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In Immigrant Life: How the US Can Impact Immigrants, Michelle Lavaud delivers the viewpoint of a Haiti-born citizen, alongside the joys and sorrows attached to her daily life.

Si stanno muovendo a decine, a centinaia, a migliaia: caricano tutto ciò che hanno sulla macchina e si trasferiscono per sempre in cima a un monte, in mezzo a una vallata, al margine di un bosco, in un borgo solitario. Alle spalle si lasciano le grandi città con le loro mille luci e i loro mille rumori, le strade congestionate da un traffico senza inizio né fine, l’aria condizionata degli uffici, gli avocado toast, i miniappartamenti dai prezzi insostenibili. è il grande ritorno collettivo verso la terra; e sta avvenendo proprio qui, ogni giorno, sotto i nostri occhi.

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a "climate refugee" under current U.S. law. Most initiatives intended to assist those who must migrate are flawed and ineffective from inception because they are derived from outmoded policies. In a world of climate change, U.S. refugee policy simply does not work.

Representing non-citizens caught up in what he calls the immigration and enforcement “meat grinder”, Bill Ong Hing witnessed their trauma, arriving at this conclusion: migrants should have the right to free movement across borders—and the right to live free of harassment over immigration status. He cites examples of racial injustices endemic in immigration law and enforcement, from historic courtroom cases to the recent treatment of Haitian migrants.

Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter’s health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an immigration status—it would be a way of living, of mothering, and of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to care.

At the age of 5, he arrived at a Greyhound bus station in California, transplanted from Mexico City into the pervasive sounds of English. Now with the ink still fresh on his Juris Doctor diploma, he looks back on the journey with the rigorous training he acquired in law school as he compellingly weaves together a vivid interpretation of the raw experiences that drove him along that journey—across his childhood experiences with violence and exclusion for being Spanish-speaking, his struggles to succeed in school despite the limits of poverty.

San Tran Croucher’s earliest memories are of fleeing ethnic attacks in her Vietnamese village, only to be later tortured in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Katya Cengel met San when San was 75-years-old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer. But San’s family’s troubles didn’t end after their resettlement in California

When Fidel Castro assumed military and political power of Cuba in 1959, the future of millions of Cuban citizens became unsure. The Cuban Revolution set in motion an immigration train for the Bello and Machado families that lasted more than 30 years and spanned three generations.

After stowing away as a boy to come to America around 1905, an Italian immigrant sculptor later stands firm in his love for an unfaithful woman. Trapped behind enemy lines during World War II, he and his family go on to save over 600 Allied troops. This is the epic multi-generational, true story of Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta and family. His story was only partially told in a 1953 episode of This Is Your Life. Salvatore’s role in WWII is just one of the many stories found throughout this book.

Throughout history, smugglers have trafficked humans for slave labor and prostitution, also taking advantage of some refugees’ ability to pay exorbitant amounts of money for safe passage.

Migrare significa volare via e scegliere, come fanno gli uccelli, un posto migliore, o che pensiamo tale. Francesca Paci, in ogni puntata, racconterà una storia di spostamento, di cambiamento di posizione, la storia di chi sceglie un altro luogo fisico, ma anche mentale. Buon viaggio.

Dal racconto di Pietro Bartolo, il medico di Lampedusa, alla testimonianza di chi ha dovuto arrivare via mare in Italia e chiedere protezione per migliorare il proprio futuro: il lungo e difficile percorso di migliaia di migranti tra leggi, burocrazia e scelte spesso arbitrarie.

Il secondo podcast di ActionAid, l'organizzazione non governativa impegnata in Italia e in numerosi contesti globali nel contrasto alle disuguaglianze, ha l'intento di raccontare la tematica delle migrazioni e degli sbarchi, fornendo uno strumento per comprendere il mondo "nascosto" dietro a questo fenomeno.

Most Holocaust survivors who came to the US after WWII settled in big cities, but some chose an alternative way of life on American farms. More of these accidental farmers wound up raising chickens in southern New Jersey than anywhere else. Speaking Yiddish to Chickens is the first book to chronicle this chapter in American Jewish history when these refugees—including the author's grandparents—found an unlikely gateway to new lives in the US on poultry farms.

Hay una generación en nuestros países latinoamericanos que han sufrido la separación de sus padres que han emigrado a Norteamérica buscando el sueño americano. En esta búsqueda de fortuna y bien vivir quedaron niños y adolescentes con familiares sufriendo rechazo, miedo, maltrato y otros tipos de abusos. El cuidado y afecto de papá y mamá nunca serán reemplazados por otros familiares. Debemos hablar de estos temas que tanto han afectado el desarrollo emocional de esta generación.

Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala-and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended.

Ein Buch über Heimat. Und Liebe. Und Liebeskummer. Ein Buch über uns alle. In "Kampf und Sehnsucht in der Mitte der Gesellschaft" schreibt der Theologe und Autor Stephan Anpalagan über Heimat. Unsere Heimat. Es ist ein Buch über Menschen, die sagen "Ich liebe dieses Land so sehr. Aber dieses Land liebt mich nicht zurück." Es ist eine Geschichte über den Liebeskummer, den Menschen verspüren, die seit Jahren, Jahrzehnten und Generationen in unserem Land leben und dennoch keine Heimat finden.

Embark on an enlightening and empowering journey towards becoming a proud United States citizen with Mastering the US Citizenship Test: 2023-2024. This comprehensive and meticulously crafted guide is designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and confidence needed to pass the challenging US citizenship test with flying colors.

Anthropologist Michael Jackson predicates his intellectual autobiography, Worlds Within and Worlds Without, on the view that works and lives are intimately entangled. Through a skillful interweaving of personal and ethnographic descriptions, he focuses on the imaginative and practical ways human beings negotiate the space between worlds they call their own, and worlds they regard as lying beyond their immediate purview.

The Dispossessed tells the story of a twenty-four-year-old Salvadoran man, Arnovis, whose family's search for safety shows how the United States-in concert with other Western nations-has gutted asylum protections for the world's most vulnerable.

One of the most potent issues on the Right has been the chaos and lawlessness on America’s southern border. In Biden’s Border Crisis, Mark Morgan assesses the crisis from a law enforcement perspective. We’ve been looking at the problem all wrong, he argues—this isn’t a cultural or a political issue—it’s about national security. Either we run the border, or cartels will. There’s no in-between, Morgan emphasizes.