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
Britain's asylum and immigration regime: the shifting contours of rights This paper addresses the question of how to advance the sociology of migrants' rights, in the context of universalist claims with regard to the emergence o... Morris,Lydia - 《Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies》 被引...
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A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life—perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it’s been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a si...
In this edifying memoir, a lauded LGBTQ activist chronicles her journey from being a boy born with albinism in a rural Philippine village—an “anak araw, a sun child, the strangest creature whose skin was so pale it glowed”—to braving the twin tempests of immigration to America and ...
One forms not the faintest inward attachment, especially here in America.” His search was as fruitless as his flight was ineffective. He could not escape either from his homesickness or his sense of responsibility; and he never found a society to which he could belong. In a kind of ...
Immigration to the USA and Canada Visiting the land of your ancestors Donna Gawell and Mark, her husband, are descended from Polish immigrants. Donna’s grandparents came from Niwiska, a small village in Poland, in the early 1900s. She found her Polish cousins in 2015 and has visited the...
and Jingwen feels like he’s landed on another planet. To distract himself he dreams of all the cakes he would make in the Pie in the Sky bakery his father had planned to open before he died unexpectedly. A wonderful story exploring important issues related to immigration, language barriers,...
Was it about social activism, immigration or incarceration? I answered questions meant to measure the violence in books, how sexuality and sexual behavior were portrayed, whether the sex was consensual or not, and if religion, self-esteem or self-empowerment were central to the plot. ...
Another female Jewish author to write of the experience of immigration was Mary Antin (1881–1949) born, like Yezierska in Polotsk (or Polotzk), then part of Russia and now in Belarus. Antin’s parents were trying to escape the rampant anti-Semitism in Russia:...