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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a best-seller in Australia. It is a virtuoso performance from an Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. It was 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, where Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away...
Publisher
Lowedown Productions
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Carved in Silence tells the story of Chinese immigrants who were detained at the United States Immigration Station at Angel Island in San Francisco Bay during the little known Chinese Exclusion era. The film examines the genesis of racially discriminatory immigration policies, its reality, and its consequences. Interviews are intercut with historical footage and dramatic re-enactments to powerfully translate the impact of public policies into human...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change,...
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Shy and unassuming, Eugene shuttles passengers up and down in a manual elevator while he discusses his work, his emigration from Chernobyl, the joys of fatherhood and his recent US citizenship. In a moment of sadness, he wonders whether leaving his job as a journalist in Kiev was really worth it. Then he reassures himself, revealing his dream that some day his self-published novel will become a Hollywood blockbuster. This poetic snapshot takes students...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Takes place among the Norwegian immigrants in a Wisconsin farm town. Told from the viewpoint of little Selma and explores grand childhood adventures: making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a flood-swollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephant's trunk.
68) Immigration
Author
Series
Publisher
BookLife
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This topical series considers current world issues via informative and factual information, combined with modern imaging that will engage young readers.
Brundle provides factual information about immigration, in simple text that will help children to understand this topical issue from a range of perspectives.
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This collection features stories from bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors.
An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting...
Author
Publisher
D. Hydock
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories includes the real story of one immigrant family's journey through Ellis Island into early twentieth century America, and a few of the traditional tales that came along from "the old country" at the same time.
75) Sé un inmigrante feliz: disfruta de tu nueva tierra : soluciones de vida para el problema migratorio
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
76) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.
79) A place to grow
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
As a father tells his daughter what a seed needs to flourish, he also explains the reasons he emigrated to a new homeland.
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
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