immigrants

Provides historical background information about the Fourteenth Amendment and includes essays that debate issues associated with equal protection.

This book examines the issue of discrimination again st immigrants in the United States, and looks at the laws pertaining to discrimination, community efforts to end discrimination, and gives readers ways to cope with discrimination in their lives.

Examines the evolution of the Exclusion Act, looking at the history of Chinese immigration to the United States, the reasons behind the increasing Chinese population, and subsequent attempts to prevent further immigration and encourage Chinese Americans to leave the country.

In San Jose, California, in the 1990s, teenaged Sara keeps a diary of life as an Iranian American and her discovery that she and her family entered as undocumented immigrants.

A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.

Lily Xiao can't wait to go to Camp Rock Out this summer, where she'll finally be able to shed her "class robot" good girl reputation and start her journey to becoming the next Eddie Vedder! And she can't wait to do it with her best friend and cousin, Vivian, who's just moved from Taiwan to Lily's California hometown. But as the two cousins work their way through seventh grade, Vivian struggles more and more with her schoolwork, which is all taught in English. If Vivian can't get her grades up, her parents won't let her go to rock camp. Determined to help, Lily embarks on a mission to push their school to provide more support for English-as-a-Second-Language learners like Vivian. But her first-generation immigrant family is nervous about Lily challenging the status quo. We should be grateful to be here, they always say. With Camp Rock Out on the line, Lily will need to decide how far she'll push against her family's wishes in order to stand up and speak out.

Photographs and illustrations describe immigration to America in five distinct time periods.

"A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine"--Provided by publisher.

The author recounts growing up as an undocumented Chinese immigrant in New York.

"Rivermouth is a polemic arguing for porous borders, a decriminalization of immigration, a more open sense of what we owe one another, and a willingness to extend radical empathy"--.