Ciencias sociales / Emigración e Inmigración

Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration

de Marie Friedmann Marquardt, Timothy J Steigenga & Philip J. Williams

In June 2012, President Obama’s executive order enforcing parts of the Dream Act and the Supreme Court’s decision to block components of Arizona’s draconian immigration law propelled the immigration debate...

The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration

de David Goodhart

One of Britain's most influential centre-left thinkers examines UK immigration policy and argues that there have been unforeseen consequences which urgently need to be addressed.

In The British Dream, David Goodhart...

Hope and Glory: Epic Stories of Empire and Commonwealth

de Melissa Blackburn, Steve Humphries & Nick Maddocks

This work covers tales from local people whose journey through life has taken them from their homeland to Britain as well as those who left the Southwest for a life overseas. Testimonies and reconstructions...

The Winged Seed: A Remembrance

de Li-Young Lee

A reissue of acclaimed poet Li-Young Lee's heart-wrenching memoir, with a new foreword by the author and never-before-seen photos.

African Immigrants in a Diverse United States

de Edward Lama Wonkeryor

Provides an overview of the involuntary and voluntary immigration of people of African nativity to the United States, a discussion of the pre- and post-1960 African immigrant experience, and includes statistics...

Yokohama Yankee: My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan

de Leslie Helm

A sweeping memoir about a foreign family's five generations as outsiders in Japan.

Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution

de Jeb Bush & Clint Bolick

The immigration debate has challenged our nation since its founding. But today, it divides Americans more stridently than ever, due to a chronic failure of national leadership by both parties. Here at last is...

From Exile to Eden: A Family Journal

de Jadwiga Szelazek Morrison

Combining history and hardship, battles and betrayal, miraculous escapes and death-defying encounters, From Exile to Eden chronicles one family’s journey from deportation in Siberia to safety and freedom in...

The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855: Glengarry and Beyond

de Lucille H. Campey

Scots, some of Upper Canada's earliest pioneers, influenced its early development. This book charts the progress of Scottish settlement throughout the province.

The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

de Vivek Wadhwa & Alex Salkever

A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Many of the United States’ most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla,...

Morir en el Intento

de Jorge Ramos

La aterradora historia de un viaje sin regreso...

Cada día, cientos de personas toman incalculables riesgos para cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo y mejores oportunidades...

The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?

de Doug Saunders

From the author of prize-winning Arrival City, a controversial and long-overdue rejoinder to the excessive fears of an Islamic threat that have spread throughout America and Europe and threaten our basic values....

Never Look Back: The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945

de Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz

Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in...

Imperial Immigrants: The Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815-1840

de Michael E. E. Vance

Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa Valley. These government-assisted emigrations, which began immediately after the Napoleonic...

The Other Side: Growing up Italian in America

de Vincent Panella

The Other Side is a sensitive, candid portrait of an immigrant culture from a third-generation perspective. Vincent Panella portrays his family in Italian villages and American neighborhoods, and what emerges...

Chinese Society in Thailand: An Analytical History

de G. William Skinner

A history analyzing the relationship between Thais and Chinese immigrants in Thailand. Published in 1957, it includes a contemporary description of Chinese society in Thailand at a time when China was a newly-emerged...

After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852

de Lucille H. Campey

The arrival of the Hector in 1773 sparked a huge influx of Scots to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. This extensively documented book is a must for historians and genealogists.

The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again

de Michael Barone

Sometime in this century, we are told, the United States will become a “majority-minority” country—that is, a nation where whites make up less than 50 percent of the population. Many believe this signals...

Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return

de Celia Sorhaindo & Polly Pattullo

What happens when people return to the land of their birth after decades away? The migrants' journey is a well-told story but much less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is it like to...

Due Process Denied: Detentions and Deportations in the United States

de Tanya Golash-Boza

Due process protections are among the most important Constitutional protections in the United States, yet they do not apply to non-citizens facing detention and deportation. Due Process Denied describes the...