emigration and immigration

A recent immigrant from Ireland to San Francisco in 1880, Shannon is ready to start school, but is dismayed that her Chinese friend is forbidden by law to attend and that many of her classmates are prejudiced against the Irish as well.

Windisch, a miller in a Romanian village under the rule of dictator Ceausescu, desperate to get a passport to migrate to West Germany, sends his daughter to persuade village officials after his attempts to bribe the mayor fail.

Collects ten essays that address issues associated with emigration, discussing its effects on Mexican culture and infrastructure, the Mexican government's dependence on remittance, links between European emigration and Europe's welfare system, Christian emigration from Lebanon, brain drain, and other related topics.

Driven from their impoverished Irish village, fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway son in Liverpool while all three wait for a ship to America.

A young girl growing up in Sicily in the early 1900's longs to fulfill her father's dream for his family and seek a new life in America.

A young girl describes her feelings when her father decides to leave their home in Mexico to look for work in the United States.

A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.