The children's book "We Are Americans: Voices of the Immigrant Experience" contains information about the many different immigrant children who today fill elementary school classrooms. The dramatic increase in immigration since the 1960s has signaled the need for a greater immigrant-sensitive ...
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...
Virginia Rafferty has written two historical fiction novels that focus on Eastern European immigration in the 18th century. The Road to Lattimer takes place in the late 19th century in a Pennsyvania coal town. Family Secrets...Hidden in the shadows of ti
Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission,J.D. Payne Immigration: Tough Questions, Direct Answers, Dale Hanson Bourke The New Pilgrims: How Immigrants Are Renewing America’s Faith and Values, Dr. Joseph Castleberry You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God Fir...
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and authors' perspectives of selected trade books written during two peak United States immigration eras (1880-1930 and 1980-2010s).;Utilizing a discourse analysis approach, this study examined how first-generation immigrants were portrayed in selected trade books and how various themes and representat...
The story of Japanese immigration is also true for my own family history. Changes in Japan during the Meiji Restoration from 1868 to 1912 wrought great changes in Japan as the country tried to modernize. The old feudal system of titled landowners was abruptly stripped away, and the daimyo doma...
The top of a hugely ambitious and fast-paced literary project that aims to display big events of 2020 — Brexit, global COVID-19 pandemic, immigration detention centers, homelessness and the murder of George Floyd — with burning immediacy, Summer is one of the absolute must-reads. Actress...
It’s a very harrowing read…His sense of people finding themselves hugely disadvantaged is something that has a modern-day connotation – the whole debate about immigration today is tied up with this. In both cases it’s about migrant labour. In The Grapes of Wrath it’s migrant labour ...
When she finally finds a graphic novel she loves and her teacher wants the class to read it, influential parents at her school are determined to stop it from being read. Will Lina use her voice? This is a moving, inspiring, and insightful middle grade book about immigration, family, and ...