Immigration

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“Golway’s lively and insightful narrative does much to illuminate La Guardia’s enduring impact on New York City and the relevance of his grand and inclusive social vision a century later.”

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“offers readers a deeply affecting, lyrical and often profound journey into the experience of love and loss.”

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“a quietly affecting memoir about family connection and disconnection.”

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Dina Nayeri’s book centers on the immigration process for potential asylum seekers to the United States and to the UK.

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Asylum is an eloquent, powerful, sometimes harrowing chronicle of what it means to be a gay man in a violently homophobic country and what it means to be a Black asylum seeker in

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“What Melo does well is to bring into light the human factor at play behind the immigration lures and the need to reform a broken system.

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“For Gervitz, Migrations is both a life’s work and a memory palace, a narrative pilgrimage through the lens of her own experience that is both alive and dead, both past and future.

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Near the end of his endearing memoir, App Kid, the author, Michael Sayman, describes a talk he delivered at Menlo College—in the very heart of Silicon Valley—where he revealed what he call

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“This book will help the reader understand a troubled past and see contemporary conflicts between China and the West in a broader perspective.”

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“Chomsky wrote Central America’s Forgotten History because ‘most US Americans, even those who decry the abusive treatment of immigrants, remain blissfully oblivious to the historie

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“will appeal to visionaries yearning for an end to man-made divides and the deliberate building of bridges of kindness and compassion.”

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“Today’s nation-states are increasingly driven by nationalist-cultural concerns that result in exclusionary logics.

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“There has been a fair amount of important discussion recently about the stories of immigration across the southern border, about how those stories should be told and who should tell them.

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“1980 was an astonishing year for Miami that changed the metropolis forever.”

 

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It is late at night on June 4, 2018, and under cover of darkness a father and son, carrying nothing but a backpack, approach “a short wall painted dark” that demarcates the international border bet

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For James Baldwin, “what kind of human beings we aspired to be” matters more than policy and power.  On this, he was “absolutely right”, according to Eddie Glaude Jr.

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“The book captures, in broad outline, the precarity of the migrant world—leaving behind a very meager existence to venture into the foggy haze of endemic risk, threat, and violence.”

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How can those who read this compelling story of courage, commitment, connection, and love not want to share it with others?”

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“it would be well for all to read One Mighty and Irresistible Tide in order to gain a better understanding of what it means to be an immigrant pursuing the American Dream.”

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Xenophobia has had a long and sordid history in this country, as admirably pointed out by author Erika Lee in the text.

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National Review Senior Editor Richard Brookhiser has written a thoughtful and elegant meditation on the American idea of liberty . . .”

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The Ungrateful Immigrant soars when Nayeri tells her own story. . . . It’s a moving exploration of the lasting impact of losing one’s country.”

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Empire of Borders provides fundamental, essential information about the current human situation at the borders.”  

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