immigration and emigration

Evan, the nephew of a conservative southern senator, and Alma, who lives with her large, warm Mexican family, fall in love, but when Immigration and Customs Enforcement begins raids on their town, Alma knows she needs to tell Evan her secrets, but how can she tell her country-club boyfriend that she is an undocumented immigrant?.

When Carlos' older brother, Felix, is tragically killed in Mexico, he flees to the United States to pursue his dream of working as a chef, but when he falls for his boss' daughter at the risk of losing his job, he must reassess what's most important to him.

A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.

A collection of essays in which immigrant students from Wellstone International High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, share stories of their family, school, and dreams.

These are the memories, realities, and hopes of young people from twenty-two different countries, who by the turning of countless events were brought together into one classroom. In their own voices, these students describe their childhoods, reasons for leaving, first impressions of this land, and dreams of how they will contribute to it.

". . . a collection of twenty-one personal essays written by refugee and immigrant students, and one current teacher, from Cross Keys High School, Clarkston High School, and DeKalb International Studen Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

"Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together"--Provided by publisher.

A history of demographic changes and mass migrations of human populations, that argues that periods of rapid population transition--a phenomenon that first emerged in the British Isles but gradually spread across the globe--shaped the course of world history.

". . . [an] anthology of thirty personal essays written by Wisconsin immigrant high school students attending James Madison Memorial High Schol in Madison and Pulaski High School in Milwaukee . . ."--Back cover.

A collection of essays in which immigrant students from a high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, share stories of their family, school, and dreams.