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Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala-and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in "postconflict" countries where violence never ended.

È il 2016 e a Kabul la speranza ha lasciato il posto alla paura e per molti la fuga dal Paese è l'unica via. Anche Omar, un giovane che si guadagna da vivere come interprete per le forze statunitensi, decide di affidarsi ai "facilitatori" che promettono di farlo arrivare in Italia. Fingendosi un migrante, Aikins segue Omar sulla famigerata rotta che porta al Mediterraneo attraverso i passi montani dell'Asia centrale.

Ein Buch über Heimat. Und Liebe. Und Liebeskummer. Ein Buch über uns alle. In "Kampf und Sehnsucht in der Mitte der Gesellschaft" schreibt der Theologe und Autor Stephan Anpalagan über Heimat. Unsere Heimat. Es ist ein Buch über Menschen, die sagen "Ich liebe dieses Land so sehr. Aber dieses Land liebt mich nicht zurück." Es ist eine Geschichte über den Liebeskummer, den Menschen verspüren, die seit Jahren, Jahrzehnten und Generationen in unserem Land leben und dennoch keine Heimat finden.

Embark on an enlightening and empowering journey towards becoming a proud United States citizen with Mastering the US Citizenship Test: 2023-2024. This comprehensive and meticulously crafted guide is designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and confidence needed to pass the challenging US citizenship test with flying colors.

Anthropologist Michael Jackson predicates his intellectual autobiography, Worlds Within and Worlds Without, on the view that works and lives are intimately entangled. Through a skillful interweaving of personal and ethnographic descriptions, he focuses on the imaginative and practical ways human beings negotiate the space between worlds they call their own, and worlds they regard as lying beyond their immediate purview.

When Fidel Castro assumed military and political power of Cuba in 1959, the future of millions of Cuban citizens became unsure. The Cuban Revolution set in motion an immigration train for the Bello and Machado families that lasted more than 30 years and spanned three generations.

Read by the author. Asking the hard questions about immigration in light of Jesus' call to love our neighbors as ourselves. You've seen the headlines. You've watched the TV footage. People around the world are in dire situations and on the move. Current estimates suggest over 100 million people...

For immigrants, their descendants, and anyone else looking to learn the unbiased truth about investing, Close the Gap & Get Your Share is a step-by-step guide to generating and passing on wealth in the US. From Dr. Julio Cacho, Cole Conkling, and Juan Carlos Herrera, managing directors of...

After stowing away as a boy to come to America around 1905, an Italian immigrant sculptor later stands firm in his love for an unfaithful woman. Trapped behind enemy lines during World War II, he and his family go on to save over 600 Allied troops. This is the epic multi-generational, true story of Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta and family. His story was only partially told in a 1953 episode of This Is Your Life. Salvatore’s role in WWII is just one of the many stories found throughout this book.

In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and fluid relationship to the border, each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande, and having worked on asylum cases since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the American immigration system.

Throughout history, smugglers have trafficked humans for slave labor and prostitution, also taking advantage of some refugees’ ability to pay exorbitant amounts of money for safe passage.

Fleeing the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 and fueled by a burning desire for a better life, Apple embarks on a daring journey to pursue her doctoral education in America. With no backup plan, Apple has to make this journey work. But she has no idea that her starting place, Las Cruces, NM, is a quiet desert town—a far cry from the bustling metropolis she envisioned. Anxious, ignorant, broken, lost, and homesick, Apple is also excited, curious, and open-minded. Will she simply survive the fish-out-of-the-water situation many immigrants experience, or will she thrive?

In a world of border walls and obstacles to migration, a lottery where winners can gain permanent residency in the United States sounds too good to be true. Just as unlikely is the idea that the United States would make such visas available to foster diversity within a country where systemic racism endures. But in 1990, the United States Diversity Visa Lottery was created to do just that. Dreamland tells the surprising story of this unlikely government program and its role in American life as well as the global story of migration.

This short, but brief information expounding on Homelessness, Human Rights and Immigration in the United States of America is described today. Often refers to the United States of America as "a country of immigrants." During the last four centuries, people have traveled great distances to reach the United States to escape war, avoid political persecution, and find the freedom to practice their faith. Still, others came for the possibility of acquiring their own property or just for the prospect of finding a job and elevating themselves out of poverty.

Transcending beliefs and borders, Niaz Qureshi's On Foot from Pakistan to Germany recalls one man's trek from East to West in the 1960s. This memoir explores a rapidly widening spectrum of human culture at a time of modern and traditional Schism. Commandingly retold by Nick Ellsworth and scored by Farida Gasser, this audiobook brings Qureshi's journey to life with all the vividness of a Sir David Attenborough documentary. However, On Foot from Pakistan to Germany also reminds of the present.

America's immigrants were inventors and entrepreneurs. They worked in the fields and factories that powered the country. And they risked their lives serving in the military. The history of immigrants in America is one of triumphs and challenges. Experience history through the eyes of generations of immigrants.

In Immigrant Life: How the US Can Impact Immigrants, Michelle Lavaud delivers the viewpoint of a Haiti-born citizen, alongside the joys and sorrows attached to her daily life.

Si stanno muovendo a decine, a centinaia, a migliaia: caricano tutto ciò che hanno sulla macchina e si trasferiscono per sempre in cima a un monte, in mezzo a una vallata, al margine di un bosco, in un borgo solitario. Alle spalle si lasciano le grandi città con le loro mille luci e i loro mille rumori, le strade congestionate da un traffico senza inizio né fine, l’aria condizionata degli uffici, gli avocado toast, i miniappartamenti dai prezzi insostenibili. è il grande ritorno collettivo verso la terra; e sta avvenendo proprio qui, ogni giorno, sotto i nostri occhi.

Natural disasters and the dire effects of climate change cause massive population displacements and lead to some of the most intractable political and humanitarian challenges seen today. Yet, as Maria Cristina Garcia observes in this critical history of U.S. policy on migration in the Global South, there is actually no such thing as a "climate refugee" under current U.S. law. Most initiatives intended to assist those who must migrate are flawed and ineffective from inception because they are derived from outmoded policies. In a world of climate change, U.S. refugee policy simply does not work.

Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as 30,000 people left their homes, lured by rumors that Britain's Queen Anne would give them free passage overseas and land in America.