children of immigrants

Andy experiences extreme culture shock when he travels to Vietnam with his father, a former refugee who is returning to his home country for the first time.

Presents a discussion of various issues pertaining to first-generation immigrant families, covering different challenges, such as discrimination and cultural adaptation, that face those who are newly arrived to the United States.

Teenage immigrants from various countries recount the emotional experience of fleeing their homelands and adjusting to a new life in the United States.

Presents a collection of essays that debate various topics relating to the children of undocumented immigrants, including whether such children deserve better education options, whether lawmakers should reject or pass the DREAM act, and whether children of illegal immigrants should be considered U.S. citizens.

Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi in 1920s New York, rejects her father's conception of Jewish womanhood and makes a stand for independence when she takes a job as an ironer and rents a room of her own.

Discusses immigrants and refugees who do not speak English and how to help them learn English.

Rumi Vasi, a gifted fourteen-year-old, feels trapped by her father's desire to make her the youngest student to attend Oxford University, her mother's longing to return to their native India, and her own dreams of being a normal teenage girl.

Twenty-six young people of different ages and nationalities describe their experience of leaving their countries and immigrating to the the United States.

This book chronicles a year in the lives of teenage newcomers to America who are on their way to the American dream. They represent forty-five countries, speak more than twenty-eight languages, and are all students at International High School, a public school in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

Pregnant with her American lover's child, a young Indian woman raised in the U.S. reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage in her homeland and develops a genuine affection for her new husband, but a secret of his own keeps their love from blossoming further.