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Award-winning reporter Emily Dugan's Finding Home follows the tumultuous lives of a group of immigrants, all facing extraordinary obstacles in their quests to live in the UK. Mihai, 29, works in construction in London and longs for a National Insurance Number. Syrian refugee Emad, 35, set up the Free Syrian League, and danger in the UK became as real as it had been in Damascus.

In this audiobook, Melvin Delgado offers a compelling case for the centrality of sanctuary cities' cause to the very mission and professional identity of social workers and others in the human services and mental-health professions. He also presents a historical perspective on the rise of the sanctuary movements of the 1970s and 2000s, giving context for the current environment and immigration debate.  

Il sindaco di Riace e il domani dei migranti in analisi di Repubblica: Il paladino dei migranti caduto nella polvere: "Segno dell’aria che tira" di Alessandra Ziniti; Riace, il sindaco e i confini della legge di Attilio Bolzoni; Il silenzio sullo Ius soli di Jhumpa Lahiri; Lucano, il sindaco clandestino di Riace, di Francesco Merlo; A bordo della nave che sfida il blocco: "Saremo noi italiani ad aiutare chi fugge" di Marco Mensurati; Riace, Mimmo Lucano: "Io ho salvato vite, spero che l'inchiesta non diventi un fatto politico" di Alessia Candito.

Le posizioni sovraniste di Salvini analizzate in cinque articoli di Repubblica: Asse tra Orban e Salvini. E adesso sono gli esteri il nuovo fronte della crisi tra Lega e 5S, di Tommaso Ciriaco e Alberto d'Argenio; Orban, Salvini e la bandiera nera del sovranismo, di Ezio Mauro; Nave Diciotti, atto politico non significa potere totale, di Gianrico Carofiglio; Diciotti, un paese trascinato nel ridicolo, di Andrea Bonanni; Libia, i video delle torture e quei profughi martiri, di Francesco Merlo.

Le vicende dei profughi salvati dalla nave Diciotti nel racconto di sei articoli di Repubblica: Lontani dal diritto, lontani dall'Europa, di Claudio Tito; Il Colle non darà alibi per sbloccare l'impasse, di Alberto D'argenio e Goffredo De Marchis; Il racconto di Amid: venduto sei volte, di Alessandra Ziniti; Diciotti, la nave della resistenza, di Francesco Merlo; Caso Diciotti, migranti come ostaggi: ecco le norme violate per ordine di Salvini, di Carlo Bonini e Salvo Palazzolo; Diciotti, un Paese trascinato nel ridicolo, di Andrea Bonanni.

During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war, chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more diverse than it had ever been before. Through diaries, letters, and interviews, Mixing It tells of ordinary lives pushed to extraordinary lengths.  

I temi che dividono il governo, raccontati in sei articoli di Repubblica: Presidenza Rai, Di Maio frena l'alleato leghista: "Evitiamo la prova di forza", di Carmelo Lopapa; Foa, Da Marcello a Leonardo: nel nome del padre, di Luca Bottura; Il "contratto" fa paura ai mercati e gli investitori lasciano l'Italia, di Claudio Tito; Bagnai (Lega): "Investitori prudenti ma non è solo l'Italia a fare paura", di Annalisa Cuzzocrea; Tav e Tap, il no di Salvini ai 5Stelle: "Si faranno, guardiamo avanti", di Carmelo Lopapa; Grandi opere, piccoli bisticci, di Sergio Rizzo.

In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population. Dreamers and their allies, those who care about immigration justice, and anyone interested...

In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time - the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the US.   

"I Reportage di Repubblica" raccolgono i grandi racconti pubblicati sul quotidiano, come la serie "Super8 - Le storie al rallentatore". In ciascun episodio, mettendo in pausa il flusso incessante delle notizie, le firme del giornale accompagnano il lettore alla scoperta di luoghi, personaggi e vicende tramite una narrazione dal respiro lento e approfondito.

In this audiobook, World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately, they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just.

L'économie est une mythologie qui désenchante le monde : plus que jamais "lugubre", elle pollue le débat public de ses fausses certitudes et empoisonne l'esprit démocratique. Les mythes économiques contemporains ont pour fonction principale de détourner l'attention des citoyens des véritables enjeux dont ils devraient se soucier et débattre. Nos mythologies économiques sont des mystifications politiques.

A story of courage, unconventionality and lust for life. Vera Wasowski was just seven years old when German soldiers marched her family into the Lvov Jewish ghetto in Poland. She watched her father take his own life and her mother accede to sexual blackmail in order to ensure her and Vera’s survival. With unsparing honesty and the blackest humour, she recalls a world where the desire to survive was everything.

Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the "land of the free", yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores the deeper story of this unprecedented movement of people.

Le fondateur du Nouvel Observateur analyse depuis toujours les subtils méandres de l'identité nationale, à l'aune de l'expérience algérienne et d'une connaissance intime du monde.

Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently arrested and taken into the forest to be executed. This audiobook, told by Kenney and his lawyer Philip G. Schrag from Kenney's own perspective, tells of his near-murder, imprisonment, and torture in Kenya.

Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture.

With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out.

A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism exposes how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than 15,000 informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the Bureau can then claim it is winning the war on terror.

In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the 21st century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A US-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet Bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother.