásares
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2020-04-07
  • ISBN : 0525564926
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Where We Come From written by Oscar Cásares and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEWS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR “A richly conceived and devastating book about the border.” —Houston Chronicle From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations, and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it’s simply where his godmother Nina lives—and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother’s sudden death. Nina, however, has a secret: she’s providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another. Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. And Orly’s arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure. Tackling the crisis of U.S. immigration policy from a deeply human angle, Where We Come From explores through an intimate lens the ways that family history shapes us, how secrets can burden us, and how finding compassion and understanding for others can ultimately set us free.

Book The Immigrants

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  • Author : Tony Simpson
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2012-08-01
  • ISBN : 177553264X
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Immigrants written by Tony Simpson and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating social, economic and political story of nineteenth century immigration to New Zealand. In the nineteenth century, several hundred thousand left their homeland bound for New Zealand. In this fascinating book, Tony Simpson describes what is one of the most astonishing periods of migration in history. Against the social, economic and political background in both countries, he presents the human story - the harrowing experiences of the journey and life in a new country - and looks at the importance of immigration to New Zealanders.

Book Immigrants in industries

Download or read book Immigrants in industries written by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigrants in industries

Download or read book Immigrants in industries written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Round Ireland with a Fridge

Download or read book Round Ireland with a Fridge written by Tony Hawks and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the author's experiences hitchhiking on a bet all the way around Ireland with a small refrigerator, and shares his impressions of the people and places along the way.

Book Factors in the Adjustment of Immigrants and Their Descendants

Download or read book Factors in the Adjustment of Immigrants and Their Descendants written by Anthony H. Richmond and published by Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada. This book was released on 1980 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Invisible Immigrants

Download or read book Invisible Immigrants written by Marilyn Barber and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last major wave of emigration between the 1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the aspirations, adventures, occasional naïveté, and challenges of these hidden immigrants. Postwar English immigrants believed they were moving to a familiar British country. Instead, like other immigrants, they found they had to deal with separation from home and family while adapting to a new country, a new landscape, and a new culture. Although English immigrants did not appear visibly different from their new neighbours, as soon as they spoke, they were immediately identified as “foreign.” Barber and Watson reveal the personal nature of the migration experience and how socio-economic structures, gender expectations, and marital status shaped possibilities and responses. In postwar North America dramatic changes in both technology and the formation of national identities influenced their new lives and helped shape their memories. Their stories contribute to our understanding of postwar immigration and fill a significant gap in the history of English migration to Canada.

Book Border Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julie Hirschfeld Davis
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-10-08
  • ISBN : 1982117419
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Border Wars written by Julie Hirschfeld Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two New York Times Washington correspondents provide a detailed, “fact-based account of what precipitated some of this administration’s more brazen assaults on immigration” (The Washington Post) filled with never-before-told stories of this key issue of Donald Trump’s presidency. No issue matters more to Donald Trump and his administration than restricting immigration. Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear have covered the Trump administration from its earliest days. In Border Wars, they take us inside the White House to document how Stephen Miller and other anti-immigration officials blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated families, threatened deportation, and sought to erode the longstanding bipartisan consensus that immigration and immigrants make positive contributions to America. Their revelation of Trump’s desire for a border moat filled with alligators made national news. As the authors reveal, Trump has used immigration to stoke fears (“the caravan”), attack Democrats and the courts, and distract from negative news and political difficulties. As he seeks reelection in 2020, Trump has elevated immigration in the imaginations of many Americans into a national crisis. Border Wars identifies the players behind Trump’s anti-immigration policies, showing how they planned, stumbled and fought their way toward changes that have further polarized the nation. “[Davis and Shear’s] exquisitely reported Border Wars reveals the shattering horror of the moment, [and] the mercurial unreliability and instability of the president” (The New York Times Book Review).

Book With Poor Immigrants to America

Download or read book With Poor Immigrants to America written by Stephen Graham and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishman tries to experience the immigration process the way the poor of Russia and Europe do, traveling from NYC to Chicago (often on foot).

Book The World in Us

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Lassell
  • Publisher : St Martins Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780312209438
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book The World in Us written by Michael Lassell and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of poetry written by both new and established gay and lesbian writers, with themes including love, loneliness, ethnicity, and politics.

Book Industrial Refrigeration

Download or read book Industrial Refrigeration written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: