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Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexico border
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Kathleen A. Staudt,Julia Estela Monárrez Fragoso |
"At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global ma… |
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Policing global movement
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S. Caroline Taylor,Daniel Joseph Torpy,Das, Dilip K. |
"This book builds on the tradition of previous volumes produced from annual International Police Executive Symposium (IPES) meetings. Three sections highlight the themes of tourism; trafficking; stra… |
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We Need New Names
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NoViolet Bulawayo |
Whenever foreigners visit Paradise they always ask Darling and her friends to smile for the camera. Here are some of the things Darling and her friends have to smile about: stealing guavas, gifts fro… |
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Everything I never told you
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Celeste Ng |
"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marily… |
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Brother, I'm dying
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Edwidge Danticat |
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so … |
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Migration, culture conflict and crime
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Joshua D. Freilich |
xiii, 319 p. : 23 cm |
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White backlash
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Marisa Abrajano |
"White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears… |
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Diasporic citizenship
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Michel S. Laguerre |
"Michel Laguerre briefly delineates the history of the Haitian diaspora in the United States in the nineteenth century, but this book primarily concerns itself with the contemporary period, and more … |
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Canada's diverse peoples
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J. M. Bumsted |
In 1867 Canada was established as a political nation with two general ethnic cultures, yet more than 191 ethnic groups currently reside there. Canada's Diverse Peoples gives students of Canadian hist… |
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Joyeux Noël, Anna
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Jean Little |
"Anna, une jeune Allemande maladroite et lente que tous surnomment "l'empotée", voit sa vie changer après son arrivée au Canada, où l'on découvrira la raison de son retard." Réf. La Sélection de livr… |
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A sociolinguistics of diaspora
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Luisa Martín Rojo,Rosina Márquez-Reiter |
"This volume brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and the sociology of new media and mobile technologies who are working on different social and communicative aspects of the Latino diaspora. … |
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Les étrangers illégaux à la recherche de papiers
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Ange Bergson Lendja Ngnemzue |
Ce livre évalue et contourne certaines habitudes de recherche et de pensée sur l'immigration irrégulière pour considérer les enjeux des "papiers" du côté des sans-papiers eux-mêmes. L'enquête s'intér… |
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Un chez-soi chez les autres
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Liliane Demers,Perla Serfaty-Garzon |
Cet ouvrage collectif examine l'un des dimensions majeures de l'immigration, soit l'abandon personnel de son foyer, si pauvre et hostile soit-il, au profit d'un nouveau "chez-soi" qui doit compter su… |
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Le droit d'émigrer
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Catherine Wihtol de Wenden |
La 4e de couverture indique : "Dans un monde où tout circule librement, le droit à la mobilité des êtres humains ne va pas de soi. Il y a urgence à définir un droit international des migrants. C'est … |
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Larry and friends
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Carla Torres |
"Larry and Friends is a captivating story about immigration and integration told in both English and Spanish language versions. The protagonist, Larry the Dog, is a juggler from Brooklyn and his frie… |
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An American dream
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Stanford Makishi |
Jiro Akamine came to America with a big dream. |
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Made in Germany
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Jagoda Marinić |
"Deutschland ist kein Einwanderungsland", sagte vor Jahrzehnten Helmut Kohl. Heute spricht man angesichts der nicht endenden Flüchtlingsströme weltweit von der deutschen "Willkommenskultur". Was poli… |
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La filosofía del pastel
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Verónica Bellver |
Chocolate cake can only mean one thing: bad news. This time, the cake brings the news that the whole family will be moving to the United States, as their dad, who has been unemployed for several mont… |
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Home in exile
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Felix Kobla |
Mr Almond pays with his life when he refuses to give away his four young daughters in forced marriage to a tribal rebel leader. His young daughters, Alima, fifteen; Benatu, twelve; Tabata, thirteen a… |
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
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Anne Wicke,Dinaw Mengestu,Dinaw Mengestu |
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution after witnessing soldiers beat his father to the point of certain death, selling off his parents' jewelry to pay for passage to the … |
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