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“There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many...

"This story does not begin on a boat." So commences Alice Pung’s memoir. This is an original take on a classic story - how a child of immigrants moves between two cultures. In place of piety and predictability, however, Unpolished Gem offers a vivid and ironic sense of both worlds. It combines the story of Pung’s life growing up in suburban Footscray with the inherited stories of the women in her family - stories of madness, survival, and heartbreak. Original and brave, this is a girl’s own story that introduces an unforgettable voice and captures the experience of Asian immigrants to Australia.

Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world," internationally renowned Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us his most important work yet. Commander of the Exodus animates the story of Yossi Harel, a modern-day Moses who defied the blockade of the British Mandate to deliver more than 24,000 displaced Holocaust survivors to Palestine while the rest of the world (including the United States) closed its doors.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Line Becomes a River, written and read by Francisco Cantú. How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco Cantú was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes and smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days and frigid nights across a vast terrain. He detains the exhausted and the parched.

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Lost and Found" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program. Katy Vine's "Lost and Found" is a thoughtful and uplifting look into a refugee...

This intimate, first-of-its-kind account of young undocumented immigrants fighting to live legally within the United States is a “must-read for anyone interested in the immigration debate” (Booklist) Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as...

An intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and deportation system, the largest in the world On a bright Phoenix morning, Elena Santiago opened her door to find her house surrounded by a platoon of federal immigration agents. Her children screamed as the officers handcuffed her...

Americans are shocked by ongoing reports chronicling growing chaos in Europe, where massive Muslim migration is w reaking h avoc on the continent in cluding horrendous acts of mass terror ism, an epidemic of rape and sexual assault against European women, and large, jihadist-rich enclaves where even police are allegedly he sitant to enter. Yet, few realize tha t America is heading down the same suicidal path.

Written and composed by immigrants and first generation Americans, Home provides a stronger sense of welcome and belonging for everyone. The United States is composed of and built by immigrants, and it has been a beacon to those in search of a new life for hundreds of years. Home is a collection...

A longtime immigration activist explores what it means to be an undocumented American in this “impassioned and well-reported case for change” (New York Times). In this illuminating work, immigrant rights activist Aviva Chomsky shows how “illegality” and “undocumentedness” are...

David Marr has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly, been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners, presenter of ABC TV's Media Watch and now writes for the Guardian. His books include Patrick White: A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson) and five Quarterly Essays: 'His Master's Voice', 'Power Trip', 'Political Animal', 'The Prince' and 'Faction Man'.

Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened with gruesome deaths. The perpetrators seemed both omnipresent and invisible. Their only calling card: the symbol of a black hand.

The first new edition in 10 years of this important study of Latinos in US history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries - from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture - from food to entertainment to literature - is greater than ever.

In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States, all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family's story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together.

Quel patto Italia-Libia che imbarazza il governo: Memorandum per Zingaretti 29 ottobre, di Gad Lerner; Bija, il trafficante a capo dei soccorsi: l'ultima provocazione libica, di Giuliano Foschini e Fabio Tonacci; Minniti: "Non mi pento del patto con la Libia. Ma bisogna cambiarlo", di Gad Lerner; La mossa del governo in Europa per aprire centri Ue a Tripoli, di Goffredo De Marchis; Lamorgese: "L'invasione di migranti non c'è. E i rimpatri aumentano", di Piero Colaprico.

Sea-Watch, Storia di Carola 2: La mail al pm, la paura di sbagliare manovra, il rischio suicidi: così è nato il blitz di Carola, di Fabio Tonacci; Quelle donne disobbedienti, di Michele Ainis; Le prigioni di Carola, di Fabio Tonacci; Carola, la vittoria del cuore, di Gad Lerner; Caso Sea Watch. "Non c'è reato. Per Carola salvare i migranti era suo dovere", di Fabio Tonacci.

Respingere o salvare? Il tema dei migranti in sei aricoli di Repubblica : A bordo della nave che sfida il blocco: "Saremo noi italiani ad aiutare chi fugge", di Marco Mensurati; Migranti, la Germania sceglie la linea dura per rimandarli in Italia, di Tonia Mastrobuoni; Marta, Mario e gli altri: "Noi, diventati marinai per salvare i migranti dall’inferno libico", di Marco Mensurati; Migranti, sulla redistribuzione Roma sempre più isolata, di Alessandra Ziniti; Migranti, lite Italia-Germania e Berlino non ferma i charter, di Tonia Mastrobuoni.

Joachim Gauck über das zentrale Thema unserer Zeit. Was muss die Gesellschaft, was muss und was sollte der Einzelne tolerieren und wo liegen die Grenzen der Toleranz? Die Lebensentwürfe, Wertvorstellungen, religiösen und kulturellen Hintergründe der Menschen werden immer vielfältiger - für manche eine Bereicherung, für nicht wenige eine Last. Wie viel Andersartigkeit muss man erdulden? Wie viel kann man erdulden? Wie viel Kritik aushalten? Welche gemeinsamen Regeln müssen bei aller Verschiedenheit gelten?

Ein spannender Blick darauf, wie wichtig Migration tatsächlich sein kann!Überall war es in den letzten Jahren in den Nachrichten, die Menschen fliehen aus ihren Ländern und suchen eine neue Zuflucht. Diese Tatsache hat in nicht wenigen Ländern Diskussionen ausgelöst, wie man am besten mit dem Thema Immigration umgehen sollte, was zum Teil auch zu blutigen Auseinandersetzungen geführt hat. Denn es ist nicht zu leugnen, dass Migration die Zusammensetzung von Gesellschaften verändert.

Hoy, en este ineludible manifiesto social, la autora nos explica por qué está tan incondicionalmente comprometida con la humanidad, la justicia global y la conservación de la naturaleza y nos insta a actuar con urgencia, pues se trata nada más y nada menos que del futuro común de nuestro planeta.