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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Immigration policy and the challenge of globalization	Julie R. Watts	"After years of internal debate, labor union leaders have come to regard immigration as an inevitable consequence of globalization. Labor leaders believe that restrictive immigration policies, which …	OL12330539W
Our beckoning borders	Brent K. Ashabranner	Examines the problems connected with illegal immigration in the United States, from the perspectives of the immigrants themselves as well as from that of law enforcement officials.	OL15001032W
Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market	John M Abowd	Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work force? Or is competition wth foreign products imported by the United States an even greater danger to those employed in some industries? How do wage…	OL15187524W
Waiting for a wide horse sky	Elaine Kennedy	The plight of migrant factory workers in South Korea leads Katoomba-based author Elaine Kennedy to question her own motives for travel and working in Daegu. Heartbreaking and surprisingly intimate, K…	OL16345736W
Migration and new media	Mirca Madianou	"The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based …	OL16540345W
Cities Without Palms	Kareen James Palmer-Zeid	"In a desperate attempt to save his mother and two sisters from famine and disease, a young man leaves his native village in Sudan and sets out alone to seek work in the city. This is the beginning o…	OL17483374W
South Asian Migration to Gulf Countries	Prakash Chand Jain, ‎Ginu Zacharia Oommen	South Asians constitute the largest expatriate population in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Their contribution in the socio-economic, technological and educational development of GCC n…	OL17752910W
The girl from Kathmandu	Cam Simpson	A heart-rending narrative that moves from the Himalayas to the Middle East to Houston and culminates in an epic court battle, this is a story of death and life - of the war in Iraq, the killings of t…	OL19738349W
A long December	Donald Harstad	The Nation County (Iowa) sheriff's department slips into a morass of murder and terrorism. What starts out as a simple investigation of a shooting out on a farm, suddenly develops much deeper implica…	OL1988757W
Migrant	Maxine Trottier	Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, sometimes feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall, sometimes like a jackrabbit in an abandoned burrow. But above all Anna wonde…	OL19949770W
Jornalero	Juan Thomas Ordóñez	"The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two decades. These sites, typically frequented by immigrant Latin American men--mostly taken to be 'u…	OL20015645W
Disposable domestics	Grace Chang	The prevailing image of migrants, particular women of color, is that of a drain on "our" resources. Grace Chang's vital account of migrant women-- frequently undocumented and disenfranchised, working…	OL20032380W
Dynamics of Indian Migration	S. Irudaya Rajan	xvi, 433 p. : 23 cm	OL20427418W
Women Who Stay Behind	Ruth Trinidad Galván	Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative,…	OL20927942W
Wandŭgi	Ryŏ-ryŏng Kim	Coming of age story about a young man whose father is disabled, absent mother is a foreigner, and whose teacher inspires him to survive and thrive.	OL28954476W
Coyotes	Ted Conover	Provides an account of the underground railway of Mexican illegals, brutal police, and sinister smugglers.	OL4127100W
Waiting for the Barbarians	J. M. Coetzee	For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts…	OL500388W
Caravan	Marina Lewycka	A beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarke…	OL5733810W
Immigration, migration, and the Industrial Revolution	Tracee Sioux	Describes how inventions such as the cotton gin transformed America from an agricultural country to an industrial one, and led to both problems and opportunities.	OL5968661W
Greenwichtown	Joyce Palmer	"Set in Jamaica, Greenwichtown is the story of Fay Myrtle, an innocent girl who lives in a shack outside a Jamaican plantation. An older sister takes her from that village to live in the inner-city g…	OL6212123W