If your children are anything like mine, they are hearing discussions of immigration and refugee status on the news, on the playground, maybe even quoting everyone’s favorite Musical, “Immigrants, we get the job done!” Your children may have a lot of questions about immigration and migration...
Q. Why did you choose the science fiction genre for a novel about immigration? A. Speculative fiction that incorporates elements of science fiction and fantasy is born with a “what if?” and grows from there. In my case, I was already hearing and reporting about undocumented immigrants in ...
Posted on June 28, 2021 in Child Refugees, Courage, Guatemala, Hope, Immigration, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Journey, Marvelous Middle Grade Monday, Resilience • Tagged Child Refugees, Guatemala, Hope, Immigration, Journey, Resilience • 16 Comments The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story by Aya Kh...
a child's tale of immigration from Mexico to the US by Amada Irma Pérez ages 7-10 Children's Book Press, 2002 Buy Book a celebration of bilingual winter poems by Francisco Alarcón ages 7-12 Children's Book Press, 2001 Buy Book
from Israel/United States The Hebrew Teacher Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a Midwestern college who has built her life around her career. When a young Hebrew literature professor joins...
Armed with an invitation from her aunt in Detroit, she’s determined to build une belle vie — a good life, richer in possibilities than the one she left behind in Haiti. But Immigration detains Manman as soon as they land in JFK, and Fabiola is forced to fly on to Detroit alone, ...
American Dirt got all the attention (and controversy) in recent years, but in 2009 there was another, warmer and funnier, novel detailing an impossible immigrant journey from Mexico to the U.S. Populated with tenacious teenagers armed with sharp wit, the story also vividly details the Mexican ...
They are thrown together after a fourteen-year-old girl — an immigrant from Mexico — is savagely attacked. Yes, there is violence, racism and poverty, but there is also strength, humor, hope and bravery. This is Elizabeth Wetmore’s first novel and I think she hits it out of the ...
Juan Felipe Herrera is an American poet, author, and activist of Mexican descent who became the first Hispanic American to serve as U.S. poet laureate. He is known for his often-bilingual and autobiographical poems on immigration, Chicano identity, and l
In fifty vignettes and tales that belie all clichés about immigration to Québec, he depicts the experience of embracing a culture and a people who are constantly obliged to reaffirm their right to exist. A keen young fencer, he identifies with Alexander Dumas’s d’Artagnan, the outsider who...