Download or read book The Musings of a Migrant written by Norma McGuire and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the hills of Arkansas to the fields of California, these are the "Musings of a Migrant" drawn from the diaries, documents, and conversations of the Cribbs and Holifield families. Share this trip through time with Norma as she shares the labor camps, tent life, and many journeys that led to a family's dream home.
Download or read book A Migrant s Musings and Other Offerings to an Adopted Land written by Perminder Sachdev and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a migrant. I once grew wings and flew far away from home. I found a new abode, and attempted to make a new home. I encountered new customs. The language was alien to me. The food was unpalatable. My manner was different and frequently unacceptable. I spoke with a strange accent. My name was unpronounceable. My hair, the colour of my skin, my dress - all were varyingly objects of curiosity or ridicule. Having come with no possessions, I was poor. For those who did not know I was a medical doctor, I had no status. The seasons were alien to me; the Sun traversed the wrong sky. I had not been driven from my home by fear or lack of opportunity. I was not a refugee or an economic migrant. I was not a "happiness seeker" of Wilders. Perhaps a restless soul! I did find a new home. Nay, I created a new home. I found love. I bought a piece of land. I made a family. My children knew no other home. The stars still shone in different constellations. The colour of my skin did not change to white. The mirror still looked strangely at me. But a voice deep in my inner crevice was content. For some time, I was happy. This was a tolerant land. My hosts were generous. They let me fend for myself, mostly without judgement or interference. I learnt to like the red clay and the vast open spaces. The gum tree had a personality all its own. The cockatoo was no longer shrill, and the kookaburra soothed my soul. I had adopted my new country. Indeed, for some time I thought I was in Paradise. I had burrowed deep within and found an ocean of joy. No one could hate me, for I gave back love. I had enough to clothe and feed my family. No mendicant went hungry from my door. The stars now had a familiar celestial march. The promise did not last. The smile slowly faded from half my face. There was a distant home that beckoned in the dark of the night. It was imbued with childhood and fun, love and happiness. It was peopled with parents and siblings, friends and loved ones who pined for me as much. Only the pure memories had survived, and they grew powerful by the day. The new home was paradise, full of grandeur and luxury, but it was like a silken web. It wound around my body, tighter and tighter. I was afraid it might suffocate me. Few would understand this migrant's pain in the midst of plenty. It is worse than a lovers' parting. It puts to shame a beggar's hunger. For it has no voice. It is fainter than an orphan's cry. It lies hidden, like the fire of the pepper and the oil in the seed. This migrant did not wish it to be seen. It was deep in my cortex, buried in the tiny cells of my amygdala. I realised I had left one half of myself behind, in a distant land. I dream of going home to die. I wish to become one again with the land of my birth. But where is my home? One created me; the other nurtured me. Should I forget the past, and embrace what's warm? Or should I give in to the misty vision of old? Will my smile ever travel to my whole face, or am I condemned to a split mind? And if I return, will there be someone to welcome me when my loved ones are gone? What will wipe these tears of blood? What will unshackle this tortured mind? I plucked a reed and dipped it in ink. I found joy in my verse. It gave me beauty and freedom and faith. It healed the divide. All I have taken, I give you back in poetry. I do not ask for praise or acclaim or commendation. No, not even a thank you! All I ask...When I am goneLook not for me in a graveyard;Listen to me dancingOn the lips of all migrants.
Download or read book A Migrant s Musings written by Alvaro Blanco and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful story delves deep into the vibrant city of Tijuana, the unsuspected meeting point of hopeful travellers from all over the world. Focusing on the two Central American migrant caravans that arrived on the border city in 2018, A Migrant's Musings explores the phenomenon of migration toward the American dream from the unusual perspective of a European stuck in Tijuana with his sights set on the U.S. However, his journey is vastly different than that of the thousands of people who risk everything to get a second chance at life in the land of dreams.
Download or read book Musings and Memories of Migrant Scenes in Minnesota written by Lila Henley and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Migrant Times and Other Musings written by George Boursaw and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author George Boursaw relates an engaging collection of his childhood experience and memories of the camps -- temporary villages where the migrant workers came to work on the family farm near Traverse City, Michigan. There they lived in tents, cooked on kerosene stoves and lit the tents with kerosene lamps. He also shares some other life experiences and musings since then offering his unique perspectives.--Back cover.
Download or read book Healthcare in Motion written by Cecilia Vindrola-Padros and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the need to obtain and deliver health services engender particular (im)mobility forms? And how is mobility experienced and imagined when it is required for healthcare access or delivery? Guided by these questions, Healthcare in Motion explores the dynamic interrelationship between mobility and healthcare, drawing on case studies from across the world and shedding light on the day-to-day practices of patients and professionals.
