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"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"--.

"With unprecedented access to people currently inside Libyan detention centers, Hayden's book is based on interviews with hundreds of refugees and migrants who tried to reach Europe and found themselves stuck in Libya once the EU started funding interceptions in 2017. It is an intimate portrait of life for these detainees, as well as a condemnation of NGOs and the United Nations, whose abdication of international standards will echo throughout history"--Provided by publisher.

"Argues that ICE should be abolished because racism is embedded both in the history of our immigration laws and in our current enforcement policies. Traces the prison-to-deportation pipeline funneling Black and Latinx noncitizens from the criminal court system into ICE custody, underscoring that because immigrants of color tend to experience racism and violence from the criminal justice system, they're also more vulnerable to ICE enforcement. Bill Ong Hing . . . argues that migrants should have the right to free movement across borders and the right to live free of harrassment over immigration status. Including histories of Latin, Asian, and African migration, and citing specific court cases and examples of racist immigration law, Hing makes the case for abandoning current immigration policies in favor of a more just and humane system"--Provided by publisher.

"The timely, powerful memoir of a man unjustly charged with a crime for helping his relatives, refugees from Syria. For trying to save his in-laws, who were fleeing certain death in Syria, St?phan P?lissier was threatened with fifteen years in prison by the Greek justice system, which accused him of human smuggling. His crime? Having gone to search for the parents, brother, and sister of his wife, Z?na, in Greece rather than leaving them to undertake a treacherous journey by boat to Italy. Their joy on finding each other quickly turned into a nightmare: P?lissier was arrested as a result of a missing car registration and thrown into prison. Although his relatives were ultimately able to seek asylum-legally-in France, P?lissier had to fight to prove his innocence, and to uphold the values of common humanity and solidarity in which he so strongly believes. I Just Wanted to Save My Family offers a heartrending window into the lives of those displaced by the Syrian civil war and a scathing critique of the often absurd, unfeeling bureaucracies that determine their fates"--.

"Anthology of essays written from diverse perspectives that examine the . . . immigration crisis"--Provided by publisher.

"The true story of Estela Jaurez, a young American girl who writes letters to her local newspaper, to Congress, and even to the president, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation"--Provided by publisher.

"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.

Describes under what conditions people become refugees, what it is like to live as a refugee, and the changing United States practices of granting asylum or refugee status.

Covers the trial of John "Iwan" Demjanjuk, a Nazi war criminal and postwar immigrant living and working in the United States, discussing why it took nearly sixty years to bring him to justice and revealing how American politicians and the United States military recruited "useful" Nazi war criminals to work as spies and saboteurs during the Cold War.

"The . . . story of a group of German Jews desperately seeking American visas to escape the Nazis, and an illuminating account of America's struggle with the refugee crisis caused by the rise of Hitler"--Provided by publisher.