emigration and immigration

Six-year-old An Mei tells the story of how she was born in China and came to live in America.

Told to make a doll like a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly's Jewish mother dresses the doll as she herself dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom--much to Molly's embarrassment.

Describes current patterns of migration around the world, including the causes and effects of immigration and emigration. Includes charts and maps.

An overview of immigration, covering its impact on the economy and society, with a discussion of U.S. immigration policy reform and how illegal immigrant issues should be handled, with illustrations, statistics, a list of key people and advocacy groups, and a chronology.

After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.

Examines immigration and reasons people decide to immigrate to particular countries, and includes individual case studies.

Defines multiculturalism, discusses the effect of immigration on it, and provides individual case studies of immigrants.

Thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871 wishing only to return home as soon as she can; however, as the months pass, she begins to adjust to living with her uncle and his family in Brooklyn.

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; their fates continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.

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.