emigration and immigration

Presents a comprehensive overview of the history of U.S. immigration and migration, covering such topics as pre-Columbian migrations, forced migrations, and urbanization; eighteen primary sources; and biographies of fifty significant figures.

Presents biographical profiles of fifty significant figures in the history of U.S. immigration and migration and includes a time line, a glossary, and research and activity ideas.

Presents twenty-two original essays in which first generation immigrant women discuss their introduction to America, addressing issues such as identity, ethnicity, race, and Americanization.

Provides access to a wide diversity of opinions about, Mexico, also stimulating readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Selections by experts, policy makers, and concerned citizens include complete articles and speeches, long book excerpts, and occasional cartoons and boxed quotations.

"A former Border Patrol agent's haunting experience of an unnatural divide and the lives caught on either side, struggling to cross or to defend it"--Provided by publisher.

Helps readers understand who immigrants are, why they come to other countries, and what people can do to help them feel at home.

"'Strangers No More' is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries--France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands--and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions--from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems--and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage"--Publisher.

Simple text and illustrations introduce several cultures found in the United States due to immigration. Presented in Spanish.

Fifteen-year-old Abdul, having lost everyone he loves, journeys from Baghdad to a migrant community in Calais where he sneaks aboard a boat bound for England, not knowing it carries a cargo of heroin, and when the vessel is involved in a skirmish and the pilot killed, it is up to Abdul and three other young stowaways to complete the journey.

"Tells the story in pictures of a family newly immigrated to the United Sates and the challenges of starting a life in a new place"--Provided by publisher.