The Immigrant Experience In America

Author : Harald Bauder,John Shields
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551307145

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Immigrant Experiences in North America by Harald Bauder,John Shields Pdf

Immigration, settlement, and integration are vital issues in the twenty-first century—they propel economic development, transform cities and towns, shape political debate, and challenge established national identities. This original collection provides the first comprehensive introduction to the contemporary immigrant experience in both the United States and Canada by exploring national, regional, and metropolitan contexts. With essays by an interdisciplinary team of American and Canadian scholars, this volume explores major themes such as immigration policy; labour markets and the economy; gender; demographic and settlement patterns; health, well-being, and food security; education; and media. Each chapter includes instructive case examples, recommended further readings, links to web-based resources, and questions for critical thought. Engaging and accessible, Immigrant Experiences in North America will appeal to students and instructors across the social sciences, including geography, political science, sociology, policy studies, and urban and regional planning.

Author : Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler
Publisher : Scholastic Reference
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439162971

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We are Americans by Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler Pdf

A history of immigration to America, from speculation about the earliest immigrants to the present day.

Author : Wendy Ewald
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780316484978

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America Border Culture Dreamer by Wendy Ewald Pdf

First- and second-generation immigrants to the US from all around the world collaborate with renowned photographer Wendy Ewald to create a stunning, surprising catalog of their experiences from A to Z. In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Wendy helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives. America Border Culture Dreamer presents Wendy and the students' poignant and powerful images and definitions along with their personal stories of change, hardship, and hope. Created in a collaboration with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, this book casts a new light on the crucial, under-heard voices of teenage immigrants themselves, making a vital contribution to the timely national conversation about immigration in America.

Author : GLOBE
Publisher : GLOBE
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0835923134

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Voices of America by GLOBE Pdf

Introduce students to key social studies events that changed the course of history With these six softcover texts, your students will explore key historical events that shaped the course of history-The Vietnam War, The Holocaust, Voices of America (The Immigrant Experience), The Great Migration (African American Journey North), The Civil Rights Movement, and Somos Mexicanos (Mexican Americans in the U.S.). Reading Level: 5-6 Interest Level: 6-12

Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807072354

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I Begin My Life All Over by Lillian Faderman Pdf

I Begin My Life All Over is an oral history of 36 real-life strangers in a strange land, an intimate study of the immigrant experience in contemporary America.

Author : Thomas C. Wheeler
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : 0140215751

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The Immigrant Experience by Thomas C. Wheeler Pdf

Author : Roya Hakakian
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780525565925

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A Beginner's Guide to America by Roya Hakakian Pdf

A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of human beings endure when they uproot their lives to become Americans by choice" (The Boston Globe). Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some Americans, and the unceasing generosity of others. She captures the texture of life in a new place in all its complexity, laying bare both its beauty and its darkness as she discusses race, sex, love, death, consumerism, and what it is like to be from a country that is in America's crosshairs. Her tenderly perceptive and surprisingly humorous account invites us to see ourselves as we appear to others, making it possible for us to rediscover our many American gifts through the perspective of the outsider. In shattering myths and embracing painful contradictions that are unique to this place, A Beginner's Guide to America is Hakakian's candid love letter to America.

Author : Cristina Henríquez
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385680745

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The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez Pdf

A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to millions of Americans as it tells the story of the love between a Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl: teenagers living in an apartment block of immigrant families like their own. After their daughter Maribel suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras leave Mexico and come to America. But upon settling at Redwood Apartments, a two-storey cinderblock complex just off a highway in Delaware, they discover that Maribel's recovery--the piece of the American Dream on which they've pinned all their hopes--will not be easy. Every task seems to confront them with language, racial and cultural obstacles. At Redwood also lives Mayor Toro, a high school sophomore whose family arrived from Panama fifteen years ago. Mayor sees in Maribel something others do not: that beyond her lovely face, and beneath the damage she's sustained, is a gentle, funny and wise spirit. But as the two grow closer, violence casts a shadow over all their futures in America. Peopled with deeply sympathetic characters, the novel unfolds during a single transformative year, telling a riveting and poignant story of unflinching honesty and humanity and an unforgettable, wholly unsentimental tale of young love; and offering a new, resonant definition of what it means to be an American. An instant classic is born.

Author : Frank J. Coppa,Thomas J. Curran
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0805784063

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The Immigrant Experience in America by Frank J. Coppa,Thomas J. Curran Pdf

Author : Carlos Teixeira,Wei Li
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781442622906

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The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities by Carlos Teixeira,Wei Li Pdf

Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent. Using a variety of methodologies, contributors from both countries present original research on a range of issues connected to housing and economic experiences. They offer both a broad overview and a series of detailed case studies that highlight the experiences of particular communities. This volume demonstrates that, while the United States and Canada have much in common when it comes to urban development, there are important structural and historical differences between the immigrant experiences in these two countries.

Author : Walter A. Ewing
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538100516

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Immigrant Experiences by Walter A. Ewing Pdf

Immigrant Experiences: Why Immigrants Come to the United States and What They Find When They Get Here weaves together detailed historical and contemporary examples of immigration to the United States that move beyond hackneyed stereotypes about immigrants to give readers a fact-based understanding of why and how immigration occurs. Discussing immigration from the 1800s to today, Ewing explores the motivations, challenges, and triumphs of various immigrant groups, including the Irish, Italians, Mexicans, Chinese, and Indians. Tackling issues of discrimination and assimilation, this book looks at how immigrants have added to the American culture and way of life, and what to expect going forward.

Author : Alixa Naff
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0809318962

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Becoming American by Alixa Naff Pdf

Alixa Naff explores the experiences of Arabic-speaking immigrants to the United States before World War II, focusing on the pre-World War I pioneering generation that set the pattern for settlement and assimilation. Unlike many immigrants who were driven to the United States by dreams of industrial jobs or to escape religious or economic persecution, these artisans and owners of small, disconnected plots of land came to America to engage in the enterprise of peddling. Most of these immigrants planned to stay two or three years and return to their homelands wealthier and prouder than when they left.

Author : Dinaw Mengestu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101217566

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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu Pdf

Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again. Watch a QuickTime interview with Dinaw Mengestu about this book.

Author : Ayad Akhtar
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316192828

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American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar Pdf

From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.

Author : Ben Morreale,Robert Carola
Publisher : Hugh Lauter Levin Assc
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0883631261

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Italian Americans by Ben Morreale,Robert Carola Pdf

A colorful narrative of the "Italian experience" in America traces the history of this ethnic community in the new world and celebrates its accomplishments from Frank Sinatra to Lee Iacocca.