Download or read book China s Second Continent written by Howard W. French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future. One of the Best Books of the Year at • The Economist • The Guardian • Foreign Affairs
Download or read book My Name is Not Refugee written by Kate Milner and published by Barrington Stoke Picture Books. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching, timely and tender exploration of refugees and migration for the youngest readers.
Download or read book Momentous Mobilities written by Noel B. Salazar and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining mobility -- Chile : traveling to and from the end of the world -- Indonesia : Merantau and modernity -- Tanzania : the Maasai as icons of mobility -- Enacting mobility -- Education : leaving to learn -- Labor : capitalizing on movement -- Life's "pilgrimage" : travel, travail, transformation
Download or read book A Book of Migrations written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, A Book of Migrations carves a new route through Ireland’s history, literature and landscape.
Download or read book Floating on a Malayan Breeze written by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own paths. Malaysia has given preference to the majority Malay Muslims—the bumiputera, or sons of the soil. Singapore, meanwhile, has tried to build a meritocracy—ostensibly colour-blind, yet more encouraging perhaps to some Singaporeans than to others. How have these policies affected ordinary people? How do these two divergent nations now see each other and the world around them? Seeking answers to these questions, two Singaporeans set off to cycle around Peninsular Malaysia, armed with a tent, two pairs of clothes and a daily budget of three US dollars each. They spent 30 days on the road, cycling through every Malaysian state, and chatting with hundreds of Malaysians. Not satisfied, they then went on to interview many more people in Malaysia and Singapore. What they found are two countries that have developed economically but are still struggling to find their souls.
Download or read book Cities and Immigration written by Avner De-Shalit and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All over the world immigration is one of the most urgent political issues, creating tensions and unrest as well as questions of justice and fairness. Academics as well as politicians have been relating to the question of how states should cope with immigrants; but 96% of immigrants end up in cities, and in Europe and the USA, two thirds of the immigrants settle in seven or eight cities. Indeed, most of us encounter with immigrants as city-zens, in our everyday life, rather than as citizens of states. So how should cities integrate immigrants? Should cities be allowed to design their autonomous integration policies? Could they issue visas and permits to immigrants? Should immigrants be granted voting rights in local elections before naturalization? And how do cities think about these issues? What can we learn from cities which are thought to be successful in integrating and assimilating immigrants? Is there a model of integration within the city which is best? The book discusses these questions both empirically and normatively. The book is based on hundreds of in depth discussions of these matters with city dwellers in San Francisco, New York, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Thessaloniki and Jerusalem. It shifts the discourse on immigration from 'thinking like a state' to 'thinking like a city' .
Download or read book Migrants written by Sam Miller and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph 'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator 'Timely and empathetic: a rare combination on this most controversial issue' Remi Adekoya, author of Biracial Britain 'Tremendous: blends the personal and the panoramic to great effect' Robert Winder, author of Bloody Foreigners Humans are, in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. For most of our existence , we were all nomads, and some of us still are. Houses and permanent settlements are a relatively late development - dating back little more than twelve thousand years. Borders and passports are much more recent. From the Neanderthals, Alexander the Great, Christopher Columbus and Pocahontas to the African slave trade, Fu Manchu, and Barack Obama, Migrants shows us that it is only by understanding how migration and migrants have been viewed in the past, that we can re-set the terms of the modern-day debate about migration. Migrants presents us with an alternative history of the world, in which migration is restored to the heart of the human story. And in which humans migrate for a wide range of reasons: not just because of civil war, or poverty or climate change but also out of curiosity and a sense of adventure. On arrival, migrants are expected both to assimilate and encouraged to remain distinctive; to defend their heritage and adopt a new one. They are sub-human and super-human; romanticised and castigated, admired and abhorred. Migrants tells us that this is not a new narrative; this is the history of us all, part of everybody's backstory - for those who consider themselves migrants and those who do not.
Download or read book A Book of Migrations written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant meditation on travel." ”The New York Times
Download or read book Ethnography And The Historical Imagination written by John Comaroff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained, eroded, and negated? How does the social imagination take shape in novel yet collectively meaningful ways? Addressing these questions, the essays in this volume–several never before published–work toward an "imaginative sociology," demonstrating the techniques by which social science may capture the contexts that human beings construct and inhabit. In the introduction, the authors offer their most complete statement to date on the nature of historical anthropology. Standing apart from the traditional disciplines of social history and modernist social science, their work is dedicated to discovering how human worlds are made and signified, forgotten and remade.
Download or read book Ru written by Kim Thúy and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thúy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland. Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.
Download or read book The Colonial Epoch in Africa written by Gregory Maddox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles collected in this study, first published in 1993, concentrates on the transformation and continuities in African societies during the height of the colonial era, and explores the struggles by Africans to find space – socially, politically, or economically – within the confines of colonial rule. This title will be of interest to students of African history and Imperialism.
